Hello xda members, I have got a problem. I recently put my phone on a plate with the display showing down to hear some music. I did not know there was soap on the plate. After hearing some music I realized that my display was not reacting and then I saw the soap. I wished it away thinking it is not bad because it was only a bit soap and the display was faced to the bottom. I restarted it by putting the battery out and in again but the display was showing only the htc logo and then it went black i took the battery out and put my phone into a box of rice. after a day my phone showed smething, it was very dark but i could use it like normal. again it went dark after about 2 minutes. now its dark all the time no matter what i do. what can i do? the soap got somehow under the display i think. It could be too that in the soap there was a bit of water but i am not sure and the waterindikator under the battery is white. Sorry for my bad english.
Axeleik said:
Hello xda members, I have got a problem. I recently put my phone on a plate with the display showing down to hear some music. I did not know there was soap on the plate. After hearing some music I realized that my display was not reacting and then I saw the soap. I wished it away thinking it is not bad because it was only a bit soap and the display was faced to the bottom. I restarted it by putting the battery out and in again but the display was showing only the htc logo and then it went black i took the battery out and put my phone into a box of rice. after a day my phone showed smething, it was very dark but i could use it like normal. again it went dark after about 2 minutes. now its dark all the time no matter what i do. what can i do? the soap got somehow under the display i think. It could be too that in the soap there was a bit of water but i am not sure and the waterindikator under the battery is white. Sorry for my bad english.
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Visit local HTC repair service. U lost warranty for sure because in your phone are indicators. When they contact with water or even humidity they get RED. I was just cleaning my Sensation under battery and it get red, then i visit VSP Data and they checked phone then replaced it because it was really only one red.
U could give it more time in rice without battery and if it doesnt help u will need to repair it in service. Maybe new motherboard or display
I dropped my phone in the MUD face down and I used the rice, you have to be patient with it but take it apart, dry everything you can with q tips, (this worked for me) I mean EVERY spot you can reach! Then try the rice. If that didn't help you have two choices, you can take to a repair shop, OR you can replace the screen yourself. You tube has a perfect how to video on how to do it. I'm assuming its the screen not the motherboard. Either way when you open it up you will likely see the water or soap still in there. When you see it dry it with the q tips. It is a pain, trust me I did it but it works! In my case I was lucky enough for the sensor not to show damage of water.I wish you the best, hopefully you can fix it yourself. Best wishes.
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So drunk, that pants got pissed. But the piss was so alcoholic it all evaporated. What do you think about how i should make sure the phone is dry?
look behind the battery for a white tab. itll be pink or red if it got wet.
Holy **** LOL
1. adult diapers
2. Store phone for 24 hours in a bag of rice... but its probably too late.
And.................What was the solution?
Thought this phone was a goner. After a few weeks in the rice it would turn on audio only. then crash and keep trying to boot.
For some reason yesterday the screen lit up as well... Any Hope for this HTC yet? It will crash right after the radio/rom screen, it says energyrom setting up device.. which is because i hard reset it when the screen was not working off memory. It was worth a shot. What should i do now guys?
LumberjackZac said:
Thought this phone was a goner. After a few weeks in the rice it would turn on audio only. then crash and keep trying to boot.
For some reason yesterday the screen lit up as well... Any Hope for this HTC yet? It will crash right after the radio/rom screen, it says energyrom setting up device.. which is because i hard reset it when the screen was not working off memory. It was worth a shot. What should i do now guys?
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. . . uh . . . wash your hands . . .
even if you dry it it will stink of piss lol
its called buy a new phone because the device is literally useless now. if you didn't have insurance on the phone you are pretty much out of luck.
tvos
Rice is not really a good desiccant. You need to get a bag of silica gel (the stuff that comes in small bags in luggage and stuff) and dismantle the phone as much as you feel comfortable and then leave it in a bad of that for several days.
You should be able to find it at a hardware store. I had a LG Shine that was left in a downpour for 2 hours face down and stepped on. Replaced the screen and left it in a bag of silica gel for 4 days and it has been working for 4 months now.
Another totally desperate thing to try after all else fails is the oven. Set it for like 150 degrees and leave the phone in it for 30 minutes or so. If you've got nothing left to lose it can't make it any worse. Take out the SIM, microsd, and battery first!
suffice to say ... that since your phone is already useless ... try the extreme ...
rinse it in rubbing alcohol (remove any small particles that might be breaking contact). Take out the battery first (wipe that separately)
then soak it in uncooked rice or silica gel
just a suggestion ... never tried it ... anyone else like to chime in on this one?
