OPO Not Charging and Battery Stuck at 50% After Water Damage

Just a few hours before I had proclaimed how great my One is and how I have not had any problems with it, I entered a swimming pool with my OPO in my pocket. I immediately went and bought some rice. I wasn't able to open the back completely because I didn't have the tools to remove the SIM tray.

After a few days, I tried booting it and it showed a message that the battery was too low (pic) and then it would keep rebooting itself.

I thought that the battery was messed up, so I replaced it. Now it turns out that everything works perfectly fine (screen, speakers, camera), but the new battery (and maybe even the old one) does not seem to be charging. What's even more weird is that it will only show me that it is charged 50%.

The phone seems to recognize that it is connected to a power outlet. When turned off, I can click the Power-button once and see that it is "charging" and at 50%. When turned on, it does not appear anywhere that it is charging. No notification light, nothing on the status bar, and "50% - Not charging" in Settings>Battery (when plugged in) and "50% - approx. 12 hours" (when not plugged in). Also, in Settings>Battery>Battery optimization it says that "battery optimization not available" for Google Play Services.

I have obviously plugged the battery connector back in when I replaced the battery, but I don't know if I need to replace the Micro USB Port or not. It seems like it is recognizing when it is plugged in, but it's simply not charging.

What do you think I should do? Thank you!

Data recovery after Water Damage

My Galaxy S6 recently took a dip in a lake and would not turn on. After trying to displace the water with 91% isopropyl alcohol and I tried to power on again, but no LEDs and would not bootup still. I disassembled the phone and tried cleaning the board with a toothbrush and alcohol to clean any corrosion and hope that my attempts to turn it on did not permanently damage any components. After the cleaning the LEDs turn on, but the screen seems to be damaged beyond repair.

At this point salvaging the phone is not a priority, some very important and irreplaceable pictures that were not yet backed-up are my only concern. Another XDA user suggested trying to install a custom recovery but ODIN keeps failing. I cannot tell you what the S6 screen is showing of course, even putting it into download mode is a bit of a chore.

I am trying to install TWRP on a SM-G920P with ODIN 3.10.7
<ID:0/004> Added!!
<ID:0/004> Odin engine v(ID:3.1100)..
<ID:0/004> File analysis..
<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/004> Initialzation..
<ID:0/004> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/004> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/004> SingleDownload.
<ID:0/004> recovery.img
<ID:0/004> NAND Write Start!!
<ID:0/004> FAIL!
<ID:0/004>
<ID:0/004> Complete(Write) operation failed.
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

I have also tried other versions of TWRP and ODIN, all have the same error.

Thanks in advance

Data recovery after Water Damage

My Galaxy S6 recently took a dip in a lake and would not turn on. After trying to displace the water with 91% isopropyl alcohol and I tried to power on again, but no LEDs and would not bootup still. I disassembled the phone and tried cleaning the board with a toothbrush and alcohol to clean any corrosion and hope that my attempts to turn it on did not permanently damage any components. After the cleaning the LEDs turn on, but the screen seems to be damaged.

At this point salvaging the phone is not a priority, some very important and irreplaceable pictures that were not yet backed-up are my only concern. When I connect the phone to my PC the MTP connection is established, but trying to connect with Samsung Smart Switch gives me a connection error and fails every time. I have installed the drivers and reinstalled the drivers, but the phone simply won't connect. Are there any alternatives to try on the software side for trying to recover the files? I imagine it is likely the faulty hardware that is causing the error, but I would like to exhaust all options.

S7 Water Damage

Hi
My S7 got damaged as back and recent apps capacitive buttons have started malfunctioning and phone behaves as if both are constantly pressed...
This happened after i tried to record a video under water (1 foot depth, 15s duration), while it had front/back protectors and full body protection through a cover which had audio jack and usb port plugs as well. I can safely say the pressure and time were both within limits of IP68 but the phone still couldn't handle it.
Can you suggest possible rectifications steps or suggestions to make phone usable again
Thanks

So my phone has water damage...

