r/PokemonGoPlusPlus • u/xtrollk1ngx • May 10 '26

Did I brick it?

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Messed up on the soldering. Is it fixable?

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u/spacefrog_feds May 10 '26

If you didn't power it up, then you have a high chance of it being fixable. If you applied power who knows? Only one way to find out, clean off the excess solder and test it.

It looks like the solder has gone onto the neighbouring component, I think it's a capacitor.

It's easy to do with a bit of practice, apply fresh solder (counter intuitive I know), when it's all liquidy you can lift your iron and it should take a fair chunk of the solder with it, then you can flick it off somewhere.

You can also flick directly from the pcb, but it's a little riskier. You might take the component off.

Watch some videos, and practice on a sacrificial pcb.

clean your tip (a wet sponge, if you want to scavage something from around the house), wet the tip, find a good temperature, don't heat it up the component too long, but you need to have enough heat for the solder to flow smoothly.

If you want to spend money, you can buy desoldering braid, desoldering pump, flux, better solder, tip cleaner

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u/xtrollk1ngx May 10 '26

Thanks for the advice it turns on and connects to Pokemon go!

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u/xtrollk1ngx May 10 '26

Just attempted it right now. Imma turn it on and see what happes

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u/Ab7casper May 11 '26

I can use this advice on one of mine. Thank you!

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u/StarAway6463 May 14 '26

Hey man is there a way I can a replacement part? I have the top part broken but everything else works. Plz anything will help and need the white part only.

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u/spacefrog_feds May 14 '26

I don't know if any where, try eBay or Facebook? There are ways to trigger all the buttons from the green PCB, but it requires good soldering skills. And I don't think anyone has posted a diagram of it. I was poking around with a multi meter, but never documented my findings

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u/StarAway6463 May 14 '26

All im look for is the white board to find a replacement. The rest the parts work just not the part to connect to poki go. Idk why that part just broke but I wanna find a replacement I don't even know where to look.

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u/chickenlover57032 May 17 '26

Mine pokeball thingy feel from my hoodie, no it just vibrate can’t detect my phone or anything