Hey, last night my friends got into a bar fight and the bouncers came at me and one of them tried to kick me and he kicked my phone like 10 feet in the air and it hit the pavement. the phone came into 3 pieces upon impact. (the battery, cover, and the phone itself) It wouldn't turn on last night, but today I took it apart a bit to see if I could see any visible damage, when I put it back together the opening screen flashed for a second then it shuts off again. The screen does not have any damage either. What is most likely the problem that is wrong with my phone? and how should I go about getting it fixed or fixing it myself?
Well after I took the phone apart and put it back together, it turned on and is working as if nothing happened. This phone literally got shot up roughly 10 feet in the air and hit the pavement and has only a couple of scratches- none on the screen. has to be the best phone I ever had in a means of durability, but I am still wondering why it didn't work for 16 hours or so.. Any ideas?
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Might have been some components loosened (like the battery contacts, or other pieces of the chain that supply power) that somehow fell back into place after you took it apart/reassembled.
Past experience with electronics is that things don't magically fix themselves. Whatever went wrong will probably happen again, just a matter of time.
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If I leave my phone on and come back to in about an hour it becomes unresponsive. The screen is won't come on, usb won't work and the power button doesn't work as well, but the lights still flash. All I can do is take the battery out and turn it on again.
At first i thought the keypad must have been getting disabled after a certain amount of time for some reason, but since the usb the connection alos dies when it's idle it must be something else.
I've been having this problem for awhile now. It first it started every once and awhile, but now it's getting to the point that I have to reset it every hour or so.
I just upgraded my ROM to Kavana 080408, but I've had this problem running the T-mobile WM6 ROM as well, therefore I'm guessing it's a hardware issue?
Any thoughts, questions, or help is greatly appriciated!
call tmobile and ask them to send you a new phone... its hardware issues...
Thank you. Err.. the only thing I haven't mentioned (for lack of mistaking the problem) is that just 3 days ago I dropped my phone outside and it rained the next morning. When I recovered the phone it was soaked.. I let it dry out and it worked again.
I think the incedent had to have been irrelevant, because I have been having this problem for about 8 months regaurdless, just not as severe.
Would T-mobile be able to know it got wet at some point and not exchange it because they'd assume the problem was due to water damage?
Well if you look under the battery to the right where the sim card goes, there is a litmus paper that turns purple/pink when wet and its white originally. I would just remove the paper if it is purple/pink and try to cut and glue a white piece of paper the same size. And then I would call them and tell them.
Glue and fish strips?
Thanks, but hmm.. how exact should this be? I was thinking about going to the fish store and buying some test strips and using those. Then i was thinking about thinning out some glue and using that to stick it. Does this sound good? I'll post how it goes.
Dash Arrived then Died
I just got my dash about two weeks ago. Before I could start finding my way around, it began acting strangely. It would not respond and sometimes suddenly cut off on it's on. Then it got to the point where it would not turn on right away. I would have to play with it (battery and SIM removal) and then it might turn on. I thought I was using the power button incorrectly.
Finally, the dash would not turn on at all. Since it was new and insured I requested a replacement. T-Mobile insisted that I test it with a alternate battery (I had a charger stand + battery on order but it had not arrived yet.) Since it would still not turn on via USB or power adapter (no charging lights either) I was certain it was not the battery. After arguing with a T-Mobile Rep and Supervisor I finally decided to lie (er um exaggerate) and tell them I had tested an alternate battery.
Before the new phone arrived the charger and spare battery arrived. I tried both batteries in the new phone with no problems.
You may want to try and get a new phone but the T-Mo rep definitely asked me the color of the paper strip inside the battery housing. My rep told me that it would change color if the LCD was damaged or cracked but I checked another phone (Samsung T409 and Motorola V188) and based on the locations of the strips I would assume it's a water damage test strip.
You may also want to see it you can remove a strip from an older phone.
Good luck!
Short Version: Phone worked, Sat for a month, doesnt get past cyanogen screen goes into protect mode.
