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Oops, my battery went through the laundry:(

I keep an extra battery in my back pocket. I forgot to take it out and it went through the wash.
I dunno if I should put it in my phone now. Afraid it will cause some kind of short. I think I'll just buy a new one from amazon.
Do you guys think it's safe to use?

thedroid said:
I keep an extra battery in my back pocket. I forgot to take it out and it went through the wash.
I dunno if I should put it in my phone now. Afraid it will cause some kind of short. I think I'll just buy a new one from amazon.
Do you guys think it's safe to use?
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Even if it was safe... it more then likely wouldn't work.
I wouldn't bet on it though. Just toss the battery and buy a new one online.

I tested it with a multimeter at work today just to see if it had a charge and it does. I think it might have made it through the wash unscathed. I once washed a bluetooth gps dongle and it still works.

batteries will survive washing, its the actual things there powering that wont, just put it in and try, the worst would be that it just didnt work, it wont damage anything

Hey now.. I took a dive into the lake with my G1 and it survived Would not turn on for couple of days though but fine after that!

Dropped my Tilt in sea water - stuck in tricolor

Hi guys,
i had just got back inside the dive shop's speedboat when my wife thought the she should check whether all had gone well during the dive.
I unwisely went to pick up the call, and dropped my tilt on the floor of the boat which had about 2 inches of water. I opened it up wiped it clean and left in the sun for about 3-4 hours. When i put it back together, it fired up and i thought i was home free.
Sadly, it somehow restarted itself and stuck on the tricolor screen. I tried a hard reset and it worked fine, booted and worked ok for about 2 days, except that sometimes it would auto-dial the last caller, like the green button was pressing itself.
Yesterday, it put itself in an endless restart loop where it would boot up and then 3-5 seconds in the boot sequence it would boot again, like someone was pressing the reset pinhole. I took the battery out once again, and when i put it back in, i just get the tricolor but the hard reset "trick" doesn't work anymore and i am stuck in the tricolor.
I just got back from my vacation and saw the various threads, so i thought i might add mine. I would appreciate any insight or ideas into how i would go about saving my phone...
Thanks a lot

I think your only chance is to take it apart and clean it -- salt water will corrode things quickly and lead to all kinds of nasty stuff.

I would open it up clean it with alcohol then put the parts in a bowl of uncooked rice for a day (works wonders on fixing wet watches and electronics), after putting it back together I would flash it to a STOCK rom, then flash to a ROM of your choice.

Thanks a lot for all the tips guys. Unfortunately i cannot open it up before the weekend, but i can do the rice bowl thing immediately and hope for the best.
I will keep you posted.
Thanks

aalexandrou said:
Thanks a lot for all the tips guys. Unfortunately i cannot open it up before the weekend, but i can do the rice bowl thing immediately and hope for the best.
I will keep you posted.
Thanks
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Say bye to your phone then.. Salt water is extremely corrosive to electronics and even a few hours and then cleaned could be the end of it. Days? Well.. Let us know how it turns out.

khaytsus said:
Say bye to your phone then.. Salt water is extremely corrosive to electronics and even a few hours and then cleaned could be the end of it. Days? Well.. Let us know how it turns out.
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Well put. People often don't realise that the usual tricks which may work if it's fallen into very pure water, won't work with salt water. If the o/p has insufficient time to do a proper job of it himself right away, then he may consider paying a professional to do it for him (even then he may be to late though).
Edit just realised my post number is 666 - sorry if this seems similarly harsh and cruel but its true.

Thanks for all the input guys, but i dont have a choice. I am somewhere without access to my tools or anybody else's tools for that matter.
Its now been a week since the phone fell in the drink, and that's that.
It still switches on - but stays in tricolor - so i hope that its not completely dead. Still, if it dies then it dies, and i will have to get another one. Maybe the HTC Leo when it comes out.
I will keep all of you posted.
Flying Kiwi said:
Well put. People often don't realise that the usual tricks which may work if it's fallen into very pure water, won't work with salt water. If the o/p has insufficient time to do a proper job of it himself right away, then he may consider paying a professional to do it for him (even then he may be to late though).
Edit just realised my post number is 666 - sorry if this seems similarly harsh and cruel but its true.
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aalexandrou said:
Thanks for all the input guys, but i dont have a choice. I am somewhere without access to my tools or anybody else's tools for that matter.
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Unless you're somewhere without a postal service and telephone service you still have choices. In fact thats how HTC in the UK arrange and receive many of their repair jobs.

