Did you leave it in your pocket and run it through the washing machine and at times it's possible that your friends dunked you in a swimming pool just for the fun of it? Did you get beaten by the rain or did you forget and go swimming with your cell phone in your pocket? Or perhaps it fell out of your pocket and into the pet's water bowl?
If you drop your cell phone in water, it is often possible to salvage it. Time is of the essence, however, so the first thing to do is to get your cell phone out of the water as soon as possible. Leaving a cell phone in water for even a few seconds might damage it beyond repair, but there are a few things that you can try and that sometimes work. The main things are opening the phone as much as possible, taking out the battery and completely drying off all of the components.
Step 1
Remove the battery from the phone, if possible, or at least turn the phone off. Most of the damage you are trying to prevent occurs when the device is electrified, so removing the battery helps considerably.
Step 2
Disassemble the device, if possible. This should only be done if you have taken your phone apart before and feel comfortable doing it. This will speed up the drying process as you can easily remove water from around the circuit board. This will void your warranty, but if your phone is wet the warranty is no longer in effect anyway.
Step 3
Blow compressed air on the device to remove as much water as possible. If you didn't disassemble your device, blow the air into a port or earpiece opening to try and force water out of another hole. Continue until no more water comes out of the device.
Step 4
Fill a container three-quarters full with dry, uncooked rice. Submerge your phone, or all the pieces of it, into the rice. Seal the container.
Step 5
Wait 48 hours for the rice to do its job, then open the container, reassemble the device and turn it on.
Tips
Dry rice is most often recommended because it is likely to already be in your possession and time is of the essence. Other desiccants, like silica gel packets or calcium chloride, will work faster and if they are on hand, would be preferable to rice.
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poordonnao said:
Did you leave it in your pocket and run it through the washing machine and at times it's possible that your friends dunked you in a swimming pool just for the fun of it? Did you get beaten by the rain or did you forget and go swimming with your cell phone in your pocket? Or perhaps it fell out of your pocket and into the pet's water bowl?
If you drop your cell phone in water, it is often possible to salvage it. Time is of the essence, however, so the first thing to do is to get your cell phone out of the water as soon as possible. Leaving a cell phone in water for even a few seconds might damage it beyond repair, but there are a few things that you can try and that sometimes work. The main things are opening the phone as much as possible, taking out the battery and completely drying off all of the components.
Step 1
Remove the battery from the phone, if possible, or at least turn the phone off. Most of the damage you are trying to prevent occurs when the device is electrified, so removing the battery helps considerably.
Step 2
Disassemble the device, if possible. This should only be done if you have taken your phone apart before and feel comfortable doing it. This will speed up the drying process as you can easily remove water from around the circuit board. This will void your warranty, but if your phone is wet the warranty is no longer in effect anyway.
Step 3
Blow compressed air on the device to remove as much water as possible. If you didn't disassemble your device, blow the air into a port or earpiece opening to try and force water out of another hole. Continue until no more water comes out of the device.
Step 4
Fill a container three-quarters full with dry, uncooked rice. Submerge your phone, or all the pieces of it, into the rice. Seal the container.
Step 5
Wait 48 hours for the rice to do its job, then open the container, reassemble the device and turn it on.
Tips
Dry rice is most often recommended because it is likely to already be in your possession and time is of the essence. Other desiccants, like silica gel packets or calcium chloride, will work faster and if they are on hand, would be preferable to rice.
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Put it in rice. At night a couple of asian guys will come and fix it.
Rice! I've saved a phone and an iPod this way. Hope it works
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Viper’s Guide To Water Damaged PDA’s
This guide is to help anyone that has accidently left their phone in their pocket and went swimming,Went to answer a call and it fell in a puddle..etc, etc. I’ve worked for a major telecom company and have run into this situation so many times. Decided after dealing with this issue and reading so many myths, baking, rice…etc that are hit or miss and potentially very dangerous. Here’s a little guide that many people use with success to revitalize their wet cell phones.
Step 1: Immediately take the battery out of the phone and SHAKE any excess water off.
