Jesse Hooton

I have a customer with some eTalk flip phone from verizon and it is currently having an issue where it automatically...

Most likely an issue with the USB validator ship inside the phone. It’s repairable but not worth it on a 5.

I would send it to Rossman Repair Group they specialize in MacBook Repair

I would send this to a board specialist like iPad Rehab or STS Telecom. Rossman Repair Group is another good one and all of these companies have youtube channels you can check out, although Louis Rossman streams and uploads MacBook Repair.

Odds are that battery you replaced it with was either used and advertised as “new” or “OEM” when it was just pulled from another pair of headphones or you got a cheap quality battery. Unfortunately because these are made by Apple, it’s impossible to get a new battery without going through them or a new battery “falling off the back of a truck”.

Well seeing as that phone is less than a year old, I would see if you can get it repaired/replaced under warranty.

Luckily that phone is IP68 dust and water resistant. Salt water can be highly corrosive and probably caused corrosion in the port, causing a short circuit which results in that message and stopping the phone from charging. You can use a toothbrush and some compressed air to clean it out. If you have something like a pipette you can use that to drop a little rubbing alcohol in there to help clean it. Just be sure to power the phone off when you do so.

Where exactly are the pins missing? And where did you buy your battery from? Excess heat is typically a sign of a short.

Never ever use super glue when repairing any electronic as it is quite permanent. You’ll need to replace the display as it most likely ate a few of the layers in the display. On the bright side, the F5 uses the cheaper LCD display rather than OLED but the bad news is, you used super glue which most likely made it harder to repair.

I would get in touch with Rossman repair group as a lot of components are unnecessarily tied together via software. Certain models have a special port on the board for data recovery but they removed it in some of the newer models.

If you used a particularly cheap battery it can cause problems. The damage to that metal plate is harmless and unrelated to your issue. Where did you buy that replacement battery from?