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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.

jpitch2415 said:
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.
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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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itsmefu said:
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.

jpitch2415 said:
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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Accidentaly wet my phone

Hi. I place my phone beside the basin and I thought it was dry and when I take it I saw my screen side was abit wet. I'm worried that my phone will be like apple devices that is it will be untouchable. Can anyone tell me will my phone spoil.
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Let it dry on it's own, it might (but doesn't have to) work

RayQ1223 said:
Hi. I place my phone beside the basin and I thought it was dry and when I take it I saw my screen side was abit wet. I'm worried that my phone will be like apple devices that is it will be untouchable. Can anyone tell me will my phone spoil.
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Don't power it on. And put it in a closed vessel containing dry RICE. Yes u heard it right, rice. Let it for a day or 12hrs. Then boot it up.

a bit wet? Just swipe it dry and use it.
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kirakun said:
Don't power it on. And put it in a closed vessel containing dry RICE. Yes u heard it right, rice. Let it for a day or 12hrs. Then boot it up.
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Yup, rice will suck out all the moisture.

use a hair dryer
RayQ1223 said:
Hi. I place my phone beside the basin and I thought it was dry and when I take it I saw my screen side was abit wet. I'm worried that my phone will be like apple devices that is it will be untouchable. Can anyone tell me will my phone spoil.
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Hi,
If possible for you open your phone i mean unscrew the back panel and just blow it with hot air from hair dryer and it will not give you single problem after that

RayQ1223 said:
Hi. I place my phone beside the basin and I thought it was dry and when I take it I saw my screen side was abit wet. I'm worried that my phone will be like apple devices that is it will be untouchable. Can anyone tell me will my phone spoil.
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PULL OUT BATTERY!!!!
dissamble it and wash with a sollution with water and alcohol. let it at sun 2 hours, assamble and turn on)
be carefull, DONT WASH SCREEN!!

kirakun said:
Don't power it on. And put it in a closed vessel containing dry RICE. Yes u heard it right, rice. Let it for a day or 12hrs. Then boot it up.
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+ 1 , this solved my wet mini!

[Q] Is this camera lens condensation? how to remove it?

Okay guys, so I noticed that my phone camera possibly developed condensation on its lens. It happened after I moved it from cold water into a warmer zone. I tried putting it in a plastic bag with dry rice. Nothing happened(I kept the flaps closed, probably should have kept it open?).
So is this actual condensation or is it something else? Also, is using a hairdryer to blow hot air a good idea?
Any help at all would be appreciated from you guys

008bond said:
Okay guys, so I noticed that my phone camera possibly developed condensation on its lens. It happened after I moved it from cold water into a warmer zone. I tried putting it in a plastic bag with dry rice. Nothing happened(I kept the flaps closed, probably should have kept it open?).
So is this actual condensation or is it something else? Also, is using a hairdryer to blow hot air a good idea?
Any help at all would be appreciated from you guys
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does it interfere with pic? just curious...
there a thread like this a while back not sure if the poster have a fix.

That is normal. Just open the flaps when u go to sleep n it will b ok. It doesnt harm the camera or anything.
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Firstly, thank you for your replies.
G1_enthusiast said:
does it interfere with pic? just curious...
there a thread like this a while back not sure if the poster have a fix.
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Actually, it does not interfere with the picture at all. But I have 2 issues.
1. It has grown closer to the center (After taking phone from air conditioned room to warmer room outside in the morning).
2. It looks ugly.
olafs93 said:
That is normal. Just open the flaps when u go to sleep n it will b ok. It doesnt harm the camera or anything.
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Okay, I'll be sure to try that.
P.S I live in a humid place near the sea, I will keep it in a box. Probably with dry rice again

Okay guys, I tried all of the above. Nothing worked. Should I use a hair dryer? I am afraid it might damage the lens.

Not sure if you already solved your problem, but what I did for my own phone was to open all the flaps and leave it overnight in a dry cabinet (used for storing of camera equipment). That is, of course, on the assumption you own a dry cabinet and that the problem is indeed water condensation (I can't see clearly from your attached photo).

