topic Re: water damage cost in Android

water damage cost

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 09:52:37 GMT

Dropped my samsung s6 in the bath 8 weeks ago. No power initially but when i tried to charge it monday it came on. Screen not working but there is juice in it. I have sent it off to see if they can repair it (guru said as long as its charging there is a chance they can fix it).

Am I being a bit ambitious hoping they can fix it and anyone any idea how much its gonna cost me.

thanks

Re: water damage cost

MI5 — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 09:56:00 GMT

Usually water damage is beyond repair !

Re: water damage cost

jonsie — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:06:36 GMT

I doubt the phone will ever work correctly again. None of the components are compatible with water damage and corrosion can occur within weeks affecting different functions. Personally I think yes, a little optimistic.

Re: water damage cost

viridis — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:50:34 GMT

Best bet.
Data recovery then bin.
But even data recovery is low %
Wife got hers dunked by my lad, toasted.
So I took apart, cleaned it all with methanol, reassembled and became apparent the screen was gone, I hooked up to pc and blindly unlocked, then set to mtp USB then authorised the pc access, all on a blank screen, using only the touchscreen and screenshots of where the buttons will be.
5hours solid work and only because I roughly know what I'm doing.

Re: water damage cost

jonsie — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:55:10 GMT

That must have taken so much patience and beyond most folk, certainly beyond me. Thankfully I back up weekly and photos are automatically backed up as soon as I'm on wifi.

Re: water damage cost

viridis — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:16:24 GMT

Worth the time for the photos alone,
It's actually the display controller on mainboard that's toast so touch feedback worked.
So frustrating though getting it into file transfer mode, the button was in different place on invisible screen thanks to an update.
No joke, it was hard work

Re: water damage cost

jonsie — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:20:52 GMT

Very well done for persevering @viridis and I sincerely hope @Anonymous has some good luck retrieving all her stuff if the phone as I suspect is kaput.

Re: water damage cost

viridis — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:27:38 GMT

The inherent problem with S6.... No sd card

Re: water damage cost

MercedesS — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 09:21:09 GMT

Hello @Anonymous, sorry to read what has happened with your Samsung s6.

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