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[Q] water damage?

So check this out.... I was using my n1 one evening and dropped it in the jacuzzi. I quickly was able to take it out (within 3-5 seconds) imeditially took the batt cover off, turned the n1 off and dried the phone to the best I could. I let it sit overnight and when I turned it on in the morning it was working fine. I was happy everything in the n1 never worked better. At this point I was using the n1 for about a good 1 to 2 weeks. About a month before I unrooted my N1 to wait for the 2.3 update so Ive been running 2.2.2 stock.Now here comes the fu_ked up part. I did a manual update to 2.3 once it came out cuz the OTA was taken forever. I never rooted my N1 I just did the manual update. All of a sudden the N1 started acting funny once I updated. The app draw would flash, and sparatic un normal things. at this point I'm thinking it has nothing to do with the water incident cuz Ive already have been using my n1 with no problems on 2.2.2 . The problems started oncce I updated. At this point its been about 3 weeks since the water I'm running 2.3.3 and now my N1 freezes I reboot it and It wont get past the google X. I'm pissed, right... So my N1 is not rooted its been 3 weeks since the water I'm thinking its cuz 2.3.3. So I call HTC I let them no whats going on and they tell me to send in the N1. They get back to me today pretty quick, But its bad news they tell me its water damage and its gonna be 196.00 to fix. I never told them about the water damage cuz I dont think it has anything to do with it, the N1 worked for 3 weeks before this happen. All of a sudden it freezes after the update, I dont think so. At this point I dont know what to do. Oh one more thing, The N1 powers on and I can also hold the power and the track ball and go to that white screen with the androids. If the Phone had water damage wouldnt it not power up at all. This is a software issue. Any ideas ?

Sounds like water damage - just that it sometimes takes a while to take effect, especially if you just left it for 1 day to dry (when should really be several, if it fell into a jacuzzi.. and in a rice bowl at that).
But like you said, HTC doesn't have to know - you can only hope internal indicators don't show it up as water damage.

They have water damage indicators in the phone, plus - believe me, it's very easily determined. As one who once had a BT headset in the washing machine, and repaired it afterwards by myself - there's a build-up of salt around the power conductors on the board (and that includes all metal pins).
When they have warranty repair, they specifically state that they check for all the signs of out-of-warranty damage, and when such signs are present - they have a right to charge for them. And since they know that the phone has been damaged by water, even if it didn't show immediately, they can charge you.

Atrix died a horrible death *water damage*

Stupidly, I got in to the hot tub with my Atrix in my shorts. I realized it too late but it was only under water for about 5 seconds. I pulled it out of my pocket and sure enough it was dead and wouldn't turn on. Red water indicators were blown.
I let it sit in some rice for about 36 hours, and shook any excess water out.
Today, I just opened it up and there is no water to be found.
Everytime I put the battery in though, the camera flash LED goes crazy and flashes about 3-4 times before stopping. It turns on and goes to the ATT splash screen, but then restarts.
After it restarts, it sits at the Dual Core screen, then says Modem did not power up (0) - Starting RSD protocol support
I am going to try reflashing the firmware on it to see if it may fix the problem. I hope.
Any ideas on how to maybe save my phone?
Thanks,

jortiz17 said:
Stupidly, I got in to the hot tub with my Atrix in my shorts. I realized it too late but it was only under water for about 5 seconds. I pulled it out of my pocket and sure enough it was dead and wouldn't turn on. Red water indicators were blown.
I let it sit in some rice for about 36 hours, and shook any excess water out.
Today, I just opened it up and there is no water to be found.
Everytime I put the battery in though, the camera flash LED goes crazy and flashes about 3-4 times before stopping. It turns on and goes to the ATT splash screen, but then restarts.
After it restarts, it sits at the Dual Core screen, then says Modem did not power up (0) - Starting RSD protocol support
I am going to try reflashing the firmware on it to see if it may fix the problem. I hope.
Any ideas on how to maybe save my phone?
Thanks,
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unfortunately I spent quite a long time trying to fix an Atrix with a modem did not power up problem
i have not figured out a software way to fix it... hope you have better luck though

When water contacts the board it connects everything.
You're probably SOL.
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Sounds like you're out of luck. But might as well try anything you can think of
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sometimes even if you drain all the water out some components frazzle themselves as soon as water hits, sorry to hear, hope you find a fix!

