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OEM battery issues. Overheating when charging and dies quicker then it should.

Bought four AT&T S3's back in December for the wife, kids and myself and so far we love the phones. They all right great but all the sudden I've got weird battery issues.
One day I picked up my phone and the screen said something to the affect of it stopped charging because the battery was too hot. My phone felt like it was on fire. Another time it said something about the voltage being too high? Then as quick as they came, no more issues for like a month.
All of a sudden the error about the temperature came back again. If I use a battery app that gives me battery health information, everything looks GOOD. This is one of those issues where sometimes it does it, sometimes it doesn't. The problem is if I take it off the charger, it normally doesn't do it until it's been on the charger for a couple hours and then its not always happening.
Oh and sometimes it just gets REALLY hot and doesn't give any messages. One other thing, since it started my battery life has taken a hit. I was getting 24~36 hours with medium usage but now I'm lucky to see 12~15 hours under the same conditions. I'm on the newest stock-rooted ROM with no tweaks, no over-clocking. I only have root to have basic things like no ads etc. I've ran this ROM for months without issues and I've not installed any rouge apps, I have no wake locks. I checked all that. I even did a Nandroid backup and did a fresh install and the problem came back after a few days.
I would say I have this issue 2 or 3 times a week? I'm not sure that it's consistent enough that I could walk into AT&T and SHOW them though.
Defective battery? Under warranty? I don't have many AT&T Corporate stores around here, it's a good 45 minute drive to one from my house or work. I should probably figure something out though before my phone melts!
Thoughts? Suggestions?

If you call att, they can do a warranty exchange. They send you replacement, you have so many days to return defective unit or you get charged for it. I would warrantyit.

As he stated just warranty it. They are ton's of reasons this could happen and hopefully they will just give you another battery or you can get "new" phone.
I wouldn't mess with a battery getting hot. Is this just yours ?

Yeah its just mine. The wife and kids S3's are fine.
I have to go into the city with the ATT Corporate Store tomorrow, I'll drop by and see what they say. Actually I'll call them tonight, no sense in going in if they can't do anything for me.
Thanks.

"Somebody Get Me a DOCTOR...." The GNex Gone Bad Experience Thread !!!

Has your nexus gone bad? Suffered from a damaged speaker, fried CPU, broken screen or similar? Here's the thread to share your exprerience.
Personally I bought my Nexus, brand new on September/October 2012. Sometime on August 2013 a got caught up in an endless bootloop, even odin or similar tricks couldn't save the day so took it to the repair centre (Smartec Greece) and had it back after 4-5 hours with a new motherboard. Pretty fast- problem solved, didn't have to pay something, even though I never got to know which part actually gone bad.
That's about it. I also have replaced stock battery with a new one as the old one was draining faster than the speed of light, no matter what rom I was on.
So let me hear ya!!!!

The goddamn USB port issue, couldn't charge my phone, until I poked that little bugger in there to rise it up a little, created such a hassle
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adellon92 said:
The goddamn USB port issue, couldn't charge my phone, until I poked that little bugger in there to rise it up a little, created such a hassle
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You were lucky, after a year and a half of use my USB finally took a sh*t completely. Luckily the insurance I use has no deductable so I had to fire up my old Incredible 2 for a few days while I waited for a replacement. I'm so glad we have nandroid. All I had to do is unlock the bootloader on my new device, put TWRP back on and restore my nandroid. No hassle really.

WOW!
itasoulas said:
Has your nexus gone bad? Suffered from a damaged speaker, fried CPU, broken screen or similar? Here's the thread to share your exprerience.
Personally I bought my Nexus, brand new on September/October 2012. Sometime on August 2013 a got caught up in an endless bootloop, even odin or similar tricks couldn't save the day so took it to the repair centre (Smartec Greece) and had it back after 4-5 hours with a new motherboard. Pretty fast- problem solved, didn't have to pay something, even though I never got to know which part actually gone bad.
That's about it. I also have replaced stock battery with a new one as the old one was draining faster than the speed of light, no matter what rom I was on.
So let me hear ya!!!!
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The same happened to me but I let the battery drain and then charge it for a bit to eneter recovery mode to restore from a back up. Why didnt you do that? I think your problem wasnt just a bootloop problem.

