Mr gf has a stock galaxy nexus. She got it less than 2 months ago. Today, she grabbed it from her bag, and it was off. She turned it on, it started to boot, then shut down. Now it won't respond. It doesn't turn on at all. We tried connecting it to a charger (wall charger and car charger) - no response. We tried connecting it via usb to her laptop - no response.
She took it to verizon and they took out the battery, mentioned the sensor should be red if it had water damage then said it has water damage (even though it was still white), entered into the notes on her account that it had water damage after contradicting themselves, and told her the only way to get a new phone is to pay full price for one.
I've been reading through posts, and it looks like other bricked phones have been flashed. She doesn't even know the first thing about doing anything like that. It's a stock phone. The only thing I can think of is she downloaded some maliscious app, but I wouldn't think it'd brick the phone. Anyone experience this or know what to do aside from contact her credit card company?
Sounds like you had an incompetent CS rep at Verizon. Call and ***** or go back in. If it really doesn't have water damage then it isn't her fault, and you should be getting a replacement.
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Sounds like you had an incompetent CS rep at Verizon. Call and ***** or go back in. If it really doesn't have water damage then it isn't her fault, and you should be getting a replacement.
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This. U have proof the phone doesn't have water damage so ask to speak to a manager.
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Try with another battery...
If you can find someone else with a GNex.
It may just be that your USB port is broken and won't charge the dead battery?
But agreed...go in ASAP and be like "Dude would NOT listen to me. I'm aware that my account is flagged for having a water damaged phone. But look; there is clearly no water damage. And you can check as hard as you want. I did NOT tamper with the sticker or anything of that manner."
(Also make sure BOTH indicators are white...the one on the phone AND the battery)
Thanks. We'll see what they say. She tried calling in to customer service last night, and they told her she can use her insurance (pay $100) and get a replacement in TWO WEEKS, since they're out of stock.
does the verizon gnex actually have a water damage sticker on the battery? mine (gsm) doesnt. so if it should be there make shure it is there
cyanoviper said:
does the verizon gnex actually have a water damage sticker on the battery? mine (gsm) doesnt. so if it should be there make shure it is there
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i just pulled my battery and there's 2 spots. one on the battery and one right next to the battery pins. (its a vzw nexus)
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Hey, I found a thread on this in the SII threads to no resolution. My phone's battery has been flaky at best and when I try to reboot it I get a temperature gauge with a yellow arrow (and am not allowed to boot until I plug in the phone). Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to resolve this?
I've Reset Battery Stats and I've wiped and tried multiple roms to no avail.
I had a very similar problem. The other symptoms I had were that the phone was not recognized on computer because of the USB and the notification light wouldn't go off like it thought it was charging. By any chance do you have any of those symptoms?
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Hey, I found a thread on this in the SII threads to no resolution. My phone's battery has been flaky at best and when I try to reboot it I get a temperature gauge with a yellow arrow (and am not allowed to boot until I plug in the phone). Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to resolve this?
I've Reset Battery Stats and I've wiped and tried multiple roms to no avail.
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If you have a sprint epic 4g touch you shouldnt be on the sII section I almost bricked my phone when I got confused about the models and tried to flash a rom from there. On to the battery issue it sounds to me like you might need a new battery or there might be something wrong with the phone. I had an issue similar to that where my phone would out of the blue say battery disconnected when I charged it. I took it to sprint and it turned out it was a bad charger that was shorting my phone out. Have you tried a different charger? Believe me they can cause problems that last long after you have disconnected them. I would try a different charger and if that doesnt work take it to sprint and they will test it out and if it needs a new battery they will give you one for free and if it is something with the phone they will replace it for 35 assuming you bought it from sprint. O ya also if you take it to sprint make sure you unroot it/ return it back to stock because when I took mine in that is the first thing they asked and when I gave it to them to look at it the first thing they did was go to about phone to see if I was running any custom roms or kernals or anything like that.
