I Just dropped my DHD in toilet. However I managed to pull out the battery in less than 10 seconds. Is there any hope. Have no courage to put the battery back in .
Please advise.
Hey dude.
Put your phone in a bowl of rice and place that in your airing cupboard or somewhere really warm for a couple (2) days, 48 hours.
Do not keep going back to check it, just leave it alone.
After the 48 hours check your phone, if you see no obvious water retention then take the plunge and power it up.
If it still seems to have water in it, put it back in the rice and warm place for another day.
Hope this helps.
Greg.
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Thanks.
Hope this helps,
Do I have to dissassemble the the phone?
Nope just stick it in the rice
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I had the same problem once with my nokia e66. It was completely wet after falling into a river during a canoe tour. I dried it in rice and it worked for the moment. After a while caused by corrosion on the board it won't charge. So i dissembeled it and put the board into isopropanol until the fluid evaporated. After that i cleaned the board with a soft toothbrush and reassembled the phone. From that point i never had a problem again.
So you got two options. Wait if phone gets strange behaviour and risk a heavier damage or dissemble it directly and put the board into isopropanol.
For me it worked fine! Good Luck!
look on youtube there is a lot of movies that will show you what to do its importent that you do it very quick....
Today, After keeping belowed DHD in rice bowl for 2days and gathering all my courage I managed to insert the battery. Then before even pressing any buttons, It vibrated once and stopped. Then I pressed power button and was not responding. I tryed pulling out the battery and then reinserted and pressed power button again. turned on with a vibration followed by bootscreen. after few minutes the lock screen appeared. I tried unlocking but was not responding to my touch. OMG. My touch screen is gone.
what to do next?
It's mashed if the touch has gone you can repair it yourself..videos are about
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if i where you i would dissamble it and dry it of with some paper
and gently use a hairdraier or something and dry it up
you can see here how you can dissamble it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfatoeWbMRk
Thanks to all. I'm gonna disassemble it.
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Thanks to all. I'm gonna disassemble it.
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You should clean it with alcohol. Isopropyl alcohol (used for circuits)
It's the safest way.
Get a brush and alcohol from your nearest hardware store and you'll be set.
Clean it thoroughly and it will probably be back in working condition instantly.
I've done it tons of times with water damaged phones.
Not severe salt-water damage though.
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Hi all,
My GF has a G2. A few days ago she put it in her cup holder in her car. There was a few mm of water from a degraded fast food cup in the cup holder. She told me that the water might have reached the earphone.
We let the phone dry out for 48hrs and put the battery back in. Initially it worked for about 6hrs with no problems but when she came home from work the phone would only boot into the bootloader. Once in the bootloader I can not select any options nor turn the phone off. Taking the battery out is the only option, but when it's put back in we go back to the bootloader.
I have attached a picture of the bootloader screen. You can see there is some striation on the bottom of the screen. This striation is at the opposite end from where the phone touched the water.
1. is the striation normal? (think I know the ans to that one but...)
2. Can I try anything to get the phone up and running?
3. Would it be worth a warranty replacement call? The White dot behind the battery is still white, but I think the screen could be a give away to water damage.
Looks like water trapped under the screen. Water could have run from one end of the phone to the other, especially if you held it back upright while water was still inside. Or it could have re-condensed in a different spot from where it was submerged.
If water is still trapped under the screen, its obviously not completely dry. I would try to dry it more, you can try the trick of placing the phone in a bag of uncooked rice, or chemical dessicant packs (like the kind some items come packed with that say "do not eat") to help pull the water out of the phone. 2 days does not seems like enough time, if you just tried just air drying it without one of these tricks. Power off until you are more sure the phone is dry, or you are just doing more damage.
Rice is your best bet right now. It can work wonders.
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Rice trick is your best bet. Might be too late now. Should have never turned it back on, and if it was on at the time, should have shut it off immediately till you consulted xda. At least you will know for next time! Good luck! Fyi you didn't need to blur that stuff out.
