The Orange SPV is a GSM mobile phone combined with a personal organiser running Windows Mobile. It's a re-branded version of the HTC Universal phone. It has a fold-out screen, a full alphanumeric keyboard and an SD memory card slot. It can synchronise with a host PC via a USB interface, which also supplies power to charge the lithium-ion battery.
My friend's phone was suffering from a connector failure at the USB port, which meant she couldn't charge the phone. This meant that she couldn't use the phone as a display for her Bluetooth GPS receiver, either.
We obtained a replacement surface-mount USB connector from RS Components. I then opened up the back of the phone by removing four small Torx screws from underneath the battery. One screw was covered by a red anti-tamper sticker, which I discarded. The two halves of the phone's case are then clipped together and must be carefully prised apart. Having done that, I desoldered the broken USB connector and cleaned up the PCB pads with solder braid. I then carefully soldered in a new connector. It's tiny, but the surface-mount soldering can be done with a fine tip on the soldering iron, a steady hand, and good lighting and magnification. In fact, a stereo microscope would have helped.
Photos of the repair are in this Flickr set.
Reassembly is the reverse of disassembly. Clip the two halves of the phone case back together and replace the four Torx screws.