Well I dropped my Note 2 in water and I have probably killed it.
Just want to see if anyone has any ideas on recovery before I drop the $200 for my insurance deductible.
So upon dropping it, I pulled the battery and SD card immediately, and let the phone sit in rice overnight.
Next day, I pulled the phone out and attempted power up but was greeted with flickering splash screen then power off.
I disassembled the phone completely, and got out some Isopropyle Alcohol and soaked all the components to remove any remaining moisture.
Upon re assembly, I plugged the phone in and couldn't get it to power on at all. Then I tried powering in to Oden and success! got the download screen.
Next I booted up Oden on the computer and attempted to re flash and unsecure boot img, and recovery. It succeeded in Oden, but as soon as the phone gets passed the boot screen it turns off. Cant get passed it.
Anything else I can try?
Got it working!
Reflashed boot and recovery again.
was still having issues, then I went in to DL mode, cancelled and held down the Vol + and Home and it booted into TWRP!
From there, I had to reflash the rom and its good.
Looks like some stuff got into the camera, photos are streaking a little but Ill try and fix that later.
k4killer said:
Got it working!
Reflashed boot and recovery again.
was still having issues, then I went in to DL mode, cancelled and held down the Vol + and Home and it booted into TWRP!
From there, I had to reflash the rom and its good.
Looks like some stuff got into the camera, photos are streaking a little but Ill try and fix that later.
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You probably still have moisture and condensation in the phone.....should keep it in the rice more time and avoid powering up as long as possible
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You probably still have moisture and condensation in the phone.....should keep it in the rice more time and avoid powering up as long as possible
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Isopropyle Alcohol will insure there is NO moisture left.
I thoroughly soaked each of the components in it.
Im pretty sure my problems came from when I booted the phone after taking it out of the rice.
Im sure the moisture that was left then, shorted across the RAM and firmware, corrupting them.
After a few over rights with Odin it seems to be fine.
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I Really didnt even do anything. flashed cm7.0.2 few days ago
with pershoot kernel
been running fine. never overclocked etc.
just few hours ago my phone kept freezing and when i turn it back on it would show black screen, pulled battery rebooted and froze in bootscreen.
wiped dalvik cache wiped cache rebooted been working fine then froze again
same thing happened
repeated the process then forze again so i thought i would wiped the whole thing so did factory reset and it showed something like E:cant mount/recovery/cache or w/e
(i used gmethod to rooted the device.)
....i flashed miui on top of it then flashed kernel and those error popped up again
....i was scraed rebooted...htc logo
for like 10 min...pulled out the battery....now my phone wont turn on... any ideas?
i know the phone is done for real. when i plug into charger nothing comes up
when i turn it on nothing comes up
when i turn it on to hboot nothing comes up
does anyone know where i can get a new motherboard?
i voided the warranty by doing the spring mod
or new screws with void stickers.
It's possible the battery is having problems, i doubt it though, it seems as though youve hard bricked your phone.
does anyone know where i can get the motherboard or better
OEM htc g2 screws with void stickers?
eunkipark92 said:
does anyone know where i can get the motherboard or better
OEM htc g2 screws with void stickers?
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By the looks of things, any number of factors could be contributing to your Desires errors. However, it does seem like you've messed up the partitioning on the Desire Z internal memory and its giving you errors for it.
Try these steps.
1. Take the battery out and plug in your charger.
If the light doesnt come up try plugging your USB cable into your PC to charge.
If the light still doesn't come up your Desire Z is gone.
However, if the light does eventually come on, go to 2.
2. If any light comes up, then try turning it on.
If the screen turns on and you see ANYTHING besides black thats GOOD. go to 3
If the screen doesn't turn on there may be a motherboard issue.
3. Now if you can get it to turn on and not show black you should try this:
3a. Plug it into your PC then from there hold VOL DOWN and then navigate your way to Fastboot. It should say FASTBOOT USB or something like that.
3b. Flash a stable ROM onto your phone via your PC by going into recovery, mounting as storage then copying a ROM over. Then just flash the ROM onto your Desire Z and it should be fine.
