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Fuze battery + water = horrible battery life?

I recently dropped my phone into the toilet where it stayed for about 2-3 seconds. After that i pulled the battery, sim card, sd card and the other parts and let them dry for the better part of a day. When I put everything back it worked fine with the exception of the vol dwn button being activated when i press vol up. After a few days I am noticing the phone is barely holing a charge. It was off the charger for 2 hours and went from 100% - 66% (1 or 2 phone calls and a few internet pages). Should I replace my battery or is it my phone being messed up?

Not even worth troubleshooting. Just get a replacement from AT&T. Be sure to not tell them that you dropped it in the toilet

behrouz said:
Not even worth troubleshooting. Just get a replacement from AT&T. Be sure to not tell them that you dropped it in the toilet
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Isn't there a water sensor sticker on the phone somewhere? Im pretty sure the tab on battery is red too...

i hope u got that sweet insurance.... 125 replaces anything!!!

I think I might try getting a new battery..since the water sensor is there for some reason...

that will not solve your problem. there's another water sticker inside the phone right behind the usb-socket under the back cover...

lordsilent said:
I recently dropped my phone into the toilet where it stayed for about 2-3 seconds. After that i pulled the battery, sim card, sd card and the other parts and let them dry for the better part of a day. When I put everything back it worked fine with the exception of the vol dwn button being activated when i press vol up. After a few days I am noticing the phone is barely holing a charge. It was off the charger for 2 hours and went from 100% - 66% (1 or 2 phone calls and a few internet pages). Should I replace my battery or is it my phone being messed up?
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If you can't exchange it then I would replace the battery. Chances are that it shorted out briefly and probably fried a few cells in the battery.

if the fuze does go in the toilet is it a good idea to flush it with rubbing alcohol to flush out the water and also cuz alcohol evaporates quickly? would that have saved it?

i saved serveral cellphones from certain death with the following steps:
immediately take out the battery (obvious)
dissassemble the whole phone (even the smallest pieces!!!) and flush everything with isopropyl alcohol
put the mainboard and other circuit boards in a bowl with alcohol and leave it alone for some hours
dry the circuit boards with a cloth and put them on a radiator for 24 hours
reassemble the phone and if you're lucky it will work again
i even got phones to work again which took a bath in beer and softdrinks...

Another trick that I have heard is to put it in a bowl of uncooked rice. The rice should absorb any moisture that is around it. I've never had to do it, but it seems like it would work.
Also, be careful with isopropyl alcohol if you use it. Make sure it's the highest concentration you can get. There is a lot of water (50%) in the "cheap" stuff. If you look around you can get 70% alcohol. You can't really get 100% unless you work in a lab...it tends to burst into flames at 70 degrees F.

Howler82 said:
You can't really get 100% unless you work in a lab...it tends to burst into flames at 70 degrees F.
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At room temperature? Not without a source of ignition - I work in a lab and haven't had any problems with that. It is, of course, highly flammable though. You wouldn't necessarily want to use absolute (100%) ethanol though, as, unlike 96% ethanol, as it often contains benzene, which isn't especially pleasant.
Someone I work with recently spilled wine on their MacBook and tried to recover it by flooding the machine with ethanol the next day, but since it was turned on at the time it seems that it shorted immediately and the damage was done. Maybe my old Psion Revo could have been saved from a fall in a puddle which it initially survived, though.
Either way, replacing the battery would be the obvious first thing to do if it's otherwise working fine (bar the volume controls). If it's shorting somewhere nonessential that could feasibly drain the battery fast as well, though?

Fuze Problem (Help)

My Fuze got a wet.
I shook out the water
I powered it on. It came on and everything.
It reset itself.
Then I played with it for a while.
Everything seemed fine until I hit the power button. The screen turned off.
I pressed it again and it wouldn't turn on.
Nothing gets the phone back on at this stage, except taking the battery out and powering up again.
I then decided to do the bowl of rice thing and let it sit for about 7 hours.
It is still the same. If I press the power button at the top of device, it turns off.
If I press it quickly after, it turns back on but if I wait a while, lets say 3-5 seconds, it doesn't turn back on.
Also, the water damage sticker has turned light pink, like 65% of it.

any suggestions

I'm afraid there is probably no help. Even if the water dried completely before turning it back on the impurities in the water probably will cause problems.
I had one drop in some water. Powered it off, disassembled it and dried completely. I let it sit for 8 hours, reassembled it and powered it on. It worked for a couple of hours.
Luckily I had insurance on it.

oh ok
what about warranty, i am still covered
the little white box is still white but mostly pink

its kinda crazii that it turns on and everything works
its just that if i turn off the phone or it turns off automatically due to the power settings, it can't turn on.
the soft reset doesn't work and the power buttton atop the phone doesnt work either

w0w!!!
i just powered on my waater damaged 8525 from 2 yrs ago (had a tilt & fuze since) & it works!!!
b4 it would turn on but the screen wouldnt work
you would have to position it @ a certain angle in order to make anything out
it works now, besides needing to hooked up to the charger in order to load up
fuze is still sitting in a bowl of rice
any more ideas, suggestions...etc

ok, i just realizedthat the soft reset button @ da bottom doesnt function @ all
any idea on how to go about fixing this??
itsjust the screen doesnt come back on but device isnt off because the scroll wheel lights still show up
but it shouldnt because the device isnt charging

Can you warranty a device if the sticker is partially pink?

