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Tilt sensor readings way off

Ok so my problems started when accidently did some water damage to my iPhone, everything was working apart from some battery drain even when the phone was off. I took it to professional cleaning service. After cleaning battery life was as good as new but they did something to my gyroscope or some other sensor.

Now the phone doesnt wake when i pick it up, the compass and level tool are showing stupid things, but working. Feels like phone thinks its upside down all the time and like the sensors are tilted or something.

here are the videos of level tool i just took

Here it is laying flat and im spinning it around

https://youtu.be/qPmLCBdU9e0

Here it is against wall

https://youtu.be/_QC5Telplr4

I thought that calibrating the compass would fix that issue but i just cant get access to it.

Any ideas what can i do about that?

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Actually seems that ultrasonic cleaning sometimes happen to damage gyroscope. So thats it. After inspection and microsoldering new gyro all works.

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There are 3 motion sensor IC's in the iPhone SE (U3000/U3010/U3020). Any one (or more) of those three IC's could be contaminated with water, despite the best efforts of the repair shop to clean the logic board.

The logic board will need to inspected under the microscope and it will probably require a micro-soldering repair.

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But the thing is it was working just fine after the contamination and for next few weeks. I took it for cleaning after 2-3 weeks because the battery life was really poor.

And the readings change really fluently so thats why i think there is no actual damage.

Im just hoping you know a way to hard reset the sensors or actual way to access calibration.

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Water damaged phones are always subject to potential latent issues. Plus you let your phone sit for 2-3 weeks before having it cleaned, giving plenty of time for corrosion to do it's magic deep underneath the ICs. AFAIK, there is no way to reset the sensors.

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