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heya guys,
today I was talking on the phone and the phone droped from my hand into toilet. I bring it out fast and removed the battery. I dont know what should I do now,. any advice!!!! will Vodafone accept it for waranty!!!
Usually for any electronic device, take as many bits out as you can an stick it somewhere warm for a day or 2, should get some if not all functionality back, I've dropped many things in the bath and had them back working again. Don't, however, try and power it on until it's had chance to dry out. The touch screen may be an issue though...not dropped any touch device in some water yet to test if the same rules apply....
Stick it in a bowl of (uncooked) rice, it'll help pull out the water faster.
whatever u do dont use any thing like a fan or blow dryer, cause that will just cause the water to go deeper into the phone, use a vaccum to suck the water out as much as possable,then like he said place the phone in a bowl of un-cooked rice for a day or two, good luck.
A little combo of what has been said: put it in a bowl of uncooked rice right at the counter where it gets a lot of sun (battery should be out obviously). The BIGGEST mistake you can do is test it out after a day when you "think" all the water is out. If it isn't and you turn it on, it could cause further damage. I know you're urgent to find out if it works or not, but give it three days with three days in the above conditions. You'll also probably need a new battery.
mp.goldfinger
will Vodafone accept it for waranty!!! - - -- no
Vodafone will not accept phone Warranty
The diamond has a sensor for water
Thanx guys......but I did turn it on today Bcause I really need a number everything is alright but the screens is still fuzzy. I wont use it for at least a week and see what will happend.
i hope you flushed the toilet before you dropped it.. =) otherwise there will be some.. sh*t inside the phone and its not easy to clean
yeah, definitely make sure its in rice, and sunlight doesn't hurt..
And the moral of this story
Don't take your phone out of your pocket when in the toilet.
It's also unhygienic.
Take care of your phone and your phone will take care of you.
I went to a festival where I was so drunk that my diamond went out of my pocket when I got ready to sleep in my tent. And next morning I fond the phone in a little water pool inside the tent. But all the functions still work after I let the phone dry for 1 day.
Uncooked rice (as been mentioned before) is the best solution.
Take your time, as been said before, it will take a long time before all the moisture is out.
Nowadays the chips are very small, water easily lodges between the BGA balls, and it takes a while to evaporate.
just leave it for a week in the bowl of uncooked rice (preferably on a warm sunny place.)
Remove stylus, back cover & battery before sticking it into the bowl.
It's not under warranty: it has a moisture sensitive sticker which turns red when it was in contact with water.
Because it isn't under warranty, I personally would take the device apart, and dry the parts seperately, but that isn't very easy if you haven't done this sort of disassembling before.
Revert to this only if you have absolute confidence (and the service manual ).
Best of luck!
Please keep us posted.
EquinoXe
The problem is long term, the moisture will cause corrosion on the fine
PCB tracks etc. even after its dry, Best thing to do is pull the device appart as best u can get a tooth brush and a can of CRC CO CONTACT CLEANER
blue and white can @ any good electrical wholesaler. spray all the circtry and componets not the screen. and scrub with a tooth brush dont knock
off any small componets and then let dry for a day or 2 best bet is to use compressed air to blow off excess liquid spray from under the chips..
I am in electronic repair hope this helps
This happend to my LG 2 years ago ...into the LOO and i done the process above and its still working today the quicker u dry the water off initialy the better..
thanx guys.....unfortunately I have to buy a new LCD for my diamond as all water has gone inside the LCD and damaged the sheets inside the LCD. I have removed all parts and I am waiting for LCD delivery that cost me 40£
Aww, that is unfortunate..
Hope the LCD transplant will bring it back to life.
I had almost the same issue, but in my case, what I did was that I droped some alcohol inside the power button when I was trying to clean the screen with a tissue and some alcohol. Now the power button works in a faulty way and it tries to reboot every time I click on it. It's like the single click is always a double click on the power button. Any suggestion on how to fix it? This happened to me like 2 months ago and it is still like this.
djfuego said:
Don't take your phone out of your pocket when in the toilet.
It's also unhygienic.
Take care of your phone and your phone will take care of you.
