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Phone freezes up when idle

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!

Dash Freezing

Hello all,
I am new to forums and have been searching for sometime trying to find a fix for my phone. Yes, I used the search button before posting. Anyways, I recently got a dash from a co-worker of mine. When she had the phone it worked fine until she dropped it and cracked the screen. I replaced the screen in it and it work fine for a few days. All of a sudden it started freezing on me. I had to remove the battery and wait at least 10-15 mins. before powering the phone back on. Sometimes it wouldnt come back on for a couple hours. I thought it was an issue with the software so I updated to the latest version tmobile offers on their website. This still didnt work. I got a new battery for it (aftermarket) and am still having the same problems. It mainly freezes when ending calls or in the middle of calls. If I "reformat" (dont know technical term for phones) and reinstall software will this fix my problem?

Man, it sounds like you have gotten dust or some type of contamination inside the phone when you replace the screen. These circuit boards are not capable of having dust on these pieces on them. They don't handle well, things overheat quickly. So, I am sure when you make a call, the phone is at its peak power, hence heat.
So, if I were you, open the phone back up, check to see if it looks clean. Maybe, even blow it clean with a can of compressed air. Other than that. It never hurts to flash your phone with a new ROM, but fix a "dead" phone, I don't think so.
Good Luck.

I always start simple.
1. Are you using a memory card? Some cards just dont work well and the access time can slow a phone down alot and even cause freezing.
2. Sim cards can get dirty as well.. clean the contacts off and see if it helps
3. Since your co-worker dropped it, I would look for loose connections.
If all else fails flash a new rom and cross your fingers

Thanks guys. I will try and take it apart again to make sure theres not dust in the phone. There is no memory card so I can scratch that off the list. I will check the SIM card to mak sure its clean. Are these phones tempermental when it comes to clean SIM cards? I ask because my SIM card works fine in my other phone. Anyways, I did a hard reset yesterday and work for about 15mins and then restarted on its own several times. After it did this it finally shut off completley and now I cant even power the phone on or charge it. Looks like I have to suck it up and just buy one.

Condensation Hard Freeze, Reboot on Home Screen.

Hello
I just purchased a GSM Galaxy Nexus From Google last monday. Got it on wednesday the first thing i did was put a screen Protector on it before booting the phone up.(ArmorSuit MilitaryShield) The phone work great on Thursday no issues what so ever. Then i Friday i went to the gym. Kept the thing in my pocket and wiped my hands before touching anything on the phone. (Waiting for otterbox to arrive)
I as soon as i get out i notice Condensation in the front camera. I soon as i received a text my phone hung up and reboot itself. After loading again to the home screen it hung up again as soon as text pop up again. I after 8 tries i final was frustrated. Took the SIM card out and swipe to the right with my finger to try to see if i could unlock it to the home screen.
I was finally able to get into the phone and turn on airplane mode before it hung up again. After i did that i Sut down phone and put the SIM card back in. Repeated the the same steps. As i turn airplane mode off the phone hung up again! (Seems everyone in the mother had to text me at that moment) I was able to make two phone call's before it lock up, but i couldn't hear them and they couldn't hear me. Called 611 then i was able to hear at&t computer but sound like the speaker was dieing. Then the phone lock up and reboot itself.
So i go into the boot loader. The phone was functioning perfected in the boot loader. Play with it for about 10mins. No hangs up. I found that weird. So i reboot the phone was able to get myself into the Factory reset. After that i did a hard factory reset.
So i call Google and they sent me over to Samsung. Samsung wants to do a replacement. I don't mind doing that i just don't like the fact they need a CC number just in case they have to Charge if the phone was abuseded which it wasn't. Baby the hell out of it. They asking me if the phone came into any touch with liquid. The the only thing i could think of was the solution the screen Protector Company sent. I didn't spray the solution directly on the phone but the direction told me to spray couple of sprays on the side of the SP that was going on the screen. (2 Sprays).
The Samsung rep told me the systoms don't sound like water damage. So after getting off the phone (About 1 hr) i notice the condensation was disappearing from the lens. So i took a quick blow dryer to it for about 30 secs. Turn the phone back on and everything been rock solid (Expect for wifi cutting in and out for some reason) for about 2 days.
So tomorrow Samsung fiance department will be calling me for my CC info. My question do you think i should send it in ? Do you think they will find water damage? Was this water damage ? Does the GSM galaxy nexus have Water Sticker ? I'm not able to find one. (Every where i googled no one had a direct answer)
I'm not trying to rip Samsung off i just don't want this to happen down the road again. If it was water damage ill just deal with it i guess.
I wonder if i don't open the new phone tey send me and just use my old 3gs in till i hear back from them... will i be able to send the Replacement phone back if it was water damage ? Just pay the shipping costs? First time dealing with something like this
What do you think i should do ?
Thank you for any input.
Sorry for the wall of text.