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Put it under a 100w lamp or.under something warm, leave for 24hrs
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evo 4g slid off my lap wall turning a corner and landed in my 1qt 3/4s full cup of water. it wasn't till my second twitter text that i finely figured out were the fancy lights were coming from. i pulled the phone had my fiance take the cover and battery out instantly.
when i got home we took the phone, with no battery and back and submerged it in rice. after three days the phone seamed dry except for a small amount of water trapped between the digitizer and the screen. after another two days in rice i tracked down the tools needed to disassemble my phone to let out the trapped water.
while letting out the trapped water i broke the ribbon cable for the digitizer and had to order a replacement. 5 days later i installed the new digitizer only to find that my phone would not boot past the white EVO 4g Sprint screen. (given normal time)
over the days and mostly after rooting my replacement Evo i managed to get the swimming one to boot into Hboot/fastboot. from there it froze before booting into recovery. so i flashed a new recovery. then after letting it boot for 15min i got into recovery were i flashed a new rom.
where i stand now.
the phone takes a 20+ to boot then once it does i cant unlock the phone or get any indication that the touch is working. additionally when i hit the power button and wait a solid minute it brings up the lock screen again, shows the lock screen then immediately goes black again.
im running out of things flash. any ideas.
The phone has hardware damage. Sry boss.
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Hey,
Yeah unfortunately you probably fried the electronics and corrupt the data, water damage kills phones and if you dont dry it out in rice until its all done your probally going to fry your phone! so you should be lucky if your sd card still works after this!
But this is all hardware and you will need to get your phone replaced hopefully you have TEP!
I wish you the best of luck!
Stevo
I will reinforce the above statements. If your SD card doesnt work then plug it into your computer, enter disk manager, and see if your system at least sees that the disk is present. If it does then you can run File Scavenger and save your files. If not....then toss it in the trash with your phone.
i don't think it is a hardware issue. i have examined the board and can find no evidence of a short. also the phone boots, it takes a while but it boots, Hboot and Recovery (now) are fully functional. if it was hardware seams i would have less than i have.
is there a way to get a hardware error log or report through fastboot or adb? I'm not going to replace any components but it would be nice to at least know for sure what the final nail is/was.
O the SD card never gave me an issue. have been using it in both my temp phone and the replacement evo mentioned in the original post.
Ok, this is what you do....unless you have a great knowledge of microcircuits and boards, water damage repair is not an exact science.
I own a repair shop and this is what I do and I have about a 70% success rate.
Take apart your whole phone again, go to the store (K-Mart, Walmart, Drug Store and get a bottle of atleast 92% Isopropyl Alcohol. Submerge only the logic board in the alcohol and let it sit 2-3 hours. Then while still in the container of alcohol take a soft bristle toothbrush and clean all the contacts.
Take the logic board out and let dry (Should only take about 30 mins, alcohol dries very fast)
Reassemble and try to boot!!!
Best of luck to you!!!
it worked
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Ok, this is what you do....unless you have a great knowledge of microcircuits and boards, water damage repair is not an exact science.
I own a repair shop and this is what I do and I have about a 70% success rate.
Take apart your whole phone again, go to the store (K-Mart, Walmart, Drug Store and get a bottle of atleast 92% Isopropyl Alcohol. Submerge only the logic board in the alcohol and let it sit 2-3 hours. Then while still in the container of alcohol take a soft bristle toothbrush and clean all the contacts.
Take the logic board out and let dry (Should only take about 30 mins, alcohol dries very fast)
Reassemble and try to boot!!!
Best of luck to you!!!
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so this worked. the phone boots, unlocks, and does all the basic things i would expect it to for not having all of its screws
NewTalk said:
Ok, this is what you do....unless you have a great knowledge of microcircuits and boards, water damage repair is not an exact science.
I own a repair shop and this is what I do and I have about a 70% success rate.
Take apart your whole phone again, go to the store (K-Mart, Walmart, Drug Store and get a bottle of atleast 92% Isopropyl Alcohol. Submerge only the logic board in the alcohol and let it sit 2-3 hours. Then while still in the container of alcohol take a soft bristle toothbrush and clean all the contacts.
