Hi folks,
Went for a swim with my V. Opened it up and disconnected the battery, but won't power on with or without the battery attached. If the battery is disconnected, should it power on when connected to the charger? I'd like to check if something else is fried internally before ordering one, if possible.
Thanks!
It may be done for. But, before you do anything else, put your phone in a bag of rice (uncooked of course) for about 3 days. Then try it.
mrcorey said:
It may be done for. But, before you do anything else, put your phone in a bag of rice (uncooked of course) for about 3 days. Then try it.
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Okay. I left it overnight with rice, then took it apart. Dried it out a little, and unhooked the battery. I'm drying it out some more now... I figured the battery shorted and is probably unreliable, that's why I was hoping to at least plug it in without the battery to see if it will power on.
tyraen said:
Okay. I left it overnight with rice, then took it apart. Dried it out a little, and unhooked the battery. I'm drying it out some more now... I figured the battery shorted and is probably unreliable, that's why I was hoping to at least plug it in without the battery to see if it will power on.
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whatz d logic to keep your cell with rice ................
rakeshc554 said:
whatz d logic to keep your cell with rice ................
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Yeah it seems weird eh? It's recommended in various places as a method to absorb any humidity in the device (in lieu of having something better like silica packets).
rakeshc554 said:
whatz d logic to keep your cell with rice ................
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The rice will dry every last bit of moisture out of the board. It's better than the silica packets you sometimes see packaged with electronics.
If you don't get it all, the circuits will corrode.
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I was installing a full body shield on my phone today ( the kind where you have to wet the phone) and I think maybe I got some water into the phone, probably the charging port.
I left the battery out of the device for about an hour and put it back in and every thing was good. But then I connected it to the comp via usb and the comp recognized it, then didnt recognize it, endless cycle. I thought woah. Took out the battery, blow dried the charging port, left the battery out for a while. I connected again back to the computer and it seems fine.
Now I try to charge it.. weird stuff happening. I connect and let it charge for a while its fine.. then I disconnect and it still thinks its charging. After playing with the phone for a bit in battery settings it realizes its not charging fine. After a while I connect it to the charger, shows not charging, after a while shows charging via USB. Now again its not reconizing the charger.
I'm scared as **** and just took out the battery.. what do I do?
godisanatheist said:
I was installing a full body shield on my phone today ( the kind where you have to wet the phone) and I think maybe I got some water into the phone, probably the charging port.
I left the battery out of the device for about an hour and put it back in and every thing was good. But then I connected it to the comp via usb and the comp recognized it, then didnt recognize it, endless cycle. I thought woah. Took out the battery, blow dried the charging port, left the battery out for a while. I connected again back to the computer and it seems fine.
Now I try to charge it.. weird stuff happening. I connect and let it charge for a while its fine.. then I disconnect and it still thinks its charging. After playing with the phone for a bit in battery settings it realizes its not charging fine. After a while I connect it to the charger, shows not charging, after a while shows charging via USB. Now again its not reconizing the charger.
I'm scared as **** and just took out the battery.. what do I do?
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Have you tried the rice trick?
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some people say put battery in rice for 48 hrs to take away all water. Plus there is like a small litmus paper on battery, it usually is pink w stripes and changes color when it comes in contact w water. If the color hasnt changed you can still get the phone exchanged, but try the rice trick.
this phone doesnt have the liquid stickers.
here's the thing, it was such small amounts of water being used I don;t think rice would work. Like rice just waits for the water to come out and dries it so the phone is fine before you use it.
I'm pretty sure the water is already out, I'm stuck with a problem.
Can I Flash to stock, lock the bootloader and send for warranty.. or will they know there was water involved?
The (insert charger) popup keeps coming up as well. Repeatedly
Odds are, you ruined it the minute you put the battery back in and turned it on. You can try taking the battery out and putting it in rice, but odds are that the damage has already been done.
