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... Never drop your Captivate in the toilet. Things don't work afterwards
steelechamp said:
... Never drop your Captivate in the toilet. Things don't work afterwards
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My girlfriend dropped her vibrant into the toilet, tripped all visible water sensors, had the battery put back in it after an hour (emergency situation needed her phone). Battery was left out for another 5-6 hours, phone glitched around and did crazy **** for another day. Battery put back in following day and it worked fine like nothing ever happened.
Did you try holding VOL UP/DOWN and Power? ....JK that sucks though
shaolin95 said:
Did you try holding VOL UP/DOWN and Power? ....JK that sucks though
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dude, the water got the volume buttons They couldnt even work to force it into download mode
Bowl of rice 1 week
ninjuh said:
Bowl of rice 1 week
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It was in the water for a second, completely dry now. It boots perfectly. Gets receptions great. Works fine. Except the touchscreen is busted and the volume buttons are wrecked.
ninjuh said:
Bowl of rice 1 week
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If he was quick to remove battery in 3 seconds, otherwise even 2 weeks wont help.
Besides, it went into a toilet.
Time to get the SGS2.
bbgt2 said:
If he was quick to remove battery in 3 seconds, otherwise even 2 weeks wont help.
Besides, it went into a toilet.
Time to get the SGS2.
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Hahah I dont know about getting the SGS2, I have so much stuff I was developing for the Captivate that I never released
steelechamp said:
Hahah I dont know about getting the SGS2, I have so much stuff I was developing for the Captivate that I never released
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Ahhh, didnt know that.
Well then nothing like a brand spanking new SGS or Cappy. (AT&T will never have me buying "their" version of something again")
bbgt2 said:
Ahhh, didnt know that.
Well then nothing like a brand spanking new SGS or Cappy. (AT&T will never have me buying "their" version of something again")
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Well hey, the Cappy was never a bad phone! I just think I will go with a contract unlocked phone that preferably doesnt have all of their bloatware
Well, never use your cellphone in the toilet then.
Get the SGS2 man.
The Cappy is awesome. (after a you toss in a custom ROM)
41LY45 said:
Well, never use your cellphone in the toilet then.
Get the SGS2 man.
The Cappy is awesome. (after a you toss in a custom ROM)
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The worst part is, my phone was in my pocket XD
Sister dropped hers whilr dropin a duece hahah ****ty situation...but everything works fine
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dirtbagg said:
Sister dropped hers whilr dropin a duece hahah ****ty situation...but everything works fine
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I see what you did there....
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just in case anyone asks, bowl of rice for 1 week won't do anything to clean the turds off
edit: just a thought, a jig might work (it looks like it can scrape well with the usb plug end of it)
The circuit board must have been shorted, thats why the buttons or the screen dont work. Jig cant help.
malbolgias said:
The circuit board must have been shorted, thats why the buttons or the screen dont work. Jig cant help.
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I was obviously joking
Fun fact: Last I checked (about four years ago), toilet incursion was the number one cause of premature phone death.
I leave my charger plugged in to the wall, even when not in use, out of laziness. While my phone is connected, it's silent. But as soon as I disconnect my phone, it makes a barely perceptible, high-pitched whining noise.
Does anyone else experience this? Is it a sign of potential danger? Is it wasting much electricity?
I've most definitely noticed, drives me crazy that I'm the only one in my house that can hear it.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727
I've had that problem also with my charger, actually just recently went into the at&t store and they replaced it without a problem, no questions asked
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ughhhh, I hate when you guys find stuff that I never noticed. Now I'm gonna be hearing that too, probably.
charger is dying, unplug when not in use and get a new one asap
I have the same problem drives me crazy. Thanks for ATT replacement idea. I will see if they will replace mine this week.
kwoodyusa said:
I have the same problem drives me crazy. Thanks for ATT replacement idea. I will see if they will replace mine this week.
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Me too.
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Yup, mine randomly kicked in with the sound one day. Paused my TV and turned off the ceiling fan like 5 times before I tracked it down.
kwoodyusa said:
I have the same problem drives me crazy. Thanks for ATT replacement idea. I will see if they will replace mine this week.
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Anytime! They didn't give me the same one though, kinda sad because I liked the square copy-off-apple look of it, plus its tiny size but the new one isn't so much larger. Gets the job done that's all that matters I suppose
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rccar said:
Anytime! They didn't give me the same one though, kinda sad because I liked the square copy-off-apple look of it, plus its tiny size but the new one isn't so much larger. Gets the job done that's all that matters I suppose
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as long as its 1A, anything less and they jipped u bro
Wait it's not supposed to make that noise?
nope, means charger is faulty
May just be my imagination but seems to take forever to get a full charge also.
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bacheezy said:
May just be my imagination but seems to take forever to get a full charge also.
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Mine takes about 2.5 hours from completely dead to 100%
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Mine takes about 2.5 hours from completely dead to 100%
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I'd say mine took at least that long...before today at least...
