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Took my HD2 for a swim

Hi folks!
Just wanted to post this, as it really surprised me.
I went to a swim the other day (about 2 weeks ago) and forgot, that I had my HD2 in my Pocket.
It was about 0.5 hrs under water. Afterwards I yelled... then took out the battery and tried to dry it with a hairdryer.
It did not help. It stayed dead (The paper indicator are in a bright pink now)
Then about 1 week later I finally found the time to buy a new battery. I put it in and then... it worked.
After about 5 or 6 hrs using time, the last bit of water in the screen (a nice 3D effect ;-) dryed and I have absolutely no difference whatsoever. Working like a charm, no problem.
Maybe it helps so.
JoC

lucky you ;-)

Wow, happy you. Don't try this at home

lol, how many hd2's have been sold? thats a one in that many chance occurance, and no mistake.

just wow
Wow I cant believe it still works. Id wanna shoot myself!

If you get your phone wet don't use a hair dryer to dry it coz it overheats metal parts so the circuits melt.

In the words of homer simpson DOH! cant believe it worked after

as long as the internal complete dry, u shouldn't have problem to turn it back on.

The best thing you can do with a phone that has been for a swim (completely submerged in water) is to pull the battery off and soak it in isopropyl for 30 min or so. This should get the water out of it. Then leave it out to dry until completely dry.
Iven if a wet phone works initially, it generally wont be long before the components begin to corrode. The isophopyl will drive out any water and then completely evaporate.

u are one lucky guy lol

very very lucky, my friend sneezed on his and it stopped working...

Built HTC Tough

Sentinel196 said:
The best thing you can do with a phone that has been for a swim (completely submerged in water) is to pull the battery off and soak it in isopropyl for 30 min or so. This should get the water out of it. Then leave it out to dry until completely dry.
Iven if a wet phone works initially, it generally wont be long before the components begin to corrode. The isophopyl will drive out any water and then completely evaporate.
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Even better, since this phone already soaked for half an hour, with the battery out soak and then flush it well with distilled water to remove all the minerals that could cause corrosion, then stick it in a container of desiccant or rice if you're cheap
Alcohol especially soaked that long could be harsh on adhesives, surfaces and components in the phone.
Water itself isnt bad for electronics, its the minerals that are in the average tap, pool, beach, lake water. Distilled water has none of these minerals. Also any liquid tends to damage things like the camera and LCDs where it can get between the glass covering and LCD and backlight causing water spots to develop that are hard are just about impossible to remove.
If you do go the isopropyl route, id say do a very quick flush with it, and then make sure you are using 90%, usually in a red labeled bottle at the drug store, normal isopropyl is something like 65% alcohol and the remainder is water!
Really the best option for either route is to completely disassemble the phone then flush and dry while disassembled, but i know thats hard for some people to do without completely damaging it cosmetically. Remove things like the LCD, Camera, and speakers as these could be further damaged by subsequent soakings in either water or alcohol. These parts may need to be completely replaced depending on the existing damage

im supprised no one has asked this but,
HOW DO YOU GO FOR A SWIM WITH YOUR HD2??????
Did you go fully clothed or something? or do you normally keep your HD2 in the pockets of your swim shorts?

Me too
Hi,
I also took my leo swiming. Now loud speaker isnt working. can anyone help where i can get one?

Oooo, that's interesting...for your next test...microwave the phone for half an hour.

Yes.. I had it in my swim shorts. Before I went to the pool, I thought: "Be aware of that phone, don´t forget it in the pockets..." -> That didn´t help...

Yeah, our HD2 is a great phone.

Redeyedrichard said:
Oooo, that's interesting...for your next test...microwave the phone for half an hour.
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xD hilarious

and distilled water won't screw up your device? so lets say, if I want to clean my screen randomly, I should use that?

Just dropped my HD2 down the toilet

I immediately removed it from the water, and desperately tried to remove the back case to remove the battery (its quite hard when the phone is wet) i got there eventually though.
The screen was flickering whilst the phone was still on, and the water sensitive stickers on the battery and phone are both pink. I've blow dried it for about 10 minutes haven't tried to start it back up yet.... any suggestions?

joeyjoee said:
I immediately removed it from the water, and desperately tried to remove the back case to remove the battery (its quite hard when the phone is wet) i got there eventually though.
The screen was flickering whilst the phone was still on, and the water sensitive stickers on the battery and phone are both pink. I've blow dried it for about 10 minutes haven't tried to start it back up yet.... any suggestions?
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DON'T start it for a few days. Put it in a warm place, leave it to dry for 48-72 hours and pray it works when you turn it on.

yeah just be patient and wait about 3-4 days to dry. but do not put it under direct sunlight

....and wash your hands

Try to put into bag with rice, and leave for couple of days...

DanijasDub said:
Try to put into bag with rice, and leave for couple of days...
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put it in a bag of rice or leave out in the open?!?

put your phone into rice and keep bag closed

Basically you just need to make sure you dry it out thoroughly. Don't try to rush this process in a few hours. All the posts about leaving it somewhere warm (like an airing cupboard) are correct. Don't put it on top of a radiator or hot pipe, or in the sun as already suggested. The idea of putting it in a bag of rice is to help draw the moisture out. Never tried this method myself.... You really must be patient with this - managed to save my Touch Pro that got soaked in the rain last year....

okay so i've put the phone the battery and the sim on top of some rice in a bad behind my tv in my bedroom

rice like the others said or if you are a cigar person (or know someone who is) place it in an acrylic humidor w/ humidification beans.......I resurrected a M$ ZUNE my wife dropped in a rain puddle by doing this in my humidor

man, this reminds me of the time I dropped my phone in a bucket of puke from a heavy night. Still worked after I dried and cleaned it up.

"DON'T start it for a few days."
yup ..is correct wait until dry ... "rice" are good for absorb humilities ..
but If I not wrong ..after dry .the speaker of the phone will change ..just like my tytn II drop into "wash floor water", it still can use .. but the speaker sound change ...

Οh man , really bad luck..
hope it goes ok but be patient and let it dry manually !!!

my wife washed my cellphone once (left in pocket after heavy night of drinking). Took the battery out, let it sit on a counter for about a week. Phone recovered though it took the screen a while for the colors to all show properly.
I have read where people put their oven on warm and leave it overnight. I don't think this will hurt the phone since their won't be a power source in it.

Dropped in a sink with the tap running!
I dried it out under a hand dryer, then powered it up straight away. In hindsight this was pretty stupid, but it booted up ok. The only problem being the NAVPANEL would randomly appear and require a reboot. The next day that problem had gone away, and was replaced with a new problem - the Volume down button being jammed on! Also the battery life was reduced to about 10 hours. After a further 48 hours and a blast with compressed air (around the volume buttons) the phone has returned to 100% normal use - even the battery life is getting better, now upto about 36-42 hrs..... but I have bought a replacement for that anyway!!
Can't believe how lucky I was!

[Edit: Just saw you fixed it. Bravo! I'll leave this here anyway...]
Rice is good, unless you have any silica gel kicking about, the stuff you get in electronic packaging in the little paper bags/sachets that say "do not eat".
But yes, definately don't do what the majority do...
"I just turned it on to see if it would work..."
"You turned your phone/laptop on while it was wet... to see if it would work?"
"Yeah... why?"
*facepalm*
Happens about once a week in the PC store I work at. You could also try stripping it after it's dried and going over it with a carbon pen to remove any corrosion/residue.

After removing the battery, SIM, and MicroSD and gently removing any surface water.
One trick I found is to put a phone in the path of hot dry air for 30 minutes to a couple of hours. A clothes dryer vent works wonderfully for this since its temperature controlled (and timed) to keep from destroying the fabric in your clothes, and hot enough to allow water to evaporate. If you have access to your dryer vent hose, unhook it and rest it on top of the dryer and put your phone in the path (at least 4 to 6" from the opening). It's worked for 2 phones so far. One being my wife's Motorola, and one my Touchpro. If you have a dryer with an insert for shoes, you could use that as well, although I would put the phone on something to keep it from vibrating off.
You could use a hair dryer but keep in mind that hair dryers are not designed to be run continuously and the temperature is not technically regulated.
The trick is to get the temperature of the whole phone up to about 130 to 140 degrees and the water will evaporate. I would avoid shaking the water out of the phone or using pressureized air since that will push water into the delicate connectors, keypad matrix, screen, etc.

Let me give you a more scientific approach to your problem, i will try to explain as better as i can since english aint my primary language.
After you drop it in the water, your phone will never be the same for couple of reasons. First of all, when the water will dry, salt will "sit" on the connections and the weldings of the connectors, and that will slowly but steadily eat them. My saying is : " Never trust a phone that was dropped into water/coffee ". For you to be sure of your phone you need to strip it, and clean it with a spray for electrical appliances. Now there are 2 types of those sprays, one with oil and one with no oil in it. For your thing you need the NO-OIL one. Thats to make sure you wont get a loose joint and eventually your phone wont get broken.
If you dont feel like opening your phone and you dont feel comfortable with it, just ignore my post and just dry it out. What is 100% sure is that at some point it will break down, it depends on when though, from hardware to hardware.
Just my 2 cents.

Any time I get anything wet I IMMEDIATELY remove the battery, then I remove anything else I can from it: Sim Card, Memory Cards, etc. I don't like the rice idea because rice ALWAYS ends up stuck somewhere inside. I prefer setting my phone on some foil out in the sun for a bit (provided it's not too hot out) or just leaving it somewhere where it's warm to dry out. DO NOT BY ANY MEANS put the battery back in or turn it on until it is COMPLETELY dry. A minimum of a day if you even want to begin to chance it. If it was dropped in something other than relatively clean fresh water, I would keep everything out of it (battery, sim, memory cards, etc.) and dip it in a cup of distilled water a few times to clean any particles off, then let it dry again completely before turning it on. Just because an electronic gets wet, doesn't mean it won't work. The only way to kill it really is if you power it back on or the battery shorts it.
I went swimming at the lake with my old Nokia 5310 for 10 minutes before remembering it was in my pocket, I immediately took everything out when I remembered and left it in the sun for 8 hours and it worked fine for a year after until I threw it into a wall as hard as I could due to a frustrating girlfriend haha

U may have problems in the future... Since it was submerged in water some components will begin to rust... I suggest u take it to a mobile service shop so they can tell u what to do, or maybe they can fix it...

How To Save A Wet Milestone 2?

Hi there
I accidentally slipped on some steps near a harbour and fell into the water. My Motorola Milestone 2 was in my pocket and hence it pretty much got submerged for about 5 seconds in water.
As my phone was dieing, the led flashlight was on and my notification night was flashing yellow and my screen had blanked out.
Anyway I put the phone onto dry concrete and pulled myself out of the water, removed the battery and flung my phone around abit to get the majority of water out. Obviously it's still wet inside, so i'm wondering whats the best possible way to dry a Milestone and try and revive it?
Thanks everyone.
Cheers

I think that its probably messed up but you can try a hair dryer, if you have the tools you may open it and blow it inside.
Those new phones don't like water too much, they are very sensitive...

Well, the last time this happened to me, I found a remarkable answer: Dry it as much as possible with towels and hair dryer (don't melt it). After that, put the phone in a plastic bag and four or more cups of uncooked rice (buy a new one kilo), close tightly and leave there for a couple of days (the longer the better). Will be removed any remaining humidity that. No guarantees, of course ...

[Q] Nexus 4 dropped in water

Hello
2 days back i accidently dropped my nexus 4 in a bucket full of water.The phone was into the bucket for 4-5 seconds.I immediately turned it off.After an hour or so i put it in a jar full of rice.It was there for about 24 hrs.(with sim tray removed i did not open the phone)
Now i am using it and everything works perfectly fine.Should i keep using it this way or do something to prevent internal damage?

raghavaggsss said:
Hello
2 days back i accidently dropped my nexus 4 in a bucket full of water.The phone was into the bucket for 4-5 seconds.I immediately turned it off.After an hour or so i put it in a jar full of rice.It was there for about 24 hrs.(with sim tray removed i did not open the phone)
Now i am using it and everything works perfectly fine.Should i keep using it this way or do something to prevent internal damage?
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To be completely sure its dry take the phone apart and use a hair dryer.
Since i'm more of a realist than an optimist, i think your phone will survive this accident but have in mind that there is a chance of hardware failure in the future.
Water + electronics = corrosion

Mashed_Potatoes said:
To be completely sure its dry take the phone apart and use a hair dryer.
Since i'm more of a realist than an optimist, i think your phone will survive this accident but have in mind that there is a chance of hardware failure in the future.
Water + electronics = corrosion
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I think its completely dried but i read in forums that using hair dryer is not a good idea. I can't believe such a fragile phone like the nexus 4 survived it.I have my phone insured (yes water damage is included) but the guy at the service told me to wait for a month or two and afterwards get my touch and motherboard changed.

While ago I had my N4 for a week or two dropped it in a toilet bowl
I did panic almost stripped a screw opening it and unglued the LCD with an hairdryer! Same phone same situation DONT USE IT!
more to that my engineer friend told me I coulda done more damage by unsoldering some IC's
hairdryer big no-no!!

Ltdrev said:
While ago I had my N4 for a week or two dropped it in a toilet bowl
I did panic almost stripped a screw opening it and unglued the LCD with an hairdryer! Same phone same situation DONT USE IT!
more to that my engineer friend told me I coulda done more damage by unsoldering some IC's
hairdryer big no-no!!
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Using hair dryer could be the worst idea resulting in a solid burnt state motherboard.I think i should keep using it till it works fine and get it repaired under insurance if i face any problems

Same happened to me last autumn. What I did was; First hard shake to remove all the water, then immediately in a bag of rise, after 12 hours (I couldn't find a screwdriver earlier) I took it apart, disconnected the battery and left it in a bag of rise on a sunny window for another 48 hours. Checking the water damage indicators shows only little purple (not the whole, only small parts) on sim tray and usb, on the main board indicator is like new. After this whole procedure phone is working without a problem since then.

Water Damage GS5 HELP ASAP

Hello,
I need to fix a water damaged Galaxy s5. Less than 48 hours ago, someone jump into the pool with it in its pocket. In under 15 seconds, it was out of the pool and the battery was removed. I wiped it dry, than brought it home to rest on a towel. I think water got in because the charging port cover broke off and the top indicator was red. The bottom one was white. My hands were a little wet when i pulled out the battery, so that might have made the sensor trigger. I did not put it in rice, I don't think it would work. It has been laying on a towel for less than 48 hours from when it was wet. I am wondering if i have to take apart the phone to get to the logic board. I don't want to risk breaking the glass. Can I just soak the phone in 99% isopropyl alcohol? Or will anything melt? I did not try to turn it on or anything at all. I have repaired iPads before. Please help.
Sincerly,
DemSkillz