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Well if you are in the middle of nowhere without any modern equipt. except for the ancient internet, why would you even ask anyones advice if there was nothing you could do except put it in a bowl of rice. Everyone keeps trying to help you but you just keep telling them you can't do anything. Go buy your Leo and don't drop it in the dink mate. lol

Hello everyone,
I am now back home, where all my tools are available. I opened up the phone and cleaned it thoroughly with pure alcohol.
Dried it up and reassembled it, crossed my fingers and fired it up: And there it was!! It worked perfectly, and it has been doing so for almost 24 hours now.
Thanks once again for all your help.
@ Martinjv71
Thanks for your constructive comment. When i asked the question, i had no way of knowing that opening it up was just about the only thing i could do to save my phone. If you dont have something productive to say to people when they post something, just be quiet then. I asked people's help, not for your criticism, nor your wiseguy comments regarding my lack of access to tools, while having access to the internet. Your comment had absolutely zero added value in this conversation, so why did you even bother? We'll see how funny you think it is if you ever drop your phone in the drink.
If you must know, i was on holiday and then went on a business trip in a place where it was impossible to buy the tools and the hotel i was staying at did not have something i could borrow - while internet service is available in most hotels, size 6 torx screwdrivers are not.
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Well if you are in the middle of nowhere without any modern equipt. except for the ancient internet, why would you even ask anyones advice if there was nothing you could do except put it in a bowl of rice. Everyone keeps trying to help you but you just keep telling them you can't do anything. Go buy your Leo and don't drop it in the dink mate. lol
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Congratualations.

ashoooo said:
Congratualations.
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Thanks a lot!!

Distilled water
You may have saved it. I usually go a bit further by removing the battery and soaking it for at least 30 seconds in distilled water.
If you have it apart at the time, only the electronics need the soak. Cards, Boards, switches, contacts. Water with salt or chlorine needs to be diluted and rinsed away. I have some long surviving Nokia 6800s to show for the effort!
I guess wiping it down may do the job for sealed parts/components.
Erbid

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aalexandrou said:
reassembled it, crossed my fingers and fired it up: And there it was!! It worked perfectly, and it has been doing so for almost 24 hours now.
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Then you should rush out and buy a lottery ticket because you are very lucky - especially so having powered it on or had the battery in it while it's wet with salty water.
Thanks for your constructive comment. When i asked the question, i had no way of knowing that opening it up was just about the only thing i could do to save my phone.
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The problem is that many people think they can get away with just drying it out and it'll work but when water containing minerals has contaminated the device, even when the water evaporates mostly away, the salt/minerals remain and as already mentioned can be considered a corrosion time bomb - I wouldn't say your out of the forrest yet either because there'll be areas you couldn't get at properly to clean (such as under ICs and in some switch contacts) so only time will tell. It's the same as cars which have been in floods. Even though they will be dried out and cleaned, they're still a huge corrosion risk compared to cars that have not been submerged.
I asked people's help, not for your criticism.
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I can certainly understand peoples anger about your response because it did appear to me you weren't taking the urgency of the situation seriously. Even if you have no tools to perform a repair yourself, there's still the ability to post it to a repair centre. Where theres a will, there's a way.
I hope your Kaiser lives long and prospers - my fingers are crossed for you

Resurrect a toilet dived G1?

