GBA GBA SP solder pads

ExplosiveSoda

New Member
OP
Newbie
Joined
Oct 4, 2021
Messages
1
Trophies
0
Age
28
XP
22
Country
United States
I need some help! I was modding my fiancé’s old GBA SP and it wasn’t charging properly. The port was loose. So I figured I’d replace it since I had the part. It was pretty stuck and I ended up removing the pads on the charger port on accident. Is there any way I can fix this? The gba still works with a battery in. It would be unfortunate if I can’t charge it normally though. Does anyone know where each of the 6 pins can be rewired to? I ordered a USB C charging mod for it as well. That only has 1 solder point besides the anchors. Where would I solder that to without a pad? I feel it’s possible to fix this mistake but I’ve searched endlessly and feel like I’m the only one that messed up this bad with the pads. I also messed up ROUT’s pad but oh well on that. I just want to be able to charge again. Does anyone know specifically which pins need to be wired to charge?
 

Attachments

  • 8FC714F3-E56F-400B-BC33-92493EF5C62C.jpeg
    8FC714F3-E56F-400B-BC33-92493EF5C62C.jpeg
    616.2 KB · Views: 144
  • 157AF94D-3F62-477D-B323-D5E784C3AB2F.jpeg
    157AF94D-3F62-477D-B323-D5E784C3AB2F.jpeg
    186.3 KB · Views: 153
  • 1228D990-66CD-473E-B171-1B62706BA0AC.png
    1228D990-66CD-473E-B171-1B62706BA0AC.png
    41.4 KB · Views: 142
  • B7827085-29E0-4E7C-94D1-BF80CEAD23DD.png
    B7827085-29E0-4E7C-94D1-BF80CEAD23DD.png
    36.5 KB · Views: 135

FAST6191

Techromancer
Editorial Team
Joined
Nov 21, 2005
Messages
36,341
Trophies
3
XP
27,296
Country
United Kingdom
Looks like you have quite a few vias (the little golden hole things) there still intact, possibly with anything else in the path also attached (nice, many times pad lifting also means a bunch of trace goes with it). They might even take solder pretty well and spare you scraping traces.

I would also make sure you have a look at EM8 while you are in there
https://gbatemp.net/threads/gba-em8-component-missing-solution.540092/
That is usually the charging issue over loose connector but loose connector is still an option, and prime candidate for some damage.
 
General chit-chat
Help Users
  • No one is chatting at the moment.
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    Hope they made lots of spaget
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    Chill dog
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    Chilli dog
  • Skelletonike @ Skelletonike:
    Damn, I'm loving the new zelda.
  • xtremegamer @ xtremegamer:
    loving the new zelda, i started a game, it was so fucking good, so i
    am waiting on my friend to get home so we can start a new one together
  • Skelletonike @ Skelletonike:
    I just dislike that they don't let me choose the voices before the game starts. Happened with botw as well, had to change to japanese and restart.
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    But the important question is can you choose gender
  • Skelletonike @ Skelletonike:
    Same way you can choose Gerald's gender.
  • Skelletonike @ Skelletonike:
    *Geralt, damn autocorrect.
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    But can he be trans? Lol
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    Zelda transforms into link
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Link I'm not the princess your looking for.... *Pulls a crying game*
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    *skirt up* it's exactly what I always wanted
  • Skelletonike @ Skelletonike:
    Just scanned all my zelda amiibos, took a while but didn't get anything that cool, did get the lon lon ranch hylian fabrics though.
  • Skelletonike @ Skelletonike:
    It was pretty funny when I scanned wolf link and got a shit load of meat.
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    @Skelletonike, btw I ran that custom for mgs4 on the deck I'm amazed it got that far in game
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    Plug in*
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    Your favorite activity
  • BentlyMods @ BentlyMods:
    My fav actvity is:

    mario-dancing.gif
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Do the Mario lol
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    🍑
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    Whoever developed Bramble was smoking that good shit fucking gnomes
    K3N1 @ K3N1: Whoever developed Bramble was smoking that good shit fucking gnomes