Today I was so bored so I decided to finally "destroy" my little and old friend what got wet in a pool and the rice trick didn't save it.
Just one time launched to the ground I decided to put it charging and see if it is alive, big was my surprise when the led turn on and the phone start charging, I waited for an hour and then tried to turn on the phone. The phone vibrates like before and with I was like "omg it is alive and working" but the screen never turned on. After that I just tried for last hope and put it my SIM card to the phone. I call it and the phone ringed and all.
With that, Can I asume that the screen isn't working but the phone works fine?
I also tried taking pictures with holding the key and after just press but the click didn't sound, sorry if this is in the wrong place, I never expected this and eventually I don't know how to post it
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After my issues with my One X, my daughter looks to have bricked her One S after dropping her phone in the sink....
Early on Saturday morning my daughter ran through shouting that her One S had just fallen from her pocket and landed in the sink. It was in the water just a second or two. She brought it straight through to me and it was working fine, but the phone was on a constant vibrate. I pulled the sim, and removed the top and bottom cover, and got the hairdryer out. I dried it on cold for 30 minutes (no heat at all) and put it straight in a sealed tupperware box of rice in the boiler cupboard. I had expected to pull it out this lunch time (a full 48 hours later) expecting it to be fine, but after plugging it in to charge on the mains for 4 hours, it wont boot.
At the moment it flashes green and red when on charge, but this disappears when it is removed from charge. This is the same whether it is charged via USB or mains.
When I first tried to start it up, the screen flashed around a third of the way down and the nothing.
Second attempt, I held down the lock button and held it. After a few seconds the three buttons at the bottom flashed 15 (I counted them) times and then nothing.
Third time, as above, but flashed 5 times.
Since then nothing. No flashing, no noise, blank screen.
Incidentally, when it seemed to want to boot it never vibrated (if that helps the diagnosis?)
I haven't got the tools, so I had planned to pick some up tomorrow and order a replacement battery from Ebay. My reasoning is because I have read that the lights I have flashing relate to battery issues.
Any other options? Is there any hope for this phone now?
AW: Water damaged - now flashing green and orange. Wont turn on.
Does it geht recognized when you plug it into you computer?
OK I don't know of it even gets recognized if its turned off, bit its worth a try.
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chouman said:
After my issues with my One X, my daughter looks to have bricked her One S after dropping her phone in the sink....
Early on Saturday morning my daughter ran through shouting that her One S had just fallen from her pocket and landed in the sink. It was in the water just a second or two. She brought it straight through to me and it was working fine, but the phone was on a constant vibrate. I pulled the sim, and removed the top and bottom cover, and got the hairdryer out. I dried it on cold for 30 minutes (no heat at all) and put it straight in a sealed tupperware box of rice in the boiler cupboard. I had expected to pull it out this lunch time (a full 48 hours later) expecting it to be fine, but after plugging it in to charge on the mains for 4 hours, it wont boot.
At the moment it flashes green and red when on charge, but this disappears when it is removed from charge. This is the same whether it is charged via USB or mains.
When I first tried to start it up, the screen flashed around a third of the way down and the nothing.
Second attempt, I held down the lock button and held it. After a few seconds the three buttons at the bottom flashed 15 (I counted them) times and then nothing.
Third time, as above, but flashed 5 times.
Since then nothing. No flashing, no noise, blank screen.
Incidentally, when it seemed to want to boot it never vibrated (if that helps the diagnosis?)
I haven't got the tools, so I had planned to pick some up tomorrow and order a replacement battery from Ebay. My reasoning is because I have read that the lights I have flashing relate to battery issues.
Any other options? Is there any hope for this phone now?
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It could be that the device has 0% battery.
Try to plug it in the charger and hold the power button for so 15 min.
Then try constantly to turn on(plluged im the charger)
This should help
Sent from my Sony Xperia Z
No no no don't plug it in! There's likely still water in there that could short the circuits and permanently damage the phone, if it hasn't happened already. Power it off fully, put it in rice or some sort of dessicant, and let it sit for at least a week. The longer you wait, the better chance you have of saving it.
Thanks guys for the quick replies.
The phone won't connect to my laptop or computer and won't let me access HTC Sync. The 3 lights at the bottom will only flash when the phone is plugged in, if I unplug it won't do anything at all.
