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Droid Bionic Water Damage

My wife rang in the new year by dropping her phone in the toilet on New Year's Eve! It took the phone, cleaned it and put it in a bag with rice and got it working again with no issues.
Since it is a company phone, they replaced it for her..no charge. So, Im left with a Bionic that is working perfectly.....except....it has dark "streaks" on the screen that are irritating and very noticeable on lighter backgrounds.
I do not think it is inside the screen, I think the phone itself is damaged from the drop in the water. Both water damage indicators are of course red but, other than the screen looking like it does..phone is operating fine other than that.
I reset it back to factory once she activated the new one and am going to add it to my account if I can either fix that screen issue or live with it.
Any idea of what steps would need to be taken in order to correct this issue? I was going to take a photo of the screen but, since I reset it back to factory, it now is just going to the "please wait, this may take a few minutes" screen since there is no active service on the phone.
Dont want to activate it yet until I see what options I have to fix the screen.

First, you can bypass activation by tapping all four corners of the Android logo screen, starting with the top left and going clockwise. That should make it a bit easier to take pictures
Second, it's possible that the damage is not to the screen itself, and that dismantling the digitizer/glass layer will make the best course of action more obvious. This is obviously only something to do if you're reasonably confident in your steady hand and don't mind the possibility of something breaking (and honestly, it was a free phone, so why not, just for the experience?) If it turns out to be, say, a stain on the inside of the digitizer layer, or residual water between the two layers, you have a pretty easy problem to fix.
iFixit has some good guides:
http://www.ifixit.com/Device/Motorola_Droid_Bionic
Good luck!

Water damage indicators can be cleared by using bleach.

Shows how much I know about this Bionic eh? I did not know I could bypass that wizard..thanks for that!
now then, this is the strangest thing, the screen issues are not what they were...they are still there but, not anywhere close to what they were. Now it is mainly in the bottom right hand corner of the screen and those are more like smudges than anything.
Very strange. Will try to post a pic once I get off work. Tried to get a decent one that shows what I am talking about now but, cant even get it to show up!

hmm, might try that as well once I get an idea if I am able to correct the screen issues, thanks!
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Water damage indicators can be cleared by using bleach.
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It sounds like you have water marks between the screen and the digitizer.Its really not that difficult to tear apart a phone and clean that.I do screen repairs for friends and clients just buy the tools and then just take your time and go through the process.I'm sure by now someone will have a tutorial on youtube
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I washed a resistve touchscreen phone a full cycle with the close. The screen had the same issue with streaks that almost looked lke clouds. They disappeared completely after about a week.

[Q] Screen Replacement, Unresponsive Screen

I just replaced my cracked screen on my phone. Bought it from Ebay. When I put it back together I notice that in the middle of the screen it is unresponsive. When I try and type on it I cant get the middle of the keyboard to work. When I put the phone back to stock thinking it would calibrate the screen, it is the same result, when I try and choose a language it doesn't let me choose the English language. I thought maybe I forgot to plug a certain cable in but it is still doing this after I took apart and put back together the phone three times. The main areas that aren't working is the bottom part of the screen where the keyboard pops up and the top of the screen about a half inch down in the middle. My question is did I get a faulty screen replacement? Or is there a way of calibrating the screen itself?

Bad digitizer did you get a replacement for that too?
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Yes, it came with the screen.

I'm guessing a digitizer issue only idea I have
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Questions solved. You are probably right. The seller got back to me and he said he sent me the wrong part. He was supposed to send me the glass with the digitizer, brand new, and he sent me a used screen with digitizer and the frame around it. He said he will send the new screen ASAP. Thanks for your responses. Hopefully I wont have trouble with the new part.

No problem
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[Q] Is my i9000 dead?

One sad day last week, a friend dropped his Galaxy and cracked the screen . When plugged in or powered on, the soft touch-keys at the bottom do light up and I can press them (they go dark as I press them, then light back up as they normally would).
I'm OK with paying $80 for a replacement screen/digitizer on ebay, as long as I know that will fix my phone. I'm worried that something else may be wrong internally?
Is there any way to check the functionality of the phone (perhaps through ADB?) or something I can do without having the screen turn on to prove that this phone will still work once I buy a new screen?
Thanks !

Very unlikely after a drop that's cracked the screen that there is more damage than just the screen.
It'll be alright... <---- famous last words lol
As long as it was just a gravity drop from a few feet.
GT-I9000 / SEMA / SLIMBEAN2.3

You can only watch to see if something's broken. Replace the screen, and if there's another problem, you will notice. But i don't think there are other hardware problems, either.
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Luckily, I found one on Kijiji with a broken charger port for $40. Only took a few minutes to strip it for the screen and fire up the old phone, no problem

[Q] Screen cracked, touch not responding properly.

Hey everyone.
A few months ago I dropped my phone for the first time. It turned out that the screen had gotten a large crack down through the middle, running all the way from the top to the bottom. I tried using it, and the touch capabilities didn't seem to be affected, so basically it was just cosmetic at first.
But this afternoon, after having used it lightly since morning without issues, the phone suddenly started responding weird to touch. Whenever I touch the screen, it registers touches all over the screen, and I'm not even able to dial in my pin code after rebooting.
Does anyone have an idea what might have happened, what is broken, and how much it will set me back to fix it?
BTW, the phone arrived with a red pixel, I noticed it once when booting up, but thought it was just a bug or something. Later I found out that is actually a fault with the phone, and most companies have dead pixel policies, I'm wondering, is it possible to return the phone for a new because of the red pixel?
Thank you for your time.

I think it will be a little hard to prove that dead pixel after being cracked. If you have some skills, you can change it yourself, its not very hard and you can find the screen on the internet.
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RuedasLocas said:
I think it will be a little hard to prove that dead pixel after being cracked. If you have some skills, you can change it yourself, its not very hard and you can find the screen on the internet.
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That does sound good, but aren't the glass (The outermost layer) and the touchscreen two different things entirely?
Thank you.

Well what do you know, it started working again! Well, atleast for now.
Thanks for the advice

SB93 said:
Does anyone have an idea what might have happened, what is broken,
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...I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it's the huge crack down the middle of the screen? :good:
Seriously, though.. capacitive touch-screens measure changes in the resistance across a thin layer on top of the glass. So if you bend it somehow, or damage it (say, stretch it because the glass underneath cracks), then the resistance won't be picked up, or it will be registered inaccurately. So it might work for a while, or work reasonably well. Know a guy who smashed his iPhone.. sat on it, actually.. and it worked with "cracked" glass (that was held together by the layer on top of the glass, right) until he bought another iPhone. *shrug* He talked about it a lot, but it didn't seem to really make a difference on the actual phone.

My touch screen is down ?

Hello,
This morning, my phone worked perfectly, and i see some dust inside of the screen, so i opened my phone to clean this, i've cleaned the touch screen from inside, and when i reassemble my phone, all work fine just the touch screen don't work, i've retried the same operation, verified all but not working
I want to know the reason of thin, shouldn't I clean the touchscreen from inside (I have used a cleaner...)
And which site is trusted to sale this at best prices
Thanks

I'm no expert, but if the touchscreen worked before taking it apart and doesn't afterwards that probably means you broke it during the taking apart. You probably forgot to connect something back up or accidentally pulled off a connector. Not sure what you could do about it beyond having another look or taking it to a repair shop to see what they say.

Disassemble the phone again and see if you connect connector of touch screen, it is on the top of the board after you remove plastic cover.
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