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Hi! I'm new to this forum so I hope there will be some understanding for the urgency.
Here's the deal; I dropped my HTC Desire in the toilet, clumsy me. I managed to grab it within a few seconds and so I removed all parts and let them dry over a towel. Stupidly enough, I tried to reboot the phone after some time, not thinking that electricity and water does not mix too well. I dried the cell phone with a vacuum cleaner for about 5 minutes and placed it in a bowl of rice. Just recently, I tried to start the phone with the charger plugged in but it won't work this time either. The phone keeps vibrating and vibrating until I remove the battery - what should I do?
Any help is appreciated!
Difeddy said:
Hi! I'm new to this forum so I hope there will be some understanding for the urgency.
Here's the deal; I dropped my HTC Desire in the toilet, clumsy me. I managed to grab it within a few seconds and so I removed all parts and let them dry over a towel. Stupidly enough, I tried to reboot the phone after some time, not thinking that electricity and water does not mix too well. I dried the cell phone with a vacuum cleaner for about 5 minutes and placed it in a bowl of rice. Just recently, I tried to start the phone with the charger plugged in but it won't work this time either. The phone keeps vibrating and vibrating until I remove the battery - what should I do?
Any help is appreciated!
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the fact its vibrating must be a good sign, atleast it means you didnt fry the whole thing when u tried to switch it on wet, the best i can recomend is put it back in a air tight container filled with rice, make sure the desire is totaly submerged in the rice and leave it for 24 hrs+ , if it wont switch on after that, then its a repair job
AndroHero said:
the fact its vibrating must be a good sign, atleast it means you didnt fry the whole thing when u tried to switch it on wet, the best i can recomend is put it back in a air tight container filled with rice, make sure the desire is totaly submerged in the rice and leave it for 24 hrs+ , if it wont switch on after that, then its a repair job
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Have to agree; at least it's giving some sort of sign! Problem is that it won't stop vibrating and the screen remains black - no lights, etc. I suppose I'll have to give it a try and see what follows. My parents wouldn't be too happy with me explaining the circumstances... Lesson learned.
Thanks for your help!
AndroHero said:
the fact its vibrating must be a good sign, atleast it means you didnt fry the whole thing when u tried to switch it on wet, the best i can recomend is put it back in a air tight container filled with rice, make sure the desire is totaly submerged in the rice and leave it for 24 hrs+ , if it wont switch on after that, then its a repair job
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and if it is a repair job, have fun
http://tjworld.net/blog/htc-desire-tear-down
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=720717&highlight=teardown
I used both guides to fix my broken AMOLED.. good luck!
hope this helps! and hope your Desire isnt broken!
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and if it is a repair job, have fun
I used both guides to fix my broken AMOLED.. good luck!
hope this helps! and hope your Desire isnt broken!
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Thanks for the reply! Are you quite sure if it's worth the risk, though?
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F*ck. I placed the cell phone in a box of rice and let it stay for about 20 hours, but it won't start at all now after a few attempts. No vibration at all. I'm starting to think that I'm screwed.
YES!!!
It booted up now! The power button doesn't appear to work properly, but it will start!
Difeddy said:
YES!!!
It booted up now! The power button doesn't appear to work properly, but it will start!
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well thats a start, give it a few more days in a bowl of rice and if that wont help (to make sure everything work!) hopefully it will! but yu know.. if you have no insurance and have no choice, get a compressed air spray and have fun
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well thats a start, give it a few more days in a bowl of rice and if that wont help (to make sure everything work!) hopefully it will! but yu know.. if you have no insurance and have no choice, get a compressed air spray and have fun
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The power button isn't working now either. Will check if the warranty covers this, I'm just hoping that there will be no indications of water damage.
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The power button isn't working now either. Will check if the warranty covers this, I'm just hoping that there will be no indications of water damage.
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There are usually little white stickers inside the phone which turn red if they get wet, so my guess is you've got little hope trying to get a warranty repair.
Regards,
Dave
foxmeister said:
There are usually little white stickers inside the phone which turn red if they get wet, so my guess is you've got little hope trying to get a warranty repair.
Regards,
Dave
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Well, there is a sticker near the battery slot on the phone and another one on the battery itself. Both of them are white, luckily enough. We'll see what the guy says, thanks for the help though!
Hello!
Got any luck with a service with power button?
I have the same issue. Phone fell into water.. after few days phone works fine, except power button.
HTC Service refuses to make a guarantee repairment (suprisingly - liquid damage).
