I just bought this phone today it rained strong and I kept in my pocket and saw that there were some drops on the screen and behind it was a bit 'but just a little' wet, now when I try to turn the screen is completely black, only the lights of the buttons turn on, if i press the volume button i hear the volume sounds but the lcd remains like turned off no retroillumination, nothing! Of course i cannot enter in download/recovery mode, i am desperate i have bought this phone few hours ago!
Now,quickly remove battery, sim, micro sdcard, everything you can remove and put it in dry place to dry.
*DO NOT TRY TO TURN IT ON!*
this may cause electric schocks which damages phone
Let it dry a FEW DAYS.
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I had exactly same situation when my phone got wet. I removed also motherboard and other stuff. It didn't worked, so I ordered new screen for 100euros.
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i will take it to the samsung point in my city it should be in warranty...
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Here's what is going on...
My Galaxy S I9000 (Bell Canada) was water damaged, after being dried for many days it turned on, but the battery almost immediately drained. I left the phone and forgot about it. Bought a new cheap phone without a SIM.
More recently I got a new battery for it and it turned on and was working great, staying charged and everything. When I went to the service provider to get a new SIM for it, we powered down the phone, pulled the battery and SIM card and put the new SIM in followed by the battery. Afterwards the phone would not power on, but the two face buttons on either side of the 'Home' button lit up and would react to touch. I tried removing the battery and SIM a few times and would get the same result.
After bringing my phone home and leaving it with the battery out for a few days, I thought I would try it again. It powered up again as if nothing was wrong. To test it again, I pulled the battery and SIM, replaced them, and my black screen/won't turn on problem returned.
Every so often it will power on and be useable. It is recognized by Kies, I've flashed it to firmware 2.3.4.
I'm looking for any helpful suggestions for what might solve my problem. I'm wondering if it's a hardware problem and short of isolating the part of the phone that is faulty and replacing it, the phone is toast.
Thanks for your time, and I apologize for the length of my post.
My friend has dropped the SGS into a pool before. Problem was fix after buying a new battery.
Either: Damaged screen + Contact. Or the reaction with water and the battery. hydrogen gas prevents screen from connecting to main-board.
It still turns on occasionally, and when it powers up, it's as if nothing is wrong. Screen works, displays everything fine, colour is crisp, screen reacts to touch. The big problem is it won't turn on all the time. Would what you said still explain this?
tacotbone said:
It still turns on occasionally, and when it powers up, it's as if nothing is wrong. Screen works, displays everything fine, colour is crisp, screen reacts to touch. The big problem is it won't turn on all the time. Would what you said still explain this?
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The only thing I know (assuming the screen or motherboard is 100% functioning) is hydrogen gas being present. You might know TV remote with old battery casually respond to presses. After cleaning contacts it should work again.
I disassembled the phone and cleaned all the contacts on the main board with rubbing alcohol, I did not do anything to the screen though. Should I try taking it apart again and breaking it down further? (ie. separate the screen?)
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I disassembled the phone and cleaned all the contacts on the main board with rubbing alcohol, I did not do anything to the screen though. Should I try taking it apart again and breaking it down further? (ie. separate the screen?)
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No, I am starting to think it's a hardware fault if that didn't work
Hello,
Yep, another noob with another dead phone!
I was swimming at the local waterfall with some friends and as you do with a waterproof phone, I was showing it off in the water. Anyway it was working fine till I put it in my pocket. When we left I pulled it out to take a photo when I realized it wouldn't turn on! So I looked at all the flaps and found water had entered in the headphone and USB jacks! (As indicated by the pink strips) Also I could see water droplets on the inside of both camera lenses and the flash. As I was a couple of hours away from home I opened all the flaps and sat it in the map holder of my car with the air vent directed to it to try and dry it out somewhat. Once I got home I put it straight in a bucket of rice where it sat for 2 days.
So today I took it out of the rice, all the water droplets had vanished and the notification LED was on and red. So I looked up what this meant and came across "SDS" so I tried the Power button + Volume up solution. The phone did vibrate 3 times like the guide said but the phone didn't turn on... at this stage I had to go to work so I left the phone on charge will I was at work. On my brake (A good 5 hours later) I came home to find the notification light had changed to blue, So I tried the SDS combo again and this time the phone vibrated once (The part where you let the power button go) but then did nothing... The notification light went out and was flashing red whenever I tried the SDS combo. So then I tried the Sony update tool, but the phone doesn't do anything when plugging it into the computer so that didn't work.