I'm pretty sure that all of the instructions for the wet application protectors tell you to leave the battery out for at least 12 hrs, preferably a full day, before putting it back in and turning it on, and that is pretty much the reason why. If water gets anywhere it's not supposed to be, it can cause damage to the components. Live and learn I guess.
godisanatheist said:
this phone doesnt have the liquid stickers.
here's the thing, it was such small amounts of water being used I don;t think rice would work. Like rice just waits for the water to come out and dries it so the phone is fine before you use it.
I'm pretty sure the water is already out, I'm stuck with a problem.
Can I Flash to stock, lock the bootloader and send for warranty.. or will they know there was water involved?
The (insert charger) popup keeps coming up as well. Repeatedly
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This phone has 4 liquid stickers. I just found all of them. They all work.
One ON the battery, one above the battery by the gold power contacts and two under the plastic cover.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513201
chjade84 said:
This phone has 4 liquid stickers. I just found all of them. They all work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513201
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Nice I hope it works out for you.. did you take a pic of where the liquid stickers are?
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Nice I hope it works out for you.. did you take a pic of where the liquid stickers are?
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I just updated my post above because I realized it could be helpful ^
Good luck to you as well!
...and now it's being laggy. I'm guessing this is due to the device always seeing anf not seeing a usb input.
I;m going to replace the charging jack tmrw from a technician I know.. hopefully that would fix the problem.
I gave it to one of my tech's. He's gonna open it up and try to clean any water damage and see if the stickers are good.
I have 3 ways to proceed:
Send it to my carrier, they'll give me a new/refurb phone. Cons: 35$ fee, may get a refurb phone, need to unroot phone, if water damage found, im stuck with a bill for a new phone.
Send it to Samsung, they'll repair it. Cons: I'll have no phone for a while it takes them a week or two to repair it. Need to unroot. If water damage found, they'll send it back unrepaired.
Get my tech to repair it by changing the chargin jack flex cable. Cons: Gotta pay him a fee probably $50-60. If something else goes wrong with the water damage later on, I'm screwed.
Not sure what to do right now.
Evo 4G: MikG 3.0
Prior to this incident have had no problems with this phone.
Was out jogging with my phone in an arm band listening to pandora when all of a sudden my phone died. Didn't think much of it until I got back and it was extremely hot (in the bottom back near usb input). Plugged it into my charger and started it back up. Once on, it would not get to 100% charge. And again, was extremely hot. Once I took it off of the charger, the phone immediately died. Thought I might have gotten the battery wet from sweat, so I ordered two new batteries. Once those came, I charged those up with a direct battery charger then tried to put them into the phone. They both lasted a total of 15 minutes before being depleted. I have turned off all syncing and all background data. When I try to connect my phone to my computer to RUU, it asks me to scan and fix the drive.
Any suggestions?
TYIA
Plug it in to the wall outlet and see if you are charger AC.. I had a problem with my charger port where no matter what I connected it to, it would charge very slowly and only at USB.. Even when it would say 90 percent, it would die a short time after, when rebooted it would show no battery left... Not sure if this is your problem, but figured I would share my experience... Ended up getting a replacement after the techs looked at it...
Try taking a good quality qtip (less chance of shredding bits of cotton off) and 91% isopropyl alcohol and cleaning the charging port out carefully also clean the battery terminals in the phone, Sweat contains salt which will deposit after the sweat evaporates and salt is both corrosive and conducive so if there is any in the port or on the terminals it can cause a short
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Cleaning
Thank you for the tip on cleanning
Hello I was recording underwater at sea with my motorola defy..i recorded 4 days and nothing happened but in the 5th day when i was recording under water (about 30-40 cm deep) the screen started to flash ..the phone drank some water i think..well after 2 days it worked again..only the low volume button was kinda bugged...but after a week my phone crashed..i mean It doesn't want to boot anymore when i connect it to the charger the white led flashes continiously ... I tried to hold volume up and power button but nothing happens..any ideea what can I do ?
