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Question about a damaged 8125

Long story short awhile back I forgot my 8125 on the trunk of my car while it was raining/wet outside and drove off to test drive my car. When I got back I noticed that my phone was missing so I backtracked and found the phone lying in the road. I picked up all the pieces I could find. So while waiting on a replacement battery to arrive to see if it would power up, I connected it to the usb charger and of course nothing happened UNTIL I pulled the charger out and all of a sudden the screen lit white for like a second and went blank. Could this mean that this phone still works?

Well,it depends,if the phone is still not short circuit,due to the moister present in the phone,as you say,you charged and the screen lit up for a second and then died.I wud rather suggest,if you are able to open the phone (Dismantle) and try to check if no moisture is present,but still clean it and wipe out any moisture with a soft cloth or use a hair dryer (Hot air) to dry out the moisture.Get the battery fully charged with the wall charger and try to power on and check if it works fine,otherwise,if it had short circuit,then it might be a dead meat.
Cheers!

Touch HD In water, hints?

HI all, i've a really disappointing problem. My touch HD was in my pocket when I took some rain on my motorcycle . Arrived at home the phone was off. I opened it following the service manual. I've putted it behind the power supply of the pc, where the warm air comes out, dismantled, for a few days.
Then I assembled all, and now it turns on, but, it randomly restart. Do you think my mobo is broken? some contact?
I was thinking I can sell the various parts of my phone all the items works, sim, sd reader, camera (back and front) except the mobo ofcourse.
thanks in advance for your help

Hi.I have heard of one way of fixed water damaged devices and that is by putting them in a container covered by UNCOOKED rice. I think the rice is meant to draw the water out. Leave it for a day I think. Never tried it myself but heard it works
Phil G

Hi, thanks for your answer, the phone was behind the psu of the pc for a week totally dismantled, so I think is pretty dry
thanks again for you interest

I actually dropped me BS in a bucket of water. Dried it out in a heat cabinet at work (50 deg C) for a day and it works perfectly still

Hi la3bna, i'm trying to do as you suggested, was your bs powered when it fall in the water?
thanks for your answer

You should use the salt that is used to lower humidity (e.g. from Bison).
Put the bag of salt on the bottom of a plastic box.
On top of the bag a plate so your device has no fysical contact
with the salt. On the plate you lay down your device without
the backside. Seal the box airtight and leave it there for 7 days.
I did this with the Ipod of my son which had been washed for over
an hour on 60 degrees celsius. The Ipod was dead, but after the
procedure as described it was fully functional!

Thanks a lot, I'll try this!!

Yes mine was on, actually someone called my when it fell

I dropped mine in deep snow... I was holding it in my hand and slipped and also fell
It was very wet so I got scared it won't work but when I got home I turned it off,removed the battery,cards and just put it in some blanket to dry off
After an hour turned it back on and everything worked just like before
Also the other day I accidentally spilled some hand cream on my blackstone and it got inside but nothing happened again so I'm lucky...

thanks for your advices, trying the rice thing

lol, you guys are fecking useless
There is no way I would put myself in that situation, then again I have dropped it a few times so probably only lucky there wasnt water about

Well, I also dropped my Blackstone into water and, after drying it for some 2-3 hrs in the sun it works, except the memory card reader - the problem with the water and mobile phones is the fact that the water is oxidizing the circuitry - so, if it still malfunctions after a week of drying, then probably the phone is doomed.
Sorry for your loss!

for oxid, i've "bathed" the phone in Svitol, but nothing appens... i'm going to sell it as spare.
thanks all for your answer

open the device and dry it out..

already tried, using the service manual to open it, and dried for a week, but nothing appens.
thanks anyway

keep pressing the on/off button - eg, press button on off on off on off (while charging)
and tell me what happens, eg, a vibration??

hi, ti vibrate, then starts, show the smart mobility screen, load the SO, and all works for about 10 minutes. Then the phone restarts and get stuck to smart mobility screen. After that the only way is to press reset or remove the battery. After that if you press the power button the phone get always stuck on smart mobility, sometimes start to load the SO and then it restart before finishing to load.
Nicola

Solved
Hi, problem solved, just left the phone in its box for a month then acidentally tried to start it and from that day works great... guess that just needed to dry out.
Thread can be closed.
Thanks for all your advice.
Nicola

The end?
Dropped my Blackstone in the toilet last night (don't know how, I was drunk at the time). I believe it had been fully submerged for 2-3 minutes. It was turned on at the time. When I recovered it (thank God nothing had been done in the toilet at the time), it was off. I removed the cover and there was water behind the battery, in the SD card reader and SIM. Not a lot, but it was wet. Stupidly (drunk) and panicking , I dried off the back panel with a hand towel (possible static charge damage? - not yet known ). I left it on top of a t-shirt which is on top of the radiator. I don't yet want to turn it on fo fear of wrecking it (if it's not already wrecked).
What methods to people recommend I should take from above? Or maybe there are some new techniques? Would I be better taking it to a mobile service repair shop to see if they can fix it from the beginning, before I do any more damage?

