Ok, not after a swim, but the phone got some water in its housing, dont know how, but atleast the battery was discharged completely. Home button didnt work, audio was weird, took the phone apart, cleaned everything i got my hands on with some vodka and thats all good now. Got only one problem now, when somebody calls me, the phone.android process stops working, i can rarely answer a call, but i can call people woth no problem, except i cant hang up, because the menu isnt shown. Did a complete new install, and than the problem dissapeared a bit, but now its back, what could be the problem? Could it be the proximity sensor? Not sure, but it seems its not working. Thanks!
Doing a fresh install of your Firmware could solve the error. How did u cleaned/dried your phone?
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Pulled out the battery and when i got home (5 hours later) teared him down, there wasnt much water, i think it was condensated, left it to dry and soaked up all the soakable. I did a clean install, even formatted thr internal card, but i did restore a few apps, maybe this glitch is just a software issue? Or maybe the AOKP rom is glitchy? Although the previos was CM9 and still the same glitch, should i try to do a clean install without restoring anything?
hmm water may be the reason of several problems for te future (it really works)
if a phone gets wet put out the battery
dont try to power it on it would destroy ure phone
take a little basket and fill it with rice put ure phone in it so that it is coverd with the dry ( not coocked ) rice and wait 2-3 days afterwards have a try
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Hi All,
Unfortunately my other half has managed to, quite accidentally, spill orange squash onto my X1.
The phone still works except for the buttons on the front of the device, ie the panel button, and the directional button.
They respond but do not do what they are supposed too. For example, pressing right on the directional pad seems to bring up the phone app, left doesn't appear to do anything.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? I have left the device to dry out in the airing cupboard over night and I am hoping that when I get back in from work it will (magically) be working again.
You shouldn't have used it after the spillage.
The right steps are too turn it off, remove the battery, let it dry for a couple of days and then turn it on.
I don't know what the effects would be in your case...
P.S. It wasn't accidental. Trust me.
well orange juice is sticky, but i once "stepped" into a small pond and everything from my belly downwards stood underwater for about 3-4 sec. including my X1 in my pocket.
i exitedly turned it on, though i knew i shouldn't do that and I saw a load of colours and it tried to boot but got stuck.
well i thought it was ****ed up and already searched for a new mobile. but then after 2-3 days it recovered. first it booted, but the touchscreen was still broken. then everything recovered, even my battery still works perfectly.
my 2 "water indicators" inside my phone and battery are red now
sekall12 said:
well orange juice is sticky, but i once "stepped" into a small pond and everything from my belly downwards stood underwater for about 3-4 sec. including my X1 in my pocket.
i exitedly turned it on, though i knew i shouldn't do that and I saw a load of colours and it tried to boot but got stuck.
well i thought it was ****ed up and already searched for a new mobile. but then after 2-3 days it recovered. first it booted, but the touchscreen was still broken. then everything recovered, even my battery still works perfectly.
my 2 "water indicators" inside my phone and battery are red now
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Sorry for the OT, but where exactly are the water indicators? Have only been able to find the battery one.
Ah bugger, I have taken it back to O2 today and they have sent it off for repair.
I claimed I knew nothing about why it failed.
Oh well, it should be covered under my insurance if need be. (Well it better bloody be, I have had it long enough with nary a claim to my name)
Thanks for the responses chaps!
Hello all (first post here) I had a water spillage on my x1 and after looking for advice i came across something that worked. half Fill a bowl with uncooked rice and put the x1 in to the rice( take out the battery first). then poor more rice on the top of the phone. the rice will absorbe the moisture from the phone and this should help the phone to dry out. tried it with mine and it worked. everything was working fine but the m button on the keyboard. since then i took the phone apart and cleaned the keyboard and its back working fine. hope this helps or if not has made people laugh as it sounds so stupid it may just work as i did for me!
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Hello all (first post here) I had a water spillage on my x1 and after looking for advice i came across something that worked. half Fill a bowl with uncooked rice and put the x1 in to the rice( take out the battery first). then poor more rice on the top of the phone. the rice will absorbe the moisture from the phone and this should help the phone to dry out. tried it with mine and it worked. everything was working fine but the m button on the keyboard. since then i took the phone apart and cleaned the keyboard and its back working fine. hope this helps or if not has made people laugh as it sounds so stupid it may just work as i did for me!
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Actually, using rice is not a stupid idea - at all!
