Hardware Cartridge battery pad issue

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Is anyone familiar with the proper trace routing on GBA cartridges? The positive battery pad on a copy of Pokemon Emerald is lifted and the game is not recognizing when a battery is installed, is there some way to repair that? Or if it needs bridged where does the pad go to?
 

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I ended up getting a copy of Pokemon Sapphire (has the same board layout even if the ROM chip has some different data on it), got my multimeter and set it to continuity mode, and figured I might as well relay the findings in case anyone else has the same problem so no point in hoarding the information. The pad connects to both the R7 via and the side of the R9 closer to the ROM chip and battery), ran a jumper wire between those two points and to the positive terminal of the battery and it's working fine now.
 

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