Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Anybody Know anything about fixing mobile phones

[JohnDa]

Girl friend put my mobile phone in the washing machine, once the phine was dried out it came back on but the screen was all black. I have just fitted a new screen which i got off e-bay which now lights up but there's now picture on it, anbody know anything these things, oh and no I didn't have it insured and I have still got 11 months of my contract to run

[rockhopper]

Been there, done that! If a phone gets wet and you are lucky enough to get the battey off it immediatly then its possibly salvagable. My T68 got sprayed by the shower and stopped working. I took the battery off and spent ages drying it out. It worked afterward (apart from the hands free connector for some reason).

Lynn's 3230 when through the spin cycle and no amount of cleaning and drying would get it to work again. If the battery has been on it for more than an hour or so i would say just throw it away and buy another one.

[JohnDa]

It was only in there about 15 min managed to get it out, it turns on just no pictures on the screen

[rockhopper]

Yep and thats a symptom of a much deeper problem i'm afraid. The battery causes electolytic corrosion bewteen the various components which starts the second that water gets in there. Once its started it'll get worse and worse. We used to service radios that had water damage but we wouldn't give any kind of warranty on the repair becasue its 99% certain that the unit would fail again within a few weeks.

Seriously, give up now and buy another one. Your phone is scrap.

[Rushjob]

My mate had problems with his daughter's mobile phone which he'd bought as a birthday present about a month earlier for over £100.
Well, to be precise the problem was more with the stroppy know all daughter and a £100+ bill than the phone.
A quick 30 second trip into the workshop using the phone as a shock absorption interface between a hammer & the workbench sorted the problem.
Made me smile!

[chrisw]

http://www.phatphones.com/water%20damaged%20phones.htm

Washing machines are on their list of can't fix!

[rockhopper]

I like it Andy! My mate did a similar thing to his daughters phone, only he used a tiny little drill bit through the middle of the sim card.

[rockhopper]

Hmmm, wonder whats so phone friendly about a bucket of floor cleaner?

[JohnDa]

E-bay it is then, was worth a try

[Jools]

Pah!!!! Electronics of today, eh?

I used to repair computers for Hewlett Packard and once had to fix an HP85 (a very early PC) that belonged to a geophysics company. This thing had been caught in a flash flood on the Nile and washed half a mile downstream. It was discovered 3 days later sticking out of the mud in a reed bed.

I took it apart, cleaned all the mud out, washed all the parts with a pressure hose and dried it all with an air line.

Left it all to dry out for a couple of days and it worked first time when I put it back together.