I dropped my spv m1000 down the toilet, it was in there less than a second. However its now dead, ive tried to dry it out for a week now and still no luck, shall i give up ?
Once you get water in it, specially yellow water :lol:, even if it powered up, the keypad's gone!
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Title says it all.
Phone was on before submersion and non-responsive after. I removed all easily removed parts (back, battery, SIM, stylus) and it is air drying.
Yes ... I washed my hands!
Any suggestions?
To be honest I think a total strip down my be in order to totally get rid of all the moisture.
I might be wrong but Never Say Never
Even if you totally stripped it down the damage is permanant and done
I'm not trying to be a downer, but here is the reality.
1) You probably shorted the phone out. It's dead
2) By some LUCKY chance you didn't short the phone out, let it dry for a LONG time with out supply any power to it. Assuming you can bring it back to live, the internals have already gotten wet. Water + Electronics = Corrosion. Your phone won't last long
That sucks man
I would suggest a full or as full as you can tear down and a flush with distilled water and then a very good drying.
I left mine out screen facing up in the pouring rain for 5 hours
was soaking but still working lol
the backlight wasnt happy though,
dried it out and took the battery out after playing with it wondering how it still worked.
all was well
occasionaly you get the white powedery corrosion on the various processor legs (makes contacts where you dont want them ) which most of the time cleaning them off with fix and issues .
Edit my wizard was playing some mp3s the otherday and fell of motorbike at 50 mph and hit the road , stopped picked it up it was still playing the same tune through the speakers ,
amazing build quality for a heavy device to survive that .
Just wondering... When using your phone in the rain is it dodgy? Like will it break the touch screen if it gets too wet? Should we all be buying gay covers?
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Title says it all.
Phone was on before submersion and non-responsive after. I removed all easily removed parts (back, battery, SIM, stylus) and it is air drying.
Yes ... I washed my hands!
Any suggestions?
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You should rename yourself the PMan! :lol: Sorry could not help myself :wink:
There is some hope for you - read this story http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=54874
If you plan on attempting to clean it, don't use distilled water!
The best thing to use would be pure rubbing alcohol.
Well ... disassembled and patted it dry. Left it out to dry for about 24 hours ... reassembled.
Viola!
Powers up and everything seems to working fine.
GldRush98 said:
Even if you totally stripped it down the damage is permanant and done
I'm not trying to be a downer, but here is the reality.
1) You probably shorted the phone out. It's dead
2) By some LUCKY chance you didn't short the phone out, let it dry for a LONG time with out supply any power to it. Assuming you can bring it back to live, the internals have already gotten wet. Water + Electronics = Corrosion. Your phone won't last long
That sucks man
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Well you are a downer man.
New phones now are hard to short like that, though water do soak into the boards, just hope it didnt soak and damage your screen. Just take apart and dry.
I was very upset a couple days ago after I dropped my 818Pro in the swimming pool. I was playing with my son with my pants folded up to my knee without realizing that I still had my 818Pro on a clip on my belt. Suddenly, I saw something black fell to the swimming pool and I had to pick it up from the bottom of the swimming pool.
When I picked it up. I was so confused and couldn't think straight for a few minutes then I realized that I had to take off the battery right away, so I did, hoping that it wasn't too late. It was vibrating when I was about to take out the battery (maybe the water was too cold and it was shivering!). Later I found out that somebody was calling me at around the time, I felt more and more hopeless.
I thought of all the data and programs I have installed, and all the trouble upgrading to WM6.0 with. I was very upset. But anyway, I left the phone alone for 3 days.
I just tried to turn it on for the first time and IT WAS ON!!! Amazing, everything is still there, the data, the sound is ok, graphic is ok, bluetooth is ok, I still can sync with my computer, charge the battery etc.... It's perfect!!
So, I just thought that I have to share this experience with all of you. Water doesn't always damage the phone, just be patient and leave it alone for a couple of days, cross ur fingers and try it again.