1 dismantle the device into pieces. (if your not sure how i can give you a step by step guide)
2 now dry each of the parts of the device with cotton wool buds (the things used to clean your ears)
3 the put the device back together.
4 done.
....some people say to leave the device in rice etc because it draws the water from the device, IMO this does not work properly and there is nothing better that opening the device and actually cleaning it and removing the water yourself, and this should only take a few mins. it is also not recomended to send it to a service repair shop for something you can do yourself. just be carefull when dismantling the device. do not break any ribbons - used to connect the lcd amungst other things to motherboard.
might be possible you will need a new battery ^

Water damage?

Hello,
I recently dropped my S6 Edge plus in a bucket of water.....I immediately put it in a bag with rice..... after 24 hours I took it out. It was responsive but the colors were not displayed correctly. Back into the rice for another 24 hours...took it out everything worked fine.
2 or 3 days later I shut the phone off, and the next day when I turned it back on, it booted up but the touch screen is unresponsive.
I was able to use ADB and Fastboot once on the phone and restored it to factory settings.....now I cannot even connect to the phone. By doing the restore it reset, so allow debugging or using and unregistered apps is back to stock etc.
The Hard reset volume up+home+power does not go to the rest settings....it just keeps showing the Samsung S6 Edge logo.....screen goes off to black ....and the S6 Edge Plus Logo back again...looping each time.
Ayone have any suggestions I can try?

You could try giving it an alcohol bath, otherwise put it back in rice and hope you didn't short anything out

Alcohol Bath?
How would I do this?

jtcnb said:
Alcohol Bath?
How would I do this?
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I Recommend you take it into aparts... Put the mainboard into a box filled with Alcohol take it out and clean it gently with a toothbrush or something similiar then leave it in the box until alcohol is gone... dont put too much in the box just as this that the board will be completely swim in it...
If that wont work the Amoled has also a flex cable wit some electronic on it clean that also.
And remember no water is 100% clean so just put it in rice is not a lifetime deal always clean with alcohol.

Wow.....I seen some videos of the breakdown of this phone.....seems pretty intense.
I may just put it on Kijiji or Ebay and sell it for parts

Had a person do this for me, and the LCD was damaged,

Moisture In USB Port Warning

So yesterday my phone started freaking out. It started flashing the usb notification and sound as if I was plugging in the phone and unplugging it rapidly, even thought I was plugging nothing in. To see what happen if I actually did plug something in I tied pluggin in the power adaptor and I got the "Moisture In USB Port" warning. My phone has not come into contact with any moisture, and even it somehow had it has been nearly 24 hours and I still get the warning when I try to plug it in. The rapid usb notification happened once again this morning but hasn't happened again since. What is going on? I can't charge my phone unless I turn it off.

I just started getting the same message. No moisture at all.
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Same situation here. I tried to put G6 in a rice over night, without help.
Also I put my device on a coffee machine several hours to get rid of "phantom moisture", without any results at all. I think it's now software related problem.
By the way i can't charge my battery over 50%, to charge it until 50% I need to restart device with attached USB. By the way notification with vibration effect every second is freaking me out.
If someone find any solution please share...