Step 2: Dry your phone first using a towel, wiping up anything that did not get shaken off. Now get a blow dryer on low heat and position it to blow on your phone about a hand, two hands length distance. Do this for about an hour or 2. Your phone should get alittle warm. If for any reason its hot to touch stop now. Let it cool off and increase the distance between the blow dryer and your phone. Also note, any ports that a covered need to be opened and memory cards, sim cards as well.
Step 3: after all visible water is gone or dry, place it in a small container (Tupperware works) slightly bigger than your phone. Now loosely pack your phone with cotton balls in your container. This works better than rice because it will not leave a white residue and it helps protect and keep your phone clean. You will let it sit overnight, at least 24 hours.
Step 4: Check on your phone, some of the cotton balls should be wet or moist. Inspect the phone, rotate it around and really look for any water. If it feels dry as a bone put the battery back in and fire it up. If it didn’t fire up check to make sure the battery is charged. If so then it may need some more time to dry out. DO NOT plug the phone into the wall charger and try to fire it up.
Step 5: If your phone did not fire up after 24hours BE PATIENT! Give it another 2 days then give it a go. It should fire up by now. If it doesn’t at that point use your wall charger. If at that point it doesn’t work, you need to consult some repairs.
Hope this helps
Thanks mate
Good stuff to be aware of it
It should be included on the Wiki (Is this possible Mods?)
Cheers,
Pretty much what I did for mine except I opened it up and dried out the internals with swabs before throwing it in rice for good measure. It worked for another month but then it started losing everything when turned off and after that the rom started corrupting. Bad luck on my part I guess.
Some of the problems related to pools are the chemicals etc. You want to have the water slowly evaporate hence the slow blow drying. If you bake you will leave a lot of the chemicals behind and thats when you get this weird looking white frost on in the inside of the screen and this WILL cause your phone internals to corrude and cause problems down the road.
Granted, I wish this was the end all be all but there are a lot of factors that can affect results. For the most part I've had good success, completely saved my 8125 and Lg Incite this way.
Another thing I forgot to mention is; if you have your phone ON when it gets wet and you try to fire it back up and it doesn't, Try a new battery. I noticed some new batteries have an 'internal memory' that could short circuit. My friend's Fuze wouldn't boot up after the 2 days, quick trip to ATT new battery fired right back up, been a week and 3days? now and it works fine.
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if the phone was submerged in a pool i would imagine rinsing it with distilled water would do a great deal for removing pool chemicals no?
Long as its not spring water as that already contains a certain level of minerals. The other question you might want to ask yourself is; can your phone survive another dip? Completely, your judgment call on that one. You can skip it if you dry it on low heat, very slowly.
Trv06kviper said:
Long as its not spring water as that already contains a certain level of minerals. The other question you might want to ask yourself is; can your phone survive another dip? Completely, your judgment call on that one. You can skip it if you dry it on low heat, very slowly.
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distilled water, by definition has no minerals. and pure H2O does not harm electronics. the problem is it quickly picks up contaminants and becomes conductive.
IF i dropped my phone in a heavy chemical ridden environment such as a pool i would much rather remove the battery and rinse the thing with distilled water then let those chemicals stay in the phone.
This is good information. Thanks for sharing.
Hi devs,
i accidentlly wet my asus m10 on my way to somewhere.then i removed the battery and let the handset dry for long time(around 1 hour in the sun).then i inserted the battery and tried to turn it on. No luck
then i came home opened the phone completely and sucked the water out using vacuum..let the phone stay in a sealed box of rice overnight(to absorb any leftover moisture). in the morning i reassembled the phone and tried to turn it on. it gave 2 dashes of vibrations(normal, when turned ON) but nothing came up on the screen.
then i removed the battery and again tried to turn it on..nothing..not even the vibration..since then i've tried everything from alcohol baths to plugging in the charger but the phone doesn't turn ON..pls help guys.
I'm afraid that It will not come on anymore. I don't know if letting it dry in the sun for about an hour was long enough. The problem is, when you put back your battery to soon, it will most likely cause more damage.
With vacuum do you mean vacuum cleaner? You have to be very careful with vacuum cleaners and electronics because of ESD (ElectroStatic Discharge). This can do serious harm to your product when it contains sensitive components. I've seen some strange behavior because of ESD in the past.
