Hello. I had an accident, and my phone paid for it dearly. I have a HTC Desire and unfortunately the other day I spilt a rather large amount of Coke onto it, which has caused all the keys to be a bit sticky, and worst of all the power button to be constantly 'held down'. Which means the phone is very often asking if I would like to power it of, I cant tell it when i want it to lock, nor unlock. I have gotten round this by setting screen time-out to 15 seconds and installing the No Lock app, but this is very far from ideal.
Is it possible i can clean the cola out from my phone? It looks like it would take some disassembly, but I'm willing to try.
On an interesting side note, it seams when the phone is at the right temperature (body, in fact) the button works perfectly fine, but if it gets too hot or cold, its gone again.
maaaaaan just sell it as is , its gonna STANK later
STANK?
souljaboy said:
its gonna STANK later
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"STANK" I'm not sure what you mean dude. Cola doesn't smell?
Do the usual. Separate all parts of the device, remove memory card and battery and let the rest sit in a bowl full of rice for 12-24 hours
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Do the usual. Separate all parts of the device, remove memory card and battery and let the rest sit in a bowl full of rice for 12-24 hours
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Well its been 3 days, isn't that enough airing time? and its cola, I fear there may be residue causing the issue, not just left behind water that will evaporate.
Well,as far as i know if you unplug any power sources from the device you can just clean it with water and then ley it dry again..for a long time to completely dry up.
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Well,as far as i know if you unplug any power sources from the device you can just clean it with water and then ley it dry again..for a long time to completely dry up.
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I am of the same thought, but I really don't want to pour water on my phone lol
Don't pour water. Use a cotton bud perhaps with water or isopropyl alcohol (if the plastic is ok with it) perhaps. Don't submerge it or pour liquids over it
And submerge it on rice to absorb all humidity left
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Well its been 3 days, isn't that enough airing time? and its cola, I fear there may be residue causing the issue, not just left behind water that will evaporate.
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There is definitely residue. Just clean it as previous post suggested.
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Ok, thanks alot guys, Ill try just dabbing some water on the corners of the power button so some goes in, then putting it in rice. All while the phones off and battery is out of course.
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hello last night i was at a coffee house i left my sidekick 4g on the table while i went and get my drink my clumsy friend trips and spills coffee all over my cell o kinda got it dry and the screen is a bit messy inside the camera just cleared up everything seems to be workin except the sim card port my sim card does work since i have it on a back up cell but wen i put on my sidekick it wont even give me data nor show that its in the phone wat can i do or is there anything i can do
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hello last night i was at a coffee house i left my sidekick 4g on the table while i went and get my drink my clumsy friend trips and spills coffee all over my cell o kinda got it dry and the screen is a bit messy inside the camera just cleared up everything seems to be workin except the sim card port my sim card does work since i have it on a back up cell but wen i put on my sidekick it wont even give me data nor show that its in the phone wat can i do or is there anything i can do
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is the water damage tab turned pink?
yea it did its not all pink but its pink all right
snoriega said:
yea it did its not all pink but its pink all right
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how new is the phone? maybe with some sweet talk you can get it passed a rep to get it repaired or just wait it out a little while dry it out and try again in 2 or 3 days
got it in May so its new lets hope i just been letting it sit
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got it in May so its new lets hope i just been letting it sit
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well i hope all goes well
thank you
The best thing to do with any water damaged phone is to immedietly pull the battery out and stick it in a bowl of dry rice and cover it leave it for 24 hours the rice will draw out the moisture and hopefully phone will work again but usually its best to do this asap the longer the phone sits with liquid in it the more likely there will be damage
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also just for next time (hopefully there is no) never power back on the device after water gets in it because you could fry something!
do what the post above said then you can power on!
As long as the water tab is another color, they're gonna charge you for a new phone. But as others said, the rice method is your best option.
Hope all goes well, I'd hate to see a Sidekick go like that.
I do electronics repair. I mostly work on laptops, but the idea is the same for cell phones. To repair a liquid damaged laptop I fully dismantle it, wash the mainboard with distilled water and a toothbrush, then I wash it again in 99% isopropyl alcohol. After that I place the board somewhere hot to dry. Above a low wattage lightbulb, on top of a heater vent, in a car in the sun, or on the preheater of our IR reflow station have all been used in the past. After it's completely dry I re-assemble the machine.
