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Watered down dinc2. Help please

Hi all, I have a dinc2 and it was dropped in water. It was removed very fast and put In rice. Thought I saved it but it started wigging and only goes to htc screen. I am able to volume down w/ power and get to hboot menu but that's about it. I plug in to comp and it doesn't recognize it. I have the htc sync on my comp. But nothing. Don't have ins. So I would like to get it running. Any and all help appreciated. Thanks, hp
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Unfortunately there is not much else you can do for water. Maybe let it sit on a window seal in the sun with the back off. Just to try to get any remaining water out. More than likely it will not come back.
Are the water marks turned pink?
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homephysician said:
Hi all, I have a dinc2 and it was dropped in water. It was removed very fast and put In rice. Thought I saved it but it started wigging and only goes to htc screen. I am able to volume down w/ power and get to hboot menu but that's about it. I plug in to comp and it doesn't recognize it. I have the htc sync on my comp. But nothing. Don't have ins. So I would like to get it running. Any and all help appreciated. Thanks, hp
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Give it a week...happened to my inc1 and after a week it all worked perfectly.
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homephysician said:
Hi all, I have a dinc2 and it was dropped in water. It was removed very fast and put In rice. Thought I saved it but it started wigging and only goes to htc screen. I am able to volume down w/ power and get to hboot menu but that's about it. I plug in to comp and it doesn't recognize it. I have the htc sync on my comp. But nothing. Don't have ins. So I would like to get it running. Any and all help appreciated. Thanks, hp
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What happens when you get in recovery? Something like a failure to mount certain partitions?
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I have also had a similar experience with my Eris. I left it on a radiator with the back off and battery/ SD card removed for 24hrs and it came up fine even though my water markers were all triggered. Still works today.
Good luck!

Hi thanks for the replies. The water marks are not pink. When at the recovery window the recovery goes to the htc white screen. The crc calculates. Its been more than a week. The only reason I thought there might be some hope is because it does go to the recovery window. I also notice small pin holes in the back cover. Maybe a master reset or some hope. Thanks again for the help. hp
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if the water marks are not turned you can file a warranty claim but that is risky due to not knowing what is inside the phone. The outter marks are harder to turn than inner water marks.
Try just letting it dry out like myself and others have said. You do not want to screw things up more messing with it vs letting it work its self out.
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Thanks man. I don't have insurance on it. But I do appreciate all the responses.
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homephysician said:
Thanks man. I don't have insurance on it. But I do appreciate all the responses.
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Well if the water marks aren't pink...go to Verizon, play dumb and say it won't turn on?
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thanks but...., i and now you all know it has water damage. for me to go in to verizon and play dumb would be deceitful. the phone is expensive but not worth lying about. i have to face an all mighty God some day, and possibly sooner than later. its just not worth the risk to me. but i do thank you all for the suggestions. be blessed and happy new year to all. hp

Not sure if it's been a week, but there could still be water in it. I dropped my old iPhone in the toilet, and by the time got it out, the screen was flickering and it was resting randomly. I took it entirely apart and found lots of spots where water reached. Dried them all out, and it still works fine to this day.
At this point, you have nothing to loose, so I'd sit down at a clean table with some small screwdrivers and start tearing it down. I'm sure there are diagrams on the web showing how it comes apart. In addition to water, because of the time that has elapsed, look for spots of corrosion - light green to white dust or flakes. If you see any, you can try brushing it away with a small paintbrush. If the water has all dried up and it's still not working, there has to be a short (or several) somewhere. You might get lucky, and like I said, you have nothing to loose.

Your honesty is much appreciated! Fraudulent warranty claims affect all of us.
If you still haven't gotten it working I recommend a bath in rubbing alcohol for about 30-40 seconds. The higher the alcohol percentage the better, I prefer the 90% stuff. Then another overnight sit in rice. Do both of these with the back cover and battery both removed.
I know it sounds a bit strange to put it in liquid but the alcohol will dilute the water and make it evaporate much faster. The rice will further accelerate this process. I have done it before with great results and at this point you can't do much more harm to it if it isn't even turning on.
Best of luck!
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cstone1991 said:
Your honesty is much appreciated! Fraudulent warranty claims affect all of us.
If you still haven't gotten it working I recommend a bath in rubbing alcohol for about 30-40 seconds. The higher the alcohol percentage the better, I prefer the 90% stuff. Then another overnight sit in rice. Do both of these with the back cover and battery both removed.
I know it sounds a bit strange to put it in liquid but the alcohol will dilute the water and make it evaporate much faster. The rice will further accelerate this process. I have done it before with great results and at this point you can't do much more harm to it if it isn't even turning on.
Best of luck!
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Take your battery out if you do this.. just sayin...
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faehsemc said:
Take your battery out if you do this.. just sayin...
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VERY IMPORTANT! I probably should have put that in caps in my post. It was in there though.
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My friend spilled milk all over her phone, and it wouldn't turn on. I told her to put it in alcohol, and a month later it still works, if a little funny sometimes. But yes, it is important to remove the battery, and the sd card. And let it sit for a while afterwards.

