I bought a Sensation on Craigslist.
Guy had dropped it in a puddle.
I made a call with it and it seems fine.
I put it and the battery in a bowl of uncooked rice
to try and draw the moisture out of it.
Anyone had this happen ?
Care to share what you did ?
Thanks
How much you paid for it? And sometimes water damaged devices tend to work if dried properly and wait before turning back on.
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how much you paid for it? And sometimes water damaged devices tend to work if dried properly and wait before turning back on.
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$200.00
I had an evo I dropped in the bathroom sink. I let it dry completely and it worked fine.
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Bowl of 70% Rubbing alchohol 1 minute ($1)
Bowl of White Rice ($1)
Brand new water damaged cell phone working for $2 bucks. /Wheres my beer?
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Bowl of 70% Rubbing alchohol 1 minute ($1)
Bowl of White Rice ($1)
Brand new water damaged cell phone working for $2 bucks. /Wheres my beer?
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what part does the alcohol play in drying it? jw
I'd guess it cleans the insides, of sugars or debris from whatever it was dropped in.
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what part does the alcohol play in drying it? jw
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it also aids in the evaporation of any moisture.
I was able to recover my wife's iPhone 3G with those desiccant packets (found in shoe boxes, hand bags, etc...) when the 24 hours in rice didn't work. Put in a sealed ziplock bag for 24 hours with the phone.
70% is actually weak, ideally go to your local gas station and grab a bottle of gas-line antifreeze usually 96% alcohol... Alcohol, yes, dries faster, and usually takes the water with it faster. It also breaks down any corrosion that occurs due to circuits oxydizing when the phone was wet, and had power. The fair warning is of course, if the screen loses its seal, you end up with residue under it. For the truly adventurous, taking EVERYTHING apart down to bare circuit boards is advised, and even giving them a light scrub with a soft brush while its soaking. You can use distilled water too, drying time is just drastically different.
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Is there any other indicator for water damage besides the one on the battery? My phone got wet. It was in a plastic baggie so it only got barely wet, but enough so that it's not working and the battery indicator is red. Thinking about using a friends battery and seeing if I can get it warrantied if that's the only visible indication.
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Is there any other indicator for water damage besides the one on the battery? My phone got wet. It was in a plastic baggie so it only got barely wet, but enough so that it's not working and the battery indicator is red. Thinking about using a friends battery and seeing if I can get it warrantied if that's the only visible indication.
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I guess you can watch this video to see if there are indicators for water inside the phone. Not sure if the inspire 4g is exactly the same as far as location for the indicators. HTC Desire HD is essentially the same phone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfatoeWbMRk&feature=related
My phone took a swim with me in a pool when I got pushed in. I immediately took it out of my pocket and handed it off to a person standing by. They disasembled it had it sit out in the sun to dry. Unfortunately, it could not be saved. It must have short circuited as soon as it hit the water. Thankfully, I had insurance on it. When I called the 800 number to file a claim, I told then it sustained water damage. They never asked me to look at any indicators. They took my word for it and processed my claim. But it may be a different procedure for warranty.
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Thanks for that video link. I didn't see anything conspicuous that looked like an indicator. I guess I'll just have to try it and see.
Well I powered the phone up yesterday after letting it sit in a bag of rice for 24 hours. It powered up and went to the CM7 boot animation but I saw that there was water under the screen so I pulled the battery. Letting it sit for a few more days in the rice, in my truck so it gets nice and toasty and hopefully the water will evaporate.
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Well I powered the phone up yesterday after letting it sit in a bag of rice for 24 hours. It powered up and went to the CM7 boot animation but I saw that there was water under the screen so I pulled the battery. Letting it sit for a few more days in the rice, in my truck so it gets nice and toasty and hopefully the water will evaporate.
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Try to avoid direct sunlight to the LCD screen for a long period of time. The suns UV rays can damage it over time. Just a heads up..
I have read in the past with iPhone's sustaining water damage that people would soak it in rubbing alcohol to remove water, and replace the battery, and have it working fine, not sure on the credibility of this but maybe something you should look into?
Also, a few years ago I had an LG flip phone that was in my pocket during an unplanned swim(got pushed in by a drunk friend who thought I had changed) the phone was dead for a long time, but about a month later it booted up fine and worked perfectly for another year, after a year the only remnants of water damage was a speaker that was starting to blow
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Drop of bleach on Q-tip will fix red indicators.
