Hey all,
About a month ago my nexus 4 met up with my washing machine, and as a result was submerged in water for about an hour. Shortly after the incident I opened it up to see what the damage was and the only damage I saw was some indications of corrosion on the motherboard (image 1) and (image 2). On the reverse side (image 3) you can see there is no such corrosion. Unfortunately in the confusion after taking the phone out of the water, I tried to boot it up.
Tonight, 1 month later I was fooling around and I plugged the phone in. What I got at first was the "red LED of death", but when I held the power button, the white battery symbol (image 4) popped up and the phone vibrated, followed by bitter nothingness.
My question is to ask whether or not I could salvage my dear Nexus, and how I could do this. My theory is that I would replace the fried board with a fresh one and maybe the battery too, but
1) do you think this would work? and 2) where could I find a replacement motherboard? I'm sorry to bother you but I think this information might save me a couple hundred bucks and may enlighten others with my same misfortune. Thanks,
Jack
Jackk127 said:
Hey all,
About a month ago my nexus 4 met up with my washing machine, and as a result was submerged in water for about an hour. Shortly after the incident I opened it up to see what the damage was and the only damage I saw was some indications of corrosion on the motherboard (image 1) and (image 2). On the reverse side (image 3) you can see there is no such corrosion. Unfortunately in the confusion after taking the phone out of the water, I tried to boot it up.
Tonight, 1 month later I was fooling around and I plugged the phone in. What I got at first was the "red LED of death", but when I held the power button, the white battery symbol (image 4) popped up and the phone vibrated, followed by bitter nothingness.
My question is to ask whether or not I could salvage my dear Nexus, and how I could do this. My theory is that I would replace the fried board with a fresh one and maybe the battery too, but
1) do you think this would work? and 2) where could I find a replacement motherboard? I'm sorry to bother you but I think this information might save me a couple hundred bucks and may enlighten others with my same misfortune. Thanks,
Jack
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I'm not too sure about this but I think you'd be better off getting a new one entirely than purchase a motherboard, replace it yourself and run the risk of your original problem not even being the motherboard.
Clean with 99% alcohol. And try again. Happened to my g2 back in the day and the clean solved it
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Clean with 99% alcohol. And try again. Happened to my g2 back in the day and the clean solved it
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Would this work even if I had powered it up after the incident. I'm pretty sure all the water is out of it but there might be some soap residue.
Update* Bootloader
Surprisingly, I was able to access the boot loader screen with the arrows and the android guy getting a sun tan, but upon trying to boot i get a Google screen and then back to black. What I think now is that the problem is that the battery shorted, so when I can I am going to transplant my brother's battery into my phone and see if it works. If this is successful it will surely be a triumph of Nexus 4 over human error! Below is a picture of where I got to (apologies for the blurriness).
When it happened on my g2. I could only get into the bootloader. Anything else would go and last a second and short out. I took a toothbrush plus the alcohol and that's what worked for me.
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Warbuff said:
When it happened on my g2. I could only get into the bootloader. Anything else would go and last a second and short out. I took a toothbrush plus the alcohol and that's what worked for me.
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That is exactly what is happening to me, where exactly did you scrub with the alcohol? This sounds awesome, did you just dip the brush and scrub all the components? Thanks
Pretty much. I dipped the brush into the alcohol and carefully went brushing slowly the motherboard. Make sure it's 99% so that there is minimal water content in the alcohol. Let it air dry and put everything back in and see if it worked.
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I was limited to 91% but heard that that worked. I had to submerge some of the encased parts and am currently letting the whole thing air-dry for 2 days in a bag with some rice. Will report results. Thank you for all the help.
Jackk127 said:
I was limited to 91% but heard that that worked. I had to submerge some of the encased parts and am currently letting the whole thing air-dry for 2 days in a bag with some rice. Will report results. Thank you for all the help.
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Let us know the result mate
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So I popped the motherboard back in and got back to bootloader, but the same thing happened where it shut off after trying to boot it back up. Does anyone have any more suggestions, or do you think its a problem with the motherboard? Thanks again.