You can try the warranty, but when they see the water sticker is colored, you're likely to be charged for the cost of the phone. Water won't be covered by warranty, only insurance.
If you want to avoid replacing the phone at your cost, then about the only thing I can think of doing is pulling the battery out and cleaning it thouroughly with distilled water (in other words, another dunking). Do that 2-3 times with fresh distilled water to get rid of as many impurities from the other water as you can. Then let it dry for 24-48 hours (getting some dessicants wouldn't hurt to suck out as much water as you can). Then put a battery in and see what happens.
Odds aren't good this will improve things, but it's possible. It's more likely you'll need to get your hands on a new phone.

You could also try to find a broken fuze online, maybe eBay, but no water damage, and swap stickers.

thanks guys
do the silica packs count?
how would you go about switching the stickers?
is there a particular part i can switch from a used fuze to fix my problem?

wutitizshorty said:
thanks guys
do the silica packs count?
how would you go about switching the stickers?
is there a particular part i can switch from a used fuze to fix my problem?
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For the sticker, just carefully take it off a different Fuze, hell maybe even a different phone as long as the sticker fits. Take off the pink one on your Fuze and glue on the new one. Should be good as new.
As for swapping parts, it would probably be too much money and trouble to do that, that'll void your warranty right there anyways and there's a chance you'll never assemble the phone back perfectly. Trust me, it has happened to me a lot when I thought I could swap parts.

I've seen a friend of mine do something with one he got wet that actually worked ... he dipped his entire phone in a bowl of rubbing alochol for a few seconds - the pulled it back out & let it dry out for about 24 hours and it's worked. Obviously take the battery out when you do that....

kinda scared about the rubbing alcohol because the phone works for the most part, just not the reset button
i have other devices so im gonna try the sticker swap for now

well the concepton the alcohol dunk is that you need alcohol that is as close to pure alcohol as possible. rubbing is great as previously mentioned. what it does is that it takes the water and vaporizes with the water. the same concept as adding wine or spirits into a soup. it makes the soup thicker and creamier because there is less water in it.. and it also can be used to fix a situation where you use too much water or something....

WET fuze! help

Hi guys, I really need your help
I was on a BBQ with my friends, when they have just made a slutty with me...
They threw me on the pool with my fuze into shorts pocket, when I got up the pool my fuze was turned off, and I didn't try to turn it on, until pass the time and dry the wather.
So, I keept it in the sun around the place, and when I arrived home, I made around 5 sections of using hairdryer, and 3 days later I turned it on, and yes! IT WORKED!
I have heard about decreasing life cycle of the eletronics when wather gets around it, so, I am terrify about it, Would anybody be able to inform me if it is real? I like my fuze, and I would not like break down it. What sould I do?
Regards
Henrique

BAD NEWS!!! you need to remove all moisture from that phone!
Get RICE (several kinds if possible) and put them in a bowl or better yet a tupperware container. keep that phone in that container whenver you are not using it to keep it dry. The rice will absorb the moisture in the phone and prevent or slow the corrosion. Consider yourself lucky

Thank you Casseti.
I will follow your steps, I have another cell phone to use, How much time do you think I would have to do it?
Because I can do it right now, and leave it into the container until necessary.
Or did you say to use my fuze and do it everyday when I am not using it(sleeping for example)?
I'd like to solve it as soon as possible, I cannot beak down my fuze
Thanks

...you did get some good advice about using the rice.
The real trick is to indeed do what you can to get ALL of the mosture out of the unit. If you don't, then in a couple of weeks parts will start to corrode and the thing will start to fail.

took a dive 2 times in a lake on the way home from an xmas party
with my x1 and my ipod touch in the pocket
when I got up I tried to turn on my x1 and all it did was to turn on the "flash"
took out the batt and put them in the most dry place which was not all that dry
when I got home I put them on the radiator for 12hours and
the ipod was dead apart from showing the apple logo for a few sec
when connecting it to usb
and the x1 was flickery and the screen didn't respond to touch
so I put them both under rice on the radiator for 24hours
and then they both came to life
as good as before as part from the keys on x1 need a bit more pressure then before

Thank you all for advices...
I will leave it buried for 24hs into a tupperware full of rice, It is working very well, but I will do it to avoid corroding my fuze
thanks

Ive had this happen to me alot actually and my fuze comes back everytime. take the battery out and do as they instructed you to do, me... i have a room that stays at over 120 degree's. i just wipe it down with alchohol and let it dry out for an hour or two.. usually my screen needs to be realigned. and i have a seidio case and screen protectors.. trust me these phones are pretty well built.

