Ok so my JasJam was in my bag and my water bottle leaked onto it. Thing is I didn't realise that it was wet for at least a couple of hours.
When I picked it up it had turned off because there was all this grime in between the battery terminals. I took the battery out and almost cried.
This is how to fix a water damaged JasJam...
1. Buy a can of CO contact cleaner.
2. Pull the entire phone apart.
3. Spray cleaner on the board and inbetween all contacts and scrub with a toothbrush.
4. Leave to dry for a day or so.
5. Put battery back in and turn on phone.
Ok so at this point the screen didn't turn on and none of the lights came on so I almost cried again. But then I noticed that when I flipped the keyboard out the keyboard lit up! So I held the power button in to turn the phone off and it made that beep that it makes when it asks you if you want to turn it off. My JasJam was still alive, it... just...couldn't see!
Ok so if your screen doesn't come back on follow the next steps...
6. Get a new screen or buy a faulty JasJam off ebay.
7. Take it apart and replace screen.
After replacing the screen try switching it on agian. Mine switched on! But the backlight wasn't working...?!? Go to the next step...
8. Replace the scroll wheel circuit board.
Done, my JasJam now works again! A very happy day!
is there any way to "bypass" the scroller? mine did the same thing but cant really afford a new scroller circuit or dead imate.
Rubbing Alcohol and Rice!
I always fix water damage with rubbing alcohol and rice...
Take the phone apart, soak the FEY layers (the green layers with all the circuitry) in rubbing alcohol, take it out, toothbrush it, put it into your oven at about 350 for like 3 minutes, take it out and place it into a cup of rice for 24 hours. Don't worry, it won't melt because the silicon and iron melting points are really high! And the rice just sucks all the moisture out of anything!
Good Luck!
Didn't find a workaround for the scroll wheel, you'll need to replace...
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Some idiot sat on my bag which contained mineral water. My mineral bottle blew open and the water inside spilled inside my bag. Unfortunately for me, my cellphone was at the bottom of my bag. During that time, I was listening to mp3s through a2dp. A minute later, the idiot told me that something in my bag spilled. Then, I noticed my bag was wet. Then a 10 seconds later, I realized my phone was inside my bag.
Long story short, my phone was working well, then the mp3s starting skipping like crazy, so I turned off my phone. Once I got home 20 minutes later, I blow dried the outer shell and the battery area and it was seemingly dry. Now I turned my phone on and it had some problems at first. The backlight wasn't lighting all the time until I went to the backlight settings.
Now my problem is that my screen is slightly flickering when the backlight is on. If I open my wizard with the help of the service manual, do you think I'll be able to solve this problem?
Okay, now the thing works again... However, now I am paranoid about it. Should I dry bake it and how do you dry bake? The only thing I did right now was to blow dry the hell out of it. I plan on getting that star shaped screw driver tomorrow, for a thorough cleansing. The touch screen seems to be damaged on the right side.
I'm not sure dry baking it is going to help now. If your phone is wet at all you should remove the battery immediately until you know that the phone is completely dry. To dry bake it though, rmove the battery and turn your oven on its lowest setting and then pop it in there for a few hours and it should be good to go after that. I'm guessing any damage that has been done to it already might be permanent. Maybe you'll get luck though and it isn't.
I would advise against baking it. My Cing 8525 has fallen into water TWICE now; the trick is to immediately shut it down, remove the battery, and allow the phone to thoroughly dry. I took a can of compressed air and blow dried my phone the first time; I then let it sit for several days open with the battery out (thought it was dead) but then decided to give it another try and it worked fine. Has continued to work well even after the second dunking but then I was in Africa and it was 118 degrees so didn't take long to dry.......
Baking the phone just increases your risks of overdoing or doing something wrong....
HI all, i've a really disappointing problem. My touch HD was in my pocket when I took some rain on my motorcycle . Arrived at home the phone was off. I opened it following the service manual. I've putted it behind the power supply of the pc, where the warm air comes out, dismantled, for a few days.
