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Swimming....

it just so happens, that my Trinity(6 months old) decided that it likes water, and forced me to sit it in a cup of water in my cars cup holder. i looked at it about ten minutes later, and after yelling some vulgarities at it, and myself, i immediately popped out the battery.
do you guys think this device will come out alive? btw, it went speaker side down in the water... and believe it or not, the trinity can hold ALLOT of water.
if it doesn't come out alive, anyone interested in some trinity parts?
My friend also got a s620 (tmobile branded), and im kinda jealous at what he can do with it... nes games, snes... aim blows... crazy fast test messaging... i was thinking maybe i should one up him and get the cavalier... why is there no thread for the s630? and is it worth it? does it have the same possibility of crazy death scroll issue the s620 could suffer from? any other thoughts?
thanks for any input...
-Ryan

10 minutes.... I don't even think that you can hold your breath under water for that long - not to mention delicate electronic devices....
You did the right thing poping out the battery immediately. Hope that no one called you during its swimming and you didn't touch any buttons after it finished.
Now, what you can do it very limited - you may want to disassemble it - at least open up the case, and then use a hair dryer to blow it for an hour. After that, put it in a box together with some solid state dehydrants for few days.
And pray...

There are cases of Wizard swimming (diving actually) for hours and yet came out well, after the opening up and drying process. There is still hope.

Depends what it was swimming in!
Coffee and Coke are bad Ordinary tap water is also bad because the impurities (calcium etc) will eventually form some microscopic crystals on the MB tracks. Distilled water is best, but I presume you weren't drinking that
Try & disassemble as much as possible, and leave to dry naturally in a warm place for 2-3 days- dpn't be tempted to 'try it out' before that.
Can you claim on your household insurance?

hanmin said:
after the opening up and drying process. There is still hope.
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That's the only solution...and pray maybe (we never know)

meh.
well... i guess the good news is that i have filtered water.... im not talking brita either... im talking huge filtration units in the basement that look like big ol' helium tanks. my water is clean... either way, i don't happen to have any solid state dehydration material handy.. unless were talking about silica gel beads... in which case i have about 8 pounds of it. a drawback to this is that it spews dust all over the place that sticks to everything. i was told to soak it in distilled water, but ive seen what water does to lcd's and touchscreens... they get milky white, and don't work. id rather dip it in isopropl alcohol, swish a few times and spit. and is to praying, i'm not very religious ;p
thanks guys.

Well I do not really know about the trinity and for sure I wish that it has some water resistance, cause things like that happen all the time, but I had my Samsung WEp200, bluetooth in the washing machine inside my shirt's pocket for 1 and half hours in full wash, and after I took it out, it was still working......I am actually talking through that righ now....

Refering to the post above regarding the 'water' the phone is in, if my memory is serving me right, it is lake water, the diving Wizard went to.
Anyway, I seriously not sure if swimming phone happens a lot.. but if you do, you need to get those waterproof phone
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Recovery!
wow...
i never thought it would survive. it did. after being submersed in water for 10 minutes... it had bits of corrosion on the board cause there is a small backup battery onboard, via high voltage soldering tacked to the board... anyway... thanks to that bettery, it almost killed everything for me.
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i ran the main board under the spicket and scrubbed the everliving **** out of it. then i blew it off with an air compressor and let it sit for 2 days. i put it all back together with one screw left, and it booted up! sadly though, it had a kinda 3d effect cause the water got into the lcd layers.... so i pulled that apart( all the layers are on the back of the lcd starting with mirror, not the front). since i was working in a wood shop, it was a bit dusty :/ and i got a tid bit of dust on the layers and it looks nasty... ill get it later with latex gloves and alcohol... blew the layers off and dried them, and it looks great!
just so you know... the lcd is probally the most time consuming peice to take apart and put back together simply because it has 8 different layers that need to be cleaned, if water gets into em... lol..
guess the moral is, don't put your 600.00 phone in water.

