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I recently was able to repair a water Damaged TB that i bough from Ebay (good ESN +++) and i thought i share a picture of the motherboard, it did have some extensive water residue around the processors and ribbon connectors. All of it was cleaned off using some 91% Alcohol a fine brush and some Canned air.. all works again minus a bad Front facing camera (my fault some how i killed it).

why not just get another tbolt then?

smoother2010 said:
why not just get another tbolt then?
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I don't think you understand the point of this thread. The man was able to take a broken (Water damaged) phone and bring it back to life.
Kudo's OP!

miketoasty said:
I don't think you understand the point of this thread. The man was able to take a broken (Water damaged) phone and bring it back to life.
Kudo's OP!
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i know but its also not fully functional.

smoother2010 said:
i know but its also not fully functional.
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I originally bought this phone to get parts for my TB, When i got the phone it was compleatly dead would not turn on or charge. I did a little cleaning and was able to get it turned but would shut off after a few minutes, that's how i found the front facing camera was working, when i swapped it out with my bad one it did not work but for some reason after a week my old one started working again. So i finished off cleaning the corrosion and checked other components once it was fully alive i tested with my Sim card and was able to get everything working except front camera(note the camera is bad not board i was able to get my other camera working on it). I used it for a full day playing games, browsing, calling peeps and it handled just like my non water damaged TB. So all in all the TB is one Tough Bitch

smoother2010 said:
i know but its also not fully functional.
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I guess you're not cut out to be a hacker then. The point of doing it is for the challenge of doing it. There's a certain kind of person that likes to do things just for the sake of knowing it is possible.

yareally said:
I guess you're not cut out to be a hacker then. The point of doing it is for the challenge of doing it. There's a certain kind of person that likes to do things just for the sake of knowing it is possible.
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hacker yes, pulling apart my phone, no your right. it is impressive he got it working but myself i would of just got a newer replacement. i wasn't bashing the guy, geez you guys are critical here.

smoother2010 said:
hacker yes, pulling apart my phone, no your right. it is impressive he got it working but myself i would of just got a newer replacement. i wasn't bashing the guy, geez you guys are critical here.
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That wasn't criticism. That was explaining why you didn't understand why he would do it. Geeze some of you guys take everything personal

Yes to all , I take stuff apart and fix it because I need to know how it works. I could have bought a new one for 350 but were is the fun in that? I bought my TB with a broken screen,lcd and housing and replaced it all, I broke the first digitizer and lcd I bought my fault for over tinkering with it, anyways after a couple of weeks of selling junk on eBay I bought another digitizer and lcd to fix it again, yes I spent about the same or more as buying a TB that was newer but from what I learned so far to me it is greater then the newer one.
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[Q] Skyrocket water damage **PRICE**

So i dropped my skyrocket in water, imediately pulled out the battery then put the phone under a hairdryer. The phone works fine when the battery is above about 30% but when its under that **sometimes** it freezes and shuts off then turns back on. But that only happens sometimes. When you go into the camera it flashes, when you exit it flashes and when you click the front facing camera the flash stays on.
I contact att and i have insurance on it but i have to pay $199 for a brand new when i payed $149 when i got it. So i am definently not doing that. Everything about the phone works fine except for the freezes and the flash so i can deal with it. But my question is if i were to sell it, how much should i ask for it? OR, is there anything i could possibly do to make it work 100%?

Why didn't you leave it alone and put it in rice for a few days? A new screen is about $150
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cause my dad said,"we are going to eat that rice!! You can't use that." So I had to improvise. How would a new screen help? The screen is fine...

