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[Q] help me! broken cappy

hello
a friend of mine decided to go swimming with his cappy in his pocket, i let it sit for about a month now i just tried turning it on and it just sits at the att boot screen. i can not get to recovery but i can still access download mod. i flashed jf6 stock back onto it. and still sits on the att boot screen... what do i need to buy to get this working again?? thanks in avance

man, if its water damaged, i really doubt it can be saved, but it sounds like its the kernel based on what very little i know.

General rule of thumb:
large amounts of water+delicate electronics=bad news.
Sorry to say I think your friends device is toast

holeindalip said:
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a friend of mine decided to go swimming with his cappy in his pocket, i let it sit for about a month now i just tried turning it on and it just sits at the att boot screen. i can not get to recovery but i can still access download mod. i flashed jf6 stock back onto it. and still sits on the att boot screen... what do i need to buy to get this working again?? thanks in avance
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if u r a techie then try to open the phone and clen the mother board and blow some hot air using hair drier...
or if u not a techie then put the phone in jar full of rice...and leave it for a day or 2..and try reflashin..
coz u mentioned that u can get into recovery and odin is recognizin ur phone when u tried flashin to stock..so seems that some issue with internal sd connectivity because of water..

If there's moisture on the screen still you can try what Killer_raj said to try and dry it out, if it's all dry then what Kanji26 said is most likely the case and your friend has a new dive toy for the kids to fetch off the bottom of the pool.

If its been sitting with water damage for a month...probably corrosion has gotten to it.
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Thanks guys i already have it opened up ill try a hair dryer
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Theres this information
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1073929
Don't go commiting warranty fraud now

holeindalip said:
Thanks guys i already have it opened up ill try a hair dryer
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hope that u can bring the life back to ur cappy...
goodluck...
just dont blow too hot air.....
and i hope taht it wasnt ocean water....if it was swimmin pool water..then it might work...
trying doesnt hurt...
but seriously dude..1 month??
what were u doin for so long???!?!
and let us know for sure..whatever is the result...

If you didn't put it in rice and tried to turn it on you probably fried it
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Well....this is what i did guys. I opened phone up and took everything apart and had quite a bit of corrosion.took rubbing alcohol and q-tips and cleaned everything up the best i could hoping the alcohol would evaporate any water left. Put everything back together and fired phone up and bam went straight into recovery.shut phone off download mode and flashed a kernel with cwm and flashed apex 9.2 . Screen is fine with no moisture only problem is when i enable wifi i get a soft reboot but everything else works.
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Congrats brother....
Told you its gonna work....
And thanks that you came back to this thread to update the feedback..
Most of the people do not even login after their phone is back to life.because some if them register just to solve a problem...
anyways cheers!!!
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Wifi may eventually come back
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I took phone back apart and did another cleaning with alcohol and put it back together wifi now works!!
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holeindalip said:
I took phone back apart and did another cleaning with alcohol and put it back together wifi now works!!
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i guess then u shd hit thanx button..coz ur phone is alive n kickin after a swim also

Wow that is amazing it's there anything our cappys can't do cuz I just added swimming to the list
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glad to hear that all worked out. i was going to post the other day that you may just need to clean the phone again as there may still be corrosion but you got it. And i will also be adding swimming to a list of things the cappy can do just to irritate people that pick on my poor phone

And...... The wifi stopped working again i think the wifi is just shot. Ive tried a bunch of different kernels and roms the wifi just errors out after scanning for 20+ seconds. Thoughts??
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Dropped in water

Wife dropped thrill into a puddle phone powers up on occasion but doesn't get past logo then shuts off any ideas
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Best case scenario... battery got drained, go get another one... worst case... fried some circuits, get a new wife... haha jk
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jaysonscott4212 said:
Wife dropped thrill into a puddle phone powers up on occasion but doesn't get past logo then shuts off any ideas
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Did you let it dry out either in in a bag with some rice or with desiccant? Works quite well.
Otherwise, I have put the oven on low and put it in there (on something) or in a dehydrator. Just be sure to remove the battery first.
If there's any moisture still in it, it likely is shorting it out.