Congratulations man! It's really a miracle for you

gratz
hope death will not feel chated like in the movie final destination 1-3

i was kinda disappointed that it worked.. i was looking for another reason to blow 600 on a cavalier s630... scratch that.. i have a projector to pay off... rofl.

its suprise what works after dropped, i've dropped atleast 3 mobiles in the bath ect lol, they still worked after a good dryin out!

Plop plop - no fizz. The slide took a swim

I dropped my slide in the toilet this morning... how cliche. I'm at work now with no dry rice handy and I have my phone sitting about 6 inches from my space heater.
Sitting in front of the heater the phone is fine, but when i remove it.. the screen starts to look "steamy" (see pic below).
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is this ok? should I NOT be doing this? or is this just the water reacting to the heat and dissipating. I have no idea.. everything I've read says use alcohol or rice.. i have niether around. i'm going home on my lunch break tho to give it a rice bath for a few hours.
I put my dunce hat on momentarily and booted the thing. When I first pulled it out of the water everything worked except the buttons (keyboard, home, search/genius, menu and back). after letting it sit in front of the heater... everything SEEMS to work. i didn't play with it very long because i noticed the screen fogging up and thought it best to remove the battery again. That being said.. the heater seems to be working.
help please and thank you.

In case someone is keeping up with this...
UPDATE: I got one of the screws off on the back of the display and am using a small flat tip screw driver to prop it open in front of the heater. i just picked it up and it definitely took a LOT longer for the steam to show up... and there was definitely less of it.

I did the same thing to mine last week..I just took the battery and sim card out and let it sit over night.. the next morning I turned it back on and the screen looked like that for a few days and I had problems with a few keys not working and it randomly turning itself up and down..but after about a week its all back to normal without rice or alcohol
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App

I'm at 100% now. after prying the display open and a little time in front of the heater my phone is back on it's feet. No problems whatsoever. *Knocks on wood*

Damn man that's lucky

the thing is,if its under warranty,they will know that water got into the device.

xoombie503 said:
the thing is,if its under warranty,they will know that water got into the device.
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It does not matter with slides anymore...both my stickers were red and you could visibly see water under the screen and store gave me a brand new one..they said no matter what the will give you a new one at the store..not to call customer service
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Sweet I didn't know that
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Just incase this happens again or 2 someone else.
This happened 2 me as well & what I did was I took the battery, sd & sim out asap & didnt turn it on till its had time 2 dry out some. (24hr, min) I stuck it in a cup of rice (not flat) & It ended up taking almost a week before it was 100% functional. By that time t-mobile offered me a replacement phone and said if they found water damage they would need 2 bill me $100 for an out of warranty exchange. That was 6 months ago and the water damage sticker was clearly red but they never billed me the $100.

You guys are lucky, I dropped a tp2 in the cat water dish and immediately pulled the battery and sim. The keyboard never recovered. Everything else still works.
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Ditto, but one issue with the dry out
I also dropped my phone into the can, let it dry out for a few days and after the screen finally getting back to normal i thought all was well with the world. only problem is, now, if i turn off the phone, the super bright led comes on and doesnt go off until i turn the phone on again. any ideas how to fix this if it is possible? and even if the phone dies and i attempt to charge the led comes on and counteracts the charging. thanks for any help

RICE! RICE! RICE! but yes water stickers+a dead giveaway to mobile carriers..

Phantom Touchscreen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j77BY2rfB3M
Second Xoom I've physically seen experiencing this problem- the touchscreen is responding to touch events that aren't happening.
As you can see, this Xoom is still in the plastic wrap it came in, just exchanged my last one for it (the last one had a dead/lazy pixel)
Has anyone else experienced this? Is it maybe a software bug or a hardware problem?
Seems to happen at random, but this happened shortly after unlocking the thing from a night spent unplugged on my nightstand.
I might also need to add that this is rooted and overclocked to 1.5 GHz, but the last one wasn't and it experienced the same thing.

Does this happen with the plastic wrap off?

Inphinitizeit said:
Does this happen with the plastic wrap off?
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It did with the other one, but I'm waiting to take the plastic wrap off on this one until I get a protector. It cuts down on the glare and fingerprints noticeably.

