I dropped my phone in the sink and retrieved it very quickly. It had a case on it which kept almost all water out. Only problem I am having is very bad speaker distortion. I know there is the water marker on the battery by the contacts which is still all white. I don't see another one anywhere else on the phone? Is there a 2nd or third one?
pabhouse said:
I dropped my phone in the sink and retrieved it very quickly. It had a case on it which kept almost all water out. Only problem I am having is very bad speaker distortion. I know there is the water marker on the battery by the contacts which is still all white. I don't see another one anywhere else on the phone? Is there a 2nd or third one?
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There's at least two more inside the phone.
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I Doubt if the one one or by batter changed the others did you should be good to do a warranty
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If you have water damage, it's unreasonable to believe that you can fool Sprint by finding all the water tabs. Suck it up and replace the phone.
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pabhouse said:
I dropped my phone in the sink and retrieved it very quickly. It had a case on it which kept almost all water out. Only problem I am having is very bad speaker distortion. I know there is the water marker on the battery by the contacts which is still all white. I don't see another one anywhere else on the phone? Is there a 2nd or third one?
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First things first, do you have the Sprint repair on your phone? If you do, just take phone in and tell them your speaker is messed up. Just see what they do.
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Sorry Kenny I missed the Q&A forum in the haste to get the question up on my way out the door.
Turns out the speaker dried out okay. Bad news is phone wont charge. So I do have the sprint repair so I am heading in there today to see what they say. Thanks everyone for the input.
More than likely they will find the liquid damage. The damage looks like white powdery substance. No body likes a liar. I hate when customers lie to my face about LD. It shows that you have zero respect for me and just want to game the system.
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Found out that the charging section of the phone is a replaceable part. Did have one water tab tripped but rep at the store switched out the part and phone is working again. As a former phone rep I am aware of how it feels when people are dishonest I was really more curios about the tabs because they were not visible until the phone was disassemble. All is good now thanks again everyone for the help.
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Are the water damage stickers hidden on these phones? I also noticed my battery doesnt have a water damage sticker either.
Kinda late reply, but i was looking for the same thing and couldnt see anything. I need to return my phone to Rogers tomorrow and spilt a small amount of coffee on it and cant see any stickers. All is running well though so i guess im safe
Don't see anything on mine. I wonder if the stickers are carrier related and google doesn't care?
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Don't see anything on mine. I wonder if the stickers are carrier related and google doesn't care?
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I called Rogers and they said theyd look for water damage. Maybe not look as deep as a tiny white sticker? You have an interesting point though, maybe the stickers are carrier related and Rogers didnt have any on the gnex? Because doesnt verizon have some on the battery?
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I called Rogers and they said theyd look for water damage. Maybe not look as deep as a tiny white sticker? You have an interesting point though, maybe the stickers are carrier related and Rogers didnt have any on the gnex? Because doesnt verizon have some on the battery?
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Thought I would let you know that there are no water damage stickers on my Verizon G-Nex. I think Google just really doesn't care if your phone gets wet.
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Thought I would let you know that there are no water damage stickers on my Verizon G-Nex. I think Google just really doesn't care if your phone gets wet.
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lmao. Thanks Google!
That's so weird. I spilled a little tea on my phone about 20 minutes ago. I was just going to search this question up myself but here it is right at the top of the forum. We're syncing up guys! Gross.
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Thought I would let you know that there are no water damage stickers on my Verizon G-Nex. I think Google just really doesn't care if your phone gets wet.
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Maybe its electronic somehow? Idk. Still can't find any though
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I have a water sticker on my battery and phone(next to 4 pins where battery connects). Its a Verizon nexus.
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Most phones in addition to having one that you can see by the battery also have one on the motherboard. That way they know if you paint the one on the outside.
Well I just took my nexus to rogers and got my new one with no questions asked. The guy didn't even check my boot loader or anything. Maybe when they ship it to Samsung, Samsung will check it out and run tests?
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This morning I woke up to find my phone dead off the charger. I plugged it in to charge and went back to sleep. I woke up later and powered it up. Then I noticed an odd discoloration in the lower right side of my screen. A quick load of a webpage with a white background and sure enough I had some large yellowish blob discoloring my beautiful display on my T-Mobile Galaxy S II.
