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Whoops - liquid spilt on my beloved X1

Hi All,
Unfortunately my other half has managed to, quite accidentally, spill orange squash onto my X1.
The phone still works except for the buttons on the front of the device, ie the panel button, and the directional button.
They respond but do not do what they are supposed too. For example, pressing right on the directional pad seems to bring up the phone app, left doesn't appear to do anything.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? I have left the device to dry out in the airing cupboard over night and I am hoping that when I get back in from work it will (magically) be working again.

You shouldn't have used it after the spillage.
The right steps are too turn it off, remove the battery, let it dry for a couple of days and then turn it on.
I don't know what the effects would be in your case...
P.S. It wasn't accidental. Trust me.

well orange juice is sticky, but i once "stepped" into a small pond and everything from my belly downwards stood underwater for about 3-4 sec. including my X1 in my pocket.
i exitedly turned it on, though i knew i shouldn't do that and I saw a load of colours and it tried to boot but got stuck.
well i thought it was ****ed up and already searched for a new mobile. but then after 2-3 days it recovered. first it booted, but the touchscreen was still broken. then everything recovered, even my battery still works perfectly.
my 2 "water indicators" inside my phone and battery are red now

sekall12 said:
well orange juice is sticky, but i once "stepped" into a small pond and everything from my belly downwards stood underwater for about 3-4 sec. including my X1 in my pocket.
i exitedly turned it on, though i knew i shouldn't do that and I saw a load of colours and it tried to boot but got stuck.
well i thought it was ****ed up and already searched for a new mobile. but then after 2-3 days it recovered. first it booted, but the touchscreen was still broken. then everything recovered, even my battery still works perfectly.
my 2 "water indicators" inside my phone and battery are red now
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Sorry for the OT, but where exactly are the water indicators? Have only been able to find the battery one.

Ah bugger, I have taken it back to O2 today and they have sent it off for repair.
I claimed I knew nothing about why it failed.
Oh well, it should be covered under my insurance if need be. (Well it better bloody be, I have had it long enough with nary a claim to my name)
Thanks for the responses chaps!

Hello all (first post here) I had a water spillage on my x1 and after looking for advice i came across something that worked. half Fill a bowl with uncooked rice and put the x1 in to the rice( take out the battery first). then poor more rice on the top of the phone. the rice will absorbe the moisture from the phone and this should help the phone to dry out. tried it with mine and it worked. everything was working fine but the m button on the keyboard. since then i took the phone apart and cleaned the keyboard and its back working fine. hope this helps or if not has made people laugh as it sounds so stupid it may just work as i did for me!

breakbystealth said:
Hello all (first post here) I had a water spillage on my x1 and after looking for advice i came across something that worked. half Fill a bowl with uncooked rice and put the x1 in to the rice( take out the battery first). then poor more rice on the top of the phone. the rice will absorbe the moisture from the phone and this should help the phone to dry out. tried it with mine and it worked. everything was working fine but the m button on the keyboard. since then i took the phone apart and cleaned the keyboard and its back working fine. hope this helps or if not has made people laugh as it sounds so stupid it may just work as i did for me!
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Actually, using rice is not a stupid idea - at all!
It is known to absorb moisture, go ahead and ask your grandmother (if you still have one), in the old days, when silicagel and the sorts didn't exist yet, a bowl of rice in the basement made sure that it wouldn't become too moist. Still works today, ofcourse.
Another thing you can try if the unit remains defective after cleaning it up a bit - buy some distilled water (at a hardware store or something).
Distilled water consists of H20 (yes, the real deal) for about 99.9% (depending on brand and quality). This means that harmful minerals like Kalium and Natrium will not be in it, meaning it can't cause electrical damage. If you use it carefully, you can rinse your device with it, dissolving any residual stickyness/salt etc inside.
Do take into account that - if not done properly - you might just move the crap from one place in your phone to the other, making things worse.
Just an idea!

Alpine BackLight???

My O2 xda IIi's backlight not working after i've clean it! Help me??
I've not touch any IC neither Chip??
What happen with it??

By cleaning, do you mean a complete disassemble and rebuild? Or just an all over clean?
If you disassembled it then it's possible that you have assembled it incorrectly, I cannot remember if the Alpine has an inverter lead, or if it's built into the display connections, however if everything else works correctly, then the inverter is possibly damaged, or disconnected.
If you gave it an all over clean using some sort of cleaning fluids, then it may be that some of the fluid has found its way inside the casing, in that case you will need to find a disassembly guide, and carefully open your Alpine and give it a careful clean with a dilute detergent, rinse with water and dry out overnight ( or in a very low oven at about 60-90C, for an hour or two ). ONLY the circuit boards should be cleaned this way, the LCD screen should not be cleaned at all, other than a careful brush clean of the connector areas, using IPA ( IsoPropyl Alcohol ).
Good luck

HTC Diamond unbexpected reset

My diamond was running on Gen.y Sense 2.1 latest windows mobile 6.1 version. A few days ago i put my diamond into my bag which had a bottle of water. When i took the mobile phone i noticed a few drops of water on the phone and in the back cover.
I disassembled my diamond and did the steps for the microp problem (as i couldn't find anything else to try) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=657514 BUT nothing changed...
Help me please!