Jackk127 said:
So I popped the motherboard back in and got back to bootloader, but the same thing happened where it shut off after trying to boot it back up. Does anyone have any more suggestions, or do you think its a problem with the motherboard? Thanks again.
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Sounds stupid but did you tried to flash a recovery, boot on it, and side load a zip from there. Maybe your ROM as been broken or smth. Just my 2 cents. Good luck !
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Unfortunately I am a but a yeoman in the subject of such things, and even after searching the internet for hours I could not figure out how to side load and flash files onto it. I can only get to the boot loader screen and download mode, and when I try to get into CWM on it it fails. When I tried to connect it to my computer and fix it with the Nexus root toolkit it didn't recognize the ADB or whatever. I am confident that this is a software issue now and feel that the solution lies just outside my grasp at the moment. Again, thank you guys for all your help.
Jackk127 said:
Unfortunately I am a but a yeoman in the subject of such things, and even after searching the internet for hours I could not figure out how to side load and flash files onto it. I can only get to the boot loader screen and download mode, and when I try to get into CWM on it it fails. When I tried to connect it to my computer and fix it with the Nexus root toolkit it didn't recognize the ADB or whatever. I am confident that this is a software issue now and feel that the solution lies just outside my grasp at the moment. Again, thank you guys for all your help.
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Since you can get into the bootloader, try using fastboot to flash a recovery.img. make sure you place it in your fastboot folder.
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
See if you're able to boot into recovery then. If you do not have fastboot setup, check the stickies for the rooting guide. The beginning helps you with that.
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Since you can get into the bootloader, try using fastboot to flash a recovery.img. make sure you place it in your fastboot folder.
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
See if you're able to boot into recovery then. If you do not have fastboot setup, check the stickies for the rooting guide. The beginning helps you with that.
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The problem is that I cant even get into fastboot or adb on my computer, it wont recognize the phone and I cant install the drivers for some reason. Also, I cant get to recovery on my phone.
did you use the official google drivers?
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did you use the official google drivers?
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Yeah I tried to do that and I can connect via fastboot but not ADB. When I tried to flash a custom boot image via fastboot in a toolkit though, it got to a teamwin screen for a millisecond then crashed to a black screen and red led of death. Do you guys think its possible that the problem is the battery is shorted so I cant get enough power to boot the phone, even if it is plugged into a computer?
*Update- Dead
I just finished a round of trying to boot and flash and all of the sudden the phone is just dead. No bootloader, no Led, no vibration, just dead. Does anyone know why this happened? Could this be a result of the battery damage or do you think the motherboard is fried? Thanks again.
Jackk127 said:
I just finished a round of trying to boot and flash and all of the sudden the phone is just dead. No bootloader, no Led, no vibration, just dead. Does anyone know why this happened? Could this be a result of the battery damage or do you think the motherboard is fried? Thanks again.
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Never mind that, I re-bathed the motherboard and it brought it back to the origional state of RED LED.
Umm for red led can you leave plugged in for a bit see if it charges the battery?
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I have a MyTouch 3G that got some water on it.
I let it dry out and I've been trying for two days to get it to work.
It will turn on but only goes to the startup image and stops there.
I tried going to the bootloader then using recovery there but it does the same thing--stops after showing the "MyTouch 3G Slide" logo.
It still connects to the PC, I see Android Phone: Android ADB Interface in Device Manager.
I tried using the command terminal and commands like adb shell but it keeps telling me "error: device offline."
Any ideas?
Just get a swap
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Are you saying "swap" as in swap the phone?
I can't do that. If I have to get another phone I will but I can't return this one.
k0droid said:
Are you saying "swap" as in swap the phone?
I can't do that. If I have to get another phone I will but I can't return this one.
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Why? If you have the extended warranty they'll exchange it for you.
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Why? If you have the extended warranty they'll exchange it for you.
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I assume he doesn't have the damage warranty.
Have you tried rooting it. After you hit the recovery with the red triangle, hold vol up and press the sleep/wake button it will take you into android recovery. I am assuming you haven't did this yet. I would root flash the eng build and see if it boots then.