If all this fails you should send it to a repair shop. There's no way you would get warranty to fix it at this point.
so ok i managed to get mini usb cable
When i conntected my phone to charger last night the orange battery light came on.
but nothing else.
when i clicked voulme down button then connected it to my computer it vibrated 5 times then green light came on.
And on my computer it showed up as Qualcom CDMA technologies MSM.
im searching everywhere to see if i can fix it. at this point any help would be appreciated.
I did notice that even though the phone wasnt turning on the phone was getting hot? (it wasnt connected to the charger obviously.)
when i did battery pull and leave it out it cools down. when i put it back in and turn it back on it gets hot after a while even though the screen and everything does not turn on.
Do this:
Pop out the battery and leave it for maybe 1 minute.
Then put the battery back in and see if the phone gets hot. If the phone does get hot skip passed 3 and 4.
Now assuming the phone doesn't get hot, plug it into your charger for about 5 minutes before turning the phone on. Try and get into Fastboot/Bootloader.
Once in your bootloader, just navigate your way to recovery and flash a new rom.
If the phone/battery gets hot it means its turned itself on as soon as the battery has gone and the phone isn't displaying anything. You should try just plugging the phone into the charger and turning it on. See if you get anything up on the screen. If you do then just jump into recovery and flash a rom.
Otherwise, if the screen always stays black regardless of what you do, send it in for repairs.
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Do this:
Pop out the battery and leave it for maybe 1 minute.
Then put the battery back in and see if the phone gets hot. If the phone does get hot skip passed 3 and 4.
Now assuming the phone doesn't get hot, plug it into your charger for about 5 minutes before turning the phone on. Try and get into Fastboot/Bootloader.
Once in your bootloader, just navigate your way to recovery and flash a new rom.
If the phone/battery gets hot it means its turned itself on as soon as the battery has gone and the phone isn't displaying anything. You should try just plugging the phone into the charger and turning it on. See if you get anything up on the screen. If you do then just jump into recovery and flash a rom.
Otherwise, if the screen always stays black regardless of what you do, send it in for repairs.
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yea it stays black no matter what i do,, but it does get hot though.
Farout.. you should really send it to a repair shop then. The reason why is because you can't do anything to the device without the screen on. You can try and hope for it to boot into HBOOT but you would have better luck sending it off on Warranty or to a phone repairs place.
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Farout.. you should really send it to a repair shop then. The reason why is because you can't do anything to the device without the screen on. You can try and hope for it to boot into HBOOT but you would have better luck sending it off on Warranty or to a phone repairs place.
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yae the replacement is already on their way
Haha thats brilliant. Don't brick this one lol.
So I'm watching tv, and I plug in my phone to charge it a bit because the GPS had gotten stuck on this morning and I burned my battery down to 40%. All of a sudden I hear it buzzing over and over again...like a reboot loop.
So I pull it out of the charger, pull the battery and let it try to boot. Gives the samsung screen for a moment, then flickers, and again to the reboot loop. Holding down power for 10 sec makes it do the same thing, I can't force it into recovery or DL mode without it bootlooping either! At one point I was able to get to the download mode screen, but just 3 seconds and the screen goes black, and back to bootlooping.
I literally did nothing to it. Only thing I did different today was the GPS got stuck (which it has done before), I rebooted the phone, then when it booted again I went ahead and just shut off the GPS. But this was like 20 minutes before this started happening.
So what can I do? Right now its plugged into my computer charging while off, seems to be the only thing it can do without bootlooping.
Running CM9.1 Nightly 9/3 with included kernel and LC8 radio (I think)
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So I'm watching tv, and I plug in my phone to charge it a bit because the GPS had gotten stuck on this morning and I burned my battery down to 40%. All of a sudden I hear it buzzing over and over again...like a reboot loop.
So I pull it out of the charger, pull the battery and let it try to boot. Gives the samsung screen for a moment, then flickers, and again to the reboot loop. Holding down power for 10 sec makes it do the same thing, I can't force it into recovery or DL mode without it bootlooping either! At one point I was able to get to the download mode screen, but just 3 seconds and the screen goes black, and back to bootlooping.
