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Dropped Kaiser in Mop Bucket, not working, any ideas?

I accidentally dropped my Kaiser in a mop bucket. I dried it off immediately and took out the battery / sim card to let it air out. After 3 days I left it for 24 hours in a box of clumping cat litter because I was told it can pull the moisture out.
It's now been 5 days and it's doing the exact same thing as it started from the moment it came out of the mop bucket:
1) None of the hard buttons work on the face (green & red phone, start, ok, select, rocker)
2) Power & Camera buttons work but side Buttons on other side do not
3) Keyboard does not respond
4) It randomly beeps and pulls up the phone typing letters into it C D E F
5) It randomly goes to Notes and starts voice recordings that fill my memory
6) The touchscreen and onscreen keyboard work except for the Backspace key
7) The phone soft keypad works also except for the Backspace key
8) It randomly brings up voice dialing
These are my symptoms. It is obviously is a moisture problem, but it hasn't improved at all in 5 days. I was thinking about trying to unscrew things and blow a dust remover in there wherever I can. Is that a good idea or a bad idea? Should I send it for repair instead? What's that gonna cost me? I bought it directly from HTC and don't think it would be covered by any warranty. Should I just be more patient and wait another week? I'm looking for some educated opinions.
Thank you so much for your help!

Its not covered under the warranty and if you send it in they will most likely charge you the full replacement price (~$400 I believe) as they will see it was water damage due to the sticker inside that changes colors when it get wet. Its one of the first things they always seem to check.

htcoveblue said:
I accidentally dropped my Kaiser in a mop bucket. I dried it off immediately and took out the battery / sim card to let it air out. After 3 days I left it for 24 hours in a box of clumping cat litter because I was told it can pull the moisture out.
It's now been 5 days and it's doing the exact same thing as it started from the moment it came out of the mop bucket:
1) None of the hard buttons work on the face (green & red phone, start, ok, select, rocker)
2) Power & Camera buttons work but side Buttons on other side do not
3) Keyboard does not respond
4) It randomly beeps and pulls up the phone typing letters into it C D E F
5) It randomly goes to Notes and starts voice recordings that fill my memory
6) The touchscreen and onscreen keyboard work except for the Backspace key
7) The phone soft keypad works also except for the Backspace key
8) It randomly brings up voice dialing
These are my symptoms. It is obviously is a moisture problem, but it hasn't improved at all in 5 days. I was thinking about trying to unscrew things and blow a dust remover in there wherever I can. Is that a good idea or a bad idea? Should I send it for repair instead? What's that gonna cost me? I bought it directly from HTC and don't think it would be covered by any warranty. Should I just be more patient and wait another week? I'm looking for some educated opinions.
Thank you so much for your help!
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did you insure it?

No, I just payed HTC the $700 or so dollars that it cost without a contract.

Next time be a real man and have your wife do the mopping!

I was installing a DSL line in a utility closet at work and I just got clumsy. There wasn't much water in the bucket and the phone hardly looked wet. I thought for sure it would work fine. When it didn't, I thought that a couple of days of drying out would fix it. I dropped an iPaq full in the toilet once and it recovered fully after about 5 days.

htcoveblue said:
I was installing a DSL line in a utility closet at work and I just got clumsy. There wasn't much water in the bucket and the phone hardly looked wet. I thought for sure it would work fine. When it didn't, I thought that a couple of days of drying out would fix it. I dropped an iPaq full in the toilet once and it recovered fully after about 5 days.
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my friend dropped her touch in the bath and she took the batteries out and put it in a towel and place it on a radiator with a5 degrees room temperature and it worked again

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my friend dropped her touch in the bath and she took the batteries out and put it in a towel and place it on a radiator with a5 degrees room temperature and it worked again
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What temperature? Should I try exposing it to low heat? Maybe a blow dryer?

Wash it with distilled water. The mop water will have been ull of minerals that have now dried on the circuit boards and they are causing shorts.
Then leave all the bits on a towel in an airing cupbpard or similar for 72 hrs.

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Wash it with distilled water. The mop water will have been ull of minerals that have now dried on the circuit boards and they are causing shorts.
Then leave all the bits on a towel in an airing cupbpard or similar for 72 hrs.
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Do I need to take it apart or just rinse the outside in distilled water?