Just left att store with a new zero charger and new cable as well. I'll see if anything changes and report.
my charger does this also! Maybe that's why my phone acts screwy half the time while it's charging at home? My car charger it's always fine
So I put my phone on charge last night and woke up to this. Bare in mind I only sleep 4-5 hours a night so it wasn't on charge THAT long. The phone was off when I picked it up and would turn on, a quick flash of the I9505 screen and then straight off again. There was a minimal scorch mark on my brand new sofa, luckily it's a dark color so it's barely visible. I'm very VERY glad my sofa and or house didn't burn down while I was asleep.
It is currently being investigated by my carrier and Samsung. I used the original battery and charger + cable. I hope they will replace it as it is still under warranty and my second fault with this phone. The previous fault was due to the bad batch of batteries, the expanded battery problem which was also potentially dangerous.
As a warning again to all. Don't leave your phone on charge and out of sight for long periods of time. I was lucky, maybe someone elses sofa and house could have caught fire.
Stay safe
Swizzy88 said:
So I put my phone on charge last night and woke up to this. Bare in mind I only sleep 4-5 hours a night so it wasn't on charge THAT long. The phone was off when I picked it up and would turn on, a quick flash of the I9505 screen and then straight off again. There was a minimal scorch mark on my brand new sofa, luckily it's a dark color so it's barely visible. I'm very VERY glad my sofa and or house didn't burn down while I was asleep.
It is currently being investigated by my carrier and Samsung. I used the original battery and charger + cable. I hope they will replace it as it is still under warranty and my second fault with this phone. The previous fault was due to the bad batch of batteries, the expanded battery problem which was also potentially dangerous.
As a warning again to all. Don't leave your phone on charge and out of sight for long periods of time. I was lucky, maybe someone elses sofa and house could have caught fire.
Stay safe
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The same happened to me after 8 months with original charger and battery but my warranty was already lost because i've changed the glass of the display. First the battery got a bump after 6 months of use, changed with original one and then this. Suck a bad hardware.My luck was that the charging module and the antena were not so expensive and easy to change by myself.
Well that's a scary picture.Especially since it's a Samsung charger and cable. I assumed it was a random charger.
Try reporting the problem to HTC:
HTC gives away the One M8 for free to the owner of a burnt Galaxy S4
That possibility is always there, but if it were a real problem with that, sure we all should know of it.
How many SGS4 are been charged during every night across the world?
Your battery was faulty, that's all.
May I just ask:
Were you rooted? Any mods?
Did you have a protective cover or case on the phone? What brand was it?
What was the last app you installed?
POLO_i780 said:
May I just ask:
Were you rooted? Any mods?
Did you have a protective cover or case on the phone? What brand was it?
What was the last app you installed?
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Rooted stock ROM. Official Samsung S4 flip case. Maybe grenify? Definitely not something that would mes with the charging procedure.
Swizzy88 said:
Rooted stock ROM. Official Samsung S4 flip case. Maybe grenify? Definitely not something that would mes with the charging procedure.
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Oh no, it's with Samsung already, yeah? You better hope they don't find out that it is Rooted, they will milk that part as they will say it was running unofficial software. With Root access they could mention the fact that you have control of the hardware and may have tampered with something in the SW that controls e.g. power management.
Keep us posted on what happens.
That's scary. Always charge the phone at night, 2 inches from my head
Omg scary...
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Brumlex said:
That's scary. Always charge the phone at night, 2 inches from my head
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+1?
Brumlex said:
That's scary. Always charge the phone at night, 2 inches from my head
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I used to leave mine downstairs but my partner always has her phone under her pillow.... Well not anymore
Swizzy88 said:
I used to leave mine downstairs but my partner always has her phone under her pillow.... Well not anymore
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Under the pillow, during charge???!!!
Leave a phone under the pillow is not recommendable at all, but do it while charging is the perfect recipe for disaster!
Heat generated by the charging process
+ Heat an warm of human body
+ Non-ventilation due to the pillow
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= Nothing good [emoji15]
If you do that, then it's a miracle that you still have your phone alive.
roboflekto said:
Under the pillow, during charge???!!!
Leave a phone under the pillow is not recommendable at all, but do it while charging is the perfect recipe for disaster!
Heat generated by the charging process
+ Heat an warm of human body
+ Non-ventilation due to the pillow
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= Nothing good [emoji15]
If you do that, then it's a miracle that you still have your phone alive.
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This.
Even though it's a small risk to start a fire, it's a big risk that the device will overheat and fry itself internally. Not with flames and sparks, but just with general expansion due to heat that exceed the physical limits of the tiny delicate components. It just takes one solder joint to work loose or one little capacitor to defect and the whole thing stops working.
I learned this lesson in 1997 when I put my PlayStation on the carpet. Burned it out because it couldn't ventilate properly.
My i9505 also has started to heat up very much when charging.
Before it was not even warm when charging and not in use. Now it is quite hot durning charge and really hot when in use when charger is connected. Before... um.. nothing. It just started without a reason.
Using stock battery, cable, charger and custom rooted ROM. But it started to heat even when it was not rooted or flashed.
