Are the water damage stickers hidden on these phones? I also noticed my battery doesnt have a water damage sticker either.
Kinda late reply, but i was looking for the same thing and couldnt see anything. I need to return my phone to Rogers tomorrow and spilt a small amount of coffee on it and cant see any stickers. All is running well though so i guess im safe
Don't see anything on mine. I wonder if the stickers are carrier related and google doesn't care?
briangp said:
Don't see anything on mine. I wonder if the stickers are carrier related and google doesn't care?
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I called Rogers and they said theyd look for water damage. Maybe not look as deep as a tiny white sticker? You have an interesting point though, maybe the stickers are carrier related and Rogers didnt have any on the gnex? Because doesnt verizon have some on the battery?
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I called Rogers and they said theyd look for water damage. Maybe not look as deep as a tiny white sticker? You have an interesting point though, maybe the stickers are carrier related and Rogers didnt have any on the gnex? Because doesnt verizon have some on the battery?
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Thought I would let you know that there are no water damage stickers on my Verizon G-Nex. I think Google just really doesn't care if your phone gets wet.
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Thought I would let you know that there are no water damage stickers on my Verizon G-Nex. I think Google just really doesn't care if your phone gets wet.
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lmao. Thanks Google!
That's so weird. I spilled a little tea on my phone about 20 minutes ago. I was just going to search this question up myself but here it is right at the top of the forum. We're syncing up guys! Gross.
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Thought I would let you know that there are no water damage stickers on my Verizon G-Nex. I think Google just really doesn't care if your phone gets wet.
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Maybe its electronic somehow? Idk. Still can't find any though
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I have a water sticker on my battery and phone(next to 4 pins where battery connects). Its a Verizon nexus.
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Most phones in addition to having one that you can see by the battery also have one on the motherboard. That way they know if you paint the one on the outside.
Well I just took my nexus to rogers and got my new one with no questions asked. The guy didn't even check my boot loader or anything. Maybe when they ship it to Samsung, Samsung will check it out and run tests?
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I had my phone apart to cool down.(it was getting pretty hot) and I was drinking some water. Something happened where I coughed a little up and a drop hit the exact spot where the water damage sticker is. Not the one on the batter but the one underneath. Does anyone know where I could buy a replacement sticker? All the repair parts sites I know don't have parts for our phone yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated because I need to send it back to T-mobile because the touch screen isn't responsive half the time.
Sounds like a well thought out story to me. None the less, ebay is your friend.
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I've checked ebay. There is no need for me to make up a story. I'd admit if I did water damage my phone in any way because I can fix water damage. I repair cell phones for my job.
I'm not sure posting about your attempts to alter your liquid damage indicator onto a public forum is a good idea William.
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I've checked ebay. There is no need for me to make up a story. I'd admit if I did water damage my phone in any way because I can fix water damage. I repair cell phones for my job.
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Yet your vendors can't supply you.
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Bleach them a couple times and ur good to go Use a qtip drop a drop on it sit and wipe it with a paper towel and do it again. This used to work back in the day idk if the stickers are different now I did this to my iPhone a couple years ago
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funziebear said:
Bleach them a couple times and ur good to go Use a qtip drop a drop on it sit and wipe it with a paper towel and do it again. This used to work back in the day idk if the stickers are different now I did this to my iPhone a couple years ago
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If you rub the sticker while it is wet it will start to pill away from the phone. I have seen people bring in their phones to my store and you can tell when they tried to fix the indicator.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=water+damage+sticker&_frs=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m359
That's the worst luck EVER!!! I mean, a single drop of water just HAPPENED to fall directly on the water damage sticker, AND your screen stopped responding?!?!???
Well, it's a good thing you repair cell phones for a living, you can fix the damage yourself without filing a warranty claim and causing higher prices for the rest of us
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guys i have my phone Liquipel which makes my phone waterproof with no case
what you could do is look and see if the water sticker on the battery is the same if it is just use that one
Buy an OEM Battery. Swap stickers....
tri4life said:
Buy an OEM Battery. Swap stickers....
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Shouldn't even need an OEM battery as Tmo only switches out the main piece of the phone without the battery or cover.
Hey all. I dismantled my Galaxy Nexus in hopes to fix my vibration squeal, and when I opened it up, I found tiny green stickers that are planted inside the housing. I attempted to remove one but they are stuck there pretty dang good. Check it out.
Plus, it's not a bad idea to take it apart just to clean it. Mine was dusty so I'm glad I did it. Make sure that if you do do this that you do it in an area that's safe from ESD, which electro-static discharge. That last thing you or I would want it to have your Galaxy Nexus be fried.
Anyway, what do you think these green stickers do and why are they there? To me it makes the phone kind of cheap because of this. But no bother.
Thanks.
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It's possible that they are water damage stickers.
Also, I do not recommend people start ripping apart their Galaxy Nexus phones. This voids warranty and it's possible that there are parts in the phone that get snapped or moved if user opens it that will be noticed by the tech support technician.