Do you have anything really nice and warm in your house you can set it on (obviously not hot enough to melt it)? Place it in a bowl covered in uncooked rice or plasic baggie with rice. My cable box/DVR, HDTV and also my computer case with that 8800GTX gets toasty.
Do you have an electric blanket/throw/heating pad? If so you can wrap the bowl/phone/rice in that to keep a raised temp over time to help it dry. During the summer most people leave it in their car in the sun for a few days.

There is a disassembly procedure in the Wiki... it's for a modification to the angle of the tilt screen... but it walks you through pulling it apart.
Back in the day, there was a hobby shop located on West Fairbanks Ave in Orlando (near Rollins College). It had a huge rocket on the outside... couldn't miss it. I think you can see it from I-4. Anywho, back when I used to tinker with circuit boards, I used to go there. They have (had?) everything you need to properly clean your board. It's basically the Super Walmart of electronics shops. They have everything there. They had some people who work there that are electronics experts and very helpful also... and can give you advice. Keep in mind, this was a few years ago and I don't know if they are in business still... but that's what I would do.
I'm surprised it still works... I think there is hope, but you don't want to make it worse.

htcoveblue said:
Do I need to take it apart or just rinse the outside in distilled water?
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As per pm - good luck.

BTW... I wouldn't use anymore water. Not a good idea. Yeah, distilled water is theoretically an insulator electronically... until it comes in contact with your hands... or a circuit board... etc. There are alcohol based solvents and aerosol types that will dry immediately. I worked as electrician for 12 years and I've never cleaned anything with water... distilled or not. That's just my opinion.

Denatured alcohol is what I've always used to clean dirty or wet circuit boards. It's cheap and readily available, plus it dries very quickly pulling moisture as it goes.
Just my 2

MAN....that sucks
My son did that to my 8525......thats who I ended up getting the tilt......my dad took my 8525 and had HTC replace the mother board.......I think it's dead...sorry my friend

What about spraying the board with WD40? SHould be able to displace the water, should have done it immediately after you dropped it though

My main question was should I attempt to open it up and clean the board or am I likely to do more damage? I think I'm gonna try the distilled water thing lightly first and see if that helps. If not, I guess I'll try to open it up and clean the board directly with an electronics solvent. I'm not looking forward to that though. I'm no electronics wizard. I'll probably loose the screws.

Do not use WD40. Yes its a water displacement but it will just gunk up the insides. If you did have to rinse the device to clean out containments its best to use alcohol as mentioned (not rubbing alcohol). When I was in the Army we use Trichloroethylene (Trike) .. That stuff was the best before they started banning it.

And for what it's worth my opinion.
Dismantle
Clean contact areas particularly the d-pad and hard keyboard (under the keys).
Use an alcohol based cleaner but I'm not a fan of immersing circuit boards except as a last ditch effort.
Initially I would take out only the ribbon connectors that are essential to dismantling.
Leave apart, use a hair dryer for a while and leave in a warm place (eg radiator top) for a day/two.
Reassemble but without replacing every screw, you may well have to dismantle again.
There are clues to the problem areas in the symptoms you see eg certain letters typing themselves and the phone buttons not working so any "key" areas need thouroughly dismantled.
To be honest from what you describe it sounds hopeful but I'm worried about the phone functions. Ensure the sim card slot is completely clean and dry.
Mike
PS - personally, I would not douse in distilled water or containers of alcohol. Yes, in theory they are safe but as said above they will pick up contamination and spread it around. The problem could get worse not better. Also water and even alcohol can get trapped into microscopic areas and even penetrate multi-layer m/boards and that can take a loooong time to dry and in the mean time can disolve or corrode essential parts.
The WD40 idea above I do not like for the same reasons and also because you'd be left with a film of oil on everything - ok for a car engine not for an 8925!
You either just wait or you clean it by opening up. Cleaning may be the only reliable answer.

After tilt was washed in landry machine

Accidentally, I put my tilt with clothes into the washer when I was doing laundry yesterday. Yeah, it does look much cleaner after one hour's wash with detergent, but I couldn't start it any more. After one day baking on top of the monitor, it was able to boot up, but the device will automatically shut off after showing the message " Sim Door is unlocked and the device will shut down in 10 seconds". I've checked the door, locked and unlocked it, but it doesn't work. Liquid has caused a short?
By the way, the warranty has expired, so I have to fix it all by myself. Would appreciate any suggestions

rubbing alcohol and toothbrush try cleaning the guts

Warranty would't cover this anyway. I'd eBay it as "for parts only" and buy something else. Good luck.