When you try to connect your phone to a computer, is it recognized? What can be, is that your software is corrupt. Maybe you can try to flash you phone. I don't have any experience with flashing phones, but there are a lot of people around here who have.
yes i used a vacuum cleaner..had no idea about the ESD thing
even when the phone is connected to a computer it is not recognized...there's no sign of any device connected to PC.
Putting in the battery after 1 hour in the sun was some what worst case scenario.
It hasn't really dried at all because of the enclosed space and the heat of the sun just evaporated the water into even more little corners.
In water damage cases the best thing you can do it rip out the battery as soon as possible and leave it for some DAYS in a bowl of rice.
The danger from vacuum cleaners is not the magnetic field from the motor but the electrostatic discharge from the moving air.another issue with the vacuum cleaners is the possibility of scratching the motherboard and thus rendering it nonoperative. This is more likely with metal than plastic but still a risk with plastic as well.
ok i got my phone wet what do i do i put it in the rice
I've heard that works, I don't know how long you keep it in there.
Take the battery out and do not try to turn it on or it will like short circuit or something like that.
/my little knowledge.
well i did turn it off and then back on
Put it in rice for a day or so.
will that fix the button issue
Most likely. The button problem is caused by water completing the circuit between the button and the point of contact, so putting your SK in the rice will almost certainly fix your problem (just be sure to be patient and wait a day or two).
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thank you guys u made me feel so much better
well it didnt fix it
you gotta wait a few days man now its probably done-zo
what you mean
you have to let it sit in rice for a couple days, the water will cause corrosion and over time will mess up the circuits, rice will dry it out over the course of a few days then it would be fine but if you pump electric through it you can cause things to permanently be damaged
If you are some what mechanically inclined, you can disassemble your phone so it can completely dry. All you will need is a micro screw driver set (usually find at hardware or tool store) and youtube has a good collection of dis-assembly videos. The proper way to service a water damaged smart phone would be to disassemble and place in an ultrasonic cleaner with alcohol or other chemical to remove water. Might check your local area for a phone repair shop, they usually have all the tools to get your phone repaired correctly so you don't end up with a button that doesn't work or worst problems later on from corrosion. Hope this helps
im confussed
What blk2dr is saying is that over time, the water can cause damage to your phone (if it isn't dried quickly). He recommends that, if you think you are able, you should take your phone apart so that it can dry faster.
If you aren't confident in your ability to take your phone apart and put it back together, I recommend you just slide the screen up, take the battery cover off, remove the battery and SIM card (and microSD if you have one in there), and put it back in the rice.
How long did you keep your SK in the rice the first time?
over night i tired it when i woke up and it still didnt work
Perhaps there is some water left.Maybe it condensed. Try taking it apart and see if there are any drops left.Also don't get tempted to use a hair drier since it cpuld melt some circuits and wire connections.
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i think the phone is trashed the battery and the phones water thingy is red
listen, of course its red, but you needed to let it sit in the rice longer, its not going to dry out in 12 hours
its going to take days, and by trying it over and over youre just doing more damage
i will try it tomorrow morning
Hello all,
My Nexus S i9020 running Android 4.0.4 has run into a spot of bother!
As a result of leaving my phone on the windowsill while I was having a shower, condensation seeped into the phone, causing it to malfunction, and eventually die. The phone will not turn on/off and the computer cannot recgonise the phone when I lug it into the USB port. The phone however, does get warm when I leave it charging for 20-30mins. I have tried the bag of rice trick and that didn't work. I have also taken the phone apart and cleaned it but that didn't work either.
I sent it away to a phone repair company to see if they could do anything and they said it was a waste of time as there was mildew growing on the circuit board. I said I would post this anyway, incase anyone might have an idea on how I could bring back my beloved phone, and also to warn people not to leave their devices in the bathroom when having a shower!