cstone1991 said:
VERY IMPORTANT! I probably should have put that in caps in my post. It was in there though.
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Do you know what alcohol does to the LCD screen...
It left a permanent color band pattern on my 6800.
If you are going to put alcohol any where near it I would do it with a Q-Tip with the covers removed.
Find an old tire compressor, the 12V type and modify the intake of the compressor to connect a suction tube to it.
Swab the area around the components with a soggy Q-Tip (avoid running any on the LCD screen) and work it in with an old tooth brush (make sure the toothbrush is very clean, you don't want to smear any fluoride residue on the solder mask of the circuit board).
Then power up the pump and suck up the excess residue.
Wen prepping the unit, you may want to open all of those ribbon cable clamps.
That's the first place corrosion wants to grow.
Just be sure to handle those cables with care.
The copper traces within them is very thin.
If there is any corrosion on the contacts of the cables, lightly use a pencil eraser on them by holding it flat on a surface add rubbing in one direction away from the main part out to the end.
Good luck...

cac2us said:
Do you know what alcohol does to the LCD screen...
It left a permanent color band pattern on my 6800.
If you are going to put alcohol any where near it I would do it with a Q-Tip with the covers removed.
Find an old tire compressor, the 12V type and modify the intake of the compressor to connect a suction tube to it.
Swab the area around the components with a soggy Q-Tip (avoid running any on the LCD screen) and work it in with an old tooth brush (make sure the toothbrush is very clean, you don't want to smear any fluoride residue on the solder mask of the circuit board).
Then power up the pump and suck up the excess residue.
Wen prepping the unit, you may want to open all of those ribbon cable clamps.
That's the first place corrosion wants to grow.
Just be sure to handle those cables with care.
The copper traces within them is very thin.
If there is any corrosion on the contacts of the cables, lightly use a pencil eraser on them by holding it flat on a surface add rubbing in one direction away from the main part out to the end.
Good luck...
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Hmm... I never thought about that but I can definitely see how damage to the screen is possible. I have never seen it happen to phones that I or anyone I know have tried it on but I have never tried it on a touchscreen phone, which could definitely be different.
Thank you for posting a much safer method!
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Phone got wet, worked fine, now acting up.

Using AOKP.
So my phone got pretty wet recently (over a week ago). It seemed to work OK immediately afterwards but the past 2 days its been acting up. As of right now, I cant answer or make any calls. I can see calls come in but when I slide the icon to answer it, it locks up and reboots almost instantly. It only does it when I go to answer the call, not if I hang up on the incoming call. Its like its having a problem switching over to the live call. The same thing happens when I try to dial out. Once I put in the number to dial, and hit the call icon, it locks up and reboots.
The next issue is the auto-dimming of the display stopped working. I can manually adjust it but it wont adjust by itself. I can live with that.
The last issue is with USB, it doesnt seem to recognize the connection anymore. My computer sees the phone, but it doesnt talk to it. I can live with that too, just pointing it out.
Its acting as if its a software problem but I dont know the phone works internally when answering a call. I tried to wipe and restore an old Calk ROM and the same problem happens. I also tried a different Phone.apk dialer with no luck. Im pretty sure its hardware related, but is there anything I can reset? Or is the phone garbage now?

I would try a 1 click stock rom

Water is a creeping beast, the short-circuiting is the immediate effect, that goes away when it dries obviously.
Then the moisture corrodes the components inside. That's why you'll see problems a week or two later; what you are describing sounds like classic liquid damage.
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You should've soaked the phone in isopropyl alcohol, left it out in the sun or inside a bag of rise instead of continue use. Welcome to phoneless ville, population: you

rovar said:
You should've soaked the phone in isopropyl alcohol, left it out in the sun or inside a bag of rise instead of continue use. Welcome to phoneless ville, population: you
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NEVER USE ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL!!
You are supposed to use denatured alcohol.
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squshy 7 said:
Water is a creeping beast, the short-circuiting is the immediate effect, that goes away when it dries obviously.
Then the moisture corrodes the components inside. That's why you'll see problems a week or two later; what you are describing sounds like classic liquid damage.
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Thanks, thats pretty much what I was thinking. I have a back up EVO so no "phonelessville" for me.

