A piece of advise, don't take your one V with you when you go skiing...
I did. And the water condensated inside my phone. When i got home i turned it off and placed it into a jar of rice, because it should help the water to evaporate quicker, or something like that, tried to turn it on after 2 days, it turned on, but there was a water still visible under the screen, so i turned it off again, but it started to heat up, so i had to take it to a technician to disassembly it so that he could remove the battery, but the main board got damaged, so my phone is probably done. Unless you know where to get a cheap board shipped worldwide, I'll have to start saving up, either to buy another one, or to buy Desire X?
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Only had my desire a few weeks, and yesterday I did the stupidest thing I could. I dropped it in a cup of tea.
It wasn't fully submerged and only the bottom quarter of the phone was affected.
The water indicator sticker on both the battery and the phone are still white, unless there are any more stickers located inside the phone which I don't know about.
I attempted to try it with a hair dryer and lightly shook out most of the tea. I left it to try for as long as I could and removed the battery and sim card, but foolisly I did attempt to turn it on afterwards, as I needed to use the phone. (Which I've now read I shouldn't have done).
Most of the tea went under the area which you can only get to if you unscrew the phone, which if I unscrew will void the warranty completely, so I have left it on for now.
The power button on the phone no longer works, and the phone boots up straight away when the battery is placed in it. The phones main features work, but if I don't constantly use the phone and the screen switches off, it completely shuts the phone down.
As the indicators are still white, do you reckon there is any chance I could get it repaired under the HTC warranty?
Sorry for the long rambling explanation, and advice would be greatly appreciated.
how long ago did it happen? cover it in rice and chuck it in your hot water cupboard for a few days. that usually gets rid of all water inside water damaged phones (of course all bets are off now that you have tried turning it on).
Becca-720 said:
Only had my desire a few weeks, and yesterday I did the stupidest thing I could. I dropped it in a cup of tea.
It wasn't fully submerged and only the bottom quarter of the phone was affected.
The water indicator sticker on both the battery and the phone are still white, unless there are any more stickers located inside the phone which I don't know about.
I attempted to try it with a hair dryer and lightly shook out most of the tea. I left it to try for as long as I could and removed the battery and sim card, but foolisly I did attempt to turn it on afterwards, as I needed to use the phone. (Which I've now read I shouldn't have done).
Most of the tea went under the area which you can only get to if you unscrew the phone, which if I unscrew will void the warranty completely, so I have left it on for now.
The power button on the phone no longer works, and the phone boots up straight away when the battery is placed in it. The phones main features work, but if I don't constantly use the phone and the screen switches off, it completely shuts the phone down.
As the indicators are still white, do you reckon there is any chance I could get it repaired under the HTC warranty?
Sorry for the long rambling explanation, and advice would be greatly appreciated.
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any chance of warranty repair - sorry to say, but probably not.
the tea will most likely have caused some staining internally, so it's gunna be pretty obvious it's got wet.
try the rice thing mentioned by nzdcoy, but I don't fancy your chances.
i am sorry to say but any kind of warranty is lost. the only way for you to manage to get your phone fixed is to be disassembled. take a look here
http://www.mediafire.com/?na3g62068gvbg96
and here
http://www.mediafire.com/?ecyzwbvqefcjiuw
this are disassemble and assembly videos.
forgot to mention, for cleaning it use isopropilic alcohol. you can find it in any phormacy.
if you can't find it use pure 95% white alcohol.
regards
Marios
Hello,
I accidentally jumped into the water with my desire in my pocket.. I realized it soon so it was underwater just for a few seconds.. It turned itself off straight away.. I quickly took out battery, sim and sd card and let it dry up for about 40 hours. Now I tried to put it together and turn it on but nothing has happened, it seemed dead.. Then I tried to charge the phone, and it managed to turn on right after I plugged it in. Fortunately everything seems to work so far but one thing.. As soon as I unplug it from the charger, it turns off.. The battery is almost fully charged so I suspect I'll need a new one.. Is there something that can be done to save this battery?
btw, it was a normal lake outside, not see or thermal water..
