Water Damage - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

Overnight while my AT&T Galaxy s3 was charging, a near by bag with water leaked and got all over my phone. I got up in the morning and realized what had happened and the phone still worked. Later today my phone said no service because of no sim card. Opened the cover, and noticed a little water on the battery and sim card so I cleaned that up, still did not recognize the sim card. So thought no bid deal I'll get a new sim card, about an hour later the phone shut down and would not boot. Battery now apears to be completely dead, has a red mark on the water indicator. The phone however is still white. I can boot it up pluged into a power source, then when it gets to the colored cirlces falling down it just dies. Whent into recover mode, did a reset to factor and still does the same thing, will boot and then just die right after it displays the circles falling down and then goes into download mode. Is it maybe just the battery, wont boot without a good battery? any ideas would be appreciated

You're supposed to leave the phone to dry for a few days instead of trying to use it.
Take the phone apart. Remove battery, sim, and microsd.
Place parts in bag of rice or silica gel packets.
Leave phone for 4 or so days to dry.
Put back together and turn on.
You used the phone after it was wet. You might have already done permanent damage.
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I was installing a full body shield on my phone today ( the kind where you have to wet the phone) and I think maybe I got some water into the phone, probably the charging port.
I left the battery out of the device for about an hour and put it back in and every thing was good. But then I connected it to the comp via usb and the comp recognized it, then didnt recognize it, endless cycle. I thought woah. Took out the battery, blow dried the charging port, left the battery out for a while. I connected again back to the computer and it seems fine.
Now I try to charge it.. weird stuff happening. I connect and let it charge for a while its fine.. then I disconnect and it still thinks its charging. After playing with the phone for a bit in battery settings it realizes its not charging fine. After a while I connect it to the charger, shows not charging, after a while shows charging via USB. Now again its not reconizing the charger.
I'm scared as **** and just took out the battery.. what do I do?
godisanatheist said:
I was installing a full body shield on my phone today ( the kind where you have to wet the phone) and I think maybe I got some water into the phone, probably the charging port.
I left the battery out of the device for about an hour and put it back in and every thing was good. But then I connected it to the comp via usb and the comp recognized it, then didnt recognize it, endless cycle. I thought woah. Took out the battery, blow dried the charging port, left the battery out for a while. I connected again back to the computer and it seems fine.
Now I try to charge it.. weird stuff happening. I connect and let it charge for a while its fine.. then I disconnect and it still thinks its charging. After playing with the phone for a bit in battery settings it realizes its not charging fine. After a while I connect it to the charger, shows not charging, after a while shows charging via USB. Now again its not reconizing the charger.
I'm scared as **** and just took out the battery.. what do I do?
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Have you tried the rice trick?
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some people say put battery in rice for 48 hrs to take away all water. Plus there is like a small litmus paper on battery, it usually is pink w stripes and changes color when it comes in contact w water. If the color hasnt changed you can still get the phone exchanged, but try the rice trick.
this phone doesnt have the liquid stickers.
here's the thing, it was such small amounts of water being used I don;t think rice would work. Like rice just waits for the water to come out and dries it so the phone is fine before you use it.
I'm pretty sure the water is already out, I'm stuck with a problem.
Can I Flash to stock, lock the bootloader and send for warranty.. or will they know there was water involved?
The (insert charger) popup keeps coming up as well. Repeatedly
Odds are, you ruined it the minute you put the battery back in and turned it on. You can try taking the battery out and putting it in rice, but odds are that the damage has already been done.
I'm pretty sure that all of the instructions for the wet application protectors tell you to leave the battery out for at least 12 hrs, preferably a full day, before putting it back in and turning it on, and that is pretty much the reason why. If water gets anywhere it's not supposed to be, it can cause damage to the components. Live and learn I guess.
godisanatheist said:
this phone doesnt have the liquid stickers.
here's the thing, it was such small amounts of water being used I don;t think rice would work. Like rice just waits for the water to come out and dries it so the phone is fine before you use it.
I'm pretty sure the water is already out, I'm stuck with a problem.
Can I Flash to stock, lock the bootloader and send for warranty.. or will they know there was water involved?
The (insert charger) popup keeps coming up as well. Repeatedly
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This phone has 4 liquid stickers. I just found all of them. They all work.
One ON the battery, one above the battery by the gold power contacts and two under the plastic cover.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513201
chjade84 said:
This phone has 4 liquid stickers. I just found all of them. They all work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513201
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Nice I hope it works out for you.. did you take a pic of where the liquid stickers are?
godisanatheist said:
Nice I hope it works out for you.. did you take a pic of where the liquid stickers are?
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I just updated my post above because I realized it could be helpful ^
Good luck to you as well!
...and now it's being laggy. I'm guessing this is due to the device always seeing anf not seeing a usb input.
I;m going to replace the charging jack tmrw from a technician I know.. hopefully that would fix the problem.
I gave it to one of my tech's. He's gonna open it up and try to clean any water damage and see if the stickers are good.
I have 3 ways to proceed:
Send it to my carrier, they'll give me a new/refurb phone. Cons: 35$ fee, may get a refurb phone, need to unroot phone, if water damage found, im stuck with a bill for a new phone.
Send it to Samsung, they'll repair it. Cons: I'll have no phone for a while it takes them a week or two to repair it. Need to unroot. If water damage found, they'll send it back unrepaired.
Get my tech to repair it by changing the chargin jack flex cable. Cons: Gotta pay him a fee probably $50-60. If something else goes wrong with the water damage later on, I'm screwed.
Not sure what to do right now.

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I have a Defy+ running CM9...somehow a bit of water managed to trickle in...not booting.
when I put on charge it starts...4% battery...and reboots and reboots and reboots...any way to save it? Nothing works without connecting to wall charger...even after connecting it boots up and shuts down.
will getting a new battery fix it...?
MY DAD WILL KILL ME IF HE COMES TO KNOW
BreakShadow said:
I have a Defy+ running CM9...somehow a bit of water managed to trickle in...not booting.
when I put on charge it starts...4% battery...and reboots and reboots and reboots...any way to save it? Nothing works without connecting to wall charger...even after connecting it boots up and shuts down.
will getting a new battery fix it...?
MY DAD WILL KILL ME IF HE COMES TO KNOW
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is there any proof of water damage?
remove the battery and check if the water dot has changed color or not.
if not the you are lucky take it to service centre .
but before goind place it in a jar full of uncooked rice for a day or so.
and then try starting it again.
If the service cetre in ur city is an outsourced one then they might easily replace whole of the motherboard .
The water dot has red dots...it isn't fully red... :s
btw...my phone came back to life automatically...no issues...but that water dot is worrying me...
are both the dots red(one near sim card and other on battery)
if both then u might lose the warranty.
but is one then you can make an excuse that you were blowing mouth air on the dot and some part of it turned red..

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My z1f suddenly died 5 to 10 mins or so after I washed it (100% sure that the flaps are sealed tight). The phone is charging but then it vibrates 3 times non stop every 4-5 seconds while charging and when I removed the charging cable the phone cannot be turned on. I tried pressing simultaneuosly power and up volue button when charging but still nothing happens but the annoying non stop 3 vibrations. Please help!
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I see a moist in the back camera. I don't know how water went inside. Because the usb,memory and sim card slots are all dry. :crying:
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I see a moist in the back camera. I don't know how water went inside. Because the usb,memory and sim card slots are all dry. :crying:
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It may take a day or so for the water to evaporate. Try letting the battery run out completely before re charging it.
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