One can also scrape the soldermask off of the nearest segment of the trace that ...

		asteli on Sept 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to repair the parts that explode in Lenovo yog... One can also scrape the soldermask off of the nearest segment of the trace that got broken and jumper to it. It's easy to pull up traces on accident but it's uncommon for that trace adhesion failure to cause the nearest IC pin or via to fail as well.

Much harder to do with buried vias :-)