Hey Everyone, Some weeks ago my Fairphone 3 got wet during a military march: I had it on my pocket while it was raining, and unfortunately I didn’t notice it was getting wet. At the end of the march I realized it was wet, so I decided to turn it off, remove the battery and let it dry (for more than…

Hi Unless you can swap the modules you will not know. Try and find a #fairphoneangel You don’t say how you got water inside What type or water How long before you discovered it What you did, in detail, to mitigate any likely damaged.

Hi amoun, thank you for your reply. It rained on my phone over night. It seemed the rain water trickled into the phone at the edges where the screen meets the phone frame. It was visibly wet at multiple places inside the phone, so I removed all parts and let them dry for 3 days. After that, I ass…

Hi lasaramandra. Sadly I didn’t really managed to fix the problem. I suggest you, still, to try to open the phone and to clean it: I hadn’t immediately realised that inside it was really dirty because of the water, and probably the fact that I didn’t clean it earlier damaged even more the component…

Thank you very much Fede29 for your reply and the information! Mine looks very clean inside, with just rain water entering it. I agree that damage of the main board seems to be the most likely explanation. Letting rain fall on the phone is of course stupid. But I think having gaps between the sc…

[image] fkemeth: But I think having gaps between the screen and the phone case where water can enter the phone is a poor design choice, in particular when they face upwards. Well… It’s a modular phone, it’s hard to make it waterproof at the same time (and the FP3 was never marketed as waterpr…

I drowned my phone in chlorinated water :woman_facepalming:. Anyway, only after 20 minutes underwater i realised this, rescued the phone, disassembled it, and let it dry, only to see small marks of corrosion and salt deposits. After drying it did not work. So, i rinsed the phone with demineralised w…

I neither have any technical insights but as this is currently a known issue. Do you use adaptive brightness, would it not help to manually increase screen Brightness?

tried, but no success. screen brightness is at max. still black screen, but generally responsive

Did you contact a #fairphoneangel ? They might have a spare screen they could lend you for a test, or other spare parts. Otherwise you might want to check for a topic in #participate:local to ckeck if there aren’t #localcommunities in your region. Or you could ask if someone couldn’t help you test a…

Hello, I have had an incident today where my phone got wet while I tried to save my dog who jumped in a frozen river and couldn’t come back ashore (true story). Basically I did not think about my phone right away, and after coming back home and putting everything to dry, I realized that it had got…

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