Hi
1) I got saltwater in my Huawei Honor 6.
2) I washed/brushed with isoproyl alchohol
3) I have dried it out for a month while waiting for a replacement battery
4) The battery charges, the screen works, but it's stuck in a boot loop.
What to do?
Not much I think. The only way to fix it is by sending it to the service. I think it's obvious
Salt water is BAD...corrodes things incredibly quickly. And because it's not water resistant, I'd say the damage is irreversible.
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Phone has been exposed to rain, at first did not work at all. Then he turned on the band appeared on the screen is very much in 3d mode, 2d too much
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If you aren't familiar with opening things up you'd better take it to some phone repairing service if the phone isn't anymore in warranty (even if I don't believe that warranty will cover up such a thing). At the easiest and happiest your phone has only a few contacts gone bad and cleaning them up would do the trick. Worse scenario - you got water between screens or some electronics is gone bad.
Advice: when you got water in your electronic device PLEASE take off battery and let it dry well - about 12 hours minimum and only after that put on the battery and power it up.
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
hi, my nexus 5 had water damage and i manager to turn it on into bootloader but when i choose 'Start' then it will keep on looping on the Google logo, i tried multiple ways showed on other thread still no help then i decide to factory reset my nexus 5, same, when in bootloader, i choose recovery mode but it did not go into recovery mode, it come out the Google logo again and keep looping again. any help?
Thanks
Lol dry it out for a few days before powering it on
dicecuber said:
Lol dry it out for a few days before powering it on
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i did use hair dryer blow and leave it untouched a day, not manage to turn on but boot loop..even in recovery mode
lavenzo said:
i did use hair dryer blow and leave it untouched a day, not manage to turn on but boot loop..even in recovery mode
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Lol...are you serious? Don't use a hairdryer
The motherboard fried?
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The motherboard fried?
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no idea =( no sign of life
sending to repair shop this weekend
Probably not worth it to fix water damage. Better off replacing it
Never power it on immediately after any water damage..
It is best using vacuum cleaner to suck the water or most of the moisture inside the phone and follow with dipping it into a container full of rice for like 2 to 3 days.. you would have much better chances of recovering it back.
There is no easy way out of this, no matter what other guys tell you. You need to open the device, remove the mainboard and carefully inspect it for visible water marks which need to be cleaned away with pure alcohol.
Only after doing so and drying the board, you might have a chance of it working again.
farsight73 said:
Never power it on immediately after any water damage..
It is best using vacuum cleaner to suck the water or most of the moisture inside the phone and follow with dipping it into a container full of rice for like 2 to 3 days.. you would have much better chances of recovering it back.
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leaving it powered on risks of short circuit no?
If you leave it powered on or with the battery connected the end result is massive corrosion from both the impurities in it and the galvanic erosion ( metal + water + electricity ).
The best course of action is to imediately shut it off , open it up and disconnect the battery . Once you've done that , get a container , fill it with the purest iso alcohol you can get ( besides removing impurities it pulls water out if pure enough ) , gently brush the board , then dry it with either a blow dryer or by putting it in a hot , dry place for a few hours.
I've used canned air successfully to blow the moisture from under chips and overall , so that can work too.
The easiest damaged parts are the display ( if water or alcohol gets between layers ) , charging and power circuit ( since there's quite a bit of power flowing through that area ) , as well as RF components since they are under shield cans that might contain the moisture and corrode over time.
Once it starts showing signs of damage it's going to get downhill fast - and repairing it is no longer worth it - you will race to replace components as they fail one by one.
It seems like my Galaxy S6 from ThreeUK got a bit of water in it while cleaning. The phone was on while it happened and it continued working perfectly well for a while. After a few minutes the screen starting flickering, showing snow, discoloring (everything got pinkish). Now it sometimes works normally and sometimes doesn't which makes me think there could be some liquid stuck in it somewhere. The water damage indicator in the SIM slot has not been tripped (it's white). The phone seems to sometimes randomly restart (hasn't done that for a day now), but other than that, the touchscreen is responsive, only the screen seems to be blacked out and then suddenly come back to live. Any ideas of what I should do? It has been like this for over 24 hours now and I have been unable to turn it off.
If the sticker isn't showing water damage and your warranty is still valid I would go with that route and contact Samsung. How exactly were you cleaning it where so much water got into it to screwed up the phone?
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Bring your S6 back to Samsung for warranty repair.
Before send it to Samsung, put the phone (powered off) in a rice bag for a night or better 24h.
After that, it will be completely dry.
And then, send it for repair, because, if they found water in it, even if the water indicator is white, you warranty is voided.
