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.
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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
First post. Tried searching for the desired info, to no avail. Braving any potential flame spray and asking anyway. Besides... this may entertain you. I've also posted this same question to a couple other forums, to no avail.
I have a P3113 that I had on me when I was caught in a rain storm. I was wearing a rain coat, and the tab was in one of the pockets. The pocket was zipped closed, so I thought the tab would be safe. It wasn't.
I did the regular stuff of turning it completely off right away, then put it in a bag full of rice for about 16 hours or so. When I tried to restart it, no dice. About a day later, it did turn on. It stayed on for about an hour letting me play Fruit Ninja. Then it shut itself down on low battery. I couldn't get it to charge at all during this period. I left it on the charger over night... didn't charge. At that point, I sort of wrote it off, but didn't pitch it.
Fast forward about 2 years. I get bored one night, pop the back off and wire the outermost wires to a freshly charged 3.7V battery from an OG Droid phone. Hit the power button... and it booted up!
While it was running, it wouldn't get very good WiFi, even sitting next to my router. It wouldn't open the Play Store app, and when I managed to log into Play through the browser, Play wouldn't recognize the device. That kept me from being able to download any app updates or any new apps.
Then the machine started running v e r y s l o w. At that point, I decided to throw caution to the wind (I did, after all write this thing off about 2 years ago) and do a factory reset.
Now, when I have the device in recovery mode, and I tell it to reboot, it will shut off and never turn back on. If I manually power on with the power button, it starts up in recovery mode.
The device isn't rooted, and I can't root it at all. At this point, I'm not even sure where the data cable is, not to mention it would never interface with a PC after the initial incident. I have, still, tried to do "apply update from external storage," using a few different roms I have found here and elsewhere. Most recently, I used Tab2Lite_P3113_RC2.zip, but it failed at about 75% complete and gave me a "signature verification failed" error message. In fact, I get the same message for every rom I've tried.
Anyone have any idea at all how to recover this thing? I'm only curious if I can get it running just to play games. I plan on getting a Tab 4 8.0 in March.
So you are using a different battery?
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So you are using a different battery?
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Electrically speaking, I'm running 2 batteries in parallel. The OG Droid battery is wired to the factory Tab battery. I can disconnect the Droid battery and the Tab still runs, but still doesn't reboot as it should.
When I select reboot, it powers down, and stays that way until I push the power button. Then it boots right into recovery mode.'
Sorry I can't help you as I don't have requisite knowledge
Sounds like you have a Frankenstein tab,you need a new tab. Time to put it out of its misery.
Pp.
Hello, I bought a Z2 back in November, but it completely stopped working after 6 weeks. No customs ROMs, no root access, nothing. It started lagging, so I was going to restart and it just wouldn't turn on (I turned it off at 32% battery). I plugged it in, and no charging light o anything. I was away from my house for the weekend, so when I got back home I tried seeing if I could fix the issue. Luckily, I still had my old LG Optimus G Pro (that i'm still using). I bought the phone new (sealed in factory packaging) from eBay (never buy from seller "never-msrp") and their return policy is 28 days. They woudn't take it back, and after calling whoever I could to get my money back ($439.99) the bank finally gave it back (they might not let me keep it, I had to send a letter explaining what happened. Still waiting to hear back). So, 2 months after it stopped working, I'm stuck with a broken Z2. To explain what it does: at first, nothing. No lights, vibrations, nothing. Now, if I plug it in, the red light comes on, but if i unplug, it still does nothing. When plugged in, the phone will have a red light, but if I push the power button, it starts to blink very slowly. Like on for a few seconds, off for a few seconds. Different combinations of power and volume keys yield the same result. Pushing the red reset button when plugged in makes the phone vibrate 3 times, and nothing else. not a thing. Pushing it while unplugged does nothing. The computer does not recognize the phone, and the PC Companion won't install correctly (I get an error saying the program did not install properly). So at this point, I don't care what I do with it, I just want to make it run something. Android, Windows, I don't care what. Is there any way I can get this phone to boot up into any OS or is my poor phone done for good?
PS: I called Sony and asked if I could get a replacement, but when I provided my IMEI, they said my phone was from Hong Kong, was never meant to be sold (whatever that means), and has no warranty. So that's no use.
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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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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.
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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.
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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
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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!