love the website, long time troll..some of the stuff the devs do here is astounding and way over my head
so about 2 wks ago my fam and i decided to turn my SIL wedding trip into a vacation. long story short, i was excited to take our 1yr old in the pool (an hot tub) and took my phone with me..we were in for about 30mins. after i realized what i did i let my phone dry for about a day and tried to turn it back on..upon doing so i heard a sizzling noise coming from the battery so pulled it and let it dry for another 2 days. i didnt have access to rice as i read albeit too late. as of right now my phone turns on, seems to be just as quick as before, connects to 3g, but not to wifi which is has before without any problems however the battery doesnt hold a charge to save its life (takes excessively long to charge and loses it very quickly with minimal use) also both the screen and battery get warmer than i've felt them get before..battery stat ranges from 104-114 deg F constantly.
all at&t said they can do is let me buy a blackbery curve for $199 cuz i didnt have insurance and am not up for renewal til jan 2012..i was thinking about trying a replacement OEM battery to see if that fixes the heat issue..i dont really know about how to fix the wifi issue as i wouldnt doubt that the chips got fried..oh yeah im running stock 2.2, unrooted
i thought i could tough it out with my work blackberry torch til january..but after a week, i just can't stand this thing anymore..does anyone have any ideas/pointers/tips/help they can offer?
thanks in advance.
Your phone was under water for 30 minutes and still turns on? That's wild. Maybe try a new battery?
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+1 on trying a new battery, it more than likely got shorter out and that's whats causing the overheating and poor capacity life. In regards to the Wifi, I would try doing a factory reset or maybe just re-installing the rom altogether. It may sound like a long shot but it might resolve it. Hope you get it working.
All of the above and if it was mine I would start with at least partial disassembly and drying, passive like rice treatment. There are too many tight joints inside that 30 minutes immersion might have moistened.
Try fxr wifi fix from the market
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shabazz18, WTF? How is he going to do that? His phone won't turn on because it was dunked in water.
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shabazz18, WTF? How is he going to do that? His phone won't turn on because it was dunked in water.
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shabazz18, WTF? How is he going to do that? His phone won't turn on because it was dunked in water.
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In fact, it does turn on. Just wont connect to the wifi's.
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In fact, it does turn on. Just wont connect to the wifi's.
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I wouldn't turn on a phone that overheats. The hardware problem needs to be corrected before the software is applied.
I'm just amazed that the thing didn't completely short. I would concur with the suggestion to swap the battery... But I would first partially disassemble it (for airflow) and stick it in a sealed baggie with rice or silica desaicant for a couple of days.
The way I usually handle wet electronics is the same way I handle dirty electronics. Remove the battery and give it a bath in rubbing alcohol which will displace the water and dry in about an hour or two. It ends up clean and dry.
My captivate took a much shorter dip in the dog's water bowl and initially exhibited multiple problems. I left in a container of rice for about 24 hours and it ran like new again. If you haven't tried this already it may be worth a shot. There may still be some moisture in there causing problems.
forgot to check up on this...due to work i havent gotten around to buying a new battery yet. but OEM batteries are about $17 on amazon. but like i said before, other than the overheating/battery issue it works fine evidenced in running pandora for about 3hrs until it completely died. 71% - 0% in 3hrs of streaming music. the rubbing alcohol idea sounds pretty interesting, but i'm pretty reluctant to getting it wet again.
in my head i always assumed the phone would continue to keep working since there are no moving parts internally, just allow the electronics to thoroughly dry..i'll try that app out once i charge the phone up again or finally order a new battery.
Thanks for everyone's input
Rubbing alcohol does not get the electronics "WET" as you would traditionally think of wet. It dries so quickly it's more like getting the electronics alcohol'd.. It only takes a good shake off and an hour or two to dry completely... where water under a chip might take a week or a month to dry.
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Was geting out of the car today, and dropped the phone in to the water.
There is mist under the screen . And now touch screen not working.
Please help, is there any cure for this?
First, be very greatfull you still have a semi-working device!
Second, install MS Voice Command - this should give you some functionality
Third, if you search on the forums for the service manual and and get one of these.
