my epic 4g got wet to day just a good splash from the pool. i have it in rice. i tried booting and i can tell its booted up i even feel the vibration when i move my finger over where the screen look is but the screen is black with waving lines like an old tv. also the notification light doesnt come on and i dont think it was charging when i plugged in the cord. i see no red or pink in the battery compartment so i dont think the water really got in to much any help would be greatly appreciated.
Your screen is shorted out. AKA, expired, dead, deceased, zombified, or passed on. No coming back from the grave.
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b16flybye said:
Your screen is shorted out. AKA, expired, dead, deceased, zombified, or passed on. No coming back from the grave.
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sorry bro you were wrong its working now just don't have charging capability and a little problem reading the sd card. you really should know what your talking about before you give someone such extreme diagnosis. and for the charging problem i bet leaving it in the rice overnight will clear it right up.
So your screen had wavy lines, but now it works and your sd card slot is having issues along with no charging capability? Between both of those, I would wonder how much longer my phone would last.
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Leave it in a bag of rice with the battery out for another night.
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Epic got a little drizzle lastnight. Noticed this am that power button is unresponsive. Moisture indicator on Batt is def red.
Everything else works fine. Think it will come around soon? It has worked a few times today.
I did get insurance last time around. Is that a pretty easy swap?
Stick with Epic or go for something newer? Thanks...
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akenis said:
Epic got a little drizzle lastnight. Noticed this am that power button is unresponsive. Moisture indicator on Batt is def red.
Everything else works fine. Think it will come around soon? It has worked a few times today.
I did get insurance last time around. Is that a pretty easy swap?
Stick with Epic or go for something newer? Thanks...
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You might get lucky if you take out the battery and let it dry out overnight. How long ago did you add the insurance? Has it been 30 days? I am not sure if the $100 deductable applies to moisture damage or not.
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Keep it in a bowl of rice to dry it out. Try it again after a few hours. If not, you will have to pay the $100 if they can't fix it.
JohnCorleone said:
You might get lucky if you take out the battery and let it dry out overnight. How long ago did you add the insurance? Has it been 30 days? I am not sure if the $100 deductable applies to moisture damage or not.
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Tried that initially, then worried I couldn't turn it on! After a wait I did get it to turn on.
Tried quick boot and still no work. But that will give me a chance to reboot recovery for nandroid.
Also using screen off and lock from market to turn off (remap long press search to power off). Sliding open keyboard to turn on.
Yeah... it's been a long time since I got insurance.
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Keep it in a bowl of rice to dry it out. Try it again after a few hours. If not, you will have to pay the $100 if they can't fix it.
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Tried that trick with my old Treo 800wx.... that's how I ended up with the moment!
Flying all day today... maybe some dry air will help.
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Seems to be working better than half the time now. Wasn't looking forward to the $100 water fee. Also noticed a hairline crack on lower right side of display housing...looks like maybe a stress area from the underside hinge slots.
So is there another water detector? I only see the one on battery. Seems like maybe I could get an extra batt b4 this thing gets swapped out.... is behold comming?!
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akenis said:
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Seems to be working better than half the time now. Wasn't looking forward to the $100 water fee. Also noticed a hairline crack on lower right side of display housing...looks like maybe a stress area from the underside hinge slots.
So is there another water detector? I only see the one on battery. Seems like maybe I could get an extra batt b4 this thing gets swapped out.... is behold comming?!
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Oh man, the plastic around your screen is your accelerometer according to what a Sprint tech told me. I have had insurance since day 1. My touchscreen went bad and at first they weren't going to fix mine at all because I had a crack in that plastic around my screen. I had to do some smooth talking and finally he replaced my screen and some other things as well
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y phone fell into a pail with water it was in there about 5 to 10 seconds. i pulled the battery out and used a blow dryer and put the battery back in and the flash came on. is that a good sign? dont know what else to do. did i screw things up by trying to turn it on without letting it dry out all night? i had this happen once before but never saw the flash come on as soon as the battery was put back in. im hoping for some good news because im not paying assurion 100 bucks, ill just upgrade but i still love my epic. thanks guys
I would've left the phone off for a day or so. I dropped mine in the sink once and after a day of waiting and blow drying I powered it up and the soft buttons were blinking and not responding but it eventually cleared itself up. It was weird.