One of the key things about spill damage is working quickly. A laptop or a cell phone with water in it will often half-work initially. Water is mildly conductive, enough to cause circuits to malfunction. But it's often not conductive enough at the low voltages consumer electronics work at to cause immediate damage. That's why your phone still seems to mostly work in the minutes or hours after a spill.
But what happens if you keep using the device, hoping that it'll get better? Well, water corrodes metals. Aluminum, copper, iron, etc are all used inside our devices, and they'll happily corrode when they get wet. And if you turn the device on, the electricity will cause the corrosion to happen much faster. This build up of corrosion is much more conductive than straight water is. So before you know it, the corrosion will grow so thick on the closely spaced pins of a component that it shorts them together. BOOM! Now it's too late to take it to a professional. It's dead.
So keep that in mind, all of you, if you spill something on your phone, laptop, etc. Pull all power out right away, dry it quickly, and don't give it power again until you're sure it's clean and dry.
BTW, if you're unable to repair the phone, I would be interested in buying the speaker out of it. Mine has a horrible crackle that makes it hard to hear what some people are saying.
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
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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Yesterday my phone got wet, the screen is howing some kind of wet spot under in, but heres the thing?
At the edges it seems the water damage is lightening the screen, yet in the middle theres a dark shadowy patch!
Any advice is great thanks?
take the battery out put the phone at a bowl with a dry rice give it a 48 hours
and your phone will be like new (tried a lot of times)
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take the battery out put the phone at a bowl with a dry rice give it a 48 hours
and your phone will be like new (tried a lot of times)
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This. Do this.
And do not delay.
If the phone works at all now it's because you're lucky and the water didn't get to anything sensitive yet. But the key word is 'yet'. It only takes a drop of water on a circuit board to ruin the device. If you don't have any rice at home right now, turn the phone off and pull the battery out NOW. Then go get rice. Don't leave the phone on to go to the store. The sooner the power is off, the better.
What happens is that the board gets slightly wet and when electricity is introduced there's a short. And tiny little circuit boards aren't designed to deal with electrical shorts. It hurts them. Badly. And quickly. And irreparably.
So taking the battery out is key as there's still electrical power in part of the circuits when the power to the phone is off. (Something's got to be polling the power button to know what to do when it's pressed. Something has to regulate the charging that works when the power is off, etc)What the rice does is creates a very dry environment by absorbing moisture.
In 2 days the rice will have sucked the water right out from under the screen.
And once you put it in the rice, don't touch it. Don't test it. Don't fuss with it. Just leave it there for 2 days and use another phone.
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Yesterday my phone got wet, the screen is howing some kind of wet spot under in, but heres the thing?
At the edges it seems the water damage is lightening the screen, yet in the middle theres a dark shadowy patch!
Any advice is great thanks?
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DO NOT RUN YOUR PHONE IF IT GETS WET. PULL THE BATTERY RIGHT NOW.
Even if your phone gets wet it is usually only damaged by running it after it is wet. If you let your phone dry for a few days it should be fine.
Thanks for the advice, that much i was already aware of - it was the dark area that appeared on the screen.
I have had the phone back on and run it with the screen max brightness and the dark patch has almost gone theres 2 small dots that are slightly lighter.
I will see what its like tomorrow.
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Thanks for the advice, that much i was already aware of - it was the dark area that appeared on the screen.
I have had the phone back on and run it with the screen max brightness and the dark patch has almost gone theres 2 small dots that are slightly lighter.
I will see what its like tomorrow.
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It should go away completely. I got mine where it was dark all the way around,and a fairly large spot in the middle. I just left my phone off four 24 hours, then used it, the spots were still there, but they went completely away.
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Yes....I spilled rubbing alcohol on my phone. I was cleaning it and the battery was out.
I put it under a hairdryer for about 5 minutes and powered it on but there's a stain on the top corner of my LCD.
I did a Google search and people have suggested putting it in rice ???
Is this a good idea or does someone have a better suggestion ?
It seems that rice really does fix the problem, as weird as it sounds, perhaps its very absorbent as it's very dry, I have no clue.
However as it is rubbing alcohol it should go away in a matter of 2 days or 3. Whatever you do please don't open it from the inside, as it might make matters worse!
