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[Q] Dropped my HTC Desire Z in the water

(I know there is some topics here in similar subject, but I'm having desire z with lid structure and the phone was in the water only for a short time)
I know it's not smart to take expensive smart phone to toilet with you, especially when the phone is on your hand. Well, I wen't to take a leak and the phone slipped off my left hand and dropped straight to the dirty water in the toilet seat. Picked it up immediately, it was in the water about 1-3 seconds.
The screen was on before getting wet and turned immediately off, the lights on front flashed couple of seconds and I took battery and simcard out immediately. Shaked it a bit and tried to dry it with paper and left it on the towel which was on the warm radiator.
I have googled now a long time and got very different solutions... I'm not going to try any of them since some of the solutions are clearly by trolls. I'm not going to put my phone to the water or sack of rice, I'm not going to use hair dryer since I don't have one. I don't think I have rice either...
What is to be done here? Is my phone dead and gone... ? I had it about a month and I'm scared if it doesn't work any more. I use it both in work and home and this is really bad situation for me.
I made first mistake and tried turn the phone on too soon, about under an hour since the accident. As soon as I put the battery on I got the dim orange led light, the screen was black. When pressed the power button it vibrated three (3) times and nothing happened. I then took the battery and SIM off again and put it back on the radiator. Now I'm going to have it there until tomorrow morning I go to work. If it's still not working, I have to use my Nokia E90 since I get it fixed or.... I have to buy the new phone... damn it.
While waiting, any solutions available? Warranty is not covering this for sure.
And please, do not start conversation about "why phone in the toilet?" or things like that. The accident already happened and there is no point thinking "why"? I learned my lesson and this is the first time in my gadget history when something dumb like this happens... I feel like I have won in the lottery, same chances...
I had rooted Virtuous and I'm from Finland if it counts something...

rollex said:
I have googled now a long time and got very different solutions... I'm not going to try any of them since some of the solutions are clearly by trolls.
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What makes you so sure? Don't knock the bag of rice trick. A ton of people on here have advocated its use, and swear by it. Its supposedly a natural desiccant. Rice is cheap, and it really can't hurt at this point, can it?

The "dirty water" might contain salt... if so the salt will short out the components ... I had a old WM 6 phone that dropped in to the ocean.
The keypad for it stopped working had to take it apart and clean off the salt from the ribbons and components, you can clean with a Q-tip and some rubbing alcohol (worked fine after that).
Whatever you do don't use a blow dryer it will melt the components in your phone.
Try letting it dry naturally. or the Rice Idea.

The rice is not a trick -- it really works for getting the moisture out.

luckye Smartphones are not so expensive these days.
If I dropped my phone in the toilet I would get a new phone for exsmpe a HTC Sensation 1.2GHz dual-core, qHD display, and Sense 3.0 or evo 3D

Thanks for the comments! @redpoint73, Some of the tips sounded really bizarre to me, like dropping the phone again to full bowl or glass of water or even alcohol, letting it fully drown to water and alcohol and leave it there for certain amount of time...? or put it in the freezer for hours? or in the oven for too long time? what??
Now when I think of it, the white rice sounds ok. But I still don't feel that easy to use the tip even if I could borrow the neighbour's.
I decided from the start I let it dry naturally. It seems very dry from outside, not much water came out from the start and it was "under water" (I don't think it fully drowned even yet) only 1-3 secs like I said, that's why I tried it on in the first place... my mistake.
I hope I have not bricked the phone. I will keep you posted.

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Now when I think of it, the white rice sounds ok. But I still don't feel that easy to use the tip even if I could borrow the neighbour's.
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Let me ask you this: is it easier than buying a new phone???

redpoint73 said:
Let me ask you this: is it easier than buying a new phone???
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Nice question, got me thinking. I meant there is just too much those answers around "just let it dry naturally" and because this is new situation for me I try to avoid damaging it more, which I've may have already done by trying to start it again, but anyways, doh...
Anyways, I found basmati/eastern white rice and put it to rice bag on the rice. I'm afraid it might get inside the phone. The phone will now be on the rice overnight.

enp82003 said:
The "dirty water" might contain salt... if so the salt will short out the components ...
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If there were piss or similar, it contains sulfuric acid and other mild acids. That might not have very good effect to htc desire z electronics...