Are the water stickers red? You could always warranty it if not.
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Have it in rice now hopefully works water indicator is red thanks for the help
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Just thought i would share a really hopefull story... my sister had a samsung jack windows mobile phone... she went swimming for 10 min before she realized it was in her pocket... hadnt taken it apart or turned it off or anything... got home and everything minus two keyboard buttons was functional... you could see water sloshing back and forth in the screen and it was fine... finally put it in rice and it dried out and still worked fine... another friend uses it now.... haha... there is still hope.. haha
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Aaand it's broken

Yes that's right my less than 24 hour old one is broken. There is a hairline crack that runs from home button to heaphone jack. By the home button there is another small crack too.
The phone was not dopped at all and has been in otterbox commuter, and pretty bc much in my hands all day. I was holding the phone and all of the sudden it cracked. I'm really just at a loss for words and dumbfounded at how this happened.
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Someone maybe got a hold of your phone and dropped it then put it back?
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Just holding it and it cracked? Suuuuure.
Inb4getouttaheresamsung
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Wouldn't want to shake your hand sounds like you have a mean death grip
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I hope you have insurance.
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If you purchased with a credit card such as discovercard, you may be covered by some sort of accidental damage protection.

Pics or it didnt happen...
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I understand it sounds ridiculous, I ran a phone store for many years and heard stories and saw things I wish I didn't. One guy hands me his phone said it doesn't work, I asked if it got wet and he tells me that his cow ate it and then threw it back up again. We go through a lot of purell. I've never had someone tell me it just broke while holding it and trying to take a screen shot, but that's what happened.
I love the phone, it was running without hiccups all day. I don't want a different phone, but I don't want to be looking at a long road of replacements either and I think most of us can agree on that, so I had to share my experience.
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gsxrdennis25 said:
I understand it sounds ridiculous, I ran a phone store for many years and heard stories and saw things I wish I didn't. One guy hands me his phone said it doesn't work, I asked if it got wet and he tells me that his cow ate it and then threw it back up again. We go through a lot of purell. I've never had someone tell me it just broke while holding it and trying to take a screen shot, but that's what happened.
I love the phone, it was running without hiccups all day. I don't want a different phone, but I don't want to be looking at a long road of replacements either and I think most of us can agree on that, so I had to share my experience.
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Lmao.... But teacher... My cow ate it!
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motoelliot said:
Pics or it didnt happen...
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When I get to work tomorrow I will post
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There is the defect, and this is turning into quite the process to have replaced
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gsxrdennis25 said:
There is the defect, and this is turning into quite the process to have replaced
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The way the crack is so hairline and straight it does seem believable some freak pressure point could have caused this. I have a good feeling we won't be seeing any more of these stories though =P

D3luSi0n4L said:
The way the crack is so hairline and straight it does seem believable some freak pressure point could have caused this. I have a good feeling we won't be seeing any more of these stories though =P
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I'm pretty sure it was from pressing the home button, I was having some of the issues with the home and back not working properly. If you are having those issues too I would try to get and exchange while you can, hopefully this is just a freak accident.
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gsxrdennis25 said:
There is the defect, and this is turning into quite the process to have replaced
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That's not a crack in the screen. It looks like a line of pixels went out. Who's replacing it for you? Sprint? Walk into a store and tell them this happened out of nowhere. If you're still within 14 days, they have to replace it.

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eXplicit815 said:
That's not a crack in the screen. It looks like a line of pixels went out. Who's replacing it for you? Sprint? Walk into a store and tell them this happened out of nowhere. If you're still within 14 days, they have to replace it.
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It is the internal LCD that is broken, not the outer glass. Sprint is giving me a fight but they will replace it, just sucks waiting and getting the run around. The more I use the phone the worse it's getting.
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gsxrdennis25 said:
It is the internal LCD that is broken, not the outer glass. Sprint is giving me a fight but they will replace it, just sucks waiting and getting the run around. The more I use the phone the worse it's getting.
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From the picks it doesn't look physically broken at all, it looks like, what someone else said, like a strip of pixels died. So, that could be a bad flex cable or a screen defect. maybe the otterbox was warping the phone? was it a snug fit?