Okay i bought an evo that had the screen replaced on it. The guy obviously didnt know what he was doing. So I dropped it one day and the digizer ripped off.( the flex cable ripped, The digitizer wasnt stuck down) So a month later, i finally got around to buying a brand new housing for the entire thing. I took the mobo out and put it in the new housing. It worked for about 5 minutes then gets stuck in a boot loop. I had it happen once, before i got the new housing, It took me 5 minutes to get it to work again. The phone would shut off randomly sometimes.
It worked fine before the screen broke off no major problems would shut itself off every 2 or 3 days. The board has sat in a bag on my table for a month and now it wont work.
Now i cant even get the phone to stay on at all. The cyanogen screen shows up it loads and then shuts right off (i have recovery) I have tried different kernels,roms, and radios. The phone goes into protect mode now. Can I hit with a heat gun and reflow the cpu like a ps3 or xbox? Is there anyway i can remove all hardware failure protection?
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Short Version: Phone worked, Sat for a month, doesnt get past cyanogen screen goes into protect mode.
Okay i bought an evo that had the screen replaced on it. The guy obviously didnt know what he was doing. So I dropped it one day and the digizer ripped off.( the flex cable ripped, The digitizer wasnt stuck down) So a month later, i finally got around to buying a brand new housing for the entire thing. I took the mobo out and put it in the new housing. It worked for about 5 minutes then gets stuck in a boot loop. I had it happen once, before i got the new housing, It took me 5 minutes to get it to work again. The phone would shut off randomly sometimes.
It worked fine before the screen broke off no major problems would shut itself off every 2 or 3 days. The board has sat in a bag on my table for a month and now it wont work.
Now i cant even get the phone to stay on at all. The cyanogen screen shows up it loads and then shuts right off (i have recovery) I have tried different kernels,roms, and radios. The phone goes into protect mode now. Can I hit with a heat gun and reflow the cpu like a ps3 or xbox? Is there anyway i can remove all hardware failure protection?
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You have any insurance? Depending on how your morals are you could try to make a warranty claim on it (although after todays announcement I might feel bad considering theyre trying to help us out). Otherwise I would try flashing an RUU and if that doesnt work take whatever means necessary, although Im not sure why your mobo would be damaged after a month, have you tried cleaning it and blowing on it to get all the dust out?
My recommendation is to make sure you stretch first, then when you do throw the phone through the wall, that you make sure it's a wall that's going to be easy to repair.
Reading your post it looks like you bought a phone that was practically guaranteed to have problems.
You bought the phone equivalent of a lemon, so expect the same amount of effort into keeping this thing alive as if you were to buy a car lemon.
short of running an ruu or smashing it and saying you 20lb sledge fell from 20 feet and landed on it lol
I've never looked into something that says "protect mode" for an EVO.
However, most electronic can do this if the thing is going to over-volt. If you think about car amplifiers, they do the same thing and go into protection mode which means that capacitor or something much more is bad.
I agree with the other guy and that you threw yourself into a bad deal from the start so it's as if you're going to be fixing something that's already inherited potential issues.
Have you considered that the replacement screen may be the culprit? Aside from the potential drop damage that could have broken something on the logic board, the another possibility is that the hardware you just installed could be defective and causing the EVO to do this protect mode.
In any event, the best solution would now be to work with a company to get a diagnosis of the problem. If you get a diagnosis only, you can buy your own parts and do it yourself if you're like a McGyver type-a-guy.
Find a credible cell phone repair shop and just get an diagnosis first.
So last Thursday I dropped my OneX phone into my kitchen sink full of water & soap. It got fully submerged into it for at least 5 sec.
It still worked completely fine the moment i fished it out, but of course i immediately turned it off
Like 30 minutes later, out of of nowhere my phone came back online without me doing anything. I turned it off but it kept rebooting after showing the HTC splash screen. Water must have done something crazy I don't know...
I put in in a bowl with rice hoping it would dry out. In the meantime it kept rebooting for like 1 hour continuously I kept hearing the vibration
After sometime I noticed it was back on the 'unlock simcard screen' so it finally wasn't rebooting anymore. I unlocked the simcard and have been using my phone perfectly normal.
