PO-33 soldering lock pads has no effect

Hi everyone,

Recently I bought a used PO-33 with the lock pad broken off. Soldering a connection between the two pads did not seem to have any effect. I tried soldering and de-soldering several times (just in case) and confirmed a connection with a multimeter but I cannot get the PO to reset to factory settings.

Has anyone experienced a behaviour like this? Is there still hope, and what could be the problem?

Thank you

so it still saying “noP” when u go to sample?

longshot but u could try factory reset see if it jumpstarts it

otherwise if u have the two pads connected

and it still not letting u sample

it might mean that the connection is broken somewhere between the pad and the chip itself

which is not as easy of a thing to suss out

it never resets properly and I only get the “noP” message when trying to record something. I soldered the reset pads again with no success.

Unfortunately, the previous owner did not put very much effort into preparing proper samples before breaking off the lock pad

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