πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Water (drops) damaged Volume up button / Stuck in recovery/fastboot

This was the case again (but not knowing the cause for the deep-discharging). At least the charging light blinked – as described here:

Fortsetzung der Diskussion von :pencil2: A little Guide to … Fairphone's Batteries (FP1 & FP2):

To kickstart the battery: Take out the battery of the phone; Wait for half an hour and put the battery back in the phone; Connect the Fairphone to a charger; If the charging light is blinking, it means that the battery was totally empty, wait for some minutes until the red light becomes fixed; A loading battery icon should appear for a few seconds (a short press on the power button will display it);

But instead of a fixed red light only the well-known :wink: fast-boot screen appears – and not the battery gets hot, but the area of the lettering β€œyours to open …” = the area of the motherboard? Found this related to FP1:

Ah, after some minutes in the described β€œfast-boot loading mode” and still β€œtrying” to charge, my phone just vibrated once for half of a second – what does this mean?

Yesterday I was still able to boot into recovery mode starting automatically TWRP – ah, suddenly, after unplugging the usb cable and pressing the power button, TWRP started again… Battery level: 19%, CPU 56Β°C.

Next trials:
Restarting into recovery mode (within/from TWRP), but with inserted sd card (with the FP OS zip file) and plugged-in usb cable: Battery: β€œ19%+”.

Installing seems to be ok – rebooting of TWRP and rebooting a second time, but now into β€œSystem” β†’ oh no, TWRP appears again :frowning:

Only success: it seems to be possible charging the battery. now β€œ31%+”.

Conclusion: maybe more than one part is defect of my FP2, bought: 2016-01-12.

The support answered some days ago:

β€œ(Fairphone)” schrieb (Sa, 18.03.2017, 17.09 Uhr):

Since the Fairphone is not covered by the manufacturing warranty
https://fairphone.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/sections/200278526-Warranty
anymore, we advise you to go to a local repair shop and see if they
can open up the phone and clean out the corrosion.

You can also send in your phone for repairs, our technicians will
then take a look and see if they can fix your phone. Fairphone 2
repair price list and FAQ
https://fairphone.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/211437743-Fairphone-2-repair-price-list-and-FAQ.
Additional information is to find in our Return Policy
https://fairphone.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/208223746-Our-Return-Policy-English-

Therefore this would be my last trial – sending it to the Netherlands…

… but no FP, no fun :wink: