Dear forum members,
2 days ago i spilled some beer on my front pocket, exactly where my HD2 was located. It wasn't much, maybe one or two sips. The water damage seal is still white. I immediately grabbed my phone, pulled the battery out and put it in my other (clean) pocket. When I got home I immediately put my phone on top of the radiator (which i turned down a bit) A day later I turned my phone on again. Everything worked as normal, normal clear boot screen, the intro tune sounded ok, and it even vibrated. I was pretty relieved. The touchscreen works perfectly but only the phone turns the volume up all the time. I can't do anything with the phone because the volume is pernamently raising and thus going to the volume screen. Today I rinsed the volume buttons with demineralised water (very little and careful). The phone is currently drying in a sack of rice. Does someone have any ideas or suggestions how I can fix this issue?
Thanks in advance
EDIT: MY PHONE IS WORKING AGAIN! I just turned it on, the volume was still raising. I don't know why, but something told me i had to suck the "vaporised water" out of the phone. I used my mouth and sucked air out of the small openings of the phone. The phone immediately stopped raising the volume!
You should be able to find instructions for taking the phone apart somewhere around here... I've seen a thread about it I'm almost sure.
Apart from waiting and hoping I don't think you can do much else apart from trying to take it apart and see if there is anything that needs cleaning.
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ok so i have the t-mobile mda but i unlocked it a while back because i have cingular... i was snowboarding the other day and when i took my phone out it wasnt wet but it was really cold and it was acting funny...now the volume button on the side starts my camera when i try to increase the volume and my front buttons arent really working anymore...i just updated to the latest OS and now its running even worse than before and my basic phone service isnt even working now...any suggestions?
Sounds to me like maybe some condensation got in there. I'd do a search here to see how other people handled water in the phone. Some used alcohol, some removed the batter to prevent damage and just let it dry and some weren't able to recover.
sounds to me it got frozen and or water inside which shortcutted the circuitboard hence giving strange signals. Let it dry without battery a couple of days and try again. but it problably is the end of your phone. Maybe u can open it and try clean it.
Right how to start this, I was happily taking a bath when a friend text me. I left it. He then text again 3 times and tryed ringing me figuring it must be important I picked my phone up and like you do I sneezed :O **SPLASH**. I grabbed the phone literally smashed my protective case of it which is now broken, and ripped the battery out of its socket
Left it for hours. Came back to it. Turned it on And YAY it worked but.....
The Menu and Back button didn't work at all it just flashed a bit. so i turn it off
Dissembled it and dryed it even more with hair dryer.
Now i assembled it and it works perfectly exept every water test is bright pink haahaha.
One problem tho, I lost the power button when dissembling it Could anyone point me to a person who will sell me this little plastic power button or could some one here sell me from spares maby Thanks for Reading
Plz help
First I lose the screen as I back into something and a piece of metal barely tapped the screen and it was enough to crack it. I got it replaced and a week later the SD card went bad (couldn't save it regardless of the deep format options I tried). That forced me to buy a new card and have to re-install about 80-100 apps and games and re-configure everything.
It' been about a month since then and I get a call this morning. Upon hanging up the screen won't turn back on. I think...whatever. I pull the battery to reboot it and bam...at the Windows Phone 7 logo screen it starts to vibrate............and vibrate....and vibrate. Great...it won't stop vibrating. Looking it up online it seems the ONLY way to fix it...is to hard reset it AGAIN. $^#$^ that lol.
So the vibrator conveniently has a open window to it right above the LED flash so you can see it without having to remove the layers of plastic. I took a piece of tape, rolled it up and cut it down....and jammed it in their to prevent it from spinning.....phone works fine now (just simply dont have vibrate options now).
Hopefully when MS gets off their arse and launches Mango, the update will reset whatever screwed up setting it is that is causing it to flip out and I can take the tape out. That is...if the motor doesn't some how burn out from being jammed ^^.
Maybe I should have gone with the Samsung :/
At lease someone can benefit from this if their vibrate screws up and they don't want to hard reset. Just jam the little guy from moving! It's not like your losing anything...the vibrate on the Surround is so low, most of the time you don't even feel it go off in your pocket.
09/22/2011 Update: Well then! This proves a success for those having this issue in the future. Many HTC phones seem to have experienced this (based on searching out the vibration issues google). I removed the tape this evening, and the vibrator was still. At first I assumed it must have been burnt out from keeping it from spinning...as it was still generating power (eating through the battery that whole time)......but after testing it out...everything is back to normal. Vibration function is working fine. So I guess if you wait it out, it corrects itself eventually. How...I don't know...but I recommend jamming the motor if you ever experience it vs letting it vibrate continually for a day or two which prob would burn it out. No hard reset needed!I still want a new phone though...something just as thin but with a slide out keyboard and duel proc and cams
My surround works well all the time
Hey all,
So the other night at the pub, a friend spilled their water on the table, and my nexus 4 was in the path. It was quickly removed and pulled out of its case which seemed to have protected it and was working just fine. The next morning however, and the past few days, it's been acting perfectly fine except for it acting like the volume down button is being held down. The worst part is I can't get it to boot into regular mode, only safe mode because it thinks the button is being held down...
