Hm: to exchange the middle frame I had to remove the plugs of the antennas from the modem and the sparklan wifi/bt card.
I did this before, before, because I repaired the phone before and I added the break-out board and I exchanged the redpine for the sparklan wifi/bt.
Each time I had to unplug and connect the modems antennas. These connections are made for a few times unplugging and plugging only. I guess the lifetime of the plug for the main antenna for the modem is spent.
I soldered a bit, pushed and reworked a bit and finally plugged the cable probably for the last time and added some padding between the plugs and the cover for modem and wifi/bt to hold the plugs in place.
The first idea to fix it had been to un-solder the unused gps antenna plug and the main antenna plug and put the so far unused gps antenna plug in place of the main antenna plug (the gps of the modem in the Librem5 is not connected).
Is this possible with an solder iron? What would be the correct way to exchange such a small smc plug?
@me It's isolated enough that it looks like you could just blow it off with a heat gun
@z3r0fox@mastodon.social - thanks!
Do you have a recommendation for a good and not too expensive heat gun?
@me I don't know the market any more maybe someone else has an idea for your part of the world but you'll find them under "hot air desoldering tool" etc.
Just received a new middle frame for my Librem5. Now I can fix it. Very cool being able to order spare parts for my mobile phone.
Only drawback: DHL Express. Yes, fast, but that wouldn't have been necessary. And EXPENSIVE: Shipping fee above 40 US$ and another fee for handling import taxes of more than 14€ which can't be avoided (believe me I tried hard once).
I'd wish there'd be shipping with a simple carrier that falls under the Treaty of Bern. Would take longer (probably a lot longer), but I could fetch the stuff from my local customs office and just pay the import tax with no additional fees. And the shipping fee would be far less also I guess.