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I dropped an iphone inside the toilet. It rang I went to pickup and it slipped out of my hands.
Apple replaced it though. They didnt even test if it was water damage. LoL
....and I might also suggest that you don't eat the rice later!
Aww thats pretty sick
Have done the same thing, about 2-3 years ago (luckly not with my HTC TD)
All the advice above is right about drying it out, but the main issue you'll have is impurities in the water which, once the water has evaporated will leave residue. The worst is actually salts. These will dislodge components in the phone, and usually it'll never be the same again. Often the water gets under BGA components that arent encapsulated, or between pins of components, and once the water evaoprates the salt cyrstals left behind expand into those gaps.
You can wash the pcb in distilled water, or certain alcohol solutions - depending on what residue there actually is. If you use normal water you'll just make it worse, because that has impurities in it too.
You could have done the same with the touchscreen, but you would need to dismantle it.
Sometimes you get lucky and it all works ok for months.. lets hope you're lucky
I know, this is just extremely stupid of me to drop a $550 phone in water. Happened 12 hours ago.
I removed battery right away. The screen was on when I removed the phone from the glass, pretty much right away.
Left the phone overnight in the rice bucket. Then turned it on in the morning.
The phone powers up and everything, so far seems to work, including the speaker and ear piece (thats the side that dropped in water).
Make phone call, I can hear and other person can hear. Wifi seems to work. Screen scrolling and such works.
Only thing I am noticing right now is that the Lock Button seems to have itr own brain. It autopresses and "the power off" screen keeps coming on by itself. Also, pressing the Lock Button does not lock the phone anymore. All it does is brings me to the Power Off screen.
Any help? Should I just remove the battery and leave it in the rice bucket for maybe a few more days?
Thanks.
P.S: I am glad the phone still works, and I will give a lot of credit to BESTSKINSEVER full phone cover.
Let dry it some more without the battery.
Reminds me of the time I dropped my sony w810 in a tall glass of beer, Took me a few seconds to realize and get it out. Worked perfectly after drying.
What is the benefit of a rice bucket? I never heard of that being used to dry electronic devices before. I know one of my friends jumped into a pool with his old LG phone. He let it dry out for 24-36 hours and worked fine after that. He basically let it air dry.
bloke226 said:
What is the benefit of a rice bucket? I never heard of that being used to dry electronic devices before. I know one of my friends jumped into a pool with his old LG phone. He let it dry out for 24-36 hours and worked fine after that. He basically let it air dry.
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Rice absorbs water, you see it in on the table in the salt in a restaurant to hold the salt dry so it won't stick togehter and won't come out
I am running the Rodriguez 2.2 Rom.
Anyways, all seems to work normal again. But, just to be on the safe side, I think I will leave it in the rice bucket a little more after I get home.
Btw, this morning, I was running the Signed FRF50 Modaco rom, then I did a full wipe and Nand Restore to the prior backup to Rod 2.2 Rom. No issues.
Wondering if the OLED screen on the Nexus One has anything to do with the screen "Still Fully Functional" compared to a normal LCD?
Thanks all for the response. Going to do just as you say.
Pics or it didn't happen!
Also, see if you can clean around the lock button with compressed air or blowing or something, having the battery cover removed. Might be a rice/dirt related problem.
my nexus one has been in the toilet, in the bath, and in a diet dr. pepper... bag of rice each time, and it's 100%, no humidity under the screen or anything..
ALL of the moisture stickers are triggered tho..
heh
Cubed Guru said:
I know, this is just extremely stupid of me to drop a $550 phone in water. Happened 12 hours ago.
I removed battery right away. The screen was on when I removed the phone from the glass, pretty much right away.
Left the phone overnight in the rice bucket. Then turned it on in the morning.
The phone powers up and everything, so far seems to work, including the speaker and ear piece (thats the side that dropped in water).
Make phone call, I can hear and other person can hear. Wifi seems to work. Screen scrolling and such works.
Only thing I am noticing right now is that the Lock Button seems to have itr own brain. It autopresses and "the power off" screen keeps coming on by itself. Also, pressing the Lock Button does not lock the phone anymore. All it does is brings me to the Power Off screen.