If you do try it ... let us know your results.
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.
draggindakota said:
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.
draggindakota said:
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.
ekahan1 said:
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...
Roland_D said:
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
kirk123 said:
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.
Well, I'm a little worried about my transformer since I put on the skinomi skin, and I used a lot of solution but I don't think it went into any of the ports on the side. Is it possible for the solution to leak through the screen? The bottle of solution I got from skinomi isn't like bone dry, it has a good amount, I would say 30% of the bottle is full. I put it on yesterday at around 4-5 P.M. and today at 8.26 PM it has a very small spot of water pixelation still. But while I was using it a little while ago, my wallpaper went whack. I had the ice cube live wallpaper, and then these little colored boxes covered some of the screen, but I could still recognize the wallpaper. Sorry it's kinda hard to explain :/ Yeah well, I changed the wallpaper to a regular non-moving picture, and it was gone. Then, I changed it back to the ice cube, and it was fixed, normal again. So I was still worried and I turned it off. I'm just wondering where the indicator is so I can check if I screwed my transformer over. Thanks
good luck with that. I wouldnt mess around with that stuff around TF. But again I am the kind of user that likes no case/cover/wrap around any of my tools(gigity)
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Well, I'm a little worried about my transformer since I put on the skinomi skin, and I used a lot of solution but I don't think it went into any of the ports on the side. Is it possible for the solution to leak through the screen? The bottle of solution I got from skinomi isn't like bone dry, it has a good amount, I would say 30% of the bottle is full. I put it on yesterday at around 4-5 P.M. and today at 8.26 PM it has a very small spot of water pixelation still. But while I was using it a little while ago, my wallpaper went whack. I had the ice cube live wallpaper, and then these little colored boxes covered some of the screen, but I could still recognize the wallpaper. Sorry it's kinda hard to explain :/ Yeah well, I changed the wallpaper to a regular non-moving picture, and it was gone. Then, I changed it back to the ice cube, and it was fixed, normal again. So I was still worried and I turned it off. I'm just wondering where the indicator is so I can check if I screwed my transformer over. Thanks
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I'll tell you from experience, that even if you don't think water went under, it did. I had an EVO4G that had water under the screen when I swore I didn't have any going in. But the good news is over time it dried out. Also I had taken my phone back to sprint (different phone, palm pre) for another reason. They said that the phone has been tampered with. Aparently they look under a microscope along the edges of the screen. And I've never even took the phone apart, didn't even have screen protection. But I had wiped it several times with monitor wipes or wet napkins. They didn't even took the phone apart to see and would just refuse to give me a new phone or repair it.
As for the transformer, it's got a tough screen already I wouldn't worry about screen protection. I put some rubber nubs in the back from getting scratched though when I place it on it's back.
Ahh well all is good, my transformer is fine and the moisture underneath the screen has disappeared. Thanks for the replies
Most the time the backlight will gradually get rid of the moisture if you leave the screen on long enough, as it gets pretty hot, but if you have moisture anywhere else in your device, it's best to switch off the device immediately and put it in a bag of uncooked rice, then leave it in there for a couple days up to a week. It draws out the moisture from the smallest nooks and crannys and can end up recovering otherwise duff devices.
ohh, well I only got the screen wet from the screen protector so I think I'm safe, thanks for the reply.
+1 for uncooked rice, its a miracle worker for wet tech.
I resurrected my wife's iPhone 4 with rice after a toilet dunk.....
It seems OK for now.
I've had those boxes show up with the water level wallpaper too. It only happened when I held the transformer in portrait mode and the batter was below about 30%. I think that the boxes may have actually been really small thumbnails of the pics in my gallery too. Don't ask me how that could happen but that's what it looked like to me.
So I recently dropped my phone in the sink while the water was running. I quickly removed it but water had already seeped inside, causing the screen to go crazy and then it was just a blank white.
I could see the water making its way up through the screen so I dried it off as much as I could and proceeded with the rice technique. After leaving it there for the past three days, I finally took it out this morning and turned it on.
It works! (Well I can see everything on the screen and the touch is fine as I am typing with it right now). Only thing is, it has left something behind. Looks like maybe some moisture is still in there and maybe pressed against the screen.
Based on the pic attached, you think I need a new screen? Or should I take it in to the repair shop and have them look to see if it is just extra moisture that needs to be dried?
Anyone ever seen this before? Really love this phone!
It works fine otherwise. Camera, headphone jack etc.