I can't see there being any liquid left in there at all. It was thoroughly dried with a cool hair dryer (and worked perfectly) before I shut it down manually and placed it in the rice for 2 days. I think that I'm at the stage where I can be confident of that.
Sounds like a dead battery to me.. But just to be safe wait a while before charging it
chouman said:
After my issues with my One X, my daughter looks to have bricked her One S after dropping her phone in the sink....
Early on Saturday morning my daughter ran through shouting that her One S had just fallen from her pocket and landed in the sink. It was in the water just a second or two. She brought it straight through to me and it was working fine, but the phone was on a constant vibrate. I pulled the sim, and removed the top and bottom cover, and got the hairdryer out. I dried it on cold for 30 minutes (no heat at all) and put it straight in a sealed tupperware box of rice in the boiler cupboard. I had expected to pull it out this lunch time (a full 48 hours later) expecting it to be fine, but after plugging it in to charge on the mains for 4 hours, it wont boot.
At the moment it flashes green and red when on charge, but this disappears when it is removed from charge. This is the same whether it is charged via USB or mains.
When I first tried to start it up, the screen flashed around a third of the way down and the nothing.
Second attempt, I held down the lock button and held it. After a few seconds the three buttons at the bottom flashed 15 (I counted them) times and then nothing.
Third time, as above, but flashed 5 times.
Since then nothing. No flashing, no noise, blank screen.
Incidentally, when it seemed to want to boot it never vibrated (if that helps the diagnosis?)
I haven't got the tools, so I had planned to pick some up tomorrow and order a replacement battery from Ebay. My reasoning is because I have read that the lights I have flashing relate to battery issues.
Any other options? Is there any hope for this phone now?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27101970
Take the phone to a sevice they will disamble and dry properly , probably they will use tehnical alcool and clean all your el. contacts and dry it with hot air. Good luck
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Update:
I was ready to bleach the water marker and/or get some phone insurance, but when I went back to the phone a couple of days after my last post, I plugged it in to charge again and when I checked it a couple of hours later it was working.
it's well over a week later, and there are no obvious I'll effects now.
I'm really surprised, but obviously delighted.
i was happily swimming with my Xperia Z Ultra in the past month, until it decided to live on the edge by opening it charging port and letting all those horny water drops get into the phone.
long story short it stopped turning on; so i opened everything in the device, put it in the rice for 3 days, put it back together & BAM! it worked... well until the Sony logo it kept rebooting then DOUBLE BAM... it's dead.
tried to charge it but nothing, tried to connect it to my laptops but nothing, it's rooted tho.
Now I realllllly realllly want the files in that phone so bad; is there any hope to restore them? I'll buy another phone for those data if i have to!
any help would be appreciated.
So, yesterday I was riding back on my bike from college back home when all of a sudden it started raining quite heavily. My phone was working fine. It got drenched in the rain in my pocket since I absolutely could not make a stop as I was on a main highway. I came home and found that the phone wasn't responding to the power button but the led was flashing so I presumed it's working. I tried pressing and holding the power button for reboot but it did not work. I then kept the phone in a rice bowl (Yes, I panicked and didn't know what to do). After 2 hours, the phone was completely dead and there was no LED flashing. I read about what can be done so I tried these things in the order typed:
1. Opened the back, unscrewed the panel, removed the power connector and plugged it back. It did not work. Some people have had success using this method so I gave it a go.
2. Kept the phone to dry off in room temperature under a ceiling fan for the night.
3. Read up on un-bricking a hard bricked phone and tried to follow this guide. My phone would simply not get recognized to even install the Qualcomm drivers when connected to my desktop.
4. Tried it on another laptop and it still would not get recognized after pressing and holding the power and volume + button.
I am all out of ideas as to what can be done to save the phone. I have insurance against the phone but I want to save precious data in the phone.
Any Ideas?
sgrsikdar said:
So, yesterday I was riding back on my bike from college back home when all of a sudden it started raining quite heavily. My phone was working fine. It got drenched in the rain in my pocket since I absolutely could not make a stop as I was on a main highway. I came home and found that the phone wasn't responding to the power button but the led was flashing so I presumed it's working. I tried pressing and holding the power button for reboot but it did not work. I then kept the phone in a rice bowl (Yes, I panicked and didn't know what to do). After 2 hours, the phone was completely dead and there was no LED flashing. I read about what can be done so I tried these things in the order typed:
1. Opened the back, unscrewed the panel, removed the power connector and plugged it back. It did not work. Some people have had success using this method so I gave it a go.