I just had the same thing.
You need to do a long battery pull before launching recovery.
I left my battery out while at work, roughly 6 hrs (it may be shorter than that)
then you can boot into recovery. This should hopefully get you to the red triangle. If so, pull the battery (short pull) then launch the bootloader again and then go to fastboot and then reboot. that all worked for me.
Same happened to me,... Took bout 4 days but It is ok,
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k0droid said:
I have a MyTouch 3G that got some water on it.
I let it dry out and I've been trying for two days to get it to work.
It will turn on but only goes to the startup image and stops there.
I tried going to the bootloader then using recovery there but it does the same thing--stops after showing the "MyTouch 3G Slide" logo.
It still connects to the PC, I see Android Phone: Android ADB Interface in Device Manager.
I tried using the command terminal and commands like adb shell but it keeps telling me "error: device offline."
Any ideas?
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My advice..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731542
follow this to take your phone completely apart..
now get a tooth brush.. perfered moving.. sonicare or cheapo crest and some Rubbing Alcohol take phone apart find the circuts with corodoing..
take your tooth brush dip it in alcohol shake off excess and get the corosion off.. make sure you get all of it.. including battery if there is a white or silver/yellow corrosion..
re-assemble and launch
a corroded circut can stop data flow from internal flash hd
This may be a little late to say but I've always heard that if you do not use PURE alcohol not 70 or 80 percent but the green **** at cvs that's 100 percent alcohol. If you do not use that then it will bring more water or liquid chemicals other than alcohol onto the board.
Then again another solution I have personally used and worked was to take a big bowl of dry rice and take the cover and battery off the phone place it inside underneath the rice in a bowl and let it sit for a day rotating and moving the rice around every once in a while. Rice will pull the moisture out of the air anywhere and soak it up.
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That might have been the issue, some circuit being corroded or something.
I just couldn't get anything to work so I sent it in for a repair.
HTC reps claimed they couldn't fix the phone until now, I had called like 3 weeks ago for a repair and every week since and they couldn't help me until yesterday.
I did try the battery pull btw. I tried it for a few hours and I literally tried it several times leaving the phone without a battery for a days at a time but nothing worked.
Otherkid said:
This may be a little late to say but I've always heard that if you do not use PURE alcohol not 70 or 80 percent but the green **** at cvs that's 100 percent alcohol. If you do not use that then it will bring more water or liquid chemicals other than alcohol onto the board.
Then again another solution I have personally used and worked was to take a big bowl of dry rice and take the cover and battery off the phone place it inside underneath the rice in a bowl and let it sit for a day rotating and moving the rice around every once in a while. Rice will pull the moisture out of the air anywhere and soak it up.
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Three things
#1. 70-90 percent alchohol drys the same as 100 you don't need 100 infact you risk damaging the board
#2. The rice idea works for recently dropped phones e.g. I drop it in the pool run inside throw it in rice however I have taken apart many phones from people have used this method and you will find rice dust everywhere!!!! My suggestion don't bother
#3. We have all the resources here on our lovely forum if you'd like me to make a guide I can merge the disassembly and my how to repair guide together to make a perfect guide for it but no reason to pay 100 to fix your phone until you've tried yourself unless you have a warranty then use, it
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My wife dropped her phone.....in the toilet.
I tried turning it on today, and it sits at a screen that has a picture of the phone pointing at a laptop. I tried running the Windows Phone Support Tool, and I get this:
Update device 055ec22b - 332fe4fd - a812e651 - 640069c7 Complete with error code: 801812C0, error message: The update failed because your phone started improperly (in the main OS instead of the SLDR, or system loader).
Is there any way to get the phone reloaded with the default OS, or is her phone toast?
The best way to fix it....... Drop it again in the toilet and buy new phone
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maybe try a factory reset by using volume up+camera+ power button to boot..if not you can always try flashing one of the stock firmware available in these forums..assuming your hardware isn't toast these things will work
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wilcoholic5 said:
maybe try a factory reset by using volume up+camera+ power button to boot..if not you can always try flashing one of the stock firmware available in these forums..assuming your hardware isn't toast these things will work
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Tried a factory reset, as well as trying to flash the stock firmware on the phone. However, I end up at the same spot with the picture of the phone tethered to the laptop. I have a feeling it's a lost cause at this point. Thanks for the advice.
