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Anybody have any tips or suggestions on how to get moisture out? I know people say rice, a hair dryer, or alcohol but i need some good advice ....This is my precious :-(
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Just as you stated.Those are the best solutions."I would avoid the alcohol"
I would use the hairdryer then put it it a bag of dry rice for several days maybe even a week.With the back,battery,sim,and sd card removed of course.
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Anybody have any tips or suggestions on how to get moisture out? I know people say rice, a hair dryer, or alcohol but i need some good advice ....This is my precious :-(
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Avoid the hair dryer.
What kind of water was it dropped into? If it was relatively clean just shake it out pull the battery and submerg it in a bowl of uncooked rice for several days with no attempts of powering it on.
If it was beer or soda or something that would leave a harmful resadue your going to.want to rinse it out with distilled water and then dry it or in rice.
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I dropped my Incredible in the toilet a few days ago and put it in a container of rice for a few hours to remove the moisture, works fine now. Did you immediately remove the battery when you got it out of the water?
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I dropped my Incredible in the toilet a few days ago and put it in a container of rice for a few hours to remove the moisture, works fine now. Did you immediately remove the battery when you got it out of the water?
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Eww.....
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I dropped my Incredible in the toilet a few days ago and put it in a container of rice for a few hours to remove the moisture, works fine now. Did you immediately remove the battery when you got it out of the water?
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Incredibly brown.....
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Yeahhhh it was just water knocked over by my cat while i was sleeping.....problem is while i was sleeping it was on the entire time on the charger....
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I had to fix three of my friend's phones when we went on a rafting trip and capsized in the river.. lol.
I took off the battery covers and removed the batteries, SIM cards, SD cards, etc. then buried the phones in a container of uncooked rice (brown rice actually works the best, I'm Asian woohoo). Then, with a CAREFUL eye, I turned on the oven at the lowest heat setting possible and stuck the container in there for maybe five minutes. After that, they were nice and dry and even now work flawlessly one device was the original Droid, too. And that thing was killed in the river lol.
It is not recommended that you use a hair dryer (not even on the cold mode) to dry out the phone. Using a hair dryer may force moisture further into the small components, deep inside the phone, as the air blows inward. And if it is too warm, it will likely melt them....If you want to try and suck the liquid out of the inner parts of the phone, try using a vacuum cleaner.
Be careful not to hold the vacuum too close to the phone, as a vacuum can create static electricity, which is even worse for the phone.
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Yeahhhh it was just water knocked over by my cat while i was sleeping.....problem is while i was sleeping it was on the entire time on the charger....
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:O and works still?
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Yeah it works the sceen is just super dim even on full brightness
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I would recommend uncooked rice in a container. also, try cat litter in a stocking or cheese cloth placed next to your phone in a container since cat litter is meant to absorb moisture. but i would try just putting it in a bowl of rice (i stress how important it is for the rice to be uncooked) and make sure you immerse the phone in the rice. leave it over night. make sure the battery is out and ofc, that its not plugged in.
i wouldnt use a hair dryer or alcohol.
You could also try desiccant packs (silica gel packs, like what comes in a shoe box), mixed in with the rice. I dropped an iPhone 4 in a bucket of soapy tap water used for cleaning windows and used rice, desiccant packs and very minimal heat from an oven (kept the oven door partially open, on lowest setting, with phone in zip-loc bag of rice and desiccant). The desiccant packs I used were from good ol' Wal-Mart, they are made by Winchester and I spotted them hanging behind the counter in the sporting goods department; they are meant to be used in a 5-7 cu. ft. gun safe, so they were actually as big as the phone itself and could be "recharged" by leaving them in an oven for 5-6 hours on low heat. The "5-7 cu. ft." part excited me, as I was probably using them in a 5-6 cu. in. zip-loc bag..
After all that, the iPhone worked flawlessly, minus water stains under the screen from that nasty, soapy tap water, so maybe dunking it in distilled water is a good idea as the screens on these phones aren't fused together with the outer glass, like iPhones. Best of luck and let us know how it goes/your method!
I would agree with deepsunn.. since you didn't do anything while the water was still fresh on the phone, it's all dried up. I'd actually get some distilled water and just drop it in there, battery and all cards out. Then proceed with your drying procedure. That should get rid of any dried spots or stains on the inside of the glass and on the screen.
