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Our daughter shoved a random charger into her brothers speaker and broke the port. Can this be fixed?
@sharpie75 and @mharrisonline take a look at this guide. Step 6 shows the port soldered onto the board. So it would not be easy. You could try and purchase a broken Bose SoundLink Color and harvest the port from it. Or you could possibly pigtail a separate charging port to it. This will depend on your soldering skills etc. If you can, post some images of the damage (disassembled) with your question. For that use this guide. That would allow us to see what you see and possibly point out where to solder to.
Within the next week, I am going to bypass the original charging port. And going to pigtail a new usb port. Just trying to figure out the best procedure. I have over 30 years of repairing pcb components.
If anyone will have a deep battery discharge, the speaker can stopped to be charged at all. It is necessary to connect speaker with a cable to phone, press button turn on for like 10s. Still holding disconnect cable and then release the button. It should then start charging again, a quick crazy fix. I mention this because if port was broken the battery wasn’t charged for some time and it is possible that deep battery discharge happened. The manufacturer obviously forgot to mention that such thing can happen. It is also possible to update the system when speaker is connected to PC and then Google “update bose speaker online”. You go to bose website, download a program and then it is updated. Either update through PC, 10s trick or both - solved my problem. I couldn’t charge my battery at all it was remaining on 5% max while connected to a wall socket, no update through phone was possible.