I think, in my case power button is short-circuited: when inserting the battery, phone is turning on and starting up w/o any problems (normally, Desire doesn't do that, I've tested friend's phone).
Unfortunately, get the root and remap sleep button to optical trackball isn't an option for me...
Someone advised me to disassemble the phone, and try to clean the power button with an alcohol. But I didn't tried this yet...
AE777 said:
Hello!
Got any luck with a service with power button?
I have the same issue. Phone fell into water.. after few days phone works fine, except power button.
HTC Service refuses to make a guarantee repairment (suprisingly - liquid damage).
I think, in my case power button is short-circuited: when inserting the battery, phone is turning on and starting up w/o any problems (normally, Desire doesn't do that, I've tested friend's phone).
Unfortunately, get the root and remap sleep button to optical trackball isn't an option for me...
Someone advised me to disassemble the phone, and try to clean the power button with an alcohol. But I didn't tried this yet...
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I'm a bit late, I suppose.
We sent the phone for a repair job but it was "quickly" sent back to me. Good of them to say this a month later, when I was eagerly waiting for them to send it back, whole and functional. Anyhow, I got it back and fortunately; it worked. There were no issues, what-so-ever, with the goddamn power button.
But, ironically enough, I managed to trip into a lake yesterday. What goes around comes around. At least I wasn't browsing for some porn this time. Jokes aside, the power button doesn't seem to be working anymore. Sometimes it'll respond when I boot the phone up, but now it doesn't seem to do this anymore.
Disconnect motor
Disassemble the phone and disconnect contact on vibration motor? Or remove motor and reassemble phone. Worth a try to get a functioning phone minus vibration option. :fingers-crossed:
Hey can know how much the company charge for d repair ????
The bottom of my desire got dipped in water. the part where the buttons are. now when I hit the power button it goes straight into hboot. I had ginger sense rom installed on it and s-off. when it's in hboot none of the buttons work, it's as if the volume down button is always pressed in and no other buttons will register, however the menu item "fastboot" is highlighted but pressing the power button does nothing. when I plug it into the computer in this state it does detect usb and enters the hboot usb mode. What are my options from this point? can I put an update on the SD card and reflash stock. I tried an RUU in hboot usb mode but it failed and said it could not connect to phone. as well adb could not connect. I guess that it needs to be in fastboot mode. none of the water indicators that I can see are red (battery and on phone), I hear there is one on the inside though, so not sure about that one. I bought the phone in september 2010, so it's still under warranty but the indicator might be wet on the inside and the hboot menu says s-off right on it. should I still try to send it back for repair? is there a way for me to put it back to s-onn so it looks like it;s not hacked and hopefully the indicators are all white and they'll fix it. or is that too much of a long shot. and last option is I have the disassembly and reassembly videos. should I try to take it all apart and check for corrosion around the button connectors and clean it with alcohol? please help if you know what to do? I'm kinda freaking out without my phone. Thanks guys.
EDIT: solved, for info go to last post. If your in this situation you might want to read the whole thread.
you can boot into fastboot by holding "back" and "power", once you're in there try flashing a new ROM, or drying your phone without the battery in and the back case open.
I've tried that when I hold down the back button and power it still goes into regular hboot. I can't get it to go into fastboot. One other thing I tried changing the hboot version with a pb99.zip directly on the sd card and it failed saying incompadible id or something like that. I tried the stock image and the downgrade and both failed. any ideas? Also, I have another working desire running insertcoin, in case that helps.
hmm.. leave the phone powered off and take the battery out, and open the back cover, and leave it somewhere where it can dry (facing screen down) for a day or so, then try again. Otherwise its a bump.
unfortanetly I've had it in a bag of rice for 3 days now. so there is nothing I can do from the hboot menu? what is it's purpose then? surely some smarter than I knows what to do? should I take it apart or send it in for warranty? or can I flash something to it?
Have you tried unrooting with the PB99IMG.zip method? done by extracting rom.zip from the right RUU and renaming it to PB99IMG.zip, putting it in the root of your sd-card, and flashing it that way.
flashing now, thanks for the idea. looks to be working. I'll let you know.
update: it had a progress bar on the upper right that filled up then went away now I'm left with an hboot screen with all the usual stuff on the top but where the 4 options usually are there is just one and it says hboot below that in green it says
parsing...[sd zip]
[1] bootloader[2] radio_v2
[3] radio_cust
[4] boot
[5] recovery
[6] system
[7] userdata
[8] splash1
[9] splash2
and it's been on this screen for 10 minutes now. should I wait or am I susposed to choose an option? if I am susposed to choose an option I can't because the volume buttons still don't work or any buttons for that matter.
