Main mic broke, looking for a bottom module

[dashi]

Hi there, it looks like I missed @Leo_TheCrafter 's generous offer.

What’s broken in my phone is the microphone present in the bottom module, no issues with the USB connector nor the speaker. I’m surviving by doing calls in loudspeaker. Quite unconfortable. If I don’t find a solution, I will have to get a complete phone, and nobody wants that!

If opening the module and resoldering the microphone is an option, I will give it a try also.

Any recommendations?
Any FP2 previous user selling its parts? I’m in Spain.

PS: Seing the enthusiastic response to the proposal of New Fairphone 2 Bottom Module with an appropriate case , Fairphone the company should consider adopting the project or at least produce again the modules offered, as they actually save new phone purchases (possibily not fairphones)

[anon9989719]

On repairing the mic have a look at the following

Howto repair the microphone inside the bottom module

As fairphone angel (in Berlin) I have a lot of support cases with nonfunctional microphones in the bottom modul. A lot of users have minimum the 2nd, often the 3rd bottom module. Mostly easily changed by Fairphone support in warranty. But there is a lot of waste (I collect old faulty modules and send them back for recycling). So my questions: Did anyone successfully repaired the microphone inside the bottom module by soldering a new smd microphone? What’s the reason for the highly rate of f…

New Fairphone 2 Bottom Module with an appropriate case

The speaker and the vibration Motor aren´t soldered to the PCB, so it is easy to reuse them. For a new bottom Module it is great to have the new standard USB port is a great thing. For me the new microphone is the best idea, cause the old one is not only the weakest part of the phone, it overdrives very fast. It is not doable to take a video of a concert for example, cause the sound is so poor. Now my question: Is it possible to implement a microphone diversity, where in case of oversteer it sw…

FP2 Bottom Module: Repair broken µUSB port and or mic

Hey, just desoldered my microphone from the bottom module. the (very thin) pcb is glued into the plastic case of the module. But with a heatgun the glue softened and you can pull it out. After that I put my heatgun on 380°C and desoldered the mic. I coverd the surrounding parts with kapton tape. But I ripped one half of one solderpad off the pcd(see picture, top right pad). The trace from that pad seemed to be connected to a via next to it. [image] That was written on my mic: S1263 277…

[dashi]

Thank you a lot, @anon9989719
I read all the soldering adventures attached and it looks a bit too much to me. However, I’ll consider asking for help in some hacklab/hackerspace/makerspace that can help me out with the soldering.

Ah, a solution that hasn’t been mentioned, is to use a “Snowden mic”. That is, the one that comes with some headphones. Select instance - Invidious