Any help? Should I just remove the battery and leave it in the rice bucket for maybe a few more days?
Thanks.
P.S: I am glad the phone still works, and I will give a lot of credit to BESTSKINSEVER full phone cover.
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Dropped my phone in a pool, its still working fine. If you have problems with your lock button, oh well. Install Cyanogen and use the trackball awake setting.
i hope you put the phone in a bag of rice immediately!! that greawtly increases your chance of a working device. i've had this happen many times where i save a phone using this method. the rice absorbs moisture very quickly.
jaapschaap said:
Rice absorbs water, you see it in on the table in the salt in a restaurant to hold the salt dry so it won't stick togehter and won't come out
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Silicia gel works even better. I keep a big bag of it in my safe to keep the moisture away from my gun.
BootsSiR said:
Silicia gel works even better. I keep a big bag of it in my safe to keep the moisture away from my gun.
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Submerging your phone in Silica gel is probably as inadvisable as in water, though
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Submerging your phone in Silica gel is probably as inadvisable as in water, though
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I'm certain he would mean beads, not necessarily in a fluid-form
I was thinking more of the powder sachets that you get in dried seaweed packets. Not sure exposing your phone to silicate beads is a great idea either, since it's a skin irritant.
The screen is pretty much sealed off. So i guess when water gets INTO your screen behind the glass you are pretty fecked..
put it in dry rice!! works 10/10 times for me.
Was on the phone after I had shoulder surgery with headset on. I had my N1 resting in my sling. Went to the sink to wash a cup, my N1 slid out and went straight to the drain were water ran on it for a few seconds. I left it in a sealed tupperware box with rice in it for 24hrs... Works like a charm
Cubed Guru said:
I know, this is just extremely stupid of me to drop a $550 phone in water. Happened 12 hours ago.
I removed battery right away. The screen was on when I removed the phone from the glass, pretty much right away.
Left the phone overnight in the rice bucket. Then turned it on in the morning.
The phone powers up and everything, so far seems to work, including the speaker and ear piece (thats the side that dropped in water).
Make phone call, I can hear and other person can hear. Wifi seems to work. Screen scrolling and such works.
Only thing I am noticing right now is that the Lock Button seems to have itr own brain. It autopresses and "the power off" screen keeps coming on by itself. Also, pressing the Lock Button does not lock the phone anymore. All it does is brings me to the Power Off screen.
Any help? Should I just remove the battery and leave it in the rice bucket for maybe a few more days?
Thanks.
P.S: I am glad the phone still works, and I will give a lot of credit to BESTSKINSEVER full phone cover.
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Was it a glass of tap water or some sort of bottled water (distilled/filtered)?
I ask because tap water has all sorts of chemicals and when it drys, they are left behind. Like your shower gets that white build up on the walls (aka hard-water buildup) unless your doing the hanky panky in the shower and not cleaning up your mess. Whatever electronic board is near the power button could have a bridge residue causing it to act strange.
My girlfriend left her G1 out and my 2 year old son dropped in the dogs water bowl. I dried it out and left it in rice as well for 24 hours. 24 hours later I powered it up and the phone would act weird. Random keys being pressed. Random menu pop ups. I took it all apart and noticed white residue on some of the circuit boards. I cleaned them with rubbing alcohol and a soft mini tooth brush it stopped the randomness but I still needed to replace the LCD screen. Beyond my control.
Anyways good luck.
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The screen is pretty much sealed off. So i guess when water gets INTO your screen behind the glass you are pretty fecked..
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I can attest to this. I spilled coffee over the entire screen one morning. I swear I moved faster than the flash cuz I grabbed tissue and wiped it clean in like seconds. But everything was still fine and dandy after though. =)
You guys have such bad luck! :O Never dropped any electronic in any body of water lol. XD
Sistum Id said:
Was it a glass of tap water or some sort of bottled water (distilled/filtered)?
I ask because tap water has all sorts of chemicals and when it drys, they are left behind. Like your shower gets that white build up on the walls (aka hard-water buildup) unless your doing the hanky panky in the shower and not cleaning up your mess. Whatever electronic board is near the power button could have a bridge residue causing it to act strange.
