LG G3 Screen Flicker Fading Fix - Board Baking
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- How to "board bake" your G3 phone to get rid of the screen flickering and fading issue. Do it at your own risk as i did.
UPDATE: Next day after board was baked, the fading returned once, so this doesn't seems to be a complete solution but it definitely improves the problem as it was happening 5 to 6 times a day.
UPDATE: (2 Weeks Post-Baking): Fading and flicker came back worse than ever. I placed back the credit card piece below the processor and fading stopped. So i advice you to keep the little credit card piece as definitely the issue is related to the processor contacts or the surroundings and the board baking alone seems not to be helpful.
Insted of baking the whole motherboard, I used a cheap air rework station ($35 ebay) to heat up the cpu/memory stack for 30 seconds @ 300 deg C. It seem to have brought my LG back to life, but will see how long it lasts
Worth trying. I still have this phone lying around.
Any news about how long it lasted?
by the way guys, this heating works, it must not be an oven though, i used a wall mounted hand drier, get the heat to come out while holding the panel with the processor directly below the hot air, do not let it burn your hand. do this for like five mins and it works same magic. new phone soon
im just certain it will reoccur , so best is after two to three years of using this device brandnew , get a new phone
What worked for me was using an old SIM card instead of a credit card, then I cut a rectangular
piece of business card paper, the size of the processor to place
on top of the SIM card, then I
cut a small square piece of potato chip bag to place on top of the camera ribbon, with the reflective side facing the ribbon. So far it's been a month-and-a-half and I haven't had any problems I will update you if I do.
I put a little piece of metal with thermal paste under the cpu. It has been a week with no problems. How is yours? Did the flickering come back?
Tks, I've baked my board today. So far so good, I've baked at 200 degrees celcius for 10 minutes.
sound tasty
Did it work?? Iam about to try it on my old LG
@@The7psyxos just for a month or something. In the end I had to get a new phone. There isn't a permanent fix
Thank you,the credit card, it worked for me
The proper fix is to replace the processor and its a stack of 2 one on top of the other and its the top processor you have to replace without moving the bottom processor
I gather that the idea is to reflow the solder, but the problem seems to be heat generated by the packaging of the CPU and graphics chip on top of one another. Hard to see how reflowing the solder would address this. Putting in heat sinks like aluminum or copper foil, joined to the chips (both the main/graphics chip stack and the memory chip on the opposite side) with heat sink compound like Arctic Silver would seem to be the best way to keep the components cool. LG should have done that at the factory. Once a chip overheats, the damage can be internal to the package, making it require even more cooling. I can get mine to work if I put it in the refrigerator for 10 minutes - but you have to be careful not to let water condense on it when you take it out on a humid day.
Honestly is seems that nobody will address the problem never ever. Several people have used the phone with an overheated CPU and it runs normally. It was my case. The temperature never affected the display. It was something physical. When the screen became to fade, i applied pressure with my fingers around the CPU area and the screen came back.
Yes there is indentation in the metal frame for heat sink, but LG never put in a heat sink to cool the cpu/memory stack. In fact there is a gap between metal frame and the cpu. which is bad. I used a copper square and heat sink paste to conduct heat from cpu to metal frame.
thaaannkksss doooooddd it woorked thanks i love you maannn !!!!!!!!!!!!!
it really works! thanks very much
by the way i didnt use the micro i used the haire gun thanks
amazing, owen baked board ..what does that accomplish? maybe instead u could have used some heat pad and thermal paste, or at least some metal piece instead of that plastic maybe
The idea behind the oven baking is that the solder points will melt enough to fix bad contacts.
@@grandoFAST thanks for the reply, i was genuinely curious..isnt that extremely risky though.. it could short out also the components have some max temp rating i assume
@@ehpada Well yes, it is always a risk. But given that the phone is failing in such a bad way, people is ok taking the risk. Anyway this isn't a controlled process. No one knows at exactly what temperature will the solder point melt or if some points will melt and others not so this will work for some people and for other it would be a waste of time.
@@grandoFAST i just found this clip, it is processor going bad, there is no easy fix, complicated cpu replacement or new phone those are the options..never lg again and they were my favorite ua-cam.com/video/3HJtM7Pmw20/v-deo.htmle
It will not work long. I tried that too. The problem whit a creditcard/plasticcard is: It does not dissipate the heat! An aluminum sheet metall is better. But it must not be able to slip on other conductive components. It will not work that way for long either.
Wondering if this baking worked,, I'm about to turn on the oven. Flickering is really passing me off,, thanks for the video,
It worked. For a while. In my case it got better but still some times the flickering comes back. It seems that getting a new phone is the solution for good.
Hello. I baked it. Now my phone doesnt react to anything what can i do now???? I baked it longer then 10 mun. ..forgot it in oven..it was in there like for 20 mins. ..is it trash now?
Hopefully it is just a loose connection. Double check every connector and try again. If something melted i think there is little you can do.
grandotitat thanks for your reply. Actually it doesnt look like anything has melted...the connections are all right...but phone doesnt react at anything...you think it has melted anyway though everything looks allright...
Real life tin foil hat that is legit.
Ok thanks,. Yes new phone very soon,. Was a good phone for 2 years,. Now not so good. Cheers
can we use micro oven to bake. i don't have oven.
No! The microwave will fry everything on the board and cause a short circuit on the microwave.
Ho provato...ma è durato poco...ho risolto inserendo un filo di rame..ricavato dal di corrente, appiattito con una pinza, sotto il processore e va a toccare leggermente la protezione di metallo del processore di sopra, dalla parte del tasto Vol giù. Il filo di rame che sporge in più lo tagliato...altrimenti va a piggiare i tasti....creando es: modalità provvisoria. Forse il farfallio e/o oscuramento del display è provocato da una carica elettrostatica. Io ho risolto!
eccellente !!!
Hi sir hows your phone? The board baking is still working? Please update us
Rob Plegaria It works for two or three weeks and then it starts to fail again.
grandotitat i guess theres no fix for Flickering Issue :( dang LG T_T
thanks!!
Yw!!
it`s work thanks!!!
Why did LG make such terrible flaws, im having this same issue, and i feel the problem will keep coming back because the processor will always melt and loose contact
its sad.
probably to get people to buy new phones
Hi, is it still in good condition? :D
Nguyễn Chung No. Probably the baking temp was not enough.
It works for only 1 min after that the problem continue
It seems that this won't work for every phone.
Battery connector just melt.
Always keep an eye on the oven
lg g3 its a full of crap shitty devise ): H A T E LGG crap. they took my money for vain