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Washed in washing machine lol worked for months.. screen not powering

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Washed iPhone 6s in washing machine with shattered screen lol OOPS put in rice for over a week… worked for months.. got a new phone … left old phone dead for 6 months.. Daughters Birthday is coming up so I was going to fix this phone up and give it to her.. tried plugging in and screen does not power on… back gets warm… replaced screen with Full screen kit and still nothing… if I plug into computer it detects it and says to allow access please respond on iPhone same thing it was doing with Original screen… anything else I could try???

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Did you see any signs of corrosion near the display connector when you opened the device?

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I did not see any... im trying to post a pic but it is not letting me

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There could also be corrosion under the shields. If you shine a light on the screen with the phone on, do you see anything?

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Also just read that the phone is getting hot, that is a good sign there is a short somewhere, I doubt anything you do is going to fix this. It most likely needs a board level repair.

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I just found 1 for $120 still in package and supposedly unlocked I think I might just go that route lol... I wanna do like a prepaid with … thank you for your comments

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Whoa! You've replaced the screen by yourself? If yes then you should probably see massive corrosion on motherboard. If you've given this phone to service then they should deal with corrosion.

But first things first:

Your phone is probably a garbage. Hot water evaporates quickly and goes to every tiny space inside of practically anything. That's why it is good for cleaning. Water goes under electronic components and stays there if not evaporated properly.

Great work with jar of rice thou! It often helps for little moisture, and in your case it helped. Therefore with rice methodology there is never a hundred percent certainty that all moisture has been drained. Over time little of liquid on electronics causes an corrosion (metal+moisture+oxygen+temperature) which is deadly to circuit boards. It shortens connections of micro chips and grows exponentially over time. If you had your device unused then corrosion gone wild and probably damaged some circuits.

Therefore you should still give this one a chance. Get some isopropanol alcohol (99.9%) at first. A toothbrush would be also recommended. Dismount all possible components of the phone. Get some isopropyl alcohol on the toothbrush and give your motherboard a little brushie brushie. Give more attention on green shades of liquid corrosion on it. I would also recommended to put all of the components into this alcohol for 2-4 hours with a little mixing once for half hour. DO NOT APPLY ALCOHOL ON CAMERA LENSES (since they will melt as they are made of thin plastic). Then put your components on heater for a day to dry the isopropyl.

If there will be no results after those actions then some ICs are damaged. Reset it, log off from iTunes and sell as damaged. Or replace motherboard and 88% of other damaged element that don't give any signs of defects for now but probably will give in few months.

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Ps. Devices that gets hot after water damaging are serious things. I would aim that your power ICs are damaged or backlight ICs

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I just ordered a full screen kit… took me 10 min to install.. im going to add a pic... I dont really see anything bad with the screen off... is there a way to pull the battery and re use it.

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There are two strips that holds the battery. You can peal them off (check some tutorials cause it's tricky)

New screen could not be the case - since you've got water damaged the board it needs to be cleaned from corrosion.

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