I'm told its a very tricky job but as its a touch phone and you have lost your touch, its got to be worth a try!
usually, when electronic devices get wet, you should immediately remove the battery and let it totally dry before turning it on.
And then send it for repair or diagnostics to make sure it's still functioning. At this point, I think your best bet is to send it for repairs.
Good luck, hope it's still repairable.
turn it off and leave it somewhere warm for a day or two.
then turn it back on.
if it is still not working right you need it repaired.
Take the battery out, and then pack your diamond tight, submerged, in a bowl of uncooked rice.
Trust me I've seen this work miracles before. The rice draws out all the moisture, it's amazing. Then cross your fingers and hope you got that battery out in time...
You'll need to leave it in the rice for at least 24 hours.
Good luck
p.s. Put the battery in the rice also.
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Take the battery out, and then pack your diamond tight, submerged, in a bowl of uncooked rice.
Trust me I've seen this work miracles before. The rice draws out all the moisture, it's amazing. Then cross your fingers and hope you got that battery out in time...
You'll need to leave it in the rice for at least 24 hours.
Good luck
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Before you do this use a hairdryer ( worked for me on my s710)
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Before you do this use a hairdryer ( worked for me on my s710)
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You can cause problems when you cut corners like that... Static electricity is one.
Ok, so far everithing in working (GPS,camera,g-sen,phone,), and the touch screen works again, but the bloody screen... lots of watermarks on it.
I wouldn't worry about that, that's good so far. A mate of mine dropped his i-mate in a pool and he brought it back to life (with the rice trick) and his screen had those watermarks for a week. In fact it looked really cool, the background had this awesome colour to it, and the LCD had this strange depth to it (no pun intended) it was quite funny really, he was upset it went back to normal in one week!
this is probably the same "stuff" you would get on a window. I suspect that you may need to open it up and clear this away from the underside of the screen. Guess you could try some pressurised air BUT this may be too strong for a delicate phone.....
Is it possible to separate screen cover from screen(background)???
Cause its get worse with time. Couple hours ago, mist(water) was on 5% of the screen, and now on whole 80%. Now there is no white color but grey.
Just put your phone in rice.
Leave you phone turned off in some rice for I'd say 2 days, but you clearly want to use it to the extent you turned it on when it was still wet (very bad idea your lucky) so I would suggest you put it in dry rice every night off whilst you sleep and hopefully that will aid the drying process.
Next time take out the battery as soon as you possibly can. Take it apart as much as your comfortable with doing and leave it in rice for a min of one whole day.
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Next time take out the battery as soon as you possibly can. Take it apart as much as your comfortable with doing and leave it in rice for a min of one whole day.
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Yeah i get it, but im on work now and i Need to use it. I cant get rice right away. So i'v put it on the betacam (kind of expensive heater).
Comparing to my friends SE K850 (that was flooded ider) my Diamond is in the good working order, when he flooded his SE - Camera,Speakers = dead ,Phone = no network ,Display = waved. When mine was showing new mail massage from underwater
Anyway thanks everybody for your respond.
I'l wait couple days for screen to get back to normal. will post if something changes.
Right, was unable to find the rice, but rolled in toilet paper for 1 hour. And hey presto now its fully functional, no any marks.
Solved.
But thing near strap holder is red now
So I was idiotically browsing the web on Nexus One with my right hand (I am left handed) in the rain whilst holding umbrella with my left hand. As I was crossing street the phone dropped into wet street.
Once I reached home there was water in LCD. I dried the phone. Now when I start the phone 4 out of 5 times the phone starts but the touch screen and capacitive buttons are not responsive. In this state the phone rings but I can't pick up since the touch screen is not responsive. 1 out of 5 times the phone starts normally and everything works fine.
I was originally running Froyo I switched to latest Cyanogen and back but it hasn't made a difference.
Any ideas?
Best thing to do, is pull battery and put phone in rice for 24 hours, its true, it saved my samsung galaxy just the other week. If yours only plays up some of the time there still may be moisture in phone, try it
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Best thing to do, is pull battery and put phone in rice for 24 hours, its true, it saved my samsung galaxy just the other week. If yours only plays up some of the time there still may be moisture in phone, try it
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Yup.