kalin96 said:
cause my dad said,"we are going to eat that rice!! You can't use that." So I had to improvise. How would a new screen help? The screen is fine...
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Oh nevermind, I got distracted. Forgot this was about water damage. Haha. Dang new ics leak has my brain all scrambled
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Sorry to tell you but it will never be 100%. The damage has been done.
You should've put it in rice or gotten someone else to do it, tell your dad how much it will cost to replace the phone and remind him that the price or rice is still very low (don't do that).
Your best bet at this time is to find a sketchy place that will replace the water damage sticker to make it seem like it was never water damaged and then brick it and then ask for a replacement from AT&T.
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kalin96 said:
So i dropped my skyrocket in water, imediately pulled out the battery then put the phone under a hairdryer. The phone works fine when the battery is above about 30% but when its under that **sometimes** it freezes and shuts off then turns back on. But that only happens sometimes. When you go into the camera it flashes, when you exit it flashes and when you click the front facing camera the flash stays on.
I contact att and i have insurance on it but i have to pay $199 for a brand new when i payed $149 when i got it. So i am definently not doing that. Everything about the phone works fine except for the freezes and the flash so i can deal with it. But my question is if i were to sell it, how much should i ask for it? OR, is there anything i could possibly do to make it work 100%?
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Well seem i was the only making skyrocket to swim hehe bad joke. Well pal seems the skyrocket motherboard has some wayter inside. I got kinda same issue when mine got wet but i managed to fix it. Ya need to disamble the unic carefully get out the board. Buy a bottle of isopropyl alcohol 91 or 100%. Use a continer fill it with the isopropil alcohol and drop the board on it leave it for 15 mins then take it out let it dry for 10 mins and put the board in rice for one day. Essamble it back and good luck.
P.S. English not my natal language
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kalin96 said:
So i dropped my skyrocket in water, imediately pulled out the battery then put the phone under a hairdryer. The phone works fine when the battery is above about 30% but when its under that **sometimes** it freezes and shuts off then turns back on. But that only happens sometimes. When you go into the camera it flashes, when you exit it flashes and when you click the front facing camera the flash stays on.
I contact att and i have insurance on it but i have to pay $199 for a brand new when i payed $149 when i got it. So i am definently not doing that. Everything about the phone works fine except for the freezes and the flash so i can deal with it. But my question is if i were to sell it, how much should i ask for it? OR, is there anything i could possibly do to make it work 100%?
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Were you gonna evil bay? Water damage i wouldn't pay no more than 45 bucks. Come on would you buy a phone that's been in water?
SkyRocket Clocked at 1.728!

WhatzinyourphonE said:
Were you gonna evil bay? Water damage i wouldn't pay no more than 45 bucks. Come on would you buy a phone that's been in water?
SkyRocket Clocked at 1.728!
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45$ is way to low , thats even low if the phone was completely not working.
Its not a completely huge deal, if you were to sell it on ebay I would start at 175, and try again lower if it doesnt sell.

people buy phones that dont even turn on for $100 or more on ebay, then parting it out or using usable parts for themselves

Start at half of retail if you're going to sell.
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kr3w1337 said:
Sorry to tell you but it will never be 100%. The damage has been done.
You should've put it in rice or gotten someone else to do it, tell your dad how much it will cost to replace the phone and remind him that the price or rice is still very low (don't do that).
Your best bet at this time is to find a sketchy place that will replace the water damage sticker to make it seem like it was never water damaged and then brick it and then ask for a replacement from AT&T.
Sent from my I727
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So would you have any reccomendations of sketchy places to use? I have rooted and unrooted this a couple of times but how would i brick it? If i were to do this and just say i dont know whats wrong with it, would they be able to tell i tried rooting it, voiding my warranty, and still give me a free replacement?
Also i bought a new srock battery for it but it doesnt have an indicator. Do you know anywhere i can get one from?