Open a Xperia z to manually dry the speaker?

I was in the beach 2 days ago and I brought my xperia Z along. I decided that it was a good idea to take underwater videos and pictures above the water. They all looked great. The only problem is that, its been two days since that happened and my speaker is still muffled. It usually gets dry in a few hours, this time I'm worried it might have damaged for good. I believe that maybe little grains of sand made their way through the grill and are keeping the sound low or something else. Anyways, just wanted to ask if anyone can advise me on what to do. I had my C6002 since its release and have submerge it in numerous pools but never on a beach. Any help will be appreciated, thanks
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I wouldn't recommend open the device, you could lose the water resistance altogether.
My only advice would be letting the device on rice for a while with the flaps open.
Anyway, my take on this subject is this:
I wonder now why everyone thinks that kind of water resistance will make the phone indestructible.
For me, that water resistance (not waterproof) just makes me feel more confident about my device surviving water related accidents.
Just taking the device to the swimming pool defeats its certification (2 m deep pools are not uncommon, you know), splashing, swimming, just moving around under water, or even worst jumping into the water violently just multiplies the pressure around your device by more than those 0.1 bar.
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Good luck anyway.

Since it was salt water, did you ever think about washing it with distilled water? Might help
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Teo032 said:
Since it was salt water, did you ever think about washing it with distilled water? Might help
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That would be my suggestion too. Try giving it a bath in nice clean water to rinse off any debris.
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Yeah that was my first reaction. I actually left it submerged for about 15 and after that I rinsed it on the shower with no avail. I havent blow dried it, I've read somewhere that might help. But thanks for the suggestions. I'll leave it with rice tonight and see if I have something positive to report tomorrow.
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After spending the night on a ziplock bag full of rise and turned off, I'm happy to report that the speaker is as good as new. I'm super happy. Now, there's one weird issue. Its in another thread, but suddenly I have dead pixels in my camera. See the light switch on the left and notice how there is a black dot on either side. These are persistent around every photo I take. Any thoughts?
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abajarde said:
After spending the night on a ziplock bag full of rise and turned off, I'm happy to report that the speaker is as good as new. I'm super happy. Now, there's one weird issue. Its in another thread, but suddenly I have dead pixels in my camera. See the light switch on the left and notice how there is a black dot on either side. These are persistent around every photo I take. Any thoughts?
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Same thing here since a few days and I f*cking hate it! Thought I'm not sure if it's dirt or a dead pixel.

abajarde said:
After spending the night on a ziplock bag full of rise and turned off, I'm happy to report that the speaker is as good as new. I'm super happy. Now, there's one weird issue. Its in another thread, but suddenly I have dead pixels in my camera. See the light switch on the left and notice how there is a black dot on either side. These are persistent around every photo I take. Any thoughts?
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There not dead pixels its a quiet common fault it minute pieces of the lens casing as a lot of users have reported the same ive even got some on mine.
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Futura2000 said:
There not dead pixels its a quiet common fault it minute pieces of the lens casing as a lot of users have reported the same ive even got some on mine.
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What do you suggest we do? Send it for repair?
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abajarde said:
What do you suggest we do? Send it for repair?
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You can only send it for repairs;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2311497
Which is what I'm going to do.

FYI if you ever want to dry the speaker out use a can of compressed air to force the water out, i've been doing this for sometime without issue, and restores volume immediately,

LBTaylor1984 said:
FYI if you ever want to dry the speaker out use a can of compressed air to force the water out, i've been doing this for sometime without issue, and restores volume immediately,
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You are probably going to eventually destroy the water proof membrane inside the speaker if you continue to do that. Not good advice.
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LBTaylor1984 said:
FYI if you ever want to dry the speaker out use a can of compressed air to force the water out, i've been doing this for sometime without issue, and restores volume immediately,
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Yeah man, pushing compressed air through there doesn't sound like a good idea. I'll gladly wait 2-3 hours or a bag of rice overnite. That's living dangerously right there
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Well it's your choice but it takes a quick spray and it'd back to normal.
If you did it with 10 psi sure but this is can which is like 10 psi.
It's up to you but it's not much dissimilar to blowing it with your mouth
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Amazingly, I left the phone over night on a bag of rice and not only did it fix the issue it had another unexpected effect. Now, when I wet the speaker its back to normal almost immediately. I was at a lake yesterday, used the phone to record under water, take photos, and guess what? It was fully loud each time almost immediately after I got out of the water. This phone hasn't seize to impress. I highly recommend to consider the rice. Often times, naturally aspired solutions are the better choice.
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Wow this is good to know. HTC one m8 is possible water proof.