stian230 said:
luckye Smartphones are not so expensive these days.
If I dropped my phone in the toilet I would get a new phone for exsmpe a HTC Sensation 1.2GHz dual-core, qHD display, and Sense 3.0 or evo 3D
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What toilet did you drop your G2 in? *grabs gloves*
if you saw $100 in a toilet would you pull it out?

rollex said:
Nice question, got me thinking. I meant there is just too much those answers around "just let it dry naturally" and because this is new situation for me I try to avoid damaging it more, which I've may have already done by trying to start it again, but anyways, doh...
Anyways, I found basmati/eastern white rice and put it to rice bag on the rice. I'm afraid it might get inside the phone. The phone will now be on the rice overnight.
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yeah trying to power it on prob wasn't the best idea... sorry for the generic trying to let it dry naturally if you don't have rice. I am just going by my own experiences with cell phones the last 10 years since back when Nokia Candy bar style phone were the norm. If you just let it naturally dry for a day with the battery out and then try turning it back there is a 70% chance it might turn back on.
"60% of the time it works every time "

I would take the battery out, then leave the phone in a bowl of pure alcohol
After a couple of minutes swishing it around I would leave it in a bowl of rice to get ALL of the moisture out

enp82003 said:
if you saw $100 in a toilet would you pull it out?
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I see the workings of a new candid camera or punked or some sort of tv show with this idea... XD
But that sucks, man. Good luck. I hope the phone doesn't smell after this.

Soaking it in isopropyl alcohol 99% will clean all of the electronics and draw out the water and piss.
Then bury it in a bag of white rice for 24 hours, alcohol evaporates extremly fast, but after 24 she should be clean and dry.
I say this because I am an electronic tech by trade and have used this method successfully numerous times. The even better thing to do is to completly disemble the phone, clean with alcohol and dry but most people find it easier to just drop it in a bowl then a bag of rice.
Good luck dude
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Okay, it has been in the rice now overnight and everything works except the touch screen. I put it back to rice and let it be there for a days or so, in the mean time I think I will call my local store and ask what to do. And tell my boss (I use this phone as work as well). I have to use my old Nokia while gettin the solution...
Thanks for the precious tips!

ptesmoke said:
Soaking it in isopropyl alcohol 99% will clean all of the electronics and draw out the water and piss.
Then bury it in a bag of white rice for 24 hours, alcohol evaporates extremly fast, but after 24 she should be clean and dry.
I say this because I am an electronic tech by trade and have used this method successfully numerous times. The even better thing to do is to completly disemble the phone, clean with alcohol and dry but most people find it easier to just drop it in a bowl then a bag of rice.
Good luck dude
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Sorry had to ask ever since i heard this idea... submerging it in a bowl with alcohol.... wouldn't that kill the screen? since the screen it's liquid crystals? Sorry ahead of time for not understanding...

enp82003 said:
... submerging it in a bowl with alcohol.... wouldn't that kill the screen?
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I was thinking exactly the same, but was too afraid to ask it

Screen should be sealed..
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Wow, my first post here gets to be about dropping my G1 in the toilet.
Except my G1 sat in the bottom of the toilet for a good 2 hours. Let me tell you, that was quite the shocking discovery when I went back in the bathroom to take a leak! Well after 2 hours of sitting in water I wrote it off and headed straight out and got my G2. I did immediately pull the battery out and rinsed it off under fresh water and wiped it down with disinfectant. When I got back from purchasing the G2 I put the G1 in a bowl of rice and it sat there for at least 3 days before I thought to try turning it on. And of course it works flawlessly now.
The key I thing is that I didn't even bother trying to see if it still worked by powering it on after a few hours. Made that mistake with prior phones, and that is probably what kills most phones that have been submerged. So resist the temptation to check and see if it still works and just let it sit in a covered bowl of rice for a few days.
My 8 year old now plays with the G1 which she calls the "toilet phone". :d

ptesmoke said:
Screen should be sealed..
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You have to know exactly what you're doing before trying it... for me it sounds too dangerous.
I have decided to let my phone be in rice bag until Thursday morning, if it does not work by then I will boot it to recovery mode and nandroid backup all my data and then take it to repair service... I hope it works and it does not cost much...
Thanks for hanging with me.