Well the past couple of days of having it in rice, the screen now has completely stopped working so i guess its time to pony up and pay my ins deductable
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Just a heads up if you have a white HTC vivid and love it dearly as I did, asurion will only replace it with black ......and if your as pissed about it as I am get with cancellations and they will issue you $120 credit and give u free data for 6 months
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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!
Background: I owned the Nexus S, and Galaxy Nexus as daily drivers.
This is my first glass backed phone - but not until I finally removed the plastic film from it recently, did I realise how problematic it is.
In short:
DON'T LEAVE THIS PHONE ON ANY SURFACE NOT PERFECTLY LEVEL.
I mean, the slightest incline and your phone will slowly make it's way to jumping off the edge.
I had never dropped my phone in the few months since release, and the week I take off the plastic, it has hit the floor 3 times.
Once it did it over the course of a few hours in the middle of the night, from the flat night table next to the bed.
The other day, off a counter ledge in the bathroom.
Just now, from atop the microwave in the kitchen.
Each time, nothing was moving or near the phone, and it fell off seconds or minutes after putting it down. No vibration or anything occured either, which would surely expedite the falling.
If you put this phone down on a not-level surface (ie, anything that would cause a ball to roll) you can watch it ever so gradually slide and move around. I can't even put it on a short stack of 6 pieces of paper on my desk without it slipping off before long. I'm telling you these are surfaces that you wouldn't know weren't level if not for this phone treating it like an ice skating rink. Nothing has ever fallen off of them, previously.
I hate it. I wouldn't change the phone to another, but still. Frictionless glass backing SUCKS.
Oh, and luckily no cracks or damage. So far. But I've learned my lesson and now have to wall it in with other objects it can't move past.
Now i know
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I'm sorry but... IBL.
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Get a screen protector for the back or a nice case
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Get a screen protector for the back or a nice case
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Whilst I recommend a case for pretty much everyone else I know, I'm careful enough to go "naked" and appreciate the phone as designed. It's just an adjustment in this case, and I don't anticipate it falling ever again.
A stupid adjustment I shouldn't have to make, but there you go.
Your physics concepts are fu**ed up,if there is no friction,the phone would be slipping away from your hands every seconds already,go back to school to study man. In your situation,it is called lesser friction.
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In other news, walking on gravel without shoes hurts and standing outside when it's snowing will make you cold.
Yes, it's got a shiny back and yes, funnily this makes it more likely to slide off things.
If it bothers you, get a bumper. I did and it doesn't slide around now. I also bought shoes for the snow and that fixed my feet too.
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davidang said:
Your physics concepts are fu**ed up,if there is no friction,the phone would be slipping away from your hands every seconds already,go back to school to study man. In your situation,it is called lesser friction.
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Hahaha yeah my physics are just so CRAZY. It couldn't merely be my writing, you know: using a word that conveys the relative amount of friction, rather than scientifically correct terminology. Get over yourself.
And whilst we're at it, unless you were somehow holding the phone only by its "frictionless" back, it wouldn't slip out of your hands, now would it? Oh, the irony of your terrible post.
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I'm sorry but... IBL.
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New moderator?
We had plenty of rant threads, no need to open another one.
So yes, thread locked.
I did buy my S4A because I occasionally find myself in/near water and am concerned with getting my phone wet. I never thought about actually using it in the water...until this past Friday. I was at the beach and the waves were pretty big. After playing in them for a bit I decided to take my phone in and get some pics up close and personal with the surf. I grabbed a few selfies when my friend grabbed the phone from me and said he would take some of me. I didn't really want him to, but before I knew it he had snatched it from my hand and started taking pics. A set of really good waves came in and pushed me under. When I came up I heard him yell, "Oh ****, I dropped it!" Thinking he was joking I went over only to find he was not kidding. Because of the waves there was almost no visibility with all the sand being churned up. My heart sank (and my blood boiled). There was a strong rip current and I feared my phone had been pulled out and over from where he had dropped it. We searched and searched for about 40 minutes when I was about to resign myself to having lost my phone forever. Maybe some jellyfish would be making calls on it. Suddenly, out of the corner of my eyes I glimpsed a dark shadow in the murky water and I immediately dove over to it. Holy crap! It was my phone. It was in about 4 feet of water about 15 feet from where it had been dropped. Not a scratch on it and still working just fine. I immediately rinsed it in fresh water and made a phone call. No problems, been fine ever since.
