Well no luck running jumping wires between the two sides and connecting the resistors as the trace would, I imagine it has to do with the damage to the pads themselves. Tried to trace back to see if I can just short over the headphone section entirely, but it gets hairy with the two sided pcb, as I ...

Thank you for the input, y'all! Alright, going to try to run some jumpers, the second and third contacts run to a couple of resistors, I am just not sure where the initial input is coming from, I don't believe there is an actual headphone preamp, so I think it should be possible to short the jumper ...

I have recently acquired a micro terror that has had the PCB connections around the headphone jack damaged while trying to replace the jack. I figure it is probably easier to bypass the headphone jack entirely then trying to repair the PCB and replace the jack. Does anybody have experience with this...