Make sure you use uncooked rice.

My Fuze spent over an hour submerged in a ziploc bag filled with ice water at a Marilyn Manson concert. I had my phone/wallet/etc. in a separate ziploc bag to keep them dry in one of those soft bag coolers, with two ziploc bags of ice in it and some dickhead fell on the bag and the icewater burst from the two bags and managed to more or less flood the then broken bag with my phone in it.
When I noticed, the LED flash was blinking and the phone was otherwise off. I got really pissed and when I got home, I took the battery & micro SDHC card out and slid the keypad out and dried it as best I could, then let it sit for 36 hours in a dry environment, put the battery & micro SDHC card back in, tried turning it on, and BAM! Worked like a charm. That incident pretty much made me an HTC for life person. I am impressed with the build quality of this device. I love you, HTC!

[Q] A "washed" through laundry HTC Diamond

Hello,
by a rediculous accident I forgot my HTC Diamond in the pocket of my jeans when running the laundry :-(
Afterwards, I opened the cover, took out the battery and let the phone dry out for 2 days. Now I've put it back together, and connected it to the charger. The "ring" is flashing, so the battery is charging but the phone itself is not starting and the display remains completely black, not even the vibration kick on starting...
Is there anything I could do? Or perhaps there is a chance to get out some photos I have shot earlier, would also be something...

ive heard that taking apart your phone and leaving the parts in rice can help (because the rice absorbs moisture)

Off topic:
I read one Desire went through a washing sequence in a washing machine in Desire spesific forum and now this?
Is this a new hobby? I mean... washing smartphone

darkman088 said:
Or perhaps there is a chance to get out some photos I have shot earlier, would also be something...
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If the photos are on your micro sd card, you may be able to plug that into an adapter and plug it into your PC and gain access to them that way. Just be sure that micro sd card is thoroughly dry before doing so.

WORKING !!!
Hello,
thanks for the replies... This morning the phone booted!!! I was able to download the photos!!! But the screen has stains, obviously the remaining water.
PLEASE advise on how to dry that thing completely !!!
I think that I'm gonna pass on the rice thing.
@aaa - YOU ARE A JUNKA$$ !!! You think that's really funny?!? Especially when I'm currently TIGHT on budget and need the money for other things and the next phone is planned no earlier than Christmas... I'm hesitating whether you're a real human being...

You can dry it completely in an oven for three hours at thirty degrees or so. I've done this three times. If you have a fan forced oven, just turn the fans on, that'll be enough.
A safer way (if you can obtain it) is to leave the phone for 24 hours in a bowl of dessicant silica gel. You'll often get a small packet of silica gel when buying new electronics or other moisture-affected things. That small packet is enough, just put it in an airtight bag and leave it for 24 hours.
The next step would be disassembly and a thorough swabbing with denatured alcohol, but that's pretty extreme and only needed when the device isn't booting.
Some LCDs are hard to get moisture out of, some are not. Leaving the phone with the silica gel for longer will have a better effect. As the previous poster mentioned, rice also works (quite well), but takes longer than silica.
Good luck with it!

Another thin that will absorb moisture is common table salt. Take the phone apart very carefully. Remove battery first, make sure you're grounded as well.

Hello everybody.
thanks a lot for the numerous advices...
Unfortunately, I have more to report...
The phone dried out and booted 2 or 3 days later, as I said. The stains on the display disappeared as by magic one day later.
Everything was fine for a week until I launched the camera 2 days ago. The backlight of the display went off and came back only after removing the batter for 15 minutes.
Now the backlight is going off pretty often, sometimes it requires to remove the battery 1-2 times before it starts working again and yesterday it happened that it got activated again when I got a call...
Any ideas please?

And also the phone keeps overheating from time to time without real load (GPS or wi-fi) which dries out the battery. But I had this problem also before the laundry

Sounds like that moisture in the LCD unit left a bit of residue and is shorting the backlight somewhere.
Only option there would be to disassemble and swab the LCD boards and cables/connectors with denatured alcohol.
Alternatively, a new LCD unit should fix the problem if it persists, just make sure you alcohol swab the connectors before plugging them back in
Someone also mentioned drying out in salt before. While that does work, salt is extremely corrosive on solder and SMCs, so I wouldn't recommend that route.

i heard hair dryers are the bomb at the screen moisture, just take off all that you can and blow dry it.