Water proof Prophet!!!
Next time ...
Put in a Scuba and send it to the abyss !!!
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wow! good stuff. i read somewhere that the 1st rule if your phone fell in the water, dont switch it on straight away! take battery out & open case let it dry out 1st, which i guess is what happened in your case. if you switch it on straight away then there would be a electric short damaging it
Prophets are getting tougher!
The problem with water is not that it damages things directly, but that if you turn the device on with water in it, it might short connections and screw the whole thing up. Having said that, dropping a camera to the bottom of the Loire Valley (my dad fell in when we where kayaking down a bit of it) is terminal, so I wouldn't suggest trying this for fun!
I wasn't so lucky with my wet phone please help !
Hello Guys, I am a doctor and the other night I got home really tired and put my phone on top of my drawer as I always do, and took a coupe of aspirins and after a few mins. of tv I fell asleep. I had the glass with some water also on top of the drawer and while asleep I hit the plastic glass and some water dropped (I believe on the surface of my HD2) I say I believe because I was asleep and and I woke up at the noise of the glass falling on the floor.
I noticed the phone screen was wet and cleaned it and went back to bed.
I failed to remove the battery or turn the phone off, next morning, the screen of the phone was flashing on and off repeatedly and it behaved erratically.
I removed the battery, removed the back cover and wait... It has been three days now and if I put in the battery it turns on and works almost fine for a few mins. but the volume screen pops up repeatedly and the volume does not work and at some point it seems the phone goes crazy showing all kind of screens at random like a DEMO MODE (if you know what I mean) but the must frequent is the volume screen.
I bought some humidity absorbing powder and the phone is just there, now surrounded by it. I don't even know if it is wet inside.
Does this behavior sound familiar to any of you ? the thing is that I don't have HTC support service in my country, this phone I imported it from the us and I trully hope this is a wet solutionable problem.
I apologize for my lack of English, I hope no one gets uncomfortable.
Any help guys please ?¿
Well, if it still has water in it, you could try putting it in a bowl with some rice to draw the water out ..... let it sit covered with rice in the bowl for a couple of days might work better or might not than the drying powder you have ...
all I got ...
Thank you so much for your advise.
I will do that, the phone has been surrounded with thah powder for 24 hours now.
I'll post whatever news I get.
Again thanks a lot
Any news
Hello, do you have any news on your phone? I just got caught in a serious rain storm and my HD got soaked in my pocket :-( LOADS of water behind the screen I can see...How do i get it out, help...
Thanks in advance
Hello,
My G1 as for the last year has worked perfect, until a week ago when the battery died. I charger it and turn it back on when it loaded it displayed the lock screen but it wouldn’t unlock there was no notifications bar and wouldn’t turn off. So I took the battery out and tried again it booted past the android screen but it just went black with backlight lit.
I took it to the T-Mobile shop and to my horror the water damage indicator was red but I know that it has not come into contact with water maybe so rain drops but im very careful with it.
So done some research and booted with POWER + HOME and press ALT+W to reset it and hey it works . But today the same thing happened . I’m worried that it’s going to die for good soon.
So I wanted to know your opinion on it and what I can do. T-Mobile won’t touch it.
Thanks
Jason
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Hahahaha.
OP - try wiping, flashing, and wiping the phone.
If it is water damage then you could try the dry rice method, or put it in a low over ( 60 degrees C or less, warning this IS dangerous and should only be used as a last resort, and you have to be certain that it is not above 80 degrees C, an hour should dry out any lingering water).
The dry rice method just involves removing the battery, and putting the phone in dry rice overnight, apparently the rice soaks up any water in the phone, never had to use this method, but I hear it's effective, can't hurt any can it?
I've heard of moisture actually causing problems like this. That includes moisture from sweat. People have never once even DROPPED their phones and moisture ruining it. :/
2 weeks ago it was raining so much that the whole parking was under water.
I jumped to my car and went home. Halfway I discovered that my phone was missing, so I went back and found it on the parking, laying under water for half an hour, 10 cm deep.
