Recently, my baby monitor stopped charging - that is to say, when I inserted the DC power cord, I had to wiggle the plug about in the socket a bit to get in to start charging and even then it was flakey. Finally, today, no amount of wiggling would coax charging to start so I decided to take a quick look inside.
The DC power adapter jack pretty much just fell off the PCB once I'd opened the case up.
I'd like to take a stab at just reattaching (or replacing) the power jack as other than this issue, the unit works well.
I'm after some advice on how best to go about this. Is soldering directly on to the board the right approach here? My memory from DT class 20 years ago was putting each component through a hole on the PCB and then soldering on the underside. That's not an option here as the component is mounted flat on to the PCB. Google search turns up something called "solder paste" that looks like it could work. Would that be the right approach? Any advice appreciated.