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Samsung FTW

So I do a lot of reading on this forum but rarely post.
Last night, my phone fell out of my hands while I was sitting outside the hottub and went right into it. It was like how something falls to the bottom of the ocean in a movie. I got it out right away dried it off, took out the battery and sd card and looked at it.
It seemed that no water got into the system at all. The phone works just as it did when before the dive. The only thing that is touchy is the charger now, but oh well.
Samsung ftw

My friend dropped his Incredible in tea. He thought the same thing, but now, the phone reboots itself when it gets warm at all, and if it gets cold, the touchscreen becomes unresponsive. It was stupid to turn it back on. You should have immediately stuck it in dry rice and never turned it on, as that can prevent damage from happening.

Yeah, regardless of manufacturer/model, never turn a dunked phone on until you're 100% sure it's as dry as you can possibly get it.
Pull the battery and SD card, then shove the whole mess into a bag of white rice for AT LEAST 24 hours, more if you can. The longer it sits in the rice with no power, the more likely it is to survive the dunking.

Nah dehumidifier is better lol
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Anyone know of any cell phone shops that have a wet phone recovery service?
I would place the phone inside a small pressure vessel and pull a deep vacuum for 15-20 mins (or until I archived 1000µm). Then break the vacuum with dry nitrogen. Repeat 3x's.
This is the method for pulling moisture out of refrigeration systems and it does work well.
I would think a small phone shop could easily get $50 a pop to save someones phone.
Hope yours stays happy! good luck

Hair dryer.
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dw77x said:
Anyone know of any cell phone shops that have a wet phone recovery service?
I would place the phone inside a small pressure vessel and pull a deep vacuum for 15-20 mins (or until I archived 1000µm). Then break the vacuum with dry nitrogen. Repeat 3x's.
This is the method for pulling moisture out of refrigeration systems and it does work well.
I would think a small phone shop could easily get $50 a pop to save someones phone.
Hope yours stays happy! good luck
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I would worry about the screen in a vacuum.
If it were my phone though, I would completely disassemble it and make sure I got all of the water out that way, maybe hit it with some 99% isypropal to help get any water out from under chips and in tight places, and let it dry for a few days in silica beads.

A hairdryer is a horrible idea. It can't pull the water out. On the contrary, it's more likely to force the water into worse places.
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xmrbonesx said:
A hairdryer is a horrible idea. It can't pull the water out. On the contrary, it's more likely to force the water into worse places.
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And cook the inside components. hehe forgot the /sarcasm tag. I'm not stupid
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I'm not so sure about the phones, but my samsung led tv survived a house fire... Pretty proud of that little purchase.
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sageDieu said:
And cook the inside components. hehe forgot the /sarcasm tag. I'm not stupid
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I know that, but there are people that will blindly follow anything they read on these boards, and I've seen a hairdryer suggested before.

AlexDeGruven said:
Pull the battery and SD card, then shove the whole mess into a bag of white rice for AT LEAST 24 hours, more if you can. The longer it sits in the rice with no power, the more likely it is to survive the dunking.
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Rice is a good option and works well, but the small silica packets that are used as desiccant work even better and can be purchased very cheaply.
Putting your phone in some sort of vacuum or near-vacuum is probably a bad idea because the hardware was likely not designed to withstand such conditions.
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Ok guys update.
So its been what a couple of days now, and my phone is working pretty good. all the main things work. the only thing that is a little touchy is the charger, and it keeps saying usb connected, but i can live with that.

