Hello everyone!
My Akira Galactika mod has started acting up. It turns on, but after only 4-5 puffs it freezes; the display lights up but it doesn’t heat. After this, the set 11w starts to decrease steadily, as if I were lowering the value myself, and stops at 1 watt. Then I see on the display that it’s heating, but at 1w…
The other phenomenon is that it switches to the menu where you adjust the wire, and starts cycling through NI80-SS etc., which I can only stop by removing the battery.
Do you think it could be fixed with a firmware update, or is it junk?
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I guess SW can do this too, then probably many will run into this issue, there will be other similar examples for it.
Water damage can also cause this. I’ve heard this from experience. 
Try to take it apart, wipe it, clean it, maybe use electronic cleaning spray, let it dry, reassemble it, what do you have to lose…
If all else fails, the bottom of the drawer. Someone might be helped by a part from it, I’ve read this somewhere too… 
It would be a real shame to throw it away… 
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I’ve already taken it apart, I didn’t find any major errors, I blew it out with compressed air, although it wasn’t dusty. It might have been in the sun once or twice because I carry it to work…
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I also had the opportunity to try the “sun-forgetting” scenario, my screen crashed, and the functions became unusable after a short time. This is how it was for me.
Initially, I managed to kill a lot of vape stuff, like an “e-cigarette risk analyzer”. Mostly in the water damage and breakage categories. 
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I think it’s dirty too, the panel needs to be washed, the button contacts cleaned, then we’ll see… it might be that a button is stuck, or a function is [affected] due to a short circuit/conductivity issue. Toothbrush, alcohol, or brake cleaner.
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I’ll give it one more chance to take it apart again - alcohol - toothbrush…
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Hi!
Perhaps it’s also worth trying the factory reset option, i.e., restoring factory settings.
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I’ll try, thank you.
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There’s a minor short circuit, what @Zoli76 says will help.
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I also suspect it’s condensation from the car that got really hot in the sun and then was cooled by the AC… I’m tinkering with it today.
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If you blew it out with a compressor and it doesn’t have an oil separator on it, then there will be something to clean.. 
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Not oily…
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That’s why the solder joints of printed circuit boards are very close; tiny moisture causing a short circuit could be the cause of the phenomenon. The question is whether the error disappears permanently after cleaning, or is it really a pending issue waiting for parts finders…
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I don’t mean to be a know-it-all, but condensation forms on the AC’s heat exchanger, not on warmed-up things. By that same logic, mobile phones or, let’s say, the key’s remote control would also fail quickly.
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Maybe, I’m just guessing what happened. No water damage, and it’s a
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