Most cell phones as I understand from a tech...they have "indicators" like small dots for example that change color when introduced to liquid. Quick way to say no to the customer in regards to warranty.

UR2L8 said:
Most cell phones as I understand from a tech...they have "indicators" like small dots for example that change color when introduced to liquid. Quick way to say no to the customer in regards to warranty.
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They're called Liquid Damage Indicators (LDIs). They're behind the battery on pretty much every phone.

Friend of mine laundered her Treo. She let it air out on a windowsill for a week.
She let it sit on a couple of silicone packets she had from a camera box.
(Water WILL evaporate, but soap will NOT. I hope it is rinsed.)
It works fine now. Hope this helps.

zhiheng said:
Accidentally, I put my tilt with clothes into the washer when I was doing laundry yesterday. Yeah, it does look much cleaner after one hour's wash with detergent, but I couldn't start it any more. After one day baking on top of the monitor, it was able to boot up, but the device will automatically shut off after showing the message " Sim Door is unlocked and the device will shut down in 10 seconds". I've checked the door, locked and unlocked it, but it doesn't work. Liquid has caused a short?
By the way, the warranty has expired, so I have to fix it all by myself. Would appreciate any suggestions
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Clean it with alcohol and toothbrush as GuySparkz said.
Best to use is isopropylalcohol, if not in specialized electro shop, you still can get it in pharmacy shop. but it will still not dissolve all parts of soap. You should use demineralised water for this, from gas station. yes water. then alcohol. demineralised water act like sponge to minerals and stuff from soup and regular water.
dissasemble it completelly, bath mainboard in dem. water for an half hour, use toothbrash don't be shy with it, then bath in alcohol half hour, now use toothbrush VERY carefully, without too much power. It could tear smd's away.
you can put it to bath on top of working wash mashine to use vibrations from it.
after bath I am using pressed air to drain and blow away drops which still contain unwanted substance, don't use the one from gas station because it contains condensed air drops, better use straw and blow on it fastly.
use fan during your presence or beware of breathing fumes too much and don't let fumes go to your eyes too. it's irritating.
don't bath battery, LCD, cameras, vibra device, keyboard, speaker and mic. use just brush.
if water get in touch panel, you'll probably need to get a new one.
if battery will stop working in few days, you can open and bath board inside it.
now to just drying method. it's risky, water is not 100% conductive, but rust which will be created after few days is and that could finish it off.
I cleaned plenty of phones & cameras after my friends been rafting with them with 100% success. only one camera which had been only drained and used for another 2 days was really dead.

You may want to try taking the battery out and washing it again with rubbing alcohol. It may sound stupid but soap will conduct electricity as it is an electrolyte albeit a bad one i think, this could be causing the short especially when these devices use such low voltage. Get all the residue off and let it air dry I did it once before with my Blue Angel. Dropped it into a blue toilet when i was deployed and I did that and it worked. And before I get a comments from the peanut gallery... My phone was not sh*$y or blue or anything like that just a phone.

Thanks for all you guys. your suggestions really helps!
In fact, I was going to wash it by alcohol.
Anyway, just want to try one more time before I open it.
It does boot up today W/O any error message, even though you still can see some weird areas on the screen.
It is really amazing!
Just to be safe, currently it was sitting in a big bottle of CaSO4 (moisture absorber), hopefully it can be fully cured.

zhiheng said:
Thanks for all you guys. your suggestions really helps!
In fact, I was going to wash it by alcohol.
Anyway, just want to try one more time before I open it.
It does boot up today W/O any error message, even though you still can see some weird areas on the screen.
It is really amazing!
Just to be safe, currently it was sitting in a big bottle of CaSO4 (moisture absorber), hopefully it can be fully cured.
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One of the reason why using alcohol to clean is good is because it will evaporate itself (and whatever liquid or dust it mixed with) almost instantly when you apply on the surface. It's the best cleaning solvent.
This may also help you for your screen problem: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.14919

After rinsing pack it in white rice for several days, it will suck out all the moisture.

JohnnyGTO said:
After rinsing pack it in white rice for several days, it will suck out all the moisture.
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very good advice

joihan777 said:
Friend of mine laundered her Treo. She let it air out on a windowsill for a week.
She let it sit on a couple of silicone packets she had from a camera box.
(Water WILL evaporate, but soap will NOT. I hope it is rinsed.)
It works fine now. Hope this helps.
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The Treo seems to fair exceptionally well in regards to water damage. My father flushed his twice, both times he had to remove the toilet to retrieve it. He placed it overnight in front of an air vent and it worked flawlessly afterward and has been working for 6 months since it happened.