Powerbutton becoming faulty.
Sometimes worked sometimes didnt

Trashed my charge port one morning getting out of bed with a bad hangover..Forgot my phone was plugged and snapped the port right off :crying: I just bought a new charge port flex from ebay for $10 and replaced it myself in about 20 mins

itasoulas said:
Has your nexus gone bad? Suffered from a damaged speaker, fried CPU, broken screen or similar? Here's the thread to share your exprerience.
Personally I bought my Nexus, brand new on September/October 2012. Sometime on August 2013 a got caught up in an endless bootloop, even odin or similar tricks couldn't save the day so took it to the repair centre (Smartec Greece) and had it back after 4-5 hours with a new motherboard. Pretty fast- problem solved, didn't have to pay something, even though I never got to know which part actually gone bad.
That's about it. I also have replaced stock battery with a new one as the old one was draining faster than the speed of light, no matter what rom I was on.
So let me hear ya!!!!
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Last year my Nexus dropped into the sea, but luckily survived

My Nexus's battery was damaged so from phone service I got a new one in 2012.
Then My Galaxy Nexus got a screen burn-in ("ghost image") and in the phone service they changed a screen, but my Nexus got that screen burn-in again..
Everything have worked so fine and I never used any other kernels on my Nexus, than the stock ones by Google and CM's kernel and ofc. my modified CM kernel., I have tried some custom kernels, but I never liked any custom kernel. My Nexus has scratches on its cases but screen has always been clean and good. :3
I'm really happy, that my Nexus looks like a new one, but only that screen burn in is annoying

I am on handset number five; one blown earpiece, two cracked screens and the last one had the interface between the digitizer and the motherboard come loose. I was able to wedge some paper between the battery door and phone body to make it work until the replacement came in. Thankfully I got the phone when beat buy had them for free and ponied up for the service plan.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

Have mine for 2 years... only problem is an oled burn where the notification bar clock is... the green and red oleds have less brightens on lower brightenes levels... apart from that everything ok.
Sent from Asus MemoPad FHD ME302C

I'm past the 1.5 year mark with my gnex and the only issue I have so far happened when it fell from my recliner while connected to the charger. The micro-usb metal piece on the cable got bent from the impact and since then I get a weird buzz/rattle when the phone vibrates. Had to reduce the vibrator strength on fancy kernel to get rid of that specific annoyance.
This has been the case for about 8 months now and the phone is still charging fine. Why I don't know is if this is a symptom that will eventually lead to the dreaded no-charging issue that some have shared here.

Had to change whole charging strip. Gnex was showing frequent charging/discharging and battery would drain within an hour!
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1.5 year old phone. Volume-up button doesn't work, and hasn't for some time. To increase volume, I have to press volume down and then move the slider up on-screen. No big deal. Also had the USB port break a couple of months ago and had to get it changed. Otherwise it runs fine. Still on stock 4.2 ROM, I keep the GPS switched off most the time, and also have all the lower-level Google sync stuff disabled (screw Google), and battery typically lasts a day and a half of average usage.

Had the Galaxy Nexus since release day and it served me well. It was fast and I only went through a few. Last October I got my Note 3 so I retired my G'Nex, but now I'm going to be using it as a MP3 Player that I can just leave in my car vs using my Phone all the time. Just looking for a Rom that turns it into the Android version of an IPOD touch.

