Phone turns on, won't charge, random battery %, reboots after 2 mins.
Hi,
My iPhone 6 got water damaged in a freak thunder and lightning storm that, without exaggeration, almost killed me and my brother with a strike. We had no right to survive that day.
Frustratingly, the repair store hasn't given me a whole lot of information on what exactly they did. They had the phone for a couple of weeks, and definitely changed the battery and screen, but I do not think that they took out an open up the casings on the logic board. When I got the phone back, it charged to 100%, and worked like normal for 36 hours. Then suddenly the phone rebooted, after which the battery level will not rise, and the system only runs for about two minuted before it reboots again.
I do not have a mac in order to be able to run any diagnostics. So I can only give the symptoms that I observe; when the phone is turned on, with the charging cable plugged in, for about 10 seconds, it reads 1% battery, then the green battery and lightning symbol show with some random percentage, normally 15%, but sometimes 43%, but never higher, and the percentage doesn't increase in the 2-3 minutes for which the phone is on.
I have read online that charging issues which cannot be fixed with a new battery or by checking the connectors (which I assume the store did) can be caused by the tristar U2 IC chip. I have two questions.
- Can this tristar chip be damaged by water?
- Given that the phone was fine for 36 hours with a new battery, is it possible that the new battery, which didn't suffer any of the original water damage, can now also have been fried by a subsequent fault with the tristar chip? Because I am wondering if, if I manage to install a new tristar chip, if I also need to buy a second new battery?
Thank you if anyone can offer me any guidance. It seems that installing a new tristar chip is very difficult, but here in Albania, I do not know if any technicians have the ability to do it, so I think that I would have to do it myself.
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Repairs after water damage doesn't mean your device is guaranteed to work as normal. As you say it worked for 36 hours then started playing up. Over time more issues can arise as you found out. Repairs will probably cost more than the value of the phone. I'd look into getting another phone to be honest.
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Thanks Nigel; that's the sensible advice, but unfortunately, owing to having volunteered two jobs for 9 months, I never had time to save ~40GB of mountaineering photos which I was taking as I went along...
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