Dust is not a problem for mobile phones, since modern phones don't have ventilation systems that depend on flow of cool air. Your phone would have to be in use in bad conditions for a very long time to need any internal 'dusting'.
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It's possible that they are water damage stickers.
Also, I do not recommend people start ripping apart their Galaxy Nexus phones. This voids warranty and it's possible that there are parts in the phone that get snapped or moved if user opens it that will be noticed by the tech support technician.
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They're not liquid sensors. Take out your battery and you'll see a white sticker with 16 purple x's. That's the liquid contact indicator. The green stickers serve another purpose which I have yet to muster up a reason for. Taking apart your device for exploration is not a big deal if you know what you're doing. Obviously don't literally rip the phone apart, come on. Be smart about it. Also, there are no internal warranty void stickers inside, so you have nothing to lose if your hands are skilled.
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Possibly a refurb by some slight chance...maybe your particular phone didn't pass one of the tests and had to be fixed...NFC maybe...or IDK?
Also, lol you're posting from an iPhone.
Smokeey said:
Possibly a refurb by some slight chance...maybe your particular phone didn't pass one of the tests and had to be fixed...NFC maybe...or IDK?
Also, lol you're posting from an iPhone.
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No way no how is this refurbished.i would be very sad if that were the case. I bought it back in November. Had the Samsung seal of greatness on it still intact. So I doubt it's refurbished. I took it apart to just check it out for myself, and it was toooooo easy to do.
Yeah ha, sending from an iPhone indeed. I have both units. Both I love equally. Haha.
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maybe since you got it open you can check to see what the rattle is behind the camera? or maybe it is the camera sensor itself? dunno, but I noticed it the first day I bought it and seem just slightly annoyed by it. If you hold the phone in your hand and tap your finger near the camera lens you'll see what I'm talking about. Would be nice to know what it is.
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maybe since you got it open you can check to see what the rattle is behind the camera? or maybe it is the camera sensor itself? dunno, but I noticed it the first day I bought it and seem just slightly annoyed by it. If you hold the phone in your hand and tap your finger near the camera lens you'll see what I'm talking about. Would be nice to know what it is.
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It's the autofocus mechanism.
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It would be better if you would upload a better quality pic with both the plastic cover with the green stickers and the part on which is mounted.
maybe this is NFC transmit like on Blackberry Bold 4....
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They're not liquid sensors. Take out your battery and you'll see a white sticker with 16 purple x's. That's the liquid contact indicator. The green stickers serve another purpose which I have yet to muster up a reason for. Taking apart your device for exploration is not a big deal if you know what you're doing. Obviously don't literally rip the phone apart, come on. Be smart about it. Also, there are no internal warranty void stickers inside, so you have nothing to lose if your hands are skilled.
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The GSM Nexus has no warranty void stickers or water indicators. The stickers may be tiny antennas
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No clue what they're for, but yours isn't the only device with them (so I doubt it was a refurb, as previously suggested).
(via http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung-Galaxy-Nexus-Teardown/7182/1 )
It looks like they are possible being used as a buffer to protect the way the case rubs on some of the components. Possibly like an antistatic protectant
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It's probably electrical insulation.
lol as if they would be slipping refurbs back into the market as new phones! Not having a great pic to base it on these are either shorting or wear protection
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It's probably electrical insulation.
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This.
Look what's under the tape .. you can see metallic circuits under all of them.
-> http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/qqCnaRuXSHnMhDXJ.huge
Check out my water sensor:
http://i.imgur.com/vrJJw.jpg
My phone was NEVER near water, is there any way to make it white again? Could this happen of air humidity (it was really hot today, I left it in my pocket for whole day).
I tried to clean it off but you know it won't work.
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Check out my water sensor:
http://i.imgur.com/vrJJw.jpg
My phone was NEVER near water, is there any way to make it white again? Could this happen of air humidity (it was really hot today, I left it in my pocket for whole day).
I tried to clean it off but you know it won't work.
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High humidity such as in your pocket can seem like water damage with both the humidity + pressure. Not sure about cleaning it off, but rather actually letting it dry out, but I think the indicator is probably permanent.
someone once told me bleach works, or alcohal or something like that, not sure, never tried. I know you can buy new stickers off ebay... but if your not trading it in for warranty then it shouldn't matter what color it is
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someone once told me bleach works, or alcohal or something like that, not sure, never tried. I know you can buy new stickers off ebay... but if your not trading it in for warranty then it shouldn't matter what color it is
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Yeah the phone works great but when it won't in future (I just assume it will brake soon lol) in theorey my warranty is gone.
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Yeah the phone works great but when it won't in future (I just assume it will brake soon lol) in theorey my warranty is gone.
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Technically your warranty is gone regardless of what you do to the sticker, as I bet you anything there's at least 2 more of those stickers inside of the device somewhere.