Don't know what I was smoking I should've said to use this: (Or similar)
http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/...KHCMDN11H0000000_nid=J6J3N30DN8beCLNXKDTJMNgl

Open it up clean the entire board with alcohol and a toothbrush. Leave no trace of corrision. Remove any liquid indicators. Then bring it to an asc location. They will replace it if they don't find the corrosion. If anything looks burned your s.o.l.
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If you remove the liquid indicators they will simply hand your phone back. They know you are trying to "trick" them. And obviously Samsung has them so the would have been on previously. Tamper evident ya know... also the bleach trick doesn't work. They have solutions to test for that. As well as the papers not being actually white anymore. Its now a faint yellow
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So, besides the battery, where are the water indicators?
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I also had water damage to mine. Phone was completely submerged for a couple seconds. Let it dry out and all that good stuff. Phone worked flawlessly for about 4-5 months, then the power button wouldn't work. So what everyone says about water damage getting you sooner or later is true.

MoHoGalore said:
So, besides the battery, where are the water indicators?
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There are hidden ones inside the device itself
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elliwigy said:
There are hidden ones inside the device itself
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Yup special white strips that turn pink if exposed to water I believe. Or at least that's how the iPhone is lol
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Best thing to use if you can't wait to order denatured alcohol in a waterlogging incedent is liquid rain-x windshield treatment, its only ingredient is denatured alcohol. Otherwise if you use isopropyl make sure is 90% or higher, found at the pharmacy. Regular isopropyl alcohol is almost 30% water. I have 95% iso for larger items cuz its cheap(like $3 for just under a litre) and rain-x is like $8 for about 6oz but it works for detail cleaning contacts and solder points. High grade or denatured alcohol, a hairdryer with a air only setting, and a 98¢ bag of white rice with a gladware container are the best things you can have if you send your electronics for a swim or decide they look thirsty and share your drink with them :thumbup:
We are legion, for we are many.
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patrao_n said:
If you remove the liquid indicators they will simply hand your phone back. They know you are trying to "trick" them. And obviously Samsung has them so the would have been on previously. Tamper evident ya know... also the bleach trick doesn't work. They have solutions to test for that. As well as the papers not being actually white anymore. Its now a faint yellow
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Not true. I'm run an asc location and I personally have done a.e's on phones with missing or even red liquid indicators. They mean absolutely nothing. They can turn red just from taking a shower with your phone in your bathroom. There has to actually be corrosion or burned circuits on the board to be deemed d.b.r. (damaged beyond repair) which then requires an insurance claim.
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anti-up said:
Not true. I'm run an asc location and I personally have done a.e's on phones with missing or even red liquid indicators. They mean absolutely nothing. They can turn red just from taking a shower with your phone in your bathroom. There has to actually be corrosion or burned circuits on the board to be deemed d.b.r. (damaged beyond repair) which then requires an insurance claim.
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I was wondering about that. Seems like any place where it's humid or moist would trigger the sticker on your phone. It's not a fail-proof idea like they'd like you to think.

-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
Best thing to use if you can't wait to order denatured alcohol in a waterlogging incedent is liquid rain-x windshield treatment, its only ingredient is denatured alcohol.
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DO NOT put rain-x on your phone!
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/06/st_whatsinside_rainx/
Why would you even think to do that? Plain old denatured alcohol is all you need and it can be found by the gallon at any hardware store.

So, just to follow up. Since the phone was acting pretty crazy the past few days and phone calls were useless, I went ahead and did a full wipe and decided to try out CM 10 since I hadnt checked it out yet. Oddly enough, phone calls are working and the auto dimming feature is working as well. USB still isnt working. I didnt make any changes to the phone other than wiping and installing CM10 and GAPPS. Ill set this up and see how it goes the next few days. AOKP definitely started having some issues anyway, but it was wierd that it had the same problem after restored an old back up of Calk ROM. Maybe its not a brick after all

Creaking phone?

So a few days ago I began to notice that the back of my phone is now creaking, I first heard it when i went to pick my phone up the other morning and it sounded like an old hardwood floor creaking sound, it's progressively gotten worse to where now when i hold my phone during a call if i shift my hand at all the person on the other line can hear it. I was wondering if anyone else had this problem. The creaking seems to be isolated to (if you're staring at the back of the phone) the left half of the phone just below the power button and stops creaking above the phone model number beneath the glass.

