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I tried the answer section, but found this part of the website. The headphone jack only is what doesn’t work. I looked inside the port, and the metal balls and surrounding plastic is a little damaged, maybe the balls are pushed in? I tried fiddling and cleaning it , maybe made it worse. I don’t want to replace the whole flex cable, security reason (no third party or used microphone and lightning port microcontroller). can I cut the flex on a 5s and transplant/microsolder the 3.5mm jack flex copper leads on the SE dock? Is there any other way?
I seem to recall @jessabethany has a video where she replaces the headphone jack on an SE or a 5S, but I am not finding it scrolling through her catalog. But I would wager this is fine. Headphone jacks are electrically quite simple. As long it fits and the contacts are for the same electrical lines, I don’t see why transplanted it wouldn’t work. Although there may be some desolder/solder operations that need to be done.
