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?