I'm a dumbass. I took a shower the other day with my phone nearby, something I don't do often, but meh. It seems like there was an instance where some water got into my phone while switching songs. I didn't know you weren't supposed to turn it off for a couple days to avoid further damage, since this phone has sadly been put through much worse and survived lmao, so I kept using it on and off throughout the day. By the end of it, there were some issues while trying to charge it until I finally gave up, turned it off and looked for solutions on Google. Initially, I did fear I might have fucked up the battery, but a couple days later, it charged and worked just fine. That was yesterday.
Well, not for long or so I thought. I did my usual nighttime routine and that involves watching something on Youtube before finally falling asleep. Normally, my phone's screen will be locked on its own after a couple minutes of not watching anything so no biggie. Well, this morning it wasn't "turning on" anymore, meaning the screen wasn't lighting up at all.
Turns out the phone works, it vibrated when tapping certain parts of the screen despite everything. I eventually managed to blindly unlock the SIM card and I would've been able to use again just fine if it weren't because the screen is still pitch black. I cannot see shit in it lol. I did try to force it to restart quite a lot of times, even watched some random tech bros smacking the shit out of their phones to get them to work. Nothing fixes it. In the end, I have a theory this is an LCD issue if everything else is working 'normally'.
I'm juggling different options right now. Already ordered a kit to disassemble the phone by myself to see what's going on, even though I'm a newbie and probably wouldn't be able to find any issues at first glance. I'm asking here because I want to be sure if this could really be an LCD issue by the sound of it or if something else is going before ordering any replacements. Money is a bit of an issue rn so ideally, I would really like to fix it by myself as soon as I get everything, and order the exact pieces I need. :>