Don't use the hair dryer any more I wouldn't suggest that.
All you can hope for is that it didn't eat away the screen or anything like that.
Turning it off would be suggested and also removing the battery, just in case.
Posting a picture of the phone would also be of great help. I hope your phone gets fixed.
I thought heat would make the alcohol evaporate more quickly.... it apparently didn't work.
In order to take a picture of the stain I would need to power it on. I'd rather not power it on now....
I also added a few packs of silica I had laying around. Not sure how long i should let it sit.
Time, patience
You're very lucky however that the phone is intact and works.
Try to consume time by doing something else, check out the XDA forums
Because this process will take some time in order to actually work, I hope the best for your phone.
and NO, heat may cause problems. Cool air is OK though, but not now. Now it's preferable that it's to be left alone untouched.
Give it time... a day or more.
I have woken up with water on my galaxy tab 2 screen, I wiped it off. but the screen isn't responding. Almost half of the screen isn't responding so I can't even unlock the device.
I don't know what to do now, any help is appreciated.
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I have woken up with water on my galaxy tab 2 screen, I wiped it off. but the screen isn't responding. Almost half of the screen isn't responding so I can't even unlock the device.
I don't know what to do now, any help is appreciated.
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First of all make sure the device is completely dry, follow the next tutorial : http://www.wikihow.com/Save-a-Wet-Cell-Phone.
What worked for me was to put my device for a few hours in dry rice (yes, you read it right, RICE, the kind you eat), just fill a sealable container with dry rice, put the device (phone/tablet) inside, seal the container (put the lid on) and leave it there a few hours. The rice is a very good water absorbent and it should absorb most of the humidity.
Ideally you should take out the battery, but with the Tab2 that's impossible unless you have the right tools.
Hope this helps.
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First of all make sure the device is completely dry, follow the next tutorial : http://www.wikihow.com/Save-a-Wet-Cell-Phone.
What worked for me was to put my device for a few hours in dry rice (yes, you read it right, RICE, the kind you eat), just fill a sealable container with dry rice, put the device (phone/tablet) inside, seal the container (put the lid on) and leave it there a few hours. The rice is a very good water absorbent and it should absorb most of the humidity.
Ideally you should take out the battery, but with the Tab2 that's impossible unless you have the right tools.
Hope this helps.
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I've dried the device itself, and put it a bowl with rice in it. I didn't put the tablet inside a container, do I have to?
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I've dried the device itself, and put it a bowl with rice in it. I didn't put the tablet inside a container, do I have to?
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Not necessarily, but it helps because then the rice will only suck the water/humidity from inside the bowl (and of course your tablet) and not from the surrounding environment.
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Not necessarily, but it helps because then the rice will only suck the water/humidity from inside the bowl (and of course your tablet) and not from the surrounding environment.
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I'll leave it to dry overnight but I just got one question: Is it possible that the damage could be permanent?
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I'll leave it to dry overnight but I just got one question: Is it possible that the damage could be permanent?
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It depends on where and how much water got into the tablet. If it was just a little moisture and it didn't do any short-circuit then your tablet should be fine, on the other hand if there was a short-circuit or any of the contacts/circuits got corroded then the damage could be permanent.
There is no 100% way to say for certain, a service could do the estimation more precisely.
For now, all you can do is wait a few hours and see after that if the touchscreen works correctly or not. If it still does the same then you'll probably have to take it to a service.
P.S. most warranties don't cover water damage, you'll have to see what type of warranty you got whether it covers water damage or not, services usually can tell if a device was damaged by water (there are a few paper strips inside the device that change color when they get wet and don't change back after drying).
P.S.2 i've dropped my phone into water twice and both times i got lucky and didn't damage it (it still works correctly after about 6 months since the last "incident"), my girlfriend on the other hand wasn't as lucky, she only dropped her phone in water once but the battery blew (it made a short-circuit) and the entire phone was "killed", the service said they would have to change the entire motherboard, which would have been more expensive than the original price of the phone
Well, I don't think anything went wrong with it. The device itself is working normally except for the touchscreen which wasn't responding. I'll check the device tomorrow.
The touchscreen responds normally now but the device is kinda laggy, will leave it for a couple of hours and report back. Could this be because of some water inside the device itself?
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