xhazk said:
When water contacts the board it connects everything.
You're probably SOL.
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PixelGuy said:
sometimes even if you drain all the water out some components frazzle themselves as soon as water hits, sorry to hear, hope you find a fix!
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Yes, but generally when such a short happens, the phone immediately shuts off. The phone basically isn't on long enough for anything to "frazzle" itself.
Unfortunately, jortiz, You probably made the biggest error you could have ever done with a wet electronic device...
I realized it too late but it was only under water for about 5 seconds. I pulled it out of my pocket and sure enough it was dead and wouldn't turn on.
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NEVER....... EVER try to turn on a device if it shut off after being submersed in water. Will do SIGNIFICANTLY more harm than good. I've seen several phones that were soaked... either from the person being shoved into the pool with the phone in their pocket, or it having just been left in the rain. 9 times out of 10, if they're left to dry for a while, they turn on without really any issues. Attempting to turn it on while it was still wet probably eliminated just about any chance of there not being something wrong with the phone.

[Q] Wet my phone - not starting - looking for repair opinions

I walked into the ocean (salt) water with my phone about 4 days ago.
I know, I know. Believe me, I've called myself many names along the line of stupid already.
I've been searching the net for any tips or ideas on what I should do.
Situation:
It was submerged in water for about 10 seconds.
Then removed, removed battery and left it to dry in the summer heat. (I was at a beach far away with no rice or silicon nearby).
24 hrs later I inserted my wife's S4 battery into the device and the light indicator began lighting up several colors unsteadily. Mostly Red.
I removed the battery without attempting to turn on the phone, since this was not normal behavior.
2 days later, once I had access to a bag of rice, I put the phone in rice and have left it there since. I tried this morning (after 24 hrs in rice) and the indicator light turns on still, a steady red light.
I'm thinking the phone wont magically work again. But perhaps it might still be worth having a cell phone repair guy have a try.
Anyone know what the red light indicator light means?
Im thinking the phone's main components that would be possibly permanently damaged are:
- screen
- memory
- cpu
- motherboard
Any advice on the matter would be appreciated.
Im crossing my fingers I dont have to spend 600$ for a new phone.

Insurance. Warranty.
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sstphoenix said:
I walked into the ocean (salt) water with my phone about 4 days ago.
I know, I know. Believe me, I've called myself many names along the line of stupid already.
I've been searching the net for any tips or ideas on what I should do.
Situation:
It was submerged in water for about 10 seconds.
Then removed, removed battery and left it to dry in the summer heat. (I was at a beach far away with no rice or silicon nearby).
24 hrs later I inserted my wife's S4 battery into the device and the light indicator began lighting up several colors unsteadily. Mostly Red.
I removed the battery without attempting to turn on the phone, since this was not normal behavior.
2 days later, once I had access to a bag of rice, I put the phone in rice and have left it there since. I tried this morning (after 24 hrs in rice) and the indicator light turns on still, a steady red light.
I'm thinking the phone wont magically work again. But perhaps it might still be worth having a cell phone repair guy have a try.
Anyone know what the red light indicator light means?
Im thinking the phone's main components that would be possibly permanently damaged are:
- screen
- memory
- cpu
- motherboard
Any advice on the matter would be appreciated.
Im crossing my fingers I dont have to spend 600$ for a new phone.
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You what i did on my wet Infuse... After some 2-3 day later i use hair dryer for some 10-15 min and my phone worked again. I sold it as is two days later but person who i sold said phone is working ok.

Not a lot can be done for it unless you were exceptionally lucky. Energized circuits don't take kindly to water dispersing their energy into every other circuit in the phone. Often even after placing a phone in rice or silica immediately afterwards still results in a crappy phone eventually. Like the fella said, use that insurance.
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k3rn3lkill3r said:
Not a lot can be done for it unless you were exceptionally lucky. Energized circuits don't take kindly to water dispersing their energy into every other circuit in the phone. Often even after placing a phone in rice or silica immediately afterwards still results in a crappy phone eventually. Like the fella said, use that insurance.
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When you guys mention "use your insurance" do you mean home insurance?

