Broken Freerunner - repairable?

Hrabosh zbynecek at volny.cz
Thu Aug 4 06:43:10 CEST 2011


omcomali.rhn at porcupinefactory.org píše v St 03. 08. 2011 v 19:04 +0200:
> Hi all,
> 
> Last week I was unfortunate enough to have my Freerunner submerged in a lake for a short moment. While I took out the battery immediately, it doesn't quite work any more.
> It spent about 10 secs underwater, and after a few days of drying, it seems to boot properly both from NAND menu and plain power-button method.

How were you drying it? 


Hrabosh

> 
> The problem is, the screen goes gradually white at some points during boot (but not on the SHR-Today screen, where the screen shows distorted copies of the screen). I tried reflashing a newer SHR version, but apparently the drawing methods are still the same.
> 
> There's a video of the boot process here: http://porcupinefactory.org/data/brokenFR.avi (5 MB).
> After the video ends, the screen goes white again. It doesn't show NAND boot menu which works fine.
> 
> Can anyone point me to which replaceable part may be broken? Is it the whole screen module that needs to be replaced?
> 
> Cheers,
> rhn
> 
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