hey,
I dropped my Samsung galaxy S Advance into my soup...(don't ask how..)
I dryed it with a paper but then i noticed that my sound stopped working and sometimes the screen responds really slow or not at all.
then i started using a hair dryer after i removed my SIM-card, sdcard and battery but it's still the same.
Anyone got any suggestions on how to fix it?
Thanks in advance.
Put it in a bag of rice over night. The rice should absorb any remaining liquid. That or Put it in abag along with some of those little packets of beans you get with new shoes.
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You must to put it in rice immediately, do not try it to use it, it was recommended to removed the battery immediately.
I'm saved 2 phone with that solution, Nokia X2 and Nokia E51.
I put it in a bag of rice immediately, now waiting for the results.
Thanks for the fast replies guys!:highfive:
Post back with results
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So, managed to do something with the phone?
So after ~40 hours(just now) i took the phone out of the rice and i'd like to say one thing:
The one who discovered rice is genius.
everything is back to normal, the sound and the screen function normal now!
Thanks alot for the telling me about the rice guys!:highfive:
GREAT to read that!
and for the further notice, remember the rice HAVE TO BE RAW
do not put your phone into rice that was already cooked
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and for the further notice, remember the rice HAVE TO BE RAW
do not put your phone into rice that was already cooked
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rajman said:
and for the further notice, remember the rice HAVE TO BE RAW
do not put your phone into rice that was already cooked
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LOL!!! U made my day...
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Scalpz said:
So after ~40 hours(just now) i took the phone out of the rice and i'd like to say one thing:
The one who discovered rice is genius.
everything is back to normal, the sound and the screen function normal now!
Thanks alot for the telling me about the rice guys!:highfive:
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glad for you!
this is also a proof that our phone is well built. One night i lost my phone. 5 hours later i found out that it's missing, so came back looking for it. Found it in mud underneath the snow (it was snowing that night), could find it just because it was still ringing! :laugh:. I immediately took the battery out, and when i came home i disassambled the phone to let it dry. 48 hours later i assembled it and it was working properly, but the job was not over cuz some vehicle obviously run over it while it was on the ground, so gorilla glass shattered. After replacing gg it's perfect again!
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Scalpz said:
So after ~40 hours(just now) i took the phone out of the rice and i'd like to say one thing:
The one who discovered rice is genius.
everything is back to normal, the sound and the screen function normal now!
Thanks alot for the telling me about the rice guys!:highfive:
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you were lucky that you are not rust, hence the rice does not save you.
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rice aside, if the terminal is oxidized by water necessary to clean the damaged electronic connections with isopropyl alcohol before drying.
If you hace oxidation problems, maybe you can try the specific products to remove oxidation.
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Can someone please tell me if this can be fixed? Phone got wet in my pocket. Dryed it. Everything is working except wifi. Please help
Put it in a bowl of uncooked rice with plastic rap over it and wait a little while, the longueur the better.
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Put it in a bowl of uncooked rice with plastic rap over it and wait a little while, the longueur the better.
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wait, you do that?
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wait, you do that?
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How does that help? Ans IRS been 4 days now since it happened
The rice absorbs moisture. You may remember seeing rice in salt shakers to prevent the salt becoming damp and blocking the shaker
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How does that help? Ans IRS been 4 days now since it happened
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Yeah it might be too late for the rice thing but I suspect the wifi module probably got fried. Usually one would take the battery out and stick it in a rice bowl/bag for a few days.
Just last week a friend dropped her iPhone in the toilet at my house.
Put it in a zip lock bag of rice. Working fine the next day.
I was doing dishes and I acidently droped phone in sink. I quicly quickly pulled it out and removed battery. I used hair dryer and it dried. I started it, it started. Everything works but only speaker sounds bad... I never fixed any hardware things and I need advice on how to fix it or send it to service center :L anyone can help? hate myself for doing it :banghead:
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Ehhhhhh anyone???
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My initial advice is take back of, remove battery, wrap in paper towel and put in a bowl of uncooked rice, this will suck all the moisture out, you need to leave it there for 48 hours, and in the meantime pray like hell!
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slaphead20 said:
My initial advice is take back of, remove battery, wrap in paper towel and put in a bowl of uncooked rice, this will suck all the moisture out, you need to leave it there for 48 hours, and in the meantime pray like hell!
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It already spent there all night but not sure if speaker works well
foggydisaster said:
It already spent there all night but not sure if speaker works well
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Well if it doesn't work the speaker is fairly easy to replace, google and YouTube it....lots of advise out there
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slaphead20 said:
Well if it doesn't work the speaker is fairly easy to replace, google and YouTube it....lots of advise out there
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edit: Speaker started working hooray BUT now weird thing hapening with navigation buttons (menu, home, back) menu and back flash when i touch it, and even blink, but they dont work as nothing hapens. home key doesnt work also. but sometimes recent apps opening. i keep it in rice for one day more i hope it will do a thing before 24.06 (my birthday ) or 26.06 when i go on vacation
EDIT: :O i can go to recovery/download mode... Huh? so home key works or not? -.- is phone kidding me?
Keep drying it....keep praying
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Keep drying it....keep praying
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Just found out. No need of home key to enter recovery\download. so means i have to keep it in rice ill look at it maybe at 4:00 or 5:00, hope it works my sleeping beauty xD
My SGS home button died after a little bit of moisture got into it. It could work for a little while intermittently and it failed after a day. Hope yours fare better.
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My SGS home button died after a little bit of moisture got into it. It could work for a little while intermittently and it failed after a day. Hope yours fare better.