I hate to be that guy, but I'll be the second story of "my screen actually did break and I have no idea how".
I will admit, the phone did take a drop off a couch on to tile; but no screen damage was done, just a slight scuff on the landing zone. That was 2 days ago.
Yesterday i'm out with some friends, doing some gardening at his place, and I pull out my phone and there's a hairline crack from the volume buttons to the home button, I'll update with a picture when I find my camera. And now today, when i woke up, I was using my phone and noticed some stuck pixles on the middle top of the screen. I bought the phone on the third and I'm not sure if this kind of thing should be covered or not; if it's even worht calling or going into sprint?
EDIT: LINK TO ALBUM HERE
I couldn't get the pixle since they are so damn small and i don't have a macro lens for the camera.
I don't even know how it could have happend while it was in my pocket or from the fall(last picture) since it wasn't broken at all that day.
I reveretd to stock rom without SU but we cannot removed the tamper markings if i contact sprint what do i do about that?

I am going to agree and say that is a pixel issue. Glass does not crack like that or a LCD screen unless it is intentionally scored.

felacio said:
From the picks it doesn't look physically broken at all, it looks like, what someone else said, like a strip of pixels died. So, that could be a bad flex cable or a screen defect. maybe the otterbox was warping the phone? was it a snug fit?
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this is what I was going to say... I wonder if the case put some kind of pressure on the phone that damaged it or messed with the ribbon cable? or just bad QC

When charging my phone the plug burnt and melted

Last night I forgot to charge my phone, so I plugged it in on the way to work and notice the charge light went out on the phone and when I checked the plug to see if it came out out was hot and melting. When I got to the job I plugged it in with a wall charger thinking the car charger went bad and it was doing the same thing. I figured I'll turn the phone off to save my battery to transfer stuff to the computer when I get home to take it to sprint, I decided to try it again while it was off and now it's not doing it even now I turned the phone back on.
In running the latest 42one rom no custom kernel, I guess whatever was going on isn't happening because it rebooted now.
Anyone ever experience this issue, now I'm afraid to leave it plugged in when I go to bed if it happens again, there isn't no point in taking it to sprint because I'm not able to show them what was happening.
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josh030181 said:
Last night I forgot to charge my phone, so I plugged it in on the way to work and notice the charge light went out on the phone and when I checked the plug to see if it came out out was hot and melting. When I got to the job I plugged it in with a wall charger thinking the car charger went bad and it was doing the same thing. I figured I'll turn the phone off to save my battery to transfer stuff to the computer when I get home to take it to sprint, I decided to try it again while it was off and now it's not doing it even now I turned the phone back on.
In running the latest 42one rom no custom kernel, I guess whatever was going on isn't happening because it rebooted now.
Anyone ever experience this issue, now I'm afraid to leave it plugged in when I go to bed if it happens again, there isn't no point in taking it to sprint because I'm not able to show them what was happening.
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Really going to claim things melted without posting any pictures?. come on!

felacio said:
Really going to claim things melted without posting any pictures?. come on!
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what reason does the guy have to lie? I don't get it?

jblaze10 said:
what reason does the guy have to lie? I don't get it?
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Never seen this guy around here before so I have to assume he is a Samsung troll until he posts the pic
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FrozenRiff said:
Never seen this guy around here before so I have to assume he is a Samsung troll until he posts the pic
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oh so he is just trying to spread crap. my bad, im so naïve! haha thx!

