Crystal Focus v9 - broken FoC pad

[thetang22]

I’ve been wiring up my Crystal Focus v9, and everything has gone well so far, until I got about 90% of the way through initial wiring. On page 46 of the user’s manual, it has wiring instructions for Simple Flash of Clash, which I was attempting to do. It has me soldering to the PEx1 pad. In doing so, I was clumsy and the pad tore away from the board. (This is something I experienced years ago on cheap has to boards, and had been extra careful on this board up until this moment).
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So I’m in a pickle, and I’m trying to figure my options. I’m re-reading the manual now to see if an answer becomes clear, but also thought it would be wise to ask here, in case the community can provide any help.

My hopeful gut reaction was that perhaps I could just use the PEx2 pad for FoC. So I soldered it up exactly as the manual suggests, with the exception of changing to the PEx2 pad. That didn’t appear to have any effect...which I kinda thought it would not, without perhaps changing some coding on the SD card (which I’m trying to see if that’s possible for this situation. Or is it an issue in which the FoC pad is hard-codes to be the PEx1 pad (which is now broken...)?

I’ve also seen some pretty advanced stuff about potentially repairing the removed pad, but that looks to be beyond my level of confidence.

Then there has also been talk of some pads that can be accessed from both sides of the board....and that just because the pad is broken on the bottom side of the board doesn’t mean it can’t be accessed from the top. But it seems this isn’t necessarily the case for every pad on the board...and I’m not sure if this particular one is accessible on the top. If it is, it appears like it’s 1/2 way under the block on the top of the board.

Another question/consideration - the PEx1 has 2 pads...the 1 I broke, and another it connects to, to it’s left. Would it be possible to simply bypass the broken pad and solder directly to the left pad? I have a resistor on the wire to the led...in case that is a concern.

Thanks again for any help.