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Drop of bleach on Q-tip will fix red indicators.
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lol while i don't condone things like this, it sort of made me laugh. nice workaround i guess!
buddy17 said:
lol while i don't condone things like this, it sort of made me laugh. nice workaround i guess!
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Well you shouldn't condone the whole thread then... The very purpose of it is to get the phone warrantied even though it's been gotten wet...
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Well you shouldn't condone the whole thread then... The very purpose of it is to get the phone warrantied even though it's been gotten wet...
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touche lol
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Try to avoid direct sunlight to the LCD screen for a long period of time. The suns UV rays can damage it over time. Just a heads up..
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Yeah I've made that mistake before
tjb433 said:
I have read in the past with iPhone's sustaining water damage that people would soak it in rubbing alcohol to remove water, and replace the battery, and have it working fine, not sure on the credibility of this but maybe something you should look into?
Also, a few years ago I had an LG flip phone that was in my pocket during an unplanned swim(got pushed in by a drunk friend who thought I had changed) the phone was dead for a long time, but about a month later it booted up fine and worked perfectly for another year, after a year the only remnants of water damage was a speaker that was starting to blow
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If it doesn't dry out I may try that. Makes me miss my old Nextel phone though. I dropped that thing in a flag pond twice and it never missed a beat lol.
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Drop of bleach on Q-tip will fix red indicators.
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Good to know!
I know this is old but I had to find the liquid damage indicator for an Inspire today.
To find the indicator on the Inspire you must remove the bottom panel where your SD and Sim are located. Then under the FC and Bluetooth logo and under the plastic there is a square -- that square is the liquid damage indicator.
Unfortunetly you can not bleach it without removing the void stickers and using a mini star hex screwdriver and taking the phone apart.
If this helps thank me please
I suppose no one would know if taking the back off the atrix would void it's warranty? I don't see any warranty void stickers on any screws. Hopefully there isn't screws under the sticker under the battery.
By the way the bleach doesn't seem to work at all on these new phones. Unless I'm doing something wrong? I don't condone this either just a thought.. any feedback?
I put about 10 drops in total after each drop sitting in the sun drying for 10 minutes each time. Didn't change it at all.
okay, i soaked my phone in isopropyl alcohol, then placed it into damprid (a descant, like rice) for almost 52 hours now, the phone functions properly, my speaker will not work, and there is water between my digitizer and lcd.
I am going to place it back in the descant for now, but ive seen no improvement in the amount of liquid between the digitizer and lcd as of yet so it's doubtful i will.
I would like to take my digitizer off and attempt to remove the excess water. ideas? I do have alot of experience in working on small electronics (i fix computers and small electronics for a living), ie. ipods, other phones. just not the thunderbolt, any ideas suggestions? links to a good tear down procedure?
Thanks
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Word of advice...keep it powered off till the liquid is removed, it may screw your digitizer ribbon up or worse.
Here's a really good teardown/repair video.... Good luck!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3rjgVsSWxQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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I would recomend making sure that you have removed all of the water before putting the battery back in your Thunderbolt. Water conducts electricity and you can fry some of your components.
I would try putting it in the oven for a bit on warm, it might help dry it out.
When my wife washed my flip phone years back, it had water under the screen for a couple of months before it finally all dried out.
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I would try putting it in the oven for a bit on warm, it might help dry it out.
When my wife washed my flip phone years back, it had water under the screen for a couple of months before it finally all dried out.
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This can work but be real careful or you'll melt it. I say warm it up and shut it down and then place it in. It should help remove that trapped water
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This can work but be real careful or you'll melt it. I say warm it up and shut it down and then place it in. It should help remove that trapped water
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I think my oven on warm is between 125-150 degrees, cool enough that I can take a plate out without mitts.
Here's a chart of plastic melting points:
http://www.machinist-materials.com/comparison_table_for_plastics.htm
I would just let it cool before doing anything with it.
Ooo not good did the rice trick already?
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Just take it apart and dry it out, I don't think baked thunderbolt would be a worthy dinner..
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Wow, thats ****ty.
Use a hair dryer to heat it up?
Do you do this work for a job or hobby?