Water damage questions

Hello,
I recently did one of the stupidist things ever-my tilt was water damaged. It was a whole 3 to 5 minutes before I figured it out. As soon as I realized it I hopped out, removed the battery, SIM, SD card, and wrapped it in a towel.
When I got home I did some breif reading on the ATT forums, some people said that you should completely dissasemble it. After taking out some Torx screws and having no idea how to take it apart, I saw some little "tamper strings" under the cover above the battery and decided to leave it alone.
This was in a residential pool with light chlorine. I read that if you get salt water in it, you should rinse it with distilled water, but I'm not sure if I should do that now?
It's been about 24 hours since it happened. It is currently sitting in a plastic bag with several silica gel packets. Luckily I can't see any water behind the screen.
The most interesting thing is that the little moisture indicator hasn't really changed. When I got it (refurbished from ATT) it was white with a tiny hint of pink at the very top. It doesn't look any different now. But I could see how a very grumpy ATT employee could mark it as water damaged.
How long should I wait before trying it out again? Should I discard the existing battery and buy a new one? Any other advice?
I would really appreciate your help. I know that there is info out there but I didn't see any that specifically dealt with chlorine and also I was wondering what you all thought about the water sensor.
Thanks, have a great day.

I don't pretend to be an expert, but I would not allow it to "air dry" because of minerals and rust setting up. I would use compressed air to force the moisture out, followed by a blow dryer to clear up any residual moisture. I'd then let it sit in a nice sunny window for a while, just in case. Never dealt with it in a phone, but this is the method I've used for other electronics, including a Nintendo DS. Sometimes successful, sometimes not. I think it really depends on the initial short.

Thanks for your response. It's not drying in open air, it is drying inside a small ziploc sandwich bag along with a three silica gel packets. Are you suggesting that I take it apart and then blow it out with the compressed air? Seeing as my water sensor hasn't really changed much color I'm hoping there's a sliver of a chance I might get a help at an AT&T store.
How long do you think I should wait before giving it a try? Do you think the battery I have is safe to use?

You are on the right track:
http://www.foxnews.com/video/index....t=3475797&referralPlaylistId=search|cellphone

Well sadly after 4 days drying out in the silica gell, I put the battery in and right away the LEDs at the top were flickering on and off-blue, white, green, etc. Then, I pushed the power button. The vibrator buzzed lethargically but nothing came onscreen.
Now when I plut it in I get the dreaded "red light."
I tried to start opening it up, but I couldn't even get that cover above the battery off. I don't want to damage the plastic even though it's out of warranty.
Any suggestions on places to get repair? If it would be under $100-120 it would probably be worth it to me to get it fixed.

you do not need to take it apart, dip in rubbing alcohol (prefereably a high percentage) then let sit for a while, depending on the amount of water you will need to soak or longer or several times. using a toothbrush after soaking can help.

No -- don't soak it in anything -- you'll get fluid inside the touchscreen.
Better to let it dry then try it -- and if it still doesn't work properly take it apart and clean each piece.

Check out www.ppctechs.com they did excellent work on both of my Tilts.

Wow they are expensive! $60 just to diagnose probably not going to be worth it. Anyway, I think I'll just wait another 3-4 days and then try it again. I'm a little wary about taking it apart cuz I can't seem to get the hang of it, but my warranty is over anyway so what's to lose?
@noodles21o2, do you mean to take it apart before soaking and brush the inside?
Thanks everybody for your suggestions.

no, just dip the thing in rubbing alcohol. it is proven to work...which is because alcohol is highly volatile. will absorb the water and evaporate much quicker. the brush is for if that doesnt work completely and would have to then take it apart. and worst case senario...it still doesnt work

before trying the alchohol thing, I plugged it in with the battery in. for about 10 seconds the orange lights up, but then switches to blinking which I haven't seen before. when i try to boot it up, it buzzes as normal but the LCD doesn't come on. then it just randomly buzzes likes it's trying again after a few seconds. this is after 5 days.
this is better than when I tried it after 3 days-it was red when I plugged it in, then when I tried turning it on all of the LED's flashed randomly.