LuneBear said:
Well seem i was the only making skyrocket to swim hehe bad joke. Well pal seems the skyrocket motherboard has some wayter inside. I got kinda same issue when mine got wet but i managed to fix it. Ya need to disamble the unic carefully get out the board. Buy a bottle of isopropyl alcohol 91 or 100%. Use a continer fill it with the isopropil alcohol and drop the board on it leave it for 15 mins then take it out let it dry for 10 mins and put the board in rice for one day. Essamble it back and good luck.
P.S. English not my natal language
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Don't do this, you have a huge risk of popping a cap or shorting a transistor with your hand. The boards are extremely static sensitive. Not to mention that will literally do nothing. If you had a dirty phone this may help, but water damage shorts circuits together and burns everything in its path.
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kalin96 said:
So would you have any reccomendations of sketchy places to use? I have rooted and unrooted this a couple of times but how would i brick it? If i were to do this and just say i dont know whats wrong with it, would they be able to tell i tried rooting it, voiding my warranty, and still give me a free replacement?
Also i bought a new srock battery for it but it doesnt have an indicator. Do you know anywhere i can get one from?
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The place will be local, not somewhere you can ship. If you wanna brick it then load the international s2 ROM on there. It will brick nice and fast
The carrier usually checks for water and physical damage before giving you a replacement though so that's why I said get the film changed.
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kr3w1337 said:
The place will be local, not somewhere you can ship. If you wanna brick it then load the international s2 ROM on there. It will brick nice and fast
The carrier usually checks for water and physical damage before giving you a replacement though so that's why I said get the film changed.
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When i brick it they will still check for water damage. So how do i make it seem it doesnt have water damage, atleast so i can get a replacement.
And change what film?
To avoid all this, will i just be better off selling it and use that money towards the new skyrocket?

kalin96 said:
When i brick it they will still check for water damage. So how do i make it seem it doesnt have water damage, atleast so i can get a replacement.
And change what film?
To avoid all this, will i just be better off selling it and use that money towards the new skyrocket?
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The phone has a water sensitive film which changes color when it comes in contact with water. This is how they know it's water damaged (doesn't sound fancy I know). So basically you have to go around town to all the little cell phone stores and see which one is willing to change the film. Nobody is going to advertise this because of the legality issues so you're gonna have to do this in person.
Once the film is changed then you can go ahead and get a replacement.
If this isn't your cup of tea then you're better off selling right away and getting a new one.
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Well that sucks

Naturally, just as we start getting some real dev work on this phone, my wifes SK$G got swimming lessons. Now just in case any one is wondering, SK4G's do not swim well. In fact the poor guy drown!
So here's to hoping you guys get great development! Maybe I will see you deving for her new Galaxy S Relay 4G!

Sorry to hear it!

wolfepakt said:
Naturally, just as we start getting some real dev work on this phone, my wifes SK$G got swimming lessons. Now just in case any one is wondering, SK4G's do not swim well. In fact the poor guy drown!
So here's to hoping you guys get great development! Maybe I will see you deving for her new Galaxy S Relay 4G!
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Good luck. Hey, maybe it's for the best? All good things must come to an end, or all bad things. However you view the SK4G. I'm just glad I'm in a predicament where I'm able use a newer phone, but still be able to work with the SK4G, had it still been my primary driver, we wouldn't have an excellent developer working on it.

That sucks. Did you try taking the battery out and letting it sit in a bowl of rice? The battery may be toast but there is some hope for the phone. You might try a new battery before you call it dead.

bhundven said:
That sucks. Did you try taking the battery out and letting it sit in a bowl of rice? The battery may be toast but there is some hope for the phone. You might try a new battery before you call it dead.
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You gotta do a lot more than just let it sit in rice for awhile. You need to take the entire phone apart and flush it with clean water, then place the pieces somewhere warm to dry for a few hours. Ideally you use compressed air to blow the water off first.
Even then, a full immersion probably means you'd need a new screen. Screens are made up of a bunch of layers of delicate diffusers that are easily damaged simply by touching them. I wouldn't try to repair a water damaged LCD.
Still you could probably revive the mainboard, permitting it to be used to fix a hard bricked phone, or allowing you to get any important data off of it.

She made the mistake of trying to turn it on before it had time to dry properly.
Fortunately we had a full upgrade! She so far likes the relay. Only things she misses is the keyboard and the screen angle.
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wolfepakt said:
Only things she misses is the keyboard and the screen angle.
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Screen angle was the main reason why I got this phone. Used HTC Touch Pro 2 before that, and it's angle was even better. Why there are so few phones with tiltable screen?..

