My 6P took a little rain bath, although it did not get fully submerged the touchscreen no longer responds. The screen powers on, everything looks normal - but no touchscreen action.
Tried letting it sit for 24 hours in rice, still doesn't respond. I guess I'm SOL?
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My son accidentally spilt beer on his xda.Two of the contacts to the battery (furthest from lower edge) were stuck to the battery but I have freed them.On recharging the phone it worked for a day........ Now on switch on the O2 screen appears for about 8 seconds, the red &green leds in"phone"switches are on for about 2 seconds then blank screen. The charge led does not come on, but the process repeats while trying to charge.
Any help appreciated by an old Dad.
If something's blown inside then I'm afraid there's no quick and easy fix.
What you can try to do though, is open up the phone and let it dry, and hopefully it comes back up afterwards.
I've heard stories where someone dropped his Magician into the swimming pool, and after he let it dry with the case open for 2 days it works again. So a bit of beer can't be all that bad.
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Some idiot sat on my bag which contained mineral water. My mineral bottle blew open and the water inside spilled inside my bag. Unfortunately for me, my cellphone was at the bottom of my bag. During that time, I was listening to mp3s through a2dp. A minute later, the idiot told me that something in my bag spilled. Then, I noticed my bag was wet. Then a 10 seconds later, I realized my phone was inside my bag.
Long story short, my phone was working well, then the mp3s starting skipping like crazy, so I turned off my phone. Once I got home 20 minutes later, I blow dried the outer shell and the battery area and it was seemingly dry. Now I turned my phone on and it had some problems at first. The backlight wasn't lighting all the time until I went to the backlight settings.
Now my problem is that my screen is slightly flickering when the backlight is on. If I open my wizard with the help of the service manual, do you think I'll be able to solve this problem?
Okay, now the thing works again... However, now I am paranoid about it. Should I dry bake it and how do you dry bake? The only thing I did right now was to blow dry the hell out of it. I plan on getting that star shaped screw driver tomorrow, for a thorough cleansing. The touch screen seems to be damaged on the right side.
I'm not sure dry baking it is going to help now. If your phone is wet at all you should remove the battery immediately until you know that the phone is completely dry. To dry bake it though, rmove the battery and turn your oven on its lowest setting and then pop it in there for a few hours and it should be good to go after that. I'm guessing any damage that has been done to it already might be permanent. Maybe you'll get luck though and it isn't.
I would advise against baking it. My Cing 8525 has fallen into water TWICE now; the trick is to immediately shut it down, remove the battery, and allow the phone to thoroughly dry. I took a can of compressed air and blow dried my phone the first time; I then let it sit for several days open with the battery out (thought it was dead) but then decided to give it another try and it worked fine. Has continued to work well even after the second dunking but then I was in Africa and it was 118 degrees so didn't take long to dry.......
Baking the phone just increases your risks of overdoing or doing something wrong....
I left my phone outside before a rainstorm. It didn't get get direct rainfall on it but got the spray of the water hitting the side of the wall. When I remembered it 15 minutes later it was covered in water drops but not soaked.
Everything seemed to work fine at first but then the touchscreen kept thinking it was touched at random places.
I turned it off, removed the battery, and started to dry it off with a kleenex and a condensed air can to blow the water out of the slider. When I turned it back on, the backlight flickered for about a minute and then went black (the LCD picture was still there but very dark)
Now when I turn it on the backlight is on for a second but then goes off. If I hit the OK, Talk, or other buttons they work 1 out of 10 times. The touchscreen still registers hits by itself.
Any suggestions on what I should do to dry it out? Do I need to take apart the screen?
I'd hate to throw it away...any help will be much appreciated!
Hum ill try to say this in english. This solution worked for some friends of mine when their phones got wet. disassemble all the tytn parts, take pff the battery, sim card, memory card, everything u can, take it out. Then with a hairdryer point it to the PDA about an hour. Pay attention not burn it up, only heat it a little so that the water or humidy left in the PDA can evaporate. Then leave it on shelf all opened for about a night. Next day join all the parts and try to connect your device. If it doesnt work, u can always take it to warranty. Sry 4 my english I hope u can understand ^^
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Hum ill try to say this in english. This solution worked for some friends of mine when their phones got wet. disassemble all the tytn parts, take pff the battery, sim card, memory card, everything u can, take it out. Then with a hairdryer point it to the PDA about an hour. Pay attention not burn it up, only heat it a little so that the water or humidy left in the PDA can evaporate. Then leave it on shelf all opened for about a night. Next day join all the parts and try to connect your device. If it doesnt work, u can always take it to warranty. Sry 4 my english I hope u can understand ^^
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Hey don't worry about your English - you speak it better than most others. I'll try this suggestion but I will definitely have to be careful not to burn up anything. Thanks
After the experience tell me how it went
Forget warranty though, there is a water activated sticker inside the hermes to tell the service department if its been soaked. Its white if no water has got in but turns pink if water touches it.