A couple days ago I dropped my phone in a lake. It was about 10 feet. It filled with water. I removed the sim card and got rid of water.
I left the phone in a bag of rice for a day and tried to turn it on. It keeps rebooting on the screen where it says SGS7 Powered by Android. I tried to get into recovery mode. When I do that it keeps trying to get there. The only thing I see is blue "RECOVERY BOOTING....". I got into the Download mode and flashed the phone with Odin with 4 file firmware. Nothing changed. Still seeing the same thing.
Is it a brick?
RavOcean said:
A couple days ago I dropped my phone in a lake. It was about 10 feet. It filled with water. I removed the sim card and got rid of water.
I left the phone in a bag of rice for a day and tried to turn it on. It keeps rebooting on the screen where it says SGS7 Powered by Android. I tried to get into recovery mode. When I do that it keeps trying to get there. The only thing I see is blue "RECOVERY BOOTING....". I got into the Download mode and flashed the phone with Odin with 4 file firmware. Nothing changed. Still seeing the same thing.
Is it a brick?
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The S7 has an IP 68 raiting, meanging that (in theory) it can resist being up 30 min submerged in up to 1.5 meters (which is a bit less than 5 feet). You've probably damaged the hardware on the phone. It might be fixable by a techincal service (although the offcial one wil tell you the warranty has been voided).
Removing the SIM when it was wet might have been a mistake, as you just disabled the IP68 water resistance rating by creating a way for the water to get in
Possible 10ft was too much, but have seen tests that way surpassed the suggested limits and it was fine
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Removing the SIM when it was wet might have been a mistake, as you just disabled the IP68 water resistance rating by creating a way for the water to get in
Possible 10ft was too much, but have seen tests that way surpassed the suggested limits and it was fine
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Well, the thing is that I didn't remove the SIM right away. I dried the phone, it was fine. But in a minute it stopped reading the SIM. I gave it a couple minutes. Nothing. Then I restarted the phone, which brought me to the problem that I have now. It wouldn't start.
Then I realized that the water probably got into the phone. I removed the SIM and water started pouring from inside.
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Well, the thing is that I didn't remove the SIM right away. I dried the phone, it was fine. But in a minute it stopped reading the SIM. I gave it a couple minutes. Nothing. Then I restarted the phone, which brought me to the problem that I have now. It wouldn't start.
Then I realized that the water probably got into the phone. I removed the SIM and water started pouring from inside.
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That sucks, IP68 rating should have prevented any water getting in, but as above, maybe 10ft was too deep and the pressure too much for the phone seal
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That sucks, IP68 rating should have prevented any water getting in, but as above, maybe 10ft was too deep and the pressure too much for the phone seal
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I'm pretty sure that's what happened.
I'll take it to a repair shop and see what they can do. It's too soon for this phone to finish its serve...
RavOcean said:
I'm pretty sure that's what happened.
I'll take it to a repair shop and see what they can do. It's too soon for this phone to finish its serve...
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They'll probably sell you a new motherboard / battery at best, and likely a new phone at worst
That's the problem with not being able to remove batteries in phones these days, if you get them wet you have no way of preventing a short circuit / damage
Generally if you can remove the battery fast, you minimise any damage
Also a big factor in phones not working again after getting wet is the impurities in the water that remain on the electronics even when dry, you need to use something like Isopropyl Alcohol to clean it off
And if the lake was salt water you have even more damage, back in the WWI days soldiers used Sea Water to defuse bombs as it would quickly cease up all the working parts inside the fuse/detonator section iirc
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They'll probably sell you a new motherboard / battery at best, and likely a new phone at worst
That's the problem with not being able to remove batteries in phones these days, if you get them wet you have no way of preventing a short circuit / damage
Generally if you can remove the battery fast, you minimise any damage
Also a big factor in phones not working again after getting wet is the impurities in the water that remain on the electronics even when dry, you need to use something like Isopropyl Alcohol to clean it off
And if the lake was salt water you have even more damage, back in the WWI days soldiers used Sea Water to defuse bombs as it would quickly cease up all the working parts inside the fuse/detonator section iirc
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Wow, that's a good peace of the history right there I really liked it! Didn't know about those soldiers' methods.
Speaking of, no, the lake was a pure mountain water.
And I just want a repairman to take a look what he can do. I already bought exact same phone since I couldn't wait, really need this phone for work and other business. However, I'd like to fix it rather than having it as a peace of memory. So hopefully they'll be able to fix it under a $100 cost.
Good luck, hope it doesn't cost too much to repair