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So a few days ago I began to notice that the back of my phone is now creaking, I first heard it when i went to pick my phone up the other morning and it sounded like an old hardwood floor creaking sound, it's progressively gotten worse to where now when i hold my phone during a call if i shift my hand at all the person on the other line can hear it. I was wondering if anyone else had this problem. The creaking seems to be isolated to (if you're staring at the back of the phone) the left half of the phone just below the power button and stops creaking above the phone model number beneath the glass.
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Mine is as solid as day 1

Same problem here.
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I've noticed this too but after putting my diztronic case over it, the creaking stopped.

My phone rattles when a tap my fingers next to the lens or put the phone down. No creakng yet.
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Ive noticed mine on the camera. Whenever i try to tap the back of the phone, it seems like its not perfectly fit or something.
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They have a similar thread on the international optimus g page with the same complaint. I wonder if the Nexus owners do to.
Edit: the Nexus has the same issue. Just Google nexus 4 and rattle. Seems pretty wide spread.
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kc_exactly said:
They have a similar thread on the international optimus g page with the same complaint. I wonder if the Nexus owners do to.
Edit: the Nexus has the same issue. Just Google nexus 4 and rattle. Seems pretty wide spread.
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So this makes me curious as to what other defects its going to have, but I'm on to a different issue, phone dropped about 2" and the digitizer broke, so when my new screen comes in i will do a walk through tutorial on how to replace it... starting to wish i had gone with the GS3...

Mine is also doing that. Just started to notice it today. Kinda makes my opinion of the build quality a little less. But still love the phone. Minus the messaging bug. LOL.
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If I use my shoulder to hold the phone to my ear I get a creaking sound too. That's the only time I've heard it though. I imagine it has to do with the glass back.

Here, too. It's the camera side, right below it, that creaks. Fortunately, it's only noticeable when I deliberately squeeze it.
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solid here....this msg bug you guys are talking about, is it when your typing the sceen jumps and your back at the start of the msg?

Hey, so I just noticed that if I flip the phone over and orient it so the camera is on top, then it will creak when I push on the left side. You can also see the casing move in slightly. It's almost as if it's broken somewhere but you can't see any crack.
I thought the people at Best Buy had said the back was glass but it's looking more like cheap plastic at this point. Is it different on AT&T maybe?

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So this makes me curious as to what other defects its going to have, but I'm on to a different issue, phone dropped about 2" and the digitizer broke, so when my new screen comes in i will do a walk through tutorial on how to replace it... starting to wish i had gone with the GS3...
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I dropped mine from chest height and nothing happened to it. That really sucks for you. How much was the replacement screen?

cthedogg said:
I dropped mine from chest height and nothing happened to it. That really sucks for you. How much was the replacement screen?
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The replacement screen was $130 went with 2 day shipping (Digitizer/LCD Assembly). Just the digitizer was only $60 but it's a good thing I went with the whole assembly because when i was trying to pull the glass out of the housing some of the shards came off by themselves, and revealed that LG "fusing" the glass to the lcd is literally glue covering the entire LCD making it damn near impossible to just replace the digitizer and make it look nice.
Also a few warnings to those disassembling their phones:
1) The battery isnt solid, more like cased in an extreemly soft metal so it will dent if not carefully removed (it's glued into the housing)
2) The chrome edge dent's very easily, have a small ding where i got impatient, TAKE YOUR TIME!
3) When removing the back cover don't cross over the volume rocker, power button, or USB port with the spudger. for the top of the back removal gently push the back cover forward dont try to shove your spudger in their, it wont work lol.
I'm going to be doing a full disassembly guide that's a lot easier to follow than the "engrish" version korea put out for us english speaking techs when my new roll of 3m tape comes in. =P

This cracking is caused by a small piece of sticky under the back cover you can either remove the sticky or ad some more this would prevent the cracking...
I posted a service guide here on XDA search my name for it... It will show how you can remove the back cover... just when taking it off remember the back can crack easy and the plastic can ding or dent rather easy and make sure you don't mess up the power button or the volume buttons
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solid here....this msg bug you guys are talking about, is it when your typing the sceen jumps and your back at the start of the msg?
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Replaced the screen, now the speaker is messed up, help!

So I dropped the phone a while ago, no asurion until august due to too many claims SMH
Anyways, I just broke down and bought for $250 a new screen OEM. Installed it, all is well, EXCEPT the speaker now. It cracks at higher volumes. I have tried new roms hoping it would fix it, but no dice. Can I fix the speaker? Any ideas?