I think there are on 2 in theses phones, both visable without taking the case apart. there may be a third but I don't recall one. either way these phone are actually quite resilient, much more so then most phones. I feel the chance of them breaking before warranty ends is very slim... but whatever you want to do. just google "how to change water damage sticker color" or something to that effect. if you need to open your phone you can also get new void stickers... just saying
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I think there are on 2 in theses phones, both visable without taking the case apart. there may be a third but I don't recall one. either way these phone are actually quite resilient, much more so then most phones. I feel the chance of them breaking before warranty ends is very slim... but whatever you want to do. just google "how to change water damage sticker color" or something to that effect. if you need to open your phone you can also get new void stickers... just saying
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Unless of course you're one of the lucky owners of the 'bad batch' of eMMC chips
Okay, so last night I was fixing the hottub, and there was barely any water in there and I hit the jets on accident, and water went all over the phone and it was soaked. It is in an otterbox defender, so most of it was saved, but my speaker is kinda iffy.
My question is, I have a feeling the 'W1' and 'W2' circles under the back cover are the water indicatorS. If they are not can someone correct me?
And also, is there any more on the phone if I send it in for warranty?
This isn't a scam attempt, just want to be sure if I send my phone in it will not be charged for water damage, because if thats the case, I am just going to keep it and suffer lol..
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Okay, so last night I was fixing the hottub, and there was barely any water in there and I hit the jets on accident, and water went all over the phone and it was soaked. It is in an otterbox defender, so most of it was saved, but my speaker is kinda iffy.
My question is, I have a feeling the 'W1' and 'W2' circles under the back cover are the water indicatorS. If they are not can someone correct me?
And also, is there any more on the phone if I send it in for warranty?
This isn't a scam attempt, just want to be sure if I send my phone in it will not be charged for water damage, because if thats the case, I am just going to keep it and suffer lol..
thanks guys
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Can't help with identifying the water telltales, but I bet you can replace the speaker in the phone if you are just a little handy with tools. I say this because I found a great YouTube video for working on an SII (I know it is different) and I was able to replace some key parts of a water damaged phone. I'll bet the SIII is just as easy to work on.
You can use bleach to turn the water indicators white again, but you will be wasting your time as there are several more water indicators inside the phone.
Ie; if you send it in for warranty and it is water damaged, they WILL know.
As for speaker replacement I'd follow the above suggestion.
I remember back in the day the old iPhones had the water stickers in the headphone jack. U just stick a small piece of white paper and you could fool the Apple employees and get away with it lol
Good luck with the phone regardless of what you do! Its far to easy to damage a phone. I've been through way too many.
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Yes there are more indicators in the phone. I am sorry but you will end up having to pay the deductible for a replacement if returned for service.
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how can it NOT be seen as an attempt at fraud ?
he is trying to cheat the system; and other users are giving him advice on how to circumvent the water damage identifiers that are in place.
its people like this that increase the price of insurance for everyone else.
No he's not, he said if there are other areas where the phone might of gotten wet he would keep it and deal with it, or fix it. Not fake it out to get a freebie. Now some of the suggestions have been iffy... But I think the op has a clear goal, and fraud is not it.
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Hey man, I dropped my S3 in the toilet and it was in there for under a second. My speaker was sounding SUPER FUNKY, like someone put autotune on it or something. After a couple of hours the phone dried off and it works perfect. No problems at all.
remind me not to borrow your phone...
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Yes there are more indicators in the phone. I am sorry but you will end up having to pay the deductible for a replacement if returned for service.
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I hate to state the obvious, but if you go to the dev sections you will see all kinds of people telling people how to get around warranty claims by not tripping flash counters etc while breaking the warranty and flashing custom roms. I know it's not exactly the same, just sayin fraud is fraud.edit...which I'm guilty of. Crap.
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Agreed I just got this but the note had an entire forum dedicated to resetting the flash counter....fraud....but if you dayb out a sticker over the water indicator it's worse...??
Anyway can someone moist a picture of the water indicators that are visible...I literally have had the phone for two hours, rooted it and it BBC has not been near water...I have the red one...I can tell the one next to the battery next to the word cell that's printed on the battery and then the one on the top of the battery itself...but there is a few pinholes that are tinier than the one I see that are red that look like borderline indicators/I guess random holes in the phone...
So anyway are the two I see the only visible ones or are there more? Thanks ladies/gents
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Agreed I just got this but the note had an entire forum dedicated to resetting the flash counter....fraud....but if you dayb out a sticker over the water indicator it's worse...??
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yes, because a software issue is something that can be fixed w/o sending it to Samsung, or your insurance provider. a physical issue, obviously not.
I got a ton of inventory for galaxy s3 parts at the shop I get them cheap from my connect if you need parts please pm me I can try to see if I can get them
sooooooo my phone has no visible water damage stickers other than the one on the battery... so could one simply replace the battery on this specific water damaged phone and get away with sending it in for a factory warranty??
orrrr are there hidden ones?
Sprint GS3 got new in November 2012
qs504792 said:
sooooooo my phone has no visible water damage stickers other than the one on the battery... so could one simply replace the battery on this specific water damaged phone and get away with sending it in for a factory warranty??
orrrr are there hidden ones?
Sprint GS3 got new in November 2012
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much thanks offered to whoever has some knowledge they are willing to share.
Search for a video where they take it apart.
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There us at least one on the inside of the phone.
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