I think i got water in my lcd from trying to install a screen protector.
Anyone kno anyway I can somehow dry the water up? I just checked the phone again after being in rice for 12hrs. Still there.
I kno somethings wrong cause I have "show touches" enabled and its as if im touching the phone with 3-5 fingers at once
My touches dont register cause the water is acting as a "finger" itself
How'd you get water in the LCD from putting on a screen protector? I'd recommend removing the screen protector and drying out screen by putting it in rice again.
If that doesn't work you can try putting it in rice and in the refrigerator.
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If it were my phone I would start to disassemble. Not a complete teardown but enough to get some air to the screen to dry it out some more. Probably still put it in a bag of uncooked rice. I do not recommend turning it on anymore if you still see water you could be making it worse or you already did too much damage. Be patient and let it dry completely. I dropped my g1 in the toilet (didnt pee yet)way back in the day. Immediately ripped out the battery and let that thing air dry for a day. Worked out for me and never had any issues after. Good luck.
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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?
adrynalyne said:
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
m13k2 said:
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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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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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...
Im not sure if this has been asked but i did some research and seems like every has a problem with either the hardware or a crack.
What happened was, as dumb as i can be, followed an instructions to place a screen protector.... it required a soupy liquid. so after doing as mentioned... i started seeing bright spots around screens.... its not white or anything its just the color of whatever the screen shows but brighter.... at first its was huge... then a few days after it gotten less.... but now there has been only small spots around the edges. what i needed help on was to find out whether the liquid has gone in behind the digitizer or behind the LCD? and if this requires a replacement or just a clean up?
i have attached a picture but it might not be as clear cause i could only take a shot with another phone.
id appreciate the information.
I am pretty sure its that liquid you used to apply the protector.. Somehow it has entered inside the display..
Just wondering why you are applying a screen protector on Sensation which already has Corning Gorilla Glass Protection..
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I am pretty sure its that liquid you used to apply the protector.. Somehow it has entered inside the display..
Just wondering why you are applying a screen protector on Sensation which already has Corning Gorilla Glass Protection..
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im pretty sure its the liquid as well... but i just dont know if it got behind the digitizer or the display? and im guessing it can be cleaned....
and no its not for the protection... i put it so i dont get smudges of fingerprints on it... so i tried an anti fingerprint screen protector....
Do you still have the screen protector on in picture? Reason I'm asking is because I use the same kind of protector and before it fully dies it looks just like That then dries Crystle clear. Now if that's you're screen without the protector on then yes you have somehow gotten the liquid behind the screen. How far behind I don't know.
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Do you still have the screen protector on in picture? Reason I'm asking is because I use the same kind of protector and before it fully dies it looks just like That then dries Crystle clear. Now if that's you're screen without the protector on then yes you have somehow gotten the liquid behind the screen. How far behind I don't know.
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No the picture was taken without the screen protector....
that's where I am having trouble figuring out.... cause I don't wanna dessasemble the device and find out its not behind the digitizer.... and not sure if I would need a new one either
You can try taking the back off and putting the phone in a bag of rice. This will absorb the moisture. It does take some time but really works. Awhile back I dropped my device in the wet mud and I removed the back placed in the bag of dry rice and the rice absorbed the extra moisture and my device was good as new. It really works but be patient with it because it takes a bit of time. I think it might be worth a try in your case to see if the rice can absorb this moisture before you go and dismantle the phone. It's worth a shot. It worked for me and I had mud and wet all in my device it was awful. I cleaned the mud off and put in rice without the back and battery of course and sure enough it absorbed the rest of the water. It was even in the screen area. Hopefully the rice will draw out that excess moisture. It can't hurt to give it a try. Then if no joy you will have to dismantle the device.but do give the rice a try. It's not fast acting in fact in my case it took several days but it does work. Hopefully this will work for you. Like I said it's at least worth a try. Best of luck and hopefully this fixes your issue. Keep us posted and in a few days let us know if the rice worked. Best wishes
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So, my girlfriend had her Moto G in her purse and a water bottle opened and got her phone wet. I completely. disassembled the phone and dried everything out with a hair dryer. There is still a section of the screen that has a weird mark on it and the screen will appear to flicker every so often. I know for a fact the connection is dry so what else could it be? She's using my Nexus 4 for now. Eeeekkk. She's clumsy and that phone is glass all around!!!
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So, my girlfriend had her Moto G in her purse and a water bottle opened and got her phone wet. I completely. disassembled the phone and dried everything out with a hair dryer. There is still a section of the screen that has a weird mark on it and the screen will appear to flicker every so often. I know for a fact the connection is dry so what else could it be? She's using my Nexus 4 for now. Eeeekkk. She's clumsy and that phone is glass all around!!!
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spot could be because water maybe got into the lcd itself? Or maybe the digitizer is right up against it
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spot could be because water maybe got into the lcd itself? Or maybe the digitizer is right up against it
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Thanks. Any way to fix?
it's probably because you used a hair dryer to dry the phone
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So, my girlfriend had her Moto G in her purse and a water bottle opened and got her phone wet. I completely. disassembled the phone and dried everything out with a hair dryer. There is still a section of the screen that has a weird mark on it and the screen will appear to flicker every so often. I know for a fact the connection is dry so what else could it be? She's using my Nexus 4 for now. Eeeekkk. She's clumsy and that phone is glass all around!!!
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In theory it can be fixed, but it's very hard to do and you may end up destroying the lcd. You may have gotten water between the layers of the lcd and it won't dry easy and even if it does it will probably stay as a permanent blob due to the minerals in the water.
The way to fix it is to open the lcd itself and separate the layers until you reach the blob, then wash it gently with 99% alcohol and dry gently with warm air. I've done this several times, but few it didn't end well, depends on the lcd itself.
My advice is to disassemble the phone and leave it in an open-air bag of rice and leave in in a warm place for 3 days or so.
As a last resort you can try what I said above, just make sure to note how the layers were put and which side, so you don't mess it that way.
Good luck.
It's weird. I woke up today and it was completely gone. Either the drop of water that was in there migrated to somewhere else in the phone, or it evaporated. Thanks for the help.
So I put my phone on the kitchen counter not realizing it was slightly wet, I went to pick it up and it looked like this. Seems like water damage, but touchscreen works fine in all areas. Phone is currently in a bag of rice. Anything I can do about this?
I should add that left my phone screen down with a case and screen protector. However when I went to take of the case the inside of the back of the case was slightly wet.
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So I put my phone on the kitchen counter not realizing it was slightly wet, I went to pick it up and it looked like this. Seems like water damage, but touchscreen works fine in all areas. Phone is currently in a bag of rice. Anything I can do about this?
I should add that left my phone screen down with a case and screen protector. However when I went to take of the case the inside of the back of the case was slightly wet.
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Yep it is. You're doing the right thing with the dry rice though. Since your warranty is already voided technically you may consider taking it apart to let it dry out better.
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Yep it is. You're doing the right thing with the dry rice though. Since your warranty is already voided technically you may consider taking it apart to let it dry out better.
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If I wanted to replace this it would be the digitizer right? My concern is that If my phone does end up working properly after a few days or so, that color separation would look so weird.
EDIT: After deciding to turn the phone in after 30 hours in rice, the colors started to return to normal after another day to where screen is back to normal.