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any hope with GT-i9000 dropped in sea water

i dropped my Samsung into the sea after only 2 days from buying it . went the technician said that the board is bad and need to replaced . it is very expensive .
can i buy cheaper board from anywhere online ??

From the best of my experience with things like this, you are probably better off just buying a new phone than trying to replace the board. Isn't exactly an easy swap.

Should have took it apart and put it in a bowl of rice, the rice absorbs the moisture and if your lucky the phone will survive
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I don't think that would work with sea water, the water would be absorbed, but you'd get salt deposits left behind.
check if you can claim it on your household insurance.

Exactly, the rice trick would most likely not work due to the presence of salt in water.

Oh too bad. :-(
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And since salt water is alot more conductive than regular water you most likely have something fried
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One last resortis to remove battery and rinse phone in distilled (mineral free) water then dry totally in silica gel or rice, maybe remove back plate whilst drying, for a couple of weeks, then try, but only as a last resort!
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Ultrasonic cleaning might help, however chances are very low.

Today, my Samsung Galaxy S I-9000 got dropped in approximately 2 feet of sea water, at the beach. My phone was dead.
Took battery out plus SIM & SD card didn't seem wet, card contacts were dry
battery was dry. What happened was sea water went into the circuit board through the headphone jack. I took my phone completely apart underneath the circuit board was 1 drop of water, but lots of salt on the metal parts, grabbed a Q-tip and rolled it around the back of the board, let it dry under a halogen lamp for aprox 30 mins, put it all back together and I could not believe it phone booted up normally tested all features wifi, bluetooth cameras, barcode scanner and of course the phone. One thing is that there is a water marker behind the plastic case by the headphone jack there is a small white square that turns purple when it gets wet.
anyhow I'm happy my phone is back to normal. Antenna seems to work better to as usually I only get 1-2 bars of signal, now getting 2-3 bars.

my note fall in the toilet :-(

hi!
my note fall in toilet in friday morning before i went to work, i blow air from an hairdryer but it still acting like crazy. then i put it in a bag with rice, it become better. the only problem is that the screen is blincking like +- screen brightness, now i have it in a bag with 2 silica gel bags that come in example shoe package , is this good ? do you think my phone will be like before:-(

Should have put in rice immediately and left for at least 24 hours
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Rice for 24 for sure, then up close to a light bulb for several hours to get some heat in it.
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I feel your pain
Most importantly, turn it off and don't turn it on until you are sure it's completely dry
Silica gel is good. I've used alcohol to save an android phone in the past (HTC Magic) after it fell into a toilet (with the added bonus of sterilizing it!) but YMMV with the Note. I filled a quarter of a ziplock bag with 99% alcohol, dropped in my phone and shook it up. In theory, the fluid alcohol should replace the water molecules along the circuit board, but will evaporate at a much faster rate. After a few minutes, I removed the phone, gave it a good wiping and let it air dry for about 12 hours, then to be safe put it in a bag of rice (same effect as silica gel) for another day and a half. The phone still works.
But I'd recommend this as a last resort - try the silica gel/rice treatment first.

DO NOT PUT IT IN RICE!!! THATS A WIVES TALE! THE DUST FROM THE RICE WILL CAUSE ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS... I own a mobile device repair shop... turn it off first and foremost. Most electronics turn themselves off when they get wet... they don't get fried until you turn them back on. Take it apart as far as you can and sit it under a source of dry air (aka A/C) and leave it for ATLEAST 2 days (preferably a week). You need to take the back plate off. You can find tutorials on how to do it online.
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baaj said:
I feel your pain
Most importantly, turn it off and don't turn it on until you are sure it's completely dry
Silica gel is good. I've used alcohol to save an android phone in the past (HTC Magic) after it fell into a toilet (with the added bonus of sterilizing it!) but YMMV with the Note. I filled a quarter of a ziplock bag with 99% alcohol, dropped in my phone and shook it up. In theory, the fluid alcohol should replace the water molecules along the circuit board, but will evaporate at a much faster rate. After a few minutes, I removed the phone, gave it a good wiping and let it air dry for about 12 hours, then to be safe put it in a bag of rice (same effect as silica gel) for another day and a half. The phone still works.
But I'd recommend this as a last resort - try the silica gel/rice treatment first.
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Everything else here is dead on... just omit the rice.
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falluja said:
hi!
my note fall in toilet in friday morning before i went to work, i blow air from an hairdryer but it still acting like crazy. then i put it in a bag with rice, it become better. the only problem is that the screen is blincking like +- screen brightness, now i have it in a bag with 2 silica gel bags that come in example shoe package , is this good ? do you think my phone will be like before:-(
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Stop watchingporn on the toilet.... jk
yup rice for 24 hours or bust

