Yesterday at work my boat caught on fire (serving with the Coast Guard atm) and while fighting the fire I got wet. I didn't have time to empty my pockets, and as such my phone got wet. It wasn't soaked to the point where water was dripping out of it, just the outside was damp. When I got home, I took it apart as much as I could and set it out to dry.
This morning I put it back together after checked for any water (there was none) and plugged it in, then turned it on. It booted up fine, I was able to send/receive text messages, make a phone call, and tether it to my laptop. The only problem I found was the hang-up button was constantly light, and the button itself didn't work. About an hour later I was talking to my roommate about the fire, and told him how my phone had gotten a little wet but seemed to be working OK, save for the one button. As if on cue, when I pointed and looked at it, the screen seemed to shift a little, then stopped showing the Today page and just showed a dark blue plaid pattern.
Now, about 3 hours later, the screen doesn't show anything at all. The phone is still working, hence why I am able to tether it, except I'm afraid to do anything with it in case I can't tether it again. When I hit the power button that would normally turn the screen on, all the buttons along the bottom light up, but the screen just shows a very feint, dark blue color. No plaid anymore.
Is there something I can try to do to fix this? I had thought about pulling apart even further and hope that re-seating something might help, but I don't want to completely screw it up.
A friend of mine once dumped her phone into a puddle, it wasn't a fuze, but a phone is a phone...lol. The screen stopped working, it would flicker every now and again, and you could see that the phone itself still worked, just not the screen even when it was aired out. She buried it in a bowl of dry rice and left it overnight, apparently the rice absorbed the excess moisture in the phone and it works flawlessly now. I don't know if this will work for you, but it's apparently a common fix for moisture damage as telling this story a lot of people have told me they have done the same thing and it has worked.
Quick update, I just opened the keyboard, just playing around with it in the hopes of getting something... and I did. If I open the keyboard with some force (flicking it open hard) the screen shows up perfectly for about a second, then fades to red then back to blue. So all is not lost, but maybe a bad connection somewhere?
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Just did it again (closed the keyboard pretty hard) and the screen is back to normal. Touch screen is working normally, and hasn't faded after about a minute. I'll keep you updated. I guess the good old method of beating things into submission still works like a charm.
Sometimes a good ole WACK does some good. Few years back my sister called me, her new computer would just beep when turned on. I told her to give it a good wack and turn it back on. Did the trick. Next time was up there, pulled it apart and the video card wasn't quite seated.
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Here's what happened:
>My at&t Fuze dropped as I was running for cover from the rain, so ironical, it landed in a pool of water.
>Some lady picked it up and didn't bother to remove the battery or catch up with me and giving it back.
>18 hours later I got it back, it still had the battery. I immediately removed it and put out to dry in the sunlight.
>For 7 full days I let it lay on top of a CRT monitor and dry by absorbing the gentle heat produced by CRTs.
>Today I tried powering it up, it vibrates like it normally does when starting up but nothing shows on the screen. It then turns off because pressing the power button again makes it vibrate again. What can I do????
Take the battary out and put them in a ziploc bag of white rice for 3-4 days then try a little boot, then it sould work, then if not I have 1 word, Assurion
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Take the battary out and put them in a ziploc bag of white rice for 3-4 days then try a little boot, then it sould work, then if not I have 1 word, Assurion
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I can't insure my phone, it's just not possible currently, thanks anyways.
I tried powering it up with a Nokia 6300 battery, it actually powers on, I can receive calls, texts and even connect it a PC via ActiveSync. But the screen shows nothing, and the five buttons in and around the scroll wheel do not work, neither does the "charging light". At least I know it's not totally bricked, what to do now with such screens?????
Most likely its a paper weight now, not sure about success rate with the battery still in it for a day. Sometimes submerging the phone in alcohol helps, but im not saying it will in this situation. Try looking on craigslist or ebay for another.
jimenezboy, I have one i dont need any longer if you are interested. Its an ATT FUZE model. phone worked great when i got my new one...it has been in my desk drawer since.
So my Transformer died and I did what we all do and plugged it in. It was in the dock and off but I guess after plugging it in it booted up, which is not a problem. What is the problem is that the screen never turned off and now after an hour and a half of displaying the lockscreen I now see the time and lock ring on darker surfaces. Anyone know if I should RMA or any tips to get this to go away?
Edit / Update: Well I guess I must have jumped the gun as once it warmed up a little bit it would hold images from the last thing I was doing and now it went away completely. Was just a little worried, mods feel free to delete.
Yea they do this sometimes, but after a while of using the screen the images fade to nothing
doesnt seem anything to worry about
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
Happened for half a second and then I pulled it out really quick. Took it out of my case, turned off the phone, rebooted it, rebooted it again. Seemed to work fine. A little while later it indicated headphones were plugged in where they weren't Said uh-oh, desperately and stupidly) actually plugged in headphones to solve the problem, pulled them out, turned off phone and turned it on again, worked fine, problem went away. Went to the movies, felt it vibrate once during the movies, tried to get on it after movie, wouldn't turn on. At all. Nothing happens when I plug it in.