Bath time with evo

My daughter just my evo into the tub with her. It was cute, but now the phone doesn't work. Is rice still the best way to dry these out?

alaman68 said:
My daughter just my evo into the tub with her. It was cute, but now the phone doesn't work. Is rice still the best way to dry these out?
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well, i wont work 100% any longer , your best bet, since its happened to me a few times, (jumped in pool, and got caught in rain) take out battery, the camera is probably fogged up, and the speaker is ful of water, take off the speaker mesh, and with a q-tip dry it up as much as possible, air dry for a bit , with a hair blower., and be cautious to not over heat it...it can start to warp..... then leave in with a moisture absorbent medium, I had a whole lot of silica gel packs, so i stuck my phone in a plastic container with a whole lot of silica and a bit of rice as filler... did the trick.. overnight btw....

Also I hear that using distilled water to clean it before putting in the rice, to get rid of anything left behind. Might want to look that up before doing though.
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distilled water or rubbing alcohol to clean up, then leave in rice for at least 24 hours, 48 wouldn't hurt a bit

You can also vacuum it, as weird as it sounds, it actually sucks out the moisture quite well. Use distilled water when you're cleaning it, because distilled water doesn't conduct electricity (water with minerals does).
Earthshine0 out-

This EXACT same thing happened with my last phone, daughter and all. I took out of tub submerged in distilled water then put in a ziplock with battery out for a few days. It worked 100% for me, although it wasn't an EVO. Can't guarantee that it would work for you.
Only your own kid can make chucking your EVO in a tub cute....and youll be able to joke with her about it when she's older.

Last night I zip locked it in a bag of rice. When I came downstairs this, I guess my wife wanted to see if it worked and the phone on. Even though it didn't dry out very long, it appears to working. Interested to see how long it lasts now.

alaman68 said:
Last night I zip locked it in a bag of rice. When I came downstairs this, I guess my wife wanted to see if it worked and the phone on. Even though it didn't dry out very long, it appears to working. Interested to see how long it lasts now.
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It probably wont work very long. The WORST thing you can do to a wet phone is try to turn it on to see if it works. If there is ANY water still in it, you just fried the board. People need to learn to just WAIT, at least 48 hours, for the phone to completely dry out. If you do this, you have a greater chance of the phone working perfectly.

yeah, my goal was 48 hours in the bag of rice. However, since my wife didn't believe that system would work, she eagerly tried it before i was downstairs this morning.
so far so good. battery is draining a little quicker than usual though.

sucks
good luck!
last phones ta bottom of pool. yanked battery right away and were fine 24 hours later.