Motorola Droid Tubro 2 long term review/tourte test

So in the thread "how's battery life? Any overheating?", Zeljko suggested I start a thread so here it. This will be a long term type test. Itll basiclly run till I either a. Get a new phone or b. Bust this one to peices.
So lets start with a basic run down. I buy my phones outright, I use them on Verizon's prepaid service. I've used a Motorola since the original Droid x and am very biased. I've used an xt1080(maxx 1)for the past few years.
From the battery life thread, which you can read if you please, I got a Moto Tubro 2(which i will refer to as a t2) a few days after launch. I believe I got a defective device battery wise. Which I did, after retiring that one and grabbing new one ****s been cash.
Now I am incredibly rough on phones, and absoulty hate cases. I work in construction and am 22 years old, so i do tend to drink quite frequently. And as we all know accidents happen. So let's start with my personal t2. It's a 32gb, grey ballstic nylon version. This is my last few weeks of use.
I got my new t2, it runs great, a little hot at times but that's it. Battery life as I expected. I can get almost 48 hours out of it but with only about 3 hours of sot or Nearly 7 sot hours of hevay use if i use it all day. That's a baseline, will see how much worse it may get. I have also to yet play with any settings, except disabling NFL mobile and Google services background data. I also run a few battery tough apps. The phone still to this day has the out of the box wallpaper
So let me set down some ground rules, I will only charge the device with the charger from the box, no other(I've always been strict with my self about that). The first few weeks I tried to stretch it. Now I plug it in before bed.
Well move forward with what this t2 has been through over the weeks I've had my hands on it. It's had 2 full beers spilled on it. And it works perfectly fine, a bit sticky, no display, speaker or camera issues. The volume rocker seems to be a bit hard to push from that, but that's it, an easy fix honestly. It was thrown at a wall full force in a drunken rage, due to the first beer spilled on it. It was stuck in the sheetrock of my buddy's living room. It's also been dropped on pavement and hardwood floor many times.
So here's some pictures of it, the display is very well already scratched, which I'll ride out till I cant see it, and there is a very clear black stain on the nylon. I even spilled more beer on it last night. Itll be hard to get pictures seeing as I need another person's phone, and this thread might not be the most common updated thread but it will be updated.
Any questions fire away.

Thx for starting torture test. Please continue and I'm sorry for pure phone

So you felt the best idea after accidentally spilling a beer on your phone was to throw it through a wall? Not to clean it off? Lol, also how are you getting 7 hours of SOT? I find that hard to believe since I'm struggling to get 5. I couldn't even get 7 hours SOT on the OG Turbo.

You can replace the plastic top screen, it's about $30, put one of the flexible glass Verizon protectors on top of it and it should be a little more scratch proof. I usually hate screen protectors because of the drag on them, this one doesn't have that problem.

Perhaps you should squirrel away the money intended for your next phone and apply it to an anger management class.

Yep 7 hours. And throwing it at a wall, I was just god awful pissed that it got beer on it. Here's a full day of use from last week. No major settings played with. Swear up and down .
I know the stock protector is replacable, I'm not to worried.

WellsR said:
Yep 7 hours. And throwing it at a wall, I was just god awful pissed that it got beer on it. Here's a full day of use from last week. No major settings played with. Swear up and down .
I know the stock protector is replacable, I'm not to worried.
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No scratched on the screenshot

I must say, I was skeptical of the 7 hours SOT also, that is until last night when I hit it with relative ease. and 30%+ battery to spare. This was a first for me, usually I had been getting 4-5 with 30% remaining.

18t said:
I must say, I was skeptical of the 7 hours SOT also, that is until last night when I hit it with relative ease. and 30%+ battery to spare. This was a first for me, usually I had been getting 4-5 with 30% remaining.
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What did you change to get over 7h? With 36% left you may reach 10h.

This is all I have to say. I disabled/uninstalled all bloat this time around.

Zeljko1234 said:
What did you change to get over 7h? With 36% left you may reach 10h.
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I do not have Google now enabled and I accidentally turned off location from the quick drop down while messing with Bluetooth. The main thing though is that the brightness was set at 5-10% for most of the day. I have tasker profiles to dim screen while indoors and auto while not connected to home/work networks.
I could have hit 10. I was curious to see how far I could go, but had already spent a few consecutive hours on it.

lol man
I love this thread, thanks for sharing the torture test.
People will say you're crazy, but who cares? You're giving an amazing contribution to the community interested on X Force.