I agree with rbtrucking. Sounds like a hardware issue. what is the temp hanging at? if it's really overheating a temp program should tell you if it's really actually hot or if the sensor is just going nuts, especially considering you've already tried multiple roms. I'm new to Sprint (switched from T-Mobile) so I don't know how forgiving the insurance is about sending you a new battery, but with T-Mobile I had a similar issue and they sent me a new battery free of charge. I would start with the battery first and if that doesn't work, you may wanna consider flashing to stock and sending it back for a refurb.
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I agree with rbtrucking. Sounds like a hardware issue. what is the temp hanging at? if it's really overheating a temp program should tell you if it's really actually hot or if the sensor is just going nuts, especially considering you've already tried multiple roms. I'm new to Sprint (switched from T-Mobile) so I don't know how forgiving the insurance is about sending you a new battery, but with T-Mobile I had a similar issue and they sent me a new battery free of charge. I would start with the battery first and if that doesn't work, you may wanna consider flashing to stock and sending it back for a refurb.
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Sprint is very good with customer service in my experience. Just go to a sprint store with a repair center and if you don't have insurance and the phone cannot be fixed they will give you a new one for only 35 dollars. Also they will give you a new battery free of charge if you need one. If they don't have one in the store they will mail it free of charge. I just dealt with them the other day and this is what they told me.
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Sprint is very good with customer service in my experience. Just go to a sprint store with a repair center and if you don't have insurance and the phone cannot be fixed they will give you a new one for only 35 dollars. Also they will give you a new battery free of charge if you need one. If they don't have one in the store they will mail it free of charge. I just dealt with them the other day and this is what they told me.
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Good to know, T-Mobile wasn't so forgiving. They replaced my battery but tried to screw me on my insurance claiming the rates have been raised since the previous time I needed a replacement and tried to charge me $200 for a Motorola Defy that was selling new at the time for $350. What's the point of insurance if I can buy it on Ebay for cheaper ha.
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So I took it into Sprint and after a night with the phone they weren't able to fix it and said there was corrosion damage on the charging port and he tried to scrape it off but it didn't fix it. He showed me the corrosion using a high-tech magnifying glass so I know he wasn't lying.
Anyway, because I didn't want to spend $100 to get insurance replacement, I got home, whipped out the rubbing alcohol, my girlfriend's hair pin, and some cotton swabs and went to town on it.... so far so good. Hopefully the corrosion doesn't come back but even if I have to do that from time to time I won't mind.
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Update:
So I took it into Sprint and after a night with the phone they weren't able to fix it and said there was corrosion damage on the charging port and he tried to scrape it off but it didn't fix it. He showed me the corrosion using a high-tech magnifying glass so I know he wasn't lying.
Anyway, because I didn't want to spend $100 to get insurance replacement, I got home, whipped out the rubbing alcohol, my girlfriend's hair pin, and some cotton swabs and went to town on it.... so far so good. Hopefully the corrosion doesn't come back but even if I have to do that from time to time I won't mind.
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How was there corrosion damage? did you get the phone wet?
Hey guys.
Dropped my phone in the otter box into a sink tonight. Phone was barely wet.
Phone booted up and let me use it, no problem.
Speakers are shot, no audio whatsoever. When I try to make a call I hear them very staticky (sp?) and they can't hear me.
Long story short, I have TEC for my phone (They send out replacement device, no questions asked).
Will they check phone for water damage if the stickers are not tripped? I'm EXTREMELY paranoid.
Just wondering.
Another problem, phone is stuck in a bootloop so I can't restore to stock. I can't turn on USB Debugging...
thoughts?
I'm not sure about the bootloop part, but as for the speakers/mic those should start working again once the water has dried.
How can you tell if the speakers are shot if you can't boot?
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Edit, sorry, I skipped to the end. If there's no evidence of water damage, Id try to get a replacement.
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How can you tell if the speakers are shot if you can't boot?
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Edit, sorry, I skipped to the end. If there's no evidence of water damage, Id try to get a replacement.
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Yeah, problem is. Phone is rooted with custom ROM and they'll know the phone isn't stock.
I need to at least return to stock.
Edit: Nevermind, I just did the honest thing and made an insurance claim. Will they care that it's rooted? They shouldn't but idk. They may never know either because the ROM it's on is stock ICS. I was able to restore a Nandroid backup to Android Revolution HD. Idk though.