/ignore background noise
Quick questions:
1. Was the phone on when it was dropped?
2. Was the battery removed immediately?
3. How was it dried and for how long?
It could be worse - mine just took a magical trip through the washing machine in my pants pocket. :/ Anyone know of a good parts supplier that stocks the mainboard? That's the one component I can't find for sale, but I want to make sure I CAN get it before I take apart my other Samsung Focus to troubleshoot the broken part(s).
from my experince with a samsung jet,
I dropped it also in water too, i tried t oturn it after few days, strange things happned too me!!! so decided to get a new phone.
I didn't through my jet, and after few months, I charged the phone, and test it found it working without problems
I believe was just a matter of when al lthe electronics inside the phone gets really dry
try it out
I heard pulling out the battery, and putting everything buried underneath dry rice helps. Probably for a couple of days, then see what happens.
Dieabolical said:
I heard pulling out the battery, and putting everything buried underneath dry rice helps. Probably for a couple of days, then see what happens.
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This is a proven method.
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My Focus is VERY sensitive to any dampness at all. If it gets damp in my pocket (sweating, lawn sprinkler, etc.), it will ding constantly with the sound when you connect the USB cable to it. I have to take a hair dryer to the micro-USB port.
A method I heard, but have never tried, is to wrap the phone in a full sized thick bath towel and bind it closed (duct tape, bungee, whatever) and then put it in the clothes dryer on low heat for an hour.
Thanks for all the info. I will be trying it again tomorrow once I get my USB cable back. I know the cable for my Inspire will work on it as well but I forgot that at work today. Thanks again all.
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This is a proven method.
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no its not... Its a myth. The liquid evaporates unless you took it all apart and the rice actually touched the liquid and absorbed it. Taking the battery out and leaving the door off and placing the unit in front of a fan will do 1000 times more for the process than rice... Moving air is the perfect evaporator. Plus rice dust gunks up ports... Sorry to burst the experts bubble around here but facts are facts...
The phone still boots, infact I can go through set up (I was handed the device after a factory reset), but it reboots out of nowhere and will not fully boot until the battery is pulled
In other words, it can only "cold boot". No warm/hot reboots work.
Phone is 100% stock, 2.3.4 before it took the plunge.
I am experienced in rooting/modding/flashing, this is a friends phone I'm trying to fix. you guys think flashing it might revive this thing from the constant powercycling?
Edit; more info - the phone was left off after being submerged, was left out to dry. I opened up the phone down to the PCB and found no damage, cleaned it up a tad... everything seems ok hardware speaking.
XFreeRollerX said:
The phone still boots, infact I can go through set up (I was handed the device after a factory reset), but it reboots out of nowhere and will not fully boot until the battery is pulled
In other words, it can only "cold boot". No warm/hot reboots work.
Phone is 100% stock, 2.3.4 before it took the plunge.
I am experienced in rooting/modding/flashing, this is a friends phone I'm trying to fix. you guys think flashing it might revive this thing from the constant powercycling?
Edit; more info - the phone was left off after being submerged, was left out to dry. I opened up the phone down to the PCB and found no damage, cleaned it up a tad... everything seems ok hardware speaking.
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2.3.4 is not 100 % stock as we don't have an official Gingerbread build.
Try to ODIN back to stock, see if that works.
Hmmmmm Ok let me re-check what build it was running... but I bought the phone with her a while back and it was supposed to be stock then, and I seriously doubt this girl knows how to root and flash a phone
Just reflash it will clear up.
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Just reflash it will clear up.
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This is exactly what I was hoping would happen once I flash it. I just need confirmation is all. Thanks
I dont get home from work for another couple hrs... load up Odin and flash it when I get home
It should come back to life after the flash back to stock. My phone has experienced a swim in the toilet and been in the submerged in the washing machine for 5+ minutes, came back both times. It's starting to make me think that this phone is indestructible.