Basically I'm an idiot and put my moto x 2nd gen in a plastic bag and went into the ocean. The bag didn't stay shut and my phone got water damage. After powering it off I noticed that next to the top speaker there was a red light light up briefly and now whenever i plug it in to charge the green LED light that's hidden in the top speaker lights up for a few seconds before slowly dimming off. I figure I'm probably outta luck but since the green charging light turns on I figure i still have a little hope. Anyone know anything I can do? Or at the very least know any way I can salvage my data from the phone? Thanks.

Stuck in boot loop after possible water damage

Hi, While on holidays I dropped my phone on the beach and a wave hit it, it was covered in sand etc and it was wet. The phone, however, was still turned on and the screen still worked. I locked the phone, and removed the sand from the charging port and between the buttons. But when I turn it on, it goes to the "1+ Powered By Android" screen, and it doesn't go past that. I also can't reach the recovery screen, but I can get to fastboot mode

I left it in rice for a few days, to no luck and I put it in the hot press overnight which didn't work either.
I also tried flashing the stock rom from fastboot mode, and flash a recovery rom too, but it didn't help at all.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do to try and fix it?
Cheers, Adam.

Water damage on the Nexus 5X

Hi, after some hours in heavy rain my water proof pocket was filled with 4cm of rain and my phone started swimming. Unfortunately my reflexes turned the phone on and I saw the screen flashing up normally up to some point when it went off again. Back home I opened the device and dried everything. I saw some corrosion next to one chip (I think it was the ST Microelectronics STM32F411CE 32-bit 100 MHz ARM Cortex-M4 RISC microcontroller) and the sim card holder. I cleaned that with a soft toothbrush and after one day assembled the phone and added usb power and turned it on - no charging light went on, no vibration was happening, the screen stayed black.
So I went to buy some Isopropylalcohol and covered all disassebled parts of the phone in it, cleaned it, let it dry, assembled it and tried again. Same no-response.
I repeated this procedure 3 times by now and even tried it with a new battery. Still no success.
No I wonder what my options are:
1) trying to repair the phone somehow.
2) rescuing only the data from the emmc.

1: I already explained what I was trying. I also have a multimeter and probably am going to follow the trace of electric flow tomorrow, hopefully finding that one diode that is broken now.
What else can I do. Do you have any suggestions?

2: I have seen the amazing work of changing the emmc by using a heatgut. Nice hack to remove bga circuits. I just wonder: Do the data survice such a hot process?
Right now I tend to think about unsoldering the emmc and trying to find a reader for emmcs to read out my data (Easy JTAG or something). This is a fun way where I definitively will learn a lot because I have no experience in this field. I dont know the tools, their names, nor the caveats.

Any feedback appreciated.

Thanks,
codingdave

Be aware to not broke your Usb jack (Hardware damage)

Recently I use my USB cable to try make Adorable storage, Rooting etc. And my USB jack seems damaged arely, side movement to left and right and losing contact sometimes if I touch the cable or move the phone (starting to hear my PC making noise for disconnected device). In this condition our phones will last like a year before get totally damage. Like a just after warranty end.

Water damage :( what now?

Hi. This happened a while ago but I finally have the time to deal with my poor Nexus 6p. It spent a few minutes in a hot tub a few months back. Rice for more than 48 hours - nothing. Brought it to Staples where they put it in the machine that heats the gel balls (?) to remove the moisture. Charged it for a few minutes there and it actually turned on! Awesome, except the touch screen doesn't work. Battery seems to hold a charge, screen turns on and looks fine, volume and power buttons work, and I couldn't figure a way to test the fingerprint scanner or camera. Factory reset it. So now the phone is stuck to booting to the options menu with recovery mode and all that.

Is it possible to determine or guess what is wrong from this information? I've looked at the teardown, and I'd assume there is an issue with the pressure sensor, but I don't know enough about phone construction and parts to know if it's the sensor, or the part that connects the sensor to the screen, or something completely different.

I wanted to get some advice on what to do from here. Other than tossing it or leaving it forever, I have three options:

1. Repair shop: This seems like the easiest option, but potentially expensive enough that I'd be better off getting a whole new phone instead. Would a diagnosis be a separate process/transaction than the actual repair service? There are a few nearby shops for me to check out.