Use whatever insurance you have. Most people I've talked to on here got something through square trade or best buy, maybe you used a credit card that gives you a warranty for 90 days, maybe you can use home insurance. It depends on your policy. I personally always buy insurance on a new phone (used to get the crappy att insurance, now I have the square trade one with only 100 dollar deductible, but no loss or theft included). It's up to you whether it's worth it, if you can afford to part with 600 bucks in the event of an emergency, may not be worth it to you to pay extra for insurance.
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youtube tutorial
I have successfully repaired water damage on my handset. When I took apart my S2 last year I followed a YouTube tutorial to get it all apart and back together. Here is an excellent link for your S4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm4f2XjQLAM
I expect you will find lots of white powder type of deposits. All I did was carry all the little pieces and circuit boards to the sink and used a toothbrush under the running tap water and scrubbed it all clean. Then I submerged all the pieces and parts in rice over night. It started working again when I put it all back together the next day.

You should have let it dry a week at least
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HELP!! SOS!! Black screen by isopropyl Alcohol(99%)

PS: you can skip this deatils to my main problem
Somebody pls help me
my galaxy note 3 was water damaged nearly an year ago. But i was able to recover at that time by using isopropanol(99%).
In Detail: After water damage i loosed all hope for around 2 days, then outtanowhere i got this solution over the internet and then i submerged my phone's green board into that alcohol and then in rice. Unfortunately it doesn't turned on. I kept putting my phone outside under sun light, still the display wasn't working. Then i left my phone for about 1 and a 1/2 month in my cupboard abandoned....It got fully recovered!!! i was living a happy life then.
:Main Problem:​Now in today's date i was feeling something is wrong in the phone because it was discharging these days too quick(abnormally and this things were happening after recovery too). So i decided to put the whole phone(deassembaled the green board) in the isopropyle(99%). after 30mins later i picked it up back and assembled every thing back turned on the phone and guess what the screen was black again. I putted the phone under sunlight again but case got even worse (but i think it is good both) at the same time. My note 3's screen is turning on and working but inplace of black screen its showing dark smudges or a quit a bit of screen(not cleared but seen-able) like some kind of weird shape/spots of black. Now HELP ME
Tell me what to do!! i don't know what is this happening because 99% isopropanol isn't that conductive and will not harm the phone whatever the case is.
What should i do to get all the things back at the track? should i submerge the phone again in alcohol or should i leave it for now.
*i hope somebody read this, waiting for reply and help*
BTW: i'll keep updating this thread if something happens

Whats the 1% ?? Water ??

When a phone gets wet, I never recommend dunking anything in alcohol or any other liquid, especially the screen. Sounds like the alcohol may have seeped in between the glass and LCD.

Update:
So after putting it under sunlight for 2 days. My phone's screen is completly BLACK.
just a tiny part was showing lighted up but that also gone after about 15mins.
What the heck should i do now. I removed the battery now and putted the phone in the cupboard again (hoping for a miracle).
Any help will be appreciated.

New screen or bin the phone .
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You made a huge mistake by placing the phone in alcohol. You should only submerge the motherboard. It seems like you have alcohol/some water inside the display assembly now.
Use a hairdryer to completely dry the motherboard, place the display/ rest of the phone in rice and give it 3 days or so.
Should work.
PS: You may have killed it by turning it on while it had the spots on the display, i.e.. caused a short.
Good luck.

Skander1998 said:
You made a huge mistake by placing the phone in alcohol. You should only submerge the motherboard. It seems like you have alcohol/some water inside the display assembly now.
Use a hairdryer to completely dry the motherboard, place the display/ rest of the phone in rice and give it 3 days or so.
Should work.
PS: You may have killed it by turning it on while it had the spots on the display, i.e.. caused a short.
Good luck.
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Alright man i'll try it. Thanks for helping, as i said well appreciated:good:
i already done the hairdryer part for 10mins or so.
And also putted the phone packed in a bag full of rice. Lets see after 3days :crying:

Update guys: so after putting my isopropyle damaged phone's screen into a bag of rice for 3+
days lol nothing happened. It seems that rice done nothing, my screen is still black sadly. My phone is booting and speakers etc. everything is working fine the only problem is in the screen.
Please don't forget to read my detailed post in which i stated that-
nearly a year ago i was able to recover my phone which was water damaged and for that solution i gave a bath of isopropyle alcohol. And after a month i was able to recover my phone just by putting it somewhere without battery
So at last i want to only ask you what the heck should i do to GET MY PHONE BACK AGAIN HELP!!!!