I've noticed some small darker blotches on the right downside of the screen, but those have slowly dissipated too. And today they are completely gone.
I just wanted to share this little story with you, I'm very happy that my One X survived this 'battle' against water haha.
Haha!! Nice to hear it!
Congo man! Srsly! :good:
Clareyboy said:
So last Thursday I dropped my OneX phone into my kitchen sink full of water & soap. It got fully submerged into it for at least 5 sec.
It still worked completely fine the moment i fished it out, but of course i immediately turned it off
Like 30 minutes later, out of of nowhere my phone came back online without me doing anything. I turned it off but it kept rebooting after showing the HTC splash screen. Water must have done something crazy I don't know...
I put in in a bowl with rice hoping it would dry out. In the meantime it kept rebooting for like 1 hour continuously I kept hearing the vibration
After sometime I noticed it was back on the 'unlock simcard screen' so it finally wasn't rebooting anymore. I unlocked the simcard and have been using my phone perfectly normal.
I've noticed some small darker blotches on the right downside of the screen, but those have slowly dissipated too. And today they are completely gone.
I just wanted to share this little story with you, I'm very happy that my One X survived this 'battle' against water haha.
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My wife had an One X but first she dropped it in the toilet. Had to wait a few days to let it dry, but it was OK. Then she dropped it again in a puddle full of water. And what was wierd was it worked. Then these blotches appeared
Then about a day later the screen just would be bright at all!.
I tried taking it apart but to my surprise the battery was so soft and would bend super easy. The insides smelled very bad.
It never worked again but I was surprised it lasted as long as it did!
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I do hope for you it will keep working, but to be honest I doubt it. Water does strange things to electronic components.
It may even work fine for days/weeks or months after being in touch with water, but it suddenly can stop working or have other strange reactions due to corrosion or the chemical compounds reacting that were in the water at the time.
I have experienced this behaviour a lot in water damaged electronics, as I'm helping people with insurance claims in my profession. It's difficult to prove problems are connected to water damage, weeks or months after the accident occurred.
Repair centers normally don't give any guarantee on repairs due to water damage, in my experience. That's due to the fact damage may occur even after weeks or months, and it can never be foretold a repair was 100 percent successful.
So, it certainly still could have problems later in time, although of course I hope you were very lucky this time!
Rice is indeed one of the best things to try in these circumstances, it probably saved your phones life this time! :thumbup:
A couple of months ago I spilt lots of pure alcohol on my HOX.
At first these grey spots on the right bottom side appeared and then after turning it off for about 10 hours they vanished but a big wide line appeared in the left side of the screen starting from the bottom until the middle of the screen.
Other than that the phone worked absolutely fine no problem what so ever.
I send the phone to be repaired (screen replacement) last week and got it back two days later with a new screen and a notice that there was no cost charged as the replacement was done under warranty.......
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A couple of months ago I spilt lots of pure alcohol on my HOX.
At first these grey spots on the right bottom side appeared and then after turning it off for about 10 hours they vanished but a big wide line appeared in the left side of the screen starting from the bottom until the middle of the screen.
Other than that the phone worked absolutely fine no problem what so ever.
I send the phone to be repaired (screen replacement) last week and got it back two days later with a new screen and a notice that there was no cost charged as the replacement was done under warranty.......
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yes because they thought it was a screen failure...htc wrote in the letter that the screen was abnormal so they replaced it with a complete new...but my screen was broken and repaired with just glued glass ...really nice from them to change the whole screen
This is a bit of a long story but I need advice and I'm not sure where else to go. I have the phone rooted but the only thing I've done is install KT747.
I'm not sure if it's related but I'll open with that about 6 months ago I dropped it in the bathtub (dumb as hell I know), took it to the sprint store and BSed them about what happened. They opened it up, saw the water indicator/water, called me on my BS, dried it off and cleaned the contacts with rubbing alcohol and my phone came back.
