Verizon iPhone no signal/Chipped pieces on Motherboard? [Pictures]

Hey, I posted a question recently about my verizon iphone 4 not having any strong signal. I cleaned every metal to metal contact imaginable to try to avoid contamination, and decided that it had to be something with the motherboard because i also replaced the 3g antenna loudspeaker assembly at the bottom of the device and still had no signal. But then I noticed that there were two missing "chips" or "fuses" i'm not exactly sure what they were, but they weren't present when I looked at my motherboard so I think I knocked them off when I was putting the battery in. I don't know if these have to do with the 3g signal, but I am pretty sure they do because I've tried everything else imaginable to try to get 3g working on this phone again. I heard that GSM iphone 4 users bought a CAIG circuit writer pen to bridge the gap between where the famous blue inductor normally falls off. I tried that myself, but alas the 3g signal is still gone. The two things i'm thinking is that 1. I didn't wait the full 24 hours for it to dry because the battery port on the motherboard ripped out this last time I disassembled it, so I had to solder it back in myself and make sure it turned on. Or 2. those two little pieces are more than just bridging a gap. Can someone with a little more knowledge weigh in here and see if i have done something wrong, or point me in the right direction? Thanks so much!!! (Pre pen is what it looks like without the CAIG silver on it, then there's a close up of it, and then my work after soldering the battery connector and putting the pen silver solution on. (and amazingly I have no soldering skills pretty much whatsoever, so i'm really surprised it even turned on after I assembled it again!))

-Ryan

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