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Ehh ecoli everywhere.
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I really didnt learn much from this thread except i need to look into a large breasted avatar, wheewwww
Sugartibbs said:
I really didnt learn much from this thread except i need to look into a large breasted avatar, wheewwww
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+1 i was about to post the exact same thing haha
Same thing happened to my vibrant about a week ago ,too. I did dried it ...but couldn't turn it on. So i thought it was dead ,and left it on the table. After 2-3 days, my bro took the phone and tried to turn it on again. Woohoo, it booted and worked. I guess i like samsung more than before
One of ours fell in the bathtub. The result was constant boot loops due to moisture. Also it would turn on as soon as the battery was installed without pressing power. I stripped it down to its pcb, swished it around in a bowl of isopropyl alcohol (I used 91% - the higher the better) for about 10-15seconds then let it dry about 3 hours. After I put it back together it was as good as new. No loops, no auto power up, no need to reflash. Simply good as new! I got lucky...
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placidic said:
One of ours fell in the bathtub. The result was constant boot loops due to moisture. Also it would turn on as soon as the battery was installed without pressing power. I stripped it down to its pcb, swished it around in a bowl of isopropyl alcohol (I used 91% - the higher the better) for about 10-15seconds then let it dry about 3 hours. After I put it back together it was as good as new. No loops, no auto power up, no need to reflash. Simply good as new! I got lucky...
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Ill try this again if it still bootloops
placidic said:
One of ours fell in the bathtub. The result was constant boot loops due to moisture. Also it would turn on as soon as the battery was installed without pressing power. I stripped it down to its pcb, swished it around in a bowl of isopropyl alcohol (I used 91% - the higher the better) for about 10-15seconds then let it dry about 3 hours. After I put it back together it was as good as new. No loops, no auto power up, no need to reflash. Simply good as new! I got lucky...
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Wow your lcd survived that???
Sent from a cell tower to the XDA server to you.
So I tried flashing it last night
Something is up w/ the Internal storage, I can't mount it.... I plug the phone in, "mount" something, and don't get access to the Internal SD card
I can't flash anything.
sadface. Ideas?
hmm... it seems like you're in a "****TY" situation, no?
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So I tried flashing it last night
Something is up w/ the Internal storage, I can't mount it.... I plug the phone in, "mount" something, and don't get access to the Internal SD card
I can't flash anything.
sadface. Ideas?
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Did you use odin? reformat internal storage.
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xriderx66 said:
hmm... it seems like you're in a "****TY" situation, no?
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LOL
mveksler said:
Did you use odin? reformat internal storage.
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I did not use ODIN yet... Odin was supposed to be for flashing the kernel, no? I was trying to copy the ROM over to flash a recovery to it... I'll try ODIN tonight
placidic said:
One of ours fell in the bathtub. The result was constant boot loops due to moisture. Also it would turn on as soon as the battery was installed without pressing power. I stripped it down to its pcb, swished it around in a bowl of isopropyl alcohol (I used 91% - the higher the better) for about 10-15seconds then let it dry about 3 hours. After I put it back together it was as good as new. No loops, no auto power up, no need to reflash. Simply good as new! I got lucky...
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Still trying to sort mine out after a tub dump. It still bootloops occasionally and is doing the turn on as soon as battery inserted thing. I fully disassembled mine and took a can of compressed air to the PCB's.
On to ODIN next to fully restore the stock filesystem. Pray for me!
Remove the back and battery and submerge your phone in a bowl of plain uncooked white rice overnight. Problem solved
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LOL
I did not use ODIN yet... Odin was supposed to be for flashing the kernel, no? I was trying to copy the ROM over to flash a recovery to it... I'll try ODIN tonight
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Odin should correct any corruptions but if it still bootloops than there is still some moisture. Use rice or what i did take everything out battery memory sim and plave your phone on top of warm electrical device like cable box etc which usualy warm make sure you rotate once.