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Will if the samsung epic is anything like the samsung moment you should be alright, I dropped that in the toilet twice lol you might have to still wait a few days..
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Confucius say... Phone fall in toilet, dump in bowl of rice.
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Fire n mage said:
Will if the samsung epic is anything like the samsung moment you should be alright, I dropped that in the toilet twice lol you might have to still wait a few days..
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This is why you don't borrow peoples phones.lol...might as well put his turd on your face!
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thanks guys. i woke up this morning and it is still doing the same thing. i can go get a loaner but if ive ttied it a few times have i done alot of damage by putting the battery back in a few times? thats my concern that every time i put the battery in im short circuiting it more and now its toast
You'd be surprised how durable these phones are. I witnessed my friend drop his in a 10 foot swimming pool. It was in there for atleast 15-20 seconds and it works perfect still. We need someone in the community to conduct water testing along with .... "will it blend?"
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This is why you don't borrow peoples phones.lol...might as well put his turd on your face!
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There was nothing in the toilet i swears happened to flush right before it dropped both tiems
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gorelow said:
thanks guys. i woke up this morning and it is still doing the same thing. i can go get a loaner but if ive ttied it a few times have i done alot of damage by putting the battery back in a few times? thats my concern that every time i put the battery in im short circuiting it more and now its toast
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Sorry for the double post, your best bet is to leave it alone n get a loaner, i did the same thing, i left it for a week or two, thought it was toast then randomly pressed the power button and it turned on lol
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Confusious is right.. Remove battery and any protective shell, fill a mayo jar or large McDonalds cup or whatever you have that is larger than your phone with dry rice, then stick your phone in then fill the rest of the way with rice. Let set for like 24 hrs. The rice will absorb ALL the moisture. And then you should be golden.
FYI... You should never turn on an electric devise before it is completely dried out first. And never use hot air on an electronic device. I just assumed those were common sense.
My 1.5 year old stuck my epic in the aquarium it was completely under for at least 1 full min. Before I saw it. And the rice trick worked for mine. Left it in the rice for like 2 days though for good measure.
Hope this helps others in the future.
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Put your phone inside rice leave it there for a couple hours the rice helps to absorb the excess liquid it worked for me couple times good luck with your phone
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I used silica gel cat litter on my daughter's phone after it spent a few seconds in a warm bubble bath.
Three days later, it worked a ok. Silica gel is that dessicant inside little white bags labelled 'DO NOT EAT'.
Same idea as rice. We had some of the silica gel cat litter on hand, unused of course, so it seemed like a good option.
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ok whatever you use dont be an idiot like me and turn on your phone 3 or 4 times to see if its dry yet. my phone died. (funeral thursday). im getting another phone today from assurion. can i have some suggestions about what to put on a brand new phone. i was thinking of odining a el22 tar and leaving it there but thought id see if anyone has a fav rom for the epic that is drama free. whenever i go for the bells and whistles it always seems to give me problems on my epic. maybe it was just the previous phone. thanks for any input
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ok whatever you use dont be an idiot like me and turn on your phone 3 or 4 times to see if its dry yet. my phone died. (funeral thursday). im getting another phone today from assurion. can i have some suggestions about what to put on a brand new phone. i was thinking of odining a el22 tar and leaving it there but thought id see if anyone has a fav rom for the epic that is drama free. whenever i go for the bells and whistles it always seems to give me problems on my epic. maybe it was just the previous phone. thanks for any input
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Mine came with fricking ecalir when Froyo was official and GB was only 2 months or so away haha. So you might get GB El30 pre with it
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Drama free? Well Viper rom is nice, as far as a good touchwiz and im sure marcusants is very good as well, im loving AOKP milestone 4 port with amazing battery life, and theres always cleangb
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Recently my red LED has been staying on. Even when the phone is turned off it will be on so this is not a software bug. For some reason it isn't always at full brightness and sometimes fades in and out, but doesn't blink.
This is definitely hurting my battery usage, and just plain annoying so I'd really appreciate some help.
Thanks!
Never heard if this problem. Try throwing your phone out a window no but seriously how long has it been doing this?
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Might need a little more information. Are you running a custom rom? I could recommend removing the checkmark for pulse notification light in display settings if available. Might help.
