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Hi
I need some quick help here, I droped my Athena in a bathtub full of water a few hours ago. I quickly dried it with a hair drier and finaly it started working as it should, even tho the camera wont start!
Now my question is, will my device eventually stop working completly or will it continue to work even tho I droped it in the water?
If I send it in for repair of camera, (I have a valid warranty.) will they complain about water damage or can they even discover that if its completly dried?
Thanks in advance!
I really dont want to loose my Athena, it´s the best device I ever owned!
well first i would not have turned it on for a day or two cause if there is water in there you have to wait for it to dry all with way before turning it on but since you already turn it on then the only thing i can say for sure is if they can tell that you dropped it in the bathtub then the warranty is voided
I've heard, although thankfully never have to proove, that the beest way of treating a water filled phone (or any other electronic device) .. is to dissassemble it as far as you can (depending on the warranty), removing the battery, and letting it dry naturally in an airing cupboard. I'd be weary of drying with a hairdryer in case it caused further damage
You might find these threads useful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=346832
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=346830
Good luck.
y athena is working perfectly except for the camera
eaglesteve said:
You might find these threads useful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=346832
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=346830
Good luck.
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Thanks, lots of good information on these links you provided!
But the fact remains, my athena is working perfectly except for the camera. The question is will it stop working becouse of the water or has the worst already happend?
And will they repair my camera on warranty?
Thanks for your quick reply, guys!
My athena is working perfectly except for the camera!
eaglesteve said:
You might find these threads useful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=346832
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=346830
Good luck.
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Thanks, lots of good information on these links you provided!
But the fact remains, my athena is working perfectly except for the camera. The question is will it stop working becouse of the water or has the worst already happend?
And will they repair my camera on warranty?
Thanks for your quick reply, guys!
Inside your phone, on the motherboard, there are "sensors" (it means paper with some chemical reagents) and they change PERMANENTLY color when they get in contact with water.
For the repair center will be easy to demonstrate the CAUSE of the problem if they wouldn't fix your phone
Hello. I hate to even make the post, but I do so love XDA-developers, and maybe somebody can help me out.
I managed to dunk the phone, lets not discuss how, in some pond water. I scoured the int3rwebz for solutions and seemed best advice was to dry with desiccant and a suggestion of an alcohol wash or use of electrical contact cleaner.
The phone was on when dropped, off when recovered. Water damage indicator on the phone was tripped, but the battery still shows red x's. Waited the requisite amount of days and the phone works! everything works.
Now the problem- I get a bit worried about the left over pond scum and I decide I'd be the mad scientist to use electrical contact cleaner on it. Sprayed the suspect areas and immediately blew out the phone with compressed air, let it sit a few nights in desiccant. Now I have some small bubbles in the screen( which was NOT sprayed...) . FML. figure they may be trapped cleaner and eventually evaporate. Not a huge deal, just a bit annoying.
THEN I realize my vibration now does not work. I attribute this to either the water or contact cleaner.
I am now one of a million posting "PHONE GOT WET HALP!!!" and I apologize for such a newbie post, but is there any hope for the vibration to begin working again magically?
Haptic feedback is a fairly big part of this phones operation, and I use silent mode at work with vibration.
If I am screwed on the vibration I have another newbie question:
Can you set different ring tones or sms tones to certain contacts? I have had phones that do this in the past but I cant seem to find anything on this one. I am using the newest version of fission at the moment- 2.6.1.
THANKS for any help/ useful information!
-Andrew
If you look in the battery compartment, I think in the lower left, you can actually see the vibration motor. I would check and make sure that nothing is blocking it. However, I would venture to say that being that it is the only (powered) moving part and being it being so exposed, I would imagine that it would be the most likely to get short circuited or otherwise damaged by the water.
Concur
-Gilgamesh- said:
If you look in the battery compartment, I think in the lower left, you can actually see the vibration motor. I would check and make sure that nothing is blocking it. However, I would venture to say that being that it is the only (powered) moving part and being it being so exposed, I would imagine that it would be the most likely to get short circuited or otherwise damaged by the water.
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I would concur that it was probably short circuited. Do you have insurance?
I agree. I absolutely did not purchase insurance. Live and learn. That's why I don't mind using it as is.
On to the second question- any way to select varying tones for different contacts in phone ringer/ sms tones? Would I just find something on the market for this? again using fission ROM.
Can you change the green missed call/ sms received LED?