I uses to work at a sign shop and my bosses kids were terrible about throwing phones in water so he found the little pink water detector strips so I know if you do that you can put it on and trade out your phone
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Golgotha theskull said:
I uses to work at a sign shop and my bosses kids were terrible about throwing phones in water so he found the little pink water detector strips so I know if you do that you can put it on and trade out your phone
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Probably super illegal or at least in violation of like everything in the contract you sign about insurance and replacements. Lol
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sageDieu said:
Probably super illegal or at least in violation of like everything in the contract you sign about insurance and replacements. Lol
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I second that LOL.
Anyways, I just want to say Samsung FTW because this phone has just been amazing in so many ways. Abilities to super customize in any way, shape and form, awesome screen...I was VERY hesitant on buying an all touch screen phone. Coming from a Blackberry Tour I was very use to a real keyboard and buttons. Yes this phone has it's up's and downs, but all in all the pros really out weigh the cons.
I'm in absolute NO rush to get a new phone any time soon. I love my Fassy

Water damaged Incredible

A question for some of the folks in xda land.I have a friend who has an incredible that she dumped in the toilet and it half works on its own whim.She was actually told by someone to put it down in a bag of rice in an attempt to draw out the remaing moisture.Does this really work and if so how long should she leave it in the bag of rice?I had never heard of this and thought I would ask.
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bob24260 said:
A question for some of the folks in xda land.I have a friend who has an incredible that she dumped in the toilet and it half works on its own whim.She was actually told by someone to put it down in a bag of rice in an attempt to draw out the remaing moisture.Does this really work and if so how long should she leave it in the bag of rice?I had never heard of this and thought I would ask.
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It sorta works. There's better ways to do it faster... as in rice can take a week or two at least.

loonatik78 said:
It sorta works. There's better ways to do it faster... as in rice can take a week or two at least.
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I would appreciate any advice you could give.My friend is on a very limited income,single with 3 kids so I'm trying to help her avoid getting another phone.She's had that phone since about a week after its release and it still looks like it just came out of the box.Very well taken care of except for the toilet incident.
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I've done the bag of rice technique before with success. Not with an Incredible, a Samsumg feature phone, but it does work.

crondable said:
I've done the bag of rice technique before with success. Not with an Incredible, a Samsumg feature phone, but it does work.
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Any idea how long to leave it in bare minimum?
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A while back I dropped my phone into my bowl of cereal and it was somewhat damaged by the milk. It was never completely submerged, though, so I think damage was minimal. The charging light wouldn't turn off, but it seemed OK otherwise.
Anyway, I took off the battery cover, removed the battery and SD card and started by using a towel to soak up as much moisture as possible. Then, I grabbed a small Tupperware and poured in a bit of rice. I placed the phone (just the phone, no cover, battery, or SD card) in and poured some more rice in (enough to cover the phone). I snapped the lid on and left it alone for a day. When I put it all back together and turned it on, everything was fine and phone is still going strong.
Depending on the extent of damage I'd think she might need to leave it in longer than a day, but I'm not sure. Her best bet would probably be to leave it as long as she is able to.
Good luck!
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Wisegy84 said:
A while back I dropped my phone into my bowl of cereal and it was somewhat damaged by the milk. It was never completely submerged, though, so I think damage was minimal. The charging light wouldn't turn off, but it seemed OK otherwise.
Anyway, I took off the battery cover, removed the battery and SD card and started by using a towel to soak up as much moisture as possible. Then, I grabbed a small Tupperware and poured in a bit of rice. I placed the phone (just the phone, no cover, battery, or SD card) in and poured some more rice in (enough to cover the phone). I snapped the lid on and left it alone for a day. When I put it all back together and turned it on, everything was fine and phone is still going strong.
Depending on the extent of damage I'd think she might need to leave it in longer than a day, but I'm not sure. Her best bet would probably be to leave it as long as she is able to.
Good luck!
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I really appreciate your help.She depends on that phone and is on a limited budget.Had got it in better times.Thanks again.I'm open to all suggestions.
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bob24260 said:
Any idea how long to leave it in bare minimum?
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A week at the minimum. Also tell her to do not touch it while it is in the rice, and especially not to turn it on.

