Sir Snaxalot wrote:You could totally fix this, you'd need to find a replacement header, desolder the broken one and solder the new one. Don't know why the person above is so discouraging, "just get a new one" is just unhelpful. It's a cheap replacement and at the very least you'd learn from this ordeal.
I'm glad that the sensitivity police have chimed in.
My job in responding to these posts is to try to help people to get to the easiest and cost effective result.
It isn't a simple replacement header. If you actually had a look at what he was talking about, you'd see that the actual surface mount, 50 pin 0.6mm pitch connector. This isn't a simple remove and replace with big pins that you'd have been doing when swapping out a tact switch. Then you need to have previous micro soldering experience to replace the part.
The average cost for the replacement part is $20 USD + shipping. Google the words "50 Way Right Angle Compact Flash Memory Card Connector" So you're looking about $35 or more depending on where you're located to get it.
Or you could just buy a new age card reader from $40-60 which have better options, more support and not have to deal with the likely result of screwing up the soldering in the first place.
Do you have the skillset to solder this in? Maybe you would like to volunteer to do it for for him?