I am going to suggest that you follow the advice of the guy who said submurge it in rubbign alcohol.. You really hsoudl do it right away... it will prevent minerals and otehr corrision inside it that will ruin it, the alcohol will displace the water inside, and as you have probalyl noticed if you ever spilt any rubbign alcohol, it evaporated very quickly... It is better to do it sooner than later before you get rust and other currosion inside it

Well I bit the bullet and submerged it in isopropyl rubbing alchohol in a covered plastic container. How long do you figure I should leave it in there?

chambo622 said:
Well I bit the bullet and submerged it in isopropyl rubbing alchohol in a covered plastic container. How long do you figure I should leave it in there?
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generle rule i follow is to let it sit there about as long as it was in the water, probably longer. though by turning it on you may have screwed it, so good job
You should have just listened to me in the first place.

Well sadly I didn't even get in into the silica gel until about 6 hours after the initial submission as I was far from home. Unfortunately this probably will be a lost cause, had I had better luck and followed procedure immediately it probably would have been fine.
I left it in there for about 30-40 minutes, now it's drying. Quite a bit of the liquid got behind the screen. But I'm pretty sure the screen is shot anway. This poor thing will probably end up on ebay unless I'm insanely lucky. But thanks for your help I appreciate it.

I decided to take it apart to see if I could dry out the screen faster that way. Anyway there was a lot of corrosion on the screws, plastic, etc. in the battery compartment, but as I got further in, it didn't look too bad but definitely not new lol.
I think I'll put it together in a few days and see if anything has changed. Not sure if its worth spending $$ on a new screen cuz if that doesn't work I don't know how to fix anything else.

Rubbing alcohol is good if you can get good air supply to the parts, which in this case, you weren't. High purity alcohol does dry quickly with little to no residues, but it also wreaks havoc on ink, glues, etc. I would have NOT gone with the alcohol dip. If you were able to disassemble it, then I would have gone with the alcohol/canned air route.
Also, silica gel packets only absorb water, they don't "refresh" once they dry (to a certain extent). Consider filling a ziplock bag with dry rice, and then sticking your phone inside. This is actually a very effective way to absorb moisture that continues to work, versus silica gel packets which decrease their absorbancy as time goes on, especially in a sealed ziploc.
If you are seeing corrosion inside the phone, you're most likely SOL. The fact that the phone was ON when you jumped into the pool greatly decreases your chance, as the water likely had time to get into the phone while you had electricity running through the circuit(s). At best, you can now try and clean the board(s) with a good quality circuit cleaner (not just rubbing alcohol, it will likely not touch any corrosion).

S Pen drop into water !!! Help solve

Hi guy, jusy now my S Pen accidentally drop into water, now the problem is the S Pen is very sensitive, when my S Pen haven't touch and far betwwen 0.3-0.4mm to the screen, the screen auto detect it and written...it is annoying~
Anyone have great solution to solve it?
Very appreciate your helping as well...
Tq
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Let the pen dry fully before using it on your Gnote

Try a hair dryer on low heat. I rescued a phone that had dropped in water that way!
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be lucky that it wasnt the note itself wait and hope, or you need to buy a new one

leong19921992 said:
Hi guy, jusy now my S Pen accidentally drop into water, now the problem is the S Pen is very sensitive, when my S Pen haven't touch and far betwwen 0.3-0.4mm to the screen, the screen auto detect it and written...it is annoying~
Anyone have great solution to solve it?
Very appreciate your helping as well...
Tq
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Grab a container and fill it half way with rice. Dried rice ... then put the pen in the middle of the container and fill it up to the top with dried rice. What happens is dried rice sucks out the moisture out of devices. My buddy fixed his IPhone this way. Hope this helps you. Make sure that the container doesn't have leaks otherwise rice sill absorb moisture out of the air instead of the pen.

Just buy a new one, if can afford to but the Note and Im sure 20 bucks is a bargain.