I know some have had issues with this phone's water-tightness, but I am now a believer. I may not take it into the ocean again (or let a friend handle it near water), but I feel comfortable that I could. It was a miracle that I found it after being churned around in the surf for 40 minutes.
I would tell that friend that if he likes his hands to not be broke that he should never touch your cell phone again.
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I would tell that friend that if he likes his hands to not be broke that he should never touch your cell phone again.
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To his credit, he was more than willing to replace the phone. He was also overjoyed that I found it.
Wow that is amazing. I would love to buy that phone as well. However I got stuck on s3. Thanks for sharing.
I never intended to dunk my phone, but like you, I spend a lot of time in and around salt water. I fell off of some rocks over the summertime, and my phone still works perfectly fine. I have seen many phones fall victim to saltwater after only being submerged for a few seconds. These are awesome phones. If only we could get unlocked and get a working inductive charging back . . .
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I've already destroyed two phones probably due to strong humidy, I wonder if this one would last?
Nice! the active versions never really took off here!
All New HTC One (M8) Water Test - Water Resistant?: http://youtu.be/lhwvXTVQoPM
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You want to try it and let us know how it goes ?
Hello no I paid 720 with taxes n shipping
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Uh no. I'm not trying that.
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Looks promising
But I'm not trying it.
Sprint M8
This has been floating around for a couple weeks now. It does very well in the test. Yes.
It has since come out that it is ipx3 certified. Which means it can take splashes.. etc. Although submerging it is more then a splash. All in all, its a good unadvertised feature. But I won't be testing it out myself.
Waterproof and water resistant are 2 completely different things.
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I still don't understand how his camera overheating and running out of space on the SD card made the phone rotate under water.
Haha it didn't make the phone rotate underwater. It caused him to reposition his filming phone so it was filming from a different angle. The underwater phone never moved.
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Haha it didn't make the phone rotate underwater. It caused him to reposition his filming phone so it was filming from a different angle. The underwater phone never moved.
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Amazing that the edge of the sink didn't move at all most of the times but the phone and surface of the water did (the edge of the sink moved 2 times, but in 4 of the phone moves it didn't). The phone in the water was definitely moved and the hand moving it was edited out. Changing the filming phone position wouldn't have caused ripples in the water.
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Amazing that the edge of the sink didn't move at all most of the times but the phone and surface of the water did (the edge of the sink moved 2 times, but in 4 of the phone moves it didn't). The phone in the water was definitely moved and the hand moving it was edited out. Changing the filming phone position wouldn't have caused ripples in the water.
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The bottom of the sink is round, perhaps overtime the phone just settled to the lowest point? Makes sense to me...
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All I can say is, either way, whether the phone was moved or not, it was obviously submerged in water for a decent period of time. It was at least a few minutes at a time. That's a pretty solid statement, although I'm still not brave enough to test it for myself.... I'm sure an iPhone or most other phones would be done after touching water. I had a Blackberry back in the day that fell into a shallow puddle for maybe two seconds. It never worked again.
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All I can say is, either way, whether the phone was moved or not, it was obviously submerged in water for a decent period of time. It was at least a few minutes at a time. That's a pretty solid statement, although I'm still not brave enough to test it for myself.... I'm sure an iPhone or most other phones would be done after touching water. I had a Blackberry back in the day that fell into a shallow puddle for maybe two seconds. It never worked again.
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I'd also like to see if the speakers survived that dunk. I know that many people who got their M7s wet found that everything but the speakers worked afterwards.
Mine surrvived having a little beer spill on it, although it did make me panic a little
Not trying it...
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I put mine HTC M8 into bowl with water completely for about a minute. Only thing I realized headphone icon showed up in notification bar. Also when I pulled out sd card was wet on edges . But SIM card was completely dry. Phone worked and played video under water about 2 inches down. After was taken out I just wiped it with paper towel and works perfectly..... DONT TRY IT! I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR DEVICE.
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I put mine HTC M8 into bowl with water completely for about a minute. Only thing I realized headphone icon showed up in notification bar. Also when I pulled out sd card was wet on edges . But SIM card was completely dry. Phone worked and played video under water about 2 inches down. After was taken out I just wiped it with paper towel and works perfectly..... DONT TRY IT! I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR DEVICE.
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Please get back to us with info about problems that might occur after some time =)
However, the bubbles coming out of the headphone jack are not promising...
my god daughter spilled a whole large hi-c orange lavaburst on my m8... i was scared, sad and mad. It survived without any issues at all. THANK SWEET BABY JESUS