Take the logic board out and let dry (Should only take about 30 mins, alcohol dries very fast)
Reassemble and try to boot!!!
Best of luck to you!!!
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Very cool. In case I ever drop mine in some water I'll try this.
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long term affects
the phone takes forever to boot. i'm talking 10 min at the minimum. i have installed several ROMs, upgraded the recovery, no matter what i do this phone takes 100 200 % longer to boot than any of my other evo 4gs running the same rom, kernel, and recovery.
any ideas?
it really slows down my testing.
I want to test ROMS and use as a remote for my XBMC setup.
Did this work?
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Did this work?
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YES IT DID.
I use it as a network remote and for games, so i haven't tested the cell phone aspects of the phone but i don't see why they wouldn't work.
the long boot time is only draw back i have found.
I bid farewell to my old time buddy(My Desire HD) the other day, it got doused with a bubble solution... I tried blow-drying it for 15 minutes to dry out the battery slot & removed the sim/sdcard cover to dry it again, but can't revive my DHD. The bubble solution seeped in between the screens.
Is there anything I can do to revive it?
*The phone generally turns on screen, lights up
*LED stays on green no matter what or how long it's been on
*The phone vibrates 5-short-consecutive times after turning it on
*I haven't tried to hook it up on the charger because of fear that it might fry or short circuit some of the other "Still working" components of the phone
Bag of rice for a day.
My Atrix got soaked with soap and I bagged it for a day or 2 and it dried it all out.
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Bag of rice for a day.
My Atrix got soaked with soap and I bagged it for a day or 2 and it dried it all out.
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Will try, thanks for the suggestion.
Remove the battery first. Even if you don't have it hooked up to power, the battery's juice can still short your phone. And don't try to turn it on.
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Remove the battery first. Even if you don't have it hooked up to power, the battery's juice can still short your phone. And don't try to turn it on.
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My only remaining problem now is the screen which is not displaying anything other than a blurred out HTC splash screen.
Dry out the screen
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My only remaining problem now is the screen which is not displaying anything other than a blurred out HTC splash screen.
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Id leave it to dry in rice for a day longer.
Then, if you were comfortable in doing so, you could disassemble the phone and try using a hair dryer to dry the screen and other parts. (obviously take out the battery before doing anything, in fact take it out now so it doesn't blow or anything)
Bag of Rice is a pretty nice idea...keep ur DHD in it for 2-3 days for better effect
So I dropped my phone in my bath
It was in the bath like literally 1 second or such and I grabbed it out real quick. The screen was on all the time until I pulled the battery
I immediately pulled the battery out and cleaned the outisde with a towel.
After an hour or so I inserted the battery and it came up with the white screen itself(i didn't have to push the power button myself)
Then i waited and it got stuck on the second bootscreen(past the white HTC logo)
Then i pulled the battery out and back in, now the only thing it does is give me a red led.
Have I killed it by trying to power it on? I should've had put the phone in a bowl of rice.
Thanks in advance, any help is welcome but i think it is already dead.
Let the device dry with the lid and battery taken off, preferably near a heater or something.
Or use a dryer with lowest heat setting.
After you have dried it, put it in the freezer for 30 minutes. That should freeze the remaining water particles. Try to boot afterwards.
Thanks, I already dried it with my hairdryer. The phone is now in a bowl of rice.
After I dried it with the hairdryer I 'accidentally' put the battery back in and the screen turned on.(first I had no screen, only red led).
But I immediately pulled the battery out again. Does the fact that the screen still turns on indicate that it is probably possible to make it work again? So you say put it near a heater and then 30 minutes in the freezer? With that you mean without battery, sd card and sim card?
I'm gonna try that after I take it out of the rice.
Thanks again
Rice? Nice. Didn't think of that.
I mentioned putting the phone in the freezer without the battery because extreme temperatures damage them.
Off-topic:
This reminded me of my retarded friend who tried to dry his phone using a microwave. It didn't work... at all.. and neither does the microwave since.
Haha, it blew up? I see people recommend putting a phone with water damage in the oven though(on 50 degrees celsius it is)
I think a microwave is hotter than that. I'll let you know if I can get my phone to work.
