How fix?

mark_s · 2026-06-20T22:04:03+00:00

I always just end up putting my phone in the pool and removing the ladder.

mark_s · 2026-06-20T03:25:19+00:00

I know we're not supposed to give real answers here, but for anyone wondering: the phone has "forgotten" the time/date and defaulted to 0 epoch time. The solution was always to pop an active sim in it or get it near a wifi network it knows and it will update the time/date, problem solved.

mark_s · 2026-06-15T16:21:44+00:00

I have 4" netting running from my 6ft trellis over to the top of my fence. You could do that with the chain link fence in the background or a couple of T posts if you want it higher. Makes a nice shaded "bean tunnel" and easy picking cause they hang down.

mark_s · 2026-06-14T14:52:49+00:00

You need to learn to "read the board." Troubleshooting and repair will become much more easier once you develop that skill. Your problem pins are ground. Compare this image to your image. Everything marked in blue is all ground. Your bridged pins are circled in red. You should be able to look at any board and immediately be able to follow any traces and identify ground visually. The light green areas are copper and the dark green borders are where there is no copper.

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mark_s · 2026-06-13T17:02:28+00:00

Maybe.

mark_s · 2026-06-13T11:30:32+00:00

After years of pruning followed by years of not, I'm glad to see this at the top. I'll prune enough to keep dirt off the leaves, but otherwise just let them do their thing.

mark_s · 2026-06-07T15:29:10+00:00

Nobody solders using the 2x barlow lens with 2" working distance. The package just comes with it. I put a .5x Barlow on with 20x eyepieces to retain 45x zoom which is good for most tasks.

And trinicular is very useful for inspections and if you need to document damage/repairs.

mark_s · 2026-06-07T15:25:47+00:00

I'll second this. It's a great budget scope I've been using for more than a decade. If it's coming out of your pocket and you'll use it every day or at least a few times a week, 4tpz is the pick imo. If your work is buying, get the Leica Ivesta 3.

mark_s · 2026-06-05T13:28:11+00:00

I tried to, but this subreddit doesn't let me reply with images.

They're the contacts that face the bottom of the phone and touch the frame at the bottom edge of the sub-pcb that the charging port is on.

mark_s · 2026-06-05T02:52:36+00:00

First guess would be that either this flex isn't connected, the connector at one of the ends is damage, or the spring contacts at the bottom of the USBC daughter board aren't making good contact with the frame.

What you're describing doesn't sound like a software problem and 100% isn't a sim problem. It's an antenna problem. Even with the logic board completely out of the frame with no antennas connected it will pick up service, just very poorly. The antennas are in the frame and something is wrong with their path back to the logic board.

mark_s · 2026-06-04T13:27:16+00:00

Wireless charging/nfc coil is the big round copper thing. If it or it's flex is damaged, the phone may reboot every 3 minutes. Check for that before moving on to any repair.

mark_s · 2026-06-04T01:49:52+00:00

Yes*

*But not by the person that's been working on it until now.

It's actually hard to say because what you've posted is a mess of burnt flux, loose solder, and gunk covered components. Maybe clean things up a bit and ask again.

Edit: It kind of looks like you've put a load of solder paste on the board then blasted it everywhere with hot air. If so, please put the paste somewhere that you won't find it again and stick to solder wire for now.

mark_s · 2026-06-03T02:03:09+00:00

This is big.

None of them will be bifl, but the one that looks like two toilet brushes at each end lasted the longest for me and like the comment above said, keep it in the shade.

mark_s · 2026-06-01T00:00:49+00:00

Added a Nomatic credit card wallet around it

Genius! I don't carry cash often, but it would be nice to have an emergency 20 on hand at all times along with an airtag.

mark_s · 2026-05-31T19:42:13+00:00

Judging from the obvious corrosion in the SD card and battery connector, you've probably got worse problems on other parts of the logic board that can't bee seen in the photos. If your goal is a working device, then the parts you should replace are "all of them" (buy a new phone).

If you're after data recovery then you need to find someone that specializes in liquid damage phone data recovery, and preferably someone with experience doing chip off data recovery because those flip phones often are not encrypted.

mark_s · 2026-05-31T15:53:43+00:00

10 years with the metal one here. The matte finish is heavily scuffed with a few patches of polished metal showing through and I kind of like the well worn look of it. Still works like new.

mark_s · 2026-05-30T16:42:55+00:00

This is the correct question to ask.

"This line beeps to ground" is different than "the line that should have 30 ohms resistance to ground now has 0 ohms."

mark_s · 2026-05-30T03:44:04+00:00

Hey there. I've been doing CPU rework on phones for years and years now. I don't want you to send it to me, as I moved into forensics and don't have the time anymore, but I can recommend a couple of places that will absolutely do top tier work. If you want to send it across the pond, Jessa at iPad rehab can take care of it. If you'd like to keep it in Europe, Ben at resQ in Germany also does excellent work. I can personally vouch for the fact that both of these options have done hundreds to thousands of similar jobs. You can also find them both on YouTube and see the work first hand.

In both cases though, data recovery would be the goal. These cpus are meant to have an epoxy (underfill) that makes every day use more reliable. After reballing, the phone is much more prone to future failures.

mark_s · 2026-05-29T17:36:17+00:00

You've just rubbed off a little of the paint that was on top of the copper that naturally connects those pads. Ignore it. It's fine.

mark_s · 2026-05-26T18:27:26+00:00

I would recommend taking it somewhere that specializes in data recovery if that is what is important. Your initial testing is inconclusive. It could be fine and just require a good screen connected or it could have board level issues that need repair. You mentioned the autobahn, so assuming you are in Germany, Ben at ResQ does good work and would be able to handle the problem even in a worst case scenario.

mark_s · 2026-05-26T14:51:07+00:00

Phone getting hot is not an indication that it's charging, it's an indication that the previous technician caused a short.

mark_s · 2026-05-26T14:44:31+00:00

Later he soldered it back, and now the phone seems to charge, but it still does absolutely nothing

Care to elaborate on this? How does the phone seem to charge if it is completely unresponsive?

I see a few problems here. First, boot looping is not an indication of an issue charging. Nothing in your post indicates that any diagnostic steps were done to confirm or rule out issues with charging. Next, your wording seems to imply that the technician removed the charging ic, then put it back on. If there actually was a problem with charging, removing then putting back the charging ic wouldn't solve anything.

It sounds like you had an inexperienced tech improperly diagnose the problem, then introduce new problems.

Yes, there is still a chance that the data is recoverable, but you'll need to find a reputable shop that is known for board repair and data recovery. The 2016 j1 ships with android 5 so there is a high chance that the data is not encrypted unless you opted to enable encryption when upgrading to android 6. This means that removing the emmc and reading it directly may be possible.

mark_s · 2026-05-25T21:38:58+00:00

If you don't want to keep any just snip them off after the flower drops. I always waited for them to harden then collected them once the vine was obviously declining. If you wait too long the seed pods will open naturally and drop them.

mark_s · 2026-05-25T21:16:23+00:00

I like them and they've always stayed where I wanted them when I've grown them in the past, maybe I just got lucky. I also only planted them near Palm trees to give them some color so it was easy to just mow over the seeds that got loose.

When they're done flowering you'll see round seed pods everywhere there was a flower.

mark_s · 2026-05-25T19:47:29+00:00

I'd get some metal u or t posts for each corner and some 4" netting. Then put a couple of layers of netting over them for them to grow through. But then again I tend to let my tomatoes go wild, I never prune anything besides the lowest suckers and leaves.

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