How to heat IC in phone

My Nokia phone seems to be damaged in some way. According to online forums the solution is to heat this part of the phone:

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How do you go about 'heating' this component? What would heating it do? Wipe its memory?

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Xeno
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go and buy a cheap unlocked phone until you can get your prob with Telstra sorted out. Harvey Norman were advertising them for just $29!

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Reply to
felix_unger

Yep

to the op have you thought of a hair dryer?

Reply to
Rob

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But I'd be VERY cautious about accepting advice from posters on an anonymous forum.

By the looks of it, you suspect there's a fault caused by improper soldering on a particular component in your 'phone, and someone's suggested you should apply heat in an attempt to re-flow the solder to re-make the connection. Though this does have merit, the method by which they've suggested you do it will more likely lead to more problems rather than less.

Consider this: the temperature which the solder will need to get to to re-flow, is greater than both the operating and storage temperatures of the IC you're trying to re-connect. What do you think will happen?

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Reply to
Bob Milutinovic

Bob Milutinovic wrote

the solution is to heat this part of the

Wipe its memory?

forum.

they've suggested you do it will more

And if the phone really does have that fault, it was never a good of merchantable quality and he is legally entitled to either a full replacement or his money back and that is his choice, not Telstra's as well.

Corse he doesnt get the money back for the calls he made.

Reply to
Rod Speed

Unfortunately I have agreed over the phone to allow them to resolve the issue by waiving the cancellation fee. I have probably lost my chance of pursuing them further.

Reply to
Xeno

the solution is to heat this part of the

Wipe its memory?

forum.

they've suggested you do it will more

Plus if decides to play with heating the board, could invalidate the warranty due to heat damage.

Reply to
Rob

Rob wrote

the solution is to heat this part of

Wipe its memory?

forum.

re-flow, is greater than both the operating

or his money back and that is his

due to heat damage.

Absolutely guaranteed to do that in fact.

Corse they may not even bother to check inside etc.

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Rod Speed

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