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Might need a little more information. Are you running a custom rom? I could recommend removing the checkmark for pulse notification light in display settings if available. Might help.
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I'm running the stock ROM. But like I said, it even does it when the phone is off.
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Never heard if this problem. Try throwing your phone out a window no but seriously how long has it been doing this?
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It's been doing it for a day or two.
Hmm well the red light comes on when the phone is charging. Is there any type of debris in your USB port? Just throwing out ideas. You could also try flashing a different rom and see if it does the same thing.
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Hmm well the red light comes on when the phone is charging. Is there any type of debris in your USB port? Just throwing out ideas. You could also try flashing a different rom and see if it does the same thing.
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Perhaps. I dropped it in the sink under running water the other day and I don't think it got very wet but I put it in rice just to be safe. I'll flash a ROM if nothing else works.
JooshPole said:
Perhaps. I dropped it in the sink under running water the other day and I don't think it got very wet but I put it in rice just to be safe. I'll flash a ROM if nothing else works.
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That sounds like the reason why honestly. Even a couple drops can mess things up and cause issues. Right now it might just be that red notification light but more serious issues down the road. At least from my experience with water damage so YMMV.
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JooshPole said:
Perhaps. I dropped it in the sink under running water the other day and I don't think it got very wet but I put it in rice just to be safe. I'll flash a ROM if nothing else works.
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You shouldn't have left that out! I was about to go research for you because I thought there's a possibility it could happen to me,until you mentioned water,lol. Sometimes rice is not enough specially when it got wet while it was on. Something must've short circuited.
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sol_671 said:
You shouldn't have left that out! I was about to go research for you because I thought there's a possibility it could happen to me,until you mentioned water,lol. Sometimes rice is not enough specially when it got wet while it was on. Something must've short circuited.
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So you think If I took it apart and checked/re-soldered the LED it would be fixed?
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So you think If I took it apart and checked/re-soldered the LED it would be fixed?
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Don't bother, eventually it will go away not if you have a back up phone leave it in the rice a bit longer if not just let it be for now....unless you wanna take it apart
Cleaning the usb port may fix this problem
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Wasup Josh what ever happened with your first opsa daisy??
I actually got my setup running. It worked great on GB notso much on the ICS superbricks though.
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So you think If I took it apart and checked/re-soldered the LED it would be fixed?
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I don't think there's a point in opening it up to solder anything as nothing is cracked or lose solder joints, like AJC9000 said maybe leave it on rice a little longer or maybe it will eventually go away. Good luck I hope nothing is permanently damaged.
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What's the scariest thing that has happened to your Galaxy Nexus?
For me it would be when I fell asleep with mx player running videos on repeat for 9 hours. When I woke up it was so hot I could have fried an egg on it :laugh:. I put it on top of an AC vent to cool off.
Inb4 noobs bricking their phones
When I turned it off for the night at 85% and went to turn it on in the morning and it was dead.
Luckily hasn't done it since.
It literally just slipped out of my hands and onto the kitchen floor. Thankfully nothing happened. Battery popped out, i simply popped it back in. All good! Im trying to preserve mine as i have a white one with a perfect screen! No weird dark splotches or color shifting.
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It literally just slipped out of my hands and onto the kitchen floor. Thankfully nothing happened. Battery popped out, i simply popped it back in. All good! Im trying to preserve mine as i have a white one with a perfect screen! No weird dark splotches or color shifting.
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I've done that before, it's terrifying lol. In the first few days when I hadn't gotten my case or screen protector yet and had a naked Gnex.....it fell screen down onto the floor. I braced myself for the worse as I picked it up....but luckily there were no cracks
I saw a picture of Sarah Palin on mine.
You're lucky it didn't burn into the screen!
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Taking it back to stock. Ugh gives me chills just saying stock.
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When I turned it off for the night at 85% and went to turn it on in the morning and it was dead.
Luckily hasn't done it since.
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This has happened to me too!!! On 3 occasions on different roms!! Glad I am not the only one... Hasn't happened in awhile though!:fingers-crossed:
Getting water and soap in while applying a wet screen protector, it started to reboot as soon as the enter-pin screen appeared. I put it in a bag of rice for 1 day, after that it returned to normal.
