Phone was fully submerged in water for about a second. Quickly pulled battery and dried it off. surprisingly the water damage sticker is still white. Turned it back on after about 10 minutes. i was experiencing issues with the speakers while talking and playing music from the phone. rebooted a few times and hopped in my car to try the phone out on the Bluetooth and everything was fine. i even plugged the auxiliary cord into the phone and music playing normally. its been about 5 hours and everything seems to be working again. has anyone ever experienced something similar to this??
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Do you mean bath? I don't know why you'd shower with your phone..
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why were you in the shower with your phone?
i take a 10minute mini bath before i shower to read emails, tweets, etc then i switch it up to shower. it dropped out of my hands at that point.
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mikeyubuee said:
i take a 10minute mini bath before i shower to read emails, tweets, etc then i switch it up to shower. it dropped out of my hands at that point.
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that is a seriously stupid idea, just pointing that out. it was inevitable that you dropped it.
secondly your speakers and mic need to dry out properly, out it in a bowl of white rice and leave it for a few days.
if you don't let the speakers dry out it can tear the membrane that is made out of a paper fibre material.
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i take a 10minute mini bath before i shower to read emails, tweets, etc then i switch it up to shower. it dropped out of my hands at that point.
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LOL.
Don't you think it would've been a little safer if you just did all that before the mini bath/shower?
mikeyubuee said:
i take a 10minute mini bath before i shower to read emails, tweets, etc then i switch it up to shower. it dropped out of my hands at that point.
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mikeyubuee said:
Phone was fully submerged in water for about a second. Quickly pulled battery and dried it off. surprisingly the water damage sticker is still white. Turned it back on after about 10 minutes. i was experiencing issues with the speakers while talking and playing music from the phone. rebooted a few times and hopped in my car to try the phone out on the Bluetooth and everything was fine. i even plugged the auxiliary cord into the phone and music playing normally. its been about 5 hours and everything seems to be working again. has anyone ever experienced something similar to this??
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Cool story bro.
Maybe you should have bought the Samsung Rugby Smart instead of this phone.
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You should always wait a good long time before powering up after the phone takes a swim
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secondly your speakers and mic need to dry out properly, out it in a bowl of white rice and leave it for a few days.
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This is the best advice for any device dropped in water. I tell this to people at work that get their personal phones wet and I always get a befuddled reaction. The truth is that it absolutely works 99% of the time. The dry rice sucks the moisture right out.
Justananomaly said:
This is the best advice for any device dropped in water. I tell this to people at work that get their personal phones wet and I always get a befuddled reaction. The truth is that it absolutely works 99% of the time. The dry rice sucks the moisture right out.
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it works great, the trick is to leave it alone for 3-5 days. most people cannot.
mikeyubuee said:
i take a 10minute mini bath before i shower to read emails, tweets, etc then i switch it up to shower. it dropped out of my hands at that point.
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Sounds like a rediculous waste of water to me
I'm resisting a "do you know how i know your gay" joke btw.
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Dude that is Hilarious! Thank you I had a real crappy day and this just cracked me up! ROTFLMAO!
I would have said I dropped my phone in the toilet before I said I dropped it in my mini bath checking my tweets LMAO!
Thanks again TOOOO Much
Whats even more funny is Mr. X isn't even effected by this calm cool and collective still spitting out solid helpful information. Thanks X!
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mikeyubuee said:
Phone was fully submerged in water for about a second. Quickly pulled battery and dried it off. surprisingly the water damage sticker is still white. Turned it back on after about 10 minutes. i was experiencing issues with the speakers while talking and playing music from the phone. rebooted a few times and hopped in my car to try the phone out on the Bluetooth and everything was fine. i even plugged the auxiliary cord into the phone and music playing normally. its been about 5 hours and everything seems to be working again. has anyone ever experienced something similar to this??
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put your phone under your rice box or basin, need to stay at least an hour or await the day..rice is type of desiccant..it can help to suck moisture.
Spray isopropyl alcohol, to push the water out since it displaces water...throw in [email protected] 175* for 45 min....profit! Worked for me!
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Spray isopropyl alcohol, to push the water out since it displaces water...throw in [email protected] 175* for 45 min....profit! Worked for me!
