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Samsung gt8500 repairs

Hello,
I have samsung wave that stopped vibrating after about 7 months. The phone was fine otherwise. Still, since i picked a newer one i decided to bring it to a samsung certified repair shop here in germany and after a few weeks i got a letter saying the phone is not only damaged beyond repair but also completly dead. The cause stated was corrosion due to liquids. I take good care of my phones and never did the phone get anywhere near any liquid. But ok admitting thats true... some guy at the shop told me it was now completly dead because the corrosion had eaten its way through the rest of the circuits. They now want 20euros just to send me a broken phone back or they will "dispose" of it for me...
Im no expert and my hardware engineering classes are a while back, but this sounds pretty darn strange to me. Can anyone out there tell me how plausible this is or give me some advice?
Id be really grateful. Thanks,
Ludwig
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Help on identifying problem

Hi guys,
My htc fell in water, but I have dried it up. Now when I press the power key, the screen does not turn on. Then, when I press it again to supposedly off the screen, the screen turns on and off in 1second. So I can catch a glimpse of the lockscreen. So I was wondering, does anyone know why this is happening?
Is this a problem I can fix myself or should I bring it to a repair shop?
Any recommendation on a repair shop besides HTC. HTC did not even bother to look at my phone, they just saw the water indicator and said it would be $300-$500, which in fact, I know that it would not be that much.
So if anyone could help me, thanks.
I'll upload a youtube video so you guys can get a better understanding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBVeprvekgY

Had the same accident on my wifes last Nokia, couldnt repair it myself and brought it to a repair shop. They told me to throw it away because the water sensor inside the phone reported the accident audn a repair would be as expensive a an equal ne phone. sorry mate, dont hope too much ...

I guess I shall just get a new phone, like an evo 3d or something. Thanks anyway

Or they can replace the parts that's been damaged. But i'm not sure if the repair costs more than buying a new phone.

I believes LCD internal circuit detect short and turns of lcd to prevent damage.
LCD may still have water inside or main board may have been damaged.
It is impossible to guess so repair tech must use parts from good phone and swap one by one to bad phone until bad part is found.
Most repair shop will not have ability to do this so they will charge minimum $200 ( average cost for them to buy phone) or they will assume LCD is defective and quote about $150. ( their charge for LCD replacement)
HTC just charges you phone refurb charge ( for customer not their cost)
I recommend sell on eBay for $150 and buy new(used phone) on Craigslist($200-$250).
I assume since you are asking this question you don't do many or any repair...if this is true...I highly suggest you keep it that way to prevent accidental and uneccesary damage
PM me and I can assist with repair/replacement
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I was kinda hoping to fix it, but I guess I should go to HTC and ask them for an exact amount of price needed to fix this phone.
I doubt there's anymore water in the phone cause I have dried it for 3days in rice and even hair dryed it.

[Q] Atrix 2 Motherboard

I very recently hard bricked my beautiful phone with no chance of recovery. So my plan was to replace the motherboard. I scoured the internets in search of said motherboard and all I could find where a few listings of cracked phones and one mobo on ebay worth buying(got outbid 3 or 4 times so far). I was wondering if anyone had a sketchy site from overseas I could order from, a place that actually stocks the part. Thank you for your time, good day.

[Q] replace motherboard or swap screens?

Ok, ive given up hope of un bricking my tf300, and probably will never buy another asus product after this. My question is, should i replace the motherboard in mine, or put my screen and digitizer in another tab that i can buy for about the same price as a motherboard? Which would be the easier swap, and can someone like me without any special skills even accomplish this kind of thing? Oh yea thank u all for ur help in the past!!

Either is an easy fix, but I stole the digi/lcd combo and the TS board from my TWRP bricked 16GB to replace the cracked digi on a recently acquired 32GB model. I should be able to recoup some more from the non-logic board parts remaining, enough to more than make sense over buying a logic board alone. The battery, TS board, and good LCD alone might take care of it. If not, then maybe including all the little parts and cables inside will. Even if it is more effort to post and sell all that stuff, it should add up to more than selling a parts tablet with a broken digi and bricked logic board.
But then, I've had many tablets apart, and I'm decent at repairing them. Someone who has never had one apart might find either path daunting.

If doing the repairs yourself isn't a good option, you could always take the tablets to a cell phone repair shop, assuming there's one near you. Replacing the screen on a tablet is similar enough to a smartphone that they shouldn't have any problems. There's also a chance that they fix tablets anyway since they're kind of like big smartphones in the way they're assembled. And since you have your own parts, the repairs shouldn't be too expensive.
Putting the ILLA in KILLA since 1985

Sustainable smartphone

Hi,
I have a Fairphone 3+ and planning to buy the 2e Terracube.
There is also the ShiftM company that sell sustainables phones
There is no thread (or so few) in this forum to follow news, rom developement, hacks & tricks or accesoiries for that kind of phones.
Do you plan to buy a repairable phone ?
Would you like to have a specifc thread
What do you think of eco-responsible, self-dismantling and repairable phones? I think it's time to think about it ...

woaloo said:
Do you plan to buy a repairable phone ?
Would you like to have a specifc thread
What do you think of eco-responsible, self-dismantling and repairable phones? I think it's time to think about it ...
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no a hard to repair phone is good enough for me because i barely do dumb stuff like throw the phone get angry and smash it etc etc although a easy to repair phone won't be bad
they should add removable batteries back it's really annoying
eco responsible phones? how would that work?

All these phones have removable batteries.
If you are used to throw your phone, you can buy spare parts to repair it
On the other way, the fairphone and Sh!ft phones, for example, are made of recycled and fair materials, they respect working conditions for extracting minerals. Not made with african's children blood ... if you see what I mean.