Then I assembled all, and now it turns on, but, it randomly restart. Do you think my mobo is broken? some contact?
I was thinking I can sell the various parts of my phone all the items works, sim, sd reader, camera (back and front) except the mobo ofcourse.
thanks in advance for your help
Hi.I have heard of one way of fixed water damaged devices and that is by putting them in a container covered by UNCOOKED rice. I think the rice is meant to draw the water out. Leave it for a day I think. Never tried it myself but heard it works
Phil G
Hi, thanks for your answer, the phone was behind the psu of the pc for a week totally dismantled, so I think is pretty dry
thanks again for you interest
I actually dropped me BS in a bucket of water. Dried it out in a heat cabinet at work (50 deg C) for a day and it works perfectly still
Hi la3bna, i'm trying to do as you suggested, was your bs powered when it fall in the water?
thanks for your answer
You should use the salt that is used to lower humidity (e.g. from Bison).
Put the bag of salt on the bottom of a plastic box.
On top of the bag a plate so your device has no fysical contact
with the salt. On the plate you lay down your device without
the backside. Seal the box airtight and leave it there for 7 days.
I did this with the Ipod of my son which had been washed for over
an hour on 60 degrees celsius. The Ipod was dead, but after the
procedure as described it was fully functional!
Thanks a lot, I'll try this!!
Yes mine was on, actually someone called my when it fell
I dropped mine in deep snow... I was holding it in my hand and slipped and also fell
It was very wet so I got scared it won't work but when I got home I turned it off,removed the battery,cards and just put it in some blanket to dry off
After an hour turned it back on and everything worked just like before
Also the other day I accidentally spilled some hand cream on my blackstone and it got inside but nothing happened again so I'm lucky...
thanks for your advices, trying the rice thing
lol, you guys are fecking useless
There is no way I would put myself in that situation, then again I have dropped it a few times so probably only lucky there wasnt water about
Well, I also dropped my Blackstone into water and, after drying it for some 2-3 hrs in the sun it works, except the memory card reader - the problem with the water and mobile phones is the fact that the water is oxidizing the circuitry - so, if it still malfunctions after a week of drying, then probably the phone is doomed.
Sorry for your loss!
for oxid, i've "bathed" the phone in Svitol, but nothing appens... i'm going to sell it as spare.
thanks all for your answer
open the device and dry it out..
already tried, using the service manual to open it, and dried for a week, but nothing appens.
thanks anyway
keep pressing the on/off button - eg, press button on off on off on off (while charging)
and tell me what happens, eg, a vibration??
hi, ti vibrate, then starts, show the smart mobility screen, load the SO, and all works for about 10 minutes. Then the phone restarts and get stuck to smart mobility screen. After that the only way is to press reset or remove the battery. After that if you press the power button the phone get always stuck on smart mobility, sometimes start to load the SO and then it restart before finishing to load.
Nicola
Solved
Hi, problem solved, just left the phone in its box for a month then acidentally tried to start it and from that day works great... guess that just needed to dry out.
Thread can be closed.
Thanks for all your advice.
Nicola
The end?
Dropped my Blackstone in the toilet last night (don't know how, I was drunk at the time). I believe it had been fully submerged for 2-3 minutes. It was turned on at the time. When I recovered it (thank God nothing had been done in the toilet at the time), it was off. I removed the cover and there was water behind the battery, in the SD card reader and SIM. Not a lot, but it was wet. Stupidly (drunk) and panicking , I dried off the back panel with a hand towel (possible static charge damage? - not yet known ). I left it on top of a t-shirt which is on top of the radiator. I don't yet want to turn it on fo fear of wrecking it (if it's not already wrecked).
What methods to people recommend I should take from above? Or maybe there are some new techniques? Would I be better taking it to a mobile service repair shop to see if they can fix it from the beginning, before I do any more damage?
