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Swimming....

it just so happens, that my Trinity(6 months old) decided that it likes water, and forced me to sit it in a cup of water in my cars cup holder. i looked at it about ten minutes later, and after yelling some vulgarities at it, and myself, i immediately popped out the battery.
do you guys think this device will come out alive? btw, it went speaker side down in the water... and believe it or not, the trinity can hold ALLOT of water.
if it doesn't come out alive, anyone interested in some trinity parts?
My friend also got a s620 (tmobile branded), and im kinda jealous at what he can do with it... nes games, snes... aim blows... crazy fast test messaging... i was thinking maybe i should one up him and get the cavalier... why is there no thread for the s630? and is it worth it? does it have the same possibility of crazy death scroll issue the s620 could suffer from? any other thoughts?
thanks for any input...
-Ryan

10 minutes.... I don't even think that you can hold your breath under water for that long - not to mention delicate electronic devices....
You did the right thing poping out the battery immediately. Hope that no one called you during its swimming and you didn't touch any buttons after it finished.
Now, what you can do it very limited - you may want to disassemble it - at least open up the case, and then use a hair dryer to blow it for an hour. After that, put it in a box together with some solid state dehydrants for few days.
And pray...

There are cases of Wizard swimming (diving actually) for hours and yet came out well, after the opening up and drying process. There is still hope.

Depends what it was swimming in!
Coffee and Coke are bad Ordinary tap water is also bad because the impurities (calcium etc) will eventually form some microscopic crystals on the MB tracks. Distilled water is best, but I presume you weren't drinking that
Try & disassemble as much as possible, and leave to dry naturally in a warm place for 2-3 days- dpn't be tempted to 'try it out' before that.
Can you claim on your household insurance?

hanmin said:
after the opening up and drying process. There is still hope.
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That's the only solution...and pray maybe (we never know)

meh.
well... i guess the good news is that i have filtered water.... im not talking brita either... im talking huge filtration units in the basement that look like big ol' helium tanks. my water is clean... either way, i don't happen to have any solid state dehydration material handy.. unless were talking about silica gel beads... in which case i have about 8 pounds of it. a drawback to this is that it spews dust all over the place that sticks to everything. i was told to soak it in distilled water, but ive seen what water does to lcd's and touchscreens... they get milky white, and don't work. id rather dip it in isopropl alcohol, swish a few times and spit. and is to praying, i'm not very religious ;p
thanks guys.

Well I do not really know about the trinity and for sure I wish that it has some water resistance, cause things like that happen all the time, but I had my Samsung WEp200, bluetooth in the washing machine inside my shirt's pocket for 1 and half hours in full wash, and after I took it out, it was still working......I am actually talking through that righ now....

Refering to the post above regarding the 'water' the phone is in, if my memory is serving me right, it is lake water, the diving Wizard went to.
Anyway, I seriously not sure if swimming phone happens a lot.. but if you do, you need to get those waterproof phone
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Recovery!
wow...
i never thought it would survive. it did. after being submersed in water for 10 minutes... it had bits of corrosion on the board cause there is a small backup battery onboard, via high voltage soldering tacked to the board... anyway... thanks to that bettery, it almost killed everything for me.
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i ran the main board under the spicket and scrubbed the everliving **** out of it. then i blew it off with an air compressor and let it sit for 2 days. i put it all back together with one screw left, and it booted up! sadly though, it had a kinda 3d effect cause the water got into the lcd layers.... so i pulled that apart( all the layers are on the back of the lcd starting with mirror, not the front). since i was working in a wood shop, it was a bit dusty :/ and i got a tid bit of dust on the layers and it looks nasty... ill get it later with latex gloves and alcohol... blew the layers off and dried them, and it looks great!
just so you know... the lcd is probally the most time consuming peice to take apart and put back together simply because it has 8 different layers that need to be cleaned, if water gets into em... lol..
guess the moral is, don't put your 600.00 phone in water.

Congratulations man! It's really a miracle for you

gratz
hope death will not feel chated like in the movie final destination 1-3

i was kinda disappointed that it worked.. i was looking for another reason to blow 600 on a cavalier s630... scratch that.. i have a projector to pay off... rofl.

its suprise what works after dropped, i've dropped atleast 3 mobiles in the bath ect lol, they still worked after a good dryin out!