I should have left the phone as it was after drying and not gotten paranoid about the "left over pond scum mineral residue" Oh well.. again live and learn.
Thanks again for the replies.
-Andrew
Open the contact that you wanna change, hit menu and select "options" and it's obvious from there. As for the LED, try an app called Missed Call.
Sorry I missed those to begin with.
atothec said:
Hello. I hate to even make the post, but I do so love XDA-developers, and maybe somebody can help me out.
I managed to dunk the phone, lets not discuss how, in some pond water. I scoured the int3rwebz for solutions and seemed best advice was to dry with desiccant and a suggestion of an alcohol wash or use of electrical contact cleaner.
The phone was on when dropped, off when recovered. Water damage indicator on the phone was tripped, but the battery still shows red x's. Waited the requisite amount of days and the phone works! everything works.
Now the problem- I get a bit worried about the left over pond scum and I decide I'd be the mad scientist to use electrical contact cleaner on it. Sprayed the suspect areas and immediately blew out the phone with compressed air, let it sit a few nights in desiccant. Now I have some small bubbles in the screen( which was NOT sprayed...) . FML. figure they may be trapped cleaner and eventually evaporate. Not a huge deal, just a bit annoying.
THEN I realize my vibration now does not work. I attribute this to either the water or contact cleaner.
I am now one of a million posting "PHONE GOT WET HALP!!!" and I apologize for such a newbie post, but is there any hope for the vibration to begin working again magically?
Haptic feedback is a fairly big part of this phones operation, and I use silent mode at work with vibration.
If I am screwed on the vibration I have another newbie question:
Can you set different ring tones or sms tones to certain contacts? I have had phones that do this in the past but I cant seem to find anything on this one. I am using the newest version of fission at the moment- 2.6.1.
THANKS for any help/ useful information!
-Andrew
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First off, this isn't really a newb post. Not once have I seen "is there any to trick Verizon into sending me a new phone blah blah blah"
Second, I think you got really lucky here especially for the phone having been on, and ESPECIALLY that the battery didn't get wet or damaged. For what happened, the vibration being gone is pretty minor damage.
orkillakilla said:
Second, I think you got really lucky here especially for the phone having been on, and ESPECIALLY that the battery didn't get wet or damaged. For what happened, the vibration being gone is pretty minor damage.
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I agree. I guess mad at myself because it was ok before the contact cleaner (d'oh). Oh well, maybe it will reduce some corrosion.
And thank you -Gilgamesh- Don't know how I missed that. I'll try that app as well.
I have a hard time contact cleaner as being the culprit. If it damaged electronics, then it would kind of defy the whole point? Not trying to argue, just seems like it would be the least likely thing to do it. Was it powdery or foamy or something? Maybe it clogged up mechanism, maybe try poking at it with a quetip or something to dislodge it? Or maybe the air pressure pushed some moisture further inside where it could do some damage? Either way, guess I'll make sure to stay away from using it myself anyway. >.<
WELL.. the electrical cleaner in question does say to re-lubricate any movable parts as the cleaner will most likely dissolve oil/lubrication. My guess is that this vibration motor was lubricated if only in a small way.
I agree, unless the phone was submerged in something KNOWN caustic or corrosive, then I would just dry it, and be done with it. (I do also have the new screen bubbles/ dead pixels after the cleaner too.) I read the stories of people submerging in high grade alcohol after the water based dunk so I thought what the heck and the mentioned area in the lower left- looked like a board to me- was sprayed (of course with battery out). I tested the stuff on paper and it was dry within seconds just from air. I sprayed the phone out with compressed air afterward and another few nights in industrial strength desiccant.
So now I'm wondering if I spray some lube (WD-40 just a drop?) into this area in the lower left (Vibration motor?) of course with battery out and adequate dry time?
Thanks for staying with me. I installed a few LED applications and now at least know how to set different ring tones for different contacts.
Of course I'm ecstatic that the display even works after the submersion. I was already pricing 6-700 phones and even thought of...dare I say it... downgrading.
-Andrew
I really wouldn't. WD-40 is high pressure, thus when the tiniest little squirt would prob end up coating most of the inside of the phone. With the battery out I doubt it would cause any shorts, but it may still cause via corrosion because of the chemicals. IF I were to use any type of lube on it, I'd use something made for moving parts, such as the little thing of oil/lubricant you get with a hair trimmers. That way you can easily just put a small drop. That being said, I have no idea what effect using such a product might cause. May fix it, or could permanently damage the phone. Never really tried anything like that.