All New HTC One (M8) Water Test - Water Resistant?: http://youtu.be/lhwvXTVQoPM
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You want to try it and let us know how it goes ?

Hello no I paid 720 with taxes n shipping
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Uh no. I'm not trying that.
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Looks promising
But I'm not trying it.
Sprint M8

This has been floating around for a couple weeks now. It does very well in the test. Yes.
It has since come out that it is ipx3 certified. Which means it can take splashes.. etc. Although submerging it is more then a splash. All in all, its a good unadvertised feature. But I won't be testing it out myself.

Waterproof and water resistant are 2 completely different things.
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In for results and possible lulz.
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I still don't understand how his camera overheating and running out of space on the SD card made the phone rotate under water.

Haha it didn't make the phone rotate underwater. It caused him to reposition his filming phone so it was filming from a different angle. The underwater phone never moved.
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bimmerbot said:
Haha it didn't make the phone rotate underwater. It caused him to reposition his filming phone so it was filming from a different angle. The underwater phone never moved.
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Amazing that the edge of the sink didn't move at all most of the times but the phone and surface of the water did (the edge of the sink moved 2 times, but in 4 of the phone moves it didn't). The phone in the water was definitely moved and the hand moving it was edited out. Changing the filming phone position wouldn't have caused ripples in the water.

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Amazing that the edge of the sink didn't move at all most of the times but the phone and surface of the water did (the edge of the sink moved 2 times, but in 4 of the phone moves it didn't). The phone in the water was definitely moved and the hand moving it was edited out. Changing the filming phone position wouldn't have caused ripples in the water.
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The bottom of the sink is round, perhaps overtime the phone just settled to the lowest point? Makes sense to me...
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All I can say is, either way, whether the phone was moved or not, it was obviously submerged in water for a decent period of time. It was at least a few minutes at a time. That's a pretty solid statement, although I'm still not brave enough to test it for myself.... I'm sure an iPhone or most other phones would be done after touching water. I had a Blackberry back in the day that fell into a shallow puddle for maybe two seconds. It never worked again.

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All I can say is, either way, whether the phone was moved or not, it was obviously submerged in water for a decent period of time. It was at least a few minutes at a time. That's a pretty solid statement, although I'm still not brave enough to test it for myself.... I'm sure an iPhone or most other phones would be done after touching water. I had a Blackberry back in the day that fell into a shallow puddle for maybe two seconds. It never worked again.
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I'd also like to see if the speakers survived that dunk. I know that many people who got their M7s wet found that everything but the speakers worked afterwards.

Mine surrvived having a little beer spill on it, although it did make me panic a little

Not trying it...
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I put mine HTC M8 into bowl with water completely for about a minute. Only thing I realized headphone icon showed up in notification bar. Also when I pulled out sd card was wet on edges . But SIM card was completely dry. Phone worked and played video under water about 2 inches down. After was taken out I just wiped it with paper towel and works perfectly..... DONT TRY IT! I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR DEVICE.

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I put mine HTC M8 into bowl with water completely for about a minute. Only thing I realized headphone icon showed up in notification bar. Also when I pulled out sd card was wet on edges . But SIM card was completely dry. Phone worked and played video under water about 2 inches down. After was taken out I just wiped it with paper towel and works perfectly..... DONT TRY IT! I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR DEVICE.
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Please get back to us with info about problems that might occur after some time =)

However, the bubbles coming out of the headphone jack are not promising...

my god daughter spilled a whole large hi-c orange lavaburst on my m8... i was scared, sad and mad. It survived without any issues at all. THANK SWEET BABY JESUS