It is known to absorb moisture, go ahead and ask your grandmother (if you still have one), in the old days, when silicagel and the sorts didn't exist yet, a bowl of rice in the basement made sure that it wouldn't become too moist. Still works today, ofcourse.
Another thing you can try if the unit remains defective after cleaning it up a bit - buy some distilled water (at a hardware store or something).
Distilled water consists of H20 (yes, the real deal) for about 99.9% (depending on brand and quality). This means that harmful minerals like Kalium and Natrium will not be in it, meaning it can't cause electrical damage. If you use it carefully, you can rinse your device with it, dissolving any residual stickyness/salt etc inside.
Do take into account that - if not done properly - you might just move the crap from one place in your phone to the other, making things worse.
Just an idea!
Hey all, recently my search button randomly presses itself. No, I dont see the color flash or what ever you see when you press a button but at least 2 or 3 times a minuet it will act as if I have pressed the button and search will come up... Some sort of new glich? or is my phone going defective? What do you think?
ROM firefly 3.0 that i have been using since it came out, so like a month with NO problems what so ever. Reinstalled FF, still did it, will try a new flash, if that doesnt work will go to stock. and if that doesnt fix it I will get it warranty replaced.... but Im hoping its not hardware...
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This happened to me! Try reflashing the kernel, or using a different one. Might help
I noticed that when my cappy has a fingerprint or smudge on the search key, it magically will press itself. I also had to modify my invisi-shield to not cover the touch buttons. It happens less now that its not on them, but it still happens.
It was happening over and over and I looked at it and theres a smudge, wipe it clean and viola! This was quite annoying when I was using a rom with the camera mod that redirects it to the search key. The camera was constantly opening, had to run the "fix" to revert it back.
Hope its just as easy as that for you, I was able to duplicate the problem on 3 cappys so far.
this could be a moisture issue. yank the battery and drop the phone in a bag of rice for a day see if that helps. if it still happens flash to stock if it still does it after that its a hardware issue and you should get a warranty replacement if thats an option.
a search would've answered this as i personally have answered this question a few times, also this is a question, for future knowledge those are posted in the Q&A section.
by that do you mean put it in a bad ontop of rice or literally stick it into a pile of rice ( wouldnt that get into the phone)? sorry for such a noob question.
Put the phone in the rice. None if it is small enough to get into the inner workings of the phone but it is AMAZING at soaking up all little bits of moisture.
Would be willing to bet it is a moisture issue. I have the same problem no mayer what rom I am using
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Mine does this quite a lot as well. Most often when the phone is warm while charging. I've noticed holding it in a different position helps diffuse the problem as well. Must be a hardware defect. :-\
so are the chances good that the rice will take care of it? Strange, I never shower or use my phone in wet area's.....
I have squaretrade... do they swap it out or what is the precedure for getting a new phone from them if it doesnt work if you know by chance, if not, Ill just google it on the website
Hey Guys,
For the last few hours, the touchscreen of my Milestone is acting very erratically. When I turn the phone on, it works for a few seconds (sometimes minutes) and then suddenly stops working. And then when I turn off the screen and turn on again after a while, it again works for a while.
And when it stops working, sometimes it totally fails to register any tap, sometimes it has ghost touch and sometimes it registers a tap when I press very strongly. I have noticed that the problem mainly occurs in the right side of the screen. And the soft touch buttons at the bottom are affected as well.
Is my phone done? Pls help me. I really cannot afford to buy another phone at this time.. PLS help!!
Ok, since no one seems interested, I better post an update myself. I did some searching and found some info. One of the probable causes could be moisture getting into the digitiser. Although it didn't rain today, it was pretty hot and I sweated a lot, so it is possible that the sweat somehow got into it.
So heres the solution I am trying now. I pulled the battery, sim and MicroSd, opened the keyboard and put the whole thing in an airtight bag of PUFFED rice( they are much better dehumidifiers than uncooked rice). Lets see what happens after a few hours.. Wish me luck...
This is surely the problem dude... humidity to digitizer.
Happened to me too... what i did was pull everything off and applied cold hair drier for 5 min.
For me worked like a charm.
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Ok, so the phone was in the bag of puffed rice for the whole of the night. I put everything back and turned it on, and it seems to be working now. Thank God! Hope the problem doesn't resurface..
Hey there,
I'm having a similar problem with my Milestone.