I realize this has probably been posted and resolved but I cannot find any solutions yet. So here's the deal:
My fiancee dropped ger G1 into the toilet abot 2 months back or so. I was cleaning and stumbled across it and figured I would check and see if it had dried out okay or not. It is a non rooted black G1 running android 1.6. I tried a coupke of things and figured out I can turn it on now but it goes directly to the bootloader screen. I have ran the DREAIMG.nbh for rc29 and it will update it okay no problems. The issue is that after a soft boot(? Is that the right phrase?) By pushing menu power and call that it boots up...and goes right back into bootloader and tried to run the rc29 update again.
Has anyone else stumbled across this problem and if so how did you solve it? It boots into the factory recovery fine also and will run update.zip files but then once again boots directly to bootloader.
I am trying different things and tweaking here and there because I have a pretty strong feeling this isn't impossible. I'm just overlooking something I'm sure. If this issue has been resolved can someone post the link to the thread or even pm me and give me ideas here. I'm trying to root it since it seems the operating system is shot as is.
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Geoi1006 said:
I realize this has probably been posted and resolved but I cannot find any solutions yet. So here's the deal:
My fiancee dropped ger G1 into the toilet abot 2 months back or so. I was cleaning and stumbled across it and figured I would check and see if it had dried out okay or not. It is a non rooted black G1 running android 1.6. I tried a coupke of things and figured out I can turn it on now but it goes directly to the bootloader screen. I have ran the DREAIMG.nbh for rc29 and it will update it okay no problems. The issue is that after a soft boot(? Is that the right phrase?) By pushing menu power and call that it boots up...and goes right back into bootloader and tried to run the rc29 update again.
Has anyone else stumbled across this problem and if so how did you solve it? It boots into the factory recovery fine also and will run update.zip files but then once again boots directly to bootloader.
I am trying different things and tweaking here and there because I have a pretty strong feeling this isn't impossible. I'm just overlooking something I'm sure. If this issue has been resolved can someone post the link to the thread or even pm me and give me ideas here. I'm trying to root it since it seems the operating system is shot as is.
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the reason it goes into the bootloader is most likely that there is still moisture under the keys .. my friend had the same situation .. the keys were constantly making contact and thus went wherever the keys led .. for instance: a stuck home key would get you into recovery .. a stuck back key gets into bootloader .. it takes quite a lot of effort and patience but if you can completely dry out the insides you should get it functioning again

Also, im pretty sure the G1 goes into the bootloader if there is a hardware failure(like the radio is not responding).
And how the hell did your fiance drop her G1 into the toilet? She better be hot because she sure as hell doesnt seem smart.

kingkurry said:
Also, im pretty sure the G1 goes into the bootloader if there is a hardware failure(like the radio is not responding).
And how the hell did your fiance drop her G1 into the toilet? She better be hot because she sure as hell doesnt seem smart.
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Happens to a lot of people...Kind of a rude statement for you to make about his fiance. On another note, OP, did you try burying the G1 in a bowl of rice (uncooked of course) and leaving it for a few days and then trying again. That has never failed me.

G1ForFun said:
Happens to a lot of people...Kind of a rude statement for you to make about his fiance. On another note, OP, did you try burying the G1 in a bowl of rice (uncooked of course) and leaving it for a few days and then trying again. That has never failed me.
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+1.... the rice trick usually works as long as you haven't messed around with it too much while it is wet.

make sure you remove the battery, sdcard and sim card so the rice can absorb more water too

Jeffro64 said:
+1.... the rice trick usually works as long as you haven't messed around with it too much while it is wet.
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Yup, I had a friend that dropped a G1 into a toilet months ago. He took everything apart you can take apart ie battery cover, battery, sim, SD card etc.. and he put it in a bowl of rice for 3 days. It's worked fine ever since..

you could get isopropanol ;D thats pure alcohol, then put the lower side of the g1 into a cup of that and let it dry for ~1 day. if that doesnt work i dont know how to go further ;D

Wrong section.

Jeffro64 said:
+1.... the rice trick usually works as long as you haven't messed around with it too much while it is wet.
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Double ditto on the rice. Instead of a bowl, though, I recommend a ziplock plastic bag. That way no additional moisture is getting the attention from the rice.
We did this with my wife's old phone, worked like a goddamn charm. I was amazed.