My girlfriend left her G1 out and my 2 year old son dropped in the dogs water bowl. I dried it out and left it in rice as well for 24 hours. 24 hours later I powered it up and the phone would act weird. Random keys being pressed. Random menu pop ups. I took it all apart and noticed white residue on some of the circuit boards. I cleaned them with rubbing alcohol and a soft mini tooth brush it stopped the randomness but I still needed to replace the LCD screen. Beyond my control.
Anyways good luck.
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I highly doubt that he was drinking a glass of distiled water. Drinking distiled water is not good for someone to drink. So more than likely it was tap/drinking water.
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:
thecresta said:
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.
posl'o ja to s mob'tela
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
So, my Xperia is brand new! And, obviously I've dipped it in water a couple of times.. mostly to cool it down. [because it gets heated up as heck!] Yesterday, in about 4 a.m. my phone was on charge and it got really hot. So I decided to dip it in water. I disconnected the charger and closed the charger flap. I put it in my pant pocket [bear in mind, my pants were a little tight] .. I took out my phone and without double checking i put it in a mug of water. The charger flap had become loose an when I took it out it might've opened and BAM! Red dye and ****ed up front camera. I FREAKED the heck out! Its a pricy phone and its hardly been a month and they have no warranty if it gets water damaged due to open flaps! Its even more pricy, where I live. But whatever, it was Still working okay.. except for the front camera. I searched some forums and found one that said that 'The water itself doesn't harm the phone, turning it on with water in it might' .. so I switched it off and kept it aside. I woke up today at about 1:00 p.m. and out of curiosity I turned it on. And THERE! The screen now went crazy, turned off and on by itself. The screen is okay because everytime i restart it [Power button + Volume up] it does show the 'Sony' and then 'Xperia' signs then the start up colourful thing does happen but then the screen goes black and the now I can't even switch it off! I did do the vacuum/hair dryer thing. What else can I do? I can't just let it go to waste! Its brand new! PLEASE HELP?! :crying:
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So, my Xperia is brand new! And, obviously I've dipped it in water a couple of times.. mostly to cool it down. [because it gets heated up as heck!] Yesterday, in about 4 a.m. my phone was on charge and it got really hot. So I decided to dip it in water. I disconnected the charger and closed the charger flap. I put it in my pant pocket [bear in mind, my pants were a little tight] .. I took out my phone and without double checking i put it in a mug of water. The charger flap had become loose an when I took it out it might've opened and BAM! Red dye and ****ed up front camera. I FREAKED the heck out! Its a pricy phone and its hardly been a month and they have no warranty if it gets water damaged due to open flaps! Its even more pricy, where I live. But whatever, it was Still working okay.. except for the front camera. I searched some forums and found one that said that 'The water itself doesn't harm the phone, turning it on with water in it might' .. so I switched it off and kept it aside. I woke up today at about 1:00 p.m. and out of curiosity I turned it on. And THERE! The screen now went crazy, turned off and on by itself. The screen is okay because everytime i restart it [Power button + Volume up] it does show the 'Sony' and then 'Xperia' signs then the start up colourful thing does happen but then the screen goes black and the now I can't even switch it off! I did do the vacuum/hair dryer thing. What else can I do? I can't just let it go to waste! Its brand new! PLEASE HELP?! :crying:
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Vacuum/hair-dryer are both bad ideas for electronics. The vacuum is bad because it creates a lot of static electricity, and the hair-dryer because, obviously, it heats the phone up to high temperatures.
What you should have done immediately was to turn it off, open all the flaps and put the phone in a bag of rice, letting the rice absorb the water for around a week or so (or at the very least 3-4 days), preferably with a drained/removed battery but this isn't really an option with Xperia Z. After this you need to make sure to get all the rice out before closing the flaps and starting it up.
Fingers crossed nothing has short circuited and/or corroded yet!
And using water to cool the phone, while it seems like a good idea, has to be the dumbest excuse for ruining your phone I've ever heard.
Take it for repair. That is your only option. You will have to pay because the water ingress indicator is red.
Learn from this and don't submerge the phone for no reason when or if you have it back from repair.