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So I recently dropped my phone in the sink while the water was running. I quickly removed it but water had already seeped inside, causing the screen to go crazy and then it was just a blank white.
I could see the water making its way up through the screen so I dried it off as much as I could and proceeded with the rice technique. After leaving it there for the past three days, I finally took it out this morning and turned it on.
It works! (Well I can see everything on the screen and the touch is fine as I am typing with it right now). Only thing is, it has left something behind. Looks like maybe some moisture is still in there and maybe pressed against the screen.
Based on the pic attached, you think I need a new screen? Or should I take it in to the repair shop and have them look to see if it is just extra moisture that needs to be dried?
Anyone ever seen this before? Really love this phone!
It works fine otherwise. Camera, headphone jack etc.
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Give it a few more days and if it doesnt go away then have it looked at
chris6278 said:
Give it a few more days and if it doesnt go away then have it looked at
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Thanks Chris. Ever happened to you or anyone you know before?
islandboy_2000 said:
Thanks Chris. Ever happened to you or anyone you know before?
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Instead of rice, buy some desiccant. Google it. If you live in a medium to large city, you can get it locally.
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JamieFL said:
Instead of rice, buy some desiccant. Google it. If you live in a medium to large city, you can get it locally.
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Thanks I've heard about those too.
I live on an island and they dont sell them here
I might have to go to a shoe store and ask if they have any laying around that maybe customers discarded :good:
BTW, how much will I need?
Anyone get a spot like this on their screen? It's not a daily and a few days ago when I turned it on that spot was there. It's not the screen protector as I peeled it back and it's still there. Any ideas?
LRiley said:
Anyone get a spot like this on their screen? It's not a daily and a few days ago when I turned it on that spot was there. It's not the screen protector as I peeled it back and it's still there. Any ideas?
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My screen is fine, but it looks like your LCD is degrading or something is behind the LCD like glue.
Did you drop it? I dropped mine with no case out of my shallow pocket getting out of my van. The drop was ~ 4' direct hit on the corner of the cement curb, point of contact being right above the power button on the titanium lining. A few scratches on the titanium/plastic lining at the point of contact, but the tank phone shrugged it off like it was nothing. At least I thought so as I put it back in my pocket, whilst subsiding the shock of dropping my baby in such a brutal way. Later on I took my phone out to check my bank account and the bright white background revealed a not so pretty bruise on the LCD looking alot like this but next to the power button area. My heart sank, I thought to myself, this is it. It will never be the same. That was a few months ago, it wasn't noticeable on any background not white, so I learned to live with it. Trying not to remember it every time I used my phone. Sometime in the last month or so, I looked for it again. Checking for it on white backgrounds, and amazingly, yes. It actually healed itself somehow. Praise the Lord!! I am so lucky, it only briefly returns if I put significant pressure on the point where it lived. I can see swirls of light where it seems something beneath the LCD is providing counter-pressure on a small point when pressed. My points being:A-If you dropped it, there's why it happened and B- if so, there is hope of self healing. Sorry for the essay, it's the first time I've told this story so there's no short version yet. Lol
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Did you drop it? I dropped mine with no case out of my shallow pocket getting out of my van. The drop was ~ 4' direct hit on the corner of the cement curb, point of contact being right above the power button on the titanium lining. A few scratches on the titanium/plastic lining at the point of contact, but the tank phone shrugged it off like it was nothing. At least I thought so as I put it back in my pocket, whilst subsiding the shock of dropping my baby in such a brutal way. Later on I took my phone out to check my bank account and the bright white background revealed a not so pretty bruise on the LCD looking alot like this but next to the power button area. My heart sank, I thought to myself, this is it. It will never be the same. That was a few months ago, it wasn't noticeable on any background not white, so I learned to live with it. Trying not to remember it every time I used my phone. Sometime in the last month or so, I looked for it again. Checking for it on white backgrounds, and amazingly, yes. It actually healed itself somehow. Praise the Lord!! I am so lucky, it only briefly returns if I put significant pressure on the point where it lived. I can see swirls of light where it seems something beneath the LCD is providing counter-pressure on a small point when pressed. My points being:A-If you dropped it, there's why it happened and B- if so, there is hope of self healing. Sorry for the essay, it's the first time I've told this story so there's no short version yet. Lol
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It fell from much less than 4'(exiting a vehicle) and that was months ago in June. It was fine and it just got there a couple days before I posted
Didn't noticed my phone got one until earlier today do you guys think this will get worst than it is now?
I've seen these dark spots on several phones that has been in for repairs and all of them came in contact with some form of liquid..