L
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I tried a different charging cable and it was fine.
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Problem solved for me
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So yesterday my phone started freaking out. It started flashing the usb notification and sound as if I was plugging in the phone and unplugging it rapidly, even thought I was plugging nothing in. To see what happen if I actually did plug something in I tied pluggin in the power adaptor and I got the "Moisture In USB Port" warning. My phone has not come into contact with any moisture, and even it somehow had it has been nearly 24 hours and I still get the warning when I try to plug it in. The rapid usb notification happened once again this morning but hasn't happened again since. What is going on? I can't charge my phone unless I turn it off.
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I took my phone to spain and it had loads of sand on it by the beach. I couldn't charge due to the moisture warning for 3 days. Eventually i found a solution. I loaded that sink with about 2/3rds water. I swilled only the port area in the sink. I then dried the phone as well as possible. I screwed a thin tissue paper up and dabbed round the port. I then found a rectangle piece of card (it was a clothes price tag) it was probably 1 millimetre thick and i pushed it in deep into the usb port to aid cleaning using the corners of the tag. It solved the issue and didnt break anything and cleaned out some of the deep sand and cotton that wasnt drying at 30 celicus heat this week. Saved me claiming on my insurance and the headache of installing all my apps etc. Try it, but be very careful with the card tag as you dont want to break any terminals in the usb slot.

I had the same issue as the original poster about a month ago. I have spent the last few weeks testing and found that for me changing developer settings back to "charging" from "file transfer" has worked. Not saying it will work for you but give it a try!

Having the same issue now. No reason to think much moisture got in. Sat it in rice, etc. Haven't tried washing the port. Anyway, I can charge if I turn on airplane mode then boot into safe mode holding volume down plus power. The moment I plug in, it powers on unless the battery is totally dead. And it never charges close to full even then without the above workaround. Planning on taking the phone in. It's annoying, and my battery life seems shorter with the constant almost-notifications (which started out looking like they came from a variety of apps). Hopefully there's an official solution.

i restarted the phone and it worked

I posted about this a while back and couldnt figure it out so i exchanged for a new one

I would say various kinds of debris could get in the charging port and have enough conductivity to be detected as water. I always hated USB port covers, but at least they prevent this problem.

Fix for moisture detected
The contacts in the usb c are loose and may be cross connecting. I fixed mine by taking the charge cable type c end and squeezing them lightly with needle nosed pliers so the flat sides were BARELY concave. This fixed the problem and I am able to use the original cable to fast charge again.

Hollowtech2 said:
The contacts in the usb c are loose and may be cross connecting. I fixed mine by taking the charge cable type c end and squeezing them lightly with needle nosed pliers so the flat sides were BARELY concave. This fixed the problem and I am able to use the original cable to fast charge again.
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This kinda sorta is working for me. I can slowly move an unplugged USB cable in the port and trigger the notification pop up. As opposed to constantly this now happens intermittently. It started after getting my phone wet. 1 bowl of rice later and the moisture error is gone, but the USB debugging notification appears and disappears rapidly every so often.

Moisture issue, nothing is working?
Reboot with it already plugged in does not help. My phone will NOT stay off now? Every time I select "power off" it restarts as soon as I plug it in. I have no clue what to try now. Seeing if draining my battery will help. Light moisture contact days ago but nothing more than droplets.

For those who're still having issues, the following worked for me:
1. Power off the phone and then power it back on. (This alone should help but if you have power savings mode enabled, carry out step #2)
2. If you have power savings enabled, turn it off and then power the phone off and back on.

I've got the same message after swimming with G6, I've tried to toggle the usb connection port and try to charge it while off / shutdown.. And it works

I've had the same problem. Moisture warning while it's not the case. Lated 3 days and suddenly it was gone. Phone restarted also when trying to charge with power off. Sometimes after couple of restarts it would load. And connecting the cable very shortly helped also someone. It seems to me that it is a bug in the devices because we are not alone with this problem

At least you aren't alone
Same problem happened to me. It was a slow over a week process. First a flashing usb icon I had never seen before then every one in awhile the usb moisture warning started popping up here and there. Still I'm not alarmed. Flash forward to a week later (today) and not only can't I charge my phone passed 4% (after the airplane mode trick seemed to have worked but only briefly) I brought it to Verizon I tried wirelessly charging and using two other corded charges and nothing would make it less than 2 hrs and 30 mins charge time then it's turn on and just die again. Employee was familiar with the prob gave me the warranty # and ill have my new phone tomorrow. In the mean time I've discovered of the 5 places i tried to charge my phone including the Verizon store all power sources were ports or extension cords etc . I found that plugging it into the wall outlet works. Shocker right? Well I hope that the make sure its charger to outlet revelation for myself helps others as they wait for the new phones...:laugh:

I plugged my phone into a computer USB port and switched the USB options to Charge Only and Always and the moisture warning went away.