Personally I would just cut my loses now. There isn't very much damage, and you don't know how much more damaged could be caused by doing something like this. Just my opinion.
Yeah probably best to leave well enough alone at this point. Working screen for the most part, everything else working, just a dead vibration mechanism.
Lesson to be learned for anyone searching- if you have no real reason to beleive the device will be corroded by the substance the device was submerged in... JUST DRY IT WITH DESICCANT! Like I said mine was on and streaming music when dropped, completely off when recovered. I thought it was shorted out for sure, or at least would have tripped some kind of fuse only to be known by verizon/ motorolla techs to be cheaply replaced for refurbished units.
Anyway... just glad to still have a working device. Now to live this down as the GF got a $0.01 droid 2 at the same time as i did, but hers works perfectly fine (I smell a sabotage in the near future.....)
-Andrew
HAHA good luck with that.
atothec said:
Hello. I hate to even make the post, but I do so love XDA-developers, and maybe somebody can help me out.I
-Andrew
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cant help you on the vibration part but for the contacts, try going to the contact hitting menu button-->options-->ringtone
edit: i was beat to it, my internet was slow to load and saw no other posts but he OP lol.
-Gilgamesh- said:
If you look in the battery compartment, I think in the lower left, you can actually see the vibration motor. I would check and make sure that nothing is blocking it. However, I would venture to say that being that it is the only (powered) moving part and being it being so exposed, I would imagine that it would be the most likely to get short circuited or otherwise damaged by the water.
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HA! Decided that id add a drop of wd-40 to the vibration motor. After re-reading gilgamesh's post here I remembered seeing a turbine like piece of metal spinning with the compressed air. I was thinking the very lower left where the main board is exposed, but this is pretty much to the left of the middle of the battery. You can see a white motor with gears on the output shaft and the "spinning metal fan blade...thingy"
so, I pull my battery and.... blue silica desiccant ball! Dunno how I missed it. Removed it with a pencil, battery back in, fire it up, success!
So now I just have what im guessing is some left over cleaner under the plastic screen, but it could actually be lcd damage. Ill just have to see if it ever evaporates.
Still in the running for luckiest unlucky droid 2 user 2011!
thanks again guys,
-andrew
Oops- double posted. Anyway moral of the story is use desiccant, but block all passages (I used cotton on the audio jack and port at lower left that goes to mainboard, but forgot the vibration motor.) And don't get any cleaner anywhere near the screen as it seems to have messed up my lcd a bit.
Also- if your vibrate stops working make sure that metal fan spins freely when you blow on it/ use compressed air.
-andrew
Congratulations!! Glad to hear it's fixed now!!
Yeah I think that award is going to you lol. Glad to hear you fix it.
Damn you're one lucky mofo...for being unlucky that is...
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Actually, I would say the opposite. One of the luckiest. Dropped it in a pond and came out working perfectly, in the end.
I thought my phone was water proof and it would be a good idea to watch GOT underwater.
Fail
3 days later out of the rice bag my phone loads the Samsung Logo, vibrates once then reboots.
I tried putting it in recovery mode, this causes the phone to reboot as well.
I tried putting the phone in download mode, this works.
I found the PIT and official firmware from this site.
I tried using Odin with the firmware first. It complete installed, the progress bar atleast then rebooted.
Once rebooted it showed the recovery booting... for long than usual, then went went into a recovery booting loop.
So I went back to download mode and tried to repartition with Odin with SM-G900T.pit
It immediately said FAILED.
Now I'm stuck.. I tried taking the phone back but they knew it was water related because of some red water mark.
Do I have any other options?
dondrel said:
I thought my phone was water proof and it would be a good idea to watch GOT underwater.
Fail
3 days later out of the rice bag my phone loads the Samsung Logo, vibrates once then reboots.
I tried putting it in recovery mode, this causes the phone to reboot as well.
I tried putting the phone in download mode, this works.
I found the PIT and official firmware from this site.
I tried using Odin with the firmware first. It complete installed, the progress bar atleast then rebooted.
Once rebooted it showed the recovery booting... for long than usual, then went went into a recovery booting loop.
So I went back to download mode and tried to repartition with Odin with SM-G900T.pit
It immediately said FAILED.
Now I'm stuck.. I tried taking the phone back but they knew it was water related because of some red water mark.
Do I have any other options?