daddymatt said:
DO NOT PUT IT IN RICE!!! THATS A WIVES TALE! THE DUST FROM THE RICE WILL CAUSE ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS... I own a mobile device repair shop... turn it off first and foremost. Most electronics turn themselves off when they get wet... they don't get fried until you turn them back on. Take it apart as far as you can and sit it under a source of dry air (aka A/C) and leave it for ATLEAST 2 days (preferably a week). You need to take the back plate off. You can find tutorials on how to do it online.
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Wives tail? I RESPECTFULLY disagree. Worked for me and my wife and countless others
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i hope the silica gel will help. the phone was normal a while after the rice but then it started blinking then

What is the logic of using rice?
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JulyDerek said:
What is the logic of using rice?
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Draws out all of the moisture
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falluja said:
hi!
my note fall in toilet in friday morning before i went to work, i blow air from an hairdryer but it still acting like crazy. then i put it in a bag with rice, it become better. the only problem is that the screen is blincking like +- screen brightness, now i have it in a bag with 2 silica gel bags that come in example shoe package , is this good ? do you think my phone will be like before:-(
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baaj said:
I feel your pain
Most importantly, turn it off and don't turn it on until you are sure it's completely dry
Silica gel is good. I've used alcohol to save an android phone in the past (HTC Magic) after it fell into a toilet (with the added bonus of sterilizing it!) but YMMV with the Note. I filled a quarter of a ziplock bag with 99% alcohol, dropped in my phone and shook it up. In theory, the fluid alcohol should replace the water molecules along the circuit board, but will evaporate at a much faster rate. After a few minutes, I removed the phone, gave it a good wiping and let it air dry for about 12 hours, then to be safe put it in a bag of rice (same effect as silica gel) for another day and a half. The phone still works.
But I'd recommend this as a last resort - try the silica gel/rice treatment first.
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Good Lord! It's surprising how many people have dropped their phones in the toilet! Needless to say, I am never touching someone else's phone again.
This one time a colleague of mine dropped his iPhone pouch in his pants at the toilet at work. He thought he lost it. All this time it was stuck to his butt crack & he found it the next day! LOL. I have never touched his phone since.
Lesson learnt... Think twice before bringing somebody else's phone to your face.

You should close shop.
I've done the rice thing at least 20 times with friends and family. Worked everytime .
Most important thing Is to be patience. Take battery and leave it alone for a few days.
daddymatt said:
DO NOT PUT IT IN RICE!!! THATS A WIVES TALE! THE DUST FROM THE RICE WILL CAUSE ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS... I own a mobile device repair shop... turn it off first and foremost. Most electronics turn themselves off when they get wet... they don't get fried until you turn them back on. Take it apart as far as you can and sit it under a source of dry air (aka A/C) and leave it for ATLEAST 2 days (preferably a week). You need to take the back plate off. You can find tutorials on how to do it online.
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Bucket of rock salt?

*Roleplaying CSI*
I guess this victim has mixed herself...
... with a ****ty kind of company.
YEEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

There are plenty of desiccants out there that work MUCH better than rice. I think most people preaching the rice route have only done it that way. They don't know if they'd just placed it anywhere with a supply of warm, dry air and waited, it would've worked just as well. If you want to use a REAL desiccant, you can get a product called DampRid at most hardware or grocery stores. It's a plastic tub with anhydrous calcium chloride in the bottom, underneath a perforated plastic plate. Just pop the phone in and snap the lid on.
Personally, I'd just disassemble as far as you feel comfortable and place in a warm dry area for awhile. A rinse with 99% isopropyl alcohol wouldn't hurt, either. But step one is always remove the battery first!

falluja said:
hi!
my note fall in toilet in friday morning before i went to work, i blow air from an hairdryer but it still acting like crazy. then i put it in a bag with rice, it become better. the only problem is that the screen is blincking like +- screen brightness, now i have it in a bag with 2 silica gel bags that come in example shoe package , is this good ? do you think my phone will be like before:-(
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LoL...what were u really doing in toilet with d note???
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Put it in your dryer, on heavy duty. That always does the trick for me!

