Steam Deck: how to solder 3 pin POWER BUTTON with one missing (ripped-off) solder pad?

[Jim Farid]

The middle pad (B) on my steam deck's power button got ripped off. I want to bridge the middle pin to a via or another pad but don't know which one. Do you guys know any?

The pads with the stars are all ground.

In case there's no pad I can bridge to, do you know how to turn my deck on without using the power button? Thanks a lot 🙏.

[chickenhawk88]

First step is clean up the area with isoprop alcohol including desoldering the remainder of the damage power button. Then very light scrape away where you have white arrow (B) the black paint to see if there is a track going to where the pad used to be. Go very slow and clean the area in between steps. There should be a track there. Don't scrap hard because its mutilayer board.

[Jim Farid]

chickenhawk88 Hey mate. I did what you suggested, i scraped all around the B solder pad and unfortunately, I found no traces. All I found was ground. This is weird. I have also tried to solder the button to only the A and C pads but it didn't work.

[chickenhawk88]

chickenhawk88 Hey mate. I did what you suggested, i scraped all around the B solder pad and unfortunately, I found no traces. All I found was ground. This is weird. I have also tried to solder the button to only the A and C pads but it didn't work.

Can you take a pic of the area? Really odd that there is no track there.