I’ve been exactly where you are, and can only say that despite it being maddeningly frustrating there is still always a way. It might require melting off a chip and soldering a replacement one on (with significant loss of data)
You’re well into Ship of Theseus territory once you’re replacing major chips. You’ve not really recovered the phone, you’ve just replaced big chunk of it so it’s not entirely the same phone anymore, just with extra hassle because you’ve not replaced the main board as a whole.
I’m not saying it’s not worthwhile to do this to fix a broken phone, just that if you have to do this, then the phone was bricked, and once you’re replacing hardware, you’re not just recovering it.
I’ve been exactly where you are, and can only say that despite it being maddeningly frustrating there is still always a way. It might require melting off a chip and soldering a replacement one on (with significant loss of data)
https://xdaforums.com/t/poco-f1-bricked.3968436/#post-80252328
You tried removing the battery panel and connecting the two test points to force EDL mode?
You’re well into Ship of Theseus territory once you’re replacing major chips. You’ve not really recovered the phone, you’ve just replaced big chunk of it so it’s not entirely the same phone anymore, just with extra hassle because you’ve not replaced the main board as a whole.
The Chip of Theseus.
If the cost of Theseus replacing a mast incurred the cost of buying a new ship, then I doubt it would be his ship neither physically nor figuratively.
Chips are ridiculously cheap, and getting your local phone shop to resolder one on is about £30 and 30mins of your time worth spending
I’m not saying it’s not worthwhile to do this to fix a broken phone, just that if you have to do this, then the phone was bricked, and once you’re replacing hardware, you’re not just recovering it.
that’s a fair point