Yumunum said:
Put it in your dryer, on heavy duty. That always does the trick for me!
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You are kidding right?Won't the heat destroy it?

Remove the battery
I think only one poster implied it... REMOVE THE BATTERY as well as drying it out.
Even if you turn it off there is still current being drawn from the battery - else the power button would never work.
Then follow the excellent advice here - esp the alcohol route - and hope.

HTC Desire HD Water Damage

Hi there,
My phone got slightly water damaged last night from what I think was beer. It was in my pocket and someone sprayed some beer at me which must have got in it. I didn't realise till this morning by which time I had already had my phone plugged in and charging overnight. I have taken it apart and dried it in the sun. However when I reassemble it, it doesn't switch on. If I hold down the power button for a long time, it vibrates once but nothing more. Anyone got any ideas on how to fix it? Thanks
(I know I should have left it longer to dry btw)
Thanks
Sea Viper

Leave it for a couple of days to dry than plug your phone to charge witout battery for 2 min ,than insert battery and battery cover , u will see orange light,press power button hopefully your fone will boot
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Beer isn't water imho, If that sticky goo dries you will have a small h*ll to clean it. Take it apart and clean with destilled water, be careful with the microphone it doesn't like water like the rest of the components.
Cheers mate, my beer is coming down in my tummy now, not my phone... =)
J.K Nilsson

take out the battery, SIM & SD Card. Keep the battery cover and the SIM/SD card cover off. Out out in a bag of uncooked rice for twenty four hours, should work
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Tho OP says its beer, not water that might have entered the phone. If you dry beer, what can you expect to get?
J.K Nilsson

J.K Nilsson said:
Tho OP says its beer, not water that might have entered the phone. If you dry beer, what can you expect to get?
J.K Nilsson
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Bread?
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SeaViper said:
Hi there,
My phone got slightly water damaged last night from what I think was beer. It was in my pocket and someone sprayed some beer at me which must have got in it. I didn't realise till this morning by which time I had already had my phone plugged in and charging overnight. I have taken it apart and dried it in the sun. However when I reassemble it, it doesn't switch on. If I hold down the power button for a long time, it vibrates once but nothing more. Anyone got any ideas on how to fix it? Thanks
(I know I should have left it longer to dry btw)
Thanks
Sea Viper
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Try putting phone in some rice. To Soak the water out.

wigankev said:
Try putting phone in some rice. To Soak the water out.
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I said that I my post....
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I said that I my post....
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Didn't read the other posts

Still not working, I've left it out to try some more and it still isn't working. What else can I do?

You need to clean it out or you can give the phone to me. v
J.K Nilsson

Try cleaning it with 96% alcohol, in german its called spiritus. It doesn`t produce any shortcuts on the board and dry`s a lot faster and is more aggressive against dirt/dryed fluids remained at the bord than detilled water, even the fluid indicators(at least in defy there were some) on the board will stay white, if they aren`t yet red. Get a small bristle brush(I´ve shorted a painting bristle brush with a scissor), dip it in the "spiritus", brush the board with it (not to weak, but be careful, don`t break parts apart from the board, and do NOT brush the lcd or anything related to it, only the board ). Let it dry for a couple of hours and try. If it doesn`t work, try cleaning it at least a second time. My Defy is working after a serious sea-water damage (ewwww salt+contacts=green oxydation everywhere ). Contacts on the board are back to normal now on my defy.