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Rekoil said:
Vacuum/hair-dryer are both bad ideas for electronics. The vacuum is bad because it creates a lot of static electricity, and the hair-dryer because, obviously, it heats the phone up to high temperatures.
What you should have done immediately was to open all the flaps and put the phone in a bag of rice and let the rice absorb the water for a week or so while off, preferably with a drained/removed battery but this isn't really an option with Xperia Z. After this you need to make sure to get all the rice out before closing the flaps and starting it up.
Fingers crossed nothing has short circuited and/or corroded yet!
And using water to cool the phone, while it seems like a good idea, has to be the dumbest excuse for ruining your phone I've ever heard.
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Using water to cool the phone down? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRzso-PzuOM just an example.
Further, do what Rekoil said. Heard from a few people that it works, but be sure to leave it in there long enough! Don't try to turn it on/charge it earlier.
kingvortex said:
Take it for repair. That is your only option. You will have to pay because the water ingress indicator is red.
Learn from this and don't submerge the phone for no reason when or if you have it back from repair.
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This. If it's going crazy then there's water shorting something. You're likely to end up with corroded components (and premature failure) if you don't get it professionally repaired.
hey, 2 days ago i used my xperia z to took video underwater,,,, after about 5-8 mins underwater...color in my screen fade to white....so i did hard restart.....screen back to normal after 1-2min back fade to white......but every i turn off and turn on again (or restart) it'll be normal but after 1-2min it'll change to fade again, but the touchscreen still works, everything is ok but the problem is the screen back to white again and again.......how to slove this problem? please help me.....
aldidetu said:
hey, 2 days ago i used my xperia z to took video underwater,,,, after about 5-8 mins underwater...color in my screen fade to white....so i did hard restart.....screen back to normal after 1-2min back fade to white......but every i turn off and turn on again (or restart) it'll be normal but after 1-2min it'll change to fade again, but the touchscreen still works, everything is ok but the problem is the screen back to white again and again.......how to slove this problem? please help me.....
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nothing to do by yourself
if u r sure all ports were closed underwater just take it to official service for replacement.
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Hey OP, I had the same problem after water damage. Just keep using your phone like normal, it'll start turning white/negative less often, and after 3 weeks or so, your phone will be back to normal!
x102x96x said:
nothing to do by yourself
if u r sure all ports were closed underwater just take it to official service for replacement.
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abhinav1023 said:
Hey OP, I had the same problem after water damage. Just keep using your phone like normal, it'll start turning white/negative less often, and after 3 weeks or so, your phone will be back to normal!
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can i charge my phone, i think there is water in my lcd...
thank you for your attention....
i thought i should let put my xperia z to the sony service center....but i think twice to put it in ssc, cause in my country their service is very bad....the customer very difficult to use their guaranty....once again thank you for all your attention
Water damage isn't covered in the warranty, and it's expensive to repair. When my phone got water damaged (happened less than 48 hours after I got it), I put it in a bag of rice with the 2 smaller flaps open for a few days. That didn't help at all, so I decided to leave it in my cupboard with all the flaps open for a day or two. Surprisingly, this took care of all the visible condensation. I charged my phone after this, and there seemed to be no problem. I continued to use the phone like nothing happened, and I kept using it even while the screen was white.
I've had my Xperia Z for almost a month now, and the white screen issue is entirely gone. I also had other problems like condensation in the camera, a malfunctioning proximity sensor, and an external speaker that didn't work. These problems are gone too.
The only signs of damage left on my phone are condensation in the flash and a little silver blob below my screen (no clue what this is, but it doesn't seem to affect the phone).
I'd say leave your phone somewhere airy with ALL of the flaps open for a couple of days, and then try charging it. DO NOT USE A BLOW DRYER OR A VACUUM TO TRY TO REMOVE WATER, AS THIS WILL RESULT IN HEAT/STATIC DAMAGE.
By the way, how many of your water ingress indicators have gone red?
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Water damage isn't covered in the warranty, and it's expensive to repair. When my phone got water damaged (happened less than 48 hours after I got it), I put it in a bag of rice with the 2 smaller flaps open for a few days. That didn't help at all, so I decided to leave it in my cupboard with all the flaps open for a day or two. Surprisingly, this took care of all the visible condensation. I charged my phone after this, and there seemed to be no problem. I continued to use the phone like nothing happened, and I kept using it even while the screen was white.