I literally did nothing to it. Only thing I did different today was the GPS got stuck (which it has done before), I rebooted the phone, then when it booted again I went ahead and just shut off the GPS. But this was like 20 minutes before this started happening.
So what can I do? Right now its plugged into my computer charging while off, seems to be the only thing it can do without bootlooping.
Running CM9.1 Nightly 9/3 with included kernel and LC8 radio (I think)
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My first guess is your battery is shot. i was gonna recommend the power button failure but if its staying off it might not be that. but id let it charge fully then try to boot up.
Thanks, oddly after a bit of messing around finally got it to boot up. Immediately backed up in CWM....seems to be acting OK now. Idk what happened...
i'll guess, the USB connector got short-circuited when you plugged in, and it caused a cascade failure that fried the SD card or something else inside the phone
there was a factory defect back then with the old SGS 1 (i9000m) model, they fixed that after the 3rd batch, everyone with an old phone from 1st and 2nd release batches, were able to exchange i for a new one.
however in your case, that's not a factory defect, but you plugged it wrong (my guess)
because it has happened to me before when i plugged it in, but the battery was still not charging even after several minutes, yet the phone was getting really really hot
then i unplug, and plug it back in and got the sound feedback "tuu tuud" and then it was actually charging after a few minutes
the first time around even though the charging icon changed, there was no feed back sound, and that was the key, it was not plugged in properly.
so after that time, i always made sure to verify to make sure the phone was plugged in properly and not just relay on he visual icon.
check back after a few minutes, to make sure the phone doesn't get very hot, and it actually increased 1%
It happened again today! After a full charge overnight and no problems for the day up to a little while ago, I opened my email app, it froze, then proceeded to start boot looping. I'm in class so I don't have my computer to try to bring it out of it...so yeah that sucks...
I do remember when I got it to charge yesterday it showed it was charging for 20-30 minutes, but after I "revived" it, I found it hadn't charged at all.
I have been using a Nokia USB cable to charge my phone since I got it, because it was longer than the cheapie Samsung cable that came with it...but it hasn't ever caused problems before. And it charged just fine last night.
How long is the warranty on these things thru tmobile? I may just swap it out while I still can.
Also on an unrelated note, I upgraded to the LG3 radio because I was meaning to anyways...
I pulled it out of it again! This time I held the power button while putting the battery in, when it vibrated I let go, it vibrated again, showed the Samsung logo, and then booted like normal
May I ask what rom are you currently on?
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May I ask what rom are you currently on?
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CM9.1 nightly 9/3 with included kernel
It did it a third time during class while it was in my pocket, the power button trick didn't work this time, I had to pull the battery after the samsung logo, plugging it back in to get it to boot...but...
near the end of the CM9 boot animation, when it vibrates and the auto brightness kicks in, it started it again! I have yet to revive it...
This is a bit upsetting because I had just got CM9 the way I liked it and I don't exactly have the time right now to mess with warranty and a new phone...I would like to fix it.
There are about 20 different threads on here on how to revert to stock...let me as a last ditch try to revert to stock and see if it keeps doing it...unless somebody has any ideas...
I was working in recovery mode, i super-wiped my phone to see if installing a ROM from scratch would help, and my phone even does it in recovery mode. Warranty time.
So whats the fastest way to restore to stock? Who knows how long I will have after reviving it before it breaks again.
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I was working in recovery mode, i super-wiped my phone to see if installing a ROM from scratch would help, and my phone even does it in recovery mode. Warranty time.
So whats the fastest way to restore to stock? Who knows how long I will have after reviving it before it breaks again.
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Here you go!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30832325
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Well, finished playing stupid for T-Mobile, in two weeks I will have my replacement T989. Now all that's left is returning this thing to stock before it starts acting up again.
And my temporary replacement phone?