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Try a hair dryer on low heat. I rescued a phone that had dropped in water that way!
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marlip said:
Grab a container and fill it half way with rice. Dried rice ... then put the pen in the middle of the container and fill it up to the top with dried rice. What happens is dried rice sucks out the moisture out of devices. My buddy fixed his IPhone this way. Hope this helps you. Make sure that the container doesn't have leaks otherwise rice sill absorb moisture out of the air instead of the pen.
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blue ribbon for colin!!! great job and the right thing to do...a fan will work too in some cases...as long as its moving air it evaporates the liquid faster....
not so much for marlip... rice is 100% a myth.... and no i dont care what you have read, its wrong... if the rice is not touching the liquid it is not absorbing it... sure it picks up some evaporation as it evaporates on its own(no help from the rice i will add again) but it is doing nothing but getting rice dust in areas it doesnt need to be in... moving air people.... whether it is warm or just a fan...moving air will evaporate liquid faster than non moving air.... bag of rice =non moving air.... and again if the rice is not touching the liquid it is not absorbing it...just the normal evaporation that would happen in a container without the rice is all that is happening..
not looking for a fight just trying to help people fix things the right way... ive been repair tech for 20+ years and revived thousands of phones and revived thousands that werent revived by rice... so i do have a clue...
btw if itas a phone just drying it wont fix it...there will be corrosion on the board, and like rust corrosion doesnt stop until you stop it...it may work for a while but it will start getting quirky and issues will arise so it needs cleaned and treated too...

I think i will have to agree... Air circulation will help much more than rice. I look back at my first mobile phones and remember how many of them got soaked and i had to unscrew them apart and just leave them in front of my "ULTIMATE HI-POWER USB FAN" live long nokia 3310
So my opinion bro just look for an s-pen dissasembly guide, follow it carefully, leave your s-pen in front of a fan and forget about rice... Just because ur phones made in asia dosent mean the regions main dish will fix its problems... Will be silly if i poured beer over my BMW's scratches to make em dissapear
Good luck with you s-pen mate!!! Hope to see you drawing in no time
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Leong, I posted a long time ago about how to address a water incident. This is the best tried and true method :
If your phone gets dropped in water immediately remove from the water,
Remove the battery as quickly as possible Then
Dry off the best you can, if you can open the unit up (you have the skill to do so then do so)
Then immerse in 91% Iopropol Alcohol (200proof drinking alcohol is actually better but rarely can find reagent grade drinking alcohol)
The reason for doing this 1st is the water molecules bind to the alcohol which immediately limits the potential damage. Then, after a few minutes (3-15 min depending) then dry off with paper towels and q-tips the best you can and then
Either use a fan (hair dryer) on it for a time and then put in rice or Millet and leave for a day or 2. Then use the Hair dryer to blow off any dust. reassemble and test, most the time you will be successful, it all depends how bad the incident was and how fast you got the battery out of the phone.
This is the standard way of addressing a water incident in underwater photography. I have done this personally more times than I want to admit, I do underwater photography and you can imagine the panic you get when your $3000.00 camera /housing starts to get a leak in the ocean @ 90 feet underwater, worst part is salt water destroys the coating on your lenses, which is insult to injury.
Either way the important thing to to be patient and make sure it is totally dry (ergo 1-2 days) Also storing it in the grain is best @ 75-85 deg F doesn't need more heat just higher than the 60's deg
I know everyone always says OMG putting a electronic in Alcohol..... read up on the science/ chemistry... and you will find this is pretty normal thing as long as there is no battery or power source connected to the item.
Hope you fix it
leong19921992 said:
Hi guy, jusy now my S Pen accidentally drop into water, now the problem is the S Pen is very sensitive, when my S Pen haven't touch and far betwwen 0.3-0.4mm to the screen, the screen auto detect it and written...it is annoying~
Anyone have great solution to solve it?
Very appreciate your helping as well...
Tq
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Can't we all just get along?
There is no constructive purpose for name calling, folks. kawgirlval69 stated in her post that she was not trying to argue with anyone, she was just trying to help. Nobody really cares what will or will not work in theory. As compelling as that science lesson was I always prefer real-world experience to theory.
Last night my SGN went swimming in the hot tub and my daughter told me to burry it in an airtight can of rice (which I did using silicone sealant). By the way, I was thinking the same thing another poster suggested (if only it was only the S-Pen that fell in!)... Anyway I quickly dove in head first after it (forgetting about the wireless headphones that were around my neck) and eventually emerged with the device, although not until after it had sunk all the way to the bottom! Immediately I ripped off the back and pulled the battery, then shook as much water out of all the ports as I could. I used a hand dryer for once over but knew that wouldn't help with any of the water deep inside the device so I took my daughter's advice and buried it inside a sealed can of rice for 18 hours. I would have disassembled the device immediately but I had time constraints due to work obligations so I hoped that the rice would do it's job.
The first chance I got this afternoon I pulled my phone out of the rice and took it apart. There was water EVERYWHERE inside -- big puddles in every nook and cranny! In fairness I can't say if there would have been more or less water at that point without the rice, but that is all academic considering the fact that leaving ANY standing water on electronic components for that much time is a bad idea due to the corrosion factor that another poster mentioned, corrosion I noticed already developing on a few metal brackets and such.
After complete disassembly and thorough drying (with said hand dryer) of each individual part I cleaned the slightly corroded areas and put the device back together. I fired it up no more than an hour ago and so far everything seems to work fine.
As for the S-pen, if there's a way to disassemble it and thoroughly dry it by hand I would do that, or just wait for it to dry on its own which may take several days. As yet another poster suggested it might be worth it just to buy a new one if you can't get that one working... and just be glad it wasn't your phone you dunked!
Oh, and if any are curious, I may have saved my phone but my wireless headphones didn't make it (sniff).
[edit] Apparently the name-calling post was removed? Anyway I appreciate Oka1's reply -- I didn't even think about using alcohol but that's actually a great idea! A bit too late for me now but I'll have to remember that for next time.

