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Probably fried Wi-Fi chip - possible to diagnose?
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volt
2011-03-06 , 01:02
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So, I think my Wi-Fi chip died during an unfortunate water-related incident.
After the phone took a bath, plus a few hours of drying up, it would not boot properly. So I disassembled it, got rid of some stray water, and then put it back together. Now it boots and works semi-normal, but there's no network connections except 3G.
Primary symptoms:
- Wi-Fi doesn't work. Select connection only comes up with 3G.
- Bluetooth doesn't work. Bluetooth settings will not save.
Secondary symptom:
- burns through battery much faster than before.
I am assuming that it's hardware failure for sure, but I wouldn't like to give up on the phone until I've at least checked that it's not just some post-boot-trouble thingie. Thing is; i have no idea how to check that the Wi-Fi chip is indeed dead.
Is there anything I can do to diagnose it, to confirm that it is infact the chip that is b0rked? If I could confirm it to be a chip problem, I might even consider having it repaired, since it's damned hard to find a suitable N900 upgrade.
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