[Q] Need Some Advice on Damaged Nexus 5

Hey, all.
I have the 32 GB Black Nexus 5 model, but in my clumsiness, I dropped the phone in some water. After freaking out, I turned off the phone, dried it out as best as I could and then left it in rice for a few days. My stupidity cost me much, though, as the phone doesn't seem to turn on; it appears to be completely dead. The phone was purchased from the Google Play store, so I doubt I could get the phone replaced for any sort of fee less than the price of a new phone.
My question is this: how can I proceed from here? Is there anything I can do with my dead Nexus 5? Could I sell it for parts? Is there a website -- besides eBay or Craigslist -- where you can do that sort of thing? Aside from a minor scratch in the screen -- the screen has to be off and in direct light to even see it -- the phone is in tip top shape. Thanks in advance for the advice.

SiliconMage said:
Hey, all.
I have the 32 GB Black Nexus 5 model, but in my clumsiness, I dropped the phone in some water. After freaking out, I turned off the phone, dried it out as best as I could and then left it in rice for a few days. My stupidity cost me much, though, as the phone doesn't seem to turn on; it appears to be completely dead. The phone was purchased from the Google Play store, so I doubt I could get the phone replaced for any sort of fee less than the price of a new phone.
My question is this: how can I proceed from here? Is there anything I can do with my dead Nexus 5? Could I sell it for parts? Is there a website -- besides eBay or Craigslist -- where you can do that sort of thing? Aside from a minor scratch in the screen -- the screen has to be off and in direct light to even see it -- the phone is in tip top shape. Thanks in advance for the advice.
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Any chance you could take it apart and dry it out completely? There are plenty of teardown guides and vids.
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PhilipTD said:
Any chance you could take it apart and dry it out completely? There are plenty of teardown guides and vids.
Sent from my Nexus 5
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I suppose I could try that. Wouldn't I have shorted it from trying to turn it on, though?

SiliconMage said:
I suppose I could try that. Wouldn't I have shorted it from trying to turn it on, though?
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That could be, but the reason I mentioned it is that my wife dropped her SIII in the toilet once (and then tried to turn it on), but I was able to save it with a teardown.
Although, in retrospect, I really wonder if all that trouble was worth the price of a new phone.
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PhilipTD said:
That could be, but the reason I mentioned it is that my wife dropped her SIII in the toilet once (and then tried to turn it on), but I was able to save it with a teardown.
Although, in retrospect, I really wonder if all that trouble was worth the price of a new phone.
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Well, I don't really have anything to lose. So, it might be worth a shot. Thanks for the advice.

SiliconMage said:
Well, I don't really have anything to lose. So, it might be worth a shot. Thanks for the advice.
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No problem.
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Try this or get some silica gel and put it in a plastic bag with the phone. Wouldn't hurt to remove at least the backplate though, as it is very easy to do so.

Has anyone succesfully replaced the Nexus 6P battery?

I am looking to replace my battery on my Nexus 6P, I've abused it in the form of basically charging it all the time, all 8 hours at work, it sat on the charger all day, since I use it heavily. I now know the erro of my ways and I want to repalce the battery.
I've watched videos on how to do it, I know it's not easy, but it is possible. Has anyone here changed it, also where did you get the battery, I've found them anywhere form $10 to $50, I ahve no problem paying more if I know it's an OEM battery.
Thanks in advance.

Maybe someone, but I've not heard of anybody doing it....