Your WORST HD2 accident

ok the thread says it all. so here's mine:
we were at school partying for we finished it, we were all jumping around, hd2 in my pocket.
it was like 5 turns we made. we were done. hd2 was no longer in my pocket.
i looked everywhere but was almost sure someone broke it cz there was like 500 person there.
my friend was looking for who dropped it, gave it to me, battery was still in with the cover ejected.
unlocked and had to reboot wp, but everything worked perfect. now even a single scratch on the screen.
2 weeks later, in an exam, it fell out of my pocket but was all fine.
so what's your worst accident?

Launched mine off of my bike at 80 going to work at 4 am.. Went back after work on my way home and found the main body and some pieces in the center divide, it's in its box in the cupboard currently.. Very sad day
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my worst would be putting one of my HD2 in the cabinet for a month since i still have another one.
When I tried it out the other day the touch screen wasn't responding :crying:
my 2nd HD2 that had the touch problem

mengfei said:
my worst would be putting one of my HD2 in the cabinet for a month since i still have another one.
When I tried it out the other day the touch screen wasn't responding :crying:
my 2nd HD2 that had the touch problem
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mine decided one day to not work. that was very bad :/
i installed tytung's ics and usb host kernel in order to use a mouse temporarely until i fixed it
LONG LIVE the HD2

feherneoh said:
It fell off the desk while flashing HSPL. Floor broke.
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That must have been a very Hard SPL
I must have dropped my hd2 plenty of times but it was fine.
Once when i first got the phone I had it in my back jeans pocket and sat on it. I think it bent the phone and I had the screen problem with Newton Rings (here)
Recently though I had the phone leaning against a skirting board on a concrete floor and it fell over onto the screen and the glass cracked. Oh well, I now have another one

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When it's touchscreen was unresponsive for few days and i was using HTc TyTn II (or Kaiser) with WM 6.1 and Samsung Wave with Bada... Uhhhh...
Sent from my PIXELDROID HD2 using XDA

Yeah, touchscreen of death. Took all the pro tools available for me, took all the guts I have. Repaired it, replaced the touchscreen, glued it to the chassis with really badass doble-faced adhesive tape and was just happy that my fellow HD2 is still alive. Now, about 2 or 3 weeks later, the touchscreen won't respond again. And I'm anxious to open it again to attempt to fix it - got the fear that I glued some of the tape to the display.
f**k me, right?

"1E fatal hit" error.....can't run any rom or any recovery...bought another one XD

Mrs Geeba went to work... asked on her way out for me to do some washing.... filled washing machine... added liquid etc... fired up a 40c wash... sat down with a cup of tea... got really annoyed with the clonking sound the washing machine was making and though.."good grief what has the Mrs put in there!!!" - went in the kitchen only to see the HTC logo doing the rounds on the glass front of the washing machine after an almost full 40c wash
Dried it out in rice in the airing cupboard.... worked fine for a week then the screen failed...
Gutted... but bought another!

Geeba said:
Mrs Geeba went to work... asked on her way out for me to do some washing.... filled washing machine... added liquid etc... fired up a 40c wash... sat down with a cup of tea... got really annoyed with the clonking sound the washing machine was making and though.."good grief what has the Mrs put in there!!!" - went in the kitchen only to see the HTC logo doing the rounds on the glass front of the washing machine after an almost full 40c wash
Dried it out in rice in the airing cupboard.... worked fine for a week then the screen failed...
Gutted... but bought another!
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LOL that is what i would call a full wipe and reflush

Robbie P said:
LOL that is what i would call a full wipe and reflush
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+1
Tomorrow i have big exams, and i'm planning to use my hd2 once i get stuck writing answers. hopefully there won't be some accident like it ringing in the exam or some error:invalid boot image header or such at the time

gilbert32 said:
+1
Tomorrow i have big exams, and i'm planning to use my hd2 once i get stuck writing answers. hopefully there won't be some accident like it ringing in the exam or some error:invalid boot image header or such at the time
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Are you going to "phone a friend"

Robbie P said:
Are you going to "phone a friend"
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LOL i was thinking of maybe asking wolfram, my friend, a question

Another Inevitable "OMG! I Dropped It In Water" Thread.

WARNING: If your clothes hamper is close to the toilet your clingy cat make knock it in the toilet.
After the dunk, I grabbed it immediately without hesitation, the screen was still on and going crazy. I immediatly held the power button, the screen went off and vibrated.
Pilled the SIM tray, placed it in rice but later noticed it was hot. It was still on, maybe. Held the power button to try to power off and the "LG" flashed.
It's now in the bag, hot and vibrates on/off when the button is pressed. I can't find the info on that.
Going to put it frsh rice after pulling the cover. What's my chances? Lie to me, I don't mind!