Could this have been the water? I tried a couple days in rice with no change. Any ideas for what I should try next? It makes me incredibly frustrated to think a perfectly good phone would go to waste just because the volume button is acting wonky (and I've tried mashing on it and making sure it's not stuck in or anything).
Thanks!
cj1171 said:
Hey all,
So the other night at the pub, a friend spilled their water on the table, and my nexus 4 was in the path. It was quickly removed and pulled out of its case which seemed to have protected it and was working just fine. The next morning however, and the past few days, it's been acting perfectly fine except for it acting like the volume down button is being held down. The worst part is I can't get it to boot into regular mode, only safe mode because it thinks the button is being held down...
Could this have been the water? I tried a couple days in rice with no change. Any ideas for what I should try next? It makes me incredibly frustrated to think a perfectly good phone would go to waste just because the volume button is acting wonky (and I've tried mashing on it and making sure it's not stuck in or anything).
Thanks!
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If was me id take it apart and inspect inside since happened after water spill.... Ud be surprised how fast corrosion can happen and could be causing your issues, may just need be cleaned inside (worth a try) . Quick google search will find u a youtube video on how to take apart
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If was me id take it apart and inspect inside since happened after water spill.... Ud be surprised how fast corrosion can happen and could be causing your issues, may just need be cleaned inside (worth a try) . Quick google search will find u a youtube video on how to take apart
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Cool, I'll give that a shot...too bad my tool set only goes down to a T6! Gotta get a T5 and some proper rubbing alcohol. Fingers crossed!
So, no luck trying to clean it with alcohol. The button is still acting as if it is being held down.
...what do I do with the phone now?
Argh! i just spent the last 20 mins typing up a post and lost it! So lemme try this again...
Ok long story short, I goofed and dropped my s4 into a cup of coffee. It was submerged about 1/3 of the phone , on the top portion of the phone. I removed it immediately, pulled the battery and used a small vacuum to suck out as much of the liquid from the phone before i opened it up. Im pretty good with these kinda projects and have fixed many a phone over the years for friends who busted their screens etc. I hadnt been inside an S4 before this though, so i approached with caution. I used alcohol and a lint free microfiber brush to clean off anything that had coffee on it. All and all everything went pretty smoothly. After cleaning i put the phone in a bag of rice and silica gel for a few hours then put it back together and turned it on. It loaded up quick as usual, everything was pretty normal. But suddenly the screen would stop responding to my touches for a few seconds, and then start working again. So i turned it off, took it apart again and dug a lil deeper. I cleaned off all the contacts for the ribbons, and anything else that had any kinda sticky coffee residue on it. I put it back in the bag last last night and opened it up today and reassembled it. Turned it on , and like magic, everything was great! well 99% great. The phone is acting like it always has,and no more screen unresponsiveness or anything like that. All except for a small sliver of the top of the screen under the Samsung logo. Just a tiny sliver of the screen doesnt respond to my touches, which is a big pain in my butt because its just enough to not be able to swipe down the pulldown menu, and in some games i play, i cant click anything thats on the very edge of the screen in landscape mode. The screen looks normal, no signs of damage like ive seen in other devices when digitizers become damaged etc. Just that tiny little line of screen wont pick up touches.
I only went so far as to taking out the mobo and looking underneath that. I know i can go deeper, and would have to if i needed to replace the digitizer, but before i go through all that, i figured id seek the advice of the XDA Gurus first. Is there possibly anywhere else that i missed cleaning out the junk a that could be causing the problem in that area? Ive been very careful thus far and everything is working accordingly, hell the headphone jack even works still and that thing was full of coffee!! And all the other problems after the initial cleaning have gone away,and im left with this little line of screen that wont read my touches!! So i must have done something right so far! Im hoping that maybe i just overlooked another possible place to clean up any leftover junk and then will get full function of my screen again. if not, then i guess ill be ordering a new digitizer sometime soon.
Thanks for your time, anyone who reads this. I hope to hear some good news *crosses fingers* soon, and get my phone working properly again.
I'm impressed. Not just in your skills but with the build of the S4. Coffee is highly acidic. I once tore apart a keyboard that my wife spilled coffee on. The coffee etched the traces right off the P.C. board. If the S4 survived coffee on the inside workings they use a pretty good coating. It is possible they missed a spot and the coffee got it.
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