A few nights ago, I accidentally dropped my G920T in a toilet. Fortunately it was before toilet-bound substances were also in the toilet, so I fished it out immediately and dried it off the best I could. It rebooted a few times, the speaker sounded weird, and the vibrate motor stopped working. I brought it home and put it in a bag of rice which seemed to get some of the moisture out of the speaker, but the vibrate motor still didn't work. I ordered these:
Yikes! Phone and Tablet Rescue
Each bag has a ZipLoc reseal and contains commercial silica desiccant beads as well as a larger Ziploc bag for larger devices. I had to use the bigger bag for my S6. I can imagine that if you want a better seal you could use a quart freezer bag as they seem to have a better air seal. The beads themselves are a purplish color and turn white when they absorb moisture.
I Immediately stuck my phone in one and left it there for 24 hours. Everything is working fine. It charges normally, sound is normal, vibrate works, no issues with power or display or buttons or anything. I have no way of knowing whether the moisture indicators got wet but at this point, with the phone working, I don't really care. From what I know of desiccants, silica works much faster than rice does...and there isn't any annoying dust to get inside your phone. Most of the beads stayed purple and only a handful turned white, so I saved the beads for the next emergency.
I highly suggest ordering a few of these. One is $6.99, two are $9.99, and a five pack is $14.99. I plan on keeping one in my car and the rest at home.
Alternatively, if you buy a lot of shoes, electronics, or jerky...save the silica packets. Or just buy them online. Amazon also offers similar beads in bulk...it may be cheaper to just buy them and some Ziploc bags.
If you're accident prone like me...Do yourself a favor, spend a little money so you won't have to buy a new phone.
Another note: The Yikes! packages don't advertise this, but you can reuse silica beads by putting them in an oven at 245°F for about 4 hours; alternatively, 1-2 min in the microwave will also do the trick. I personally like the idea of colored beads because you can tell when they have absorbed moisture, whereas the sealed packets you can't.
A note of caution: Bluish beads may contain cobalt (II) chloride which is an eye, skin, and mucous membrane irritant. If you choose to buy beads in bulk, I recommend getting the orange ones as they are non-toxic.
lol i thiught that dropping mobile phone in toilet is impossible hahahaha:silly:
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OK, so the strip below my battery turned pink, which i think means water damage. I did'nt have my phone by any liquids and it was working fine, then all of a sudden the touch screen became unresponsive. Any help?
Are referring to the small rectangular box on the very edge of the case which is below the battery? Mine isn't solid pink. However if your phone did get some moisture in it then the damage is probably done already. Have you tried doing a hard reset?
put it in a container with rice (uncooked) overnight or just put a couple of piece of the silica things that come with new shoes that will suck some of the moisture, and u don't need to drop the phone in water to get the little red sticker ruined, trust me i never once dropped it in the water and from moisture in the air it gets ruined. One day after arguing with the rep on the phone for over an hour, the result is to keep the phone in an air tight ziplock bag from the day u bought it lol
Just have to comment that it is untrue that moisture in the air will affect the LDI. I am a pda tech and deal with this every day. I also live in a very humid climate and have never had the indicator turn on me. What can make I turn though does include excessive sweat in your pocket or high levels of moisture as you might get if you leave it on the counter in a steamy bathroom while showering. All avoidable without ziploc.
I immediately removed it from the water, and desperately tried to remove the back case to remove the battery (its quite hard when the phone is wet) i got there eventually though.
The screen was flickering whilst the phone was still on, and the water sensitive stickers on the battery and phone are both pink. I've blow dried it for about 10 minutes haven't tried to start it back up yet.... any suggestions?
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I immediately removed it from the water, and desperately tried to remove the back case to remove the battery (its quite hard when the phone is wet) i got there eventually though.
The screen was flickering whilst the phone was still on, and the water sensitive stickers on the battery and phone are both pink. I've blow dried it for about 10 minutes haven't tried to start it back up yet.... any suggestions?
