I fucked up

[dimahay]

Hi, attempting as a beginner (nice fucking idea) to mod my brand new oled, i fucked up the Point A resistor (0201 4k7).
After this i proceeded to fucking up even more by getting off one of its traces.
How cooked am i? Is it somehow fixable? What could i attempt?

 

[EchoStorm]

Gonna have to take it to a repair shop. look around the mini malls / flea market for a phone repair place. going to take good EQ and skill but not the worst screw up

 

[blashy101]

Hi, attempting as a beginner (nice fucking idea) to mod my brand new oled, i fucked up the Point A resistor (0201 4k7).
After this i proceeded to fucking up even more by getting off one of its traces.
How cooked am i? Is it somehow fixable? What could i attempt?

is there any material left on the damaged pad? if so, check continuity between that point and something nearby and you can just solder one side of the resistor on the okay pad, and a small bodge wire from the resistor to a connected pad, just be super careful and you should be okay. It's kinda hard to tell from the photo but is your damaged pad connected to any copper there? it looks like it's just to ground, so you should be okay.

I admire your attempt at bravely pulling this off as a beginner but this was a majorly bad idea lol, I'm so sorry to say. I hope you can get it working, but I would suggest exercising extreme caution going forward with this project.

 

[dimahay]

At the end I decided to send it to a guy specialized in microsoldering..
I know it was a bad idea but I was sooooo stoked to learn something new
Anyways i'm gonna let you know how he solves it

 

[ut2k4master]

you scrape away some of the board to reveal part of the same trace you can still solder to

 

[AaronUzumaki]

Ah, I remember the early days. It'll be the first of many fuck ups. A little hard to see, but should be able to bridge a connection, especially since you sent it to a specialist. May just need to carve a new trace. Don't sweat it too much. I recommend buying some junk boards just to practice and understand technique with. Also, get a heat gun if you don't have one already (most of my early mistakes could've been solved by just having a heat gun).

 

[dimahay]

Ah, I remember the early days. It'll be the first of many fuck ups. A little hard to see, but should be able to bridge a connection, especially since you sent it to a specialist. May just need to carve a new trace. Don't sweat it too much. I recommend buying some junk boards just to practice and understand technique with. Also, get a heat gun if you don't have one already (most of my early mistakes could've been solved by just having a heat gun).

Yeah i was thinking of getting one but this switch went waaaay too expensive after getting the iron, microscope, tin, tweezers, mat, flux...

I liked it a lot tho and I'm gonna practice, starting from an broken amplifier

 

[l7777]

Yeah i was thinking of getting one but this switch went waaaay too expensive after getting the iron, microscope, tin, tweezers, mat, flux...

I liked it a lot tho and I'm gonna practice, starting from an broken amplifier

You don't need hot air for a modchip but you will want it if you wish to properly add/remove SMD components. Get an old laptop motherboard to practice on.

 

[Selfx712]

Don't feel too bad. Everyone here has screwed something up at one time or another. Myself included. My first attempt at a type c port replacement I ripped 4 of the bottom row pins and had to rebuild them, but I learned from it. If this line of work is something you want to get into, find a cheap (working) electronic device and start taking things off and putting them back on one by one. If you mess up, it's at least a cheap mess up.

 

[dimahay]

In case anyone was wondering how it's been repaired