So the current status of the phone is that it's dead, only thing it will do is flash the notification light red when trying the SDS combo, but now it's not even vibrating at all... The light flashes twice then there's a slight pause, then 2 flashes again if that means anything.
Any help would be much appreciated
Put te Xperia with all the flaps open in a jar closed full of rice for 1 week... This will help you to dry the Phone... Dont try to charge it or try to turn on !
I think the phones dead
Well, water damages the actual hardware. Nothing you do can repair that damage, especially as you powered up the phone afterwards which probably destroyed some components inside the phone.
Take it for repair.
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if you would have read the manual you would know its written there
DO NOT PUT PHONE IN THE WATER
a couple of days ago my phone got a little wet. so it was not turning on at all. just the back and home buttons were flashing. today after a couple of days not using the phone, i held the power button for 10 seconds and the screen lit up again. everything seemed to work. but as soon as the screen goes back to sleep it will not turn again unless you hold the power button to reset the phone. now i noticed that even though the screen seems to be off, it's actually on and the backlight for the LCD screen isn't on. i noticed it after looking at an angle and it seems to work just fine. you just can barely seen anything. is there a way to get this working without having to send it back to HTC?
Maybe there's still residual water in the phone? When I dropped my phone in the toilet about a year ago, I put my phone in a big bag of rice (only about $2-3) and that helped pull all the excess moisture out of my phone. Worth a shot anyway!
Hello!
I have a really weird isuue with my SP.
Since last night, it started to vibrate non-stop. For the whole night, and it is still vibrating now, even if it is turned off.
I did a factory reset and it failed to solve the issue.
Also I have tried to repair with PC Companion, failed.
I should probably add that 1 and ~2 weeks ago my phone suffered some water damage. I fell with it in the sea. I was keeping it in a thin fabric bag, and it got wet. Not very wet, and I immediately turned it off and let it dry.
It worked well. Until 1 or 2 days ago when I noticed some short random vibrations, but I didn't think it was that bad.
And now it is vibrating constantly.
Please help.
Thank you.
AnnaDee said:
Hello!
I have a really weird isuue with my SP.
Since last night, it started to vibrate non-stop. For the whole night, and it is still vibrating now, even if it is turned off.
I did a factory reset and it failed to solve the issue.
Also I have tried to repair with PC Companion, failed.
I should probably add that 1 and ~2 weeks ago my phone suffered some water damage. I fell with it in the sea. I was keeping it in a thin fabric bag, and it got wet. Not very wet, and I immediately turned it off and let it dry.
It worked well. Until 1 or 2 days ago when I noticed some short random vibrations, but I didn't think it was that bad.
And now it is vibrating constantly.
Please help.
Thank you.
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The vibrator connections might be touching each other meaning it constantly gets power ( water could've caused corrosion between them!) I would take apart your device and look at the connections or clean the board with alcohol (alcohol with no water in it)
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noahvt said:
The vibrator connections might be touching each other meaning it constantly gets power ( water could've caused corrosion between them!) I would take apart your device and look at the connections or clean the board with alcohol (alcohol with no water in it)
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I did that, now the vibrator has stopped completely, it doesn't work anymore. If I press the lower back area of the phone, it does vibrate.
Thank you.
AnnaDee said:
I did that, now the vibrator has stopped completely, it doesn't work anymore. If I press the lower back area of the phone, it does vibrate.
Thank you.
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You mean when you press the back cover the phone vibrates constantly? or it vibrates as normal? try re-seating the motor
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You mean when you press the back cover the phone vibrates constantly? or it vibrates as normal? try re-seating the motor
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If I press the back cover, it will start vibrating as before, but (constantly) but if I stop pressing it, it doesn't vibrate anymore, or at all.
TLDR: I was cuddling my gf to sleep while using my phone. I fell asleep too. The phone was in bed with us for a couple of hours, but I don't think either of us lay on it, though my gf may have put some weight on it while getting up from bed to go to the w/c.
This morning it was unresponsive to touch, after rebooting it twice it won't turn on at all
When I press on the screen 1/3 of the way down with a bit of force, I feel it moving a bit and I can hear and feel a click on the inside.
The glass is intact.