I'd still give it time to dry I had to put my wildfire on radiator for a week n turned it on and u would have never known it had water damage
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what do you think about a hairdryer and rice combo for a few days?
Yea it might work but I had it on radiator even had battery on there lol and heating is on a fair bit in our house n it worked fine I never used rice but heard loads of people using it u can only try I would give it bout 3 days on radiator aswell as hairdryer it might do the job if not send it BK
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thanks for your help man, unfortunately it's the summer here and muggy as hell, so heat isn't turned on in the house. so airtight container with rice and hairdryer every day might do. I'm going to take it apart first and clean all the leads with isopropol alcohol. Also I know I cannot spell.
I don't know how to spell lol but yea I'd. Blast the s**t out of it with dryer for a longish amount of time hope it works keep us updated with it
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I've tried rubbing alcohol and i got it into fast boot and it recognized usb, the buttons worked and I could select items with the volume rockers. eve could switch between hboot and fastboot. 20 min later I rebooted and all was lost. it's now back to just booting into hboot and no buttons are working. I don't know if I didn't clean it well enough or there was still some alcohol left inside the phone and maybe it moved around and shorted again but i left it for a day and tried it again and still nothing. took it apart again and dunked each piece in alcohol that is below the screen and the volume keys. it's sitting in rice now. I'll let you know tomorrow how it goes. cross your fingers.
UPDATE: Success!!! ok so for those of you who were stuck like me I hope this helps you out. I took the phone completely apart and dunked each piece in 95% alcohol, I wouldn't go below 90 if I were you. because I am impatient I only let it sit in rice for about 4 hours I then decided to get out the vacuum as suggested in a youtube video I seen. Don't be stupid like me, put an old pair of the wife's panty hose or go get a pair, you might lookd odd buying these but it will save you grief as I sucked up my power button and I had to cut the bag open and look for it, I found it in case you were wondering. I used the vacuum for about 30 minutes on all openings where alcohol could have got in. Then I put it all back together and powered the sucker up. I tried fastboot to be safe at first and it worked and the buttons worked. excellent!!! then I tried to boot normal and it booted right up into insertcoin nightly 51. double excellent!!! one small problem there seems to be some liquid inside the screen causing a weird looking picture. it all looks normal and colours are great but you can just tell there is liquid in there. so i took it all apart down to the screen and I used the vacuum again. put it all back together AGAIN and then turned it on normally. still there but it has shifted and looks like it improved. so back into the rice bag and I left the bag open in front of a dehumidifier fan. I'll probably test at 12 hour intervals and let you know how it goes, but I am super excited that I at least have my phone back. I can live with a less than perfect screen for a bit. I hope this might help someone else. don't give up on your phone! some videos I seen recommend using alcohol for an hour then brushing the pcb with a new toothbrush. this was going to be my next step. they also say to try and concentrate the brushing on areas that may be blue as that is the corrosion area, it just happens that when I dipped my phone pieces into the alcohol i did notice some blue runoff, so there may be some truth to that, or maybe it was just some dye on a piece, who knows. good luck to anyone reading this who is in this situation. I know how you feel!
Reading through my old posts, found this one. Desire is still going strong. Still have screen artifacts but it's very minor. I even have ICS running on it. It does trend to get a bit warmer than my wife's desire but it does not cause problems.
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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
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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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.
Hey.. I flashed cm12 unofficial ROM 2-3 months ago on my lg d855.. There weren't any major bugs.. But recently I noticed that sometimes when I press the power button to unlock it .. The touch screen seems to stop working.. This happens only on the lock screen... I Also tried holding the power button and try to tap the "power off / reboot" buttons.. It doesn't work too.. But.. The weird part is..when I sort of slap the screen it starts to work again .. My question is .. Is it a ROM bug? Or is it a hardware issue.. If its a software issue.. Then why does it start working when I slap it.. And if its a hardware issue.. Why does it only occur on the lock screen? Please help.. Thanks
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2000ftt said:
Hey.. I flashed cm12 unofficial ROM 2-3 months ago on my lg d855.. There weren't any major bugs.. But recently I noticed that sometimes when I press the power button to unlock it .. The touch screen seems to stop working.. This happens only on the lock screen... I Also tried holding the power button and try to tap the "power off / reboot" buttons.. It doesn't work too.. But.. The weird part is..when I sort of slap the screen it starts to work again .. My question is .. Is it a ROM bug? Or is it a hardware issue.. If its a software issue.. Then why does it start working when I slap it.. And if its a hardware issue.. Why does it only occur on the lock screen? Please help.. Thanks
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Its not hardware issue for sure. Try to unlock with 3 fingers i think i saw this solution somewhere in the forum.