1 dismantle the device into pieces. (if your not sure how i can give you a step by step guide)
2 now dry each of the parts of the device with cotton wool buds (the things used to clean your ears)
3 the put the device back together.
4 done.
....some people say to leave the device in rice etc because it draws the water from the device, IMO this does not work properly and there is nothing better that opening the device and actually cleaning it and removing the water yourself, and this should only take a few mins. it is also not recomended to send it to a service repair shop for something you can do yourself. just be carefull when dismantling the device. do not break any ribbons - used to connect the lcd amungst other things to motherboard.
might be possible you will need a new battery ^
I went swimming a couple of days back and i forgot that i had my HD2 inside my packet, the phone got wet and now when i try to turn it on i see the buttons lighting up but a black screen...what should i do?
My HD2 had been very wet once,so we are on the same boat. You should never turn on your phone while it is still wet. Take out the batt, flush it with some denatured alcohol if you have some(this is recommended as it removes impurities left behind,like Chlorine.It also dries out any remaining water much faster than normal drying).If you do not have that, just run it under tap water for half a minute. Unscrew your phone so that at least the housing is separated. If you want, you can unscrew all the different modules. Submerge all those parts into a container of uncooked rice or silica gel. The phone should be completely covered. Leave it to dry for 5-7 days. Then, attempt to turn your phone on and test to see if everything is fine. If you cannot power up your phone at all, you might wanna try a new battery, as the battery might be broken. My HD2 worked perfectly,save for the mic. If yours does not work, you might want to order those water indicator stickers and the warranty void stickers from aBay and replace the current stickers,then send it for repair or submit a claim from insurance.hope this helps and i wish you good luck in reviving your phone.
I recently got my note 3 wet (clean-ish lake water) and immediately got the battery out and the phone dissasembled and into a bag of rice.
after a few days I reassembled it and booted it up and I can hear the startup sounds, feel the vibrations from power up, reboot & charge and I also can hear all of my notifications including ringing calls.
The problem is I cannot get the screen to turn on*.
What happens is the back button and menu button led's light up at the bottom and the screen sometimes flickers. I have got the screen to turn on though really rarely (playing with it and removing/readding the battery, rebooting etc..) and when I DO get it to turn on all functions work perfectly as if the phone was never damaged.
My question is, what components can I take a closer look at that would cause this behaviour? I would say that the screen is kaput but when it turns on everything works....
I am asking here as my google fu has not dredged up anyone with this specific problem before.
I have cleaned what appears to be corrosion or water spots on the larger copper traces on the mainboard with 99% iso and dried then reassembled but no change in behaviour (it did turn on once after I did this and work).
I tried a new OEM battery, no change.
Any and all advice is appreciated and yes I will order a waterproof quality case if I can get it working again
aridhol said:
I recently got my note 3 wet (clean-ish lake water) and immediately got the battery out and the phone dissasembled and into a bag of rice.
after a few days I reassembled it and booted it up and I can hear the startup sounds, feel the vibrations from power up, reboot & charge and I also can hear all of my notifications including ringing calls.
The problem is I cannot get the screen to turn on*.
What happens is the back button and menu button led's light up at the bottom and the screen sometimes flickers. I have got the screen to turn on though really rarely (playing with it and removing/readding the battery, rebooting etc..) and when I DO get it to turn on all functions work perfectly as if the phone was never damaged.
My question is, what components can I take a closer look at that would cause this behaviour? I would say that the screen is kaput but when it turns on everything works....
I am asking here as my google fu has not dredged up anyone with this specific problem before.
I have cleaned what appears to be corrosion or water spots on the larger copper traces on the mainboard with 99% iso and dried then reassembled but no change in behaviour (it did turn on once after I did this and work).
I tried a new OEM battery, no change.
Any and all advice is appreciated and yes I will order a waterproof quality case if I can get it working again
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You acted perfectly after getting the phone wet, so congratulations. But unfortunately, screen failures are fairly common in phone-wetting scenarios.