Had this problem for more then month, and this is how I managed to get rid off that moisture message.
1: Go to Apps>Configure Apps (3 dots menu in upper right corner)>Special access>Modify system settings>Show system (3 dots menu in upper right corner)>LG System server - turn off "Allow write system settings"
2: Apps>Show system (3 dots menu in upper right corner)>LG System server - Turn on "Silent"
Of course, you must be 100% sure that is false message about moisture in USB port

Moisture detected / auto power on override?

So I am at the beach for the week and started getting the moisture detected nag at night. I cant find any way so far to over ride this. Yesterday I was able to charge the phone by plugging the charger in and turning the phone off. I wake up this morning and have gotten the error again. Now I am down to 10% and the phone keeps turning itself back on everytime I turn it off while charging. I have tried leaving it plugged in and plugging it in while off. I have turned dev options on and off along with changing it to MTP mode and using the PC. I have tried a normal charger and a dumb charger.
So someone at LG seems to think they know better than I do. How do I turn this feature off? I know there has got to be a way to make your phone stay off? What if the thing dies now, the hotel catches on fire, and we all burn alive because my phone is dead and cant cant call for help? (actually I dont know that the phone would help to much then kind of like the kids that tried to text 911 during the Va Tech school shooting instead of fighting back or running away) There should be an extremely high liability in not allowing someone to charge their phone.
No I have not taken the phone in the water. Besides it is supposed to be ip68. I was going to try and pick up the buy one get one V30 deal. At this point after the gps fiasco with my old G5 and now this I want no parts of another LG. I dont even want a smart phone but a dumb phone. In fact I want a retarded phone that all you have to do is hit 10 numbers to make a simple phone call.

Kogashuko said:
So I am at the beach for the week and started getting the moisture detected nag at night. I cant find any way so far to over ride this. Yesterday I was able to charge the phone by plugging the charger in and turning the phone off. I wake up this morning and have gotten the error again. Now I am down to 10% and the phone keeps turning itself back on everytime I turn it off while charging. I have tried leaving it plugged in and plugging it in while off. I have turned dev options on and off along with changing it to MTP mode and using the PC. I have tried a normal charger and a dumb charger.
So someone at LG seems to think they know better than I do. How do I turn this feature off? I know there has got to be a way to make your phone stay off? What if the thing dies now, the hotel catches on fire, and we all burn alive because my phone is dead and cant cant call for help? (actually I dont know that the phone would help to much then kind of like the kids that tried to text 911 during the Va Tech school shooting instead of fighting back or running away) There should be an extremely high liability in not allowing someone to charge their phone.
No I have not taken the phone in the water. Besides it is supposed to be ip68. I was going to try and pick up the buy one get one V30 deal. At this point after the gps fiasco with my old G5 and now this I want no parts of another LG. I dont even want a smart phone but a dumb phone. In fact I want a retarded phone that all you have to do is hit 10 numbers to make a simple phone call.
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Hello , yesterday i had my first "fake positive" moisture detection. In my case i used pendrive made of metal which was cold to touch. When i warmed it to room temperature it worked just fine. Maybe your cable connector is too cold?

adamsek said:
Hello , yesterday i had my first "fake positive" moisture detection. In my case i used pendrive made of metal which was cold to touch. When i warmed it to room temperature it worked just fine. Maybe your cable connector is too cold?
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Thanks. I have tried multiples. Yes it is probably a little more humid here but it shouldnt be enough to trigger the sensor. Afterall last summer I rolled with the thing in my pocket and was sweating all over it. Also, the night I got it I spent one of the nights in one of the courts in richmond looking for someone at a running pace and in ripstop 50/50 nylon without throwing the error. I am thinking my phone might be not quite right. I wish there was an override.

So I found out what it does when it dies finally. It charges to 5% then cuts back on and dies again. I am all about technology but only when it works.
-update.
Went out to swim and before I left I took the rubber case off and jammed the whole phone into one of the vents on the PTAC and cranked it up to 11. I got back and now at least it is showing it is charging and not cutting back on while doing so. Once I get it to 100% we will repeat the process. It is very moist here but I dont see having everyone with a LG or Samsung phone not being able to use them. Yes I am staying in a resort in a first world country not in a shack in off the coast of Lebanon or something.