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Second Xoom I've physically seen experiencing this problem- the touchscreen is responding to touch events that aren't happening.
As you can see, this Xoom is still in the plastic wrap it came in, just exchanged my last one for it (the last one had a dead/lazy pixel)
Has anyone else experienced this? Is it maybe a software bug or a hardware problem?
Seems to happen at random, but this happened shortly after unlocking the thing from a night spent unplugged on my nightstand.
I might also need to add that this is rooted and overclocked to 1.5 GHz, but the last one wasn't and it experienced the same thing.
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Whats the weather like where youre at? Any chance that the device got wet (taking it out of the box, parking lot, etc)?
Has it been seen outside of your house?
Has the been seen both indoors and outside?
Do you have humidifiers running?

i did have this problem with my xoom the first day i got it.
Mine wasn't a big issue, it was in the gallery app. Looking at pictures off my camera, i was trying to swipe to the next picture, and it kept zooming like i had pinched it. It probably did this for about 3 minutes, somewhat amusing me/ somewhat scaring me.
But i just turned my device off and then back on and since then i've had no issue. its been about 2 days since then, and i've used my Xoom probably 40 hrs of the 48.

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Whats the weather like where youre at? Any chance that the device got wet (taking it out of the box, parking lot, etc)?
Has it been seen outside of your house?
Has the been seen both indoors and outside?
Do you have humidifiers running?
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I've only used this one indoors, and there's no chance its gotten wet. It is actually about 70 degrees here (really unusual for this time of year), not sure about humidity.. though it is about to rain.

jondwillis said:
I've only used this one indoors, and there's no chance its gotten wet. It is actually about 70 degrees here (really unusual for this time of year), not sure about humidity.. though it is about to rain.
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Im wondering if there's an evironmental factor here. The fact that you've personnaly seen this twice, on 2 different xooms really fights against the probability matrix of defective devices.
Does it only happen when you hold it, or shortly after?
Did you get them at the same store? (i.e. potentially part of the same shipment, potentially same production batch... long shot, but still)

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SLIMER!!!
I laughed!

I had this problem until I removed the plastic from the screen.

Never had this problem.. works real good for me so far.

Another Inevitable "OMG! I Dropped It In Water" Thread.

WARNING: If your clothes hamper is close to the toilet your clingy cat make knock it in the toilet.
After the dunk, I grabbed it immediately without hesitation, the screen was still on and going crazy. I immediatly held the power button, the screen went off and vibrated.
Pilled the SIM tray, placed it in rice but later noticed it was hot. It was still on, maybe. Held the power button to try to power off and the "LG" flashed.
It's now in the bag, hot and vibrates on/off when the button is pressed. I can't find the info on that.
Going to put it frsh rice after pulling the cover. What's my chances? Lie to me, I don't mind!

Sorry but I'm not going to lie to you :/
It's looking pretty bad
It's dood you put it into the rice, altrough I'd opened the phone and removed the battery first.
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Makrilli said:
Sorry but I'm not going to lie to you :/
It's looking pretty bad
It's dood you put it into the rice, altrough I'd opened the phone and removed the battery first.
Sent from my LG D802
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Damn, i just quit my job too so lying and all would've been great.
I didn't think of pulling the cover earlier. :crying:

fr4nk1yn said:
Damn, i just quit my job too so lying and all would've been great.
I didn't think of pulling the cover earlier. :crying:
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If I was in your position I would gather much patience and dunk it in rice then use a hair blower to warm the rice up a little then leave for a few hours then do it again, rinse and repeat then leave it over night and then, only then would I try turning it back on.
Best of luck to you mate.

But don' worry, miracles happend. I just read how some guys lumia was in a lake 17 hours and worked after that just fine without drying it
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Yea just give it some time. Give her privacy or space man! She needs to think of matters. If she goes back then she's yours forever if not she's gone.

fr4nk1yn said:
WARNING: If your clothes hamper is close to the toilet your clingy cat make knock it in the toilet.
After the dunk, I grabbed it immediately without hesitation, the screen was still on and going crazy. I immediatly held the power button, the screen went off and vibrated.
Pilled the SIM tray, placed it in rice but later noticed it was hot. It was still on, maybe. Held the power button to try to power off and the "LG" flashed.
It's now in the bag, hot and vibrates on/off when the button is pressed. I can't find the info on that.
Going to put it frsh rice after pulling the cover. What's my chances? Lie to me, I don't mind!
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Let it dry for three days. One day is not long enough.

