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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x7nofate said:
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
IntiligenT said:
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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fouldill said:
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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joeherlev said:
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...
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Hello...
Sins a view days i have this Perfect square shape, that looks a bit like an oil on water (with purple colors ect.)
I can see it more clearly when i turn off the screen..
i try d to see if there was a difference in the sensitivity, but i did not notice any.
and everything els seems fine..
but i really don't like it..
and i am a bit worry d this could be the beginning of something bad...
I have a HTC Touch...
can some one help me out?
I think i fugured out what it it..
Looks like there is a little bit of fluide in my screen..
and its pushed to the centre...
very strange that this is posible..
is there anything i can do about it?
i dont know.. maybe turn it off. and blow dry the fluide ??
Any one any ideas?
It's nothing to worry about, I have had it several times on my HTC Universal.
It will dry out naturally, but a quick way is to place it in a sealed bag with some dry uncooked rice, and place it somewhere warn and dry overnight.
The rice will absorb any moisture, so if you place it in a sealed bag, it will dry out all of the moisture in there.
Hey..
thanks for the response..
Nice to know that i dont have to send it in for repair..
Just one question..
why does it need to be in a sealed bag?
why not just in the dry rice?
wont the moisture stay in the bag with the phone?
(hope i,m not asking a stupid question)
Thank!
Because you may live in a humid area, and it would soak up moisture from the air also. Best in the bag as it will dry the device out quicker.
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Because you may live in a humid area, and it would soak up moisture from the air also. Best in the bag as it will dry the device out quicker.
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oooh,
so you mean i have to puth the mobile and rice in a sealed bag.
Thank you!!!
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
-SPIFF
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.
I'm ready to cry because I love this phone so much. It has everything I can ever ask for in a phone and today in fell out of my pocket and into an extremely large puddle of water. The phone itself turns on but unfortunately the screen does not. The buttons light up and I can press the location to unlock it and lock it but can't see sheeeeeet. Please, does anyone know what I can do to remedy this situation. Like I said, I'm ready to cry. It was a gift from my brother and now its broken thanks to my clumsyness.
Wrong forum section....
...regardless throw it in a plastic bag filled with rice to absorb the moisture. May want to take the battery, sim card, and SD card out first.
I sincerely apoligize for positing in the wrong forum.
I have it ina bag of rice at the moment, no sim card due to it being a Verizone branded phone. I am so depressed at this. I mean, it's my baby, my lifeline to the outside world and now this happens!V How long do you sggest that I leave it in the bag of rice? I almost want to throw it pretty hard at the wall and hope it works but I doubt that would resolve any problems and cause only more issues but thank you for the advice and lets keep our fingers crossed. I pray to the phone gods that the screen comes back on. <tear> <tear>
You can buy a replacement screen for your Droid x off eBay for like $25 US. You can also get the digitizer to for about the same price. The screen just hooks up through a ribbon cable. Shouldn't.be to hard to replace. And I've sent an old phone through the wash and as long as it dries out completely you should be fine. But the worst thing you coulda done was turn it on while it was still wet. Water+Electronics=dead electronics
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You can buy a replacement screen for your Droid x off eBay for like $25 US. You can also get the digitizer to for about the same price. The screen just hooks up through a ribbon cable. Shouldn't.be to hard to replace. And I've sent an old phone through the wash and as long as it dries out completely you should be fine. But the worst thing you coulda done was turn it on while it was still wet. Water+Electronics=dead electronics
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You're absolutely right.
Update though :
Thank goodness I have some good friends who was able to deliver a fresh bag of rice to me while I'm at work. I took the battery out, emptied the rice into a ziplock, sealed it airtight and left it on top of the dryer at my job (I work at a day spa). 1 Hour later, put everything back in and I feel like shedding tears because I am so happy! It works. The rice wa able to absorb the moisture and make everything work like nothing happened at all.
So for future reference if anyone ever has an issue, make sure to use rice(fill the bag up), take the battery out, zip lock it, wait a few hours, and profit!