Not here either....seems like a terrible time haha Best of luck to you if you try but when my battery life degrades to that point I will be parting with this phone and either buying another one of some sort. Even working with electronics for years there no way I'd personally succeed the first time lol

I have dissassembled my phone to replace random components after falling on it. its not that hard to get apart in my opinion, and its super simple to replace the battery if you can source the battery

rjskalet said:
I have dissassembled my phone to replace random components after falling on it. its not that hard to get apart in my opinion, and its super simple to replace the battery if you can source the battery
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Right! The teardown video I saw made it look not that bad, and I toar apart my Galaxy Nexus to replace the USB port on it back in the fday, and that was actually fun, granted it had a removable back with easier access to screws, but still.

ohlin5 said:
Not here either....seems like a terrible time haha Best of luck to you if you try but when my battery life degrades to that point I will be parting with this phone and either buying another one of some sort. Even working with electronics for years there no way I'd personally succeed the first time lol
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I have been eyeing the oneplu3 and oogling over the supposed specs on the oneplus4, so I'll probably go there as soon as it's released, but my battery is bad, I get 2 hour SOT if I'm lucky, this phone used to give me 4+ easy.

If you have to open up.
Buy extra camera glass pieces. Thats literally the only thing that normally goes wrong if you dont have a real heat gun. Dont thing hair dryers will do the trick unless your extremely patient. I plan on replacing the housing soon.

Big Cam said:
I have been eyeing the oneplu3 and oogling over the supposed specs on the oneplus4, so I'll probably go there as soon as it's released, but my battery is bad, I get 2 hour SOT if I'm lucky, this phone used to give me 4+ easy.
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Gotcha...yeah I'm unfortunately stuck w/ Verizon which severely limits my unlocked options lol, but I'd seriously consider the one+ series if I could!

ohlin5 said:
Gotcha...yeah I'm unfortunately stuck w/ Verizon which severely limits my unlocked options lol, but I'd seriously consider the one+ series if I could!
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You just made me sad, I hadn't really looke dinto the oneplus all that much and dind't realize VZW data didn't work. I'm on an unlimited VZW plan, crap.
Hopefully the oneplus 4 has the ZVW radios. Now I really need to change this battery.

Big Cam said:
You just made me sad, I hadn't really looke dinto the oneplus all that much and dind't realize VZW data didn't work. I'm on an unlimited VZW plan, crap.
Hopefully the oneplus 4 has the ZVW radios. Now I really need to change this battery.
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Haha yeeeeaaah all that GSM crap and all their "nice" phones Good luck if ya try man, you're more adventurous than I!

I've successfully done an internal component swap. Swapped the motherboard and battery from a very beat up N6P into one that was in excellent condition but was basically a paperweight.
The most difficult thing about this project was not getting into the phone, but getting into the phone without leaving any noticeable scratches. Removing the camera glass and the plastic strip at the bottom took at least half an hour of heating and gentle prying. Getting the screen out without a suction cup tool was a bit tricky too, i had to wedge in a chisel x-acto blade and pry it up, lucky no damage was done.
My advice would be to have on hand as many of the tools suggested in the youtube videos and to be patient while do it.

intruda119 said:
If you have to open up.
Buy extra camera glass pieces. Thats literally the only thing that normally goes wrong if you dont have a real heat gun. Dont thing hair dryers will do the trick unless your extremely patient. I plan on replacing the housing soon.
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Been there done that with a hairdyer. Rear camera covering glass came off in one piece
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moochinazz said:
Been there done that with a hairdyer. Rear camera covering glass came off in one piece
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Good to know
Thinking about doing mine

I've never taken mine apart but if I plan on replacing my battery I will buy the replacement glass piece and bottom plastic piece at the same time. Those are the only pieces that can get damaged in the process.

I just watched that video. from the looks of it, so long as you take your time. and have that suction cup tool, it should be fairly straight forward. at least you are not having to separate the screen itself from the guts to get inside.

Looks like my battery is on its way as well.
Anyone sourced genuine replacement yet?

Have you considered getting a battery case for it?

willisjm193 said:
Have you considered getting a battery case for it?
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I threw up a little while reading this.

intruda119 said:
I threw up a little while reading this.
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Why?

I understand the 2 out of 10 rating on iFixit after replacing the back cover on my phone. 90% of the pain is getting to the 6 screws. I don't think it is possible without scratching up the old cover. Funny thing is that I just wanted to change it from silver to black. A heat gun is a definite requirement. Not for the faint at heart for sure.
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