Thanks, Jake
Take the phone apart use a hairdryer and dry the mobo+screen for quite some time (20minutes++ depends) at the maximum heat be careful on the screen cause u can damage it from excess heat i can't tell exactly what is degree is ok for the screen as i do it by "feel' (no i don't touch it to understand if the heat is enough) . If that doesn't work then probably the ic chip is damaged or something else ;P
As for myself i never had a phone die from water damage i have dipped a nexus s in water (don't ask why i'm crazy enough) the battery didn't die completely but was unusable, the screen had marks after the water was removed, but the motherboard was fully functional. (take notice i have dipped 2 nexus s screens in water they always leave marks when the water is removed always !)
Worst i had was a bb9000 which i got into the shower with it (i was drunk) next morning the phone was on and completely soaked, motherboard survived, screen survived but battery died and the key membrane needed to be replaced
I have woken up with water on my galaxy tab 2 screen, I wiped it off. but the screen isn't responding. Almost half of the screen isn't responding so I can't even unlock the device.
I don't know what to do now, any help is appreciated.
Bibicp said:
I have woken up with water on my galaxy tab 2 screen, I wiped it off. but the screen isn't responding. Almost half of the screen isn't responding so I can't even unlock the device.
I don't know what to do now, any help is appreciated.
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First of all make sure the device is completely dry, follow the next tutorial : http://www.wikihow.com/Save-a-Wet-Cell-Phone.
What worked for me was to put my device for a few hours in dry rice (yes, you read it right, RICE, the kind you eat), just fill a sealable container with dry rice, put the device (phone/tablet) inside, seal the container (put the lid on) and leave it there a few hours. The rice is a very good water absorbent and it should absorb most of the humidity.
Ideally you should take out the battery, but with the Tab2 that's impossible unless you have the right tools.
Hope this helps.
verszipo said:
First of all make sure the device is completely dry, follow the next tutorial : http://www.wikihow.com/Save-a-Wet-Cell-Phone.
What worked for me was to put my device for a few hours in dry rice (yes, you read it right, RICE, the kind you eat), just fill a sealable container with dry rice, put the device (phone/tablet) inside, seal the container (put the lid on) and leave it there a few hours. The rice is a very good water absorbent and it should absorb most of the humidity.
Ideally you should take out the battery, but with the Tab2 that's impossible unless you have the right tools.
Hope this helps.
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I've dried the device itself, and put it a bowl with rice in it. I didn't put the tablet inside a container, do I have to?
Bibicp said:
I've dried the device itself, and put it a bowl with rice in it. I didn't put the tablet inside a container, do I have to?
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Not necessarily, but it helps because then the rice will only suck the water/humidity from inside the bowl (and of course your tablet) and not from the surrounding environment.
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Not necessarily, but it helps because then the rice will only suck the water/humidity from inside the bowl (and of course your tablet) and not from the surrounding environment.
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I'll leave it to dry overnight but I just got one question: Is it possible that the damage could be permanent?
Bibicp said:
I'll leave it to dry overnight but I just got one question: Is it possible that the damage could be permanent?
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It depends on where and how much water got into the tablet. If it was just a little moisture and it didn't do any short-circuit then your tablet should be fine, on the other hand if there was a short-circuit or any of the contacts/circuits got corroded then the damage could be permanent.
There is no 100% way to say for certain, a service could do the estimation more precisely.
For now, all you can do is wait a few hours and see after that if the touchscreen works correctly or not. If it still does the same then you'll probably have to take it to a service.
P.S. most warranties don't cover water damage, you'll have to see what type of warranty you got whether it covers water damage or not, services usually can tell if a device was damaged by water (there are a few paper strips inside the device that change color when they get wet and don't change back after drying).
P.S.2 i've dropped my phone into water twice and both times i got lucky and didn't damage it (it still works correctly after about 6 months since the last "incident"), my girlfriend on the other hand wasn't as lucky, she only dropped her phone in water once but the battery blew (it made a short-circuit) and the entire phone was "killed", the service said they would have to change the entire motherboard, which would have been more expensive than the original price of the phone
Well, I don't think anything went wrong with it. The device itself is working normally except for the touchscreen which wasn't responding. I'll check the device tomorrow.
The touchscreen responds normally now but the device is kinda laggy, will leave it for a couple of hours and report back. Could this be because of some water inside the device itself?
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