App for systemcheck

Hey,
Last weekend my phone got wet (was completly sunk in water) but after drying everything seems fine. I still cannot believe it myself but yet i couldnt find any damage (except the waterseals).
Now i wanted to know if there is an app to test the sensors and anything possible? Couldnt find any on market.
Iam running cyanogenmod 7.2 stable, so there are also some developeroptions...but nothing that says 'yes okay the sensor responds and give me normal values' .
Does somebody know anything?
Thanks
knighToFdemonS

Make sure you backup everything. It'll probably die in a few weeks when corrosion starts inside...
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I jumped on a pool with the phone in my pocket.. yeah stupid but anyways, I had my phone battery out, sim out and SD card and sunk it all in rice for about a day, your phone should turn out fine aside from stains on your screen which will eventually clear up a little. My phone is still running great.
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Uh sure corrosion ... sounds bad...i hope it wont die... i gently dryed it with a fan and held it a long time bodywarm.
I was on a festival and at the stages when heavy rain starts and my tent got completly drowned (phone was off for batterysave).
As i pulled it out the water it vibrated 3 times as the water run out. I instantly took out the battery. One day later we got home and i used the fan.
After another hour cooling down, it booted up with some flickering lights but everything works. Flickering lights are
gone now, too.
I just wanted to ask if theres a developers or engeneers app for a healthcheck^^ perhaps some memory is damaged i dont know of yet or something like that.

Best bet is to open er up and properly clean and dry everything you can. To avoid corrosion and to be certain it's dry

a little offtopic but, is the Desire Z actually waterproof? there aren't any dump***es on youtube testing it

mazdarati2 said:
a little offtopic but, is the Desire Z actually waterproof? there aren't any dump***es on youtube testing it
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Doubt it, but mine was literally submerged in water for maybe a minute, and my phone works the exact same. Rice man, works wonders.
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Bowl of rice, nice idea...
Is there any tut how to open the G2? I tried myself but got stuck after 2 screws...couldnt find another and case wouldnt open^^'
And no, G2 is not waterproof...at least there is no commercial that says so^^
My one was at least half an hour fully under water (not a bit was out of the water), but it was switched off.
As I pulled it out of the little lake in my tent it vibrated 3 times (perhaps an automated protection of the electronic circuit? if too wet sensor switches off the whole circuit?) and i removed the battery in panic.
Then i didnt turn it on for 2 days. One day dried open air at the festival and the second day i gently used a hairdryer to get rid of the water under the display.
Its still like a miracle for me...never thought it would even turn on again.

not waterproof
there are three t5 torx screws, then you need a plastic pry tool or guitar pick to open the case. search youtube for a video like digitizer replacement and you'll see how to do it
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Water damage

My darling husband fell in the lake fishing, or so he says I'm trying to dry out his phone. However, no battery or no way of opening it. Can I pull the 6 hex screws on the sides and put all the parts in a zip lock bag with rice? Its on and I can see there are messages and missed calls but nothing works. It wont turn off either. Any advice would be greatly Appreciated.
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They're not hex, so please dont damage it with a hex bit. They are torx, and yes most likely would be best bet if youre not scared of putting it back together. You may also want to read about treating it with isopropyl alcohol and silicon spray. Legit method, look it up, ill see if I can find you a link.
I cant find the exact article, however google for 'water damaged phone rice silica alcohol' will yield information thou need four Brest drying methods.
Wow way to mess up swype... you need for best
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I wouldn't try turning it on with all that moisture in it it might mess with the circuitry
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I cant even turn it off. Let it sit in rice all night. It turned off. Now I can get it to turn on or charge. Next on my to do list.....call insurance. I guess this is the reason why we have it right
Thanks for all your advice and help.
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Oh yeah, that shouldve been the first step if you have insurance. for future reference, you can pick up a multi bit torx set for under six dollars
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What timing...I too fell in the lake with my RAZR M in my pocket last weekend. I was turning a boat over on the dock with a couple of people and simply lost my footing. Anyway I just turned it off and put it in a bag of rice as soon as I could and let it sit for about 6 hours. Today everything works just fine but the question is for how long lol? Good luck with your husbands phone.

OK, I did the water test for the phone and I KNOW HOT TO FIX the water damage.
My screen would turn on after tring to dry it out but the touch screen was unresponsive.
1) Do your best to dry it out.
2) Use a hair drier on HIGH to get moisture out.
3) Place in bag of rice for at least 12 hours.
4) Once again use the hair drier to try and get any excess water vapor out.
5) USE A VACUUM CLEANER!!! To suck the water out, make sure you do this for about 5-10 mins. Vacuum the ENTIRE phone.
This worked fine for me.
I hope it works for you guys!!!
Please click thanks if I helped!