ok so i have the t-mobile mda but i unlocked it a while back because i have cingular... i was snowboarding the other day and when i took my phone out it wasnt wet but it was really cold and it was acting funny...now the volume button on the side starts my camera when i try to increase the volume and my front buttons arent really working anymore...i just updated to the latest OS and now its running even worse than before and my basic phone service isnt even working now...any suggestions?
Sounds to me like maybe some condensation got in there. I'd do a search here to see how other people handled water in the phone. Some used alcohol, some removed the batter to prevent damage and just let it dry and some weren't able to recover.
sounds to me it got frozen and or water inside which shortcutted the circuitboard hence giving strange signals. Let it dry without battery a couple of days and try again. but it problably is the end of your phone. Maybe u can open it and try clean it.
Dear forum members,
2 days ago i spilled some beer on my front pocket, exactly where my HD2 was located. It wasn't much, maybe one or two sips. The water damage seal is still white. I immediately grabbed my phone, pulled the battery out and put it in my other (clean) pocket. When I got home I immediately put my phone on top of the radiator (which i turned down a bit) A day later I turned my phone on again. Everything worked as normal, normal clear boot screen, the intro tune sounded ok, and it even vibrated. I was pretty relieved. The touchscreen works perfectly but only the phone turns the volume up all the time. I can't do anything with the phone because the volume is pernamently raising and thus going to the volume screen. Today I rinsed the volume buttons with demineralised water (very little and careful). The phone is currently drying in a sack of rice. Does someone have any ideas or suggestions how I can fix this issue?
Thanks in advance
EDIT: MY PHONE IS WORKING AGAIN! I just turned it on, the volume was still raising. I don't know why, but something told me i had to suck the "vaporised water" out of the phone. I used my mouth and sucked air out of the small openings of the phone. The phone immediately stopped raising the volume!
You should be able to find instructions for taking the phone apart somewhere around here... I've seen a thread about it I'm almost sure.
Apart from waiting and hoping I don't think you can do much else apart from trying to take it apart and see if there is anything that needs cleaning.
Right how to start this, I was happily taking a bath when a friend text me. I left it. He then text again 3 times and tryed ringing me figuring it must be important I picked my phone up and like you do I sneezed :O **SPLASH**. I grabbed the phone literally smashed my protective case of it which is now broken, and ripped the battery out of its socket
Left it for hours. Came back to it. Turned it on And YAY it worked but.....
The Menu and Back button didn't work at all it just flashed a bit. so i turn it off
Dissembled it and dryed it even more with hair dryer.
Now i assembled it and it works perfectly exept every water test is bright pink haahaha.
One problem tho, I lost the power button when dissembling it Could anyone point me to a person who will sell me this little plastic power button or could some one here sell me from spares maby Thanks for Reading
Plz help
Hey guys, about a week ago my headphone jack on my Atrix quit working. I've checked around the forums, and people were having this issue a year ago, but I've switched roms multiple times and I've determined that it is NOT a software issue.
The thing is, I've had the phone for a year, I pay the insurance on it, the only thing is, it's rooted and it has an unlocked bootloader, so I'm not sure if ATT will be able to help me out on this one. Anyone know if they'd still be able to give me a replacement? Or should I just call it quits, get out my G1, put my music on there, and use it as my music player.
I don't know if that's going to help, but I had the same problem on my SGS Captivate. Rebooting didn't help, but when I left it switched of for the night it fixed. The same was with my atrix, the earpiece wasn't producing a single sound, tried rebooting, even some market earpiece cleaning apps (something with making some sort of sound which should help dust or stuff fall out), nothing worked, and again, took out the battery and left it for the night. In the morning it worked again.
Rytis95 said:
I don't know if that's going to help, but I had the same problem on my SGS Captivate. Rebooting didn't help, but when I left it switched of for the night it fixed. The same was with my atrix, the earpiece wasn't producing a single sound, tried rebooting, even some market earpiece cleaning apps (something with making some sort of sound which should help dust or stuff fall out), nothing worked, and again, took out the battery and left it for the night. In the morning it worked again.
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Alright I will try that tonight.
I had my headphone jack give out, it was because the headphone plug doesn't fit in flush, so in my pocket there was too much pull on it and it bent the contact inside the phone. If you look into the headphone jack on the side near the scree you'll see the contact. Does it look squished? If so you'll need to disassemble the back of the phone and pull it back out. I was able to repair mine, however I also invested in some good bluetooth headphones so I wouldn't have to worry about it anymore.
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I had my headphone jack give out, it was because the headphone plug doesn't fit in flush, so in my pocket there was too much pull on it and it bent the contact inside the phone. If you look into the headphone jack on the side near the scree you'll see the contact. Does it look squished? If so you'll need to disassemble the back of the phone and pull it back out. I was able to repair mine, however I also invested in some good bluetooth headphones so I wouldn't have to worry about it anymore.
