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You're well into Ship of Theseus territory once you're replacing major chips. You've not really recovered the phone, you've just replaced big chunk of it so it's not entirely the same phone anymore, just with extra hassle because you've not replaced the main board as a whole.
The Chip of Theseus.
If the cost of Theseus replacing a mast incurred the cost of buying a new ship, then I doubt it would be his ship neither physically nor figuratively.
Chips are ridiculously cheap, and getting your local phone shop to resolder one on is about £30 and 30mins of your time worth spending
I'm not saying it's not worthwhile to do this to fix a broken phone, just that if you have to do this, then the phone was bricked, and once you're replacing hardware, you're not just recovering it.
that's a fair point