Water damage story.......insight wanted.

I bought a friend of mine a LG G2 and within a couple weeks she managed to have it take a drink. The horror on my face was, well, horrifying when i was told. Anyways about the phone.........

She knew to immediately put the phone in rice which she did.a few days later i get the phone into my hands, moment of truth right? First thing i did was to take it apart and see if there's any corrosion on the board or any leftover residue which i found none. reassembled the device and plugged it in for........well i dont know why, i just did. I read online if the phone shuts off immediately after contact with water your chances are good. Anyways the phone showed signs of life. It began booting up past the LG logo to the boot animation of "Desolation ROM" where it freezes and than loops freezing at different times of the boot logo.

Download mode works so i decided to flash the KDZ 20C. The phone boots up entirely into the OS and works with few *issues. Two things i have problems with, the internal storage doesnt appear** on the computer regularly, and i must "adb reboot recovery" a few times before it successfully will boot into recovery. but i can manage with that. I rooted it through sideload, installed autoRec and got TWRP flashed and working. I did flash the new TWRP so that it mounts the storage to computer. anyways so i went to flash the rom, Desolation, Resurrection Remix, and Bliss pop with the same issues. ive dont everything multiple times already to no avail.

Ideas? anyone?

*issues: it thinks the headphone are plugged it and rapidly cycles the animation.
** it varies from one flash of the KDZ to the other :confused::confused: i can "adb Push file /sdcard/"

S6 water damange, working battery issue

A friend has a Galaxy S6 that got some water damage.
The phone boots, screen works and all other functions seem to work.
The issue is, the battery may charge or be on 95% then it will maybe jump down to 25%.

Is this hardware (battery charging circuitry still a little moist) or battery (maybe circuity was moist, then dried but damaged battery in process)

Do you guys think its just the battery?
(I had a S3 and the battery was doing the same thing, erratic drain and percentage. When I replaced the battery, it was obviously something was wrong as it was beginning to swell a little. Put new battery in and everything was back to normal.....I wonder if the S6 battery has faulted/swelled a little also.)

Water Damage Repair (All Phones)

Stumbled upon water damage? Here's a fix that's guaranteed to work in 30 minutes or less!

Step 1:
Disassemble your phone to the bare motherboard/logicboard.

Steep 2:
Grab a small dish or similar container.

Step 3:
Take your MB and place it in the container.

Step 4:
Get Witch Hazel (important) and pour just enough to cover the top of the MB.

Step 5:
Wait 5-10 minutes and extract the MB.

Step 6:
Vacuum the crap out of it! (This works 50x better than a blow dryer and allows for quicker dry time).

Step 7:
Wait 10 minutes and place MB back into phone.

Step 8:
Hook everything back up and you should be in the clear!

Water Damaged OPO, Speaker Issues

Well I dropped my OPO into a creek in about 2 feet of water. After being submerged for about 15 minutes I thought it was toast. I put it in the ol' bag of rice for a few days and to my absolute amazement it booted right up and works flawlessly except for one issue.

The loudspeakers are so quiet at full volume you can barely hear them. Earpiece speaker works fine. I popped the back off and took the speaker assembly out and removed one of the two speakers. It looks fine and there is no moisture in it. If I set it on the board contacts at full volume I can barely hear it play.

Do you think a new pair of speakers would fix the issue? Can I test the board outputs to see if its putting out enough juice to run the speakers? Any thoughts or input would greatly be appreciated!

Dropped in water, help me please!

So I just dropped my phone into water. It was still working, but there was no sound anymore. Turned it off immediately, take out battery, sd card, sim card. Now what should I do? Help me please :S

Interference with water proof case

Just curious, I bought a water proof case for my note 4 it's a "ghostek" brand, I got it on ebay...it works really good and everything, my only issue is the sensor that knows when my phone is up to my face doesn't seem to work. I'm sure it's an issue with the case and not the phone, but I'm just curious does anyone else have this or a similar case? Amd have u had this issue? Or is there a way to adjust that sensor?

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