@ oka... good way to do it... just a tip from experience.. you dont need the millet or rice after... air dry or fan or etc... overnite will evaporate everything doing things as you described... just saving a step....
@ajax... thank you for actually reading what i wrote.. thanks for having my back...

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blue ribbon for colin!!! great job and the right thing to do...a fan will work too in some cases...as long as its moving air it evaporates the liquid faster....
not so much for marlip... rice is 100% a myth.... and no i dont care what you have read, its wrong... if the rice is not touching the liquid it is not absorbing it... sure it picks up some evaporation as it evaporates on its own(no help from the rice i will add again) but it is doing nothing but getting rice dust in areas it doesnt need to be in... moving air people.... whether it is warm or just a fan...moving air will evaporate liquid faster than non moving air.... bag of rice =non moving air.... and again if the rice is not touching the liquid it is not absorbing it...just the normal evaporation that would happen in a container without the rice is all that is happening..
not looking for a fight just trying to help people fix things the right way... ive been repair tech for 20+ years and revived thousands of phones and revived thousands that werent revived by rice... so i do have a clue...
btw if itas a phone just drying it wont fix it...there will be corrosion on the board, and like rust corrosion doesnt stop until you stop it...it may work for a while but it will start getting quirky and issues will arise so it needs cleaned and treated too...
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I know that this thread is a little long in the tooth, but I thought I might add this: a mom and pop company called CPR+ (cell phone rescue) uses the following protocol to repair water damaged phones:
1: Place the phone in a hermetically sealed container with long grain brown rice: the atmospherics inside will naturally pull moisture from the device into the drier air in the container.
2: Replace corroded parts and hip joints on the logic board, and glue.
The rice doesn't work because its rice...it works only when placed in a sealed container by transferring moisture from the device to the air in the container. The rice is there to absorb water from the atmosphere...not the device directly. A zip local bag will work too.
A friend of mine is a son of the family who owned the store. He also made a living for two years buying water damaged iPhones and reselling them after using the rice method.
I've saved two of my phones, my fathers phone, and my cousins Droid this way. So far I'm 4-0. Three out of four of those devices, others tried using a hair dryer, a fan, and just leaving them out for 3 days-- 7 in the case of my dads Motorola Tundra. The Tundra wound up with a seeping battery after a hair dryer was brought to it. In most cases I'd just buy a new battery, regardless.
3 days in a zip lock bag--untouched for the whole period, ressurected one phone after the first try, and the other 3 phones after other methods were tried.
As good as anecdotal evidence gets without a double blind test, dontcha think?

The pens are actually very resilient. I had an accident involving my pen and the toilet (don't ask), by necessity I immersed the whole pen in a cup full of regular alcohol, wrapped it in a tissue paper for a while to let it dry, and it works just fine. I had to immerse it several times in alcohol before I felt somewhat comfortable with using it again.