Also PLEASE DO NOT TRY CODE *#0228# BECAUSE IT MESSED UP MY BATTERY AND NOW I AM GETTING RANDOM REBOOTS EVEN ON STOCK!
TasEsmuEs said:
My i9505 also has started to heat up very much when charging.
Before it was not even warm when charging and not in use. Now it is quite hot durning charge and really hot when in use when charger is connected. Before... um.. nothing. It just started without a reason.
Using stock battery, cable, charger and custom rooted ROM. But it started to heat even when it was not rooted or flashed.
Also PLEASE DO NOT TRY CODE *#0228# BECAUSE IT MESSED UP MY BATTERY AND NOW I AM GETTING RANDOM REBOOTS EVEN ON STOCK!
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Check serial number on battery. If it starts with BD there is a good chance you have a faulty battery like I did. Had random restarts, battery % changing etc and the battery ended up swelling up. Quite dangerous and very important that you stop using it.
roboflekto said:
Under the pillow, during charge???!!!
Leave a phone under the pillow is not recommendable at all, but do it while charging is the perfect recipe for disaster!
Heat generated by the charging process
+ Heat an warm of human body
+ Non-ventilation due to the pillow
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= Nothing good [emoji15]
If you do that, then it's a miracle that you still have your phone alive.
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I warned her plenty of times but she's very stubborn. As I said, she's learnt from my phone finally lol. Was hard enough to stop her putting her laptop on duvets, covering the fans...
Swizzy88 said:
Check serial number on battery. If it starts with BD there is a good chance you have a faulty battery like I did. Had random restarts, battery % changing etc and the battery ended up swelling up. Quite dangerous and very important that you stop using it.
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S/N YS1F212K*/*-*
The battery is not swelled. I think that code really messes things up.
I sleep with my phone charging every night! I guess I need to stop that for sure :/
You're both lucky and unlucky with this one! Lucky because your house didn't burn down unlucky because I leave my phone plugged in over night all the time! I hope your phone gets fixed soon!
Has anybody noticed the smell of the charger of the one plus one! Just after it finishes charging and you remove the cable and smell in the usb port! It smells funny like it is burned a light smell!
Can anybody test this and see if their charger has this smell!
Charger works ok though so i was wondering if it is the smell of capacutors getting warm or the smell of capacitors swelling!
Thnx please try and feedback )
Mr.Nigma... said:
Has anybody noticed the smell of the charger of the one plus one! Just after it finishes charging and you remove the cable and smell in the usb port! It smells funny like it is burned a light smell!
Can anybody test this and see if their charger has this smell!
Charger works ok though so i was wondering if it is the smell of capacutors getting warm or the smell of capacitors swelling!
Thnx please try and feedback )
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Unless you're sure it is completely cooked I'd advise against tasting it just yet. If it smells cooked though, maybe give it a go and report back.
batwingnz said:
Unless you're sure it is completely cooked I'd advise against tasting it just yet. If it smells cooked though, maybe give it a go and report back.
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It works ok and the voltage and current it outputs is ok! But im worried about the smell!
I've noticed it gets *very* hot! I assume yours does to, which is why you can smell burning?
I haven't smelt that myself though.
7ewis said:
I've noticed it gets *very* hot! I assume yours does to, which is why you can smell burning?
I haven't smelt that myself though.
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So it isn't burned though?
Ps: but does it smell anything pp??
Bought a9 today. Nice looking. But gets hot while using.
itsmelutfor said:
Bought a9 today. Nice looking. But gets hot while using.
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What temperature?
itsmelutfor said:
Bought a9 today. Nice looking. But gets hot while using.
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How were you using it?
Was it charging while playing games? Or just casual usage?
I've used it while charging it shouldn't be hot. I'm using a 2.0 charger too. I've done it with a case on and off. Swap it for another.
Bad unit? Mine is definitely not getting hot.
May be bad unit I guess. Was charging and downloading stuff from play store. It went so mush hot that I couldn't hold anymore. Had to lay it on down on the couch n use. @jaypeg123
itsmelutfor said:
May be bad unit I guess. Was charging and downloading stuff from play store. It went so mush hot that I couldn't hold anymore. Had to lay it on down on the couch n use. @jaypeg123
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I remember reading in the AMA thread about this. The combination of charging and downloading updates seem to get the phone heated up. Anyone else want to test this out?
It's an all metal body, so it's going to be warmer than a plastic phone especially during charging and first boot (optimizing apps). The body acts as a heat sink. It should never be too hot to hold, though. That's why I was asking what temperature it got up to.
Never had this problem so far.
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jollywhitefoot said:
It's an all metal body, so it's going to be warmer than a plastic phone especially during charging and first boot (optimizing apps). The body acts as a heat sink. It should never be too hot to hold, though. That's why I was asking what temperature it got up to.
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FedEx just dropped mine off an hour or so ago.
yeah, it does get warmer than my Nexus 5 did. but it's nothing outrageous. likely because it's so thin. I'm going to slap a case on it soon anyway.
Is the bandwidth sharing enabled by default? That is known to generate extreme heat, and is only active when charging.