If its your job you should know better than to use isopropyl alcohol, it leaves noticeable residue, go get some denatured alcohol and take the thing apart.
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Did you try wiping three times?
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Wow, thats ****ty.
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HA!
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Word of advice...keep it powered off till the liquid is removed, it may screw your digitizer ribbon up or worse.
Here's a really good teardown/repair video.... Good luck!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3rjgVsSWxQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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That's what I would do. You can buy a new screen for cheap, the digitizer costs a little more but if you don't have insurance (like me) it would not be a bad idea.
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Did you try wiping three times?
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lol. just shot chocolate muscle milk out my nose and on my shirt. thanks.
microwave, popcorn setting, 6 minutes... works for me every time.
Throw it in dryer with dry close put it in a pocket with velcrow or a zipper
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Rice. Wife dropped her BB in the pool last year and we where able to save the phone for another month (and get her data off) by placing it in a bag of white rice for a few days. That stuff sucked all the moisture right out of the phone.
We did find random rice pieces for a while falling out of the phone after it started working though! lol
Rice will do the trick.
Hubby left his Droid Eris in his pocket, so when his pants went into the washer, so did the phone, for a full cycle.
When I transferred the clothes into the dryer I hear a suspicious clink clank...
Took the phone apart, stuck it in rice. After a few days I tried powering it up with the original battery and no dice, so I tried a different battery and voila!
There were some water spots under the screen, but they eventually went away and you can't tell anymore what it went through at all.
The original battery actually started to work again as well, just needed a little longer in the rice and hubby has been using it with the phone since then. All this happened in March or April 2010, can't remember exactly.
Our phones are pretty tough little devices. I have been trying to get hubby to upgrade, but he is stubborn and won't part with his phone lol!
If you do get the liquid out of the screen, please repost and let us know how you did it.
hello everyone, my sgs2 is damage, I spilt water on ma cell phone ans is not waorking at all, it doesnt want to even switch on. does anyone knows any website/company which fix wet phones in UK? please help
Pull out battery and dry phone for some time..
Ect. In owen at 50 degreese celsius
Or by hair dryer
Dont try to turn on when still wet..
I Hope i will work for you .
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hello everyone, my sgs2 is damage, I spilt water on ma cell phone ans is not waorking at all, it doesnt want to even switch on. does anyone knows any website/company which fix wet phones in UK? please help
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the best thing to do in take out the battery and sim and dry them both thoroughly. Then put them both in some dry rice. can also try a vacuum
put it in rice and have it in rice for 1-3 night
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put it in rice and have it in rice for 1-3 night
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best way ! do it just cover it in a lot of rice for a day or few and it will suck out all the water
good luck
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best way ! do it just cover it in a lot of rice for a day or few and it will suck out all the water
good luck
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I deal with about 100 mobile phone users in my company. I keep a zip-loc of rice in my desk for exactly this situation. Pop off the battery cover, and remove anything in there you can... Battery, Sim, SD... leave it all apart, and put it all in the zip-loc filled with rice and let it sit at least overnight. Shake it gently, as well!
Definitely do not put it in the oven as mentioned above =p
rice is the best option for most electrical gadgets
Bag of rice is your best bet.
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I have also heard rice is the best thing. It pretty much acts like those little silicon packs you usually get with electronics.
Repaired iPods and phones with the rice method, but only works if you catch it in time
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I deal with about 100 mobile phone users in my company. I keep a zip-loc of rice in my desk for exactly this situation. Pop off the battery cover, and remove anything in there you can... Battery, Sim, SD... leave it all apart, and put it all in the zip-loc filled with rice and let it sit at least overnight. Shake it gently, as well!
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boiled rice or just raw??
Raw, uncooked off the shelf rice.
Uncooked rice absorbs water. When you cook it, it absorbs water and gets the nice soft stucture. Salt absorbs water as well, but wouldn't advice to put that in your cell. For this reason you often see grains of rice in salt dispensers (or what's it called in english? shakers?) The rice absorbs water and prevents the salt from sticking together etc.
yes, I think that rice is the best help in this case!
I disassembly my
sgs2 dry it assembly and it works ok, thanks anyway
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Pull out battery and dry phone for some time..
Ect. In owen at 50 degreese celsius
Or by hair dryer
Dont try to turn on when still wet..
I Hope i will work for you .
