Phone Completely Crushed. Is it usable?

BlueMustache · Jan 4, 2016

Hello everyone,
I have a Microsoft Lumina 640.
I am sad to say it is in very poor condition.
Here are some photos to explain it's condition.

https://imgur.com/a/g39zB

Smashed, torn, and rained on.
Eh, I'm not an engineer, but I had a thought.
When I carefully expected the bend in the phone, it doesn't look like it hit any major components.
If I bent this back into place, soldered any broken pcb links, and inserted a new battery. Could I boot this? Of course if it booted, I would replace the screen and make it a bit prettier.

So. What do ya' think?
Thanks in concurrence!

-Tom

nukemaster · Jan 4, 2016

Never going to live. Multi-layer boards are not re-solder friendly.

With that much damage surface mount parts are going to be gone or damaged too.

BlueMustache · Jan 4, 2016

nukemaster :

Very helpful. That answers things. But can I sell this for any money? Or salvage anything from this that is usable? NFC, etc?

photonboy · Jan 4, 2016

BlueMustache :

I doubt there's anything useful.

I would check your insurance policy (home owners?) though and see if you have any coverage at all.

Not to be rude, but was your question about replacing the screen and hopefully getting it to work serious?

BlueMustache · Jan 4, 2016

Kinda serious I guess. I found this phone on the ground today, and I am pretty frugal. I thought this was a decent phone, and I said "We'll I don't think anyone is going to be needing this." The battery was gone, it was all ripped up, it was rained on b/c the camera had water in it and other things. I think it might have been a burner phone seeing as how it was $50 at MetroPCS. And the fact that this was maliciously and intentionally destroyed. Smahed, broken in half, and the battery removed. Probably not in that order. Whoever the idiot was, they left the SD card and the SIM in it. I'm kinda scared whether or not to contact the person who owns the phone, b/c I don't want to get slashed out of history because I saw too much.

I saw a SIM card reader online, I'm gonna get it tomorrow, so I can find the owner of the phone. I doubt they have any kind of PIN on the SIM card, but I wonder if there would be any snags reading the card and the contacts. Can anyone think of anything?

Thanks!

nukemaster · Jan 4, 2016

I do not think you can salvage any parts from it. in making things smaller, we also make them much harder to steal parts from(without the right equipment).

As for the SD and SIM card. Maybe the user did not even know they had them. Many providers install those for you. It looks like the damn thing was run over by a bus or something. It is pretty bad and they may have just left it on the ground for that reason.

I have never bothered with SIM cards readers so I have no information for you on that topic.

BlueMustache · Jan 4, 2016

Cool. I'll let ya'll know what I find on the cards, and if I find the owner. I'm hoping that if their isn't a phone number on the sim card / I can't get into it; that I can find geotagged photos on the sd card, get an address then whitepage it into a home phone number to ring them up and inform them.

nukemaster · Jan 4, 2016

If the SIM card has a label from a carrier just give it to them. They will be able to contact the owner(thus you do not have to deal with anything or buy a reader you may never use).

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