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Once in a party some pig left an iDevice on my Gnex, right on top of it! Poor GNex spent about three hours like that
When it turned off during a phone call and became unresponsive. Pulling and reinserting the battery multiple times did nothing. However, oddly enough after like 5 minutes it returned to normal
Scratched it... i wanted to DIE
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When i dropped my phone near a sewer, oh god....
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When i flashed it the first time, i lost the imei, but xda saved me....
I fell asleep using it while it was charging, and I woke up to the sight of my USB cable not working, my phone refusing to charge with any other cable, and having to send it to Samsung for repair.
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Had it sitting on my lap in my car. Got out of the car forgetting it was in my lap. It fell screen down in the parking lot and slip 2 feet on the screen.
Only a couple minor scratches though.
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Dragoon0309 said:
You're lucky it didn't burn into the screen!
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Is this even possible or are you joking? I've done that tons of times in an Otterbox defender clipped to my pillow. it never got that hot.
But I was using screen filter app at 20% with lowest display brightness BC its not good for your circadian rhythm to sleep by bright lights.
Scariest thing I've done was got out of the car and have the phone hit the pavement. luckily a 3 way nail file smoothed and buffed everything out perfectly!
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Noticed an really really small,super mycroscopic scratch,that really isnt noticable...and it felt soo bad
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The scariest thing that happened to my GNex is when I screwed up the 4.1 update and the phone got stuck on the boot screen.
The boot animation was distorted, EVEN WHEN I UNPLUGGED MY BATTERY. The screen was literally on when the battery is out. Then everything started to flash for about 5 seconds before it finally turned itself off.
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Noticed an really really small,super mycroscopic scratch,that really isnt noticable...and it felt soo bad
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I felt the same way... till i realized it was the screen protector
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Left phone outside last night and woke up with it pouring rain. Needless to say water got in the phone. Both camera are water logged now and the usb port is acting up saying its on charger when its not. Anybody have any ideas to maybe get the water out quicker besides rice in a bowl trick. Thanks
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On top of the fridge.
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On top of the fridge?
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Ouch dude. I'm sorry that happened...I would be crying if that happened to me. It sounds like a lot of water is inside the phone and would take quiet a while for the rice to do its job. Make sure to not keep the device powered on. Remove the battery ASAP and then toss the phone in a bag of rice and let it sit for a few days. You could try setting it in front of a fan too for a few hours/days. I'm surprised the phone didn't short out yet.
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Front camera is still shot and usb port damaged i guess it charges but even when i unplug it it still says its charging but battery level keeps going lower not higher. I guess i will give it a few more days then get it repaired if needed. Tried to open the phone myself and got every screw out but the one on the side and just my luck it stripped so needless to say I couldn't get the back off without breaking it...go figure!!!!
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I wouldn't even turn it on for at least 3 days
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Sounds good but my backup phone is even worse because my little boy slammed it. So it only works half the time and cuts off by itself
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richardlibeau said:
Sounds good but my backup phone is even worse because my little boy slammed it. So it only works half the time and cuts off by itself
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Maybe, but I guarentee your main phoen won't work at all or ever if you turn it on today.
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Front camera is still shot and usb port damaged i guess it charges but even when i unplug it it still says its charging but battery level keeps going lower not higher. I guess i will give it a few more days then get it repaired if needed. Tried to open the phone myself and got every screw out but the one on the side and just my luck it stripped so needless to say I couldn't get the back off without breaking it...go figure!!!!
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Keeping the phone powered on and trying to charge it was by far the worst thing to do. You should have removed the battery right when you got it from outside and put it into rice or let it air-dry for a long time. Obviously it's too late now but for the future just remember that for any of your electronics.
Sucks about the stripped screw. Been there done that lots of times. Those kinds of screws require a really good screwdriver.
brian117 said:
Keeping the phone powered on and trying to charge it was by far the worst thing to do. You should have removed the battery right when you got it from outside and put it into rice or let it air-dry for a long time. Obviously it's too late now but for the future just remember that for any of your electronics.
Sucks about the stripped screw. Been there done that lots of times. Those kinds of screws require a really good screwdriver.
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Yeah, probably wasn"t the smartest thing to do after it was in the rain all night.A bonehead move on my part for sure. Guess that's what happens when drink too much watching the super bowl!!!