2000ftt said:
Hey.. I flashed cm12 unofficial ROM 2-3 months ago on my lg d855.. There weren't any major bugs.. But recently I noticed that sometimes when I press the power button to unlock it .. The touch screen seems to stop working.. This happens only on the lock screen... I Also tried holding the power button and try to tap the "power off / reboot" buttons.. It doesn't work too.. But.. The weird part is..when I sort of slap the screen it starts to work again .. My question is .. Is it a ROM bug? Or is it a hardware issue.. If its a software issue.. Then why does it start working when I slap it.. And if its a hardware issue.. Why does it only occur on the lock screen? Please help.. Thanks
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I haven't had this problem on the D851, but I would try updating your device to the newest version of Cyanogenmod.
Also, back when I had the G2 I went through this problem a lot and actually had about five of them because they were under warranty. The problem was that the seal for the screen would come undone, and it's hard to notice since the screen is literally the entire front of the phone. When this seal broke, water would seep in and cause chaos with the screen. Wouldn't work in certain parts and so much more. I haven't had this happen on the G3, but my seal has broken and I can see it, so it's only a matter of time before water gets in there (or until I get the screen replaced). I've always had this problem with LGs they're just so damn good that I live with it. I'd bet this is what's going on if it's not the hardware.
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I haven't had this problem on the D851, but I would try updating your device to the newest version of Cyanogenmod.
Also, back when I had the G2 I went through this problem a lot and actually had about five of them because they were under warranty. The problem was that the seal for the screen would come undone, and it's hard to notice since the screen is literally the entire front of the phone. When this seal broke, water would seep in and cause chaos with the screen. Wouldn't work in certain parts and so much more. I haven't had this happen on the G3, but my seal has broken and I can see it, so it's only a matter of time before water gets in there (or until I get the screen replaced). I've always had this problem with LGs they're just so damn good that I live with it. I'd bet this is what's going on if it's not the hardware.
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Absolutely... I can see... Whenever I press on the edges on any of the sides.. It sort of gets pushed in.. It looks like its not glued properly.. Its a bummer as the "screen" is the reason y I bought this.. From ur experience , does it stop working completely at some point?
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2000ftt said:
Absolutely... I can see... Whenever I press on the edges on any of the sides.. It sort of gets pushed in.. It looks like its not glued properly.. Its a bummer as the "screen" is the reason y I bought this.. From ur experience , does it stop working completely at some point?
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If you can push it in then the seal is definitely broken.
On my G2, when in a moist and humid environment condensation would form on the inside of the device, but it was nothing too big and went away after a while. However, when too much fluid built up in the inside it began typing on its own. Furthermore, it got to the point where certain parts of the screen were unresponsive. This is why I had about five of them because over time it did get bad.
Although if there is water in the device rice usually absorbs it. Get a ziplock bag and fill it with rice. Take your battery, sim card, and sd card out, then place the phone in the bag full of rice. Seal it and shake it up a bit and let it sit over night. Keep the back cover off as well. If this is an option. I understand you might need your phone, but if you get a time where about eight hours are free I would highly recommend this. I have no idea how it works, but it takes the moisture out of the phone. I've done this with waterlogged phones, my G2, etc.
When I did that on the G2 it fixed my problems until moisture got back in there. I don't take care of my phones too well, so moisture got back in fast. Try this out and if it works just avoid keeping your phone in moist places (like playing music in shower, being on it while raining, etc.). If this fixes the problem it should hold you off until you can get the screen resealed or a new screen.
If it is with the hardware and its still under warranty I would get a replacement. I would revert to the stock ROM (if you made a backup) or find one and make sure it's updated. I would then do a full unroot, and attempt to make it so they cannot tell it was rooted. I would then attempt to get the replacement. Rooting voids the warranty, but if you unrooted I doubt they could tell. Furthermore, if you have insurance on the phone this could also work.
Edit: If you try the rice then try to replace the screen I would ensure that the current screen works properly after the rice. Make sure all the moisture is out before you replace the screen that way no moisture is trapped in there.
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If you can push it in then the seal is definitely broken.
On my G2, when in a moist and humid environment condensation would form on the inside of the device, but it was nothing too big and went away after a while. However, when too much fluid built up in the inside it began typing on its own. Furthermore, it got to the point where certain parts of the screen were unresponsive. This is why I had about five of them because over time it did get bad.
