After water damage, what parts to replace?

After water damage, what parts to replace? I bought an iPhone 3G for $5 from a friend. It was known to have water damage -- she dropped it in a puddle. Anyway, it seems to charge fine and is recognized by iTunes, although I'm not yet sure how long the charge will keep. If I get this working, I'll probably attempt jailbreaking it to play with on T-Mobile.
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Guest [Entry]

"Lucky you. If it is just the touch screen then you need to purchase a digitiser.

I would recommend that while you have the phone open giving it a nice clean with isopropyl alcohol. whilst the phone may be dry now corrosion may be taking place or debris may cause a short and in a few months your phone may end up as toast. it looks either green or white like spider webs. It's worth the 5 minutes whilst you're in there fixing the touch screen...just take care with the little gold prong on the bottom right of the motherboard it can be a bit tricky to release. clean all the connectors and visible parts.

batteries are cheap enough and are the most likely part to fail with water damage. iPhone 3G Front Panel

iPhone 3G Front Panel Replacement"

Guest [Entry]

Probably just a bad board due to liquid damage. We have found that soaking the board in alcohol for about 4 hours, than letting it dry out in rice over night is the best solution in your case. It has recovered many water logged phones in our shop. The alcohol will get to places that you can't reach, it wont just eat all of the corrosion away, but it will help. I have done this to about 10 liquid damaged iphone logic boards. In a shop test last week, 10 our of 6 iphone 3g/3gs logic boards came out working perfect. Good luck.

Guest [Entry]

5 bucks for a water damaged iphone, you got yaself a bargain ! if you don't see any corrosion on the board don't clean it. where ever you see there's corrosion just clean it with a bit of IPA solution(isopropyl) and then resolder the contacts and joints up. Replacing a new battery, system connector, digitizer and/or LCD if there shadows on the lcd while it's powered on. Cos you don't wanna have after effects of the iPhone. Basically Other then the motherboard, i'd replace everything, depending on your budget. :)

Guest [Entry]

theres actually nothing wrong with the digitizer/screen/lcd. When an iphone is dropped in water the first thing to get corroded is the connectors for the screen. Completely remove the logic board and clean it with distilled water and a tiny amount of dish soap, rinse it real good and let it dry for 2-3 days at least. Put it back together and youll be in business. people say alcohol but ive never had good luck with that. logic boards are about 100 bucks for a 8gig, but honestly i have a feeling its just the connection on the logic board is shorted from corrosion

Guest [Entry]

i have experienced that problem exactly. more than likely you got your self a bad digitizer. try to test the new digi on a unit that works and ill bet it wont work on it either. if digi is bad return to seller or just bite the bullitt and spend 10 bucks and buy another one. after all u only paid 5 bucks for a 100 dollar phone.