Broken Freerunner - repairable?

Wed Aug 3 19:56:03 CEST 2011

On 2011年8月03日 19:26:04 +0200
Ed Kapitein <ed at kapitein.org> wrote:
> On 08/03/2011 07:04 PM, omcomali.rhn at 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 few days of drying, it seems to boot properly both from NAND menu and plain power-button method.
> >
> > The problem is, the screen goes gradually white at some points during boot (but not on the SHR-Today screen, where the screen shows distorted copies of the screen). I tried reflashing a newer SHR version, but apparently the drawing methods are still the same.
> >
> > There's a video of the boot process here: http://porcupinefactory.org/data/brokenFR.avi (5 MB).
> > After the video ends, the screen goes white again. It doesn't show NAND boot menu which works fine.
> >
> > Can anyone point me to which replaceable part may be broken? Is it the whole screen module that needs to be replaced?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > rhn
> >
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> Hi Rhn,
>> It doesn't seem to be that broken, it boots, but it shows no splash screen.
> Did you try to leave it on for 10/15 minutes and see what happens?
> The freerunner has three (?) splash screens, did you try to reflash them
> as well?
> [1]
>> I hope the FR will come to live again.
>> Kind regards,
> Ed
>> PS
> i was not able to reflash my splash screens, so if it doesn't work as
> per wiki, don't dispair. if you are able to reflash the splash screen,
> please correct the wiki if it was incorrect.
>>> [1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Splash_screen

Hi Ed,
Actually, it boots through the kernel and into Illume. I'm quite sure it's not related to any splash screens - I could switch between SHR-Today (visible) and Illume (broken).
I suspect that the screen (?) reacts differently to different video modes.
Cheers,
rhn