Hello, before I get into anything I would like to say that it is a bit lengthy in explanation but that is only because I wish to make sure I cover everything. There will be a TLDR at the bottom if you do not wish to read everything that led to this point.
Ok, so I have recently ordered the parts for the Arisu Keyboard (an Alice like keyboard that can be found here
https://github.com/FateNozomi/arisu-pcb ) and, though not without issues, had it working last night and was quite happy. Unfortunately, when I unplugged the micro usb it came off of the board. The issue with this is that the plate made the solder joints inaccessible and so I tried to just lay it on top of the board first to see if it worked at all like that. The board did work, and so I de-soldered all of my switches, re-soldered the micro usb and put everything back on to have it all working again. As a counter measure, I took a little piece of acrylic from the plate that shipped with my case cutout to sandwich the micro usb between the board and the pcb. This worked well for a bit, and the keyboard was once again working. I had decided that I wanted to change the layout of the board, so I figured I would flash a new profile really quick then go to sleep. I shorted the pins to put it into boot mode (space b did not work) and while I was doing that, the micro usb detatched itself from the pcb once again as I was plugging it in. This caused it to disconnect and reconnect a few times, then in the end stopped working. At this point, it was 330 am and I was at my wit's end. I decided that instead of de-soldering all of the switches again, I would just make a cutout in the case itself so I could re-solder the micro usb there again because doing all of that de-soldering was an absolute pain as I have shaky hands (took me 3 hours).
So now with a cutout in my case, I put the micro usb back on and of course, it does not work anymore. I made sure all of the pins were touching the pads, which they were, and even wiggled the thing around a bit to see if I could get any connection at all. I have even tried a few different micro usb, both connectors and cables, and nothing has worked thus far. The computer does not even recognize when I plug the keyboard into the computer anymore. I see that there are some pads on the right of the micro usb that maybe I could try soldering a cable directly to and lose the functionality of being able to disconnect the cable, but I am unsure if this would work. I don't wish to spend much more money on this so I am hoping that you all could help me out here as I have no clue what to do anymore. Here are some other pictures to provide more details.
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[/size]TLDR: micro usb came off while I was flashing a new profile onto the board and now it wont connect to the computer anymore even when I re-solder it back on.