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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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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 $149 when i got it. So i am definently not doing that. Everything about the phone works fine except for the freezes and the flash so i can deal with it. But my question is if i were to sell it, how much should i ask for it? OR, is there anything i could possibly do to make it work 100%?
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Were you gonna evil bay? Water damage i wouldn't pay no more than 45 bucks. Come on would you buy a phone that's been in water?
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WhatzinyourphonE said:
Were you gonna evil bay? Water damage i wouldn't pay no more than 45 bucks. Come on would you buy a phone that's been in water?
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45$ 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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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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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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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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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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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?
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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?
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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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Hi people,
I know there is some similar topic to this one but i couldnt find it, so i opened this one.
My problem is that my nexus s screen is not holding anymore on top, where front camera and sensors are. Glue weakened so upper part pops out a little bit and i can press it in. There is no problems with that, im just afraid that whole screen can pop out in some days if glue weakens. So, my question is, if i give it to Samsung center to repair it, would i get new screen or they would just glue this one back? Also, will they make factory reset(wipe my phone), so i know to make proper backups? Thanks.
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Hi people,
I know there is some similar topic to this one but i couldnt find it, so i opened this one.
My problem is that my nexus s screen is not holding anymore on top, where front camera and sensors are. Glue weakened so upper part pops out a little bit and i can press it in. There is no problems with that, im just afraid that whole screen can pop out in some days if glue weakens. So, my question is, if i give it to Samsung center to repair it, would i get new screen or they would just glue this one back? Also, will they make factory reset(wipe my phone), so i know to make proper backups? Thanks.
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Cannot answer the screen part, but they're quick on the wipe. I think it's one of the mandatory steps no matter what. They also advise that they're not responsible for your data loss when you turn it in, so i'd backup if I was you. Mine got wiped when I had my BGA failure.
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Cannot answer the screen part, but they're quick on the wipe. I think it's one of the mandatory steps no matter what. They also advise that they're not responsible for your data loss when you turn it in, so i'd backup if I was you. Mine got wiped when I had my BGA failure.
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So if they make wipe, there is a big chance i lost recovery, root etc. Backup it is. I will think about sending it for repair. I might keep it until screen falls of or something. i have 1 more year of warranty.
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So if they make wipe, there is a big chance i lost recovery, root etc. Backup it is. I will think about sending it for repair. I might keep it until screen falls of or something. i have 1 more year of warranty.
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Watch out though because if you "break it" per se (crack the screen cause it falls or something silly like that) they might not cover it and you might have to spend from your pocket. And that sucks.
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Watch out though because if you "break it" per se (crack the screen cause it falls or something silly like that) they might not cover it and you might have to spend from your pocket. And that sucks.
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Yeah i know. Im wondering if they will first tell me if warranty covers unglued screen thing. I dont want to give phone on repair and when it comes back, i get a bill for 100€
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Euhm, hey guys...
Last week I was in Austria for snowboarding, so at a certain moment I had my phone in my hand, and slipped in a small pile of snow....
My thumb made a small 'dent / scratch' in the screen, and the phone was a little wet for about 1/4th part of its total size.
Now, when I turn it back on, the touchscreen partially works and partially not.
When in the pin-code screen I can touch everything till the 7,8 and 9, under those (onscreen) buttons, the screen is unresponsive, and I believe the software buttons are also unresponsive, but I can't test because I can't get in my phone, neither with out without simcard...
My question were, is there any way I can manually fix this? Is it definitely a hardware problem?
I'm using a Sony Xperia Tipo, currently on Gimlo 0.2 Rom, Stock kernel, rooted, unlocked bootloader...
Uhmm, I don't know what information you guys need apart from this. Hope someone can help me :good:
EDIT1: Hardware problem indeed, flashed stock, still no response on the supposedly broken screen parts...
(Disassembling guide?)
Sorry for the bump,
Does anyone know if there's any guide on disassembling an Xperia Tipo yet?
I'm considering replacing the digitalizer manually. Found a website where I can get the digitalizer + glass quite cheap, and well, as I tried alot of things, and I cannot even unlock the lockscreen because of the broken part of what probably is the digitalizer (no real cracks tho, just unresponsive), I think there's no other way then either go to a service center and hope to be lucky to get this done with warranty OR fixing it manually...
the first thing comes into my mind is trying to dry the phone. there might be a little water inside the phone. I don't know how you could do it on your place but we have a tool called desicator on our lab which could be used to get rid the waters. if you don't have it you can make it by yourself. you can use a litle jar and silica gels. put your phone inside the jar then bury it with the silica gels. after 24 hours you can try to turn it on. another cheap solution is bury your phone inside rice (the uncooked one). the rice will just like silica gels and adsorb the water partikels.
anyway, in my country service center almost never check the bootloader. if you're lucky enough you can claim the warranty and got free repair or even a phone replacement. goodluck mate.
