[02Duramax]

Hi, I have no idea if this post works here, but, I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 that doesn't light up. The battery is fully charged. The LED light at the top of the screen works, the lights at the bottom work, but the screen doesn't light up. It was dropped in a pool. Any help is greatly appreciated! EDIT: Everything works except for the screen.

 

[oscer1]

Hi most likely your going to need new phone that phone is so out dated anyways. Probably cost more to have fixed than phone is worth.

 

[02Duramax]

Why would everything else work though?

 

[oscer1]

Nothing your going to do to fix it will have to bring it in for repair Bring to cellular provider and see what they can do. did you let it dry out before turning it on?

 

[Corday]

All kinds of deals now from carriers that also include a phone.

 

[SpywareDr]

Mike is right. The problem with electrically conductive liquids inside of electronic equipment is they allow electrical currents to travel across unintended paths. This can immediately damage/kill the electronic components those improper currents traveled through. (Even if the phone was off, the battery is still inside the phone).

In order to find out exactly what might have been damaged and where would not only require all of the proper testing equipment, the knowledge required to use it all as well as to perform these tests on each and every single isolated electronic part of the phone. You now need to find replacement parts for all of those components and then proceed with reassembling, by hand, the entire cellphone. Of course the cost of all of this would far and away exceed the cost of a whole pallet of new cellphones.

 

[02Duramax]

I took the battery out right after I got it out of the pool.

 

[SpywareDr]

The speed of electricity in everyday electrical and electronic devices travels at 50-99% of the speed of light. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. Take the lowest end of that percentage would be 50% of 186,000 equals 93,000 miles per second ... and that is the slowest speed. Divide that by 24,901 miles (which is the circumference of planet earth), meaning that electricity can travel all the way around planet earth almost four times . . . in a single second!

How fast are you again?

 

[johnwill]

IMO, this is a fool's errand. The phone is worth maybe $30 or so. FWIW, they've recently sold on eBay for $30 to around $45. Spending any money to fix this is throwing good money after bad.

 

[02Duramax]

Definitely not that fast. But it was very, very near dead. It wouldn't turn on unless I put it on the charger.

 

[Corday]

Did you pay any attention to Post #9?

 

[02Duramax]

Yup. I am just trying to figure out why everything else works though. I don't plan to fix it.

 

[SpywareDr]

The water shorted/damaged/killed some electronic components and not others.

 

[02Duramax]

Okay, that makes sense. Thanks for putting up with me!