Ive noticed youve gotten over 30 views and absolutely 0 responses.... guess ill bite...
By guess is something wasnt taken apart or put bac together... after watching a youtube video on replacing the screen, id say your best bet is take everthing, that you can, apart again (chances are the screen isnt adjustable, unless you got another 250), and after disassembly, make sure all the speaker components are intact and assembled to the 9's
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PhxDroid86 said:
Ive noticed youve gotten over 30 views and absolutely 0 responses.... guess ill bite...
By guess is something wasnt taken apart or put bac together... after watching a youtube video on replacing the screen, id say your best bet is take everthing, that you can, apart again (chances are the screen isnt adjustable, unless you got another 250), and after disassembly, make sure all the speaker components are intact and assembled to the 9's
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Thanks for the reply.
This is what I ordered, I didn't need to take the glass off the screen, it wasn't that bad to disassemble.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/330855959331?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
Maybe the speaker is dented or vibrating and needs to be glued down?

Michigan Jason said:
Thanks for the reply.
This is what I ordered, I didn't need to take the glass off the screen, it wasn't that bad to disassemble.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/330855959331?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
Maybe the speaker is dented or vibrating and needs to be glued down?
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Normally when you replaced the whole screen assembly you have to be sure that the speakers are all the way in because those have the tendency to become lose when you reassembled the device. Open it up again and be sure to put everything back very tight. I replace so many screens before and got that problem in some, but once I reopened and put it back together everything works like is supposed to.
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[Q] Water Damage

Hi,
I dropped my S3 in a pool. I left it off for a couple days with the battery removed. After a couple days I decided to open up my phone. I noticed some corrosion in the back of the motherboard and cleaned it off with alcohol. My phone turns on but the screen doesn't. I looked at the motherboard and doesn't look like it fried. Is there a way for me to troubleshoot to figure it out why the screen is not turning on?

How long did it last in the pool? . Those days that it was off did you tried the old rice in a bag trick? Your probably doing more harm than good trying to keep turning it on might be paper weight now.. Or maybe it needs screen replacement. Btw did you turned it on before deciding on opening it to see if it was working?
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Thank you all. I found that the LCD connector was corroded (had to use a magnifying glass). cleaned it heavily with alcohol and the screen was working again!
next problem is that the microphone is not working. How can i troubleshoot or repair this? i cleaned the microphone hole, still didn't resolve the problem. Is the mic something i can replace?

I believe they sell replacement mics on eBay for a few bucks. Not sure how hard the install would be, definitely worth a shot though!
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Do you know the exact part name? I tried doing an ebay search and couldn't find it

The ebay item number is:
400465424494 Put that in the search and it should pop right up.
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Mine went in the pool for less than 10 seconds, and was in a casemate case, and its fine except the speaker, (i may have damaged it blowing into it to dry out the phone; but this is the 2nd dip this phone has had, and both time came out pretty much ok... new speaker assy cost me under $7 on ebay and these phones are SIMPLE to get apart.. going to try to clean connector on existing speaker now that you said it fixed your screen issues...
tl;dr
Mine got wet and works still too!
***EDIT*****--- alcohol worked, speaker is good now!

tbirdguy said:
Mine went in the pool for less than 10 seconds, and was in a casemate case, and its fine except the speaker, (i may have damaged it blowing into it to dry out the phone; but this is the 2nd dip this phone has had, and both time came out pretty much ok... new speaker assy cost me under $7 on ebay and these phones are SIMPLE to get apart.. going to try to clean connector on existing speaker now that you said it fixed your screen issues...
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Mine got wet and works still too!
***EDIT*****--- alcohol worked, speaker is good now!
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Alcohol does wonders! Glad you got it working.
I just ordered the replacement mic. Let's see how it works.

Hope that fixes the problem for you.
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Attached is a photo of my replacement mic and my phone. Any idea how I'm supposed to install this thing?

samsunguser123 said:
Attached is a photo of my replacement mic and my phone. Any idea how I'm supposed to install this thing?
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Try using the Ifixit app. It may help on properly installing the mic or at least give you a general idea of how to do so. It will also give the names to many of the parts on the motherboard.

LuigiBull23 said:
Try using the Ifixit app. It may help on properly installing the mic or at least give you a general idea of how to do so. It will also give the names to many of the parts on the motherboard.
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Thanks, the app is pretty useful but doesn't have any information about replacing the mic.

Unfortunately stuff like that is often the put it in the way you take it out kinda fix. I'd be surprised if you found any guide on this one.
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Do the rice in the bag trick?
Current rom/kernel: Liquid Smooth 2.5/ktoonsez

thanks for the info in this thread! my S3 went with my shorts in the washing machine 2 weeks ago. same issue, everything is working except the mic... i bought the replacement off ebay today, ill report back with ease of replacement!
thanks again XDA, ya'll rox sox!