Currently letting it sit in a bag of rice like I probably should have done in the first place. Obviously can't remove the battery and opening it up seems to be more work than it's worth. So i guess my questions are 1) am I screwed and 2)How long should I REALLY keep it in that bag? I've heard anywhere from overnight to a whole week just to be safe.
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Happened for half a second and then I pulled it out really quick. Took it out of my case, turned off the phone, rebooted it, rebooted it again. Seemed to work fine. A little while later it indicated headphones were plugged in where they weren't Said uh-oh, desperately and stupidly) actually plugged in headphones to solve the problem, pulled them out, turned off phone and turned it on again, worked fine, problem went away. Went to the movies, felt it vibrate once during the movies, tried to get on it after movie, wouldn't turn on. At all. Nothing happens when I plug it in.
Currently letting it sit in a bag of rice like I probably should have done in the first place. Obviously can't remove the battery and opening it up seems to be more work than it's worth. So i guess my questions are 1) am I screwed and 2)How long should I REALLY keep it in that bag? I've heard anywhere from overnight to a whole week just to be safe.
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First of all in the first place you shouldnt have used it because it could have even caused short-cut in the motherboard.
Now keep it in that bag of rice for 1-2 days that would be enough.
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Okay, clean water is better than dirty water. However, tap/toilet water has mineral impurities which tend to make the water conductive, thus allowing short circuit conditions to occur. You're probably screwed as something obviously caused your device to stop working. Now, (most) components can tolerate being shorted once, maybe twice, provided currents remain low and brief. You might be lucky.
Next time, rice right away. Also, leaving the battery in is not a good idea, no matter how difficult it is to get to. Plus, removing it will allow you to perform a visual inspection.
Hello, ladies and gentlemen (and those inbetween, too)!
I will try to keep this as short as possible. If you want less details, tl;dr section at the end. EDIT: i.... didn't quite think this through
My girlfriend has an Xperia Z3 which she bought from a random seller from Germany (am UK residents). Everything about the phone was great, it was brand-new albeit it has been, apparently, been the display device; but other than that it worked perfectly. We even tested out the waterproofness right after setting up the device and charging it up to see if it works. Back then, it did.
Now, this friday (frikkin' Friday the 13th) she had some sort of an art project going on, which she wanted to do underwater. She does have a GoPro for it, but for some sample shots before finishing out, she decided she could just as well use her Xperia. Now, I was sleeping at the moment so I did not get to witness how she did it, but she assures me she closed the flaps extra carefully. However, after she tried submersing it into water, the screen started blinking randomly, as if there is some problem with LCD matrix of some sorts.
We put the Xperia into a bowl of rice and left it that way overnight. After turning the phone back on, the screen showed first "Sony Xperia" logo, then completely went blank. Just a random look-around on the Internet showed me that for extra help it would be best if you take your water-exposed phone and leave it upside-down while it is drying out. I was hopeless, but I didn't want to disappoint her so I said it would work. I was sure it would work since at times, when turning the phone on, some images did work out (like the charging icon when it's turned off and charging) so most probably the phone is not damaged yet, its just still exposed to water.
Next day, after leaving it just standing there upside down, the screen worked as normal, and normal touch functionality returned as well. Not for long however.
My final hurdle is this: When you turn on the phone (after being in vertical upside-down position) and hold it properly (as in, again, vertically, but upright-down) , the touch functions work very well. For a couple of minutes. After that the touch functionality artifacts (faulty touch detection, ultrahigh sensitivity etc) return. It appears that the water is still there somewhere, and as you hold the phone correctly, it goes down back a bit and impairs functionality.
Now, the question is: What can I do to completely remove the water from the device, seeing as keeping it in rice for 2 days did not remove the impairments from internal water exposure entirely?
So far I've tried only rice. Was bad call, but I did not think of anything better and used a bit of hairdryer at the very beginning of the issue, and yes, I now know that it was a stupid idea.
I think I will leave it in one-two more days upside-down in rice and see how it goes from there. Before turning on, I also thought about using the vacuum cleaner method of attempting to suck the water out of it through available holes.
Any other suggestions, tips and ideas? Would seriously want for things to go back to normal, considering now I do not have a phone (gave mine to girlfriend in place of her ill Xperia).
Thanks for your attention and I hope your devices stay healthy and safe!
tl;dr exposed Xperia Z3 to water with problems, turns out the damage was reversible and everything works well so far but touch functionality is faulty, still water stuck inside the phone that impairs touch screen, tried drying it by leaving in rice, gonna leave in rice for a day or two more and use vacuum cleaner on the holes right after, anything else that I could do?