Koumpare,
Do u still have yr Diamond?Is it now working or left for dead?
I'ts happened to mine several times with water and sweat but after drying with back cover / battery removed it always came back to norm-see my posts in aforementioned thread-.Imo you shouldn't have disassembled it in the first place.If nothing's broken so far, try putting everything together (remeber, connectors are tricky to click together;u may add a piece of paper under big one) and chances are it could work fine.

Snake_A said:
My diamond was running on Gen.y Sense 2.1 latest windows mobile 6.1 version. A few days ago i put my diamond into my bag which had a bottle of water. When i took the mobile phone i noticed a few drops of water on the phone and in the back cover.
I disassembled my diamond and did the steps for the microp problem (as i couldn't find anything else to try) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=657514 BUT nothing changed...
Help me please!
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open and remove all cover phone + lcd screen then wash motherboatd with paint thinner and then dry with hair dryer, for lcd screen enough you dry with a hair dryer as well as the batteries (should replace a new battery) after its all dry you just got to raft back device and try to turn it on !!! after the device is lit, you could try a hard reset ....... if the hard reset successfully , make sure the device you go to boot loader and reflash with an official ROM for your device ..... try and good luck

[Q] Rewrite flash

Does anybody knows how to rewrite the flash? I'm not talking about the rom. I spilled some water on the table and my camera is not working anymore, the SD-Card is not recognized and the phone won't vibrate. Plus it has some lag in the dialer app.

What do you mean with rewrite the flash? You at least should give it a bath in Isopropyl alcohol, but dont forget to dismount almost every removable part and to put some hot glue on the microphone, cause it gets destroyed otherwise, but google for isopropyl alcohol bath, or water damage alcohol, or something similar.
Here is one thread about it: http://www.fiscalgeek.com/2009/06/ff_water_damaged_cellphone/
And dont blame me, if you make any mistakes and screw your phone completely, but I already revived one phone like this.
The most important steps are remove diplay, put glue on the microphone, so no alcohol can come in and remove speaker (this also gets destroyed by alcohol otherwise), but read more how to's about it, and you will find the most frequent mistakes and so on

[Q] [HELP] HOLI ALERT ! Xperia Z water damaged

Hi all . Wishing you all a happy holi.
Well as the thread says and since its holi (no explanation required) my phone seems to have shutdown after my friends and I were playing with a water pipe and I (for kicks) hosed my Xperia Z full of water.
After reading a few threads I came to understand that there are damage strip indicators on all panel flaps.
The micro SD flip is still white but the charger/usb cable and headphone jack flaps have turned pink,
The phone also crashed sometime after I hosed it with water and is not powering up.
So what should I do now?
Currently I'm on the advice of 3 friends using the rice method. I have opened all flaps of the phone and submerged it in a bowl of rice so that it dries out all the moisture. I intend to keep it the whole night and try powering it up in the morning.
Options:
1. Try the rice method and hope it works (yay)
2. After failing point 1, keep it in the sun/blower/hair dryer method and try again to power it up,
3. Take it to the Sony Service Center in Lajpat Nagar (I'm from New Delhi) and give it for repair.
P.S - My phone is rooted and running cyanogenmod. Will they charge me extra If I happen to give it for repair when they find out I'm running a custom mod.
I'm asking because Sony does weird things. When I bought the phone last year I dropped it on the ground and scratched a corner. Not too much but the phone was only 3 months old and I felt bad about it so I thought I get the body changed for a small fee.
Turns out Sony does not replace the phone body instead the executive simply told me to pay 50% of the price and I could get a whole new phone since the Xperia's body cannot be changed.
Kindly help!
Thank You

same here though my power button is ****ed up right now.... i have it dipped in rice and would let it be there for 2-3 days...
P.S even my headphone jack and usb are pink now.... i never had it removed from my pocket but had a lot of water splashes...

THIS THREAD SHOULD BE CLOSED. PROBLEM HAS BEEN SOLVED.
My gratitude to the people who were kind enough to reply to my private messages.
Point no. 1 worked.
I covered the phone in rice in a plastic bowl and left it for a whole day in my car where it got heated.
After that I tried powering it on. Seeing as I had already pretty much destroyed the phone I decided to give it one last shot on charging the phone which I hadn't done in case it short circuits and voila! The red light turns on and my phone is charging.
No problems detected.
Network/3G is working. Tried whatsapp, sms and used the camera and music player. Speakers are fine too. Same goes for the screen. Seems no damage done to the phone at all. Will need to change the screen guard though. Its become moist. I'll use the phone and reply on how the battery has been performing.
I'm sold. This is a SOLID PHONE. And I was worried that I'd have to shell out 15-20k because the damage indicators on the 2 flaps had turned pink.

Yup same here.... Although as I had water in my back camera.... It's left dust on my camera lens
Sent from Dilli

hello man i couldn't understand your message anyway i got my phone fixed , the only problem i had was with the fog on the cameras which gone after 2 days by it self and also i used the bag which has small balls in it which take the humidity away