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I fell asleep with the phone in my hand and I must have let go of it in my sleep. I woke up when my girlfriend was going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. The phone was still in the bed near where my hand was when I was falling asleep, but it was also in the path of my half asleep girlfriend rolling out of bed. I checked to see if it was still alive by pressing the power button and the screen turned on. Satisfied, I put it on my nightstand and went back to sleep.
When I woke up this morning I tried using it. It wasn't responding to touch at all, not even the home row buttons. But the volume rocker worked and so did the power button menu, but I couldn't select reboot in the menu with the touch not working. I force closed it with power + volume up, and when it rebooted it still wouldn't respond to touch. I force closed it again and now it won't turn on at all. I tried numerous button combinations (power on + volume up, down, all three, holding for up to 20 seconds) and it doesn't respond to being plugged into the wall or to the computer either, no led light and it's not mounting on the PC. It had about 60% power left before force closing it.
The funny thing is is that I couldn't figure out what the cause was for a long time. I googled it and search results for Z1's "sudden death issue" appeared and I figured it was something like that. Or maybe it was a delayed effect of putting it underwater 2 days ago.
But then it dawned on me, it was (of course) what had happened in the middle of the night. The phone looks completely fine, but after examining it closer, when I press on the screen 1/3 of the way down with a bit of force, I feel it moving a bit and I can hear and feel a click on the inside. I wonder what that could be..
What are my options now? I got the phone just a couple of days ago. I doubt this is covered by warrenty right? User error?
I'm not sure if this is even the real cause though - I didn't see it happen.... but I guess it's the most logical explination.
My girlfriend is pretty small so I'd imagine she would have had to put all her weight on her hand or elbow when she was getting up to be able to break the phone like that. I have a foam mattress which probably absorbed a lot of the weight? If this is indeed the case, I'm a little disappointed in the build quality if this broke something in the phone's innards with relative ease.
Any advice would be appreciated. It's the UK model bought outside of the UK from a local retailer. This is my first good smartphone and I loved it for the short time we had together. I'm devistated about it and not really sure what to do next.
Someone hold me
No visible damage = return it as faulty
Just say it died overnight while charging.
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No visible damage = return it as faulty
Just say it died overnight while charging.
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Thanks, that's the plan I just emailed the seller
Edit: They said to go to a Sony store to claim warrenty on it
adamk7 said:
Thanks, that's the plan I just emailed the seller
Edit: They said to go to a Sony store to claim warrenty on it
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You should have a 14 day guarantee with the seller if you bought from UK..
I would go back to them and demand a replacement..
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So I was just about to go to the sony store, I had the phone, cables and everything neatly packed up an ready to go. I decided to give it one last try just in case to avoid the all too common scenerio when it unexplicably magically starts working in the store. I plugged it into a wall charger and held down the power button and the red light turned on! I left it for a minute and then pressed the power button again, and the screen turned on with a battery charging logo! It looked like the battery was fully dead so I left it for 5 minutes and turned it on again. It booted up! Now the moment of truth: will the touch screen work....
Drum roll......
It does!
Everything works normally now. I have no idea wtf happened but I'm really happy that I don't have to deal with sending it in and everything.
Though I'm a little worried about what the screen clicking is, that's still there.
I'll post a video later and might take it in to sony anyway to see what they say
Edit: I made a new thread with the video: http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3-compact/help/video-pressing-screen-spot-makes-t2918289
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So I was just about to go to the sony store, I had the phone, cables and everything neatly packed up an ready to go. I decided to give it one last try just in case to avoid the all too common scenerio when it unexplicably magically starts working in the store. I plugged it into a wall charger and held down the power button and the red light turned on! I left it for a minute and then pressed the power button again, and the screen turned on with a battery charging logo! It looked like the battery was fully dead so I left it for 5 minutes and turned it on again. It booted up! Now the moment of truth: will the touch screen work....
Drum roll......
It does!
Everything works normally now. I have no idea wtf happened but I'm really happy that I don't have to deal with sending it in and everything.
Though I'm a little worried about what the screen clicking is, that's still there.
I'll post a video later and might take it in to sony anyway to see what they say
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Glad to hear it
I have the same phone symptoms as OP. Except, I was using the phone just 15 minutes before it refused to turn on. Also, for the first time I noticed the glass making a clicking sound when pressing coming from the middle of the screen, inline with the power button. I`ve tested the phone before and never heard this clicking sound.
At this point, even if the phone fixes itself, I`d rather send it in for repair before the clicking turns into a screen fracture.