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Thx a lot. My phone is opening now )
The rice trick
Hi There,
Rice really work, belive me. not just saying that to bump up my post count.
Let my go off topic for a second.
I used the rice method to get condensation out of a sealed cheap diver's watch.
Just dump a laod of raw rice in a suace pan covering the phone and leave it there for a couple of days.
Really sucks out the moisture.
Uncooked rice is very useful in this situation. Place it inside an uncooked rice for a few days and the rice will absorb the moisture.
My HTC Sensation got wet and I didn't cover it with rice until next morning and I couldn't save it, what a shame it was.
I also tried to switch it on while wet, which I think put things worse and now it's being repaired by some paki, I don't think they will get to fix it...
My mom dropped her phone in a puddle of water earlier.. the phone is perfectly fine, but there is a headset in the top corner without one being plugged in. Very urgent that it is fixed. I'm going to try to and stick a q-tip without the fuzzy part on it.. maybe put a piece of white rice in it?
Edit: keyboard is fine now
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Doesn't sound perfectly fine to me. It should be shut off NOW and not turned back on until it's spent at least 24 hours submerged in a dehydrant...like you said some raw white rice. Leave it closed when you do.
Will try that . Thanks for the reply
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Yeah, never give a wet electronic power. White rice for a day or so and hope nothing got shorted out when you powered it on. And when I say white rice, stick the whole phone in a closed container with lots of white rice
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Yeah, never give a wet electronic power. White rice for a day or so and hope nothing got shorted out when you powered it on. And when I say white rice, stick the whole phone in a closed container with lots of white rice
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And take it apart, ie battery and back off and sim out and sd card out... All in rice too of course.
::Respect::
LOL...yeah, I MEANT to say with the keyboard slid in.
Its all good noe.. took a blow dryer to it
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Its all good noe.. took a blow dryer to it
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Bad idea as if it is hot enough on a certain part you could warp the mother board or other things. I know this as it happens a lot
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Its all good noe.. took a blow dryer to it
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Never do that, it makes things worse. Your blowing water into the device, it may dry after a while. But you'll have intensive heat damage. Never, ever blow dry an electronic. Vacuum out the water.
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Never do that, it makes things worse. Your blowing water into the device, it may dry after a while. But you'll have intensive heat damage. Never, ever blow dry an electronic. Vacuum out the water.
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A vacuum cleaner promotes static electricity which could also damage things
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Only thing I know to work and not create any new problems would be rice. I have water damaged like 4 phones (not Androids...I'd cry...) and the best thing is setting them in rice and going to sleep.
Personally....I'd stick with the Uncle Ben's.
Just reflash a new ROM flashing a new ROM makes the device heat up to the point that it can evaporate the water inside Haha! Just joking...
Anyways glad enough it survived the water corrosion I'm not sure about how hot the air gets blown from a blow dryer into the phone but I don't think it's enough? Although I saw on one of nokia's technicians long ago where they use hot air to melt lead to remove parts from a phone.
One month ago the phone fall into the water...
Battery was immidiately removed and phone was left to dry...
Well...nothing works...
I've read something about water damage indicators...
There are two white indicators...on the battery and under it...
And there is one red on the side of the device...
Is there anything that can be done after one month of not using it after the accident?
Thanks
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One month ago the phone fall into the water...
Battery was immidiately removed and phone was left to dry...
Well...nothing works...
I've read something about water damage indicators...
There are two white indicators...on the battery and under it...
And there is one red on the side of the device...
Is there anything that can be done after one month of not using it after the accident?
Thanks
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Unlikely, depends on what the water has corroded inside but it's probably a total loss. Water immersion requires immediate action, e.g. sealed inside a bag of rice in a warm spot for 24 hrs etc. to stand any chance of success.
I dropped mine in the bath once, was more difficult to find than the soap, but the phone is still working fine six months later - but it spent a day in the airing cupboard inside a sealed bag of rice. Now I read in the bath with a ziploc bag around the phone.
My boss spilt water on his sensation in the middle of the night and didn't realise till the morning. After a few hours of ineffectually trying to dry it out I told him to seal it in a bag with some silica gel. Next day the phone functioned OK but the screen was dead. The moisture sensor was OK so he sent it off for a warranty repair and now his wife uses it!!
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I have read something about putting it into the 100% alcohol...is there anyone who tried this?