When I picked it up, even it was still under water the lock screen went on.
At home, after disassembly the phone, only under the battery cover where a few drops of water, futher the phone was dry. Even the headphone and micro-usb are no leaking path.
I use it now again for 2 weeks and it still works fine, without any trouble.
Bravo for HTC to make a phone, more than spashproof
brotsje said:
2 weeks ago it was raining so much that the whole parking was under water.
I jumped to my car and went home. Halfway I discovered that my phone was missing, so I went back and found it on the parking, laying under water for half an hour, 10 cm deep.
When I picked it up, even it was still under water the lock screen went on.
At home, after disassembly the phone, only under the battery cover where a few drops of water, futher the phone was dry. Even the headphone and micro-usb are no leaking path.
I use it now again for 2 weeks and it still works fine, without any trouble.
Bravo for HTC to make a phone, more than spashproof
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Yes, htc is the shizz! I just brought mine back to life and everything works after dropping it on the deep side of my pool. On cases like mine, taking it apart right away and putting it on a bowl of uncooked rice for a week(just to be sure) and it will dry it completely!
Alas mine wasn't so lucky, fell in a puddle as I got into the car, grabbed it out, turned it off and removed battery, sim and SD, wiped as much water off as I could with tissues.
Left it for 2 days to dry, nada. Might be that the impact with the ground (wasn't that deep a puddle) killed it.
Embarassingly and luckily I'd only taken insurance out on it that lunchtime!
Wow, that's pretty impressive for a phone. Touchscreen phones are usually prone to most types of damage, but it's good to see being fully submerged in water didn't completely disable the phone.
You lucky guy
Hmmmmmm
I'm a little dubious... I spilled a really small amount of water from a glass on the bedside table onto my HD2. Even though I immediately jumped out of bed, cursed and wiped it dry, the water seeped into it. I could see the water in the LCD (it looked like a shadow that spread across the screen slowly over days). Two weeks later, the digitizer stopped responding to my touch even though the LCD itself still seems to work. I've hard reset the handset and that hasn't helped. I also tried heating up the unit a bit (without the battery) to try to have the water evaporate from it, but that hasn't helped either.
I took the phone into O2 who had their people look at it. Ultimately they said it was out of warranty because of water damage and that I could purchase a replacement (since I don't have insurance on it).
I'm considering trying to replace the digitizer, but it sounds like a lot of fuss and ultimately the phone won't be under warranty.
Annoying... I miss my HD2. I'm stuck with a Motorola Razr at the moment.
You can drop the phone in anything... aslong as the water does not have minerals that are conductive or prone to errosion it will be fine
[OP] just happen to have some clean water falling from the sky
I had a Blackberry Storm that once got submergered in baby oil.. It stopped working and I left it alone for A month or so...One day i picked it up and it started working... The LCD was messed up with Oil in it but other then that it worked...I opened it up and there was baby oil everywhere.... Got some distalled water and let it sit for a day or so to get it clean then replaced the LCD and it worked like new.
Distalled Water is H20 with notthing in it... As clean as water can get... Sine it has no conductive minerals you can drop a phone or PSP and it will work just fine.
Really?
I thought water itself was corrosive to metal? I can't imagine that the rainwater mentioned in the first post would be as clean as distilled water...
Anyway, I was wondering do you guys have have any suggestions? I have this lovely phone that boots up and I can't do anything with.
Should I just wait it out and see if it starts working again.
raduaz said:
I thought water itself was corrosive to metal? I can't imagine that the rainwater mentioned in the first post would be as clean as distilled water...
Anyway, I was wondering do you guys have have any suggestions? I have this lovely phone that boots up and I can't do anything with.
Should I just wait it out and see if it starts working again.
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if it has clorine in the water then yea... most citys add a small amount of clorine in their water system......
the phone boots but its unresponsive?
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I dont want to THINK mine under water not to be under water NEVER