2. Kept the phone to dry off in room temperature under a ceiling fan for the night.
3. Read up on un-bricking a hard bricked phone and tried to follow this guide. My phone would simply not get recognized to even install the Qualcomm drivers when connected to my desktop.
4. Tried it on another laptop and it still would not get recognized after pressing and holding the power and volume + button.
I am all out of ideas as to what can be done to save the phone. I have insurance against the phone but I want to save precious data in the phone.
Any Ideas?
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On an old phone I had. The thing slipped out of my hand as I was taking a photo at a river. The phone bounced of a rock the rear cover fell off, the battery fell out and the whole lot went under water.
I picked all the pieces up and did my best to shake the phone dry and reassembled the phone. No surprise at all the phone did not work but I was desperate because I wanted tunes for the drive home.
I then resigned my self to a longer term strategy and put my simcard in an old dumb phone I had (I still need a phone) then I placed the saturated phone on top of one of hard disc drive's in my desktop PC for 3 days (my computer never sleeps nice and warm but not to hot) then I reassembled the phone and everything worked fine. In fact the phone is still going today.
Be patent and make sure you have the phone completely dry.
renaltosonylevi said:
On an old phone I had. The thing slipped out of my hand as I was taking a photo at a river. The phone bounced of a rock the rear cover fell off, the battery fell out and the whole lot went under water.
I picked all the pieces up and did my best to shake the phone dry and reassembled the phone. No surprise at all the phone did not work but I was desperate because I wanted tunes for the drive home.
I then resigned my self to a longer term strategy and put my simcard in an old dumb phone I had (I still need a phone) then I placed the saturated phone on top of one of hard disc drive's in my desktop PC for 3 days (my computer never sleeps nice and warm but not to hot) then I reassembled the phone and everything worked fine. In fact the phone is still going today.
Be patent and make sure you have the phone completely dry.
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Oh wow, that's nice of the phone to work again Yes, I have left the phone off to dry by itself and will see if it works in the near future! Or I have to anyway wait till my Insurance company gives me a new phone!
Hey everyone 2 weeks ago I was using my lg g2 verizon model running android 5.0.1 lollipop and it felt from my bedside. Note this is not her first time the phone had fallen. I have a tpu case on it and it usually fears very well against occasional drops. That fateful night however the phone fell and when i picked it up it went blank and was switched off. I tried to power it on by pressing the power button but the phone just vibrated continuously on a second by second basis ( literally counting mississippis). I then tried to plug the phone into my wall outlet to force a boot but it just vibrated too.
Later that week i opened it up removed and reattached the battery cable and IT CAME ON!! Two short days after i rebooted the device for a new app but then it didnt power on. The same problem occured. I tried my fix again and after a couple of tries it finally worked. A week later and forgetting my phone problems i restarted ny phone again only to find out that the problem had returned. After trying my quick fix over and over again, nothing seemed to work so i decided to try troubleshooting the device myself. My results have left me baffled.
Ok so before you guys start shouting out solutions, heres what did and found ;
1) Tried a new battery and the phone still vibrated.
2) Unplugged the battery from the motherboard and plugged in my charger and the phone still vibrated. Lead me to believe that its not a battery problem.
3) Removed all un-neccessary components from the phone ( camera, screen, mic, antennas, etc...) the phone still vibrated.
4) Removed the power button module from the phone and it still vibrated when the charger was plugged in.
Note: I disconnected the vibrator behind then motherboard and held the phone to my ear while I plugged it in to my wall outlet. I could hear a faint clicking sound in a cycle.
Im completely lost sorry for the long thread but if anyone can offer some advice please help me i have no money to buy a new phone atm #life
Thank you in advance xD
Scarfex said:
Hey everyone 2 weeks ago I was using my lg g2 verizon model running android 5.0.1 lollipop and it felt from my bedside. Note this is not her first time the phone had fallen. I have a tpu case on it and it usually fears very well against occasional drops. That fateful night however the phone fell and when i picked it up it went blank and was switched off. I tried to power it on by pressing the power button but the phone just vibrated continuously on a second by second basis ( literally counting mississippis). I then tried to plug the phone into my wall outlet to force a boot but it just vibrated too.