My phone has been swiming with me in the pool for 30-45 min and still live and kicking
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I was playing around with my Nexus 4. It fell in a glass of water. I took it out within 2 seconds. Phone booted up and worked fine except Camera and the earpiece. Those started to work fine after around 5 hrs automatically. I flashed Stock Android 4.2.2 via Fastboot after everything was working fine. It failed while flashing bootloader and then the phone went completely blank. I did 30 mins of work and google search and I was trying all sorts of combinations and the phone booted by luck. After then it went in Blank many times showing *white* LED. I was always able to take it out of that by some combinations. Now the phone got stuck in bootloop. I switched off the phone and plugged it for charging. It charged upto 100%. My mom took my phone and locked in the cupboard (due to exams) I got it today (after 2 days) and when I try to boot then it just shows *Red* LED for some time and then goes off. If I plug it to a wall charger then the Red LED lasts merely a second.
Please help me guys.
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I was playing around with my Nexus 4. It fell in a glass of water. I took it out within 2 seconds. Phone booted up and worked fine except Camera and the earpiece. Those started to work fine after around 5 hrs automatically. I flashed Stock Android 4.2.2 via Fastboot after everything was working fine. It failed while flashing bootloader and then the phone went completely blank. I did 30 mins of work and google search and I was trying all sorts of combinations and the phone booted by luck. After then it went in Blank many times showing *white* LED. I was always able to take it out of that by some combinations. Now the phone got stuck in bootloop. I switched off the phone and plugged it for charging. It charged upto 100%. My mom took my phone and locked in the cupboard (due to exams) I got it today (after 2 days) and when I try to boot then it just shows *Red* LED for some time and then goes off. If I plug it to a wall charger then the Red LED lasts merely a second.
Please help me guys.
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Take out the battery and reinsert it,i have seen people complaining of red blinking led issue,but in their case,the phone shut down due to 0 battery,and when try to turn on by connecting wall charger,the issue showed up.If there's a possibility that the phone got completely discharged in cupboard(due to low or no signal),then that might be ur issue as well.
ashishv said:
Take out the battery and reinsert it,i have seen people complaining of red blinking led issue,but in their case,the phone shut down due to 0 battery,and when try to turn on by connecting wall charger,the issue showed up.If there's a possibility that the phone got completely discharged in cupboard(due to low or no signal),then that might be ur issue as well.
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The phone was powered off in the cupboard
ashishv said:
Take out the battery and reinsert it,i have seen people complaining of red blinking led issue,but in their case,the phone shut down due to 0 battery,and when try to turn on by connecting wall charger,the issue showed up.If there's a possibility that the phone got completely discharged in cupboard(due to low or no signal),then that might be ur issue as well.
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I am afraid taking out the battery. What if voided the phone ?
If the phone has been water damaged, warranty won't help you anyway so you haven't got anything to lose! Just a reminder, if you drop your phone in water, turn it off (take out the battery if possible) and put it in a bowl of rice for 12-48 hours to help dry it out, do not turn it on before then!
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I am afraid taking out the battery. What if voided the phone ?
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You are already voided due to water damage.....
BigDig said:
You are already voided due to water damage.....
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And btw no international warranty for this phone.
But it is already worked completely fine after around 5 days. I also instantly blew a hard dryer on it and it go to work. It shows no signs of Water Damage
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And btw no international warranty for this phone.
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I can ship it back to US. I bought it from Indian site which ships phone to US if any problems come and will deal with RMA.
iHarkunwar said:
I can ship it back to US. I bought it from Indian site which ships phone to US if any problems come and will deal with RMA.
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Which site?I used ppobox.
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Which site?I used ppobox.
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TheAmericanBazaar
Also when it fell in water it had the cover on and the screen protector over too.
Was going to sell and buy HTC One and Google trolled me
iHarkunwar said:
I am afraid taking out the battery. What if voided the phone ?
