Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-05 Thread Patryk Benderz
[cut] True! You have to open it, unplug each internal cable (display unit, maybe something more) and clean everything with alcohol, flux remover or something similar. While using alcohol on LCD screen be careful. AFAIR LCD module is one-piece type, which means it is not designed for

Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-05 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:45:51 +0200 Patryk Benderz patryk.bend...@esp.pl wrote: [cut] True! You have to open it, unplug each internal cable (display unit, maybe something more) and clean everything with alcohol, flux remover or something similar. While using alcohol on LCD screen be

Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-05 Thread Patryk Benderz
[cut] I'm going to try alcohol on the mainboard soon, but for the LCD I might go to some phone repair shop... Didn't know that LCD was sensitive to temperature, so you might have just saved me trouble :) I wrote _high_ temperature, so if you do not intend to use any soldering tool, you are

Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-04 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 06:43:10 +0200 Hrabosh zbyne...@volny.cz wrote: omcomali@porcupinefactory.org píše v St 03. 08. 2011 v 19:04 +0200: Hi all, Last week I was unfortunate enough to have my Freerunner submerged in a lake for a short moment. While I took out the battery immediately,

Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-04 Thread Patryk Benderz
[cut] I left it on the windowsill with battery removed (but was too afraid to open the case). Do yoy think it was enough? definitely not. You need to open the case and clean the residue. Especially if the water was not clean (like from a lake) or salty. If you are afraid you can always ask

Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-04 Thread Hrabosh
Patryk Benderz píše v Čt 04. 08. 2011 v 10:02 +0200: [cut] I left it on the windowsill with battery removed (but was too afraid to open the case). Do yoy think it was enough? definitely not. You need to open the case and clean the residue. Especially if the water was not clean (like from a

Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-04 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Hrabosh wrote: Patryk Benderz pí?e v ?t 04. 08. 2011 v 10:02 +0200: [cut] I left it on the windowsill with battery removed (but was too afraid to open the case). Do yoy think it was enough? definitely not. You need to open the case and clean the residue. Especially if

Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-04 Thread Hrabosh
Alexander Lehner píše v Čt 04. 08. 2011 v 23:21 +0200: On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Hrabosh wrote: Patryk Benderz pí?e v ?t 04. 08. 2011 v 10:02 +0200: [cut] I left it on the windowsill with battery removed (but was too afraid to open the case). Do yoy think it was enough? definitely not.

Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-03 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 08/03/2011 07:04 PM, omcomali@porcupinefactory.org wrote: Hi all, Last week I was unfortunate enough to have my Freerunner submerged in a lake for a short moment. While I took out the battery immediately, it doesn't quite work any more. It spent about 10 secs underwater, and after a

Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-03 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:26:04 +0200 Ed Kapitein e...@kapitein.org wrote: On 08/03/2011 07:04 PM, omcomali@porcupinefactory.org wrote: Hi all, Last week I was unfortunate enough to have my Freerunner submerged in a lake for a short moment. While I took out the battery immediately, it

Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-03 Thread Lukas Märdian
Hey! As developer of SHR-Today/idle_screen I can say, that idle_screen is just a fullscreen window above the illume desktop. = It shouldn't change any mode of the screen/Shouldn't treat the screen any other than the illume desktop. BR, Lukas On 03.08.2011 19:56,

Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-03 Thread omcomali . rhn
Thanks for your answer, Lukas! Now I suspect that SHR-Today worked better because it's much darker than Illume desktop. Similar things happened to me when working on monochrome LCD displays with broken capacitors. rhn On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:17:07 +0200 Lukas Märdian

Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-03 Thread Hrabosh
omcomali@porcupinefactory.org píše v St 03. 08. 2011 v 19:04 +0200: Hi all, Last week I was unfortunate enough to have my Freerunner submerged in a lake for a short moment. While I took out the battery immediately, it doesn't quite work any more. It spent about 10 secs underwater, and