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DON'T start it for a few days. Put it in a warm place, leave it to dry for 48-72 hours and pray it works when you turn it on.
yeah just be patient and wait about 3-4 days to dry. but do not put it under direct sunlight
....and wash your hands
Try to put into bag with rice, and leave for couple of days...
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Try to put into bag with rice, and leave for couple of days...
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put it in a bag of rice or leave out in the open?!?
put your phone into rice and keep bag closed
Basically you just need to make sure you dry it out thoroughly. Don't try to rush this process in a few hours. All the posts about leaving it somewhere warm (like an airing cupboard) are correct. Don't put it on top of a radiator or hot pipe, or in the sun as already suggested. The idea of putting it in a bag of rice is to help draw the moisture out. Never tried this method myself.... You really must be patient with this - managed to save my Touch Pro that got soaked in the rain last year....
okay so i've put the phone the battery and the sim on top of some rice in a bad behind my tv in my bedroom
rice like the others said or if you are a cigar person (or know someone who is) place it in an acrylic humidor w/ humidification beans.......I resurrected a M$ ZUNE my wife dropped in a rain puddle by doing this in my humidor
man, this reminds me of the time I dropped my phone in a bucket of puke from a heavy night. Still worked after I dried and cleaned it up.
"DON'T start it for a few days."
yup ..is correct wait until dry ... "rice" are good for absorb humilities ..
but If I not wrong ..after dry .the speaker of the phone will change ..just like my tytn II drop into "wash floor water", it still can use .. but the speaker sound change ...
Οh man , really bad luck..
hope it goes ok but be patient and let it dry manually !!!
my wife washed my cellphone once (left in pocket after heavy night of drinking). Took the battery out, let it sit on a counter for about a week. Phone recovered though it took the screen a while for the colors to all show properly.
I have read where people put their oven on warm and leave it overnight. I don't think this will hurt the phone since their won't be a power source in it.
Dropped in a sink with the tap running!
I dried it out under a hand dryer, then powered it up straight away. In hindsight this was pretty stupid, but it booted up ok. The only problem being the NAVPANEL would randomly appear and require a reboot. The next day that problem had gone away, and was replaced with a new problem - the Volume down button being jammed on! Also the battery life was reduced to about 10 hours. After a further 48 hours and a blast with compressed air (around the volume buttons) the phone has returned to 100% normal use - even the battery life is getting better, now upto about 36-42 hrs..... but I have bought a replacement for that anyway!!
Can't believe how lucky I was!
[Edit: Just saw you fixed it. Bravo! I'll leave this here anyway...]
Rice is good, unless you have any silica gel kicking about, the stuff you get in electronic packaging in the little paper bags/sachets that say "do not eat".
But yes, definately don't do what the majority do...
"I just turned it on to see if it would work..."
"You turned your phone/laptop on while it was wet... to see if it would work?"
"Yeah... why?"
*facepalm*
Happens about once a week in the PC store I work at. You could also try stripping it after it's dried and going over it with a carbon pen to remove any corrosion/residue.
After removing the battery, SIM, and MicroSD and gently removing any surface water.
One trick I found is to put a phone in the path of hot dry air for 30 minutes to a couple of hours. A clothes dryer vent works wonderfully for this since its temperature controlled (and timed) to keep from destroying the fabric in your clothes, and hot enough to allow water to evaporate. If you have access to your dryer vent hose, unhook it and rest it on top of the dryer and put your phone in the path (at least 4 to 6" from the opening). It's worked for 2 phones so far. One being my wife's Motorola, and one my Touchpro. If you have a dryer with an insert for shoes, you could use that as well, although I would put the phone on something to keep it from vibrating off.
You could use a hair dryer but keep in mind that hair dryers are not designed to be run continuously and the temperature is not technically regulated.
The trick is to get the temperature of the whole phone up to about 130 to 140 degrees and the water will evaporate. I would avoid shaking the water out of the phone or using pressureized air since that will push water into the delicate connectors, keypad matrix, screen, etc.