Just wondered what puffed rice is and where do I get it from? Is there anything else I can use to moisturize my phone.
Thanks
Actually the easier way is to just buy the digitizer from ebay, and replace it yourself
Easier????
Be interested in what your definition of easier is Puffed rice is Rice Bubbles, a breakfast cereal. You can also just use plain rice, the idea is that it will create a dry environment and absorb any moisture. You can actually put the rice in the fridge as well, its actually a very dry environment as well. My daughter dropped a phone into a lake once, stayed in the water for about 10 minutes (was flashing strange lights and vibration from being shorted). Wasn't working when she showed it to me a day later, we put it in a bowl of rice in the fridge a day later, she thought I was slightly insane but it actually worked after that!
had the same issue too , screen was acting very strange...like taking the worng command or not calibrated,or like...someoneelse playing on the screen like a mad man...after cleaning the display problem not solved...thought was the digitizer but...voila...before ordering one,just thought about making a hard reset cause the software was actig quite slow lately and voila...problem solved...so...if it's not the moisture ...it's the software......or at least in my case ... make a backup on your sd card,and do a software reset..if after that still doesn't work,you know for sure u need a replacement part
I did was pull everything off, and applied heat (70ºC) heater for 4 hours.
I put everything back and turned it on, and it´s working ok!
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I did was pull everything off, and applied heat (70ºC) heater for 4 hours.
I put everything back and turned it on, and it´s working ok!
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I have the same issue, i will try using the rice/salt bag to dry it out, but i think my problem is the motherbord cable ribbon... anyone replaced it with success?
Yeah, another one of those threads. Definitely not my best moment..
But uh. Dropped my phone in the toilet. It turned off instantly and I tried to dry it off for a while. After 20 minutes or so, it seemed okay so I oh-so-brilliantly tried to turn it back on.
Screen was okay for the first 5 seconds and then it went haywire -- probably shorted somewhere? Just displayed gray lines and some random colors.
So now my phone is just off without any battery in it and I'm waiting for it to dry more.
Any advice on how I'd go about getting data off my phone and if I'm really lucky, fixing it? i.e. taking it apart and drying each part or replacing the screen, etc.
thanks!
There's the putting the phone in a bag of rice trick. The rice is supposed draw the moisture out.
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There's the putting the phone in a bag of rice trick. The rice is supposed draw the moisture out.
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on vacation right now so anything like that is going to be difficult
Thanks for the heads up though.
Mostly interested in damage control at this point. So the first task is data retrieval.
Any programs/software I can use to transfer all the data off my phone? Control it remotely?
i.e. how can I just dump the memory, including flash memory, onto my computer remotely?
Using anything like tibu is going to be hard since the screen is botched.
I'm not sure of any apps like that and if there is it would prolly need to be on the device before it took the plunge (sorry I had to throw that one out). Now if after the phone dries out some if you can get power and rember which kernel you had you might be able to have someone post the button sequence to mount USB storage in recovery. I helped a friend do this when his screen broke but could still get into recovery. Vol- three times then power ect.
Best of luck
I'd say you should leave it off until you can do what (I think) Adam Outler said and soak it in 99% rubbing alcohol and dry it with a blowdryer. You're data's probably screwed as long as your phone is out of commission.
Adb dump should work i think
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So I dropped it in bleach last night. Quickly grabbed it out and pulled the battery. It was still working so I left it for a bit and blow dried it a bit. So after I'd left it for a bit I turned it back on and it seemed to be working fine but after an hour or so it rebooted and now it bootloops. It starts up when I put the battery in and gets to the kernel splash screen then reboots. I can boot in to download mode but after roughly the same amount of time it reboots as well. Thoughts anyone?
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i suggest take it to a customer care .. .
its out of warranty and has a custom rom on it. I disassembled it and put it in rice and am hoping that will get any remaining water out of it if that's the issue..
I recently got a nexus but if I can get it fixed for cheap that'd be cool..
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did you mean something like this?
http://www.ifixyouri.com/samsung-repair/295-samsung-galaxy-s-water-damage-repair.html
your question is "is my phone rooted?" well yes if you are running a custom rom then yes
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your question is "is my phone rooted?" well yes if you are running a custom rom then yes
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I'm trying to be clever and play on a double meaning here without getting in trouble. What I actually mean is it physically broken beyond repair?
Rice might have done something. Either way the phone booted up and is working.