Try this. exact same thing happened to me.
My LG G6 all of a sudden stopped charging, it said moisture detected and USB port, charging blocked. And then my phone died. I asked my phone provider what to do, they said to call LG. LG said it's because I haven't updated the phone, but my phone was dead. So if your phone has enough battery power to do an update, do it right away. What I did was took it to the store where I bought my phone, charged it wirelessly enough so I can do an update. And that's it , my phone worked fine after. Hope this works for you

You can try this
*#546368#*930# ----> SVC Menu ---> Moisture Detect Setting ---> Disable
Replace 930 with your G6 model number. Mine was 873 and I turned it off. I'll have to test it later to see if I still get the message. Alternatively, what other thing worked for me was switching around the usb type c end that goes in the phone to the smooth side facing up. The connected side always sets off the message

There appears to be a continuity sensor at the rear of the port. If you look to the left and right of the wafer connector in the back of the jack, you'll see two little contacts. My guess is that these create a circuit when damp or covered with any type of slightly conductive dust to trigger a cutoff on the charge port. I had this issue starting at 2am last night (hadn't been outside since 7pm that evening, phone in pocket) throughout today. I tried just cleaning out the port with a microfiber cloth, that didn't seem to do it. So ultimately I ended up shutting the phone off, getting a cotton swab damp with 90% isopropyl alcohol, swabbing the connector until the entire thing was damp, and blowing it out with air duster. Then I used a flat toothpick to clean off any remaining debris and dust inside the ports. No error since, been about 30 minutes. May not solve for you, but this isn't necessarily just water related, definitely seems to be triggered by dust and debris covering the contacts at the rear of the jack.
Edit at 2230 EST: Going on 6 hours now with no further issues.

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There appears to be a continuity sensor at the rear of the port. If you look to the left and right of the wafer connector in the back of the jack, you'll see two little contacts. My guess is that these create a circuit when damp or covered with any type of slightly conductive dust to trigger a cutoff on the charge port. I had this issue starting at 2am last night (hadn't been outside since 7pm that evening, phone in pocket) throughout today. I tried just cleaning out the port with a microfiber cloth, that didn't seem to do it. So ultimately I ended up shutting the phone off, getting a cotton swab damp with 90% isopropyl alcohol, swabbing the connector until the entire thing was damp, and blowing it out with air duster. Then I used a flat toothpick to clean off any remaining debris and dust inside the ports. No error since, been about 30 minutes. May not solve for you, but this isn't necessarily just water related, definitely seems to be triggered by dust and debris covering the contacts at the rear of the jack.
Edit at 2230 EST: Going on 6 hours now with no further issues.
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How did you get it inside, I'm thinking I did a poor job cleaning the port but a needle barely fits.
Here's my post:
"The message appeared randomly while charging one night. It was nowhere near water for several months and I work in an office.
What I've tried:
- Drying with a hairdryer (not even a temporary fix)
- Force stopping LG system and LG server processes. I even disabled them with package disabler!
- Disabled the moisture sensor in secret menu. Warning still shows up! Even if I try to turn of the phone and charge it.
- Cleaned the USB C socket with a hairpin and cloth
- Cleaned under running water, swapped with alcohol and dried again (getting desperate)
It does however charge if I plug unplug it in like 5 times. Really annoying!
It does this regardless of charging cable, I tried with 5 cables at home and work.
I read somewhere that the pins were causing a short, but the pins are inside the cable right?
What else can I try?"

povertyd said:
You can try this
*#546368#*930# ----> SVC Menu ---> Moisture Detect Setting ---> Disable
Replace 930 with your G6 model number. Mine was 873 and I turned it off. I'll have to test it later to see if I still get the message. Alternatively, what other thing worked for me was switching around the usb type c end that goes in the phone to the smooth side facing up. The connected side always sets off the message
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Funny, I just tried this and still get the error. You'd think disabling it would remove the damn notification/it from working....

After all the **** I did, I found my problem and solution.
It was because of my charging cable that had bent pins, yet oddly enough the moisture detected error persisted with other cables.
Thru away that cable, then reset the phone cache and soft reboot (volume down + power)
Hope this helps.

Used trimmed down tooth pick and nail vanish remover - gently cleaned and my wife hair dryer on low ...and Voila" back in business ! Thanks for basic idea !

povertyd said:
You can try this
*#546368#*930# ----> SVC Menu ---> Moisture Detect Setting ---> Disable
Replace 930 with your G6 model number. Mine was 873 and I turned it off. I'll have to test it later to see if I still get the message. Alternatively, what other thing worked for me was switching around the usb type c end that goes in the phone to the smooth side facing up. The connected side always sets off the message
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This Doesn't work on Sprint/Boost Phones. I have tried all the 'hidden menu' codes I can find but none lead to the SVC menu..
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