Let me give you a more scientific approach to your problem, i will try to explain as better as i can since english aint my primary language.
After you drop it in the water, your phone will never be the same for couple of reasons. First of all, when the water will dry, salt will "sit" on the connections and the weldings of the connectors, and that will slowly but steadily eat them. My saying is : " Never trust a phone that was dropped into water/coffee ". For you to be sure of your phone you need to strip it, and clean it with a spray for electrical appliances. Now there are 2 types of those sprays, one with oil and one with no oil in it. For your thing you need the NO-OIL one. Thats to make sure you wont get a loose joint and eventually your phone wont get broken.
If you dont feel like opening your phone and you dont feel comfortable with it, just ignore my post and just dry it out. What is 100% sure is that at some point it will break down, it depends on when though, from hardware to hardware.
Just my 2 cents.
Any time I get anything wet I IMMEDIATELY remove the battery, then I remove anything else I can from it: Sim Card, Memory Cards, etc. I don't like the rice idea because rice ALWAYS ends up stuck somewhere inside. I prefer setting my phone on some foil out in the sun for a bit (provided it's not too hot out) or just leaving it somewhere where it's warm to dry out. DO NOT BY ANY MEANS put the battery back in or turn it on until it is COMPLETELY dry. A minimum of a day if you even want to begin to chance it. If it was dropped in something other than relatively clean fresh water, I would keep everything out of it (battery, sim, memory cards, etc.) and dip it in a cup of distilled water a few times to clean any particles off, then let it dry again completely before turning it on. Just because an electronic gets wet, doesn't mean it won't work. The only way to kill it really is if you power it back on or the battery shorts it.
I went swimming at the lake with my old Nokia 5310 for 10 minutes before remembering it was in my pocket, I immediately took everything out when I remembered and left it in the sun for 8 hours and it worked fine for a year after until I threw it into a wall as hard as I could due to a frustrating girlfriend haha
U may have problems in the future... Since it was submerged in water some components will begin to rust... I suggest u take it to a mobile service shop so they can tell u what to do, or maybe they can fix it...
Long story short, i dropped my phone in pool (filled with rain water) and took it out in less than 2 seconds before it hit the bottom. It was still on, i took out the battery and dried it with hair dryer and left it in zip lock full of rice. Turned it on next day and touch screen wouldn't work. so i opened up the phone and used a vacuum for few minutes and left it in rice bag again for a day. Now the phone works perfectly except part of touch screen isn't working at all. it's around a centimeter of a vertical block on right side of screen. I tried hair dryer and vaccum again but no success. the white block on back of the phone isn't even entirely red, its just 1/4 red maybe less. Can i send it to samsung for repair since its still under warranty? Can i change the touch panel or entire screen? not sure what to do, any help would be highly appreciated.
T mobile might warranty depends on your agreement. In the future when you get it wet get the battery out immediately dry it off and get most of the water out asap, then immerse in alcohol the alcohol binds to the h2o and this helps, (like 1 hour) then dry it with rice or other methods like a dryer etc, dryer doesnt need to be hot, and if you leave in a wind tunnel for 4 hrs it will really get the water out
I sent it to samsung to only have it returned back with water damage, warranty voided message. Does any know where i can get a new screen or touch digitizer for the screen for this?
There is a company Called Global Direct They sell for 84.00 If I remember correctly, IF they have it in stock
Alibaba.com from Hong-Kong has a vendor in that website that sells for 65.00 or something like that
Only thing it is a 14 day delivery from hongkong and that website is hard to get around and find things.
Also look on Ebay may get lucky there doubt it but worth a look.
Good luck
i have seen some on Ebay before. Just be careful no matter who you decide to buy from. There are people selling LCD's and calling them SAMOLED for the vibrant.
Next time before sending a water damaged phone in, get rid of all signs of water damage. Ie water spots etc. The, find all of the water indicator stickers, dab a bit if household bleach on them, and when they are white again, send or take the phone in.
I was at dinner, we go to pay, I check Reddit for a sec, put the phone next to my plate, kid spills maybe half-1/4 a glass of water on it (screen, homebutton, speaker).