Just Notice i posted this in the wrong section My bad ill ask for mod to move it.

Look at the water contact indicator under the battery and see if it is red. A wet apply screen protector should not have caused this, but be careful to not let water get in the speaker and crevices when applying. In the future if your phone does come in contact with water or condensation remove the battery and sim Immediately and place in dry rice for 24 hours, do not try to power it on. Many others are reporting wifi instability, check the threads for solutions.

WiredPirate said:
Look at the water contact indicator under the battery and see if it is red. A wet apply screen protector should not have caused this, but be careful to not let water get in the speaker and crevices when applying. In the future if your phone does come in contact with water or condensation remove the battery and sim Immediately and place in dry rice for 24 hours, do not try to power it on. Many others are reporting wifi instability, check the threads for solutions.
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Looks like your good to me, I don't see any red.

WiredPirate said:
Looks like your good to me, I don't see any red.
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Do you think Samsung will find anything ? Sorry for all the questions. The lens on the front camera was white. Is there stickers inside the phone where the CPU is
I heard there was like 3 water indicators in the phone.

That I couldn't tell you, I've never taken the phone apart so I would only be guessing. You might could find out by looking for a "tear down" of the phone, there should be several online if you do a Google search. Is the phone continuing to function well for you? Besides the wifi?

Yeah its been running great. Just got off the phone with Samsung. I think i just keep this phone. I don't want to pay for repair cost's. If the phone dies in month then i guess it was water damage. I hope there's no corrosion on PCB. I would love to take it apart but i don't want to void the warranty to check. Is there warranty Sticker in there ?
The wifi thing might be my fault. My laptop does that sometimes too. I'm just freaking out. I love the phone. I don't want it too die. Just ran a CPU stability test for about 15mins. No errors the battery was at 42c temp. Went ahead and sut the phone down. Going to wait 15 mins then turn it back on.

[Q] Water Damaged Galaxy Nexus

Hi all,
My brother recently dropped my prized 2 day old Galaxy Nexus in the toilet and after 4 days in a bowl of rice it starts up fine (although randomly reboots sometimes). However, the touchscreen is being very temperamental. Most of the screen works fine, however the bottom area only works about 10% of the time if I press very hard. By the way, its my first time posting on XDA so if theres anything I've done that is stupid/nooby or whatever please tell me. Its impossible to improve if you don't know what you're doing wrong
I'm running Cyanogenmod 10.1.3 and although I could upgrade, I don't want to do anything unninteruptable in case my phone reboots during the process. My Galaxy Nexus is a GSM version on T-Mobile UK and its one of those limited edition Google ones that they give to employees (google it (I can't link because its my first post) if you don't know what I'm talking about... Also, can you try to refrain from saying 'get it fixed' or 'get a new one' as those things cost money, and money is one of the things a 12 year old boy doesn't have (the phone is my dads old one - he got a nexus 5 recently and passed this down the line to me...)
I'm pretty good with computers and phones (hackintoshed every computer my family own, all our androids run cyanogenmod, built my own webserver) and I can follow instructions relatively well so don't feel you have to limit the difficulty of your answers because of my age
(by the way, we should ask someone here to add a toilet post icon, considering the amount of threads there are about phones dropped in the loo )
Just realized this is in the wrong forum, can someone help me out and tell me how to move it?