Check this out, someone torture phone more than you
https://youtu.be/fTJOL5ikuZA
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Thanks mefxes. Glad to contribute.
And yes zeljko, I saw that a few weeks ago its amazing.
A small update, I dropped my phone the other night in accident trying to put it in my pocket. I missed the pocket and it fell 1 story onto hardwood floor. A new scratch on. The screen but that's all. No other issues

I think we both have more or less the same usage of our phones. This is my 2nd t2, the first one still works but is destroyed visually from showing of the durability of the screen. Stepping and jumping on it is not advised.
I had oneplus 2 before this one and the UI speed is a huge difference. It demolishes any other 810 phone I've had.
Overall very happy with performance and battery. I use lux to get same sot as op, and you will need an extra layer to avoid scratches even after the first day, the front screen layer may take on drops but not your finger nail.
Happy Xmas!

Update! Like I said it won't be the most updated but will be overtime. So the t2 has been through quite a lot here now. The frame is pretty smashed up from several horrible drops and the display has many more scratches. Can't get photos at the time but I will as some point. There is also some crusty substance in the speaker that makes no sound. Haven't felt the need to get it out.
Some hardware is damaged in the device though. Colors on the display do so.e starve things. But only certain colors, mostly on the browser. I can't even get a screen shot for you guys, seeing as screen shots don't show it. The phone still works fine, still get a little less then 7 hours on screen.
The colors strange colors I have adjusted to and it no longer bothers me. I'll try to get some more pictures soon. Beside that everything else is great.

Another quick update. Another night of drinking last night at a buddies I wake up to one dead pixel in the bottom right of the screen.
I also noticed using the phone outside(now that it's cold) the funny colors go away. Imo the 810 is having some heat issues. Device has been running very very warm for a few weeks now, it still runs fine. Just a bit warm for my taste.
Ps not running any battery/temp apps.

Just figured out (check topic subject) that you don't have Turbo 2, Tubro 2 instead

Hey!!! I want a Tubro 2!!! Where can I get one!!!

jlang11 said:
Hey!!! I want a Tubro 2!!! Where can I get one!!!
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Closest Verizon or Best buy?

Is my battery shot??

Hi,
Looking for a wee bit of guidance, from the experts here, prior to taking some drastic measures.
I've had my Z1C for just over 2 years (I just switched over to a sim only deal a couple of weeks ago). I'm quite happy with everything, and it still runs fine - apart from what appears to be a dodgy battery life. Battery has always been fine, until about the last month, when I noticed things becoming a bit funny.
Here's a screenshot of what happened yesterday, when I got home. I put my phone in my gym bag around 1930 (when the network went red), and then got home around 2200. When I got home, it was still in my gym bag, although would be connected to wifi. I went to bed kinda late at 0230 (ooops), and when I got it out my bag (I use it for my alarm), I was amazed to find it completely dead. Can anyone explain why it appeared to lose 50% of battery within a few minutes??
Should I do a factory reset?? Is the battery totally gone, and am I looking for a new phone??
Many thanks in advance!!
BB

bawbagg said:
Hi,
Looking for a wee bit of guidance, from the experts here, prior to taking some drastic measures.
I've had my Z1C for just over 2 years (I just switched over to a sim only deal a couple of weeks ago). I'm quite happy with everything, and it still runs fine - apart from what appears to be a dodgy battery life. Battery has always been fine, until about the last month, when I noticed things becoming a bit funny.
Here's a screenshot of what happened yesterday, when I got home. I put my phone in my gym bag around 1930 (when the network went red), and then got home around 2200. When I got home, it was still in my gym bag, although would be connected to wifi. I went to bed kinda late at 0230 (ooops), and when I got it out my bag (I use it for my alarm), I was amazed to find it completely dead. Can anyone explain why it appeared to lose 50% of battery within a few minutes??
Should I do a factory reset?? Is the battery totally gone, and am I looking for a new phone??
Many thanks in advance!!
BB
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Hard to say after only 1 time. Wait it out and see if it happens again, it could have been a fluke. It's fairly common - http://forum.xda-developers.com/son...ttery-reporting-phone-dying-suddenly-t3095120

levone1 said:
Hard to say after only 1 time. Wait it out and see if it happens again, it could have been a fluke. It's fairly common - http://forum.xda-developers.com/son...ttery-reporting-phone-dying-suddenly-t3095120
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@levone1, many thanks for the link. I'm not a frequent visitor here, and hadn't done a thorough search. That thread will be interesting reading.
BB