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Hell, flashing pit won't help if you water damaged your phone. And quite frankly, you kinda deserved it, it isn't water proof, it's water resistant.
Enviado do meu Galaxy S5
dandroid13 said:
Hell, flashing pit won't help if you water damaged your phone. And quite frankly, you kinda deserved it, it isn't water proof, it's water resistant.
Enviado do meu Galaxy S5
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Please don't response to this thread anymore.
Any way, I posted this thread because I assumed that since the phone was dry that the damage could possibly only be software related. The screen,battery and download prompt all work fine. I'm wondering if anyone has ever encountered a similar situation before (water related or not) If mature people could response with information that can help other unfortunate people in my situation.
@dondrel
Sorry, but I kinda agree with dandroid13 because you intentionally caused your phone harm. You should have researched first the difference between water-resistant and water-proof. You should have used a water-proof case if you plan on bringing it under water for a long time. But just out of curiosity, how long did you submerged your S5 in water?
The least you could do is to remove the battery and let them all dry for at least 48 hours, focusing a fan on them would be better. Do not attempt to use the phone again. After 2 days, try everything else and see if you would still salvage your phone.
I'm stuck at this point.
SECURE CHECK FAIL : PIT
I'm going to research this issue in Google and see what I can find.
jopat said:
@dondrel
Sorry, but I kinda agree with dandroid13 because you intentionally caused your phone harm. You should have researched first the difference between water-resistant and water-proof. You should have used a water-proof case if you plan on bringing it under water for a long time. But just out of curiosity, how long did you submerged your S5 in water?
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I didn't intentionally try to damage my phone.
I was showing off what I thought was a cool feature to my family the first day I got the phone.
If you agree with him then you're no help either.
Any humans here, or just trolls?
LoL
If you can't identify which words we posted are help, it's up to you. Good luck, you won't get any other help from others with that attitude.
Sorry...last post made me smile..."Hey family...look at this its soooo cool. I can watch GoT underwa.....oh....."
But seriously...if youre phone is fully dry and still wont boot I would say you killed it
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dondrel said:
Please don't response to this thread anymore.
Any way, I posted this thread because I assumed that since the phone was dry that the damage could possibly only be software related. The screen,battery and download prompt all work fine. I'm wondering if anyone has ever encountered a similar situation before (water related or not) If mature people could response with information that can help other unfortunate people in my situation.
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You watch a whole game of thrones under water when the phone can withstand only up to 30 min. Blame yourself and don't open dumb threads.
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I think people are being very rude here, while I am sure that in this particular case the problem hardware related and cannot be repaired by flashing anything, these things are not suppose to happen to a phone that is IP67 certified!
If the phone has been properly handled (battery cover properly closed, back cover properly fitted) then this should not have happened and saying warranty is voided should not hold any grounds! They are advertising this phone as IP67 so they have to live up to that promise and shouldn't be able to just always say it is due to a user error.
I understand that it can be difficult to prove that the user has closed the ports properly, but Samsung should either have built in a system check if everything was closed correctly, they shouldn't have marketed this phone as IP67 or should have known this could happen and simply repair the phones if the exact error couldn't have been found.
I have bought this phone because of a lot of features and IP67 was a big part of that! If this is how Samsung deals with these kinds of situations they will have a hard time dealing with angry customers here in the Netherlands.
johan81 said:
I think people are being very rude here, while I am sure that in this particular case the problem hardware related and cannot be repaired by flashing anything, these things are not suppose to happen to a phone that is IP67 certified!
If the phone has been properly handled (battery cover properly closed, back cover properly fitted) then this should not have happened and saying warranty is voided should not hold any grounds! They are advertising this phone as IP67 so they have to live up to that promise and shouldn't be able to just always say it is due to a user error.
I understand that it can be difficult to prove that the user has closed the ports properly, but Samsung should either have built in a system check if everything was closed correctly, they shouldn't have marketed this phone as IP67 or should have known this could happen and simply repair the phones if the exact error couldn't have been found.
I have bought this phone because of a lot of features and IP67 was a big part of that! If this is how Samsung deals with these kinds of situations they will have a hard time dealing with angry customers here in the Netherlands.
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I completely agree with you Jonan81.
I'm just going to ignore the people being jerks on here.
Note: I didn't watch the whole episode, not even 3 minutes
Anyway here's an update on my progress.