N-Forced said:
A week at the minimum. Also tell her to do not touch it while it is in the rice, and especially not to turn it on.
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Genuinely appreciate it!
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Commercial desicants with a moving air flow works the best. I used to use these reusable desicant packs for storing guns. Those things would suck moisture out of a popcorn fart.

loonatik78 said:
Commercial desicants with a moving air flow works the best. I used to use these reusable desicant packs for storing guns. Those things would suck moisture out of a popcorn fart.
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+1 I worked for a shipping company a while back and I took some 6pack desiccants because my friend dropped her iPhone in the toilet. She put it in a plastic back with the desiccants and left it in front of a fan over night and it worked in the morning. About 8 hours. Plus if you can take the back off and remove the battery place the phone on top of the pack(battery side down) it should speed it up.
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loonatik78 said:
Commercial desicants with a moving air flow works the best. I used to use these reusable desicant packs for storing guns. Those things would suck moisture out of a popcorn fart.
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I know the ones your speaking of...the ones that say "Not a food do not eat!!!"Lol.You know somewhere someone has gave it a whirl.lol
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bob24260 said:
I know the ones your speaking of...the ones that say "Not a food do not eat!!!"Lol.You know somewhere someone has gave it a whirl.lol
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Lol. Yep. Warning labels only exist because someone did something stupid.
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synisterwolf said:
+1 I worked for a shipping company a while back and I took some 6pack desiccants because my friend dropped her iPhone in the toilet. She put it in a plastic back with the desiccants and left it in front of a fan over night and it worked in the morning. About 8 hours. Plus if you can take the back off and remove the battery place the phone on top of the pack(battery side down) it should speed it up.
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I really appreciate the advice.I have passed along the tips and hopefully the device can be saved.
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Yeah you gotta be ready when stuff like this happens... The very very VERY first thing to do when it becomes submerged is take the battery out and leave it out until the phone is dry

+1 Yep the faster you can remove power the better off you are. And the rice trick has worked for me and other before when a phone/camera/etc has been dropped in water. Once you start getting into soda and other liquids I think the success rate goes down.

^yeah, IIRC if it gets submerged in other liquids you're actually supposed to wash the device off carefully in water because there's no current to short anything (if you have the battery out) and water is the least corrosive

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^yeah, IIRC if it gets submerged in other liquids you're actually supposed to wash the device off carefully in water because there's no current to short anything (if you have the battery out) and water is the least corrosive
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If you "wash" the phone. Please do it in distilled water. Water wont hurt the phone its the minerals in water that does it. Your phone will turn on under distilled water.
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Waterproof Galaxy S II. WOW!

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/10/watch-this-phone-survive-a-dip-in-the-drink-thanks-to-hzo/
Absolutely amazing!

Cool. That means i won't need to be careful of my phone in the toilet. :3

Wicked! I hope to see this technology on electronics devices soon--on cameras (DSLRs), on watches, etc...

Dombledore said:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/10/watch-this-phone-survive-a-dip-in-the-drink-thanks-to-hzo/
Absolutely amazing!
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Someone posted a comment to the original article about the technology being flawed because it wouldn't allow a cable to attack to charge the device.
Does anyone know if this actually be a problem?

hyperlink to op
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/10/watch-this-phone-survive-a-dip-in-the-drink-thanks-to-hzo/

Amazing, never have to worry about using your phone in the rain again as well.
I hope this becomes standard.. and soon!
I have been lucky to never kill a phone with water (well there was a nokia dumbphone that went though the washing machine) but still, wow.

veyka said:
Amazing, never have to worry about using your phone in the rain again.
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True but the rain would interupt with the capacitive screen making it nearly impossible to use in the rain anyway.
But this does look promising. Hope it starts rolling out on devices this year!
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Hope they come out with something like a spray can so you can apply any device.

I'm pissed they aren't a publicly traded company. I would have definitely invested about a grand or so in them.

mysterioustko said:
I'm pissed they aren't a publicly traded company. I would have definitely invested about a grand or so in them.
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They're not the only company doing this sort of thing - but this is the best demo I've seen of it!

