What can I salvage from this?

[Pentium]

After a half year of hard work, multiple mental breakdowns, and multiple accidents involving direct contact with a soldering iron....

Nothing. I've been working on this one mintypi, my first ever project, for half a year now, and I'm pretty sure it's done for.

The charging port has been superglued... in the wrong place. So the cable won't plug in unless I chop up the tin more.

I ripped off a USB golden data pad, so no sound card anymore I would assume.

The dang thing won't turn on! I try it first time, it works, but now, by battery and cable, it won't even turn the indicator light on!

It doesn't have the IPS screen, it doesn't have a battery monitor, and the ground power pad has been ripped off.

What can I salvage from this train wreck?

[Pentium]

I'm actually so done, after so much work, it won't even turn on!
I feel like smashing it into the ground right now.

[dryja123]

Really sorry to see this happened to your build. I would suggest you get some soldering practice in and give it a go again. Buy some soldering kits from eBay and master those.

You can always pick up a basic mintyPi button pcb from wermy. He sells them cheap.

[Helder]

Use better solder too like 63/37 not that 60/40 I can see you used, a temperature controlled Iron is also recommended and practice a bit before actually tackling something like this project.

[rodocop]

Hopefully you can salvage everything.

Sound card has alternate solder points if you pulled pads off.

If your power boost is glued down and you can't get it out then you might have to cut the tin more. Might not be as pretty though. But if it isn't working might be with pulling out (even if it breaks) to replace.

Also, if you don't have one, buy or borrow a multimeter. And check continuity all the time!

If it's not powering on the first thing I would do it reflow the vcc and ground gpios and make sure you have good continuity with the test pads.

I hope you can get it working! Sometimes taking a break and doing something different can help. Come back with a fresh mind!

Worst case, maybe someone can help you out? Where in the world are you?