in a pond for 2 min trying rice - Motorola Droid 3

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!

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Water damage ruins HD screen

I recently dropped my phone in water. It was only submerged for a few seconds, and the litmus paper inside the battery compartment wasn't even tripped. The sliding door on the USB port was open, however, so I suspect water got in either through that or the headphone jack. The screen is readable..barely. Every other horizontal pixel on the screen is a black line. Can anyone tell me if it's possible to recondition the screen, or if there is any way at&t would be able to tell that it's damaged from water as opposed to a fall? Thanks in advance.
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Give it a few days to let it dry out. Even take the cover, battery, sim, etc. out. Hit it with a blow dryer. Not super hot, but enough to help drive water out of the internal circuits. My fuze fully recovered after like 4 days. Worth a shot.
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If you haven't already read this thread, I'd suggest you do. Same sort of thing happened here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=807606
Quick story, and then a possible solution.
2 years ago I was sitting on the toilet with my iTouch playing Crash Kart Racing. I stood up to finish my business, put my iTouch in my hoodie pocket and leaned over the toilet to flush. *PLOP* Yupp, iTouch in the toilet. Luckily it was in clean water but it was still damaged.
The screen was effed and everything. So I figured I'd just let it dry out. Here's the solution part. Stick your phone into a back of rice. Not cooked rice, raw, hard, rice. Rice absorbs moisture, it acts like a natural silica gel, you know, those packets you get in your shoe boxes. Let it sit for a few days and hopefully all will be well again.
Epilogue..... I still bought a new iTouch cause my battery wound up not lasting very long after that...

took my phone for a dip in the pool

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.

My vivid went swimming....

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.
Drew
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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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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
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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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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] LG 4X in water :(