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Edit: Nevermind, I just did the honest thing and made an insurance claim. Will they care that it's rooted? They shouldn't but idk. They may never know either because the ROM it's on is stock ICS. I was able to restore a Nandroid backup to Android Revolution HD. Idk though.
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During the claim did you tell that it's rooted? Generally speaking, all carriers will take into consideration that the phone is has been tampered with. Cross your fingers and hope that the person who receives your phone has no clue what to look for.
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During the claim did you tell that it's rooted? Generally speaking, all carriers will take into consideration that the phone is has been tampered with. Cross your fingers and hope that the person who receives your phone has no clue what to look for.
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It's an insurance claim. I paid $99 for a new phone. I didn't make a claim with Verizon. Asurion is a third party company.
You could have put it in a bowl of rice for a day or so.
I forgot my phone was in my pocket and walked right into a swimming pool with it. I put it in a bowl of rice for a few hours and it powered on but was stuck in a reboot loop. After leaving it in the rice another day or so it powered up and has worked (mostly) fine since. The camera module died and it seems to use a little more battery than before, but that's the full extent of the damage.
You shouldn't have turned the phone on if it got wet (even if it's in an otterbox case)
I had this happen to me last week. Horrible! Long story short. Girlfriend brought an open cup inside my car (which i didn't know about) i plugged my phone in for music, then set it in the cup holder. All i hear is (Buzzzz) coming from the car stereo and she was like "Did you just put your phone in my water?" -__-
So.. I had to leave it in a big bag of rice for it to dry. Took out the back plate, battery, and just left it there for a good 10+ hours. Opened it up. Still had some flicker issues with the screen. sound was muffled and mic was perfect.
BUT. after about 2-5 hours with using it like that. It was back to normal. This is such an amazing phone!
Doesn't matter what he did. He already made the insurance claim and paid his deductible. Asurion doesn't care what software is on it. Just as long as you pay the deductible they'll send you a replacement.
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she was like "Did you just put your phone in my water?" -__-
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Hahahaha. Awesome.
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I'm a little concerned about my current predicament.
A month ago I bought a rooted Galaxy Note II second hand. I have had no problems with it until Saturday morning.
On Saturday I plugged it in - it was flat because the battery had ran out of juice from the previous night. I left it off and plugged in. I returned not long after to a slight burning smell, and the phone was roasting hot.
I could turn it on, but it hasn't charged, still showing 1% and cutting out immediately. Any time you plug in within seconds, it overheats.
It has burned in one spot, and burned the battery cover as well.
Obviously I am not impressed, it could have burned the place down if I'd left it on overnight.
However, the device has been rooted, and can be turned on but it will damage it more if you do. It has had a theme applied to it that could only be done with a rooted phone so it is blatantly obvious.
I've put in a support call with Samsung who are going to send out a bag to send it off to them in. I would have preferred to send them an unrooted phone, but obviously not practical and I don't know anyone else with a Note 2. I also don't want to buy replacement components in case I make it worse or damage those.
Anyone faced a similar predicament, and what was done about it?
Well, in this case, a melted phone is very dangerous, they should or must send you a new one just to not report it to the police or the media!
I think the problem was in the battery, it's the only component that can get so hot and even it can explode in some conditions.
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My concern is they try to say that it was the fact the phone was rooted that caused it to overheat... although it was switched off at the time.
Don't worry I won't let it go without a fight, but am unsure about what rights I may or may not have.
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My concern is they try to say that it was the fact the phone was rooted that caused it to overheat... although it was switched off at the time.
Don't worry I won't let it go without a fight, but am unsure about what rights I may or may not have.
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Try to run triangle away, before you return it.
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Phone is totally flat, and will only turn on when the battery is connected, and it is connected to the mains. It will overheat with a minute.
In Norway, and I assume in the EU too, they have to prove that there is a connection between the broken phone and the fact that it is rooted to void warranty. No worries then if there's similar legislature in your country.
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What if you charge it with usb cable connected to a computer? Does it still overheat?
Alternatively, do you know any1 with a note 2 whos battery you can borrow?
