Backlight connector in Garmin GPS

[Greg Soule]

Hi,
I am not an electronics expert but I hope to just ask a question of your collective wisdom. I was replacing the battery and screen in a Garmin Nuvi 660, and the tiny connector for the backlight wire came off of the circuit board. Maybe I pulled to hard the wrong way, I don't know . . . ok I pulled too hard the wrong way. I just want to know if there's any hope of re-attaching it. It is about 3 mm square and appears to have 4 connection points on the underside. A picture of it can be seen here -
http://www.portatronics.com/guide/GPS-Repair-Guide/garmin-nuvi-660-screen-replacement.html

Thanks, Greg Soule

 

[davenn]

hi Greg

show us a sharp and well lit closeup of your unit with the damaged connector

 

[Greg Soule]

I should have taken a picture before I reassembled it, with the connector held in just the right position with scotch tape, so that it works, at least for now. The tiny connection points on the underside are literally as small as and as close together as the "quotation marks" in the text of this page.
On the link I provided above, look at the picture for step 15 and imagine the square white piece pulled off. For the other two long connectors, the black tab lifted away from me, but on this one it lifted towards me, from the back, and the ribbon wire slides in a little slot on the front.
It's so tiny, I assume there's no way to reattach it, save bringing it back to the factory in China where it was made with precision robots or something. I was just hoping there might be some trick that I don't know about, so that I wouldn't have to give this up as a lost cause.
Greg

 

[Tha fios agaibh]

Probably not, you could try gluing it, but your probably screwed.

Do you really want to trust a gps unit when your out of town somewhere, that's held together with scotch tape and glue?

I'd pitch it.

 

[Greg Soule]

No, I don't trust it, that's why I already ordered a replacement, a similar model, and will keep this one as a backup for spare parts.
Greg