Hy today I was going home on motorbike and my phone was in jacket pocket ( jacket is motorbike,waterproof,never questioned that ) and suddenly it started to rain and I had no worry cause jacket is waterproof and many time I carried phone in jacket while raining,no problem at all.
But guess what.I arrived home and pulled out phone from jacket and I felt water on TPU case and bottom of case was soaked.
Immiditealy I had heart attack that water found her way into phone electronics and parts and I pulled out battery,sim card and memory card and dried phone with hair drier.
Then I switch battery with replacement battery and started phone.After LG logo apperead I was happy but no so soon,then LG logo flickered after showing it as it should be and black screen on left part of screen and artefact screen on right ( like when your computer GPU dies ) and I hear boot sounds and going into homescreen.
My questions is should I try to dry more or thats pretty much that what I could do ?
Did digitizer died or LCD screen ? Could they notice if I take it to warranty the water indicator like on Iphone ?
Guys please help,give some advice,I'm going insane
Strip the battery from the phone. Put both in a bag of rice. Leave alone in the rice in a warm place for 48 hours. Try to see if it works. If not then there's not much else you can really do.
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Strip the battery from the phone. Put both in a bag of rice. Leave alone in the rice in a warm place for 48 hours. Try to see if it works. If not then there's not much else you can really do.
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Thanks for reply,last time mom washed my Nokia 100 and after leaving it in rice for 24 hours water withdrawed and now phone worsk flawlessly like before.
As I sad,phone turns on,shows LG logo as it should be,I hear boot sound and then one half of screen is black and other half has artefacts.
So my question is what could be damaged ( cpu,gpu,motherboard,lcd screen,digitizer ) ?
After spending 12 hours in rice,my phone works and everything is fine except rear and front camera.
They dont seem to work,they show some kind of artefacts,then it turns for a short period time and laggs and they I get error App has crashed etc.
Should I carry my phone to phone service or leave it for 24 hours more in rice,maybe rice will dry moisture from camera lens/electronics or are both cameras completely dead ?
dokii22 said:
After spending 12 hours in rice,my phone works and everything is fine except rear and front camera.
They dont seem to work,they show some kind of artefacts,then it turns for a short period time and laggs and they I get error App has crashed etc.
Should I carry my phone to phone service or leave it for 24 hours more in rice,maybe rice will dry moisture from camera lens/electronics or are both cameras completely dead ?
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Personally I would leave it in the rice for for a couple of days at least. My old Sony Ericsson took 3 days in rice to get back to full working order following it's short visit to the toilet basin.
You only need the slightest drop of water in the wrong place to create a short, which will cause your phone to act erratically.
I have my fingers crossed for you :fingers-crossed:
thecresta said:
Personally I would leave it in the rice for for a couple of days at least. My old Sony Ericsson took 3 days in rice to get back to full working order following it's short visit to the toilet basin.
You only need the slightest drop of water in the wrong place to create a short, which will cause your phone to act erratically.
I have my fingers crossed for you :fingers-crossed:
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And so it will be.
I wont test out my luck anymore,I'm reliefed that phone even works,WiFi,3G,GPS,games,apps,screen works great only front and rear camera show artefacts and crash
is there any chance that rice will dry out moisture from camera and they'll work normally ?
if cameras are dead,what parts should I order from Ebay ? plastic cover or just camera
this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Digital...e_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item416e0d931e
or this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LG-P880-Opt...K_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item27d278f7b3
or both ?
congrats! i got my phone into water too
i'm gonna put it in rice,
how is it supposed to be put in rice?
direct contacting with rice or can i cover the phone in tissue etc and then put it into rice?
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my phone is accidently droped into a low level bowl of water face down.
almost 25% of phone dipped into water, and as soon as it contacted water i pulled it out and pulled the battery and sim and memory card out.
then i tried to dry it with hair drier for 10 mins,
then i started my phone and it started normaly, but after 1 minute while i was using it, it dimmed and gone to black screen, i instantly pulled out the battery again,, and yet i'm thinking what to do,
do i still have chance of rice trick?
i can't take chance on my phone, i'm not a rich person to afford this phone again
so please reply soon,
thanks
Mr.LOVER said:
congrats! i got my phone into water too
i'm gonna put it in rice,
how is it supposed to be put in rice?
direct contacting with rice or can i cover the phone in tissue etc and then put it into rice?
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my phone is accidently droped into a low level bowl of water face down.
almost 25% of phone dipped into water, and as soon as it contacted water i pulled it out and pulled the battery and sim and memory card out.
then i tried to dry it with hair drier for 10 mins,
then i started my phone and it started normaly, but after 1 minute while i was using it, it dimmed and gone to black screen, i instantly pulled out the battery again,, and yet i'm thinking what to do,
do i still have chance of rice trick?
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i can't take chance on my phone, i'm not a rich person to afford this phone again
so please reply soon,
thanks
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Put in in the rice you got nothing to lose.. But honestly, you made a mistake turning the phone on after 10 min. Rice will hopefully take out the moist.
brunek said:
Put in in the rice you got nothing to lose.. But honestly, you made a mistake turning the phone on after 10 min. Rice will hopefully take out the moist.
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ok, i have put it into rice, directly contacting with rice...
now will pull it out after 3 days?
weather is cold here, and it's not warm, will the rice still take out the moist ?
Yes, keep it for a couple of days..
I dont know, I believe it doesnt matter.
posl'o ja to s mob'tela
brunek said:
Yes, keep it for a couple of days..
I dont know, I believe it doesnt matter.
posl'o ja to s mob'tela
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i hope my phone is alright, i just pulled it out from rice bag and powered it on, and i saw LG logo,
but then i thought to be carefull and pulled out the battery and put it again in rice for another day...
will tell you if it's alive or not after 24 hours more in rice...
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i hope my phone is alright, i just pulled it out from rice bag and powered it on, and i saw LG logo,
but then i thought to be carefull and pulled out the battery and put it again in rice for another day...
will tell you if it's alive or not after 24 hours more in rice...
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If you live in a cold place, keep it in for atleast 2 days.Also stop powering your phone on, it will reduce your chances.Try to get it to somewhere warmer
if you ask me, you made a mistake when you tried to dried it with blower
when it drooped into water, then right away turn it off, battery out, sim and sd out
then try to collect water as much as you can with tissue
then put in on rice, basically bury it in it so that phone is surrounded with rice all around
leave it like that for 2-3 days
then try to start it to see if you had luck to get the moisture out
Rice is a bad idea.
It will dry but the water from everywhere contains salt and minerals.
It will rust everything inba short periodo.
Run to a repair store and they will dissasamble and proper clear parts.
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ok friends,thanks GOD my phone is alright, not a single default in it,
working perfectly, it has been half an hour i'm using it with minimum 800+ processor frequency so that it generate some heat,
everything is wroking,
and i wanna thank all of you for replying and helping... rice is the best method for it.
thanks a lot,
Regards,
The best method is actually to use the desiccant packets that come with electronic equipment, but I'm lucky to get lots of them through my job in case I ever need them. Rice is the best thing that almost everyone has easily available.
I'm glad it's all working, quick action of normally the best bet.
SimonTS said:
The best method is actually to use the desiccant packets that come with electronic equipment, but I'm lucky to get lots of them through my job in case I ever need them. Rice is the best thing that almost everyone has easily available.
I'm glad it's all working, quick action of normally the best bet.
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This Packets also come with shoes ? XD am i right ?
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a nice homemade trick to fix wet devices is, grab a container, half fill it with white rice, from a new package, and the put your device into the rice, of course without a battery and back plate, and the complete the container with more white rice, wait for two days and then, try to turn on your device, it will be completly dryed, i proved with several devices and always works again
yes, rice dried my device completely and I'm using it without any problem now

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