I haven't had this phone for more than two months so I called T-Mobile and they quickly issued a warranty replacement (it's in the mail). So, I ask you, what's wrong with this picture and has anyone else seen this on their phone?
(see attached picture of my screen)
I haven't seen that. Good that they replaced it. My screen has a dead pixel...can't really see it because its at the status bar and the signal icon is right on top of it, but I'm going to try to get it replaced. Hopefully they do as I haven't paid my bill yet.
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Whoa that is crazy looking. Sorry about your phone! Never sen that before.
Possibly extensive exposure to UV light. (Sun)
UV damages the organic light emitting diodes. Almost instantly upon exposure.
They manufacture the screen in such a way that prevents UV damage. If they didnt, just using it in a naturally lit room could rape your screen. But maybe yours is flawed.
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I have no idea what caused that, but the first thing I thought of was how crt monitors would look like that when I left an unshielded speaker (magnet) nearby..and I think I just showed my age.
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I have no idea what caused that, but the first thing I thought of was how crt monitors would look like that when I left an unshielded speaker (magnet) nearby..and I think I just showed my age.
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Late 20's - mid 30's
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Best guess is that it was an inherent flaw in the LCD that came out after being bumped or dropped? Either way, handset insurance took care of it and T-Mob waived the fees because it was only a week or two old at the time. They shipped me a new one overnight and I sent them the bad one back...
Mine had similar problem. Something impacted the screen I guess. At one point I could see a dark line in the blob. Figured it was a crack. But mine grew until it consumed the whole screen.
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Okay, so last night I was fixing the hottub, and there was barely any water in there and I hit the jets on accident, and water went all over the phone and it was soaked. It is in an otterbox defender, so most of it was saved, but my speaker is kinda iffy.
My question is, I have a feeling the 'W1' and 'W2' circles under the back cover are the water indicatorS. If they are not can someone correct me?
And also, is there any more on the phone if I send it in for warranty?
This isn't a scam attempt, just want to be sure if I send my phone in it will not be charged for water damage, because if thats the case, I am just going to keep it and suffer lol..
thanks guys
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Okay, so last night I was fixing the hottub, and there was barely any water in there and I hit the jets on accident, and water went all over the phone and it was soaked. It is in an otterbox defender, so most of it was saved, but my speaker is kinda iffy.
My question is, I have a feeling the 'W1' and 'W2' circles under the back cover are the water indicatorS. If they are not can someone correct me?
And also, is there any more on the phone if I send it in for warranty?
This isn't a scam attempt, just want to be sure if I send my phone in it will not be charged for water damage, because if thats the case, I am just going to keep it and suffer lol..
thanks guys
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Can't help with identifying the water telltales, but I bet you can replace the speaker in the phone if you are just a little handy with tools. I say this because I found a great YouTube video for working on an SII (I know it is different) and I was able to replace some key parts of a water damaged phone. I'll bet the SIII is just as easy to work on.
You can use bleach to turn the water indicators white again, but you will be wasting your time as there are several more water indicators inside the phone.
Ie; if you send it in for warranty and it is water damaged, they WILL know.
As for speaker replacement I'd follow the above suggestion.
I remember back in the day the old iPhones had the water stickers in the headphone jack. U just stick a small piece of white paper and you could fool the Apple employees and get away with it lol
Good luck with the phone regardless of what you do! Its far to easy to damage a phone. I've been through way too many.
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how can it NOT be seen as an attempt at fraud ?
he is trying to cheat the system; and other users are giving him advice on how to circumvent the water damage identifiers that are in place.
its people like this that increase the price of insurance for everyone else.
No he's not, he said if there are other areas where the phone might of gotten wet he would keep it and deal with it, or fix it. Not fake it out to get a freebie. Now some of the suggestions have been iffy... But I think the op has a clear goal, and fraud is not it.
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Hey man, I dropped my S3 in the toilet and it was in there for under a second. My speaker was sounding SUPER FUNKY, like someone put autotune on it or something. After a couple of hours the phone dried off and it works perfect. No problems at all.
remind me not to borrow your phone...
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Yes there are more indicators in the phone. I am sorry but you will end up having to pay the deductible for a replacement if returned for service.