Cheers...
Heres the link to the service manual to be able to dissassemble safely - http://michael-channon.spaces.live.com/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c02_owner=1
You need a small flatbade, a small philips head screwdriver and a no. 6 torque key.
Good luck....
The warranty's already gone so I am willing to take drastic measures to fix this thing. I will let it sit overnight and if that doesn't work, I'll be taking it apart tomorrow. I found a youtube video that shows precisely how to do it. I'll update tomorrow
Would grab the manual as well as it can't hurt to have all bases covered. The manual takes you through step by step.
Cheers...
Thanks for your help, guys!
Seems I was freaking out over nothing. I did like Zero said and took a hair dryer to it (maybe 3mins on low -- 1min on high....did have the patience to do it for an hour) and then let it sit overnight. The phone was completely messed up around 10pm last night even after blow drying but this morning I powered it on and it did just fine. It did reset a couple of settings in advanced config but nothing else was touched. As a matter of fact, I believe the phone runs faster than it did before the incident! I do notice that the CPU memory is idling at 45% instead of 55+%...weird....
So I guess they do make em like they used to
Im glad my solution worked out actually i never tested it on PDA's so i guess that it's quite the same. Hair dryer rullez^^
check your wifi
mcattack86 said:
Thanks for your help, guys!
Seems I was freaking out over nothing. I did like Zero said and took a hair dryer to it (maybe 3mins on low -- 1min on high....did have the patience to do it for an hour) and then let it sit overnight. The phone was completely messed up around 10pm last night even after blow drying but this morning I powered it on and it did just fine. It did reset a couple of settings in advanced config but nothing else was touched. As a matter of fact, I believe the phone runs faster than it did before the incident! I do notice that the CPU memory is idling at 45% instead of 55+%...weird....
So I guess they do make em like they used to
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I had an MDA before my Wing, dropped in the toilet twice after a couple of days worked fine the second time the wifi went out.
PS My wing doesnt go in the bathroom with me anymore
When you phone gets wet
I don't know if anyone has heard of the Kim Commando Show, she is syndicated over the Radio. Anyways, she's a techie and gives advice on different situations relating to different devices and new stuff coming out. Anyways, she advices when a phone get wets to NOT turn on the phone right away (obviously), take the battery out and put the phone in a bag of rice. The rice will pull out the moisture. The phone has to be in the rice for 24 hours. It works 95% of the time. The trick is to not turn on the phone until you are sure the phone is completly dry inside and out. As you all know, electricity and water will just fry your phone. A new battery is suggested.
water damage SGS2 also..
Got my Galaxy s2 in my pocket when it was raining , i hade about 10% of battery.
Took it up and it was dead, so when i came home i put the charger in it but nothing happend.
I have put it into a bag of rise now and will se if it starts tomorrow. I also have bought a new battery.
if that not works ive also bought a new Charger oem cabel from ebay.
to bad for me did the warrenty went out for about 3 weeks ago.
I hope it will turn on again when i read that people that have droped directly into water and have them fixed by rise or other ways.
If this not works, is there any other ways?
thankfull for any help!
Hi all
My phone was fully submerged in water for a few mins a couple of days ago, I immediately took the battery out and left it to dry for the day.
Eventually the phone worked again, except for the home button.
The strange thing is, the home button works to get into recovery/download mode but will not work once booted up, anyone got any ideas?
I have not tried flashing or factory reset yet.
Cheers
Remove battery and cards. Leave the phone somewhere warm and dry for several days - preferable a week. One day may not be enough to dry out the phone completely (obviously it depends on just how wet it got).
You can try putting it in a bowl of rice. When mine got wet that's what I did and in 24 hours or a little more it was completely fine.
Swyped from a galaxy far far away.
Really, I know what am I talking about.
You need to go to the service. They will disassemble the phone and make a good cleaning.
Otherwise you may have problems.
A few days ago, the world was a happy place. Then I slipped on a patch of ice and my head bounced like a basketball off the pavement. As painful as that was, the true pain was the sight of my new LG G2 fully submerged in ice cold water. Putting aside all other injuries, I rushed to turn off the G2 (still on), within 10 minutes I had it covered in silica gel packets, in which it remained for the next 30 hours. I then tried to power it on, without any response at all. I left it in some rice and silica gel packets for another 24 hours. Then I took it out and tried powering it on again, this time the Power LED comes on while it is pressed down, but it turns off after I let go. There is no other response. One of my 3rd party power adapters does have an LED illuminate after I connect the phone. My Surface does not detect any devices over USB when connected.
At this point I'm starting to think that my phone is toast, but I hope that some wizened old veteran of XDA may pull a solution out of their magic hat. Any takers? I've searched the forums and tried some of their advice (rice, hard reset, air drying).
If you have a warranty now would be the time to use it. Otherwise, you should keep up the long term drying for a while. Try turning on the phone and putting a flashlight up to it, it could be possible the backlight isn't functioning.