Thank you XDA Moto forums for all of your help! I greatly appreciate it! Thank you, thank you, and one more time, Thank YOU!!!
Chris.
Another update, it doesn't want to turn on now. This is frustrating. Back to the bag of rice and I'm just going to leave it there overnight and see how that goes.
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Wrong forum section....
...regardless throw it in a plastic bag filled with rice to absorb the moisture. May want to take the battery, sim card, and SD card out first.
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Lol really? Bag of rice? I've never heard that one before but if you say so....
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Another update, it doesn't want to turn on now. This is frustrating. Back to the bag of rice and I'm just going to leave it there overnight and see how that goes.
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I've never dropped anything on my phone, I do remember dropping a nokia phone in the pool a few years back. The new phones tend to be more sensitive. I dunno, i'd personally try to dry it out, maybe unscrew the back and put it under a fan, or blower of some sorts. Is your phone under warranty? Dunno if accidental stuff is even claimable under warranty.
After waiting a while, plugging it into the charger without the battery, and then putting battery back in, everything is working fine. No more issues Thank you all. The rice absorbed any moisture so it worked very well,
how do we know theres not gonna be another update? But glad it's working for you, that happened to my moms cell (which was also a Motorola) except it was in the toilet. Bag of rice and a heat lamp absorbed all moisture.
As the title suggests, accidentally dropped my Desire S in a sink full of cold water. Took it out straight away and pulled the battery, dried it as much as I can with tissue and will be putting it in a sealed bag with some rice for 48 hours to hopefully draw the rest of the moisture out!
Has anyone else been this stupid/clumsy before? Did your Desire S survive?
Ouch, sorry to hear that.
But I am very interested to find out the outcome.
All the best.
Was it a sink with just water? Or could have the sink have contained anything other than water?
I would leave my phone for about a week using different methods of trying to eradicate the moisture, eg. hair dryer etc.
Yes it was just plain cold water thankfully, nothing else. A friend has saved a phone using the rice method so I'm hoping that works for me too, bit scared as there's visible condensation in the camera
The visible condensation will always be there.
If you have any bags or laptop cases, they usually come with moisture absorbing silica gel bags. You could put those in the sealed bag as they will probably be a lot more effective than rice.
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As the title suggests, accidentally dropped my Desire S in a sink full of cold water. Took it out straight away and pulled the battery, dried it as much as I can with tissue and will be putting it in a sealed bag with some rice for 48 hours to hopefully draw the rest of the moisture out!
Has anyone else been this stupid/clumsy before? Did your Desire S survive?
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have a look at some videos at youtube. the forum wont allow me to post links yet.you'll find some interesting tips to dry electronics. might give you some ideas. best of luck.
yes i have dropped mine i didn't had a case at the time i replay the event in my head over and over to remind my self to always have my kung fu grip on i watched i fall from about 3 feet to the concrete floor the battery latch flung open in the first bounce and the battery flew out in the second the entire thing happened in 2 second but it felt like 60 seconds i wanted to cry right then and their i felt like dark vader when he killed the chancellor while yelling noooooooooo. they should make an app wit that
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just a question can one use silicone to seal the gaps in and around the phone to help prevent on slow the water in the event i does drop in the water
Interesting thought. Haven't seen anybody seal their phone with Silicon yet. The phone will lose it's looks after that for sure.
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I left my ds in a big walk in freezer at work. Froze completely solid. Left it to dry, still months later working perfect
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I left my ds in a big walk in freezer at work. Froze completely solid. Left it to dry, still months later working perfect
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probably preserved it
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Nos0x said:
As the title suggests, accidentally dropped my Desire S in a sink full of cold water. Took it out straight away and pulled the battery, dried it as much as I can with tissue and will be putting it in a sealed bag with some rice for 48 hours to hopefully draw the rest of the moisture out!
Has anyone else been this stupid/clumsy before? Did your Desire S survive?
