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.
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 ^^
Zero|Cool said:
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!
Day b4 yesterday I was on a walk by the riverside with HD2 in pocket.On my attempt to balance on a wood over the mud , I lost balance and fell in to river.It was ~3 feet on the banks.I couldn't first belive that I am face down in to the muddy water (thanks to rain),but then I was quickly pulled up by a friend with me.Then I noticed the phone is not in pocket.Got down in to water again and searched a bit & found it back.Quickly removed battery , SIM , mSD etc..Kept in pocket.At home tried cleaning and left it open on table.After some time connected wall charger and tried booting (I am on Android) It just came up to 123 go and turned off again.The charge indication also didn't appear.I left it on charger whole night.At morning I found it booted to normal screen.But was asking to connect the charger.It didn't hold when removed the charger.I was about to travel back to my workplace.So put in backpack.Next day morning when I reached the other place,I tried again the wall charger - Bingo > it started charging!.Now Every thing is fine except some dark patches on the screen.I will wait and see it anyway....So dont loose hope or think of next phone (I was thinking of SGS2 when in water !) when its HD2 !.(May be I am on better luck here)..
Poor phone dude. Hope it will recover. I dropped my home phone in bathroom too and after few days it recovered.
Hi,
yesterday we've done some sport with music on. My shirt was full sweaty. The phone was all the time under the shirt.
Now I have the problem that the phone cant recognize when the headphones are pluged in or out. The symbol for it is all the time on the notifcation bar. I can hear only through the headphones anymore. Sounds like for the alarmclock are working normaly.
After I arrived at home the phone rebooted about 10 times in a row and had no signal for about 1h. I dont know If there is now the problem because of the sweat..
I tryed to clean the headphone jack but it doenst help. Any suggestions are welcome.
Try powering the phone off for a while and flash a clean install of the rom. It may or may not help. If it's a hardware issue (chances are there), then you may have to get it repaired.
Turn off the phone and put it in a sealed bag with a drying brick or some plain rice to help dry it out. There may be moisture inside the phone that's causing the problem.
Yeah I second audit13, let it dry for a day at least, with some rice.
I dropped my phone in the ocean for like solid 5~10 min and after a few hours of retrieving it the phone could not recognize my sim.after a while the phone start booting till the lg logo and rebooting over and over for few hours till it stopped.and i started to use it normally with sound working but suddenly it rebooted and the sound is entirely gone even if i connect it to headphone it will not give me any sound but the phone woks perfectly except the sound,SIM and the sudden reboot here and there . (so i think the sound is software since it stopped after the reboot?). is there any solution to my phone i really cant use the phone without the sim and sound
sorry for the poor english
Clean out the salt with water and let it dry in rice. Sea water is salty and leaves salt in the phone after drying up.