Hi I dropped my k3 a week or so ago and it fell in water I quickly removed it andd dried it , placed it on a gentle warm heat to dry it out to make sure all was dry , but since the screen just freezes and won't let me do anything I had ghostrom on at the time but since then some days it is ok and then it will freeze again I have tried safe mode nothing the one day when it was responsive I installed android nougout ROM all was great now it's frozen again I have phoned lenovo custom service in the UK no help at all dose anyone have any ideas
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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!
morjul said:
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?
I noticed that a couple of days I stopped work motion sensor or automatic screen rotation, I have tried many ways to repair such as uploading new firmware, wipe, different programs and nothing ... I do not know what to do and how to look for a little he found in google this thread about this with you need to start repair on the motherboard. I have no idea what could have cause but it is possible that something on the motherboard just refused to work because two weeks ago my phone fell into the streets and the battery lid August detached and a little snow in August nasypalo to the center but I very fast cleaned phone and everything worked even the sensor, and the next day I turned the phone after charging the battery and noticed the sensor does not work I waited two weeks because I thought that it could repair itself but it did not. My Soft 2.3.5 and it was during those two weeks a few altered to assist, please correct and detailed help me in this matter ...
karkarkar698 said:
I noticed that a couple of days I stopped work motion sensor or automatic screen rotation, I have tried many ways to repair such as uploading new firmware, wipe, different programs and nothing ... I do not know what to do and how to look for a little he found in google this thread about this with you need to start repair on the motherboard. I have no idea what could have cause but it is possible that something on the motherboard just refused to work because two weeks ago my phone fell into the streets and the battery lid August detached and a little snow in August nasypalo to the center but I very fast cleaned phone and everything worked even the sensor, and the next day I turned the phone after charging the battery and noticed the sensor does not work I waited two weeks because I thought that it could repair itself but it did not. My Soft 2.3.5 and it was during those two weeks a few altered to assist, please correct and detailed help me in this matter ...
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You can go to the samsung service center.
Hi all . Wishing you all a happy holi.
Well as the thread says and since its holi (no explanation required) my phone seems to have shutdown after my friends and I were playing with a water pipe and I (for kicks) hosed my Xperia Z full of water.
After reading a few threads I came to understand that there are damage strip indicators on all panel flaps.
The micro SD flip is still white but the charger/usb cable and headphone jack flaps have turned pink,
The phone also crashed sometime after I hosed it with water and is not powering up.
So what should I do now?
Currently I'm on the advice of 3 friends using the rice method. I have opened all flaps of the phone and submerged it in a bowl of rice so that it dries out all the moisture. I intend to keep it the whole night and try powering it up in the morning.
Options:
1. Try the rice method and hope it works (yay)
2. After failing point 1, keep it in the sun/blower/hair dryer method and try again to power it up,
3. Take it to the Sony Service Center in Lajpat Nagar (I'm from New Delhi) and give it for repair.
P.S - My phone is rooted and running cyanogenmod. Will they charge me extra If I happen to give it for repair when they find out I'm running a custom mod.
I'm asking because Sony does weird things. When I bought the phone last year I dropped it on the ground and scratched a corner. Not too much but the phone was only 3 months old and I felt bad about it so I thought I get the body changed for a small fee.
Turns out Sony does not replace the phone body instead the executive simply told me to pay 50% of the price and I could get a whole new phone since the Xperia's body cannot be changed.
Kindly help!
Thank You
same here though my power button is ****ed up right now.... i have it dipped in rice and would let it be there for 2-3 days...
P.S even my headphone jack and usb are pink now.... i never had it removed from my pocket but had a lot of water splashes...
THIS THREAD SHOULD BE CLOSED. PROBLEM HAS BEEN SOLVED.
My gratitude to the people who were kind enough to reply to my private messages.
Point no. 1 worked.
I covered the phone in rice in a plastic bowl and left it for a whole day in my car where it got heated.