HTC Dream, aka the G1, the first Android phone! Lol what a difference...GB feels like a dinosaur...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359
[HOWTO]Restore to Stock/Recover from a Bad Flash. Could try the last 3 pages on this thread. That will help you go back to stock without an issue. Hell might make you wanna keep your phone if you can get it to work again.. good luck
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datrapstar said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359
[HOWTO]Restore to Stock/Recover from a Bad Flash. Could try the last 3 pages on this thread. That will help you go back to stock without an issue. Hell might make you wanna keep your phone if you can get it to work again.. good luck
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Thanks! got it all done, back to ugly, ugly stock lol...and just when I thought maybe I would have to brick it myself it did the reboot thing again...so pulled the battery and there it sits factory reset.
Ok, So here's the story. My Fiancee and I had our phones get water damage. Both were soaked on a wet table that had drinks being served on it. My phone was mostly protected as it had a good otterbox on it. hers only had a small silicone case. Mine is ok after a night drying out though on closer inspection of the inside, I'm glad I let it dry for the night. Hers on the other hand wouldn't boot up. I let it dry for another 24-48 hours. Took it apart and there was some major water damage to the board. Ok, no prob. Alcohol swabs to the inside and cleaned all up. Boots up but no screen. Take it apart and clean again. Swap my phone's board with her's and the screen will turn on with my board in there. Ok so its not the screen. Cleaned her board again, and removed the sim and microsd plate, cleaned behind there. But I noticed there were a few, I'm not sure what they are (mabye resistors) they were burn out/crumbled on cleaning. F' me, Right? Anyways, re assemble. Power on, YAY the screen works. Boots up to main screen AWESOME! play with it a min, POWER OFF. WTF!?! Ok no prob just a dead battery. Swap with my phones battery. Powers up... On main Screen BAM, POWER OFF, EFFF. Ok plug it in. Boots up, powers off till I'm Sure battery is dead. Plug it in to a 1A. nothing 2.1A Powers on but dosen't stay on. once off it will not go to Battery Screen. Just power up and then off. I don't mind wiping if it is a Software issue but I would like is the photos off before I wipe. Any thoughts if I can get into it. One thing I did notice is that the computer didn't detect when it was plugged in. So I coulden't get photos off. She/I want the photos off BEFORE we wipe. Any thoughts?
TL;DR Powers on for a min but will not stay on. will not charge. Can boot into recovery mode. Rooted and unlocked, OS 4.0.4 w/ telus.
Adam
I have a N5X, unrooted, bootloader locked, 7.1.2 stock. It happened twice in the last week, the phone used to work perfectly before that. I just pick it up as usual but it doesn't turn on anymore, I tried multiple times to boot it normally or in bootloader mode but nothing happened; then the next morning I plug it into the wall the led flashes red and it reboots normally. I thought it could only happen once but it happened again yesterday night and as usual this morning it booted up. Does anybody know what the problem may be caused by? What can I do? The phone still has warranty and if no solution is found I'll send it back to Google. Sorry for my english.
I have had the exact same problem, mine only occurs when the phone is ran down to 0% and powered off. I never let that happen but I have a 3 year old son who repeatedly does it, and every time i hold my breath, praying it will come back on. Well i am holding my breath and praying once again this morning,hoping it will power back on. Do you think it could be some kind of "protected mode"to keep the battery or something else from overheating or whatever?
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I have a N5X, unrooted, bootloader locked, 7.1.2 stock. It happened twice in the last week, the phone used to work perfectly before that. I just pick it up as usual but it doesn't turn on anymore, I tried multiple times to boot it normally or in bootloader mode but nothing happened; then the next morning I plug it into the wall the led flashes red and it reboots normally. I thought it could only happen once but it happened again yesterday night and as usual this morning it booted up. Does anybody know what the problem may be caused by? What can I do? The phone still has warranty and if no solution is found I'll send it back to Google. Sorry for my english.
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If you need the phone and are confident, try unlocking the bootloader, reflashing stock factory image and relocking the bootloader again. You will lose all the data, though.
If you can live without a phone for a while, just send it to Google/LG. Nothing else one can do imho.