Or even just pulling the battery and letting the phone dry for a day or so should work. The rice would help to pull the moisture out though.
Yup, bag of instant rice, make sure it is instant rice. Also, in the future, you or anyone, best thing is pull the battery right away, and don't try to power on until doing the bag of instant rice for 24-72 hours (depending on how wet she got).
Water damage kills a phone 2 ways... 1, shorts, thus frying circutis (this is instant kill stuff, and why you should not try turning the phone on right away, rather wait for it to dry out first) And the second is long term corrosion of the different circuits... some, water has no effect on, others will eventually become dead circuits and the phone will stop working. This part can take as little as a couple months, and as much as a couple years, depending on how deep the water got, what metals they used for solders, et al.
Thanks for the help my Nexus One seems to be working fine now
I dropped my phone in the bath tub yesterday. I took it all apart, pulled the battery, took out all the screws and separated the screen from the housing and let it sit in a bowl full of rice overnight. this morning I reassembled everything and it powered on no problems. everything is working except there is very little volume coming from the back speaker. is there anything I can do? Or, am I F'ed and must now live with it.
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I dropped my phone in the bath tub yesterday. I took it all apart, pulled the battery, took out all the screws and separated the screen from the housing and let it sit in a bowl full of rice overnight. this morning I reassembled everything and it powered on no problems. everything is working except there is very little volume coming from the back speaker. is there anything I can do? Or, am I F'ed and must now live with it.
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If still in warranty period. (First year) search for adams water damage indicator altering guide and return for returb.
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it may begin to work right after a while though, how long has it been?
It's been about 36 hours. already I've noticed an improvement. I really wasn't to keen on trying to pull one over on ATT by altering my device. It was my mistake so I'll live with it if I must. However, of the 130+ views his was the only suggestion lol. I'll give it a couple of days, but it's already noticeably louder.
Yea idk not really something you can do a lot about. I dont feel bad about pulling one over on at&t i give them plenty of money.
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I dropped my droid 3 in a pond working in the yard it was about 2 min before i realized it. so i pulled the battery,sd card,sim card and placed all in rice about 7:00 pm 3/17/12 we will see if this works.
Hopefully this is the long sought after key to unlocking the bootloader. Good luck to you my friend.
Be sure to give it at least 24 hours.
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well i gave it 15 hrs and checked it out i didnt see any water. so i powered it up everything is good to go i cant even tell except for some rice dust still on it. i will post if i see any thing.
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Hopefully this is the long sought after key to unlocking the bootloader. Good luck to you my friend.
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Awesome!! was following this thread since last night and was rooting for you
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Awesome!! was following this thread since last night and was rooting for you
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the only thing i know wrong is the screen looks like it has water spots between two peaces of glass. hopping it clears as time goes. there was water condensation show up around the edges after charging for an hr. i took the batter out and left in the sun and it was gone after 3hrs.
i think i should have left it in there the 24hrs
If it ever hapends open the keyboard when you put it in the rice.
Submerged for 2 whole minutes? and it WORKS? You are one lucky guy. If it were me, the instant it was within 5 feet of water, it would have fried.
So does the droid 3 have turn-off protection when it falls or hits water or something? because surely being submerged while being ON should fry it?
Submerging electronics isn't always a death sentence, especially if you pull the battery ASAP. Water is a poor enough conductor to not short things out too bad. It won't work when wet, but you should be good to go if you dry it thoroughly.
Back in the day I was a lifeguard and dropped my phone in the pool at least a half dozen times, the majority of which were intentional for the sake of amusement. I would just take it apart to dry it out really well and it'd be fine.
If you still have visible moisture, I would suggest putting it (sans battery) in a food dehydrator or convection oven @ ~120F for 4-6 hours. This is the best way to dry electronics. You could probably go hotter, but I don't know the maximum storage temperature of this phone and better safe than sorry.
So does the droid 3 have turn-off protection when it falls or hits water or something? because surely being submerged while being ON should fry it?