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The phone isn't really hard to take apart, I posted a video on YouTube a while back showing how to take apart the phone and replace the screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1aiut8RXhc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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speedygonzo said:
The phone isn't really hard to take apart, I posted a video on YouTube a while back showing how to take apart the phone and replace the screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1aiut8RXhc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Will try then
I have a complete set of screw drivers. None worked on the Nexus 4 :/
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Dropped phone in toilet. 2 seconds max. Didnt have luxery of a torque screw or pop open capabilities threw the N4 in bag of rice. 4 days later. it turns on and the screen looks fine, but auto shut down right when main screen loads. Checked for water damage on the inside: void stickers were pink, but phone seemed fine and no sign of water damage, until I took out the battery. it looked a bit damaged. I replaced it today and I am still getting the same issue. Right when I am taken past the Cyanogenmod loading screen, the main page loads and says "shutting off" or "powering down" whatever it says. The battery seems to always be between 16-18% also. Anyone ran into a situation like this or have any suggestions? please!!!! thanks!
I very recently had my Nexus give me the blinking red light of death. It started when I couldn't flash the latest Franco Kernel due to an "Unmatching MD5" error. So, I thought why not update Cyanogenmod 10 to the latest nightly? Lo and behold, it skips the prompt asking if I want to install it and the phone shuts off. The furthest I've gotten right now is getting it to the standard recovery, and that was only for a minute (this was after I hooked the phone up and used the Nexus toolkit to reflash the stock recovory). Now, when I try to flash the stock ROM, I either get "device not found" or that some random error has happened. I'm stuck between either using software methods to fix this, or sending it in for an RMA sooner than I thought I would (it has tons of scratches and dents).
Just as a note, I know about the battery trick, and I'm not up for doing that. I'd sooner RMA it, as I believe after relocking the bootloader it would still be under warranty since it seems to technically have no ROM installed right now.
Will it boot into fastboot?
It will. It won't go beyond that though. I did, at one point, get the default recovery screen where the dead android with a red triangle in it's chest popped up, but I haven't been able to get past that. I have a replacement coming in, but it'd be great to know how to fix this in case the replacement faces the same issue.
Sorry for the late reply, didn't have it set to email me or even had it subscribed.
CodemasterRob said:
It will. It won't go beyond that though. I did, at one point, get the default recovery screen where the dead android with a red triangle in it's chest popped up, but I haven't been able to get past that. I have a replacement coming in, but it'd be great to know how to fix this in case the replacement faces the same issue.
Sorry for the late reply, didn't have it set to email me or even had it subscribed.
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If you can get into Fastboot mode, have you tried flashing the stock images from Google?
Yes. I've, as far as fastboot has told me, successfully flashed the stock kernel, ROM, and recovery, and the bootloader is still in tact so I can lock and unlock that at will. The phone is completely dead now though. Must have been a battery problem, because it won't even show the light now.
CodemasterRob said:
Yes. I've, as far as fastboot has told me, successfully flashed the stock kernel, ROM, and recovery, and the bootloader is still in tact so I can lock and unlock that at will. The phone is completely dead now though. Must have been a battery problem, because it won't even show the light now.
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You need to take it apart and pull the battery connection off. Its the same thing as a battery pull. I had to do it this morning cause I had the red light of death. Booted back up no problem. There's a video on YouTube red light of death fix.
Just saw you know about it. Mine was bought used so I couldn't RMA. But it works easy enough. And I'm a amateur who isn't good at working on small tech stuff and it was easy enough for me.
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Mephisto Zap said:
You need to take it apart and pull the battery connection off. Its the same thing as a battery pull. I had to do it this morning cause I had the red light of death. Booted back up no problem. There's a video on YouTube red light of death fix.
Just saw you know about it. Mine was bought used so I couldn't RMA. But it works easy enough. And I'm a amateur who isn't good at working on small tech stuff and it was easy enough for me.
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Heh, I was about to direct you to the OP
That *might* fix it, but I believe a full battery replacement is in order. The phone was reaching an excess of 150 degrees before it shut down, it literally burnt my leg and gave me a red spot. All is well though; I managed to pry the SIM card out, wipe all of the partitions, and get it back to factory state before it completely turned over in it's grave. Learned my lesson the first time around; got myself a case to prevent all of those nasty scratches and I'll be ordering XO skins soon.