This is a work in progress, most certainly. There are plenty of reports that water damaged phones can't be revived for whatever reason. So far, I have 3 phones from completely different sources (think toilet, kitchen sink, shower, LOL) that I was lucky enough to make work just like before that fatal dive. They will certainly work even better, I'd say, after I put CM 10.1/Jelly Bean on them.
On my picture above, it's dead as door nail. Hence the purchase price of $20. A wager, sort of.
Here goes the procedure:
WARNING! My method is a combination of several methods described in some instructional videos, plus the additions of what was omitted in them. These omissions include but not limited to, exact formulas for treatment of hardness salts deposits.
Sure, you might be lucky dropping your phone in a reservoir with distilled or very soft water: after recommended thorough and prolonged drying your device in dried crushed rice, your phone is usually comes out clean, dry and works properly.
Chances are though that your bath for your phone involves an ordinary tap (hard) water, or even sea water. Both types of water (so called "sweet" water and salted water) leave deposits that both hard to remove and may act as parasitic shorts disrupting normal functioning of the phone.
In such cases, a combined approach to repair is recommended. Namely, a mechanical brushing off salt deposits with a short haired, hard (art "hog hair") brush which is wetted in a domestic cleaner that works against lime, calcium and (maybe) rust in toilets and such. However, wetting affected areas with such a cleaner will render the hardness salts deposit film transparent and almost invisible, so there must be a period of setting aside the phone for drying after such brushing. A cotton swabs dipped in 95 % alcohol may shorten this drying period. Use of alcohol can also be preferred because of it picking up residual hardness salts deposits and chemicals (usually conductive electrolytes no better than hardness salts themselves) used in that cleaner.
Now, alcohol is no better solvent of hardness salts deposits than water. Then, much stronger (concentrated) professional lime cleaners can be way too strong and damage connectors. So, if you follow me, the whole procedure is mostly about brushing and as such it better be repeated several times. In especially tough spots, a careful work with dentist's scraper might be needed. Then, plenty of surface must be treated, both sides:
In my case, it took 2 attempts of brushing with two hours of drying between them. Second brushing was performed with dry clean brush. All in all, in five hours, my Samsung Skyrocket have started to charge its long dead battery.
After the rescue, we have a nice AT&T Samsung Galaxy S2 running pretty fast Qualcomm's Snapdragon APQ8960 at 1500 MHz on a decent 4.5" 800x480 SAMOLED Plus screen.
Thanks for share this post I also share with you something hope you like my post. There are various scratch removal products available online and in hardware stores. Usually this is some sort of cream or liquid that you can apply to the scratch until it fades or completely disappears. The cost of these products can range from a few pounds to twenty, and you may have to try a few to get good results. Make sure to look on online forums for reviews of good products that have worked for other people, but be aware that this will only work on small scratches, so if the damage is extensive it won't work as well and you'll probably have to replace the entire screen. Thanks
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