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Haha, it blew up? I see people recommend putting a phone with water damage in the oven though(on 50 degrees celsius it is)
I think a microwave is hotter than that. I'll let you know if I can get my phone to work.
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Not sure if you guys are kidding about putting electronics in a microwave...
The only proper way is to disassemble the phone and let it dry. Then clean it with a contact spray maybe.
I dropped my DESIRE 3-4 weeks ago in the f*cking toilet.
What i did was:
pulling out the batt
cleaning the phone with antibacterial wipes
cleaning the phone with contact spray
leave it for 2 days(just in case) to dry
..and now my phone works fine.
PS: you have NO idea how much water was inside the phone, despite it was with TPU cover, and dropped in the water for not more than a 1-2 sec.
NEVER EVER rely on drying it just like that
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Haha, it blew up? I see people recommend putting a phone with water damage in the oven though(on 50 degrees celsius it is)
I think a microwave is hotter than that. I'll let you know if I can get my phone to work.
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I somehow don't think its the heat the key is in the name MICROWAVE
There'd of been sparks flying everywhere in the microwave.
Dried out Desires
Congrats on drying it out.
Be VERY careful with heat -- that's what kills things worse than water IMHO
I also have a "Drowned Desire" (cdma kind) my freind gave it to me she dropped it in sink.
Instead of rice I used the dessicant packs you get @ the ammo store. Set the phone battery out open side down on top of the dessicant and another pack on top then set the shoe-box on top of the hot water heater (it's warm-ish, and dry, area)
Left it for 5 days and it worked
Still tryin to get the rootkit out of it
Virginwidow
Here I am again, after a week in a bowl of rice the desire is working perfectly again,I was surprised that it even booted up.
I got a friend's desire so now I have two of them. Anyway, it is working again thanks to the rice.
Thanks for your help.
Hello, I have a Note 2, and today I accidentally did spill water on it, I did take out the battery, dry everything, battery, contacts, the surface, I removed the SIM card, and I have not turned it on since it happened, I'm afraid that there's still water inside; I dry it at least 5 seconds after it happened, I was readin on putting the phone in rice in a bowl, without battery, disassembled or assembled? does it work? does it has to be fully covered? it's dry now, but if you please can give me another advice, I would appreciate it, thanks!
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Hello, I have a Note 2, and today I accidentally did spill water on it, I did take out the battery, dry everything, battery, contacts, the surface, I removed the SIM card, and I have not turned it on since it happened, I'm afraid that there's still water inside; I dry it at least 5 seconds after it happened, I was readin on putting the phone in rice in a bowl, without battery, disassembled or assembled? does it work? does it has to be fully covered? it's dry now, but if you please can give me another advice, I would appreciate it, thanks!
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Yes disassemble it. i mean remove battery cover and battery too and let it in a bowl of rice(covering the phone with the rice) for a day. It'll absorb the humidity and phone should work .
hope i helped, bests
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Hello, I have a Note 2, and today I accidentally did spill water on it, I did take out the battery, dry everything, battery, contacts, the surface, I removed the SIM card, and I have not turned it on since it happened, I'm afraid that there's still water inside; I dry it at least 5 seconds after it happened, I was readin on putting the phone in rice in a bowl, without battery, disassembled or assembled? does it work? does it has to be fully covered? it's dry now, but if you please can give me another advice, I would appreciate it, thanks!
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well yes you can keep the phone on a bowl of rice but dont fully submerged the phone in rsther kkep it on top level just a bit submerged, dont ever try to to use hair dryer and stuff, rather the best way would be if you can disassemble the unit and keep it to dry moisture for a day and it should run fine after that ,do check if any motherboard has any water residue and even the digtizer if found then let it dry more until unless you are sure it has soaked the moisture
I've left the phone in a bag half covered with rice, I won't use it until tomorrow, I'm pretty sure it's ok, as I said, I dryed it in about 5 seconds after I spill the water, thanks for the help, I will let you know if it works
EDITED: It works fine! I just hope it does not give me any problem in the incoming days, thanks!!!