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Try buying a spare battery. And then try triangle away. Put the faulty battery back in the phone and send it to Samsung.
It's way cheaper than having to pay for the full phone repair.
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Well, in this case, a melted phone is very dangerous, they should or must send you a new one just to not report it to the police or the media!
I think the problem was in the battery, it's the only component that can get so hot and even it can explode in some conditions.
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My concern is they try to say that it was the fact the phone was rooted that caused it to overheat... although it was switched off at the time.
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This thread's funny. A second hand phone received or bought rooted which could have been using a different kernel, been OC'd, or had any of a laundry list of mods done to it overheats. Since none of that can be ruled out, why is there any reason to alert the media or expect Samsung to be responsible for something that's most likely not a defect but customer induced damage? With millions sold I'd expect more reports of phone's melting if there was some sort of common or repeatable fault. Best of luck OP but your fate will be determined by Samsung's graciousness and not you claiming that a rooted second-hand device somehow combusted on its own having nothing to do with what you or the first owner did to it.
To be fair if it's not charging the battery at all and just overheating/melting the phone it sounds more like a hardware issue than a software one. Something in the charging circuit is screwed up by the sounds of it.
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My concern is they try to say that it was the fact the phone was rooted that caused it to overheat... although it was switched off at the time.
Don't worry I won't let it go without a fight, but am unsure about what rights I may or may not have.
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idk if this help, last time my S2 also got some issue so I go to SC and the guy there said that I voided my warranty coz I rooted it.
And that statement made me angry, so I said to him in angry tone: why the hell you say its illegal to root and voided my warranty becoz I root my phone. If that's illegal, why the hell Superuser/SuperSU/any root tools exist in Google Play and Google let it in there for a long time? I bought this phone by my money so I have right to install anything in play store.
Then they unable to say something and fix my phone rightaway and told me to be careful next time.
So, rooting isn't illegal, its in Google Play anyway.
ask yr friends or someone borrow a battery and reset the counter first
I don't know anyone with an N2 so I can't borrow a battery, I'd have to buy one.
I'll try plugging it just into the computer, I suppose with less power going in, it might not overheat. I've been reluctant to plug it back in.
Phone is running standard kernel, it was only rooted, with a replacement status bar added, and CWM installed. Nothing special.
Ideally, I would need to flash it back to standard though, so I'll need to find out the easiest / quickest way to do this, and, possibly, reset the counter.
I suppose its possible they will refuse to fix it. If I am, that is me massively out of pocket, and I won't be rooting anything ever again, even buying second hand is losing its appeal.
Heck, as I can't afford to replace it, I now may be stuck with this Nokia Lumia 800 I had to buy as an "emergency" phone, which is actually not a bad little machine in many respects (obviously tiny though).
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I'm a little concerned about my current predicament.
A month ago I bought a rooted Galaxy Note II second hand. I have had no problems with it until Saturday morning.
On Saturday I plugged it in - it was flat because the battery had ran out of juice from the previous night. I left it off and plugged in. I returned not long after to a slight burning smell, and the phone was roasting hot.
I could turn it on, but it hasn't charged, still showing 1% and cutting out immediately. Any time you plug in within seconds, it overheats.
It has burned in one spot, and burned the battery cover as well.
Obviously I am not impressed, it could have burned the place down if I'd left it on overnight.
However, the device has been rooted, and can be turned on but it will damage it more if you do. It has had a theme applied to it that could only be done with a rooted phone so it is blatantly obvious.
I've put in a support call with Samsung who are going to send out a bag to send it off to them in. I would have preferred to send them an unrooted phone, but obviously not practical and I don't know anyone else with a Note 2. I also don't want to buy replacement components in case I make it worse or damage those.
Anyone faced a similar predicament, and what was done about it?
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Given the near fatal consequences of a battery explosion you shouldnt have any problems Samsung will be much more interested in working out why it happened and avoiding any negative PR about their flagship handset.
However if they can proove that it was the root that caused the burn out (we all know thats not the likely reason) then they may reject the device and tell you it was all your fault. at that point take it to the media.
to me it sounds like the charging circuit has failed and instead of passing charge to the battery its built up in the circuit, mechanical failure can't see how a root would cause that. Were you using the sammy charger, cable and battery?
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To be fair if it's not charging the battery at all and just overheating/melting the phone it sounds more like a hardware issue than a software one. Something in the charging circuit is screwed up by the sounds of it.
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Ye that was my thought wonder if OP has original sammy cable and charger or was given a third party one?
Yes I did indeed use the original charger and cable (it looks original too, not like a knock off). In general, in the past, I've had issues using chargers mean't for other devices, usually just slow charging though rather than it blowing up.
The fact the phone was turned off when it was being charged suggests to me, like you say, that its a proper hardware fault.
We shall see. I'm waiting for the jiffy bag to send it back, it will be at least 2 weeks till I get it back (maybe longer now with Xmas coming up).
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My concern is they try to say that it was the fact the phone was rooted that caused it to overheat... although it was switched off at the time.
Don't worry I won't let it go without a fight, but am unsure about what rights I may or may not have.
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Take a picture of the burned note2 first, maybe you can use it as a "leverage" when the time comes. You know how burned phone have negative impact on products marketing.
I have 3 s3's on my account. I have had intermittent problems with 1 of them lately. It would not charge. No matter what cords I used even swapping out the battery with another s3 this one phone would not charge. So for a day I just charged up my battery in one of the other s3's and swapped it back and forth. When plugged in it would show it was charging but it could sit all nite and % would go down. Well I was cleaning the battery connectors with a q-tip and some alcohol trying to figure out if maybe it was some sort of connection issue. In doing so I touched the water damage sticker with the qtip thats on the phone under battery. It slightly changed the color. I wasnt sure what it looked like before so I checked my other s3 and it had no sticker in that spot. Had the little square outline where it would go but no sticker. I purchased this phone brand new so I know it was simply not there to start. My question is this. Due to my problem with charging Samsung is covering the cost to send it in for repair/replace. I know it never had water damage and any hidden stickers inside the phone will back that up. But my worry is because of the slight change in color from q-tip alcohol would I be better off just removing it like my other s3? I know some people say that the removal of those stickers voids warranty but that would tick me off seeing how if I ever have a problem with my other one that never had the sticker they would void it.
EDIT: I should also add that after a day the phone started charging again fine. This has now happened 3 times. Will work fine for a few weeks then all sudden the no charge issue comes up again. Then going away on its own. I just dont want to keep going like this and have one day after warranty is up it not charge again.
my sprint gs3 also has no stickers.. can anyone verify what is up with this? is there more hidden ones in the phone itself????
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I have 3 s3's on my account. I have had intermittent problems with 1 of them lately. It would not charge. No matter what cords I used even swapping out the battery with another s3 this one phone would not charge. So for a day I just charged up my battery in one of the other s3's and swapped it back and forth. When plugged in it would show it was charging but it could sit all nite and % would go down. Well I was cleaning the battery connectors with a q-tip and some alcohol trying to figure out if maybe it was some sort of connection issue. In doing so I touched the water damage sticker with the qtip thats on the phone under battery. It slightly changed the color. I wasnt sure what it looked like before so I checked my other s3 and it had no sticker in that spot. Had the little square outline where it would go but no sticker. I purchased this phone brand new so I know it was simply not there to start. My question is this. Due to my problem with charging Samsung is covering the cost to send it in for repair/replace. I know it never had water damage and any hidden stickers inside the phone will back that up. But my worry is because of the slight change in color from q-tip alcohol would I be better off just removing it like my other s3? I know some people say that the removal of those stickers voids warranty but that would tick me off seeing how if I ever have a problem with my other one that never had the sticker they would void it.
EDIT: I should also add that after a day the phone started charging again fine. This has now happened 3 times. Will work fine for a few weeks then all sudden the no charge issue comes up again. Then going away on its own. I just dont want to keep going like this and have one day after warranty is up it not charge again.
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Mine had the charging problem and I received a replacement free of charge. As for the water damage sticker idk how that's going to work for you. I will tell you this. When I took mine in they looked at it for 10 seconds and then just said we'll send your replacement in the mail but then again all techs are different
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Mine had the charging problem and I received a replacement free of charge. As for the water damage sticker idk how that's going to work for you. I will tell you this. When I took mine in they looked at it for 10 seconds and then just said we'll send your replacement in the mail but then again all techs are different
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you brought your phone to Samsung hq???
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you brought your phone to Samsung hq???
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Nope sprint store
Ok, what happened here is my phone went to swim with me crying.
I tried to dry up the phone, but I still can't turn it on. Then, I send my phone via my carrier (Rogers Canada in my case) for repair. Of course, I am pretending to be innocent saying I don't know what happened to my phone, and I just can't turn it on. Then HTC (I suppose it is some outsourced place, but should be licensed under HTC) told me that there are COLLISION on the mother board and somewhere else, which is ridiculous. There is one much more ridiculous thing: the repair is going to cost
$1000
Of course, I am not asking them to repair for me. I just want to share how ridiculous it is, and if you guys can gimme some hints on how I can have it repaired, that will be great.
your phone CANT be repaired. It got wet. end of story.
what you need is a new phone.
I bet he meant corrosion on the main board. Also i personally dont like to read posts where people know they got the phone wet then try to play dumb and pull one over on someone or a company. That shows very little integrity on your part. But i dont want to turn this into a personal attack as the mods dont like it. SO lets hope a mod reads this thread and shuts it down.
If you're lucky the phone might magically just turn on, on any given day. I've seen that happen
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your phone CANT be repaired. It got wet. end of story.
what you need is a new phone.
I bet he meant corrosion on the main board. Also i personally dont like to read posts where people know they got the phone wet then try to play dumb and pull one over on someone or a company. That shows very little integrity on your part. But i dont want to turn this into a personal attack as the mods dont like it. SO lets hope a mod reads this thread and shuts it down.
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I accept your comment, but what I wanna say is $1000 is ridiculous...
I will agree with you there, 1000 bucks to fix a phone is way overboard. Unless theres some conversion were missing. like 400 USD = 1000 what ever lol
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I will agree with you there, 1000 bucks to fix a phone is way overboard. Unless theres some conversion were missing. like 400 USD = 1000 what ever lol
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It's 1000 CAD, which equals around 930 USD.
This doesn't even sound right. How can the repair cost more than the actual cost of the device. I'd look for another repair option.
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This doesn't even sound right. How can the repair cost more than the actual cost of the device. I'd look for another repair option.
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Diagnostics, manual assembly, etc. Very little can be reliably salvaged from a water damaged phone. Assume everything but the case needs replacing. It's what's known as a write-off.
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Diagnostics, manual assembly, etc. Very little can be reliably salvaged from a water damaged phone. Assume everything but the case needs replacing. It's what's known as a write-off.
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I've washed them full cycle several times. Each time when I found my phone i soaked them in alcohol and agitated them for about 20 minutes fully submerged. Then I use a toaster oven and dried them out with gentle heat and by sucking air into the phone about 20 times. All of them worked again. Even an iPhone once. Yes, I said full cycle. I found my phone in the when I was loading the dryer. Have I been lucky? I dunno. Many find this hard to believe, but it's true. I put a charging port in my girlfriends note 2. It came from a water damaged Note 2. It was sitting in parts for 2 months. I figured it was dry because it was sitting in open air. Well I put it in and it worked. A week later she lost data and voice. Long story short, that chargign port wrecked everything in the Note 2. When they opened it up, it has white fungus looking corrosion working halfway up the phone in three spots. It absolutely ruined the Note 2 and an insurance claim had to be made. It can go ether way, saved or junked. Just depends on the conditions.
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I've washed them full cycle several times
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Wow, I guess you don't learn fast.
Water damaged vs got wet.
If you're quick enough and use the correct method and lucky, you may get the thing working again, but I'd hardly say reliably. HTC or any repair centre are hardly going to want to provide a 3 month warranty on a repair of a phone that's got wet without replacing everything that can be damaged by water.
The sum of the parts is greater then the price of the item.
Thats why we have chop shops. Some cars are worth more when parted out and the pieces are sold individually.
So if each component was being sold to him at retail pricing, add labor and whola, higher price.