Messing with K300i

This is something I recently did with my Sony Ericsson K300i phone. Actually it was not working so i really wanted to dissemble it and see what is wrong in it. Basically i did not have any idea on how to like repair phones. Same as any ordinary person what i did was google about it. The problem with my phone was that it cannot be charged. That is even with the charger connected it cannot be used. Apparently the problem was pretty general and there were posts on soldering few jumper wires to by pass some circuitry in the phone. Which i found a bit challenging given that my soldering iron is a cheap one and it is obviously not meant to stand up to SMD soldering. :D

Nevertheless i dissembled the phone using my newly purchased tool kit which is very cheap but has around 38 different tools <GOD BLESS CHINA!!!>. :D Dissembling the phone was pretty easy, i just removed few screws and pulled the cover away. There was a good post on K300i dissembly,

http://www.formymobile.co.uk/k300lcd.htm

After dissembling the phone i connected the charger and moved the female charger adapter connected to the phone a little bit away from the phone and it started working :D. So i used a small piece of rubber to fix the adapter in that position and assembled the phone. Now it's working again.

The problem with my phone was that since it is old and the charger adapters have been used so many times, the contacts which connects the charger to the phone were slightly disoriented. By placing the piece of rubber i could perfectly make the contacts and give life back to circuitry.

This might be useful to you if you have a similar problem.

Thank you.