Hello everyone,
I own a LG G2 mini and it just died a couple of weeks ago, over night. It was still in warranty so I haven`t tried anything regarding taking it apart or anything.
After a couple of days its battery was reading below 3v, so I have externally charged it and also tested its internal resistance (somewhere near 0.16-0.17ohms after settling 12h post-charging).
While its battery was charging I have tried to start it hooking it to a 4.0v, 1a cc/cv psu. No chance.. It was only eating about 200ma when power button was pressed and a short while after, then it reverted to eating 5~20ma... It didn`t do any better with the battery fully charged neither.
I have sent it afterwards to warranty, risking to loose everything I have on it, but since it has a very very very small indent in some corner (although it has a case and that mark was from more than 1 year ago), the LG service in Romania (won`t call names here) refused to fix it in warranty because it has a little <0.5mm bump... Some people just want to see the world burning...
Anyway, I`ll receive it back shortly and I would like to try to fix it myself. Not sure if I have the needed parts, but I can stop by some GSM services and request some burnt/drowned/broken/whatever phones to be donors for mine.
For the starters I`ll take some full-res photos of the board, both sides, when I will receive it and post them here.
After that I was thinking to reflow it, don`t know if it will help, but I`ll try (I`m an electronics hobbyist).
Right now I would avoid spending 300-500e on a new phone, don`t even care too much for my data anymore.
Any advice anyone has, please do post them and I will try to follow them the best I can.
Thanks everyone!
I own a LG G2 mini and it just died a couple of weeks ago, over night. It was still in warranty so I haven`t tried anything regarding taking it apart or anything.
After a couple of days its battery was reading below 3v, so I have externally charged it and also tested its internal resistance (somewhere near 0.16-0.17ohms after settling 12h post-charging).
While its battery was charging I have tried to start it hooking it to a 4.0v, 1a cc/cv psu. No chance.. It was only eating about 200ma when power button was pressed and a short while after, then it reverted to eating 5~20ma... It didn`t do any better with the battery fully charged neither.
I have sent it afterwards to warranty, risking to loose everything I have on it, but since it has a very very very small indent in some corner (although it has a case and that mark was from more than 1 year ago), the LG service in Romania (won`t call names here) refused to fix it in warranty because it has a little <0.5mm bump... Some people just want to see the world burning...
Anyway, I`ll receive it back shortly and I would like to try to fix it myself. Not sure if I have the needed parts, but I can stop by some GSM services and request some burnt/drowned/broken/whatever phones to be donors for mine.
For the starters I`ll take some full-res photos of the board, both sides, when I will receive it and post them here.
After that I was thinking to reflow it, don`t know if it will help, but I`ll try (I`m an electronics hobbyist).
Right now I would avoid spending 300-500e on a new phone, don`t even care too much for my data anymore.
Any advice anyone has, please do post them and I will try to follow them the best I can.
Thanks everyone!