2. Fix it myself: The 6P seems like a pain in the ass to take apart and put back together (2/10 repairability score). I don't think it's beyond my ability, but the time and risk that it involves for me to do it myself makes me very hesitant. I also don't know exactly what I'll find inside the phone.

3. Sell it: Sell for parts and buy a new phone. If it comes to this, I need to know what I should expect to get for it. It's good hardware, and the parts that still work seem in good shape.

I wanted to consult the internet before going any further. So, how boned is my phone? Any different suggestions? Thanks for reading and I appreciate any advice.

ZTE v987 cannot mount /system etc. possible eMMC damage

Hello,
I got stuck and I need some help.
The phone is ZTE v987. There was bgcngm's ROM V4.0B0MOD inside.
I pulled-out-&-pushed-in the battery and after boot there was a prompt that my data needed to be erased. (I'm not excatly sure what it was). I freaked out. Turned off and boot into recovery mode (vol up + power). Performed factory reset and tried to restore backup. It didn't work. I got messages:

Quote:

Can't mount /system! Can't mount /data! Can't mount /cache!

So I tried to format all of the above. Then I tried to restore individually /system, /data, /cache. All the same.
When I enter the Recovery I get errors like here:

Quote:

E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/command E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log E: Can't open /cache/recovery/log E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log E: Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log

There are mentioned some apps like Heimdall but I couldn't find a version for my device and I'm not exactly sure what I should do.
What's more, I found info about eMMC damage and followed the link to check if my eMMC was good or bad.
I typed the command and the output was empty:

Quote:

adb shell ~ # dmesg | grep mmc0 dmesg | grep mmc0 ~ #

I read somewhere it's possible that I don't have grep installed (maybe because I wiped the data).
So I tried another command to list the eMMC-chip partition info:

Quote:

~ # fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0 fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0 Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5 Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5 Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 3853 MB, 3853516800 bytes 1 heads, 16 sectors/track, 470400 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16 * 512 = 8192 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 65 64 2147483647+ 5 Extended Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 1665 2944 10240 83 Linux Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 2945 4224 10240 83 Linux Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 5825 6592 6144 83 Linux Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 8385 91584 665600 83 Linux /dev/block/mmcblk0p6 238785 64 2145573887+ 83 Linux ~ #

I also tried to mount /system and /data in adb but it failed:

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~ # mount /system mount /system mount: mounting /emmc@android on /system failed: Invalid argument ~ # mount /data mount /data mount: mounting /emmc@usrdata on /data failed: Invalid argument

I've also downloaded the ROM and tried to install from SD.


I've saved the log and here are bottom lines:

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Updating kernel open emmc partition "boot" contents of partition "boot" didn't match EMMC:boot:4941824:a63fb5e2f91e9c21ae76325d15d98fd3 6c50c41b:4941824:a63fb5e2f91e9c21ae76325d15d98fd36 c50c41b file "EMMC:boot:4941824:a63fb5e2f91e9c21ae76325d15d98fd 36c50c41b:4941824:a63fb5e2f91e9c21ae76325d15d98fd3 6c50c41b" doesn't have any of expected sha1 sums; checking cache failed to stat "/cache/saved.file": No such file or directory failed to load cache file Flashing partition: BOOT script aborted (no error message) script aborted (no error message) Installer Error (Status 7)

Also I've got recovery.log but it's a long one and can paste here if it is needed.

I didn't try to flash trough SP Flash Tool anything because I didn't want to make things worse.
That's all the info I could gather. I don't know if it is helpful at all but I've run out of clues.
I'd be very grateful for any help.

PS. Right now I'm not able to charge the battery. For one second the red light blinks and then the screen with battery with red strip at the bottom appears and I don't believe it's charging.

How to 'naturally' damage G3

This question will be controversy...
In few months my G3 warranty will end... My friend who lately send his G3 for repair under warranty got back new G4.
(Maybe they were out of some parts? Doesnt matter....)

Curently I'm thinking about to check, would I also get new G4 instead of repaired G3?
So... Is there any way to damage it without leaving any hints for repair man? :)