I left my wife's iPhone in a bag of rice on a mildly warm radiator for 2 days. It worked.
However, using a hairdryer seems to make a lot of sense. You want to get rid of the water asap. Not leave it slowly evaporate like I did.
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Just buy a new one buddys

I droped an old nokia in water once.
i followed the same procedure of immidiately removing from water and removing the battery as soon as i could.
Then I just took the entire thing apart and wiped it clean with tissues. Then i just kept it in the sum for abot 15 mins (depends on how strong the sun is). once every thing was dry and seems to be properly cleaned. I just took some rubbing alcohol and cleaned it once again. Dats it.
Assembled every thing and voila!! :fingers-crossed: every thing worked. Not sure how advisable it is to keep electronic components in the sun, but it worked well for me.
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Hope this helps someone in need :fingers-crossed:

Well, the S-pen from my Note 10.1 in 2014 not only fell in the water, as it was washed along with clothing. Once you find it inside the machine, to shake to get the water with soap and became a wash in running water. After this, I used a blow dryer for a few minutes and let her into the compartment in the Note for 2 days. After this, the pen started functioning normally ... would be lucky? rs

leong19921992 said:
Hi guy, jusy now my S Pen accidentally drop into water, now the problem is the S Pen is very sensitive, when my S Pen haven't touch and far betwwen 0.3-0.4mm to the screen, the screen auto detect it and written...it is annoying~
Anyone have great solution to solve it?
Very appreciate your helping as well...
Tq
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I am your first thanker. However, that is weird.
I think that the water causes a short circuit in the pen which lets it think that there is pressure.

[Q] Saliva may have partially impared screen

Hey all,
To keep a long story short, saliva (from my 1 year old daughter) got on/in my phone and now part of the screen does not work. When I say "does not work", the phone is mostly functional, but if I try to scroll through forums or menus then it will try and select some of them as I scroll. Also, some of the onscreen keys don't function properly when using the keyboard on the side. And, the swype does not work.
I did turn my phone off and leave it in a bowl of uncooked rice over night, but that didn't seem to fix much. I even went to the length of re-flashing my ROM and wiping data/cache.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! (I am not afraid to take my phone apart)

Rice is a little to big to get into the nitty gritty of the phone and really dry it out, it may be too late by now but a more thorough way to dry out is to, Take the phone apart, get a q-tip dipped in rubbing alcohol and go over the entire phone. The moisture mixed with the alcohol with evaporate much much faster.

studacris said:
Rice is a little to big to get into the nitty gritty of the phone and really dry it out, it may be too late by now but a more thorough way to dry out is to, Take the phone apart, get a q-tip dipped in rubbing alcohol and go over the entire phone. The moisture mixed with the alcohol with evaporate much much faster.
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Any specific parts I should focus on primarily? I was thinking that the issue may be where the screen cables connect to the mobo.

That's a good assumption.... going over the entire phone will cover all those bases.
Like i said it could already be too late. Good luck man.

Just got done cleaning the internals.. Same spots on the screen are not responding correctly. Looks like it's time to hit up e-bay for a replacement

That's what it sounded like.
But I wouldn't do alcohol wiping. I'd leave it in clothes dryer.
For your next phone pls get a case and screen protector.

bravomail said:
That's what it sounded like.
But I wouldn't do alcohol wiping. I'd leave it in clothes dryer.
For your next phone pls get a case and screen protector.
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Have both a screen protector and case. I heard clothes dryers are bad news for phones though.

Demonic240 said:
Have both a screen protector and case. I heard clothes dryers are bad news for phones though.
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It is as the dryer would probably not only break the phones screen but can shake around the hardware as well. Rice, or a hair dryer set on low is the best bet for drying out phones.

You guys really need your sarcasm meters checked...

I probably do right now. I didn't get off work until two hours ago. Will try better tomorrow haha.
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so-ooo. hair dryer? really? it melts plastic last I saw.
Clothes dryer was bad call, so I retract. May be leave it in furnace room? Stuff gets dry there pretty quick.
I liked sarcasm meter comment. Made my day!

bravomail said:
so-ooo. hair dryer? really? it melts plastic last I saw.
Clothes dryer was bad call, so I retract. May be leave it in furnace room? Stuff gets dry there pretty quick.
I liked sarcasm meter comment. Made my day!
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Yeah.. down south here we don't have furnace rooms
I completely disassembled my phone last night (sans removing glass/lcd) and used rubbing alcohol over all the ribbon connectors. On the plus side, I didn't screw anything else up... on the down side though, still have that nice dead zone on my screen.
Now to either buy a replacement off e-bay or try and pilfer my brothers Infuse that he soft bricked until my contract is up in June.

Ended up fixing my brothers infuse. Nice phone, but I'm going to miss ICS
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