I left my phone plugged into the charger, I was getting a battery overheated Icon, (the battery isn't defective, its just that the phone wasn't charging the battery so there is damage in the USB plugin port) So what I did was completely unplug my phone and took out the battery. Held the power button for 10 seconds, put the battery back in and charger and repeated this process 5 times and now I'm able to charge my battery again.
Now if I can re-partition and reinstall the firmware I may have fully fixed my phone.....
I have a few options at this point, wait for the phone to dry more
Send to Samsung and pay them to replace parts (May be expensive)
Find a local place that fixes these issues (Radioshack)
I've decided to goto Radioshack first since it's just up the street to see what they'll say. If they fix it great.. if not I'll try to put it back in rice for a couple of days and work on re-partitioning somehow. If I can't do that then I'll just send it to Samsung.
johan81 said:
I think people are being very rude here, while I am sure that in this particular case the problem hardware related and cannot be repaired by flashing anything, these things are not suppose to happen to a phone that is IP67 certified!
If the phone has been properly handled (battery cover properly closed, back cover properly fitted) then this should not have happened and saying warranty is voided should not hold any grounds! They are advertising this phone as IP67 so they have to live up to that promise and shouldn't be able to just always say it is due to a user error.
I understand that it can be difficult to prove that the user has closed the ports properly, but Samsung should either have built in a system check if everything was closed correctly, they shouldn't have marketed this phone as IP67 or should have known this could happen and simply repair the phones if the exact error couldn't have been found.
I have bought this phone because of a lot of features and IP67 was a big part of that! If this is how Samsung deals with these kinds of situations they will have a hard time dealing with angry customers here in the Netherlands.
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Samsung wouldn't care. This phone is water resistant not water proof. If the phone has had some physical damage due to that then you need to take it to samsung cause nobody can help you here
unless it is software related. It Is that simple. Google IP67 for reference too.
dondrel said:
I completely agree with you Jonan81.
I'm just going to ignore the people being jerks on here.
Note: I didn't watch the whole episode, not even 3 minutes
Anyway here's an update on my progress.
I left my phone plugged into the charger, I was getting a battery overheated Icon, (the battery isn't defective, its just that the phone wasn't charging the battery so there is damage in the USB plugin port) So what I did was completely unplug my phone and took out the battery. Held the power button for 10 seconds, put the battery back in and charger and repeated this process 5 times and now I'm able to charge my battery again.
Now if I can re-partition and reinstall the firmware I may have fully fixed my phone.....
I have a few options at this point, wait for the phone to dry more
Send to Samsung and pay them to replace parts (May be expensive)
Find a local place that fixes these issues (Radioshack)
I've decided to goto Radioshack first since it's just up the street to see what they'll say. If they fix it great.. if not I'll try to put it back in rice for a couple of days and work on re-partitioning somehow. If I can't do that then I'll just send it to Samsung.
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Samsung wouldn't care. This phone is water resistant not water proof. If the phone has had some physical damage due to that then you need to take it to samsung cause nobody can help you here
unless it is software related. It Is that simple. Google IP67 for reference too.
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I would suggest you search that yourself: Protected against the effect of immersion between 15cm and 1m
This means it can be submerged according to IP67. I hope you drop your phone in water and it dies while you have done nothing wrong, you will be talking differently then.
To get back to your fixing the problem:
I hope flashing your phone will solve it, but I am afraid it will not, I cannot imagine how software gets screwed up by water damage. Though if it does solve it, great work!
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I would suggest you search that yourself: Protected against the effect of immersion between 15cm and 1m
This means it can be submerged according to IP67. I hope you drop your phone in water and it dies while you have done nothing wrong, you will be talking differently then.
To get back to your fixing the problem:
I hope flashing your phone will solve it, but I am afraid it will not, I cannot imagine how software gets screwed up by water damage. Though if it does solve it, great work!
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I have. And I'm smarter than the both of you as my phone is well protected do keep on wishing. Just because it's IP67 I won't go under water just to watch a TV show. But you can do whatever you want with your phone, just don't come here and talk nonsense.
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barondebxl said:
I have. And I'm smarter than the both of you as my phone is well protected do keep on wishing. Just because it's IP67 I won't go under water just to watch a TV show. But you can do whatever you want with your phone, just don't come here and talk nonsense.