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I hate to state the obvious, but if you go to the dev sections you will see all kinds of people telling people how to get around warranty claims by not tripping flash counters etc while breaking the warranty and flashing custom roms. I know it's not exactly the same, just sayin fraud is fraud.edit...which I'm guilty of. Crap.
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Agreed I just got this but the note had an entire forum dedicated to resetting the flash counter....fraud....but if you dayb out a sticker over the water indicator it's worse...??
Anyway can someone moist a picture of the water indicators that are visible...I literally have had the phone for two hours, rooted it and it BBC has not been near water...I have the red one...I can tell the one next to the battery next to the word cell that's printed on the battery and then the one on the top of the battery itself...but there is a few pinholes that are tinier than the one I see that are red that look like borderline indicators/I guess random holes in the phone...
So anyway are the two I see the only visible ones or are there more? Thanks ladies/gents
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Agreed I just got this but the note had an entire forum dedicated to resetting the flash counter....fraud....but if you dayb out a sticker over the water indicator it's worse...??
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yes, because a software issue is something that can be fixed w/o sending it to Samsung, or your insurance provider. a physical issue, obviously not.
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Hey guys,
I dropped my s3 in the toilet yesterday... Anyways, I went to a tmobile store and the guy said to do a warranty exchange because the strip under the battery and on the battery were not triggered, they were still white. I went ahead and ordered one while knowing that if tmobile finds the damage I will be charged $130. My question is this: only the bottom quarter of my phone actually got wet. Are there any internal indicator strips in the bottom of the phone?
Thanks guys!
There are no more indicator strips, but if a Tech opens the phone it's possible to find mild discoloration.
B4 you send it back place the phone without battery and back cover in a zip lock bag with some rice. It will draw out any remaining moisture.
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There are no more indicator strips, but if a Tech opens the phone it's possible to find mild discoloration.
B4 you send it back place the phone without battery and back cover in a zip lock bag with some rice. It will draw out any remaining moisture.
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I dont think urine will change the strip color lol that sucks i know there is one in the headphone jack
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I dont think urine will change the strip color lol that sucks i know there is one in the headphone jack
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LOL....Actually, concentrated urine will keep the strip white( as will bleach), the ammonia neutralizes the dye lol.
Checkmate Sir! Lol
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Change it man
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I can say with 110% assurance urine will change the color of the strip. My drunken friday night, my phone next to me/under my leg, and even worse a girl I'm currently talking to changed the strips and ruined my backlight. She was pretty red too when she found out I utinated on her and her bed. I'd say lol but it really wasn't that funny. Maybe in a few weeks.
My kids were sick this week (they're 4) and wound up vomiting all over my phone while I was holding them......Nothing I did would get it to work.
I took out the battery, took off the back, and removed sim and mem card.
I began slowly taking apart the internals, piece by piece. Cleaning everything with a q-tip and alcohol.
After some serious cleaning and replacing both cards, my phone is back in working order. - I regretted not getting insurance, but I don't think it would have been covered anyway.
It is working, a few quirks here and there. When I open the stock browser, the brightness dims and some slight crackling with the headphone plug-in, but for the most part all is good.
Any advice for "things to look for" after a wetness recovery?
The screen dimming is a power saving setting and the crackling probably isn't really fixable without replacing the port. Most of the quirks you might find will be with speakers/mics as well as the sensors. Maybe some ghost touches if water managed to get in between the screen and the digitizer
Have the water indicators been tripped? There are two white stickers you can find one on the battery on the top right and a circle hole above the sim card. If they are red that means the stickers are tripped and not much you can do. If they are white you can go to an ATT service store and you might be able to get it replaced for free.
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Have the water indicators been tripped? There are two white stickers you can find one on the battery on the top right and a circle hole above the sim card. If they are red that means the stickers are tripped and not much you can do. If they are white you can go to an ATT service store and you might be able to get it replaced for free.
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Pretty sure washing them with vinegar changes them back to white. Did on the captivate anyhow
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Have the water indicators been tripped? There are two white stickers you can find one on the battery on the top right and a circle hole above the sim card. If they are red that means the stickers are tripped and not much you can do. If they are white you can go to an ATT service store and you might be able to get it replaced for free.
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They were still white, I guess. The At&t guy traded phones and said, "If the techs find something that's not warrantied, you might be charged $650. You still want to send it out?" I did it, no charge. Thanks for the tips everyone.