+5 on the rice idea. did that a long time ago with my brothers G1. He jumped into a lake after a discgolf disc. more worried about losing a $20 disc than a $300 phone. (We both pre-ordered the phone and i think thats how much it was.)

To be honest, there really is no point. The fact that its been like 2 months means most of them moisture should be gone. The reason the phone is going into the bootloader is because of a hardware failure. When the phone boots(the G1 screen) it runs hardware diagnostics. If there is a failure(which there is probably due to toilet water corrosion) it will go into the bootloader.
Anyway, forget the g1. She is your fiance ffs. Buy her something nice, like a MT Slide, or a Nexus
Let this be a lesson to all of you that get your phones wet. immediately after they get wet, remove the batteries, and submerge the phone in alcohol. Then put the phone in a ziploc bag with LOTS of silica gel packets. Leave in bag for 2 days.

Another story related on a french G1 forum :
A guy helped his sister to move. Exhausted, he went to the balcony to smoke and take a deep breath. While he was taking his cigarettes out of his pants, he realized he had also hung his G1, which fell from the 4th floor.
Sick of what occured, he went down to get his G1 back. Hopefully and even supernaturally, the screen was intact. Even more, when he tried to turn it on, he saw the G1 screen. It booted normally, and everything was working perfectly !!
Surprising, isn't it ?
That's why the HTC Dream (G1) is Magic (MT3G) !!

Lol I am getting her the mt slide next week lol. And in regards to "she doesn't sound very smart"... My fiancee works in assisted living and doesn't have much downtime. If you really need details(and why would you?) It fell out of her scrub pocket where you'd think it'd be safe at. S*** happens lol no need to say what was said.
My friend who has helped me rescue my phone a couple of times in my early rooting days recommended the rice bowl idea. Furthermore the phone doesn't boot into the G1 screen then to bootloader. Its going straight to bootloader. If its a radio problem is it possible to go thru and rename the current G1 radio to update.zip and flash it in recovery? Then the danger spl(which I have all saved on my pc from my rooting my G1). Thoughts? Ideas?
And thanks for the help guys btw
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The rice trick won't help you anymore as there should be no moisture left after all that time. If you can disassemble it, clean it's guts with alcohol to get rid of shorts and it should probably be fine

Geoi1006 said:
Lol I am getting her the mt slide next week lol. And in regards to "she doesn't sound very smart"... My fiancee works in assisted living and doesn't have much downtime. If you really need details(and why would you?) It fell out of her scrub pocket where you'd think it'd be safe at. S*** happens lol no need to say what was said.
My friend who has helped me rescue my phone a couple of times in my early rooting days recommended the rice bowl idea. Furthermore the phone doesn't boot into the G1 screen then to bootloader. Its going straight to bootloader. If its a radio problem is it possible to go thru and rename the current G1 radio to update.zip and flash it in recovery? Then the danger spl(which I have all saved on my pc from my rooting my G1). Thoughts? Ideas?
And thanks for the help guys btw
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Hey dude, sorry about the "she doesn't sound very smart." I was just trying to make a joke but I now realize that it was pretty rude. No need to explain. Also, when i said that, I didn't consider the fact that girls need to sit down to pee.
Now if a dude did that, that would be stupid.

kingkurry said:
Now if a dude did that, that would be stupid.
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LOL. Now you trying to say that girls are stupid?
It is better for you to just say sorry and don't reply again.

kingkurry said:
Also, im pretty sure the G1 goes into the bootloader if there is a hardware failure(like the radio is not responding).
And how the hell did your fiance drop her G1 into the toilet? She better be hot because she sure as hell doesnt seem smart.
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heh i know this smoking hot blonde that dropped her blackberry in the toilet your logic is true cause she is not that smart.
She ended up getting a droid so there must be something ticking up there.

ionic7 said:
heh i know this smoking hot blonde that dropped her blackberry in the toilet your logic is true cause she is not that smart.
She ended up getting a droid so there must be something ticking up there.
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Either that or she buys everything advertisements tell her to

I know an amazing looking girl whos boyfriend dropped her iPhone in the bath after he left it sitting on the side.
Don't always assume that men are smarter than women.

