broken micro usb port on san francisco / zte blade

[Guest AndRabbit]

i accidentally broke the micro usb on my zte blade... does anyone know where i can get a spare or somehow charge my battery in some other way...?

[Guest WAWA72]

AT eBays IT gives battery charger Form zte blades.

Other way you send it me, i repair it.

[Guest Rusty!]

My brother recently repaired one, I don't know the full details, but you could PM him: http://android.modaco.com/user/809183-chrisund123/

[Guest Chrisund123]

My brother recently repaired one, I don't know the full details, but you could PM him: http://android.modac...83-chrisund123/

It's a damn fiddly job, and I only managed a bodge job on it - it works, but only just :lol: Basically, you strip down the phone till you get to the USB socket (plenty of teardown guides if you google it). Then, using an obscenely small soldering iron and some solder wick, de-solder the USB socket from the motherboard, and re-solder on a nice new one. The problem comes with getting the correct shaped USB socket; I couldn't find one for the blade on ebay, so I got a generic one that is a slightly different shape, and it took a bit of guesswork and bodging to get it fixed to the motherboard.

It's lasted for a few weeks, but I wouldn't trust it for too much longer. Would be a lot easier if you could get a genuine ZTE usb socket that fits perfectly.