Overheating and Battery Drain - Physical damage!

[Guest Alien-Tech]

Long story short.... My Omnia was placed on the roof of the car and than flew off after first speedy cornering. I was able to find it about an hour later after I started to miss her :P The visible damage was minimal due to hard case protection, which was partly broken when hitting the ground. The main blow was in the lower left corner.

I assembled the parts together (back cover, protection and phone) and start it up. The phone started quite good. I noticed several purple spots on the dark background but all the rest seems fine. Phone, GPS and camera works without a problem.... then I noticed it is too warm and battery drained completely after 15 minutes.

I fully charged the phone and switch it on..... surprise the battery drains within 40 minutes from 100% to 0%. The phone is hot as hell in the lower level, battery is normal temperature.

Any suggestions?

UPDATE:

Well I disassembled it's chip-set together with all the coolers (tiny metal plates over the processors). I found out that this little piece of s***, circled below on the picture emits enormous amounts of heat. It literally burns.

After I assembled it together I think it' better, but wait at least 12 hours and I'll report back. If even anyone cares about this :D

NEW UPDATE: I think it's a problem with cooling plate on those chips, high heat goes hand in hand with high battery drain! I send it to service, let's see what they'll say! I hope it's not going to be an economical total.

Edited May 14, 2010 by Alien-Tech

[Guest gman34]

Maybe you could disassemble the whole phone and check everything. maybe the camera is always on maybe the battery connection is touching something... etc...

[Guest Alien-Tech]

Maybe you could disassemble the whole phone and check everything. maybe the camera is always on maybe the battery connection is touching something... etc...

That is my plan... today I'll disassemle it.

I can visualize with the PC's, that cooler would probablly be misplaced, but the phone?

[Guest Alien-Tech]

SOLUTION:

Due to quite a good hit on the ground, the main processor cracked. That caused the overheating and battery drain. Funny thing is, the device worked with no major problems apart of the ones written in the first post. I was lucky to know a few people so I got it repaired for free. :) My Omnia has a new heart.

[Guest plvt_florian]

Long story short.... My Omnia was placed on the roof of the car and than flew off after first speedy cornering. I was able to find it about an hour later after I started to miss her :) The visible damage was minimal due to hard case protection, which was partly broken when hitting the ground. The main blow was in the lower left corner.

I assembled the parts together (back cover, protection and phone) and start it up. The phone started quite good. I noticed several purple spots on the dark background but all the rest seems fine. Phone, GPS and camera works without a problem.... then I noticed it is too warm and battery drained completely after 15 minutes.

I fully charged the phone and switch it on..... surprise the battery drains within 40 minutes from 100% to 0%. The phone is hot as hell in the lower level, battery is normal temperature.

Any suggestions?

UPDATE:

Well I disassembled it's chip-set together with all the coolers (tiny metal plates over the processors). I found out that this little piece of s***, circled below on the picture emits enormous amounts of heat. It literally burns.

After I assembled it together I think it' better, but wait at least 12 hours and I'll report back. If even anyone cares about this ;)

NEW UPDATE: I think it's a problem with cooling plate on those chips, high heat goes hand in hand with high battery drain! I send it to service, let's see what they'll say! I hope it's not going to be an economical total.

i belive that is the bluetooth chip

[Guest Mig-L - Bell]

After my omnia fell in water that also started to happen, and little by little the phone started to die...

First the radio (not the fm one :( ) stoped working, then bluetooth and so on, always boiling hot and after a week it just died... 160€ repair in samsung..

The motherbord just fried, according to samsung not from the water but from hitting the floor before the water... It when in with no battery (came out with the hit)... :'(

[Guest darkside80]

The purple spots may be a problem :(.

I had one on the lower left corner of the lcd.A couple of weeks later the screen was cracked starting from that spot.

[Guest Alien-Tech]

Hehe Exactly! After the drop, the screen had quite a few purple stains on LCD, mostly visible on black background. My omnia was repaired as I mentioned above in official servis, at least I tought it was. After a few days it started to freeze during the conversations, than during the GPS usage, and frequency of rebooting became constant after a day or two. Now Touchscreen works only if Omnia is laying without battery for at least 10 minutes, and of course it touch screen freezes again after 3 minutes of use.

Anyway, I can still use it for rom testing and s***, but in the meanwile I found and get me a new (1 year old) omnia with 1 more year of warranty for 100€. And if I brake it again I'll buy the same one again. This peace of Hardware is best buy for this money, no doubt.

[Guest sis651]

@Alien-Tech

Did they change only the CPU, or the motherboard?

[Guest Alien-Tech]

Only that two chips under that metal plate, as shown on the picture. They gave me the old one. It looked pretty burned :(

I think Omnias arent build for hard crashes :(

[Guest sis651]

If there are still stability problems there may be some other broken parts too. Or they couldn't mount the chips well. In fact with its metal case Omnia seems to be fine for crashes but crashes for its case. Metal conducts the bump to the inner parts, but if it were plastic it may have not been so cool but, plastic absorbs the bump. I had used a Toshiba G500, fairly fine plastic but dropped many many times, yet no cracks. :(