Smoking HERO

Well today I left my cdma HTC HERO in a walk-in cooler at work to stock soft drinks and forgot I left it in there for 2 hours and when I went to power it on immediately after I got it out it started smoking out of the volume controls on the side and immediately shut-down. Boot screen loaded however battery indicator showed to to be all red before shut-down. Battery was around 95% before I left it in the cooler. Firgured I had toasted my phone (well in this case i guess iced it) so I said damn now I got to use my upgrade so it wasn't all that big of a deal however I gave the phone an hour rest and low and behold the phone powered back up with battery around 70% with ROM working normally. Just a little story I figured I'd share.

probably had condensation on the motherboard, lucky you didn't fry it.

Awesome Totaly want to do this with my hero lol

wow , u gotta be really stupid to turn on a phone after leaving it in a place of 99% condensation

True, you shoud let it dry naturaly. Don't put it on the radiator.
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souljaboy said:
wow , u gotta be really stupid to turn on a phone after leaving it in a place of 99% condensation
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People have sketchy moments. You know if your $250 phone had that happen you'd try to turn it on. You wouldn't automatically let it dry.
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souljaboy said:
wow , u gotta be really stupid to turn on a phone after leaving it in a place of 99% condensation
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Wtf is 99% condensation? Anyways, no condensation occurred until he took it out if the cooler and back into warmer, and more than likely moister, air. I routinely take my Hero into and out of storage freezers at work set to -10°F and blast freezers set to -30°F with no issues.
Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Froyo-on-Hero action here!

user7618 said:
I routinely take my Hero into and out of storage freezers
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lol I throw mine in the air alot Was filming one time but on my last throw the back came off and I lost the vid

MacaronyMax said:
Awesome Totaly want to do this with my hero lol
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Me too... Only I want mine to die

Unbootable due to rain damage

Hey all,
Im in a awfull place right now, my droid 3 does not boot up anymore..
This weekend i organised a party for all my friends and with all the hassle i forgot my phone outside and it got rained on for about an hour...
I does turn on in the sense that it emits light from a black screen but then it shuts down again and if its on AC it keeps doing that but never gets to the "motorola" "dual core" logo...
Do you guys need more info? or can't this be helped in anyway?
Btw, im dutch and bought this thing from negri. Ill be traveling the US in about a month so maybe i should just send it in for repairs??? its only a coupe of months old so the warranrty is still valid.. Do i send it to negri or moto??
Thanks for any and all help.
Love, Lodewijk

lolo2k said:
Hey all,
Im in a awfull place right now, my droid 3 does not boot up anymore..
This weekend i organised a party for all my friends and with all the hassle i forgot my phone outside and it got rained on for about an hour...
I does turn on in the sense that it emits light from a black screen but then it shuts down again and if its on AC it keeps doing that but never gets to the "motorola" "dual core" logo...
Do you guys need more info? or can't this be helped in anyway?
Btw, im dutch and bought this thing from negri. Ill be traveling the US in about a month so maybe i should just send it in for repairs??? its only a coupe of months old so the warranrty is still valid.. Do i send it to negri or moto??
Thanks for any and all help.
Love, Lodewijk
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Moto won't repair rain damage, that's not covered under manufacturers warranty. Whether negri will depends on what coverage you have from them. I have insurance on my device through my carrier that covers water damage, but costs me 150$ for the replacement device(which is better than buying a new one)
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Your best bet is to soak your phone in a jar of chemical alcohol overnight. The alcohol displaces the water.

RoadToNever said:
Your best bet is to soak your phone in a jar of chemical alcohol overnight. The alcohol displaces the water.
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I'd use uncooked rice instead

DoubleYouPee said:
I'd use uncooked rice instead
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http://youtu.be/gtyZhwvhqiQ?t=1m32s

DoubleYouPee said:
I'd use uncooked rice instead
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This
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thanks