Cool, now i can play angry birds while swimming
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zomg i just had a dream last night that my phone fell in water and i took it out and the screen was all messed up about 75% of it with like messed up colors and statics.

tazer4 said:
zomg i just had a dream last night that my phone fell in water and i took it out and the screen was all messed up about 75% of it with like messed up colors and statics.
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I had a dream last month that my s2's screen was cracked.. Glad i woke up
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Would definitely be interested in this for sure

Shut up and take my money!

Hi
Couldn't get any link to work, so I found another site talking about this kind of protecting electronic from the inside:
http://www.christianpost.com/news/galaxy-s2-release-hzo-technology-makes-galaxy-s2-waterproof-video-61905/

Dombledore said:
Someone posted a comment to the original article about the technology being flawed because it wouldn't allow a cable to attack to charge the device.
Does anyone know if this actually be a problem?
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I guess induction charging and BT/WIFI transfers would solve this issue.

Gorjess said:
Cool, now i can play angry birds while swimming
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Ahhahahahahah D waterproof is an excellent idea, never have to worry in the rain
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Sound too good to be true. I wonder how does it cost?

dave2 said:
True but the rain would interupt with the capacitive screen making it nearly impossible to use in the rain anyway.
But this does look promising. Hope it starts rolling out on devices this year!
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To be honest I haven't noticed that, but considering the fear of getting the bloody thing wet im not surprised.
Not dying in the wet it half way towards usable in the wet at least
(and considering when we get rain over here, we really get rain, bloody hell!)
(Also that's a stupidly good movie, gotta love Simon Pegg and Nick Frost)

Stainless steel battery door mod

So the back of the battery door was peeling. So I decided to take a nicket to it like a lottery ticket. Feel free to try it out. Looks so much more bad ass now. Bit of a fingerprint magnet though.
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i scratched the coating on the battery door of a long time ago whit a sugar cube.

Sugar cube eh? I don't think I've ever even held one
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RushAOZ said:
So the back of the battery door was peeling. So I decided to take a nicket to it like a lottery ticket. Feel free to try it out. Looks so much more bad ass now. Bit of a fingerprint magnet though.
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OK, what the heck is a nicket

burtcom said:
OK, what the heck is a nicket
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Nickel...maybe?

Yeah, that stupid coating came off so quickly. I was all WTH when it started coming off then spent the next few nights in the bars scraping it while I was drunk came off pretty quick with just my nails lol
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buxtahuda said:
Yeah, that stupid coating came off so quickly. I was all WTH when it started coming off then spent the next few nights in the bars scraping it while I was drunk came off pretty quick with just my nails lol
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Dude it took me 45 minutes and I think I caught carpel tunnel in my right hand lmao
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It took me about 20 minutes to scrape off the remainder of what was left on my phone of that coating haha. It looks so much better now, i don't know why i didn't do this earlier xD.

burtcom said:
OK, what the heck is a nicket
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Lol! I thought it was some strange British something I scratched the bugger off with me nicket! hahahahhaha
I did the same with light fluid (paint thinner, fingernail polish remover, anything that has some alcohol) after it started peeling off somewhat. This was several months ago. I do have to warn you about the excessive scratches that appear now. They are quite minor and I have had my G2 since day 1 of its release. And yes... it will may be shiny but it does get fingerprints like the display now.

Mine went off by itself after 10 months of heavy use. i am pretty mercyless with my devices though...
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10 minutes work and look like new

Lol glad I brought this up. Makes the phone look shiny
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I don't know why this never occurred to me before. I've put my G2 through quite a bit of abuse, so the battery door looked terrible. Looks so much better now. Thanks for the idea!

I can't believe you guys never realized it before. Mine started peeling off a long time ago, so I just scratched off the rest over the course of a few days with my fingernail. "Mod" . . . ummm sorry no.