Just for anyone reading this - my phone is experiencing the same problems - shutting off with anywhere from 40-60% battery left. I've read through the thread linked above, and the only resolution is a replacement battery.
I've ordered a battery and replacement rear cover from www.replacebase.co.uk, which should arrive early next week. I'll do the fix and report back.
BB

bawbagg said:
I've ordered a battery and replacement rear cover from www.replacebase.co.uk, which should arrive early next week. I'll do the fix and report back.
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Battery and replacement rear cover arrived on Saturday morning - less than 48 hours after placing the order. I followed any one of the numerous videos on youtube showing phone dissassembly and battery replacement, and all went fine. Phone is like new now. You do have to carefully remove the NFC sticker and transplant it onto the new battery - make sure to line up the little pressure connectors.
Again, many thanks to @levone1 for his help.

Have you wiped your system battery stats file? Have you changed your ROM recently? If both questions have the answer "NO" - it is worth it to find some guides (here in XDA) for deleting the battery stats - it isn't guaranteed to actually notice any difference, but it is good to try (especially now, with the new battery)
I'm waiting for my replacement battery too as I suspect that my battery is going to be dead soon. It is heating up rapidly when the charge is below 20-15%.

same here. it lasts for past few months, persists thru rom variations (cm, aosp, stock) and sometimes gets better for a while but goes bad again. suddenly drops from anything above 50% to as low as about 20%, and then to zero & shut down in matter of minutes. back on charger it goes from zero to 100% in about 15 minutes, i guess my charger evolved overtime to extra quick one. lately the full charged battery doesn't lasts morning to afternoon with moderate usage. as the behaviour persists between roms and as there are no suspicious wakelocks either, i guess its hardware thing not fixable by wiping battery stats or similar mumbo-jumbo, so i replaced battery the other day and now the phone is perfectly fine again.
however, as there are a large (and growing) number of similar posts and same-looking screenshots all around, device is circa two years old, and minding that the battery isn't replaceable easily like "open the back cover and replace", it all looks like sony managed to put two-year batteries inside waterproof case that goes dead just by the end of usual user's contracts, so you could either go to service for replace or - yes you're right - buy a new device by the end of contract for us that aren't on the contract but we did unlock the bootloader the price of official-service is sky high because of unlocked bootloader, at least in my country. in the end it's all corporate math, pardon my conspiracy theory

Google "google play services 9.2.56 battery drain" and you see people with all sorts of phones and tablets having the same issues.*

Is your Replacement Note 7 working properly?

Hey guys, replacement day is approaching, and I keep reading these articles about overheating / overdraining battery issues in the replacement Note 7.
I wanted to open a main thread about how everybody who got a replacement Note 7 is doing and if they can report any issue...
So, if you have replaced your Note 7, how is it doing?
tnx for participating!
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Check this out...
http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/27/technology/samsung-galaxy-note-7-fire-china/index.html?source=zacks
Doesn't look like a Hoax.
Whadda???

As well as the first. No issues here?

Got mine a week or so ago, no issues here. I managed to root it again using Sprint userdebug and it runs much better than the previous note did. Battery also seems to run very cool. The highest temp Ive seen was 34ºc, which is incredibly cool. That was while I was out playing Pokemon Go during a hot afternoon by the way!!

No issues here, other than occasional SD820 lag.

No problems here either...