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It was about 2 1/2 feet of water for 2 min it was on when I pulled it out as I was pulling the bat the power off screen came up.
The water marks I see that look like 2 peaces of the glass are separating or have water spots in between them a slowly fading.
I will keep posting if I find any changes
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The D3's battery seems to have some kind of water protection. I put my phone face-up in a teeny tiny puddle of water on a desk, and the battery compartment sucked it right up. Once the battery got wet, it stopped powering the phone - I could take the battery out and plug the phone in, but the battery was totally useless until it dried out.
Congrats on the not-dead phone!
Hi Guys,
So last night I accidentally put my phone in a glass of water. Only the lower part of the was phone submerged under water ( the charging port and lower speakers) not more than 10 seconds. As i was driving then i forgot to switch off the phone and when i reached home after a couple of minutes, i dried the whole phone using tissues. The main blunder i created was that i didnt switch off the phone and used it for 15 minutes , tested out its speakers and stuff. After some time, the phone showed low battery and i started charging it and in a couple of minutes it turned off. It wasnt charging at all.Also i dried my phone using hair dryer for 5 minutes. Then i put the phone in uncooked rice for the whole night and the next morning i tried to switch it on but no success. But when i tried to charge it a dark red light started blinking and later the charging light started but when i switched on the phone , after the htc logo appeared the phone switched off again. From now i am not able to even charge it , no light comes , i think the phones dead now.
Also when i checked the liquid damage indicator, it hasnt turned red which it is supposed to if your phone is damaged my liquid.
So can i know that what should i do now? I am still under the HTC one year warranty but i dont know whether they will repair my phone or not?
Leave it in the rice for a few days and hope for the best. I would have left it in there longer before trying to turn it on. Damage may be done.....
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2 words, electromagnetic migration. Your phone is effed. You should've shut your phone off immediately then put it in rubbing alcohol for an hour then placed it in rice.
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2 words, electromagnetic migration. Your phone is effed. You should've shut your phone off immediately then put it in rubbing alcohol for an hour then placed it in rice.
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To be precise my phone got wet in whiskey exactly. It got switched off then but after 20 minutes, i turned it on and tried to check it after which the above problem occurred. Isnt there any solution to this problem nw?
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To be precise my phone got wet in whiskey exactly. It got switched off then but after 20 minutes, i turned it on and tried to check it after which the above problem occurred. Isnt there any solution to this problem nw?
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Well alcohol displaces water.... but I'm talking like 90% alcohol. Whiskey is 40% alcohol and 60% water(this varies of course), but in the an electrical circuit being wet in the presence of an electromagnetic field(in your case your phone being turned on having a whiskey/water mix in the circuit), the copper ions in on the board actually start to branch out and cause micro short circuits on the electrical boards. Long story short, if your phone is not working now, the damage is most likely already done.
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Well alcohol displaces water.... but I'm talking like 90% alcohol. Whiskey is 40% alcohol and 60% water(this varies of course), but in the an electrical circuit being wet in the presence of an electromagnetic field(in your case your phone being turned on having a whiskey/water mix in the circuit), the copper ions in on the board actually start to branch out and cause micro short circuits on the electrical boards. Long story short, if your phone is not working now, the damage is most likely already done.
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Now after keeping my phone in rice for more time, i tried to charge it , for the first hour nothing happened but after an hour, the battery icon with a current in it appeared on the screen and the phone is flashing orange light. I dont know what that means? I tried to hard reset the phone but the phone got dead again then again i kept it on charging, and after an hour , the batter icon came again and the light is flashing. What should i do now ?
Thanks for your help so far!
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Now after keeping my phone in rice for more time, i tried to charge it , for the first hour nothing happened but after an hour, the battery icon with a current in it appeared on the screen and the phone is flashing orange light. I dont know what that means? I tried to hard reset the phone but the phone got dead again then again i kept it on charging, and after an hour , the batter icon came again and the light is flashing. What should i do now ?
Thanks for your help so far!
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Ppl keep it in rice box for three to four days straight. You are determined to screw up the phone ? Give it some time in the box and then try to bootup.