Fast forward to Tuesday, at work with my phone plugged into my laptop it cut off and would simply not come back on. The samsung logo would come up and then the KT747 "Kernel Domination" screen for a moment but then it would cut off. The phone would be on for maybe 3 seconds total. Even if I tried to boot into recovery or even download mode the same thing would occur (I think one time I got it to show the flash count and all that jazz in download mode). As the water indicator will still show water damage and you can clearly tell I've rooted it I was worried I might be screwed out of a phone, but I thought I was screwed the last time I went to sprint so I left to go do that, half way between work and the sprint store my phone cut back on in my pocket. Over the next day and a half it had similar problems but eventually came back (quicker than the first time). And now it's been running well for 3 days.
I've been doing some research on google and I've seen something about a motherboard defect that can cause sudden death, but I think this might be the international S3. It's really hard to tell what's what. Also I saw someone say it could be a battery issue so I ordered a new one but I'm still concerned this might not be the issue.
It's working fine now but I'm in constant fear my phone will just die any moment now.
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This is a bit of a long story but I need advice and I'm not sure where else to go. I have the phone rooted but the only thing I've done is install KT747.
I'm not sure if it's related but I'll open with that about 6 months ago I dropped it in the bathtub (dumb as hell I know), took it to the sprint store and BSed them about what happened. They opened it up, saw the water indicator/water, called me on my BS, dried it off and cleaned the contacts with rubbing alcohol and my phone came back.
Fast forward to Tuesday, at work with my phone plugged into my laptop it cut off and would simply not come back on. The samsung logo would come up and then the KT747 "Kernel Domination" screen for a moment but then it would cut off. The phone would be on for maybe 3 seconds total. Even if I tried to boot into recovery or even download mode the same thing would occur (I think one time I got it to show the flash count and all that jazz in download mode). As the water indicator will still show water damage and you can clearly tell I've rooted it I was worried I might be screwed out of a phone, but I thought I was screwed the last time I went to sprint so I left to go do that, half way between work and the sprint store my phone cut back on in my pocket. Over the next day and a half it had similar problems but eventually came back (quicker than the first time). And now it's been running well for 3 days.
I've been doing some research on google and I've seen something about a motherboard defect that can cause sudden death, but I think this might be the international S3. It's really hard to tell what's what. Also I saw someone say it could be a battery issue so I ordered a new one but I'm still concerned this might not be the issue.
It's working fine now but I'm in constant fear my phone will just die any moment now.
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If it was working fine before you dropped it in the water, then that's probably the cause. I doubt it's sudden death syndrome if there were no signs of shutting on and off before you dropped it in the water.
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If it was working fine before you dropped it in the water, then that's probably the cause. I doubt it's sudden death syndrome if there were no signs of shutting on and off before you dropped it in the water.
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But would I expect to see problems from water damage so long after the contact with water? I figured if there were going to be problems from the water it would have happened much quicker than this. Like I said the water damage was MONTHS ago.
Sounds like SDS power button failure. Very common on S3.
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I'm on holiday at the moment and the first day I went to the pool. My head never went under the water because don't like doing that so while the watch was on my wrist and in the water it's not been any different to when I've used the pool at home in the past without issue.
I didn't notice any issue at all after using the pool. Went out at night and came back to the hotel, took off the watch and put it on the table before going to bed.
In the morning, the watch screen was off and I couldn't turn it on. Though the battery had died so put it on charge. When I connect the charger I can feel it vibrate. I can hold the power button and feel it vibrate and if I keep holding to force a reboot it does long vibrates.
I've tried blindly navigating to the settings menu to try and power it off but I'm not sure if the touch is working.
Looking at the watch it does not look like any water has got in. I did not spend very long in the pool either before getting out and sitting on the lounger. I'd have thought the heat and humidity would have done the damage but I've no idea. Aside from the above I can't think of any reason for this so I can only assume it was the pool, really.
Does anyone have any suggestions I could try to bring this screen back on? The watch just looks like it's powered off.
So I called up the warranty line and explained to them what happened and I said it had got wet. I said if the problem is due to getting wet then let me know the cost and I'll decide whether to go ahead with the repair.
I got a delivery a few weeks later. brand new watch in box with manuals and new charger. Repair note said they found a fault and replaced it. I wonder if it was the heat that made it fault. Or Huawei are just being nice