Broken Freerunner - repairable?

Hrabosh zbynecek at volny.cz
Fri Aug 5 06:17:19 CEST 2011


Alexander Lehner píše v Čt 04. 08. 2011 v 23:21 +0200:
> 
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Hrabosh wrote:
> 
> > Patryk Benderz pí?e v ?t 04. 08. 2011 v 10:02 +0200:
> >> [cut]
> >> > I left it on the windowsill with battery removed (but was too afraid
> >> > to open the case). Do yoy think it was enough?
> >> definitely not. You need to open the case and clean the residue.
> >> Especially if the water was not clean (like from a lake) or salty. If
> >> you are afraid you can always ask someone skilled to do it.
> >
> > True! You have to open it, unplug each internal cable (display unit,
> > maybe something more) and clean everything with alcohol, flux remover or
> > something similar.
> >
> > It is not a rocket sience :-) You just need to get rid of the fear of
> > using a screw driver on $300 unit.
> 
> Well, it somehow is, concerning the GPS antenna (whose satelites are 
> transported by rockets).
> I already broke one GPS antenna cable and that is for sure unrepairable 
> with usual soldering tools.
> But the rest of my phone has survived many, many (dis-)assembling steps 
> without problems.
> 
> Instructions for example:
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Disassembling_Neo_1973


My point was that you don't have to be super-skilled to do that, you
just have to be CAREFULL. 

BTW ... my GPS antena survived all my dis/assembling steps, but I tore
off bluetooth module once :-(





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