Buy a new screen .
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if phone dropped into water or something,make sure u put the phone into a sack of rice and leave it for 1 day,for sure your phone will be back to normal,i already done it for sure and it work,sorry for my english grammar

Try reading what's been posted first .
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It takes effort to accept that the best thing to do is just to get a new phone. I remember when I wanted to stick to my old, microUSB-port damaged Galaxy S II but I had to accept that I needed to move on.
I know sometimes it's difficult ($$$) but yeah, save some money up and you'll see that this will be just a small episode in your history of smart phones.

ShaDisNX255 said:
It takes effort to accept that the best thing to do is just to get a new phone. I remember when I wanted to stick to my old, microUSB-port damaged Galaxy S II but I had to accept that I needed to move on.
I know sometimes it's difficult ($$$) but yeah, save some money up and you'll see that this will be just a small episode in your history of smart phones.
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ah...hh...am crying rite now:crying:
You are write bro, it's very difficult to move on and breaking the relationship with the current phone. I am just forcing me to reject this naked truth that My phone is now old
Well for now i'll still wait a month hoping for that miracle to happen cause my pocket is empty rite now lol.
If something happens in this 28 days i'll post it ASAP may god bless me

JJEgan said:
Whats the 1% ?? Water ??
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maybe.....
but seriously it maybe any kind of impurity but i'm sure it is not water.

I would suggest to buy a new phone. You could TRY changing the screen, but there is no guarantee that the screen is the only issue. + a used Note 3 is almost the same price as a new screen.

Sorry that the method I suggested did not work. :/
Since this didn't work, you probably fried the screen driver when you turned it when it was filled with liquid under the display.
Change the display or the phone.
Never, ever attempt to turn on a liquid damaged device. I know it's tempting. This is an expensive lesson!

Skander1998 said:
Sorry that the method I suggested did not work. :/
Since this didn't work, you probably fried the screen driver when you turned it when it was filled with liquid under the display.
Change the display or the phone.
Never, ever attempt to turn on a liquid damaged device. I know it's tempting. This is an expensive lesson!
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You dont need to say sorry bro.
Well from all the experience i gain from this incident and including my experience with isopropyle alcohols, i don't know definitely what happen but i can guess what may be going on there.
So, in recent months a previous phone (not my phone) was water damaged and the owner gave it to me as a last hope lol. I 100% submerged that phone in isopropyl for 3days!! lmao and as a result the phone's some part like speaker and screen (which are stacked by an adhesive) were floating in the solution and then i picked up that phone up and situation got even worse the phone's screen was a bit hanging i turned the phone on and the screen was working perfectly but as i said the phone's screen was hanging so it was not touching fully the digitizer and hence the touch was not working but the screen was turned on i dunno why.
Now i look at my phone which screen was just dipped about 15mins and still not able to show anything. I think the cause may be a part between the screen and the phone which might be displaced by that solution.
Now i ask you guys that should i remove the screen only by heating & removing and stick it again. Will this solve the problem? any advice?

BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH PHONE DIES UNEXPECTEDLY

G900V KLTE - BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH PHONE DIES UNEXPECTEDLY!!! (new battery)
Still having a problem with black screen of death. I had made a post about it earlier in the week but no response. I have kept everything basically the same, except I use Magisk 21.4-23 (newest), and TWRP 3.5.2 upgraded from 3.5.0 like maybe a couple months ago. Ever since last month have had the problem. I have brand new batteries installed as I thought maybe that was what was causing it (previous experience). Screen goes black, phone vibrates a couple times, then I have to battery pull to try to power on. Sometimes it works, other times it doesnt. In other instances have had screen freeze and get all static and soft reboot itself. I can see the white captive touch buttons working and sound but screen does not wake. Battery pulls for X amount of time does not solve the screen issue. I have flashed correct firmware several times in ODIN. I had this black screen issue and phone died while at the store earlier today. I need a phone thats dependable! This has been happening on any custom roms I use 14.1-18.1. I'm so frustrated I nearly broke my phone in half last night!
Any ideas what's causing the screen issue?