freddy362 said:
Hi all,
My brother recently dropped my prized 2 day old Galaxy Nexus in the toilet and after 4 days in a bowl of rice it starts up fine (although randomly reboots sometimes). However, the touchscreen is being very temperamental. Most of the screen works fine, however the bottom area only works about 10% of the time if I press very hard. By the way, its my first time posting on XDA so if theres anything I've done that is stupid/nooby or whatever please tell me. Its impossible to improve if you don't know what you're doing wrong
I'm running Cyanogenmod 10.1.3 and although I could upgrade, I don't want to do anything unninteruptable in case my phone reboots during the process. My Galaxy Nexus is a GSM version on T-Mobile UK and its one of those limited edition Google ones that they give to employees (google it (I can't link because its my first post) if you don't know what I'm talking about... Also, can you try to refrain from saying 'get it fixed' or 'get a new one' as those things cost money, and money is one of the things a 12 year old boy doesn't have (the phone is my dads old one - he got a nexus 5 recently and passed this down the line to me...)
I'm pretty good with computers and phones (hackintoshed every computer my family own, all our androids run cyanogenmod, built my own webserver) and I can follow instructions relatively well so don't feel you have to limit the difficulty of your answers because of my age
(by the way, we should ask someone here to add a toilet post icon, considering the amount of threads there are about phones dropped in the loo )
Just realized this is in the wrong forum, can someone help me out and tell me how to move it?
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To try to solve the problem you have to disassemble the phone, remove the water that still inside and clean the oxide on the surface of the connectors, because the Gnex is formed by separate PCBs in order to make easier the repair, but if some water goes inside the connector, a shell of oxide will be formed on the pins and the connector can't work well as it should...
The only thing you need is a very small cross screwdriver, a can of WD-40 (That is originally made to move away the water, but it is also useful to clean the contacts from the oxide and of course it can't conduct electricity) or any other similar product with the same characteristics (you can find it in pretty all the hardware store), and this guide Samsung Galaxy Nexus Teardown.
When you get all the spare parts of the phone disassembled, spray the WD-40 on it, in order to remove all the water and humidity (Just put attention to not spray inside the both earphones and the cameras, or you will have to manually remove the oil from inside the earphones with compressed air and clean the cameras with some cotton swabs). Then with a cotton swab and WD-40 clean all the contacts of the connectors.
Now you have just to reassemble the phone, following in reverse the guide of iFixit.
Just check before if the USB port fully work (fast charge from AC adapter, slow charge and data transfer from PC), because when happens to me was the only part that i have to replace, bought for 3$ from eBay...
Don't worry is easier to do than to describe how to do...

Dry Patrick said:
Very useful advice
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Ok thanks for the help

Oh, if you have rubbing alcohol around, try rinsing the PCB with it, it helps too.
Next time water gets in your phone, immediately disassemble it and rinse it with rubbing alcohol to remove the water, then put it on a dry cabinet(if you have one) or seal the PCB in a box with desiccants.
Beamed from my Grouper

HTC Desire fell in water, now won't boot.

Hi, my apologies if my HTC is in the wrong forum, not sure where the Desire would fit, if anywhere.
Nonetheless this is a useful phone to me and worked fine till the day I had to jump in a lake to save my 5 year old boy from drowning. Naturally didn't have the time to remove the phone from my pocket before jumping in the lake. Kid was fine after swallowing some water but phone "swallowed" a lot of water. Let it dry in a bag of rice and baking soda for several days to fully dry. But when trying to turn it on, the screen just flickers non stop. However when connecting it to the computer using a USB cable, I get what appears to be a boot screen (see pic in address below). Phone was rooted and run CyanogenMod 7. Maybe someone that's familiar with the procedure could guide me? Tried a couple of the options shown but to no avail. Old but still decent phone, would like to get it working again. I've transferred the sim to another phone and I've saved the micro SD card. Just need to get the phone to boot again. PS: could the battery be toast? Maybe it got shorted when I first tried to turn the phone on while still wet?
Any help is appreciated.
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I'd say leave it to dry naturally for a week or so and try again. If no joy then you could try a new screen but it's probably something really tiny and sensitive that cannot be replaced..
Glad you saved your boy!.
Sent from a stolen HTC M9

It's been 2 months. But I did make a crucial mistake: I tried to turn the phone on while still at the lake. This likely caused more damage than it needed.
However I suspect the issue is with the battery. It won't charge past 3.85 volts. And the display works just fine, once I press the key combo to enter the boot screen as seen in the pic above. Will try and track one down locally, hopefully a shop will be able to test it a battery in the phone before I buy it.
And yes, the boy was fine. But it was a close call. it is amazing how quickly something can go wrong. I neglected the lake rule of staying within arm's reach. Let this be a lesson to anyone with small ones: it only takes seconds for things to go badly wrong, even at a supposedly safe, man made lake intended for kids.
PS: 2 months prior an adult died on the same lake after falling off his boat. Another lesson: invest in swimming lessons. Scary stuff, indeed.

Right, i thought you were seeing that over usb via sdk or something.. You could always try opening it and inspecting for blown components. What damage can be done.. It's already useless.
I still think it's worth leaving it to dry naturally.
Sent from a stolen HTC M9