{"id":62,"date":"2016-02-22T21:15:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T02:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/?p=62"},"modified":"2016-02-22T21:17:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T02:17:35","slug":"smallest-soldering-ive-ever-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Smallest Soldering I&#8217;ve Ever Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While taking my phone apart to repair a broken usb port, I accidentally damaged my up volume button. \u00a0I cut right through it with the spudging tool while going down the right side of the phone. \u00a0Since it was only the vol up button, I was able to use the phone by pressing the vol down, then dragging the slider back up. \u00a0I thought I might be able to mend the ribbon cable but that proved to be too difficult as the traces on the ribbon were not accessible. \u00a0So instead I opted for de-soldering the tactile buttons and soldering them on to the existing phone. \u00a0(Replacing the whole cable requires separating the screen from the body.)<\/p>\n<p>Here you can see the button that I removed from a new cable purchased from ebay for $6.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/button_removed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-63 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/button_removed-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"button_removed\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/button_removed-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/button_removed-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/button_removed-1200x820.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/button_removed.jpg 1628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once I had the buttons removed from the spare cable, all I had to do was get the 4 corners to stick to the pads on the phone&#8217;s cable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tact_button-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-65 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tact_button-1-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"tact_button\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tact_button-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tact_button-1-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tact_button-1-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tact_button-1.jpg 1627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And there ya go! \u00a0All fixed. \u00a0The new button is a hair stiffer than the original, but it works fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While taking my phone apart to repair a broken usb port, I accidentally damaged my up volume button. \u00a0I cut right through it with the spudging tool while going down the right side of the phone. \u00a0Since it was only the vol up button, I was able to use the phone by pressing the vol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-tinker.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}