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TheJason,
One more thing: cover the camera with Kapton tape. Or, even better, remove it completely. The trick is to get two very thin things on two opposing sides of the camera. I used a shaving blade (old style) broken in halves. Once the locks are disabled this way, the camera is easily removed, say with a small screwdriver, by leveraging it over the receptacle margin. Although the Service Manual says the same camera module should not be re-used after removal, I believe this isn't because the camera becomes ruined after removal. Moreover, I can testify that the camera & camera port are very robustly made (for such size), more robustly that this f*****g microUSB port.

geneven,
I'm not sure I know what you mean

As for my previous post, one small detail: when I had just soldered the port bak, I tried starting the disassembled phone and connecting it to the PC - it worked amazingly well. Didn't work that well after I assembled it (this might invalidate my assumption that I fried something up, as I didn't heat the phone after that).
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Last edited by gebeleysis; 2012-05-03 at 07:18.