Later that week i opened it up removed and reattached the battery cable and IT CAME ON!! Two short days after i rebooted the device for a new app but then it didnt power on. The same problem occured. I tried my fix again and after a couple of tries it finally worked. A week later and forgetting my phone problems i restarted ny phone again only to find out that the problem had returned. After trying my quick fix over and over again, nothing seemed to work so i decided to try troubleshooting the device myself. My results have left me baffled.
Ok so before you guys start shouting out solutions, heres what did and found ;
1) Tried a new battery and the phone still vibrated.
2) Unplugged the battery from the motherboard and plugged in my charger and the phone still vibrated. Lead me to believe that its not a battery problem.
3) Removed all un-neccessary components from the phone ( camera, screen, mic, antennas, etc...) the phone still vibrated.
4) Removed the power button module from the phone and it still vibrated when the charger was plugged in.
Note: I disconnected the vibrator behind then motherboard and held the phone to my ear while I plugged it in to my wall outlet. I could hear a faint clicking sound in a cycle.
Im completely lost sorry for the long thread but if anyone can offer some advice please help me i have no money to buy a new phone atm #life
Thank you in advance xD
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Hi and thank you for using XDA Assist
Unfortunally for your phone this is indeed an hardware problem and i doubt it may be a software one...
If you didn't "worked" on the device from the software side i think the better way is to take it to an assistance shop or something like that in order to fix your vibration problem.
But for futher assistance i suggest you to ask overe here: Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Or here:
G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Good luck!
Hi!
I don't know if this is the right place to post this; if it isn't where else could I get help?
For the past 3 days, my s5 has been doing this thing, where it has massive lag for a couple minutes, then completely freezes before I can do anything else, and nothing works except the power button to put it into sleep mode. When I turn it on, each time I don't get a lock screen or anything, just a black screen with the little black notification bar at the top, (this is also totally frozen. For example, if I plug my phone in, it doesn't show up on the battery icon). Nothing works, except the power button to put it back into sleep mode. The only way I could figure out to turn it off, was to take out the battery, then put it back in, an turn the phone back on. This cycle happened 4 or 5 times each day, today, yesterday, and Tuesday. It was obnoxious, but I figured it was just an android quirk, and it would eventually 'go away'. It did not. This afternoon, after removing the battery, the phone would not turn on, or vibrate, or do anything else. It has been charging for six hours. What caused this, and can I fix it?
I do not have any form of warranty on the phone.
This is a standard Galaxy s5, except:
-broken microUSB flap thing, (Yes, I know. The phone isn't waterproof anymore. It has been broken for ~a month, I was going to replace it eventually. The phone has not been near water, although it might have been affected by humidity.)
-3rd party battery from ebay. I've had this for about 6 months. I don't know if it could be affecting the problem.
-32 gig sd card, bought from Samsung, (2-3 months old)
PLEASE HELP! I can't afford to get a new phone. Thank you so much!
user-name_user-name said:
Hi!
I don't know if this is the right place to post this; if it isn't where else could I get help?
For the past 3 days, my s5 has been doing this thing, where it has massive lag for a couple minutes, then completely freezes before I can do anything else, and nothing works except the power button to put it into sleep mode. When I turn it on, each time I don't get a lock screen or anything, just a black screen with the little black notification bar at the top, (this is also totally frozen. For example, if I plug my phone in, it doesn't show up on the battery icon). Nothing works, except the power button to put it back into sleep mode. The only way I could figure out to turn it off, was to take out the battery, then put it back in, an turn the phone back on. This cycle happened 4 or 5 times each day, today, yesterday, and Tuesday. It was obnoxious, but I figured it was just an android quirk, and it would eventually 'go away'. It did not. This afternoon, after removing the battery, the phone would not turn on, or vibrate, or do anything else. It has been charging for six hours. What caused this, and can I fix it?
I do not have any form of warranty on the phone.
This is a standard Galaxy s5, except:
-broken microUSB flap thing, (Yes, I know. The phone isn't waterproof anymore. It has been broken for ~a month, I was going to replace it eventually. The phone has not been near water, although it might have been affected by humidity.)
-3rd party battery from ebay. I've had this for about 6 months. I don't know if it could be affecting the problem.
-32 gig sd card, bought from Samsung, (2-3 months old)
PLEASE HELP! I can't afford to get a new phone. Thank you so much!
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Hi and thank you for using XDA Assist
Do you have a custom ROM on your device?
If not, try to make a factory reset, it will help for sure .
Good luck!