Water Damage

We've all seen the various posts of HELP I HAVE WATER DAMAGE. In fact a global search of XDA will net you with a LOT of posts asking for help.
Everything from I dropped it in the snow, to my kid put it in the toilet, and my personal favorite, I was listening to music while in the shower and it vibrated itself into the toilet. :good:
But in all these cases the poster is asking what to do, their beloved device won't power on and they have something "important" that they forgot to back up and need off of the device.
I've seen such things as put it into a bag of rice (usually about a 25% chance of recovery), and wrap it in paper towels. Even 1 suggested to put it in the microwave.
Lets put some of these myth's do rest shall we. Lets start with the microwave. DUDE WTH are you thinking? Electronics, microwave, BAD IDEA! No ten seconds, no 5 seconds, not even 1 second. You are just begging for BAD to happen, DON'T EVEN THINK OF IT!
Wrap the device in paper towels, while YES paper towels are absorbent, they are NOT going to get the water out from the inside of the device, no matter how "open" you have it.
Putting the device in a bag or jar of flour. AGAIN BAD IDEA! While YES flour is very good at pulling moisture it is just going to cake up and actually cause even MORE damage to the device.
Hair dryer, Ok this does have SOME merit, but again heat to an electronic device is not something that you REALLY want. Especially with many devices being made of plastic now days. This will end up with permanent fogging of the glass and render the device virtually unusable.
Rice Rice Baby....duh nah nuh nuh nah nuh nuh, put it in a bag of white rice baby. Rice is a FOOD, while it does react to water well, it is not a very good idea, but then again it is a FAR CRY better then the ones above. This could work, but I would rather leave the device as open to the air as possible and let it air dry for a week then put an electronic device into a bag of rice.
Silica Jell, Silica Jell WILL pull moisture out of the air, and in fact in an enclosed space such as a zip locking bag, they work VERY WELL at pulling moisture out of electronic devices. Now I've heard of complaints about how expensive these little baggies are to the average consumer, but NO they are not.
You say you can't afford to buy silica jell packs? Well why not? Many of you are married, and have had to take that HORRID trip to the shoe store. Instead of just playing with your phone or what ever, while your wife is off looking at some new pumps or heels that she "needs," go up to a store clerk and ask them if they have any of the little bags of silica sitting around. Tell them what you need it for, and 9 out of 10 times you will walk out of the shoe store with not just new shoes for your wife, but a FREE insurance policy for your beloved electronic devices.
Hit up several shoe stores, get yourself a bag full of them. Get them home and hide them away. I prefer to put them into a vacuum seal jar and vacuum seal the jar closed. This does a couple things. It keeps the silica jell from absorbing any free moisture in the air, and often makes it so that little hands won't mess with them. All in all you want about 200 of the little baggies. WHY. Because I told you to, no really the reason is, that some will already be full, and others will not, you just never know for certain.
When that inevitable moment comes that you need to recover from your arse hole brother in law pushing you into the pool with your new device, open that jar up, grab a zip locking type bag, drop your device in it, then cover that sucker with all you can fit. Leave your device in the bag for AT LEAST 3 days with the battery out and all in the bag. let those little insurance policies do their job for you. There is of course a level of failure in this but it is by far more effective then any of the above posted "methods."
I did a personal test over the last 2 weeks with an old HTC Tilt. That dad burned thing has been sitting in my desk for a couple years now BEGGING to have something done to it. Well now it did.
I filled a mixing bowl with water and turned the phone on, and waited for it to get done booting up. Once it was done I dropped it into the bowl and waited 5 seconds. Reached in, grabbed it out and yanked the back off and took the battery out. Put the phone, battery, back and all into a zip locking type bag, and removed the sim card and sd card. Opened up my handy dandy jar of silica jell packs and poured them into the bag.
I zipped it closed and left the phone in there for 5 days. Pulled it out, and looked over the phone. YES the water indicator had been tripped I put the battery back in, put the back on, put in the sim card, and pressed the power button. Then out of no where I heard my phone come to life, and the screen was just fine. The phone has been sitting plugged into a wall socket and left on for 5 days now. So far no issues, not even a speaker issue.
After I pulled the Tilt out of the bag, I decided WHY NOT, and dropped my old Tilt 2 into a bowl of water and did the same thing. And now, it too is sitting plugged in to a wall socket and left on for a couple days. Only issue with it so far is that it OCCASIONALLY has a bit of "static" with certain alert tones.
So here I sit with a 100% success rate for 2 devices intentionally put into what would normally be the end of life for an electronic device.
So do yourself a favor, and get a bunch of those little baggies and save them up for when you need them. I would however recommend replacing the ENTIRE LOT of them every few months, even if you have them vacuum sealed. Why, because i told you to. No, really, it is because everything has some sort of expiration. Better to keep them refreshed then to find out that you didn't change them out 2 years ago and they absorbed all the moisture out of the air in the bathroom where you hid them.

Rice is hygroscopic and works just fine as a drying agent since you're not drying your phone for a month. better than open air.
gel, not jell

I got a cracked up screen, i'm really hoping I don't have to fight water damage... (i know how to replace the glass and I plan on doing it sometime sorta soon)
I think I'd prefer cracked screen to water damage if I had to pick.
Way back when I had a little iPod nano that went into the wash with and old Samsung flip phone the phone died but the iPod survived. I had put them in front of a wall heater, basically equivalent to a hair dryer i guess.
just be smart don't get your phone wet
OH any thoughts on Liquipel? http://www.liquipel.com/
sounds like they use a vacuum to coat everything inside.
I'd be interested to try some of NeverWet's product with my vacuum pump
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7is6r6zXFDc
http://www.neverwet.com/index.php
But it sounds like they aren't in production yet.