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Well thanks yeah i hope it will be ok. wish me good luck
OMG LASTEST EDIT OF THIS THREAD: MY PHONE CAME ALIVE WITH BUTTONS WORKING HOORAY THANKGOD ITS ALRIGHT IM so happy special thanks
to @slaphead20 for giving idea of rice bowl helped alot thanks for support
Lol.... the irony is my home button died... I just lol... idk why.. sending it to SC... xD
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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 ?
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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:
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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
Help my galaxy watch has water inside camera lemse now pics are blurry how can clean or fix. Theres a pic of how.pics look and i been really careful with watch only got wet once. Help
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Help my galaxy watch has water inside camera lemse now pics are blurry how can clean or fix. Theres a pic of how.pics look and i been really careful with watch only got wet once. Help
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It should dry out and be ok.
Its between camera lemse and protector lense if u put on side the water goes to side but then when i put on water goes back to lense so i cant take pics should i put on heater vent to see if that helps ??
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there has been threads already about this so i suggest you look them up and it seems it will go away anyway.
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Uncooked rice, ziploc bag or tupperware, leave to sit in rice for 24-48 hours.
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Uncooked rice, ziploc bag or tupperware, leave to sit in rice for 24-48 hours.
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Indeed. This is the way to solve the problem. Point is what the heck where Samsung thinking in the R&D department that makes customers need to do this? It really is a ridiculous situation and one we will just have to live with. Very poorly pre production tests.
Hi.have had my gear about a month practice and play golf every day I get very hot and sweaty my camera lens has steamed up I think 3 times but hey its been no problem it clears up for me fine.Much like a car windscreen.I can see it bothers some people but for me not a problem I do nothing it clears up.
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Mines hasnt and its getting pretty annoying fml im going to put in rice tonight
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Just a update the water inside my.watchs camera went away by it self it took 4 days to go away by its self
put some electrical tape on hole inside of watch strap it will not happen again. mine didn't
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just realized mine has a bunch of little moisture drops on the inside of the lense. pretty pathetic since all i have done since getting it 2 days ago was wash my hands while it was on, i took it off when i took a shower so maybe the moisture from the shower could have caused it in the bathroom? just put it in a bag of rice. anyone have luck with that method? if so how long did it take?
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put some electrical tape on hole inside of watch strap it will not happen again. mine didn't
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What's that hole even for..? To aid in removing the camera?
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So last week I decided to get into the hot tub with my N6. I've been letting it dry out in a bag of instant rice. Everything works fine except for a few things. The power button turns up the volume and the media sound doesn't work. Also when I make a call I can't hear anything and they can't hear me. Would it be worth sending it to someone to repair or is it dead?
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So last week I decided to get into the hot tub with my N6. I've been letting it dry out in a bag of instant rice. Everything works fine except for a few things. The power button turns up the volume and the media sound doesn't work. Also when I make a call I can't hear anything and they can't hear me. Would it be worth sending it to someone to repair or is it dead?
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As someone who works in the mobile repair field, first let me say that the rice trick is a myth. Fact is, phones are sealed too tightly for rice to be effective. Use a hair dryer or heat gun on low setting. Second, the worst thing you could have done, was to turn the phone on. You should have brought it to a repair center immediately. Chances are, it's beyond repair at this point. By all means, still bring it to a trusted repair location. However, whatever has shorted out will need replacing if possible.
Never, EVER turn a wet phone on. That is sealing its fate as a dead device. Like I said, if you don't have access to a heat gun, use a hair dryer. Apply heat, all over both sides of the device for 45 minutes to an hour. Then bring it to a repair center ASAP.
Rice does not work. As I said phones are sealed too tightly and the moisture absorption properties of rice are not sufficient.
I used a hairdryer also. I didn't turn the device on for several days. It sat in a warm dry place for at least 3 days before I put it in the rice.
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I used a hairdryer also. I didn't turn the device on for several days. It sat in a warm dry place for at least 3 days before I put it in the rice.
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You should have mentioned that in your OP. Bring it in for repair, as there may be hope.
I don't have a good local place to take my N6. Do you guys offer a mail in service?
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I used a hairdryer also. I didn't turn the device on for several days. It sat in a warm dry place for at least 3 days before I put it in the rice.
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Depends what setting you used. A hot hairdryer is worse than doing nothing because of the water evaporates, it travels as steam all around the internals, condensing and spreading potential damage.
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I don't have a good local place to take my N6. Do you guys offer a mail in service?
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Yes we do. If interested, please contact me via pm. I don't want to possibly violate xda rules by posting our website in an open forum.
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Depends what setting you used. A hot hairdryer is worse than doing nothing because of the water evaporates, it travels as steam all around the internals, condensing and spreading potential damage.
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When we get water damaged devices, we use a dehydration oven. The devices will sit, at approximately 150 degrees for several hours. Then we open and clean all internal components. Success is hit or miss but it mostly depends on how soon we get it after the incident.
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So last week I decided to get into the hot tub with my N6. I've been letting it dry out in a bag of instant rice. Everything works fine except for a few things. The power button turns up the volume and the media sound doesn't work. Also when I make a call I can't hear anything and they can't hear me. Would it be worth sending it to someone to repair or is it dead?
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Repair.
Or directly drying in the sun.
But.... there may be already some corrosion on the contacts.
"So last week I decided to get into the hot tub with my N6. "
Talk about loving your Nexus .....
Hope it's dried out.
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"So last week I decided to get into the hot tub with my N6. "
Talk about loving your Nexus .....
Hope it's dried out.
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I'm going to have to send it off to get repaired.....
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