Hit the button yesterday and she powered on, battery was at 1% so I'm sure the thing didn't turn off.
I got fresh rice and ziplock and it's sitting, every so often I got it with the wife's hair dryer for "why not?".
Camera lens is clear but I'm leaving it longer before charging trying the mics and speakers. I had already ordered a new skin that's coming Tuesday so our might miss sit until then.
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My Back Glass Lifted up

So, Im not a regular user, but I always read the forum and I thought it might be a good idea to share you this since almost nobody has reported that their back cover is lifting up, as it used to be a common failure on the original XZ (I own one) and not as common on en XZ3c.
Well, I bought the phone on January 11 and it was perfect, it passed the pressure test and had no problems, but on February 28 I realized that the phone didn't passed ir anymore, and then checked the watermark on de downside flap and it was red, and then WOW!! I Didn't even submerged my phone into water, I had just used a bit of water from a glass to clean it off, so it had no sense, well I said, nevermind is not waterproof anymore and is working great, it doesnt matter...
And Yesterday I was looking at the phone and realized the back cover is slightly lifted up on the camera corner, and if i press on that side and run the pressure test It works like a charm...
So thats it, Im raking it to Sony tomorrow, hope they tell me something legit and fix it or replace it.
P.S I dont use my phone as a game center, I dont have any game, heavy app, or record 4k video that might have heaten up the device and melt the glue on the back cover, I really think is a deffective unit.
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You should be okay as in either getting a replacement or getting your device fixed without any costs, because there is no damage to the device and it's possible that the adhesive can let go.:good:

Yeah, bad luck unfortunately. Return it to Sony, hope you get it fixed/replaced quickly.
Good Luck!
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Is... is that a cleaning cloth the phone is resting on?
Because there's still finger prints all over it, you could've used it to wipe the thing! Icky kicky all those smudges.

My money is on a faulty battery. It could puff up a bit and cause enough stress to lift the glass. If that's the case I would power the device off, leave it off, and don't attempt to charge it till it's been serviced/corrected or it could result in fire/explosion/injury/death...
At any point did you discharge the battery to the point where the phone turned itself off?

OrBy said:
My money is on a faulty battery. It could puff up a bit and cause enough stress to lift the glass. If that's the case I would power the device off, leave it off, and don't attempt to charge it till it's been serviced/corrected or it could result in fire/explosion/injury/death...
At any point did you discharge the battery to the point where the phone turned itself off?
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I Never discharged my phone below 20-30%, actually most of the days I arribad home on a 50% and charge it BEFORE I go to bed so it doesnt get overcharged during night charge... Im really careful with my phones I think is just defective, probably the heaviest app I had installed was Facebook... And Nerflix (which I never used).
Today I left the phone at Sony under warranty, I have to go in 10 days to get it back fixed or a new phone, depends what Sony says.

It happened to me to. They fixed it pretty fast, no questions asked

lstic said:
It happened to me to. They fixed it pretty fast, no questions asked
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Glad to hear that! Did they replaced the back cover, glued the old one or replaced your phone?

Believe it or not, they replaced everything BUT the back cover!
So they changed digitizer, flaps and the frame (both the glossy part and frosted plastic part).
Also they unlocked my phone to all networks and made my bootloader unlockable.
So it was a winwin situation

lstic said:
Believe it or not, they replaced everything BUT the back cover!
So they changed digitizer, flaps and the frame (both the glossy part and frosted plastic part).
Also they unlocked my phone to all networks and made my bootloader unlockable.
So it was a winwin situation
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Legit. Next time my wheel get removed from my car, I'll leave it on the ground and will put a new car right where my wheel is standing. It's safer.

Sony acts in strange ways

Well! Today I went to pick up my phone, and they replaced it with a brand new unit! Thanks Sony!