Although if there is water in the device rice usually absorbs it. Get a ziplock bag and fill it with rice. Take your battery, sim card, and sd card out, then place the phone in the bag full of rice. Seal it and shake it up a bit and let it sit over night. Keep the back cover off as well. If this is an option. I understand you might need your phone, but if you get a time where about eight hours are free I would highly recommend this. I have no idea how it works, but it takes the moisture out of the phone. I've done this with waterlogged phones, my G2, etc.
When I did that on the G2 it fixed my problems until moisture got back in there. I don't take care of my phones too well, so moisture got back in fast. Try this out and if it works just avoid keeping your phone in moist places (like playing music in shower, being on it while raining, etc.). If this fixes the problem it should hold you off until you can get the screen resealed or a new screen.
If it is with the hardware and its still under warranty I would get a replacement. I would revert to the stock ROM (if you made a backup) or find one and make sure it's updated. I would then do a full unroot, and attempt to make it so they cannot tell it was rooted. I would then attempt to get the replacement. Rooting voids the warranty, but if you unrooted I doubt they could tell. Furthermore, if you have insurance on the phone this could also work.
Edit: If you try the rice then try to replace the screen I would ensure that the current screen works properly after the rice. Make sure all the moisture is out before you replace the screen that way no moisture is trapped in there.
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First of all.. Thank you soo much.. Thank you for the time.u put into these posts.. It has really helped me.out a lot.. I can totally see how the rice method could work.. But it has not got to the point where its un-usable.. As I said, its only in the lock screen.. It has never ever occurred during actually using it.. I haven't found any dead spots.. Nothing.. If I use the rice trick to take out the moisture,, and if I can use the same screen (which should still work) can I just take it out and glue it in to place? What type of adhesive should be good... I'm asking this because I got this from abroad.. And it's not an international warranty. So there's no way I'm getting a warranty replacement .. So ive gotta make with what I have.. But this is very sad though, specially from such a big company.. I mean gluing a screen is not that hard.. I played loads.. Lol.. I really hope hot glue works lol..
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First of all.. Thank you soo much.. Thank you for the time.u put into these posts.. It has really helped me.out a lot.. I can totally see how the rice method could work.. But it has not got to the point where its un-usable.. As I said, its only in the lock screen.. It has never ever occurred during actually using it.. I haven't found any dead spots.. Nothing.. If I use the rice trick to take out the moisture,, and if I can use the same screen (which should still work) can I just take it out and glue it in to place? What type of adhesive should be good... I'm asking this because I got this from abroad.. And it's not an international warranty. So there's no way I'm getting a warranty replacement .. So ive gotta make with what I have.. But this is very sad though, specially from such a big company.. I mean gluing a screen is not that hard.. I played loads.. Lol.. I really hope hot glue works lol..
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Well then I'd try to fix it before it does get unstable! Thing with the lock screen is you're swiping and the moisture defuses the area you're touching which could cause problems. Definitely try the rice! However, I wouldn't recommend gluing it yourself. I imagine it requires some sort of water and heat resistant glue to be effective, and on top of that a professional application. Hot glue definitely won't work! I imagine you want something that looks nice and I can only seeing that being messy and leaving residue. Furthermore, I'm not entirely sure on what lies beneath the screen and if disturbing that could cause further problems. However, I understand you're probably planning on it so please watch a guide such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcoEQVtUwYQ to see how it's done and what you need. There seems to be a lot more to it than just placing some glue on the screen and pressing it back down.
I'm sure you can get a replacement kit with instructions and all the required tools to do it properly for not too steep of a price. Check this out: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Replacement...46?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_15&hash=item54198f441a
Or you could take it to a professional like those at Broke Ass Phone: http://www.brokeassphone.com/smartphone-repair-selection/lg-smartphone-repair/lg-g3/ The price is steep, but it's professionally done and comes with a warranty.
Good luck to you!
ItsJacobee said:
I haven't had this problem on the D851, but I would try updating your device to the newest version of Cyanogenmod.
Also, back when I had the G2 I went through this problem a lot and actually had about five of them because they were under warranty. The problem was that the seal for the screen would come undone, and it's hard to notice since the screen is literally the entire front of the phone. When this seal broke, water would seep in and cause chaos with the screen. Wouldn't work in certain parts and so much more. I haven't had this happen on the G3, but my seal has broken and I can see it, so it's only a matter of time before water gets in there (or until I get the screen replaced). I've always had this problem with LGs they're just so damn good that I live with it. I'd bet this is what's going on if it's not the hardware.