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So, you seem to like avoiding the real message in my reply to avoid having to admit you do not understand a thing you say and then you say you are smarter than us? What kind of a child are you and what meds are you on? You were rudely saying I had to search wat IP67 means while you clearly have no clue yourself and on top of that are blaming someone that does something to his phone that it is supposed to be able to do he shouldn't have done (seeing your level of IQ you probably don't understand a thing I have said here) and then aren't brave enough to admit you were wrong. Ahhh well, no point in trying to educate ignorant/arrogant people like you.
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So, you seem to like avoiding the real message in my reply to avoid having to admit you do not understand a thing you say and then you say you are smarter than us? What kind of a child are you and what meds are you on? You were rudely saying I had to search wat IP67 means while you clearly have no clue yourself and on top of that are blaming someone that does something to his phone that it is supposed to be able to do he shouldn't have done (seeing your level of IQ you probably don't understand a thing I have said here) and then aren't brave enough to admit you were wrong. Ahhh well, no point in trying to educate ignorant/arrogant people like you.
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Don't be mad man, you sound ridiculous. You really thing I'm here to debate tou? If I don't know about IP67 then how come I explained to OP in my first reply? Wish all you want, I'm just a little smarter than the 2 of you and I won't just go in water to watch a TV show. But again, you can do that if it's your cup of tea. Just don't come here and cry because you don't know your stuff
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barondebxl said:
Don't be mad man, you sound ridiculous. You really thing I'm here to debate tou? If I don't know about IP67 then how come I explained to OP in my first reply? Wish all you want, I'm just a little smarter than the 2 of you and I won't just go in water to watch a TV show. But again, you can do that if it's your cup of tea. Just don't come here and cry because you don't know your stuff
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You assume too much, I haven't done anything like that, but if it were ever to happen and the phone breaks, I can comfortably know that Samsung will be the one to pay for repairs since consumer rights are pretty clear here in the Netherlands. No idea what makes you think you are smarter than I am since you do not even know what you are responding to here.
johan81 said:
You assume too much, I haven't done anything like that, but if it were ever to happen and the phone breaks, I can comfortably know that Samsung will be the one to pay for repairs since consumer rights are pretty clear here in the Netherlands. No idea what makes you think you are smarter than I am since you do not even know what you are responding to here.
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Right. Since you're speaking for op I guess I'm speaking to you. Consumers have rights but to a certain extent. Samsung won't entertain stupidity. Google ip67.
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johan81 said:
I would suggest you search that yourself: Protected against the effect of immersion between 15cm and 1m
This means it can be submerged according to IP67. I hope you drop your phone in water and it dies while you have done nothing wrong, you will be talking differently then.
To get back to your fixing the problem:
I hope flashing your phone will solve it, but I am afraid it will not, I cannot imagine how software gets screwed up by water damage. Though if it does solve it, great work!
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Yeah, I realize that more than likely it's a hardware issue. But since the only operational path I have is Download mode, I just want to exhaust all options and at the least find clues on what is actually failing
Well I'm on my way to RadioShack. Let's see what they say.
barondebxl said:
Right. Since you're speaking for op I guess I'm speaking to you. Consumers have rights but to a certain extent. Samsung won't entertain stupidity. Google ip67.
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This shows you are making assumptions without reading what is in front of you, again, you search IP67 since you are the one that doesn't know what it means, from previous experiences with you, you assume to know something you do not.
PS: you can skip this deatils to my main problem
Somebody pls help me
my galaxy note 3 was water damaged nearly an year ago. But i was able to recover at that time by using isopropanol(99%).
In Detail: After water damage i loosed all hope for around 2 days, then outtanowhere i got this solution over the internet and then i submerged my phone's green board into that alcohol and then in rice. Unfortunately it doesn't turned on. I kept putting my phone outside under sun light, still the display wasn't working. Then i left my phone for about 1 and a 1/2 month in my cupboard abandoned....It got fully recovered!!! i was living a happy life then.
:Main Problem:Now in today's date i was feeling something is wrong in the phone because it was discharging these days too quick(abnormally and this things were happening after recovery too). So i decided to put the whole phone(deassembaled the green board) in the isopropyle(99%). after 30mins later i picked it up back and assembled every thing back turned on the phone and guess what the screen was black again. I putted the phone under sunlight again but case got even worse (but i think it is good both) at the same time. My note 3's screen is turning on and working but inplace of black screen its showing dark smudges or a quit a bit of screen(not cleared but seen-able) like some kind of weird shape/spots of black. Now HELP ME
Tell me what to do!! i don't know what is this happening because 99% isopropanol isn't that conductive and will not harm the phone whatever the case is.
