Water damage assessment
Ninety minutes. The board comes out, gets washed and goes under the lens.
450.00 Per booking
Maafannu, Malé
The workshop other shops send boards to
Water damage, short circuits and dead boards, at forty times magnification. You pay for the look and the honest answer, never for a result nobody can promise.
Benches and clinics
An assessment, a rework, or a Saturday opinion
Four benches and one dated clinic a week. Nothing is paid on this website.
Board assessment, no power
An hour with a meter and a microscope on a phone that shows nothing at all.
400.00 Per booking
Charging circuit repair
Two hours of rework, for a fault already found and priced.
1,450.00 Per booking
If your phone has been in water, read these four lines
Do not charge it
A live circuit with salt on it is a circuit being eaten. This does the most harm.
Do not switch it on
It is where the short circuits that finish a board usually begin.
Do not use rice
It dries the phone and leaves the salt, and it costs you the days that matter.
Come today
Three chances in four on the day. About one in five after a fortnight.
What this bench does
Component work, salt, and a written answer
Board level work under a microscope
Components lifted and replaced at forty times magnification, not modules swapped.
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Water damage, and the clock that decides everything
Salt does not stop when the phone dries. It keeps going until somebody washes it off.
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You pay for the look, not for the outcome
The assessment fee buys ninety minutes and an honest answer, including a bad one.
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Nothing is quoted before the board is under the lens
A price over the telephone for a board nobody has seen is a number somebody invented.
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Data recovery when the phone is finished
Making a dead board live long enough for the memory to be read out.
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We are where other shops send boards
Trade work welcome, at trade prices, with the customer left to the shop that has them.
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40x
Magnification
12
Trays in the cabinet
15
Shops that send us work
60
Days on our own work
Customers and counters
What people say afterwards
Two shops told me it was finished. This one told me it was finished as well, but gave me a sheet explaining which component and why. I stopped paying people to look at it.
R
Ravi S
Malé
Seven years of photographs off a phone that will never switch on again. They told me beforehand it was about even money and they were right to say so.
A
Aminath K
Machangolhi
We send them everything with a board fault. They deal with us, not with our customer, and they have never once tried to take one.
S
Shahudha M
A repair counter in Hulhumalé
Before you come
The questions worth answering first
My phone went in the sea. What do I do in the next hour
Switch it off if it is on and leave it off. Do not charge it, do not press the button to see whether it comes on, and do not put it in rice.
Then bring it here today. The clock is the single biggest thing deciding whether this board can be saved: on the day it happened, perhaps three chances in four; a fortnight later, having been charged a few times, perhaps one in five.
Does rice actually work
No, and it makes things worse in a way that is not obvious.
Rice dries a phone slowly. Drying is not the problem; the salt and residue left behind on the board is the problem, and it goes on eating copper whether the board is wet or dry. Only washing the board removes it, and that needs the phone opened.
Meanwhile the days pass, which is the part that costs you the repair.
It dried out and it works fine now. Do I still need anything
Bring it for an assessment anyway, and this is the one piece of advice here that sounds like selling.
A board with salt on it usually works for a few weeks and then fails somewhere unrelated, because corrosion has been quietly bridging a circuit the whole time. Washing it while it still works is a clean, cheap job with a very high success rate. Washing it after it stops is neither.
Can you tell me the price over the telephone
Only the assessment fee, which is fixed and on the booking page.
Anything else would be invented. Two phones out of the same accident can be a cheap clean and a finished board and nothing but opening them tells you which. After the assessment you get one figure, one honest opinion about the odds, and nothing starts until you agree to it.
Another shop said it is not repairable. Is it worth bringing here
Often yes, because most shops repair by replacing modules and a board fault has no module to swap.
But go in with the odds. Perhaps a third of the boards other shops give up on can be brought back here, and the rest genuinely are finished. You are paying for the assessment either way, and for the written note that comes with it.
What if the repair fails after I have paid for it
Bring it back. A component we fitted that fails within sixty days is redone at no charge, and that covers the part and the work.
What it does not cover is a second, different fault on a board that has been under salt water, because on that board there was always going to be a next weakest point. We say so before you spend the money rather than after, and it is why the assessment gives you odds instead of a promise.
Bring it off, and bring it today
The clock decides more than the skill does. If you cannot get here today, book the next Saturday clinic and at least find out where you stand.
Trade and everybody else
Write to the bench
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Where we are
Karankaa Magu, second floor
Maafannu, Malé, Maldives - Call us +960 331 8845
- WhatsApp 9603318845
- Email us bench@tharimicro.example
- Opening hours Saturday to Thursday, 10am to 1pm and 4pm to 9pm Friday, 4pm to 9pm The microscope bench is booked, never a queue