I've had my Xperia Z for almost a month now, and the white screen issue is entirely gone. I also had other problems like condensation in the camera, a malfunctioning proximity sensor, and an external speaker that didn't work. These problems are gone too.
The only signs of damage left on my phone are condensation in the flash and a little silver blob below my screen (no clue what this is, but it doesn't seem to affect the phone).
I'd say leave your phone somewhere airy with ALL of the flaps open for a couple of days, and then try charging it. DO NOT USE A BLOW DRYER OR A VACUUM TO TRY TO REMOVE WATER, AS THIS WILL RESULT IN HEAT/STATIC DAMAGE.
By the way, how many of your water ingress indicators have gone red?
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thank you for your attention
there 1 indicator have gone red, at charge port, but i really sure i've closed it before i brought it in to the water...
so if there is technical error when installation the port, are the warranty still valid ?
i just put my xperia in my bedroom and left with the ports opened, i hope the water inside my lcd can evaporate. I've the same problem with you, there are some silver blob below in my screen too, look like water behind the lcd. almost a week i never charge my phone, i'm afraid there will be shorting inside. so can i charge my xperia now ?
I put my iPod touch on the dash of my car for a day. It dried it out. No sign of water damage. It was in my pocket of shorts and my wife washed it in the laundry.
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deathknellx said:
I put my iPod touch on the dash of my car for a day. It dried it out. No sign of water damage. It was in my pocket of shorts and my wife washed it in the laundry.
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Yeah, but your iPod isn't held together by a heat-sensitive adhesive. The Xperia Z is. So that's not exactly the best idea...
aldidetu said:
thank you for your attention
there 1 indicator have gone red, at charge port, but i really sure i've closed it before i brought it in to the water...
so if there is technical error when installation the port, are the warranty still valid ?
i just put my xperia in my bedroom and left with the ports opened, i hope the water inside my lcd can evaporate. I've the same problem with you, there are some silver blob below in my screen too, look like water behind the lcd. almost a week i never charge my phone, i'm afraid there will be shorting inside. so can i charge my xperia now ?
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Hey, don't mention it
Wow, that's funny. It's the same exact water indicator that's turned red on my phone.
The flaps on your phone could be faulty, and if they are, you are still under warranty. Next to your headphone flap, there is actually a Waterproof Test Hole, which Sony Service Centers use to test if your phone's waterproof capabilities are okay. The test hole can't be seen as there is a piece of plastic that covers it.
The thing is that it's more than likely that your phone will pass the waterproof test, and that your flaps came loose underwater when you were taking the video (pretty sure this is what happened to me as well).
Oh, and I can confirm that the silver blob is not water, but actually some sort of corrosion. It happened to my previous phone as well, and when I took it apart there was no water at in it at all.
Go ahead and charge it, you've got nothing to lose. Your warranty is void, and it's not like your phone will work without charge. Good luck!
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Yeah, but your iPod isn't held together by a heat-sensitive adhesive. The Xperia Z is. So that's not exactly the best idea...
Hey, don't mention it
Wow, that's funny. It's the same exact water indicator that's turned red on my phone.
The flaps on your phone could be faulty, and if they are, you are still under warranty. Next to your headphone flap, there is actually a Waterproof Test Hole, which Sony Service Centers use to test if your phone's waterproof capabilities are okay. The test hole can't be seen as there is a piece of plastic that covers it.
The thing is that it's more than likely that your phone will pass the waterproof test, and that your flaps came loose underwater when you were taking the video (pretty sure this is what happened to me as well).
Oh, and I can confirm that the silver blob is not water, but actually some sort of corrosion. It happened to my previous phone as well, and when I took it apart there was no water at in it at all.
Go ahead and charge it, you've got nothing to lose. Your warranty is void, and it's not like your phone will work without charge. Good luck!
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i put my xperia z to sony service center yesterday, and They were looking for what ' s wrong with my xperia, and check is the warranty stil valid or not.....
but it'll surely need a long time, about 1 month++.....