Main mic broke, looking for a bottom module

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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…