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I can't believe you guys never realized it before. Mine started peeling off a long time ago, so I just scratched off the rest over the course of a few days with my fingernail. "Mod" . . . ummm sorry no.
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I think the "mod" would be the nickel giving it some new scratches?
Lol, I mean it happened in about a month of owning the phone, just never did post anything. Figured everyone would just do the same, take the glaze off
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Hmm interesting. It seems the finish on the door isn't great. Perhaps putting something onto the battery door to make it look better. I'm suprised how the finish isn't that great. After several months of use the finish is coming off.
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haha, this is great! I was just starting to notice mine peeling; I had a case on it for a year, so it didn't start getting rough until now.

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I can't believe you guys never realized it before. Mine started peeling off a long time ago, so I just scratched off the rest over the course of a few days with my fingernail. "Mod" . . . ummm sorry no.
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It is a mod. Your changing the phone from its stock look to something CUSTOM. yea it happened by accident. So what? The nexus s we had a bat door mod where you basically do the same except use sanding paper to give the door a black brushed metal look. Not only that I've only had this phone for 2 weeks.. sorry were not leet enuff for ya to figure this out ages ago AND NOT SHARE IT WITH THE REST OF US! lol some people lol always someone hating for no reason lol :-/
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RushAOZ said:
It is a mod. Your changing the phone from its stock look to something CUSTOM.
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Scratching off something that is already peeling off is "custom"? You go on thinking that, bud.
As to why I didn't come on here and share this knowledge? Well, I thought it was pretty obvious that something that is scratching off (the clear coat) could be . . . . scratched off (TA-DAAAAA!!!!)
Its not stainless steel, anyway. Its aluminum. When I first read the thread title, I thought it was some crazy mod where you made a new battery cover out of stainless steel, or some kind of S/S coating. But . . . its not.
Although, I do appreciate the fact that some folks on here did not realize they could scratch off the deteriorating clear coat. So I agree that this is a useful thread. But I'd use something softer than a nickel (or other metal), to avoid scratching the brushed aluminum while you remove the clear coat.

Most of the material is off my panel door as well, just haven't taken it all off yet. But, it scratches up really bad, so be prepared for it to look pretty beat up after some time. Still though, it looks much better without that finish on there.

SmartQ Z1. A stupid question.

How is this thing waterproof when the head phone jack is just... right THERE open to anything. I mean that seems like a fairly big deal and an indication that I might not want to toss this thing in the tub.
Has anyone actually tested their Z1 by going swimming or something?

electroblood said:
How is this thing waterproof when the head phone jack is just... right THERE open to anything. I mean that seems like a fairly big deal and an indication that I might not want to toss this thing in the tub.
Has anyone actually tested their Z1 by going swimming or something?
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The paper that came with my said ip57 and said to NOT swim with it. Says ok at room temperature in shallow water.
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dottat said:
The paper that came with my said ip57 and said to NOT swim with it. Says ok at room temperature in shallow water.
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IPX7 says immersion in 1 meter of water for 30 minutes. Its does say not to take in the shower, but their web site certainly SHOWS it being dunked and someone swimming with it. Strange

electroblood said:
IPX7 says immersion in 1 meter of water for 30 minutes. Its does say not to take in the shower, but their web site certainly SHOWS it being dunked and someone swimming with it. Strange
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I'm a watch guy. That said I don't ever swim with any watch. Even the ones I have with 1000 ft rating. I'm just going to go about normal life. It's $100 so if I happen to soak it to death I will be forced to decide how much the watch was needed.
I did see one guy post he wore his while giving the kids a bath and remembered afterwards. He had no problems.
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I've taken a shower with mine many times and mine has no plug in the headphone jack. I've had no problems.
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Thanks All
I just wanted to get some idea of what I was dealing with before I did something fatal to my new toy. Appreciate the input.