What should i do to get all the things back at the track? should i submerge the phone again in alcohol or should i leave it for now.
*i hope somebody read this, waiting for reply and help*
BTW: i'll keep updating this thread if something happens
Whats the 1% ?? Water ??
When a phone gets wet, I never recommend dunking anything in alcohol or any other liquid, especially the screen. Sounds like the alcohol may have seeped in between the glass and LCD.
Update:
So after putting it under sunlight for 2 days. My phone's screen is completly BLACK.
just a tiny part was showing lighted up but that also gone after about 15mins.
What the heck should i do now. I removed the battery now and putted the phone in the cupboard again (hoping for a miracle).
Any help will be appreciated.
New screen or bin the phone .
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You made a huge mistake by placing the phone in alcohol. You should only submerge the motherboard. It seems like you have alcohol/some water inside the display assembly now.
Use a hairdryer to completely dry the motherboard, place the display/ rest of the phone in rice and give it 3 days or so.
Should work.
PS: You may have killed it by turning it on while it had the spots on the display, i.e.. caused a short.
Good luck.
Skander1998 said:
You made a huge mistake by placing the phone in alcohol. You should only submerge the motherboard. It seems like you have alcohol/some water inside the display assembly now.
Use a hairdryer to completely dry the motherboard, place the display/ rest of the phone in rice and give it 3 days or so.
Should work.
PS: You may have killed it by turning it on while it had the spots on the display, i.e.. caused a short.
Good luck.
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Alright man i'll try it. Thanks for helping, as i said well appreciated:good:
i already done the hairdryer part for 10mins or so.
And also putted the phone packed in a bag full of rice. Lets see after 3days :crying:
Update guys: so after putting my isopropyle damaged phone's screen into a bag of rice for 3+
days lol nothing happened. It seems that rice done nothing, my screen is still black sadly. My phone is booting and speakers etc. everything is working fine the only problem is in the screen.
Please don't forget to read my detailed post in which i stated that-
nearly a year ago i was able to recover my phone which was water damaged and for that solution i gave a bath of isopropyle alcohol. And after a month i was able to recover my phone just by putting it somewhere without battery
So at last i want to only ask you what the heck should i do to GET MY PHONE BACK AGAIN HELP!!!!
Buy a new screen .
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if phone dropped into water or something,make sure u put the phone into a sack of rice and leave it for 1 day,for sure your phone will be back to normal,i already done it for sure and it work,sorry for my english grammar
Try reading what's been posted first .
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It takes effort to accept that the best thing to do is just to get a new phone. I remember when I wanted to stick to my old, microUSB-port damaged Galaxy S II but I had to accept that I needed to move on.
I know sometimes it's difficult ($$$) but yeah, save some money up and you'll see that this will be just a small episode in your history of smart phones.
ShaDisNX255 said:
It takes effort to accept that the best thing to do is just to get a new phone. I remember when I wanted to stick to my old, microUSB-port damaged Galaxy S II but I had to accept that I needed to move on.
I know sometimes it's difficult ($$$) but yeah, save some money up and you'll see that this will be just a small episode in your history of smart phones.
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ah...hh...am crying rite now:crying:
You are write bro, it's very difficult to move on and breaking the relationship with the current phone. I am just forcing me to reject this naked truth that My phone is now old
Well for now i'll still wait a month hoping for that miracle to happen cause my pocket is empty rite now lol.
If something happens in this 28 days i'll post it ASAP may god bless me
JJEgan said:
Whats the 1% ?? Water ??
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maybe.....
but seriously it maybe any kind of impurity but i'm sure it is not water.
I would suggest to buy a new phone. You could TRY changing the screen, but there is no guarantee that the screen is the only issue. + a used Note 3 is almost the same price as a new screen.
Sorry that the method I suggested did not work. :/
Since this didn't work, you probably fried the screen driver when you turned it when it was filled with liquid under the display.
Change the display or the phone.
Never, ever attempt to turn on a liquid damaged device. I know it's tempting. This is an expensive lesson!
Skander1998 said:
Sorry that the method I suggested did not work. :/
Since this didn't work, you probably fried the screen driver when you turned it when it was filled with liquid under the display.
Change the display or the phone.
Never, ever attempt to turn on a liquid damaged device. I know it's tempting. This is an expensive lesson!
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You dont need to say sorry bro.
Well from all the experience i gain from this incident and including my experience with isopropyle alcohols, i don't know definitely what happen but i can guess what may be going on there.