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1st of all, well done for pulling the battery straight away!
so many people don't do this. their 1st reaction it to dry the surface then try to turn it on to see if it still works. which as we know is not a good move.
All i can say is your doing what i would have done in your situation. just keep it in a warm dry place for a week or so before you try turning it on. fingers crossed!
I'm sorry to hear that. i hope your DS could work as well
Wish you all the best. I was lucky to drop it on marble so not as much effect as dropping it in the water. Its good that you took out the batterystaright away
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You're doing everything just fine. Please be patient.. My suggestion would be not to switch the phone on for like 15 days, which makes sure that it goes dry. And it would be best not to use any dryers to dry the phone as it might affect the chips inside.
Ur lucky dude. I dropped mine in the toilet bowl while popping. Luckily it's still a alive after I fished it out.
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Ur lucky dude. I dropped mine in the toilet bowl while popping. Luckily it's still a alive after I fished it out.
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LOL!
****! done that before, years ago! but, was with an Old nokia and the hot air hand dryer saved it...(plus was only pee'ing! )
Took it out of it's dry rice bath tonight, have put sim card and SD card back in and turned it on, all seems well so far!
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Took it out of it's dry rice bath tonight, have put sim card and SD card back in and turned it on, all seems well so far!
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Wow.. Lucky you!
Congrats!
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Took it out of it's dry rice bath tonight, have put sim card and SD card back in and turned it on, all seems well so far!
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Good to hear that it's okay!
Now don't do it again lol
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Your device wrote you a song:
(Bon Jovi: It's my life)
It's my life
and it's now or never
why did u let me fall into water
i'm drowning but i hope that i'll survive
I WANT RICE!
I'm glad your DS survived that wet adventure!
i took within a second when it fell in water... then i removed my sd card, battery and sim... now im drying it... here now its night so my service centre also closed... please help me what should i do?????? :'-(
Good that you removed the pieces ASAP. I'd recommend filling a tupperware-type container with dry, uncooked rice and placing your device in that for 24-48 hours until it's really dry. Be sure to seal the lid. The rice will absorb any moisture in the container, including out of the internals of your phone. It's very important to make sure you get all traces of moisture out of the device before you try to power it back on.
open it up and dry it
In all honesty if it got a good dunking rather than just a dip ............ Just buy a new phone.
Chances are its screwed, generally any kind of water damage results in just about everything being screwed ........ except the casing
Staying optimistic. Codeslice's advice is decent but 48 hours is nowhere near long enough to hopefully dry a wet phone out not even close. The rice works a bit but the best method is to leave lid corner up and put the whole thing in an airing cupboard or somewhere else that has constant regular warm temps.
Leave it for at least a month IMHO if you want any chance at all, do not get impatient or curious remember your trying to rescue yourself from a situation where you'd lose hundreds of pounds ....... be patient.
But don't expect miracles ......... its probably screwed.
48 hours in sealed container with dry uncooked rice is more than good for a hot country like India where temps in most cases is higher over the uk
a bowl of rice does wonders mate saved my phone which fell in he sink
Yeah the bowl of rice is certainly the way to go. Always saved my phones.
Use an old phone until sgs3 is out, look at it as a win.
Yeah thanks for everyone.... I read the Rice bowl trick in ever blog.... But unfornatly im staying at outside... so its difficult to search for rice... instead i place my phone above the crt monitor and hell yeah my phone back to work... thanks everyone again...
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Yeah thanks for everyone.... I read the Rice bowl trick in ever blog.... But unfornatly im staying at outside... so its difficult to search for rice... instead i place my phone above the crt monitor and hell yeah my phone back to work... thanks everyone again...
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Well done bro success!!!!!!!
My advice ......... BUY A LOTTERY TICKET this week , as it obvious the Gods are favouring you at the moment !!!!!!
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Well done bro success!!!!!!!
My advice ......... BUY A LOTTERY TICKET this week , as it obvious the Gods are favouring you at the moment !!!!!!
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yeah k.. i will do it... LOL