Many recalls have been already satisfied with customer care to replace phones that stop charging due to the port. In most cases, the phone is still under warranty and the obvious solution is to get a replacement phone. However, if you are not paying tech insurance, your sidekick could be having a VOIDED warranty due to the phone not being defective (cases of proven damage incurred as the result of tampering or dropping the phone, cosmetic damage etc. indicating that damage has ocurred. T-mobile customer care will give you in such cases a number of a repair company, but guess what.. this company "UT STARCOM" charges a FLAT FEE OF $250 for all repairs!!! The price of a new Sidekick is about that much, eh?

Needless to say this happened to me and due to my limited budget but in need of a new phone, I'm shopping on eBay for a used sidekick 2 :| it sucks downgrading. But, I'm starting this page if anyone knows how to actually manually fix this problem with a soldering iron or soldering gun or something. Anyone technically inclined lets try to get some information like a tutorial on how to fix the charging portal yourself so that less people will have to through my agony over having to basically throw away a 4 month old sidekick 3...I will attempt to take apart mine and study it real hard because its basically worth nothing right now and post comments related to see if i actually fix this issue myself...Lesson I learned was to always get the tech insurance from now on.