Sorry but I'm not going to lie to you :/
It's looking pretty bad
It's dood you put it into the rice, altrough I'd opened the phone and removed the battery first.
Sent from my LG D802

Makrilli said:
Sorry but I'm not going to lie to you :/
It's looking pretty bad
It's dood you put it into the rice, altrough I'd opened the phone and removed the battery first.
Sent from my LG D802
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Damn, i just quit my job too so lying and all would've been great.
I didn't think of pulling the cover earlier. :crying:

fr4nk1yn said:
Damn, i just quit my job too so lying and all would've been great.
I didn't think of pulling the cover earlier. :crying:
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If I was in your position I would gather much patience and dunk it in rice then use a hair blower to warm the rice up a little then leave for a few hours then do it again, rinse and repeat then leave it over night and then, only then would I try turning it back on.
Best of luck to you mate.

But don' worry, miracles happend. I just read how some guys lumia was in a lake 17 hours and worked after that just fine without drying it
Sent from my LG D802

Yea just give it some time. Give her privacy or space man! She needs to think of matters. If she goes back then she's yours forever if not she's gone.

fr4nk1yn said:
WARNING: If your clothes hamper is close to the toilet your clingy cat make knock it in the toilet.
After the dunk, I grabbed it immediately without hesitation, the screen was still on and going crazy. I immediatly held the power button, the screen went off and vibrated.
Pilled the SIM tray, placed it in rice but later noticed it was hot. It was still on, maybe. Held the power button to try to power off and the "LG" flashed.
It's now in the bag, hot and vibrates on/off when the button is pressed. I can't find the info on that.
Going to put it frsh rice after pulling the cover. What's my chances? Lie to me, I don't mind!
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Let it dry for three days. One day is not long enough.

Hit the button yesterday and she powered on, battery was at 1% so I'm sure the thing didn't turn off.
I got fresh rice and ziplock and it's sitting, every so often I got it with the wife's hair dryer for "why not?".
Camera lens is clear but I'm leaving it longer before charging trying the mics and speakers. I had already ordered a new skin that's coming Tuesday so our might miss sit until then.
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My Back Glass Lifted up

So, Im not a regular user, but I always read the forum and I thought it might be a good idea to share you this since almost nobody has reported that their back cover is lifting up, as it used to be a common failure on the original XZ (I own one) and not as common on en XZ3c.
Well, I bought the phone on January 11 and it was perfect, it passed the pressure test and had no problems, but on February 28 I realized that the phone didn't passed ir anymore, and then checked the watermark on de downside flap and it was red, and then WOW!! I Didn't even submerged my phone into water, I had just used a bit of water from a glass to clean it off, so it had no sense, well I said, nevermind is not waterproof anymore and is working great, it doesnt matter...
And Yesterday I was looking at the phone and realized the back cover is slightly lifted up on the camera corner, and if i press on that side and run the pressure test It works like a charm...
So thats it, Im raking it to Sony tomorrow, hope they tell me something legit and fix it or replace it.
P.S I dont use my phone as a game center, I dont have any game, heavy app, or record 4k video that might have heaten up the device and melt the glue on the back cover, I really think is a deffective unit.
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You should be okay as in either getting a replacement or getting your device fixed without any costs, because there is no damage to the device and it's possible that the adhesive can let go.:good:

Yeah, bad luck unfortunately. Return it to Sony, hope you get it fixed/replaced quickly.
Good Luck!
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Is... is that a cleaning cloth the phone is resting on?
Because there's still finger prints all over it, you could've used it to wipe the thing! Icky kicky all those smudges.

My money is on a faulty battery. It could puff up a bit and cause enough stress to lift the glass. If that's the case I would power the device off, leave it off, and don't attempt to charge it till it's been serviced/corrected or it could result in fire/explosion/injury/death...
At any point did you discharge the battery to the point where the phone turned itself off?