After that I tried powering it on. Seeing as I had already pretty much destroyed the phone I decided to give it one last shot on charging the phone which I hadn't done in case it short circuits and voila! The red light turns on and my phone is charging.
No problems detected.
Network/3G is working. Tried whatsapp, sms and used the camera and music player. Speakers are fine too. Same goes for the screen. Seems no damage done to the phone at all. Will need to change the screen guard though. Its become moist. I'll use the phone and reply on how the battery has been performing.
I'm sold. This is a SOLID PHONE. And I was worried that I'd have to shell out 15-20k because the damage indicators on the 2 flaps had turned pink.
Yup same here.... Although as I had water in my back camera.... It's left dust on my camera lens
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hello man i couldn't understand your message anyway i got my phone fixed , the only problem i had was with the fog on the cameras which gone after 2 days by it self and also i used the bag which has small balls in it which take the humidity away
hello all,
two days ago i flashed the norwegian lollipop ftf to my US unbranded z3c. it was working amazingly, my 4g and wi-fi problems seemed fixed. it was the happiest i've been with my z3c since i got it in november. However, i was using my phone as normal and i saw the screen flicker in a strange way then it went black! i can hear all of my notifications going off but nothing from the screen. I repaired via PC companion and nothing. I have a protection plan so i have a new z3c on the way. So here's my question, during this day i only did two things out of the ordinary to my phone:
1) i installed 5.0.2 ftf ( which i highly doubt caused this, but still scared to flash the norwegian again... should i be scared?)
2) and this is really stupid so please dont be too mean to me.... my phone got really hot after the update so i put it in cold water to cool it down. the phone worked for about an hour after that then the screen went.
does anyone have any advice to possibly save my phone and not have to use the protection plan yet?
im scared to flash ftf again because im not sure what caused this
thank you !
Probably water damage. Turn phone off, open flaps, put in sealed bag of dry rice for three days. Don't mean to be a scaremonger, but unfortunately sounds like the damage may be done already.
So just to make the story short.I was running 3 days ago with my phone in my pocket and i noticed some sweat in both front and back cameras. Phone restarted.I closed the phone , when i got home i left the device close to a heat source +some periods in rice . Today in the morning phone managed to load OS for the first time . The problem now is that the display does not respond to commands. Other things seem ok , just that screen is not reading the touches. Can i save the touchscreen or should i forget about the phone ?
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So just to make the story short.I was running 3 days ago with my phone in my pocket and i noticed some sweat in both front and back cameras. Phone restarted.I closed the phone , when i got home i left the device close to a heat source +some periods in rice . Today in the morning phone managed to load OS for the first time . The problem now is that the display does not respond to commands. Other things seem ok , just that screen is not reading the touches. Can i save the touchscreen or should i forget about the phone ?
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This is usually an indicator of corrosion that has developed sonewhere (usually in the contacts of where the displau's flex cable connects to the motherboard). You can try letting it dry for more time, but usually it's the end of the road I'm afraid.
There are 3rd party shops that can offer to repair it (pro shops use an ultrasonic cleaner), but this is always a 50 - 50 thing; the phone may or may not work, and if it does, it may work for weeks, months, a year, etc. Nobody knows. If you're just going to put or throw it away, consider trying to take it apart yourself, grab a tooth brush and some 99% isopropyl alcohol and cleaning away any corrosion you may find.
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So just to make the story short.I was running 3 days ago with my phone in my pocket and i noticed some sweat in both front and back cameras. Phone restarted.I closed the phone , when i got home i left the device close to a heat source +some periods in rice . Today in the morning phone managed to load OS for the first time . The problem now is that the display does not respond to commands. Other things seem ok , just that screen is not reading the touches. Can i save the touchscreen or should i forget about the phone ?
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I have same problem, first hard to touch next day screen flickering and then become black but phone still running.
Last hope I buy whole screen and change it, so sad.
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