so my phone got wet in the rain. water got it.
noticed it almost 45 mins later. so found it working fine. 20 mins later it just kept on restarting into the recovery menu. which was had chinese symbols on it and only one word in english : RECOVERY. but couldnt make anything out of it as it kept on restarting.
left it like that as i didnt know what to do.
suggestion?
i am panicking like anything cause of this.
added note: my phone is still in stock mode. never did anything to it
Just stick it into a bag of rice overnight. Or close to a dehumidifier if you have one.
Yes, a bag a rice, maybe even 48 hours.
Do not turn it on again, the moisture could short out the phone.
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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.
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 fellas, long time no see!
So, first of all, yes, I've used the search, but what I've found is threads about wet phones, mine I believe is already dry.
Situation: I'm in the club, glass of absolut and redbull in my hand, phone in my jeans pocket, extra glass of absolut w/redbull on the bar next to me. Fat drunk aproaches the bar and tips my glass with his elbow, all my drink spilled over my clothes. After a brief discussion I realized the guy was too drunk and was a worthless douche so I let it go. I reach for my phone and realize my pocket is soaked wet, when I take it out, phone is out, red light dim. So I turn it off, take it apart and forget about it til the next day. Next day, it began to turn on, but shut itslef off after a few secs, so I take it apart again (that is back cover, battery, SIM and sd, I dont have the screwdrivers to go further), cleaned what I could with alcohol, let it vent in front of a fan for a few hours, then in a bowl of rice for 2 days, no good.
So I got an extra phone and let it sit for more than a month. The other day I decided to give it another try and voila! it worked, had to be dry by now! used it for a day, left it charging, when I came back, it was off again, unresponsive. I have an extra battery, so I got one of those universal battery chargers, because I though the problem could be the phone not charging the battery. It was (even when the light turns on red and it says charging and all). So, first weird thing, light turns on red, screen says charging, but USB wont wont actually charge the battery if it is somewhere below.. 70% maybe, it does charge if it is lets say about 80% or above.
I used it like this for a week or so, and now, when I turn it on, after the bootscreen and the initial loop, the phone now powers itself off (with the text "turning off" -or whatever it says- and vibrating and all), even with the battery full. Tried with both batteries full, plugged in the usb (the light is green when full, and will even charge), erased battery stats (recovery works fine) but the damn thing wont load android properly!
Any ideas what might be causing this? it should be dry by now (its been like 2 months already and I let it vent and used the rice method), it doesnt smell funny (you know, like burnt, like when sth short circuits).
btw, also tried flashing the ROM again (i always have a couple in the sd just in case) and didn't work neither, does exactly the same.
i know it is a bit long to read but i wanted to give you the most insight i could. i know that it works! it did a couple days ago, but something got screwed with the startup and i dont know what it is!
update: so today i tried again, to my surprise, it showed me the first-use android intro, and i could use it, but wen i was about to finish setting it up, it shut off
time for a new phone!
You need a new Phone.
aaawww cmooon, heh, yeah, i know, but it aint easy to just "change the phone", i mean, i already have, but im using a crappy phone, and i wouldnt buy anything lower than the dream, but these things arent cheap here you know? you might get them for free sometimes with a contract, not around here we dont.
I think the problem is the no-charging issue, because i believe the phone not working now is due to bot batteries being damaged by the universal charger. the contacts are all scratched. i tried like to scratch them more to make them even, and it worked for about 2 minutes.. if i can rule that out and i can fix the chargin issue, all i need is a new battery, but i wont buy another one (i cant just go to a shop because they dont sell them here, i have to order them online and wait like a month for it to arrive) until i know it will work!
Just an update:
So I forgot about the issue once more and let it sit for.. well from the last post till last week (6 weeks give or take a week). After dusting it off, I took the less-damaged battery and tried my best to fix the contacts. Put it back on, plugged it, and after a while, I turned it on. To my surprise, it worked, and now it is charging again. I guess it hadn't fully dried, idk, but it works at least for now (and has been working for over a week now, I think that's better than last time) .
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.
So I dropped my phone in the toilet on Friday night. Bad, I know but it was clean unused water and only half of the phone went under and for less that a second, so I pull it out, turn it off, wiped it thoroughly with a clean cloth and try the old rice trick. When I tried to boot it back up, it was out of battery so, I plugged it in and it worked for a little bit but then turned itself off. Tried to go into recovery (not custom) and it scrolled itself down to reboot and kept repeating itself. I let the battery drain, put it in rice again and left it so overnight. Tried to boot it up and the same problem occurred. I was busy yesterday so I just popped the SIM into my mom's phone and took off so that I could deal with it later. I took it to T-mobile this morning and they're asking for $180 to fix it. I was wondering if there was something I could do myself to fix it.
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So I dropped my phone in the toilet on Friday night. Bad, I know but it was clean unused water and only half of the phone went under and for less that a second, so I pull it out, turn it off, wiped it thoroughly with a clean cloth and try the old rice trick. When I tried to boot it back up, it was out of battery so, I plugged it in and it worked for a little bit but then turned itself off. Tried to go into recovery (not custom) and it scrolled itself down to reboot and kept repeating itself. I let the battery drain, put it in rice again and left it so overnight. Tried to boot it up and the same problem occurred. I was busy yesterday so I just popped the SIM into my mom's phone and took off so that I could deal with it later. I took it to T-mobile this morning and they're asking for $180 to fix it. I was wondering if there was something I could do myself to fix it.
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yeah buy new one, hte phone only cost $99 new.