So, in recent months a previous phone (not my phone) was water damaged and the owner gave it to me as a last hope lol. I 100% submerged that phone in isopropyl for 3days!! lmao and as a result the phone's some part like speaker and screen (which are stacked by an adhesive) were floating in the solution and then i picked up that phone up and situation got even worse the phone's screen was a bit hanging i turned the phone on and the screen was working perfectly but as i said the phone's screen was hanging so it was not touching fully the digitizer and hence the touch was not working but the screen was turned on i dunno why.
Now i look at my phone which screen was just dipped about 15mins and still not able to show anything. I think the cause may be a part between the screen and the phone which might be displaced by that solution.
Now i ask you guys that should i remove the screen only by heating & removing and stick it again. Will this solve the problem? any advice?
Please help me guys! My S8 felt in crystal clear water for only ~5 seconds today ( It never had any issues) and after that the screen was black but music was still playing, I turned it off with Vol Keys and after that nothing worked for nearly 2 hours. After that Download Modus popped up und nothing else Works. Im on vacation right now and I dont know what to do. I can try to Flash the Software but I dont want to pay anything or go to a Samsung Store. It cant be that it wont work right now. Firmware is already downloading but apart from that I cant to anything. Please help me
LDI is also not activated
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Please help me guys! My S8 felt in crystal clear water for only ~5 seconds today ( It never had any issues) and after that the screen was black but music was still playing, I turned it off with Vol Keys and after that nothing worked for nearly 2 hours. After that Download Modus popped up und nothing else Works. Im on vacation right now and I dont know what to do. I can try to Flash the Software but I dont want to pay anything or go to a Samsung Store. It cant be that it wont work right now. Firmware is already downloading but apart from that I cant to anything. Please help me
LDI is also not activated
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if its only booting to DL mode after water theirs no software flashing gonna fix that
Something must have shorted out and defaulting there only options would be try letting it dry out for days and see what happens or repair center
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if its only booting to DL mode after water theirs no software flashing gonna fix that
Something must have shorted out and defaulting there only options would be try letting it dry out for days and see what happens or repair center
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Thanks so much for helping. I am on vacation right now for 6 days. I will leave the device to dry out, it is still wet when I plug in anything. Thankfully, I have my S6 edge here too
halloo13 said:
Thanks so much for helping. I am on vacation right now for 6 days. I will leave the device to dry out, it is still wet when I plug in anything. Thankfully, I have my S6 edge here too
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do not plug it in or anything that can cause shorts even more i would bag it in rice or moisture absorbing paper or something
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do not plug it in or anything that can cause shorts even more i would bag it in rice or moisture absorbing paper or something
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It's hard to find Rice in a Hotel but I will ask tommorow. I wont plug it in, I just wanted to see if the port is wet. Again, thanks so much for helping me so quick if this really works.. you'll be my hero
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It's hard to find Rice in a Hotel but I will ask tommorow. I wont plug it in, I just wanted to see if the port is wet. Again, thanks so much for helping me so quick if this really works.. you'll be my hero
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I dont expect it to But you never know
its not the water that damages the device its the impurities in the water that conduct the real electricity,
Water by itself sucks as a conductor
Normally I would also say pull the battery but kinda hard samsung.Thank you thank you
But as little voltage as possible til dried,
But yea I dont think flashing anything is the route right now I mean in some far off land in magical odds say the water hit the exact point of qualcoms ground out test points...
Might be able to also ask the staff at the hotel for instant mashed potatoes
Back when I worked on a wrecker I watched EMS use it for coagulant agents To stop bleeding and fluids as it is so dry it absorbs any to all moisture...Maybe a bag of that would even be better
TheMadScientist said:
I dont expect it to But you never know
its not the water that damages the device its the impurities in the water that conduct the real electricity,
Water by itself sucks as a conductor
Normally I would also say pull the battery but kinda hard samsung.Thank you thank you
But as little voltage as possible til dried,
But yea I dont think flashing anything is the route right now I mean in some far off land in magical odds say the water hit the exact point of qualcoms ground out test points...
Might be able to also ask the staff at the hotel for instant mashed potatoes
Back when I worked on a wrecker I watched EMS use it for coagulant agents To stop bleeding and fluids as it is so dry it absorbs any to all moisture...Maybe a bag of that would even be better
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I checked again today and still nothing works.. I will ask now if they have rice