Repairing an unresponsive touchscreen - the fire fix (⚠ slightly dangerous, will void your warranty)

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@ElKrasso once described a similarly daring procedure (involving the core module though), but using a normal kitchen oven.

Noisy coloured pixels on my Fairphone 2

Edit by @moderators: This post contains instructions that can cause severe harm to you. So welcome in the club of broken pogo pins I am lucky that I only have trouble with these pins at work. There is one thing you could try before you swap your core module. It is a dangerous action, but if you do not have anything to loose it is worth a try. I guess you have (a) broken solder joint(s) on the pogo pin(s). Resoldering by hand would be hard, moreover most people do n…