What you can do is try keeping the phone a couple of days more in silica gel bags/rice to see if there still is moisture in the screen assembly. If nothing changes, all you can do is replace the whole screen assembly.
totalnoob34 said:
You acted perfectly after getting the phone wet, so congratulations. But unfortunately, screen failures are fairly common in phone-wetting scenarios.
What you can do is try keeping the phone a couple of days more in silica gel bags/rice to see if there still is moisture in the screen assembly. If nothing changes, all you can do is replace the whole screen assembly.
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Can the screen be submerged in isopropyl 99% to displace any water or will that damage it?
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Can the screen be submerged in isopropyl 99% to displace any water or will that damage it?
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Alcohol should be harmless. Go for it, you have nothing to lose.
I think you should put your phone in sun light for 40 minute without battery. after that let you phone cool. then Try to boot.If not work then open that back part then try again for more 30 minutes. I think it will help you.
in my case it works on samsung galaxy s.
God bless you & your phone.
So I dropped my old S2 phone in sea (salt water!). I took almost all precautions in that situations. It dried after few days , I cleaned it gently with a toothbrush (no chemicals as alcohol) and worked fine for couple of days. I managed to save photos and other essential stuff. I noticed in BBS msm_otg wakelock like its charging or connected on USB charger but it suffered of it before. Restart would resolve issue. After dropped in sea it was always there. (Great amount of Samsung phones that generation had/has that wakelock issue/also known as vbus_present because of malfunctioned micro usb port) After a week I couldn't powered it on. When I pulled battery out and left it for couple hours it would power on again and worked for a day. I had to repeat same procedure couple of times and it worked fine but finally phone didn't start any more. I can feel vibration after pressing power button but that's all. If I'm keeping it pressured again for 10 sec it restarts (can feel vibration again) but logo doesn't appear any more. Trick with pulling battery out for even a 24 hours (i presumed it needed to discharge completely) doesn't work anymore.
Is it dead or there is somth more I could do? I'm definitely getting new phone but i remembered i had few files on it worth to save.
Tnx.
Since the phone is already DOA, try disconnecting the battery, hit the power button a few times to discharge capacitors and wash the main board in distilled water. The water shouldn't present any issues to the circuit board and should remove any sodium or other mineral residues that have probably formed across some of the lands.
Dry with a hair dryer on either cool or the lowest heat setting available or allow to air dry. If the power switch is not a part of the board, the water shouldn't hurt it either, clean it out with the distilled. I don't know the effects that the distilled would have on the display circuitry, so I would do the display only as a last resort.
Hope this helps.
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Since the phone is already DOA, try disconnecting the battery, hit the power button a few times to discharge capacitors and wash the main board in distilled water. The water shouldn't present any issues to the circuit board and should remove any sodium or other mineral residues that have probably formed across some of the lands.
Dry with a hair dryer on either cool or the lowest heat setting available or allow to air dry. If the power switch is not a part of the board, the water shouldn't hurt it either, clean it out with the distilled. I don't know the effects that the distilled would have on the display circuitry, so I would do the display only as a last resort.
Hope this helps.
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Tnx a lot, I'll try that.
ctjailer said:
Since the phone is already DOA, try disconnecting the battery, hit the power button a few times to discharge capacitors and wash the main board in distilled water. The water shouldn't present any issues to the circuit board and should remove any sodium or other mineral residues that have probably formed across some of the lands.
Dry with a hair dryer on either cool or the lowest heat setting available or allow to air dry. If the power switch is not a part of the board, the water shouldn't hurt it either, clean it out with the distilled. I don't know the effects that the distilled would have on the display circuitry, so I would do the display only as a last resort.
Hope this helps.
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Sir, thank you so much. I followed your instructions and phone booted again. Working like a charm . We'll see for how long. Backuped all needed data. I even noticed that phone went to deep sleep. Even after charging. No need to restart it every time after charging. (I stumbled somewhere on forum that capacitor can be removed, but that's instructions for i9000).
Anyway thank you very, very much. Saved me. :good: