Hey guys I just have a quick question.
So my brother dropped his phone in a poodle awhile back and now screen won't turn on, he put it in rice for a while but it won't turn on.
The phones led light still works,
And it still vibrates, the soft keys turn on a little but not much.
Is their any way to fix it without replacing the screen or is it a goner?
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odshock said:
So my brother dropped his phone in a poodle awhile back
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In a poodle? Poor dog.
After the phone was retrieved from the water was the batter pulled immediately? Was the phone in the rice without the battery in it? How long did you leave it in the rice?
You could try using a hair dryer. If this does not work the phone is probably a lost cause.
Changing the screen won't fix it .The water probally ruined the circuit board if it doesn't dry out an start working.
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Yo guys!
I just was on vacation and my defy fell in the swimming pool.
So i got it out and it still worked only a red led appeared. After 10 minutes the screen turned off. So i put my defy in rise but it isn't working. Now when I am back I opened my defy and put it in a dry place but when I put the battery back the screen wont start up and I am getting a red light. Still I am 100% sure the motherboard works fine because it starts up and I see the 2nd init bootloader led flashing from blue to green. So does anybody know what I should clean or look at. Otherwise i will flash a stock froyo rom and do a cash wipe/factory reset and sent it to Motorola.
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OK i got some things straight. I opened my defy and found some things.
There is no water left so no shortcuts.
The screen is working!! but the back-light isn't so i cant see **** but its boots up and if i look closely MIUI started up fine. So i guess i should buy a new screen or fix it somehow. The red light is a bug I guess of the battery. I looked a lot on the Internet for the red light and found that a lot of phones show a red led when the battery is broken or something so I will test it at a shop. I guess i cant use my warranty because my case looks awful so i will fix it my self.
Hi,
maybe check if your battery is not completely discharged accidentaly.
I have also heard that the drying process should last a day or more.
MooonWalker said:
Hi,
maybe check if your battery is not completely discharged accidentaly.
I have also heard that the drying process should last a day or more.
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Yea I know but I will wait an other day. Maybe there are just some shortcuts why the screen isn't starting up because it doesn't look damaged at all.
It look like the device is partially damaged when it decided to jump into the pool..
You should had immediately pull out the battery and check throughout of water getting in the device, and let it dry first before your attempting to reboot it.
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farsight73 said:
It look like the device is partially damaged when it decided to jump into the pool..
You should had immediately pull out the battery and check throughout of water getting in the device, and let it dry first before your attempting to reboot it.
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Funny thing is I did. It was dry but after some minutes vapor appeared between the screen and the screen case. then the same vapor appeared by the camera and ... screen turns off.
michka said:
Funny thing is I did. It was dry but after some minutes vapor appeared between the screen and the screen case. then the same vapor appeared by the camera and ... screen turns off.
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Officially (according to IP67) the defy is water resistant up to 1 meteres do not know how deep the pool was? If you do not have warranty anymore you could open it up and let it dry in seperate parts. But if there is vapour under the screen and camera lens i'm affraid more damage is done....
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Officially (according to IP67) the defy is water resistant up to 1 meteres do not know how deep the pool was? If you do not have warranty anymore you could open it up and let it dry in seperate parts. But if there is vapour under the screen and camera lens i'm affraid more damage is done....
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I think so to.. I have the warranty maybe motorola can fix something for me.
let us know how it goes, im curious how will they respond ^^ and good luck!
OK i got some things straight. I opened my defy and found some things.
There is no water left so no shortcuts.
The screen is working!! but the back-light isn't so i cant see **** but its boots up and if i look closely MIUI started up fine. So i guess i should buy a new screen or fix it somehow. The red light is a bug I guess of the battery. I looked a lot on the Internet for the red light and found that a lot of phones show a red led when the battery is broken or something so I will test it at a shop. I guess i cant use my warranty because my case looks awful so i will fix it my self.
I did it...
Today i took my defy for a little swim, took it under no more than 10 inches of water, pool, while recording a video to see how it goes, when i got it out after 40 secs, the pone kept recording but when i touch to stop recording the phone started vibrating like if i was pressing any of buttons (home, menu, back and search) and then froze i got scared so i pulled the battery and check for water, but i saw that the lens got moisture so i quickly took it to a bowl with uncook rice and left it there for 3 hours. i then checked it and all the moisture was gone.
When i turned it on it booted like if it didn't had any OS so i left it alone and a while later it loaded fine, but then i noticed the moisture was back on the lens cover, took it back to a new bowl with rice, and it has been there for another 3 hours now but the moisture is showing in te screen also.
What do you guys recomend me to do?
Does the waranty should cover any damage?
P.S: sorry for such a long "Answer" to the thread, but i'm worried and didn't want to spam by opening a new one.
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what i did
my defy got wet, no sceen
1. i remove the battery
2. letting it open
3. put it in my desktop where the hot air is coming out
4. i waited for about an hour
great its back
Take note. if your defy is already old, dont deep it in water
d3athr0w said:
my defy got wet, no sceen
1. i remove the battery
2. letting it open
3. put it in my desktop where the hot air is coming out
4. i waited for about an hour
great its back
Take note. if your defy is already old, dont deep it in water
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Or use rice
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Or use rice
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mine allso got wet, and seems that now work's fine but it has no backlight to the lcd and to the soft keys. anybody solved this problem? thx!
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Or use rice
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Don't thing Rice is going to do more then a paper towel... It doesn't suck any liquid out of gaps or anything. You can try the little ball's that come with clothing. They suck the water out the air so that the water in the phone can vaporize in the air.
But the one's that come with the things you buy will most likely already be saturated.
The best way is to use rubbing alcohol (as high percentage as possible). The alcohol displaces the water but does vaporizes is normal conditions. So you can just submerge your phone in alcohol (with no battery, sim and sd-card ofc. and best only the logic board) and let it dry for some time. This before you try to put it on. This also cleans out most of the salt and sand as this damages you board over time.
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.
I accidentally dropped my phone in the water. I tried removing the battery and dried everything at once. Then, I turned on the phone and found that the camera flash keep blinking rapidly. So, I took out the battery for a while and turned it on again. This time, the phone keeps vibrating every time the battery is in contact.
The phone is chargable, able to connect in adb mode but I can't flash anything because the phone just would not turn off.
My Arc has locked bootloader, is rooted and running JJ Hybrid Rom.
I know this is probably a gone case but any help is appreciated
Dude, if your phone is dry and doing that, than its time to buy new one... Try reflashing if that doesnt solve problem you'll have to buy new one...
Well how long did you dry it and how?
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Well, I took out the cover and everything and just put in under the sun and have a fan blowing at it. Left it there for like an hour. Then, I noticed there was some condensation on the inner side of the camera lens and I tried using dry rice to absorb the moisture. Left the phone with the rice around it for 5 hours and the condensation was gone but still the screen was messed up.
So, the phone is working now but the screen is kind of messed and looks like sound does not work. Going to leave it in the rice for some more time and hopefully the water would come out...sobbing
I would leave to dry for 1-2 days
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You turned it on too soon I'd say...
put it in rice...the rice take out all humity
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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
I dropped my Oneplus 3 in the toilet. I then bought a special bag with a block thing in it which sucks water out of phones... which seemed to have worked. My phone now turns on and works... but the camera LED wont turn off! Turning the flashlight on and back off just makes the LED bright... but it stays on (only dimmer) when toggled off.
Any idea how I can fix this or disable the camera LED completely?
Thanks
So sad mate.
Your flash light circuit has been damaged. I had similar issue with my Lumia 625 after dropping into the water. But it had removable back.
Your issue can be fixed by a hardware fix only. But try a traditional method.
Remove sim tray, turn off your phone and place your phone in a rice bowl over night. Then use low flow hair dryer from a distance on your op3.
Good Luck mate
Thanks mate, tried both but the light still stays on. Its not at full brightness so hopefully it wont drain the battery too fast.
Just charged her, the two bottom captivate buttons have stopped working too. I've switched to onscreen buttons.
I'll see if I can live with it and wait out for a oneplus 4 maybe.
I'd love a Pixel but the 128gb one is £820 in the UK! Thats crazy money when this phone is so good.
dismantle the phone, disconnect battery, clean pcb and flex with alcohol. wait till all components will dry. try to power on and see if it helped. Best way would be to wash in ultrasonic cleaner.
just wondering... how the f&*k did you dropped it in the toilet? Do you take your phone with you to the bathroom?
Anyway sorry to hear about the camera.
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dismantle the phone, disconnect battery, clean pcb and flex with alcohol. wait till all components will dry. try to power on and see if it helped. Best way would be to wash in ultrasonic cleaner.
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Thanks pal, might give that a go!
badboy47 said:
just wondering... how the f&*k did you dropped it in the toilet? Do you take your phone with you to the bathroom?
Anyway sorry to hear about the camera.
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I was drunk, it was in my back pocket and I had a sit down piss... it must have just fallen in when I pulled my trousers down :crying:
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I was drunk, it was in my back pocket and I had a sit down piss... it must have just fallen in when I pulled my trousers down :crying:
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Bummer. Would you be able to open the phone? The process is very easy. Check out few videos on YouTube on how to do that. I have feeling some parts might be still wet.
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i was drunk, it was in my back pocket and i had a sit down piss... It must have just fallen in when i pulled my trousers down :crying:
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