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Title: Repairing my headphone jack
Category: Blog
Date: 2020-10-12
Tags: tech, phones, repair


In 2017 I bought a new phone after my old one's screen had broken the
second time in a month.  I was fed up with it's speed and lack of
storage, so I got a new one.  I didn't really put much thought into
this, but it turned out to be a very good idea.

I bought the Oneplus 5T, mostly because I got a good discount being a
student.  It had 128G of storage, was dual sim and had a headphone
jack.  By this time the craze of removing features from phones had
been going on for a while and I knew I really wanted my phone to be
compatible with my earbuds.  (I won't talk about why this is important
to me here, and I think enough has been said on the subject
specifically to allow me to just move on here).

A few years went by without my phone really needing any service.  My
screen got scratched, but never broke, the back got kinda beat up but never