We have something called "Contact Spray" or something, which should do the same.
Anyways, I've waited about 36h after it happened to first try to turn it on again, thing is, the phone seems to function normally, except a PART of the touch screen.
I'll try the rice / gels thing. Not sure if it'd make any difference though.
Thx for the tip, I'm not sure about our Sony Centers, Dutch people are a bit 'greedy' usually, they'll probably check, but hope I'm lucky.
Also hope they won't say it's water-damage, because that's not covered in warranty in europe, although I'm pretty sure that isn't the real cause... Service Centers like letting us pay for reasons that are untrue in this country... -_-
The phone was fully submerged for about 5 seconds, i removed the back cover and the sim tray and put in a sealed bowl of rice for a day. It started up ok and i was able to make a call but the screen is very dim with no change if i adjust the brightness settings. I then just switched it off again and put it back in the rice as wasn't sure if this was because there may still be moisture in it. I didn't try any of the other functions so not sure if everything else still works. I am new to the site and a noob with phones so was just looking for advice on where i should go from here. Do i phone Alcatel? phone my service provider? repair centre (will it cost alot)? Wait it out? or try starting it up again? (its been in the rice another day) Will my warranty be void? Can the dim screen be fixed DIY?
Sorry for the many questions i've never had this happen and its the first contract phone I've had and only for two months
Hoping for help
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The phone was fully submerged for about 5 seconds, i removed the back cover and the sim tray and put in a sealed bowl of rice for a day. It started up ok and i was able to make a call but the screen is very dim with no change if i adjust the brightness settings. I then just switched it off again and put it back in the rice as wasn't sure if this was because there may still be moisture in it. I didn't try any of the other functions so not sure if everything else still works. I am new to the site and a noob with phones so was just looking for advice on where i should go from here. Do i phone Alcatel? phone my service provider? repair centre (will it cost alot)? Wait it out? or try starting it up again? (its been in the rice another day) Will my warranty be void? Can the dim screen be fixed DIY?
Sorry for the many questions i've never had this happen and its the first contract phone I've had and only for two months
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It takes longer than a day to dry out. Also make sure you are using new rice from a sealed bag and putting it into a completely sealable container. Give it a few more days. Sometimes it takes a week to completely dry out.
kevev said:
It takes longer than a day to dry out. Also make sure you are using new rice from a sealed bag and putting it into a completely sealable container. Give it a few more days. Sometimes it takes a week to completely dry out.
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Thanks for the reply and advice. Its in an airtight container. The rice was boxed rice but not in a bag will this make a big difference? should i swap some bagged rice into the container when i can get some? I was tempted earlier to try it again but glad i didn't after reading your post i'll give it a few more days. Do you think the dim screen problem may sort its self out with extra time to dry out? Any idea why it was so dim?
Fingers crossed
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DAferr said:
Thanks for the reply and advice. Its in an airtight container. The rice was boxed rice but not in a bag will this make a big difference? should i swap some bagged rice into the container when i can get some? I was tempted earlier to try it again but glad i didn't after reading your post i'll give it a few more days. Do you think the dim screen problem may sort its self out with extra time to dry out? Any idea why it was so dim?
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Box rice will have absorbed all the moisture it can while on the shelf. Yes use bagged rice. Dim screen is usually water affecting screen. The backlight will not light up. It is a safety feature if a short is detected anywhere in the device.
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Box rice will have absorbed all the moisture it can while on the shelf. Yes use bagged rice. Dim screen is usually water affecting screen. The backlight will not light up. It is a safety feature if a short is detected anywhere in the device.
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Transferred it into some bagged rice. Gonna try stop myself from trying to start it up until Sunday night. Happened on wed morning do you think that will be long enough of a wait.
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It's a pretty common problem. You should take to a repair center. It's sounds like pm (Power management) ic gone bad. It' not user serviceable. Forget that rice bs. Take to a professional and get it repaired as fast as possible. Warranty won't cover this.
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It's a pretty common problem. You should take to a repair center. It's sounds like pm (Power management) ic gone bad. It' not user serviceable. Forget that rice bs. Take to a professional and get it repaired as fast as possible. Warranty won't cover this.
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Why "as fast as possible" ? is it not worth waiting to see if the rice thing works then if not go down the repair centre route?
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Why "as fast as possible" ? is it not worth waiting to see if the rice thing works then if not go down the repair centre route?
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His running the risk of messing up his board completely. The fault is becoming more expensive. Who knows where the water has gotten in. That rise trick is lame and it doesn't work. Some youtube celebrity made it up for views and subs and what not. There are people educated who feed there family by working as repair technicians. Digital ic are very fragile and he is corrupting his memory more and more as time goes bye.
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His running the risk of messing up his board completely. The fault is becoming more expensive. Who knows where the water has gotten in. That rise trick is lame and it doesn't work. Some youtube celebrity made it up for views and subs and what not. There are people educated who feed there family by working as repair technicians. Digital ic are very fragile and he is corrupting his memory more and more as time goes bye.