Agreed, Jo issues other then slight SD820 lag but since the new update its far smoother than the old Note 7 I had and only has the occasional stutter.
Edit: Battery life is still fairly similarr, however, I think that's due to my personal usage.

Works great, the was a couple of minor things that were different. I can't remember what since they were so insignificant
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Got the replacement on Sep 21
Today, Sep 25, about 11 am, my note 7 got uncomfortably warm, it can be felt both on the back through the synthetic leather cover (wallet case) and on the front, but mostly on the back.
Turned the phone off for at least 5 minutes, then turned it back on, within a minute it gets warm again, and in about 4-5 min. it gets warmer, unusually warm.
Turned it back off for at least 30 min., turned it back on again, and this time I can't even input my security PIN, the screen isn't responding.
I turned it back off, take off my 256 GB SD card.
Called Samsung (The recall Phone#), they answered right away (very surprised) told them what happened, she then told me that this is not the first time they had this issue with the new replacement Note7, she transfer me to the support department, she told me the tech support department should issue me some kind of report# or whatever, I forgot, so that I could bring that to ATT to get another replacement phone.
The support reps just told me to bring the phone to the store to get it replaced.
Went to ATT Corporate Store in Rancho Cucamonga, CA.
The sales person told me that I'm the second person with the same issue. The store can't issue a second replacement phone, she suggested me to bring it to ATT Device Support Center in Rancho Cucamonga.
But by then it's already close to 5 PM, Sunday. The office/store will be closed in few minutes.
So the ATT store clerk says to bring it to Best Buy where they have ATT reps inside to get it replaced.
So I went there, bad news....the wait is long...I decided to come back the next day.
End of story.
Now, Sep 25, Sunday night, I tried once more to powered up the Note7
It works, it didn't get warm, battery is at 40%
Put the SD card back in, and back up everything.
About an hour later, the phone gets warm again!
This time I didn't turn it off, I just stop using it and leave it on, I set the battery to "Medium Power" Saving Mode.
Battery now at 25%.
I think this time, it could be a software issue.
I remember when I change my 2009 iMac hard drive with SSD, I had to install a software to make the Fan work properly.
Samsung need to call that software company

The only issue that I'm having is when I'm scrolling through the app drawer with my finger is very slow. When I scroll with the S pen it's very fast. Other than that no complaints the phone hasn't overheated at all.
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I'm noticing some bluetooth issues.
It won't connect to my asus zenwatch2.
It will connect to my macbook pro for a few minutes.
I've cleared the bluetooth data and cache and turned bluetooth on and off.

Ditto on the bluetooth issues here. I use a Bluetooth continuous glucose monitor that worked great before I swapped. Cleared cache, reset, et cetera but connectivity is still intermittent.

KeeganWolf said:
Ditto on the bluetooth issues here. I use a Bluetooth continuous glucose monitor that worked great before I swapped. Cleared cache, reset, et cetera but connectivity is still intermittent.
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I m getting the note 7 would you guys recommend me getting one

no problems at all! wonderful phone!

Exynos model here, no problems.

Replaced Exynos working well.

With new N7 I got better battery life and the phone doesn't heat up at all during fast charge (V1 did a little). If anything, the touch was not registering too well, sometimes I had to press twice to register. That was yesterday, today it's fine now, so maybe I just need to wait for things to settle, since I was downloading 3 GB of programs and data and still setting things up.

Im having bluetooth issues as well. it keeps disconnecting from my gear fit 2 and i have to manually open the app and hit connect, which works about 75% of the time. Also battery does not last as long as my previous one. its not horrible but i notice the difference.

Does anyone have gap problem in the replacement note 7?!

Devboy8040 said:
Does anyone have gap problem in the replacement note 7?!
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yeah i can slide a sticky note along both sides of the frame and glass on mine. my previous one was almost as bad. From what I understand this is by design.

erider said:
yeah i can slide a sticky note along both sides of the frame and glass on mine. my previous one was almost as bad. From what I understand this is by design.
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The phone have water resistant ? Or because this problem phone lose water resistant?