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Did you also drop it in your mini bath? checking your tweets?
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i take a 10minute mini bath before i shower to read emails, tweets, etc then i switch it up to shower. it dropped out of my hands at that point.
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I take a 30 min dump to do all that stuff before I shower,
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elflip88 said:
I take a 30 min dump to do all that stuff before I shower,
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That's exactly my schedule. Wifey always asking...WTF you doing in there LoL!
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I take a 30 min dump to do all that stuff before I shower,
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That's how men do things. My wife still asks how I poop for so long.
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I gotta ask....wtf is a mini bath? Ive even Googled "mini bath" and came up with nothing. I even asked a gay guy I know and even he looked at me funny and asked "do u mean two guys filling up the tub for a quickie?". Lmao. I'll tell that to my wife next time I go to the bathroom. Not flaming but a mini bath? Lol
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So some small water made it's way through the front of the screen and possibly slid down the bottom somehow. While I haven't give it the raw rice treatment, I have dried it out with a hot air from a PC dust blower I had around. Everything seems to be working fine except for this. I can plug in my headphones to hear music. I can still hear the notifications and phone ringing, but music will not play at all. Anyone have any ideas? Does the phone have to speakers I don't know of?
Edit seems like the head piece isn't working either. Cuts in and out.
I would go ahead and put it in rice for a few days.
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I would go ahead and put it in rice for a few days.
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Few days? I'm not talking about soaking wet here, I'm talking about maybe 3-10 teaspoons of water. But if you think so, then so be it.
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Few days? I'm not talking about soaking wet here, I'm talking about maybe 3-10 teaspoons of water. But if you think so, then so be it.
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That's a lot of water, IMO.
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Ok, so the problem fixed itself after a night in a rice bag(8ish hours).
Well I've had my phone 2 weeks and dropped it down the toilet what shall I do
Don't try turning it on and stick it in a bag of rice to try and absorb some of the moisture
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I'm not sure, but don't flush. What else is in there?
2 weeks & you've done this?
*finishes giggling*
Sorry, but No other way than to cover the headphone and charging connector with some wool and place your phone inside a big bag of rice at room temperature. (24hours at least)
..... And hope for the best,
Hopefully you hadn't just had a pee or crap just before either.
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I guess thats what happens when you watch Redtube videos in the bathroom? :laugh::laugh:
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I guess thats what happens when you watch Redtube videos in the bathroom? :laugh::laugh:
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i lolled :laugh:
however, try to take off back cover, it can be done with fingers, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jZ-nelmWAI
and put it into rice, it will dry better
DON'T USE PHONE
So as to prevent your phones USB port from being damaged by moisture or condensation? Besides a little wouldn't hurt the phone right? Unlike if you drop the phone in water itself.
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Ev0d3vil said:
So as to prevent your phones USB port from being damaged by moisture or condensation? Besides a little wouldn't hurt the phone right? Unlike if you drop the phone in water itself.
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haven't heard of such a thing... maybe only a phone cover which has some sort of a door thing..which I doubt exists.... or just take a charging head pin and cut accurately like some sort of stub thing and mould/smoothern the edges and keep inserted on the phone always haha and remove it when u need to use the port for charging maybe
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Nope, never had such a problem with my devices so far. I handle them with a certain care, though.
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Nope, never had such a problem with my devices so far. I handle them with a certain care, though.
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I too handle them with great care too. Unforthnately today I used a bag which wasn't exactly fully water proof so some moisture got in and some of my papers were wet, my screen has some moisture on it but I then used a flash light to shine into my micro USB port but couldn't see any moisture in there. Was caught in a moderately heavy rain.
Should I have anything to worry about my phone? Charges fine though, haven't really plugged it in my PC yet.
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Hello,
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Is-t...k-out-this-video-and-see-for-yourself_id57990
That would be cool!
Greeting
Looks good but not sure I would trust it.... especially with open usb port and headphone socket
Nice but no way would I do that intentionally lol
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Z51 said:
Nice but no way would I do that intentionally lol
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I took my G2 for a dip in the river having to drag my dumbass dog out lol
It must have been completely submerged for 2-3 min.
It took a few days to dry out but after that it recovered completely