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I saw that you are the op. Pay the piper and next time don't be a fool and mind your phone.
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His running the risk of messing up his board completely. The fault is becoming more expensive. Who knows where the water has gotten in. That rise trick is lame and it doesn't work. Some youtube celebrity made it up for views and subs and what not. There are people educated who feed there family by working as repair technicians. Digital ic are very fragile and he is corrupting his memory more and more as time goes bye.
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I saw that you are the op. Pay the piper and next time don't be a fool and mind your phone.
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Those dam celebs and their rice tricks wheres the piper so i can pay him?
out of the rice!
put the cover back on and charged it and started it up the screen wasn't coming on at all now then put a little pressure on the screen as the cover hadn't clicked in right and the faint screen showed up. Could barely see but managed to make a call and receive one. everything seems to work so far except the screen is still almost unreadable. also sometime when using the touchscreen it will go completely black again but randomly putting a bit of pressure on the screen with my thumbs it will then show up again for a while then it goes black agin at some point pop using the touch screen.
Any ideas what the problem is or what i should do now?
Also the dimness varies very slightly with pressure on the screen when trying to get it to come back on.
replace screen
Would replacing the screen fix the backlight problem or is the light produced from another part of the phone?
Fix Backlight???
Anyone know how to fix the backlight?
oh dear, what are you trying to get for a advice? you droped it into water. the water entered the phone, so there is no warranty. you can try to repair it, but when the corrosion starts it can affect every part of a phone (in days, weeks months). Of course you can repair the LCD and touch screen next time motherboard etc. It will definitely cost you more than a new 6039 device. So get over it and buy a new one, ther eis nothing you can do with it.
Just buy the 5.5 inch from cricket it us 129 right now unlocked it from unlock code either from eBay or several unlocker sites u can find with Google search. This is cheaper this n repairing it and u also get the better version of this phone.
My Moto Turbo went unresponsive sometime back after getting discharged. It never switched ON after i kept it in charging. After a couple of days of hoping it would come back to life i finally took it to Motorola authorized service center (IRLA, Vila Parle, Mumbai). My phone was well within warranty as it was bought in June 2015 but after making me run around to the service station and wait for one and a half hours i was given the shocking news that the phone cannot be treated under warranty as there are signs of liquid damage!!! Since i was 110% sure my phone wasn't exposed to any water drenching or water spilling leave alone submersion i argued with them that it's not possible. Upon listening to my argument the service center head called me to his office cabin and tried to show and explain me the issue. There were white residual marks near the ear piece and camera area inside the phone on the motherboard which were evidence of liquid damage but the only possibility for same was sweat. Now the company claims that the device is water resistant / splash proof and then when something like this happens they say they can't touch it! This is such bull @#&* on the company's part. A mail with snaps of the affected area to the service center area manager and lenovo manager showed zero support and arrogance. Further a call to Motorola customer care showed same or more negligence. I request the XDA community to help me raise this issue with the company and help me out over here.
The pics aren't super clear but it does look like there has been quite a bit of moisture in the phone, and that is likely what caused the damage. Maybe try disconnecting the battery, cleaning the PCB with alcohol and then reconnecting the battery. I doubt you will win a battle for a warranty claim.
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The pics aren't super clear but it does look like there has been quite a bit of moisture in the phone, and that is likely what caused the damage. Maybe try disconnecting the battery, cleaning the PCB with alcohol and then reconnecting the battery. I doubt you will win a battle for a warranty claim.
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Hi Steve,
Thanks for the suggestion. Will try and do that and see.
That's very unfortunate to hear. Another possibility was if you shower with the phone in the bathroom. The hot moisture/humidity really takes a toll on the phone over a period of time, nearly identical to that of wetting a phone.
Anyhow, the reason why I'm saying this is because some people including myself have experienced that before. I'm sharing this with you just in case you also do that so you do not damage any future product you may have. Best of luck.
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Placing it in the freezer then out in the hot does this too. However the water should be relatively distilled. The dirt and oils that has already made it's way in there will bring the electrolytes out.
Does anyone have servis manual? Thanks
@emailrex Is your turbo gets back life or not? if not pm me or watsapp me on 8 4 0 8 8 0 5 0 0 2 will see if i can help you.
Hi Shreyas,
Nope it couldn't be made functional. If I may ask how would you attempt to repair it?
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Hi Shreyas,
Nope it couldn't be made functional. If I may ask how would you attempt to repair it?
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First sorry for my late reply. Busy in Exams . Actually i repair mobiles. By seeing the image where the moisture is taken on that part is related to the sensors area so at first investigation i didn't think that there is any issue with that. As u think that it cant be made functional i think i will just get a chance to try if it gets repaires it will be gain for u.