Fixing Xbox One sheared-off/broken HDMI port with a piece of tissue (no solder)

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HDMI 1 port on a Xbox One S All Digital is completely sheared-off the motherboard (no connection aside from plastic chassis). No soldering solution: a piece of tissue!

The pins from the HDMI port all touch the motherboard enough for stable video output, and the tissue is pushing the HDMI cable upward with the console pushing downward, creating an angle that pushes the HDMI port's pins down onto the motherboard.

Worked fine for initial set-up (including USB restore from OSU), factory-reset, Insider update, a few HDMI hot-plus/different cables, and several non-stop hours of Path of Exile! Motherboard removed from the chassis had the HDMI port fall-off completely (was held to the board partially with plastic) but looks easy-enough to fix proper with a re-solder, eventually (planning on cleaning the console up and just having it Remote Play headless).

The HDMI port itself is a simple row of pins (single-row/not multiple). I plan to see if a Series S HDMI port can replace this One S's (I made a mistake with the naming for the port order and there's apparently a difference between older "One S" and newer "Series S" :p)

Judging by how clean the shear looks, I suspect the pins might not have been soldered to the board at all! Since pressure alone is enough for all the pins to contact the motherboard, perhaps the port was held to the board purely by the plastic casing (saw broken plastic bits), and pins allowed to free-contact the board, perhaps in an effort to make for easy-repairs or less accidental damage potential. Depending on how the above Series S HDMI port replacement goes, I'm thinking I can just re-use the original port and glue it in-place like nothing happened.

Even without a HDMI 1 port or display, this Xbox One S works perfectly with Remote Play! (I set it up initially with a display though).