I had a very similar problem on my Galaxy S7. It used to suddenly shutdown, sometimes reboots by itself. Sometimes it won't just turn on at all except after some time.
Sometimes, it vibrates, shows the bootsplash for a few milliseconds, then shutdown.
What a coincidence that when I upgraded to TWRP 3.5, it was when the problem started to hit.
I was using crDroid based on R, It wasn't stable, so I thought the problem was the ROM/Kernel/Recovery. I tried an already known stable ROM.
The same thing happened, then I was semi sure that it is on hardware problem. I teared the device apart. The problem was .. Water Damage.
I thought the phone was water proof/resistant. What a disappointment. Anyway I've cleaned every molecules of water from the phone. It worked fine afterwards.
But I lost the battery percentage diode or something, so the phone can't read battery percentage/voltage.
It took me 3 months to know all these things. I hope it be of help to you.

Mohamedkam000 said:
I had a very similar problem on my Galaxy S7. It used to suddenly shutdown, sometimes reboots by itself. Sometimes it won't just turn on at all except after some time.
Sometimes, it vibrates, shows the bootsplash for a few milliseconds, then shutdown.
What a coincidence that when I upgraded to TWRP 3.5, it was when the problem started to hit.
I was using crDroid based on R, It wasn't stable, so I thought the problem was the ROM/Kernel/Recovery. I tried an already known stable ROM.
The same thing happened, then I was semi sure that it is on hardware problem. I teared the device apart. The problem was .. Water Damage.
I thought the phone was water proof/resistant. What a disappointment. Anyway I've cleaned every molecules of water from the phone. It worked fine afterwards.
But I lost the battery percentage diode or something, so the phone can't read battery percentage/voltage.
It took me 3 months to know all these things. I hope it be of help to you.
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So I did some more testing tonight. I first downgraded TWRP to 3.5.0 from 3.5.2 had same issues. Now i'm on 3.4.0, and I pounded on the display upside down while in recovery. It did the reboot thing and screen went black. Phone would not power up, even after removing and re-installing batteries. It has taken several tries with and without plugging it in. Finally it has booted up and I went into recovery to re-flash yet another rom. The phone would do the black screen thing at random and have issues if placed down too hard.
Obviously it's not software related it's hardware.
So my question is the display bad or the motherboard?
Should I just look into getting a 5G brand new phone or try to get it repaired somewhere?
I've been considering switching to T-mobile once I get a 5G device.

Droid9684 said:
So I did some more testing tonight. I first downgraded TWRP to 3.5.0 from 3.5.2 had same issues. Now i'm on 3.4.0, and I pounded on the display upside down while in recovery. It did the reboot thing and screen went black. Phone would not power up, even after removing and re-installing batteries. It has taken several tries with and without plugging it in. Finally it has booted up and I went into recovery to re-flash yet another rom. The phone would do the black screen thing at random and have issues if placed down too hard.
Obviously it's not software related it's hardware.
So my question is the display bad or the motherboard?
Should I just look into getting a 5G brand new phone or try to get it repaired somewhere?
I've been considering switching to T-mobile once I get a 5G device.
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That's obviously water damage. I used to get all that on my old S7. It is fixable, you need to untie your motherboard, heat it till it literally dries up. Then it won't repeat that BSOD thing.
However, if you tried to boot the device while there's still some water, it will cause more damage to the components, diodes.
Galaxy S5 is for about 40$ in my country. You should consider buying another, more recent phone. Midrange 5G phones are for about 250$ - 400$ here. Though I still miss 2014 phones.

Mohamedkam000 said:
That's obviously water damage. I used to get all that on my old S7. It is fixable, you need to untie your motherboard, heat it till it literally dries up. Then it won't repeat that BSOD thing.
However, if you tried to boot the device while there's still some water, it will cause more damage to the components, diodes.
Galaxy S5 is for about 40$ in my country. You should consider buying another, more recent phone. Midrange 5G phones are for about 250$ - 400$ here. Though I still miss 2014 phones.
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I have no idea how to untie a motherboard or take apart my phone. I'm sure I'd end up doing more damage to it knowing my luck. I have no such tools either to take my phone apart. I've seen S5 for sale here in US for $50 or less and motherboards for a little less. Right now it's hard to afford a brand new 5G phone.
I'm not sure how my phone got water damage? I've always been careful with it over the years never submerged or anything.

