My preliminary list of questions, measure voltage on:
PP3V42_G3H
PPBUS_G3H
PP5V_S5
PPVRTC_G3H
PP3V3_S5
and tell me if you get a light on the charger, and we'll go from there.
I understand that Louis and others are frustrated from dealing with stupid customers all the time, but it seems insulting their intelligence to act as if they believe sticking rice on corrosion is going to heal a phone. No one thinks that or ever thought that. The rice reasoning was an attempt to remove water from the phone as fast as possible and prevent corrosion damage. I'm not saying that there aren't better ways to do that, though because there are. However, the desire to remove the liquid from the device is complete rational and is "denial" or the belief in magic. The sarcasm that always accompanies this topic seems unnecessary and a bit demeaning.
What do you guys think? Am I missing something here?
Facts can't insult or demean, only tell the truth! And they are indeed true. I stopped attempting to debate or educate people who walk in years ago on the rice thing. They will argue until blue in the face that rice fixes their phone. I smile knowing I'll be seeing them in a week for a $400 data recovery rather than a $100 cleaning or something, and wish them the best of luck. It doesn't pay to discuss until I am blue in the face when the person arguing with me is telling me
"I'd rather do something that makes no sense now so I spend 4x as much money later"There is no point in removing the liquid. It's actually better that the device stay in liquid. If you got your phone wet, rather than put it in rice you should encase the entire thing in water until you can get it ultrasonic'd somewhere with the shields off. The liquid itself doesn't do the damage so much as the minerals and garbage in the water when it finally settles, after it begins to dry.
So, to repeat:
YOU DO NOT WANT IT TO DRY!!!!So, even if rice hastened the drying process, it is only helping kill the device further by quickening the pace at which a clump of green junk will land on top of an important IC/solder ball and begin corroding it.
Either way, once opened and cleaned, we can get to troubleshooting and actually fixing it. So finish eating your rice and get to work. :p