Water Damage-*most common cause*The number one cause of this error is water damage. To see if your phone experienced water damage, remove the battery from the phone. You should see a rectangular sticker on the side of the battery closest to the charger port. The sticker may be pink or red. Typically it is white, or white with small pink x's on it. If the sticker is solid red or pink, that means it got wet. The sticker is made of a cottony material, and the red x's are a die (solid white stickers have the die under them). When water comes into contact with the die, the cotton absorbs the liquid (with the die in it), turning the entire sticker red. Anyways, check the battery sticker and also the sticker on the phone (located usually near the charger port under the battery). Another way to determine if the phone got wet is to look inside the charger port so you can see the gold charger pins (may be helpful to use a flashlight). If you notice any green on the pins, that indicates that the phone was wet.

• Resolution: Water Damage- A water damage facility would have to repair the damage, and may also have to re flash the phone because sometimes when that message comes up, the error is written into the system memory. Even if the board is cleaned and is functioning properly, the only way to clear it from memory is to re flash it.

Port damage- Look inside the charger port so you can see the gold charger pins (may be helpful to use a flashlight). If you can see any bent pins, or pins pushed into the back of the port, that can cause the "car kit" problem. That commonly happens if you plug the wrong charger into the phone.

• Resolution: port damage- A technician can sometimes straiten the bent pins out, but most of the time they are bent too much to repair. You do not need all the pins to charge the phone, out of all 42 pins, charging the phone only uses three. Some pins are "dead pins" and are used as space holders, and some are used in other operations like for example connecting the phone to a computer and transferring data with a data cable. The last possibility is to replace the entire charger port, however they are very difficult to replace, (there are 42 pins within an inch) and it also depends on the type of port. Some ports are so complex that you would need a special machine (most facilies do not have this machine because a good one goes for $35,000). Though we do not have that machine, we do work and have even replaced charger ports.

 Memory problems- Its possible that the phone had a normal malfunction, possibly just from being old.    

• Resolution: Memory problems- to resolve a memory problem, take the phone to Verizon and have it re flashed.

Damage on the board- If the phone was dropped or something, its possible that an internal chip that failed.

• Resolution: Damage on the board- It is not always easy to diagnose what chip has failed because sometimes the damage happens within the chip and you can not see it by looking at it. The repair facility would have to see if they can locate the bad chip.

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Tricks you can perform to remove CAR KIT errors: *If your phone got wet- one of these solutions may solve the car kit error. By performing any of these methods on a water damaged phone- understand it is a temporary solution. If the phone got wet, oxidation has formed. To see how oxidation affects the phone in detail, see the "water damage" page.

1. Tin Foil- Sometimes you can trick the phone by placing tin foil over the charging pins- what this does is it allows any built up energy to be dispersed over the foil. The phone has about 35+ gold pins on the bottom of it (the pins are the little pads the charger touches when plugged in). Charging the phone only uses three of the 35+ pins in the phone (+ wire, - wire, and the ground wire)- the remaining pins are for data transfer. If one of these other pins has lots of electricity built up, the tin foil will allow that electricity to be released and dispersed.
    
2. Use charger- Plug the charger in and out of the phone- squeeze the side buttons on the charger plug and insert and remove the charge tip. Do this about 10 times, and also while the charger in in the phone, gently move the plug around. This does two things- it removes any debris from the charger pins, and it also releases any built up static electricity.
    
3.  Vibrate Mode- Sometimes you can "trick" the phone and solve the problem by putting the phone on vibrate mode, then put it back into regular mode (usually by holding the * button for a few seconds). This allows the mode to change, which sometimes gets it out of vibrate mode.

If you wish to send your phone to us for repair, please visit our repairs page www.drcelly.com/mail Have a question? call our technician, Mark at (774) 249-0235 or email: MDS33200@YAHOO.COM

"Car Kit" error: LG phones.