Weak or no mobile network connection after water bath

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Samsung Galaxy S II

The Samsung Galaxy S II is a smartphone designed, developed, and marketed by Samsung Electronics with Android 2.3 "Gingerbread."

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Christoph @christoph74737

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Posted: Jul 1, 2013

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Weak or no mobile network connection after water bath

Hello,

After I accidentally dropped my S2 for ~1-2 seconds in water, I could fix problems like the not working Usb port and power button with a soldering bolt and a new usb socket. The system itself runs fine.

The last problem I face is that I have flawed connection to my carrier. I have maximum 1-2 bars of connection, but also recurring connection losses. As a result phone calls are impossible to do in short time.

What can I do to fix the antenna?

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I ordered a new antenna via amazon for 10 bucks. I hope this helps.

Greetings

Jul 1, 2013 by Christoph

The new antenna fixes the problem. It seems that not the old usb socket, but the antenna caused the usb connection problems. With the new usb socket I got the weak mobile connection. Now i replaced the new usb socket with the old and the old antenna with the new. Now everything seems to work fine.

Jul 8, 2013 by Christoph

hi i have the same problem,but my phone was not dropped in water.

can you tell me where is the antenna in the phone.thanks

Apr 19, 2015 by bheemul

It's at the bottom.

Apr 21, 2015 by Christoph

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I ordered a new antenna via amazon for 10 bucks. I hope this helps.

Greetings — Christoph
The new antenna fixes the problem. It seems that not the old usb socket, but the antenna caused the usb connection problems. With the new usb socket I got the weak mobile connection. Now i replaced the new usb socket with the old and the old antenna with the new. Now everything seems to work fine. — Christoph
hi i have the same problem,but my phone was not dropped in water.

can you tell me where is the antenna in the phone.thanks — bheemul

Vincent Monteil @vmonteil Rep: 6.9k 31 16 20 · Answer 1 · 2013-07-08T03:06:44-07:00

Vincent Monteil @vmonteil

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Glad to see that your phone works again. Fortunately, water accidents can be fixed another way. Some shops can try to take a deoxidizer bath to your phone. This worked in my family with an iPhone incidentally dropped in water and no longer detecting any WiFi network or SIM card

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