As soon as the phone messed up you should've took battery out and dried it, you may have fried it, I drowned my desire z in the toilet and it worked but then fried. Try putting it somewhere warm (like an airing cupboard) in a bowl of rice for a few days, or disassemble the device and dry all parts and clean with alcohol wipes. Either way once its dry if it doesn't work you fried it I'm afraid :/
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As soon as the phone messed up you should've took battery out and dried it, you may have fried it, I drowned my desire z in the toilet and it worked but then fried. Try putting it somewhere warm (like an airing cupboard) in a bowl of rice for a few days, or disassemble the device and dry all parts and clean with alcohol wipes. Either way once its dry if it doesn't work you fried it I'm afraid :/
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but the white led blips when the phone is connected to the charger
UB91 said:
but the white led blips when the phone is connected to the charger
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Yes but elsewhere could be clogged with water, or worse short circuited due to it. When my desire z failed the power button or the charger just turned my led flash on, do not presume that light means you don't need to dry it.
the salt can be heavy... you could try washing it with ordinary water, dissasemble it and try to put parts for few days into bowl of rice. good luck
imhaving this wierd issue i put my lg g 3 away for a couple of months it was fine i go to turn it pn nothong when i plug charger in nothing no light blank any ideas thanks
Have you tried taking out the battery and putting it back in, then turning it on? Maybe it's a messed up battery? That's all I can think of now as I am not sure what could cause this issue. Hopefully someone else can elaborate.
possible water damage
Take the back cover off of thre phone and then remove the battery. Stuff the phone in a bag of white rice. Let it sit in the bag for a few days and the rice will suck the water out of the phone and it may run like new. This recently happened to mine and worked like a charm. You may also have a damaged micro usb jack or port.......Good Luck!
My 4yo son helpfully dropped my phone down the toilet after he decided to borrow it to watch youtube. it blanked out and was totally dead. i left it in rice for 5 days (pre ordered the Mate 20 Pro)
Amazingly when i plug it into a charger it will now power on!!! but it wont charge and soon as i disconnect the power cable it dies, also the captive buttons at the bottom and microphone don't work... so i ordered new captive buttons, new charging port and the circuit board that contains the microphone etc that was at the bottom of the phone and will try to take the screen off without breaking it and fit them tonight... does anyone know will this fix the charging issue? do i need to replace the battery? or anything else? or am i wasting my money trying to fix my beloved OP3?
all advice gratefully received.
Kind Regards
Mark
ooMoo said:
My 4yo son helpfully dropped my phone down the toilet after he decided to borrow it to watch youtube. it blanked out and was totally dead. i left it in rice for 5 days (pre ordered the Mate 20 Pro)
Amazingly when i plug it into a charger it will now power on!!! but it wont charge and soon as i disconnect the power cable it dies, also the captive buttons at the bottom and microphone don't work... so i ordered new captive buttons, new charging port and the circuit board that contains the microphone etc that was at the bottom of the phone and will try to take the screen off without breaking it and fit them tonight... does anyone know will this fix the charging issue? do i need to replace the battery? or anything else? or am i wasting my money trying to fix my beloved OP3?
all advice gratefully received.
Kind Regards
Mark
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So I have now replaced the charging port and soft keys and it still won't charge, I'm guessing that means something in the main board is dead. So sadly I guess I now have to give up.
ooMoo said:
So I have now replaced the charging port and soft keys and it still won't charge, I'm guessing that means something in the main board is dead. So sadly I guess I now have to give up.
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When you encounter water damage, shut off the phone dry it as much as you can, use a hair dryer and cloth.
And then dump the phone into uncooked rice for a couple of days. That will suck all the moisture out.
Trying to start the device or trying to charge it will send current down the board and the elements, if any of them are covered by water, they're bound to short-circuit and die.
Remember this with any electronic device henceforth.
Sorry about your loss.