Ok. My wife dropped her two week old GS3 in the toilet and few weeks back. She claims it started making weird noises and the screen was flashing. She turned it off and let it dry out in the sun. A couple of hours later she returned home and I turned it on. There was a green hue to the screen.The touch screen was unresponsive. I turned it off and took out the battery, sd card and sim card. I shook the phone and felt some water come out. We put the phone in a zip lock bag filled with rice and a handful of those little descicant packets. Her idea. We let the phone sit there for around 36 hours. We then turned it back on and everything did and still does work fine.
I doubt the rice or packets actually did anything. I think just giving it time to dry was all that was needed. Just my personal experience.
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jjm3175 said:
I doubt the rice or packets actually did anything. I think just giving it time to dry was all that was needed. Just my personal experience.
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The rice and silica absolutely did something - its the chemical equivalent of vacuuming the moisture out of every nook and cranny. You'll never air dry it as much.
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Silca gel does 999x better then air drying,it even takes the moisture from water spots. Do not air dry please. You will build corrosion from water and oxygen on electronic parts
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Saiboogu said:
The rice and silica absolutely did something - its the chemical equivalent of vacuuming the moisture out of every nook and cranny. You'll never air dry it as much.
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The air in your home has some moisture/humidity already, making air drying much less effective than silica gel or rice.

I guess I should be thankful for my wife's shoe buying habit since I'm the one who paid for the phone lol.
Good thread.
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Phone got wet in a ridiculous way. Help!

I was wearing a zip up hoodie and washed my face in the sink by splashing water on my face, which I do several times a day. My phone was in my hoodie pocket. I walked from the bathroom to my bedroom where my towel was and proceeded to dry my face. All of a sudden I hear water dripping on my bedroom floor. Eventually I figure out the water is coming from my pocket. How the hell did that much water get in my pocket from washing my face? So I reach in my pocket and its pretty dry but my phone is in there! Pull my phone out and its drenched! Water s dripping a lot out of my phone and not my pocket.
So now my phone flickers when I turn it on and eventually the screen goes black. I'm pissed that it happened this way instead of me being drunk and dropping it in the toilet. Can someone please tell me how to fix it? PS I have no rice
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sd0070 said:
I was wearing a zip up hoodie and washed my face in the sink by splashing water on my face, which I do several times a day. My phone was in my hoodie pocket. I walked from the bathroom to my bedroom where my towel was and proceeded to dry my face. All of a sudden I hear water dripping on my bedroom floor. Eventually I figure out the water is coming from my pocket. How the hell did that much water get in my pocket from washing my face? So I reach in my pocket and its pretty dry but my phone is in there! Pull my phone out and its drenched! Water s dripping a lot out of my phone and not my pocket.
So now my phone flickers when I turn it on and eventually the screen goes black. I'm pissed that it happened this way instead of me being drunk and dropping it in the toilet. Can someone please tell me how to fix it? PS I have no rice
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Put out battery and simcard, and let it dry. I have heard that you should put it in a bag of rice, the rice should dry out de water
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You shouldn't have tried to turn it on in the first case but no problem . Pull out ur battery keep the phone for about two to three days in raw rice bowl.. like the phone should be totally covered. Rice is a water absorbing agent and will help dry the display and the internals of ur phone. All d best
Hope ur nexus comes kicking back to life. :thumbup:
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If you don't have any rice then go buy some. It's probably going to be worth the investment.
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You can try the rice method, but i'm afraid the damage has already been done. Electronics are surprisingly waterproof; it is the electric current sent through the components that short out because of the water. The best thing to do when a device gets wet is to shut it down immediately and remove the battery.

best thing is to submerse it in isopropyl alcohol and swish it around to force the water out. it dries a lot quicker and won't damage the components.
source : I'm an electrical engineer
the isopropyl method is way more surefire than the rice method alone

+1 on the Isopropyl Alcohol idea, try to get a 91% one if you can, 70% Isopropyl Alcohol usually leave water marks.

crixley said:
best thing is to submerse it in isopropyl alcohol and swish it around to force the water out. it dries a lot quicker and won't damage the components.
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the isopropyl method is way more surefire than the rice method alone
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This is the method I used the one time it's happened to me.