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Hi, ItsJacobee,
Sorry for breaking in, I have the same issue with 2000ftt, and I did tried "rice trick" but no luck. I think the screen is perfectly fitted in the case, when I press the edges, the feel is solid and no room for further pressing in.
My device is D855, I flashed many custom roms (resurrectionremix, CM12, Nameless ROM, CloudyG3 2.1), the mentioned issue happens to many of them but never happened in CloudyG3 & stock rom.
Any idea?
Best regards.
D855Lover said:
Hi, ItsJacobee,
Sorry for breaking in, I have the same issue with 2000ftt, and I did tried "rice trick" but no luck. I think the screen is perfectly fitted in the case, when I press the edges, the feel is solid and no room for further pressing in.
My device is D855, I flashed many custom roms (resurrectionremix, CM12, Nameless ROM, CloudyG3 2.1), the mentioned issue happens to many of them but never happened in CloudyG3 & stock rom.
Any idea?
Best regards.
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Is it under warranty or do you have insurance on the phone?
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Is it under warranty or do you have insurance on the phone?
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Yes, it is under warranty, I am going to restore stock ROM and take it to service center. But I don't know how to trigger the issue (touch screen no response at lock screen while using power button to wake up), in stock rom and cloudyG3, this problem never happen.
Best regards,
D855 Lover.
D855Lover said:
Yes, it is under warranty, I am going to restore stock ROM and take it to service center. But I don't know how to trigger the issue (touch screen no response at lock screen while using power button to wake up), in stock rom and cloudyG3, this problem never happen.
Best regards,
D855 Lover.
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Restore Stock ROM AND do a full unroot beforehand.
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Restore Stock ROM AND do a full unroot beforehand.
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Thanks for reminding. I restored the phone to stock with the downloaded .TOT file, then go to service center.
I can't trigger the problem in front of the service guy, however, they ask me to left the phone for checking, one day later, they confirmed that my phone is working fine no need to do anything, nothing to be replaced.
CM12 is already good enough, its speed and battery friendly....
I wish developers of CM12 would somehow fix the problem in future updates, as I knew some D855 user (but not much) also having the same issue.
Best regards,
D855Lover.
Hi, my apologies if my HTC is in the wrong forum, not sure where the Desire would fit, if anywhere.
Nonetheless this is a useful phone to me and worked fine till the day I had to jump in a lake to save my 5 year old boy from drowning. Naturally didn't have the time to remove the phone from my pocket before jumping in the lake. Kid was fine after swallowing some water but phone "swallowed" a lot of water. Let it dry in a bag of rice and baking soda for several days to fully dry. But when trying to turn it on, the screen just flickers non stop. However when connecting it to the computer using a USB cable, I get what appears to be a boot screen (see pic in address below). Phone was rooted and run CyanogenMod 7. Maybe someone that's familiar with the procedure could guide me? Tried a couple of the options shown but to no avail. Old but still decent phone, would like to get it working again. I've transferred the sim to another phone and I've saved the micro SD card. Just need to get the phone to boot again. PS: could the battery be toast? Maybe it got shorted when I first tried to turn the phone on while still wet?
Any help is appreciated.
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I'd say leave it to dry naturally for a week or so and try again. If no joy then you could try a new screen but it's probably something really tiny and sensitive that cannot be replaced..
Glad you saved your boy!.
Sent from a stolen HTC M9
It's been 2 months. But I did make a crucial mistake: I tried to turn the phone on while still at the lake. This likely caused more damage than it needed.
However I suspect the issue is with the battery. It won't charge past 3.85 volts. And the display works just fine, once I press the key combo to enter the boot screen as seen in the pic above. Will try and track one down locally, hopefully a shop will be able to test it a battery in the phone before I buy it.
And yes, the boy was fine. But it was a close call. it is amazing how quickly something can go wrong. I neglected the lake rule of staying within arm's reach. Let this be a lesson to anyone with small ones: it only takes seconds for things to go badly wrong, even at a supposedly safe, man made lake intended for kids.
PS: 2 months prior an adult died on the same lake after falling off his boat. Another lesson: invest in swimming lessons. Scary stuff, indeed.
Right, i thought you were seeing that over usb via sdk or something.. You could always try opening it and inspecting for blown components. What damage can be done.. It's already useless.
I still think it's worth leaving it to dry naturally.
Sent from a stolen HTC M9