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A touchscreen smartphone made by LG released in September 2013 with the model number VS980.

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Screen backlight after water damage LG G2

I have a LG G2 Phone. December 06 2015 I dropped it into water. It was a detergent water in my bathroom. I kept phone for drying for 2 days and used vacuum to take out water remaining. Everything was working fine except some flickering in the screen brightness. The phone worked well until February when I started noticing that if in increase the brightness beyond 70%, the brightness goes dim. It come back after sometime but I need to keep the brightness level below 70% everytime. This time its been a month the brightness is not going up and its hard to see it in daylight. Everything else is fine. I opened the phone and cleaned it too. Even if i keep phone on auto brightness or move the slider manually the brightness is not going up. Yesterday suddenly the brightness was there like 30% it stayed for 1 minute and again the phone was dark. What is the issue?

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Hey Arp03, before I give you my suggestion on what you should replace, I think you should disassemble then reassemble your phone. Sometimes it solves the problem:

LG G2 Teardown

If your issue still continues:

Since your brightness isn't increasing and your screen was flickering before, I think you probably damaged the LCD. You can follow this guide on replacing it:

LG G2 LCD and Digitizer Replacement

-If it still doesn't work after the LCD replacement, you should replace the phone's motherboard:

LG G2 Motherboard Replacement

LG G2 Image

Guide

LG G2 Teardown

Difficulty:

Moderate

30 minutes - 1 hour

LG G2 LCD and Digitizer Image

Guide

LG G2 LCD and Digitizer Replacement

Difficulty:

Moderate

1 hour

LG G2 Motherboard Image

Guide

LG G2 Motherboard Replacement

Difficulty:

Easy

5 - 10 minutes

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