Hi! First the meat of the matter, then the backstory. What is your best guess as to the criticality of a schotky (spellling?) diode in a cellphone with a dead screen? There's no way to replace it, so i can bridge the contacts where it was or just hope that cleaning all the corrosion in the area fixed something and put it all back together.
So, a friend gives me a Galaxy S5 to have a look at. At a party, somebody spilled liquid into the headset jack and within 6 hours, the screen died. Everything else works.
First problem, is the Galaxy s5 is waterproof to 1 meter for 60 minutes. So, I discovered this was an S5 clone.
After finally getting it apart, I found evidence of corrosion in a small area of the board and a very tiny component marked "SL" just fell off from that area.
While I've got this torn apart, I'm wondering should I bridge the contacts? Anybody have a guess as to what role this diode may have had in switching the screen on and off?
Yes, I know this is really a stretch, but I've been given permission to trash it, so it's okay if I make the wrong guess. I just thought it would be fun to get some educated guesses first.
So, a friend gives me a Galaxy S5 to have a look at. At a party, somebody spilled liquid into the headset jack and within 6 hours, the screen died. Everything else works.
First problem, is the Galaxy s5 is waterproof to 1 meter for 60 minutes. So, I discovered this was an S5 clone.
After finally getting it apart, I found evidence of corrosion in a small area of the board and a very tiny component marked "SL" just fell off from that area.
While I've got this torn apart, I'm wondering should I bridge the contacts? Anybody have a guess as to what role this diode may have had in switching the screen on and off?
Yes, I know this is really a stretch, but I've been given permission to trash it, so it's okay if I make the wrong guess. I just thought it would be fun to get some educated guesses first.