I was just messing around and wanted to see pics, honestly.. lol
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felacio said:
I was just messing around and wanted to see pics, honestly.. lol
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This is the internet, where everything is made up, and the points don't matter... Wait that's whose line...
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josh030181 said:
Last night I forgot to charge my phone, so I plugged it in on the way to work and notice the charge light went out on the phone and when I checked the plug to see if it came out out was hot and melting. When I got to the job I plugged it in with a wall charger thinking the car charger went bad and it was doing the same thing. I figured I'll turn the phone off to save my battery to transfer stuff to the computer when I get home to take it to sprint, I decided to try it again while it was off and now it's not doing it even now I turned the phone back on.
In running the latest 42one rom no custom kernel, I guess whatever was going on isn't happening because it rebooted now.
Anyone ever experience this issue, now I'm afraid to leave it plugged in when I go to bed if it happens again, there isn't no point in taking it to sprint because I'm not able to show them what was happening.
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I actually did have this happen to me. It was serve melting but it was extremely hot to where it was uncomfortable to touch. I reported it to HTC got a new charger and all has been well since. I was running Bad Boyz and have no idea what the heck happened. I had it charging over night. I'll find the wall piece and upload a pic in the am to show. Hopefully the damage will show well.
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I don't get it?

The OP probably was using the OEM charger, so I think this is a rarity, but a word of caution to everyone: Not all USB chargers are made the same. You should only use high quality OEM charges for your phones, there's no reason to have a fire hazard to save a couple bucks on a charger.

This happened to me a couple of days. I got to work and plugged it in as usual. After a few minutes i noticed the red light went out. I noticed the bottom of the phone was really warm so i unplugged it and the tip of the charger burnt the crap out of my fingers.
I tried other charges and they didn't work and my Mophie won't charge my phone anymore so just like the OP, I ran a Nandroid back-up along with a Titanium back-up preparing to have to swap it out and then having to worry about getting it s-off'd.
As of today, it's charging with another charger but i did scrape the charging port with a needle because it looked like it might have had some char on it.
Fingers crossed!
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Oh and this isn't a "Butterfly" whatever that is; that started happening after flashing ViperOne.
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Here's the pictures of burnt charger, still had problems charging with new charger, getting a replacement phone tomorrow.
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Here's another
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felacio said:
Really going to claim things melted without posting any pictures?. come on!
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There's the pics
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josh030181 said:
There's the pics
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Alright man, fair enough. Were you rooted on a custom rom and kernel tho?
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FrozenRiff said:
Alright man, fair enough. Were you rooted on a custom rom and kernel tho?
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Yea, on 42one Rom with the kernel that's built in that Rom that I believe is stock.
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That's not the OEM charger thus the issue. When I used a cheap charger with my old HTC HD7 it some how was corrupting the digitizer causing the screen to stutter not allowing me to unlock
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allied_jjw said:
That's not the OEM charger thus the issue. When I used a cheap charger with my old HTC HD7 it some how was corrupting the digitizer causing the screen to stutter not allowing me to unlock
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That's most likely attributed to a bad ground on the charger
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benmatlock said:
That's most likely attributed to a bad ground on the charger
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Most likely a bad rectifier that's allowing some noise on the (what should be) clean DC.
Dirty DC will cause all sorts of ugly on a digital device.
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I had a similar problem with my first One. I was charging it on a crappy work computer, and one of the points got zapped. I could still charge my phone from a plug-in, but it wouldn't connect to any computer. $50 later (thanks Sprint), I had a brand new phone. That I may or may not have promptly bricked.
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Found phone in woods won't stop vibrating

So I four d a sprint HTC one in the woods did the whole rice in a bass trick to get the water out. After I got all the water out I plugged the phone in to charge it as soon as I do that the phone vibrates non stop even with the screen off
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weedolo9y said:
So I four d a sprint HTC one in the woods did the whole rice in a bass trick to get the water out. After I got all the water out I plugged the phone in to charge it as soon as I do that the phone vibrates non stop even with the screen off
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If u found it in the woods wet then chances are it's fried already since it was wet for along time and I'm sure more than water went in damaging the circuits.
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weedolo9y said:
So I four d a sprint HTC one in the woods did the whole rice in a bass trick to get the water out. After I got all the water out I plugged the phone in to charge it as soon as I do that the phone vibrates non stop even with the screen off
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FILE 13!