I immediately took out the battery (both water indicators seemed fine, don't remember any water in the compartment). I had port plugs in the headphone jack and USB port, so that's lucky. S pen was in too. But I'm pretty sure water washed over the speaker and home button I just put a new toast cover which is super gluey, so...I hope that it kept water from getting into the screen that way. I have it in a bag of rice, screen facing down, with 3 large desiccant pads (2 on the screen/speaker/home button, 1 in the battery compartment). Nervous about using iso alcohol, for fear of damaging the screen. It wasn't a huge amount of water and I jumped on it instantly, got it towel dry in seconds and in rice/silica in desiccants in minutes.
Is there anything else I should do? Think I'll give it 48 hours to dry, rather than 24. I've been working to get it going the way I want it for like 3 weeks straight now. Maybe BS me and tell me it likely didn't do anything, I'm really having angst and anxiety right now. Sad as it may be, this particular phone, this very one, is like my baby.
Sorry for the long post, I'm flipping the ef out.
Putting it inside a bag full of rice for several day should be enough.
Water spills usually doesn't do any harm unless you have a crack on you phone.
d4rkkn16ht said:
Putting it inside a bag full of rice for several day should be enough.
Water spills usually doesn't do any harm unless you have a crack on you phone.
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Thanks man. No cracks, just worried about the front speaker and home button. I did rice then was told that silica is the way to go. Found one bag and 3 desiccant pads. Wrapped up tight now on in my warm room. Gonna see if walmart has any more silica bags. Will let it dry till Sunday, at least. Loved dads response of, "Awe....sowwyy". Kid thought it was funny too.
, I fully dropped my phone in a bath with water aprox. of 30 cm just for A SECOND. I instantly turned it off. Shaked it on some paper towels, dried it a bit with a hairdryer.
2. Dissasembled it, just removed back (that took me 30 min. , glue is really strong) no other parts and now it's staying in a bag with some Silica Gel packets.
The phone is staying from 15:00 p.m. (now in my country is 22:01), but tommorow I have to take it to work at 11:00 a.m
^^This thread is just informative, I will let you know if it survives (god please) because I don't want to buy a new phone^^
I have to mention that I had headphones plugged in when dropped and that water damage indicator is FULL red.
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I am very interested in your situation. Did the water get inside the display? Do you have any spots on the display? Like, gray/white spots? Unfortunately I dropped a couple of drops of water near the side buttons and somehow the water got into the display. I got it off by puttin the phone in white rice for a night, but some white lines still remained and are not coming off.
Pensionaru said:
I am very interested in your situation. Did the water get inside the display? Do you have any spots on the display? Like, gray/white spots? Unfortunately I dropped a couple of drops of water near the side buttons and somehow the water got into the display. I got it off by puttin the phone in white rice for a night, but some white lines still remained and are not coming off.
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Yes, display was full, but checked it this morning,,, and it was ALIVE, with no markings, everything was working. Silica Gel does really absorb water very well
:angel::angel:
P.S. (edit) The display is really fragile in terms of water, I had a lot of white lines on the display, but now they're all gone.
P.S.S. Rice does not save electronics that well, how it's advertised, I've dropped a long time ago an Samsung Galaxy S plus in water and tried the method with rice, after 3 days tested it and everything was buggy, dissasembled it and found out that the motherboard and some cabled had a lot of white spots on them(from the rice),but cleaned it and worked as new. Silica Gel is in small bags, so rice fragments don't go to the motherboard and leave white spots.
(edit 2) Now my phone "is washed" and is like new, wash yours too! (--do not TRY, JUST JOKING)
Thanks, I'll take this advice, its a good idea, using silica. Where did you buy it from ?
Pensionaru said:
Thanks, I'll take this advice, its a good idea, using silica. Where did you buy it from ?
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You can find small bags in shoe boxes, but I found my big packets into some chair compartiments, to not make mold.
But, for international buying, try amazon or ebay