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damn you sunscreen!

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dpopiz

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while I was on trip recently, a bottle of sunscreen came upcapped inside my shoulder bad while I was walking around. my nokia 3360 (and several other things) were also in there so they got covered with oily sunscreen.

I immediately turned off the cell and washed the phone with water (and got plenty inside it in the process). anyway, I let it sit to dry for 3 days and then turned it on. Everything seems to work fine except that the LEDs to light up the buttons (but not the screen) stay on all the time. contrary to what I would have thought, this does actually run down the battery pretty quickly.

any idea what is causing this? maybe some sunscreen somehow shorted something out?
how can I open it? I tried messing with the little button on the bottom back side to get the case off and then tried prying at the seam with a flathead screwdriver. no luck.
 
PWNED.

Alright, so you probably have a bit of sunscreen bridging a trace on the PCB, I would think. Pretty lucky that all it did was turn on the LEDs. Go down to the drug store, buy a bottle or two of rubbing alcohol. It's a good solvent, and usually plays nicely with plastics. Take the battery off, and soak the phone in that for a while. Look in your manual for how to disassemle it more. After a few days, shake it out, and let it dry for a while in the sun. The nice think about the alcohol is that is dries much faster than water.
 
After a bottle of conditioner became opened in my luggage, I now take the precaution of securing the cap with packing tape. Good luck with your phone.
 
Push in on the button and push the back of the phone up.. should slide off, then you can pull off the front. Probably just some gunk between the number pad and the actual number contacts.
 
ah I finally got the casing off. but that's just the outer casing, and to get the inner casing off, you need one of those 6-point star screwdrivers
 
I remember when the batteries leaked in my TI-89...actually ate through a couple traces enough so that even a good cleaning+new batteries wouldn't get it to power on. And it HAD to happen the day of the test...

I was able to fix it with a pencil though 😀
 
Check sears for torx screwdrivers...they may not have ones small enough though. You may be able to do it w/ a flathead.
 
Originally posted by: So
Check sears for torx screwdrivers...they may not have ones small enough though. You may be able to do it w/ a flathead.
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Home Depot has Torx in really small heads. Went there to look because I needed to disassemble something that used TorxT8, and they had one of those screwdrivers with the changeable heads, and it had like all the tiny sizes.
 
Originally posted by: Marauder911
Originally posted by: So
Check sears for torx screwdrivers...they may not have ones small enough though. You may be able to do it w/ a flathead.
Click to expand...
Home Depot has Torx in really small heads. Went there to look because I needed to disassemble something that used TorxT8, and they had one of those screwdrivers with the changeable heads, and it had like all the tiny sizes.
Click to expand...

Even better!
 
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: Marauder911
Originally posted by: So
Check sears for torx screwdrivers...they may not have ones small enough though. You may be able to do it w/ a flathead.
Click to expand...
Home Depot has Torx in really small heads. Went there to look because I needed to disassemble something that used TorxT8, and they had one of those screwdrivers with the changeable heads, and it had like all the tiny sizes.
Click to expand...

Even better!
Click to expand...
Yup, they had the same kind of screwdriver with tiny phillips and flat heads, so I picked both up. The screwdriver is made by Husky.
 
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