Thanks for every answer in advance,
Adeon
HTC Desire with water
Mate
First thing you should not do, would be to charge your HTC,
as it was full of water inside and therefore you can damage
main board, the heart of your phone.
Now, follow the article included, dismantle your HTC as in
the article, dry everything with a hairdryer and be carefull
with flat cables or with board components.
In both boards carefully remove the small metal covers,
as it can retain water inside, you also use a tooth brush
to clean those areas, but again carefull with components.
Leave digitizer in place and remove display, with hair dryer
try to dry as much water as you can, otherwise, later you
will see spots when display is working.
Try it out and then let me know results.
Regards
John
So recently had a massive storm and my phone got a little bit of water int it ...it was in my back pocket and i was getting the kids out of the car it was enough to make the lock button go haywire and apon turning it off it would no longer turn back on(The touch buttons continuesly turned on and off all night before i could take it to the store). Optus HAS to send it away to HTC for "Repairs" for it being in warranty*cough* what do you think my chances are of HTC actually repairing it.
the second i turned it off i took the sim card out and got the hair dryer to blow down to sorta get rid of the moisture and the lens only fogged for about a min or two
any one else had any experiences with HTC and water damaged devices. or is optus being a pain in the but and just dont want to really let me use my insurance right away?
kibaa12 said:
So recently had a massive storm and my phone got a little bit of water int it ...it was in my back pocket and i was getting the kids out of the car it was enough to make the lock button go haywire and apon turning it off it would no longer turn back on(The touch buttons continuesly turned on and off all night before i could take it to the store). Optus HAS to send it away to HTC for "Repairs" for it being in warranty*cough* what do you think my chances are of HTC actually repairing it.
the second i turned it off i took the sim card out and got the hair dryer to blow down to sorta get rid of the moisture and the lens only fogged for about a min or two
any one else had any experiences with HTC and water damaged devices. or is optus being a pain in the but and just dont want to really let me use my insurance right away?
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they will see that water damaged it, there are 2 options
1-they won't repair it
2-they will repair it but you'll have to pay for it
Put it in a sack of rice for a few days it helps to dry it out.
My Bf recently dropped his HTC One X in the water for approx 2 seconds. We were not able to put it in rice.......Dont even know if that actually works.....The phone kept power and appeared fine. Took it home and used it for a couple hours with no issues. Then the screen just went black. The phone was still powered on, sounds and lights on the keys at the bottom. We took it to a cell phone repair shop, they waterproofed it, and replaced the battery, none of these worked and they said there was nothing they could do with it. We did not have insurance for it, and are forced to pay full price for a replacement, or revert back to the dinosaur age until our next upgrade. If anyone knows of anything that could be done to possibly fix the phone, it would be tremendously, greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Nothing you can do I'm afraid, best advice you can get from here is, if it happens again turn the phone off immediately, if possible put it in a bag of rice overnight or wrap it in a few layers of kitchen towel. If you leave it powered on the water seeps into the parts slowly and starts to short out the parts one by one as you have found out
Sent from Uranus, did it hurt?
I have an HTC One X that was dropped in the water.
The guy only wants the data, and i took it out of it and gave it to him. So he told me that the devices is all yours.
I've been trying to fix it ever since he told me that.
The phone boots up normally, sound is working, vibration is too.
The screen's backlight, although set to maximum, it too dim due to water damage. So i took it to a repair shop, he replaced the screen, and a piece of hardware inside the board, but the screen works for about 10 minutes then completely goes off. So we put back the old screen and peice and the same thing happens, 10 mins of dim brightness... then no brightness at all. I'm currently trying to root it so i could stream and control it via PC. I now have it with a very dim screen that works for 30 minutes then needs to rest for 5 minutes so it could go on again.
Any suggestions on what i should replace to really solve that problem is very much appreciated as i really would like to make this device go alive again.
Put him in rice..And it will pull water out from phone..If that doesn't help I think that motherboard is too damaged..
big noob said:
Put him in rice..And it will pull water out from phone..If that doesn't help I think that motherboard is too damaged..
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we actually tore it down and left its parts for about a week in a box, would it still help if i did that?
Was the box warm? If not maybe there is still a little bit of water on connectors or somewhere..Cause I had the same problem on other phone..