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+1 on the Isopropyl Alcohol idea, try to get a 91% one if you can, 70% Isopropyl Alcohol usually leave water marks.
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99% is the best way to go, should be easily available in pharmacies, hardware stores, grocery stores, hell, even farm and feed stores have it for horses, in larger quantities for cheaper.

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99% is the best way to go, should be easily available in pharmacies, hardware stores, grocery stores, hell, even farm and feed stores have it for horses, in larger quantities for cheaper.
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But sadly I can only find 70% around the pharmacies..
And yes, get the Isopropyl Alcohol with the least water content.
Beamed from my Maguro.

Take the Soyez rocket into oribit, don a space suit and take your Gnex with you for a space walk. The vacuum will instantly boil off the fluid to gas which will disperse in the vacuum, and your phone will be dry internally.
Or if you would like to try a less dramatic measure than the above, or even the other posters's suggestions then put the phone (without the battery) in a plastic bin bag with a damp catcher, which can be bought for about $1 or 1 pound from shops such as Poundland. Seal the bag with a plastic clip or an old fashioned knot to make it water tight. Leave this lot be for 48 hours, and when you take the phone out, it will be bone dry inside and out.
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Rice
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Camera Condensation

Anyone ever had condensation under the camera glass? Went to take a picture this morning and it looked blurry, upon closer look I noticed condensation under the camera housing. It was fine yesterday, no contact with any moisture, now this.. Also, even if I can get rid of the condensation wouldn't some kind of residue remain? I'd appreciate suggestions on this, I have three kids, two of them under the age of two so I use my camera daily. Help please!

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Anyone ever had condensation under the camera glass? Went to take a picture this morning and it looked blurry, upon closer look I noticed condensation under the camera housing. It was fine yesterday, no contact with any moisture, now this.. Also, even if I can get rid of the condensation wouldn't some kind of residue remain? I'd appreciate suggestions on this, I have three kids, two of them under the age of two so I use my camera daily. Help please!
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You don't take your phone into the bathroom while you shower or subject it to very quick temperature changes do you ?
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Put it in a bag of rice and let it sit there till you dont see the condensation anymore. More than likley if there is condensation behind the camera lense, it is in the whole phone. Drying it out might leave a residue, but probably not noticable.

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You don't take your phone into the bathroom while you shower or subject it to very quick temperature changes do you ?
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Negative. Literally sat on my night stand all night. Phone got hot while backing up, wiping and flashing new rom this morning. I wouldn't think hot enough to cause condensation though.

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Negative. Literally sat on my night stand all night. Phone got hot while backing up, wiping and flashing new rom this morning. I wouldn't think hot enough to cause condensation though.
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No but hot could be another sign of moisture in the phone. Might want to put that puppy in a bag of dry white rice for a little.
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dottat said:
No but hot could be another sign of moisture in the phone. Might want to put that puppy in a bag of dry white rice for a little.
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So I set my phone on a cold metal filing cabinet and the condensation went away. Leads me to believe there is moisture in the phone, which makes sense that heat would cause the condensation. Time to get some white rice, brown rice is all I have in the cupboard. Stupid racist moisture. Thanks for the replies, I was getting scared. All is well now, carry on. :laugh:

mcampos7 said:
So I set my phone on a cold metal filing cabinet and the condensation went away. Leads me to believe there is moisture in the phone, which makes sense that heat would cause the condensation. Time to get some white rice, brown rice is all I have in the cupboard. Stupid racist moisture. Thanks for the replies, I was getting scared. All is well now, carry on. :laugh:
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Brown rice might absorb moisture too. Or try salt.

Brown rice should work, but i wouldnt use salt. Salt gets sticky when it absorbs moisture.

Actually rice isn't good for the phone. Rice has a lot of dust which can cause more damage than good.
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tylerlawhon said:
Actually rice isn't good for the phone. Rice has a lot of dust which can cause more damage than good.
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Your not suppose to shake it arround or bury the phone in it. Just set it in a big ziplock bag filled with rice. On top of the rice, not covered in it. They also make products for this, i seen one at walmart for 30 bucks.