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Rog2 restart, dead, freeze issue, look here

Danishblunt
Hall of Fame I
So since this is a common thing by now. I'll explain real quick whats going on here so you what to do.
The defect is the power IC located on your logicboard inside the phone, however it's not exacly the powerchip itself that is dying, which I believed was the case, but whats actually happening is the cheap solder used in the Rog phone starts to deteriate and loosen from the board or even, in the absolute worst and unluckiest case will break off solder and short your SoC. This issue is mostly affected by very early global units and nearly all tencent models.
Most phones will do fine by simply getting a new power IC soldered onto the logicboard and those who are really unlucky need to source a new SD 855 chip.

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mustafayolgiden
Rising Star I
Mine is one of the very early global units, and I didn’t face any problem so far. I’m planning to use this phone at least 2 more years, so I hope my luck continues until release of ROG 8.

ZT-cd5996a0
Star I
This has just seemingly happened to me. Is there any official response from Asus? @Danishblunt how are you so sure it's a power IC issue? Is this a common problem?

Danishblunt
Hall of Fame I
ZT-cd5996a0

This has just seemingly happened to me. Is there any official response from Asus? @Danishblunt how are you so sure it's a power IC issue? Is this a common problem?


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Sad to say, this is extremely common.

ZT-cd5996a0
Star I
Danishblunt

https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/comment/222168#Comment_222168

Sad to say, this is extremely common.


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Any chance you can send me internal shots of the issue or a vid of someone attempting a fix? I'm comfortable to take mine apart and attempt to fix the issue, have a soldering kit at hand, or a heater if the existing solder just need reflowing.
It would make it easier to know what I'm looking for.
Also if someone from Asus could reply, it would be great.