OrBy said:
My money is on a faulty battery. It could puff up a bit and cause enough stress to lift the glass. If that's the case I would power the device off, leave it off, and don't attempt to charge it till it's been serviced/corrected or it could result in fire/explosion/injury/death...
At any point did you discharge the battery to the point where the phone turned itself off?
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I Never discharged my phone below 20-30%, actually most of the days I arribad home on a 50% and charge it BEFORE I go to bed so it doesnt get overcharged during night charge... Im really careful with my phones I think is just defective, probably the heaviest app I had installed was Facebook... And Nerflix (which I never used).
Today I left the phone at Sony under warranty, I have to go in 10 days to get it back fixed or a new phone, depends what Sony says.

It happened to me to. They fixed it pretty fast, no questions asked

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It happened to me to. They fixed it pretty fast, no questions asked
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Glad to hear that! Did they replaced the back cover, glued the old one or replaced your phone?

Believe it or not, they replaced everything BUT the back cover!
So they changed digitizer, flaps and the frame (both the glossy part and frosted plastic part).
Also they unlocked my phone to all networks and made my bootloader unlockable.
So it was a winwin situation

lstic said:
Believe it or not, they replaced everything BUT the back cover!
So they changed digitizer, flaps and the frame (both the glossy part and frosted plastic part).
Also they unlocked my phone to all networks and made my bootloader unlockable.
So it was a winwin situation
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Legit. Next time my wheel get removed from my car, I'll leave it on the ground and will put a new car right where my wheel is standing. It's safer.

Sony acts in strange ways

Well! Today I went to pick up my phone, and they replaced it with a brand new unit! Thanks Sony!

Just a friendly word of warning/advice

Quick charge and heat are something we all know about. We also should know that hot glass and cold weather do not mix!!!!!!! Unplugged my phone from charging as I was walking out the door heading to work, tossed my phone in my shirt pocket, walked out the door it was about 29 or 30 degrees outside, heard a small TINK sound from my pocket, thought to myself WTF, pulled out my phone, glass had broken in an almost straight line from speaker hole to speaker hole, then it broke from side to side, and my heart broke as I was forced to watch in horror as it slowly spiderwebbed 2/3 of the screen while I held it in my hand.
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That sucks. Probably a reason to RMA. My phone never gets that hot when charging though. Plus 30 degrees F isn't that cold.

derdjango said:
That sucks. Probably a reason to RMA. My phone never gets that hot when charging though. Plus 30 degrees F isn't that cold.
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Called ATT no love. I didn't think it was that hot or that cold. Like I said stuck it in my shirt pocket and walked out he door. Can not attribute it to anything else no damage prior.

malebornin69 said:
Called ATT no love. I didn't think it was that hot or that cold. Like I said stuck it in my shirt pocket and walked out he door. Can not attribute it to anything else no damage prior.
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I'd try Google or Motorola. However, you'll have a hard time proving that this is not the result of a drop and it's seems to be a very rare case/issue. My phone has seen temperature drops from room to 5 degrees F. Sorry for you, mate.

derdjango said:
I'd try Google or Motorola. However, you'll have a hard time proving that this is not the result of a drop and it's seems to be a very rare case/issue. My phone has seen temperature drops from room to 5 degrees F. Sorry for you, mate.
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Phone was almost dead had plugged it in an hour or so prior to leaving it was at about 90% so it was pretty warm in the 2 seconds I took to unplug it and walk out the door with it. I know that was what caused it simply from the initial break from speaker hole to speaker hole. everything else happened after that......I did notice,,I have big hands as you can tell from the photo, when I hold the phone as I would when talking on it, the places that my fingers rest on the sides of the phone is where the most damage happened or where the spiderweb went to the most. But you are correct I really have no desire to spend half the day on the phone with the NOPE people and just end up pissed off the rest of the day.

derdjango said:
That sucks. Probably a reason to RMA. My phone never gets that hot when charging though. Plus 30 degrees F isn't that cold.
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That really sucks. People, keep in mind that the internals of the phone what's up nicely with the Quick Charge 2.0, even more so than phones that charge slower. Ever took a glass dish from the oven and run cold water over it? The extreme charge I'm temperature shatters it instantly.
This is really a worst-case scenario. Good luck to you and getting it fixed.

That's shocking that the temperature difference was that dramatic. The phone does get hot from charging and normal use, and I could see if you put it in the fridge or is was subzero, but that's incredible.

My screen cracked due to freezing temps couple months ago, not fun. Most likely because of the metal frame, such an inferior material for phones.
Should of course have realised not to keep it in an outside pocket, was around -35F. Never ever has this been a problem with plastic framed phones though, for me at least.