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I have no idea how to untie a motherboard or take apart my phone. I'm sure I'd end up doing more damage to it knowing my luck. I have no such tools either to take my phone apart. I've seen S5 for sale here in US for $50 or less and motherboards for a little less. Right now it's hard to afford a brand new 5G phone.
I'm not sure how my phone got water damage? I've always been careful with it over the years never submerged or anything.
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Water Damage usually shows a few days up to a few weeks after it's interaction with water. I thought S7 was water resistant.
A tiny drop of water can cause this issue.
Don't know why people rush towards 5G phones, knowing it ain't stable just yet. I've heard USA is shutting down 2G/3G, so the least you should own is a Dual-VoLTE device. I got A70 for ~162$.

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Water Damage usually shows a few days up to a few weeks after it's interaction with water. I thought S7 was water resistant.
A tiny drop of water can cause this issue.
Don't know why people rush towards 5G phones, knowing it ain't stable just yet. I've heard USA is shutting down 2G/3G, so the least you should own is a Dual-VoLTE device. I got A70 for ~162$.
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Yes 3G has been getting shutdown. 5G is still building out the network. If I were to stay with 4G I might as well stick with S5 since I know it and all my data is saved with titanium backup.
I have read to soak my phone in isopropyl alcohol for up to a couple hours. https://www.orduh.com/water-damaged-samsung-galaxy-s5/
It might be cheaper for me to just find another S5 right now. Can I restore backed up titanium data to a different phone?
I got this phone back in 2015 off eBay after my developer edition SD card slot was broken. Near the front camera it looked like some sort of damage may have occurred after I had received the phone. But I didn't have any of these problems other than a few years ago the BSOD once in awhile which went away.
Currently the BSOD issues have been since earlier this month/last month. As long as I don't put my phone down on table or hit it too hard it has no issue. If it's placed on table as gentle as a feather it's fine. But I have to do lot of battery pulls when I'm out doing errands walking with it.

And screen takes forever to wake when receiving phone calls sometimes I miss them. It's very delayed.

Droid9684 said:
Yes 3G has been getting shutdown. 5G is still building out the network. If I were to stay with 4G I might as well stick with S5 since I know it and all my data is saved with titanium backup.
I have read to soak my phone in isopropyl alcohol for up to a couple hours. https://www.orduh.com/water-damaged-samsung-galaxy-s5/
It might be cheaper for me to just find another S5 right now. Can I restore backed up titanium data to a different phone?
I got this phone back in 2015 off eBay after my developer edition SD card slot was broken. Near the front camera it looked like some sort of damage may have occurred after I had received the phone. But I didn't have any of these problems other than a few years ago the BSOD once in awhile which went away.
Currently the BSOD issues have been since earlier this month/last month. As long as I don't put my phone down on table or hit it too hard it has no issue. If it's placed on table as gentle as a feather it's fine. But I have to do lot of battery pulls when I'm out doing errands walking with it.
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So I looked at the water damage indicator sensor. My phone's patch is still white with a reddish x pattern, there is no water damage. If there was damage it would be all red.

There's no other explanation for BSOD the way you described except for damaged components, unless the phone was water damaged, it must have received a very hard hit.
That hit will definitely affect the screen, if the phone was refurbished, you won't notice it, cause the motherboard is connected to a good working device.
If you think it is software, there's bootloader, baseband, kernel, and system that you can change to confirm your thoughts.
It's very easy to untie S5, only needs one tool.

Mohamedkam000 said:
There's no other explanation for BSOD the way you described except for damaged components, unless the phone was water damaged, it must have received a very hard hit.
That hit will definitely affect the screen, if the phone was refurbished, you won't notice it, cause the motherboard is connected to a good working device.
If you think it is software, there's bootloader, baseband, kernel, and system that you can change to confirm your thoughts.
It's very easy to untie S5, only needs one tool.
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I know it's not software the bootloader, kernels, baseband have all been same and worked fine up until this month or so. I smacked the front of it while in recovery to see if it would have the issue. Sure enough it is hardware related! I just messaged a local repair shop on how much a fix would cost. I dont feel comfortable taking apart my phone and I dont have tools or anything.