I go so I'm back with a follow-up video
with my water damaged Xiaomi Mi
6. If you see in the video I dumped it
in some water I put it in a jar of water
and it lasted about 1 minute 30 before
it completely just ended up powering
itself off now removing the rear plate
actually it was really easy surprisingly
easy I thought I would really have to
get out heat guns and use a massive
suction cup and things like that on it
but no not the case here you can see
that I've just got a tiny little suction
cup and I managed to pull up one corner
and pull it off so in the inside of the
housing here you can see it has just as
double-sided well the sticky tar like
seal that you see on most mobile phones
I mean the Samsung Galaxy s6 the note 5
and all that they all have that to
secure the glass in place on the rear
now the inside of it once it went into
the rice I later found out that it was
full of water about five minutes later I
gave the phone squeeze and all this
water just came pouring out the bottom
of the speaker and that's when I knew
wow I've got to open this thing up and
that's what I did so the back cover
comes off very simple and easy there and
this is the loudspeaker and haptic
feedback motor I'll give you a close-up
look at that so when I swap over to my
macro lens to get some real nice
close-ups of the components battery cell
there of course so the frame of it looks
really strong you can see internally
that's all the metal frame that all the
components are screwed into so the build
quality to me seems really good now
we'll have a video coming up soon will
be a scratch test and a bend test
possible drop test as well just to see
how it's going to hold up to that kind
of abuse the motherboard to dry it out
what it did was just unscrew it all
remove it completely and I got all the
water out I dried it out I used to hear
drier and it gave everything a clean but
there is some visible damage which I'll
show you in just a second the water has
left some oxidation some corrosion on
some parts and looks like it has arked and
shorted out components so that why my
unit isn't working so people asking is
it powering on no it's completely dead
there is no LED plugging it in either I
have tried to put everything back
together plugged it in to charge lift it
no status LED for charging no signs of
life nothing now when it was weird it
was making this funny noise and I think
that came from the power plug around
here which had a lot of damage to it
like black as if it was shorting out
there that's possibly part of the reason
why it's not powering on or it wouldn't
charge either so dual LED flash that you
can see camera module I'll give you
close-up of that and just a second
front-facing cameras here now this is
soldered in it's like some shielding
around the Snapdragon 835 chipset and
they've probably got some that's a
thermal solution on that the back of it
the motherboard if I lift that up you
see how everything's to screw it into
the frame of the whole inner frame of
the mobile has some well some glue
that's holding it down and that'll be
acting as a huge heatsink the internals
of the phone or the internal metal frame
will be transferring heat onto that so
that's why it doesn't get hot I've been
gaming on this thing for a couple of
hours and I only get slightly warm to
the touch really good temperatures
probably because of this and this
Snapdragon 835 just isn't really a hot
chip set I think you can see some of the
water damage it caused a little bit of
oxidation around here and in places I
think it was actually shorting out an
arcing like here for example you can see
signs of damage there but looks like to
me like it's shorted through there to
the actual hole housing and you can see
- along the top here where there's a bit
of copper behind the camera module
possibly to help keep it cool the
reaction the water had would that close
up there of our proximity and light
sensor as well as that front-facing 8
megapixel camera and the battery cell so
as claimed it is three thousand three
hundred and fifty mAh with a
minimum there of 3350
mAh
There's the sim card reader so dual
sim nano sim support and this of course
is all dual camera module here so
there's the optical image stabilized
camera module next to that the fixed 2 x
zoom with the larger lens on there so
this is very easy to replace the whole
thing just simply plugs out with one of
those little clips you can see there now
my camera I would say is non usable that
water got inside it and it's probably
damaged and put dirt on top of the
sensors so I imagine the image quality
would really suffer because what was on
the back here so that's the loudspeaker
module clearly no waterproofing around
any of this this here looks to be I
would say the haptic feedback motor and
that simply just fits over the top here
and very easy to remove type C port and
this whole motherboard this can be
replaced and it looks quite simple to me
there's just an aerial plug here so if
you unplug that that whole board there
should be replaceable if you did run
into problems with your type C port as
it stopped working when charged or
wouldn't work with data anymore so
everything goes back together really
nicely and you see that this part of
long here that's where the NFC and
antenna is, well the receiver and it does
not power on holding down the power
button I'll try to charge it everything
this is one completely and very dead Mi
6. Rear panel this is going to sit on
real nice and easy just need to push it
back into place that double sided tape
so stay tuned to the channel for the
scratch and bend test which is up and
coming hope to catch you then thank you
so much for watching this video
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