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I don't believe what anyone says about rice, rubbing alcohol etc any more after having my old i9300 at ten-twelve meters deep in highly oxygenated salt water for 22hrs (long story :-\ ) and being able to resurrect it after a day of pulling it to pieces (pcbs and all) and washing the corrosion off with just water and a toothbrush the HTC one is the replacement phone I ordered straight after assuming that the i9300 was surely dead lol... So I'd recommend watching some tutorials on pulling it to pieces without damaging the components, cleaning everything inside with just water and a toothbrush and drying with a hairdryer (whilst still in pieces) before reassembling. I bet that it'll work without any problems, just make sure to carefully study the tutorials
Edit: this disassembly video looks pretty good, I only watched a few minutes into it but the guy seems straight to the point. Definitely worth a look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyrxa23OwME
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Now after keeping my phone in rice for more time, i tried to charge it , for the first hour nothing happened but after an hour, the battery icon with a current in it appeared on the screen and the phone is flashing orange light. I dont know what that means? I tried to hard reset the phone but the phone got dead again then again i kept it on charging, and after an hour , the batter icon came again and the light is flashing. What should i do now ?
Thanks for your help so far!
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Dude you really have to stop turning your phone on! Just leave it in there for a couple days. Dont plug it in, don't even touch it. Just leave it for 3-4 days. If it doesn't turn on after that, I think its time for a new phone.
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Dude you really have to stop turning your phone on! Just leave it in there for a couple days. Dont plug it in, don't even touch it. Just leave it for 3-4 days. If it doesn't turn on after that, I think its time for a new phone.
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Lol yea, I don't know why would he turn it on without giving it chance to dry up. Even wet clothes take atleast one day to dry up without heat or dryer. Cheesus. And on top of it you put it up on charge. Lmao, I am sorry but I couldn't control my laugh.
But on serious note leave it alone for few days.
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I gave up hope on the OP after I read 3 "I tried charging it"s.
How hard is it to understand that passing current through a wet device is bad?
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I gave up hope on the OP after I read 3 "I tried charging it"s.
How hard is it to understand that passing current through a wet device is bad?
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lol. Let's not try to be too hard on the OP. I almost turned my phone on after it was in water, but then realized what i was doing in the panic of doing it. How you do it 3 times is a bit baffling.
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lol. Let's not try to be too hard on the OP. I almost turned my phone on after it was in water, but then realized what i was doing in the panic of doing it. How you do it 3 times is a bit baffling.
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Actually i tried to charge it 30 mins after it got wet. Then again the next day after 12 hours. Now from the past 3 days most of the time its in rice. Yesterday i kept it on charging and after an hour, a battery icon was visible on the screen and the led light was blinking orange. Then someone advised me to stop it and keep the phone in rice for more time.
What should i be doing now? Is there any hope left?
Your impatience has killed your phone. You should have let it dry before having electricity move at all through your phone. The water has short circuited that high current of electricity when you tried charging it and has most likely corrupted a lot of the hardware inside your phone.
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Your impatience has killed your phone. You should have let it dry before having electricity move at all through your phone. The water has short circuited that high current of electricity when you tried charging it and has most likely corrupted a lot of the hardware inside your phone.
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Yup. This is right.
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So now the phone only responds to charging after keeping it in rice for 2 more days. There is an orange light blinking and sometimes a battery icon is visible. I am not able to switch on the phone.
Also are there any additional water indicators besides the one in the camera flash which is still yellow?
What should i be doing now?
You probably killed the battery and the board, if you want to still try something else, replace the battery and see if it powers up.
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So now the phone only responds to charging after keeping it in rice for 2 more days. There is an orange light blinking and sometimes a battery icon is visible. I am not able to switch on the phone.
Also are there any additional water indicators besides the one in the camera flash which is still yellow?
What should i be doing now?
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Yes there are water indicators in the phone itself. You cant see them, but they're there. (If you look closely in a disassembly video, you can see it.)
If you want my opinion on this whole thing, just give up. You're phone is dead. Give it to HTC and pay for the repair. I think it's around $150.