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I had to do the same. It wasn't difficult, I just had to go get a little Torx screwdriver.
Clean it using some cleaner (alcohal) and cotton swab or some thing. Its just a simple rust problem. Report back with results.
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Before you screw up your phone cleaning it with chemicals or mess it up with some software please read this.
I had this happen to me... hehehe
it is pocket lint in the headphone jack.
I got a can of compressed air and sprayed it in the jack.
the lint flew out and all is good.
I have had this problem with just about every phone I have owned.
This is exactly what happened to me. I used the tweezers on my mini pocketknife and just pulled out all the lint that had gotten compacted into the bottom.
I still didn't manage to fix mine atrix jack.
Nipit said:
I still didn't manage to fix mine atrix jack.
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what did you try?
Your not giving us any information to assist you...
Mine stopped working this week out of the blue. All I know for a fact is that I am never buying a Motorola/Nvidia phone ever again in my life.
I just had the same thing happen today. I first tried changing roms, but no change. When I start music or audio with headphones in, I get a staticy noise. I'm currently cleaning it out and checking out the connections. I'll let you guys know what I figured out.
Edit: Checked for lint, and bent the four or five cross connectors outward. Still having the problem. My next step is to get my hands on some rubbing alcohol.
I checked everything, and replaced the headphone jack, and it's still not working. All I get is a static noise.
Any ideas?
joe ferreira said:
Before you screw up your phone cleaning it with chemicals or mess it up with some software please read this.
I had this happen to me... hehehe
it is pocket lint in the headphone jack.
I got a can of compressed air and sprayed it in the jack.
the lint flew out and all is good.
I have had this problem with just about every phone I have owned.
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This is true, however I removed my Jack out of my phone. Then with dental pick and compressed air, I cleaned it and installed it back in. Now for protection .....
http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com/viewitem?itemId=230807044030&index=2&nav=SEARCH&nid=25698811006
that will work
Argh! i just spent the last 20 mins typing up a post and lost it! So lemme try this again...
Ok long story short, I goofed and dropped my s4 into a cup of coffee. It was submerged about 1/3 of the phone , on the top portion of the phone. I removed it immediately, pulled the battery and used a small vacuum to suck out as much of the liquid from the phone before i opened it up. Im pretty good with these kinda projects and have fixed many a phone over the years for friends who busted their screens etc. I hadnt been inside an S4 before this though, so i approached with caution. I used alcohol and a lint free microfiber brush to clean off anything that had coffee on it. All and all everything went pretty smoothly. After cleaning i put the phone in a bag of rice and silica gel for a few hours then put it back together and turned it on. It loaded up quick as usual, everything was pretty normal. But suddenly the screen would stop responding to my touches for a few seconds, and then start working again. So i turned it off, took it apart again and dug a lil deeper. I cleaned off all the contacts for the ribbons, and anything else that had any kinda sticky coffee residue on it. I put it back in the bag last last night and opened it up today and reassembled it. Turned it on , and like magic, everything was great! well 99% great. The phone is acting like it always has,and no more screen unresponsiveness or anything like that. All except for a small sliver of the top of the screen under the Samsung logo. Just a tiny sliver of the screen doesnt respond to my touches, which is a big pain in my butt because its just enough to not be able to swipe down the pulldown menu, and in some games i play, i cant click anything thats on the very edge of the screen in landscape mode. The screen looks normal, no signs of damage like ive seen in other devices when digitizers become damaged etc. Just that tiny little line of screen wont pick up touches.
I only went so far as to taking out the mobo and looking underneath that. I know i can go deeper, and would have to if i needed to replace the digitizer, but before i go through all that, i figured id seek the advice of the XDA Gurus first. Is there possibly anywhere else that i missed cleaning out the junk a that could be causing the problem in that area? Ive been very careful thus far and everything is working accordingly, hell the headphone jack even works still and that thing was full of coffee!! And all the other problems after the initial cleaning have gone away,and im left with this little line of screen that wont read my touches!! So i must have done something right so far! Im hoping that maybe i just overlooked another possible place to clean up any leftover junk and then will get full function of my screen again. if not, then i guess ill be ordering a new digitizer sometime soon.
Thanks for your time, anyone who reads this. I hope to hear some good news *crosses fingers* soon, and get my phone working properly again.
I'm impressed. Not just in your skills but with the build of the S4. Coffee is highly acidic. I once tore apart a keyboard that my wife spilled coffee on. The coffee etched the traces right off the P.C. board. If the S4 survived coffee on the inside workings they use a pretty good coating. It is possible they missed a spot and the coffee got it.
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