I just don't understand your refusal on using white rice. It have saved countless phones.
Uncooked white rice is VERY mosture negative. Just put layer of rice, put your phone on it, cover it completely with white rice, seal it in. Ziploc could work too.
In a day or two your partially dry phone will be bone-dry. If it was soaked still you could first try to shake out water as much as can, soak it in distilled water to remove minerals, then white rice it for 3 to 5 days.

I had this problem with my Touch Diamond. Everything worked, but while i was trying to dry it I broke one of the battery "hinges" but the phone still worked after except only with black screen. The best thing to do probably is just leave it for a couple of days and hopefully your phone will be back!

XXCoder said:
I just don't understand your refusal on using white rice. It have saved countless phones.
Uncooked white rice is VERY mosture negative. Just put layer of rice, put your phone on it, cover it completely with white rice, seal it in. Ziploc could work too.
In a day or two your partially dry phone will be bone-dry. If it was soaked still you could first try to shake out water as much as can, soak it in distilled water to remove minerals, then white rice it for 3 to 5 days.
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exactly what ive said. ive read everywhere that rice is one of the best solutions out there

Like was said before you most likely have some corrosion on a few contacts, if you have about 6 bucks you can spare you can get residue free contact cleaner in an aerosol at radio shack or any electronics store and save yourself having to scrub each contact and connector. Just tear the phone down down spray all the contacts and connectors with contact cleaner let it sit for a few then spray it down with air duster to get any thats get under the resistors, in the connectors, etc that hasn't dried; let it sit till you're positive everythings dry and put it back together. Does the same thing as alcohol just alot less scrubbing.
Sent from my i897 w/Andromeda 3, Suckerpunch kernel, & 1.3Ghz OC using Tegrak.

Hello,
thanks for narrowing the problem down.
But for me it looks like something different, because:
1) I have been using the phone for 1 week without any problems and it got screwed after I've launched the camera app for the first time
2) The backlight works when I power on the phone. But its stop is event-triggered, like when I launch the sound or video player or when I get a call... Similar events would trigger the backlight back on.
Perhaps reflashing the software could fix that?
I went to a shop today and put another battery. The phone booted, anyway without any backlight, twice...
At least the device is still alive.

There probably was a tiny water bubble and it messed with phone when you turned camera on.

darkman088 said:
Hello,
thanks for narrowing the problem down.
But for me it looks like something different, because:
1) I have been using the phone for 1 week without any problems and it got screwed after I've launched the camera app for the first time
2) The backlight works when I power on the phone. But its stop is event-triggered, like when I launch the sound or video player or when I get a call... Similar events would trigger the backlight back on.
Perhaps reflashing the software could fix that?
I went to a shop today and put another battery. The phone booted, anyway without any backlight, twice...
At least the device is still alive.
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remove the back cover and battery from the phone, and put everyting in a bowl of rice for a day,. should fix everything,

XXCoder said:
There probably was a tiny water bubble and it messed with phone when you turned camera on.
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Either that or a short in the cameras circuit from corrosion, either way i'd pull it apart before it gets worse and check it out.
Sent from my i897 w/Andromeda 3, Suckerpunch kernel, & 1.3Ghz OC using Tegrak.

Water Damaged Phone, Help!

Hey!
So On Saturday I dropped my phone down the toilet by accident, i removed it from the toilet, after about 5-10 seconds, and it was still on, it seemed fine, so I was like ohh okay...i dried it ect ect and it was working fine, but some parts of the touch wasn't working so I left it on as i could not switch it off. On that night i dried it with the hair dryer as well, didn't work, so wrapped it in a towel and but it in the boiler cubard to keep warm for around 12 hours maybe more...tried to switch it on and it didn't work again.
the day later (Sunday) decided to take it apart, and dry the insides, still wasn't working, but the notification light is on and sometimes flickers so i slept with it under my pillow as it would keep warm over night, on Monday, i put the charger in and the screen came on to that battery charging screen for around 5-6 seconds and it said it was on 0%....the notification light was still on.
I Put the phone in some rice in a box, wrapped it in a towel and left it in the boiler cubard again until Wednesday, afternoon....
what can i do?? will this work?? how much would it cost to get fixed?
is the touch screen broke? do i need new battery? ect ect
THANKS!

Best thing to do if you get a phone wet is turn it off and leave it off for at least a week. The problem is that moisture gets inside the phone itself and just takes time to evaporate. If you turn it on or leave it on after water gets in you run the risk of shorting something out and killing the phone (which is what sounds like happened). As far as repairing it is concerned, might as well get a new one, it'll cost less.

your phone should survive just give it some time in the rice, my brothers samsung ace went through something similar and he put it in rice and it was fine after a day buried in it, there is videos of the moto g submerged in water for a while and still works fine
good luck