When my phone was in the last steps of dying (eventual bootloop), I could disconnect the battery and it'd get farther through the boot cycle, or even once booted. Basically, after it wouldn't react to any buttons or combos, I would disconnected and reconnected the battery. Then I could give things another shot. So I'd start it, it'd make it to the colored circles, or I could boot to the recovery menu, and try some things, but at some point it would go black. Then it would not react to anything unless I disconnected the battery. Then it would react to the buttons again and eventually one of the steps would make it go black. And then take a disconnect to get another try.
It sounds like your phone may be close to dying.
By the way, I only opened it up since I was past the warranty expiration date, and LG extending the warranty to about 18 months wasn't a known thing at the time. It is actually easy to get everything apart, but hard not to make dings in the plastic cover even using plastic tools.
I would say, back up everything you can from it and expect it is going to get worse. Redoing the OS didn't save mine.
Whilst hiking, we had to wade our way through a body of hip-level still freshwater. in my oblivion, I forgot to remove my phone from my pocket. As soon as I realized that my phone was immersed, I took it out of the water immediately and shut it down.
After returning home (~8 hours later), I placed the phone in silica gel for 12 hours and tried to boot the phone. It booted till the mid-boot PIN prompt. However, the touch didn't work. Seeing this, I shut the phone down again and placed it in silica for another 8 hours. The next time I booted the phone, I could use the touch to enter the PIN, but the boot seemed to abruptly stop during the boot animation and restart.
I approached an authorized service center in my city and asked them to diagnose the problem. After no more than 5 minutes, I was told that my motherboard was damaged and that it had to be replaced with a new one.
Is there any chance or recovering my phone? It's in top-notch shape since it's been just more than one year since I've bought it.
Not rooted, no unlocked bootloader. Simply stock firmware.
Is there any hope for my phone?
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Whilst hiking, we had to wade our way through a body of hip-level still freshwater. in my oblivion, I forgot to remove my phone from my pocket. As soon as I realized that my phone was immersed, I took it out of the water immediately and shut it down.
After returning home (~8 hours later), I placed the phone in silica gel for 12 hours and tried to boot the phone. It booted till the mid-boot PIN prompt. However, the touch didn't work. Seeing this, I shut the phone down again and placed it in silica for another 8 hours. The next time I booted the phone, I could use the touch to enter the PIN, but the boot seemed to abruptly stop during the boot animation and restart.
I approached an authorized service center in my city and asked them to diagnose the problem. After no more than 5 minutes, I was told that my motherboard was damaged and that it had to be replaced with a new one.
Is there any chance or recovering my phone? It's in top-notch shape since it's been just more than one year since I've bought it.
Not rooted, no unlocked bootloader. Simply stock firmware.
Is there any hope for my phone?
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Leave it in silica gel for longer?
I dropped mine in the sink a couple of months ago, but I was lucky. I didn't even bother turning it off, I just plugged in my hot air gun and let it blast the phone for 1 hour. At first the jack and the USB ports weren't working but they were fine after the hot treatment. I was lucky
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Leave it in silica gel for longer?
I dropped mine in the sink a couple of months ago, but I was lucky. I didn't even bother turning it off, I just plugged in my hot air gun and let it blast the phone for 1 hour. At first the jack and the USB ports weren't working but they were fine after the hot treatment. I was lucky
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Sure thing. What if it doesn't work, though? I've voided my warranty anyways, so I can play around with the software; what do I have to lose? The thing is, my phone is COMPLETELY stock - A locked bootloader, and a mid-boot pin. I'm currently downloading the software required for the mega unbrick guide and I've got universal ADB installed. Also, I can reboot into recovery.
Hope this helps.
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Sure thing. What if it doesn't work, though? I've voided my warranty anyways, so I can play around with the software; what do I have to lose? The thing is, my phone is COMPLETELY stock - A locked bootloader, and a mid-boot pin. I'm currently downloading the software required for the mega unbrick guide and I've got universal ADB installed. Also, I can reboot into recovery.
Hope this helps.
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Water damage will not corrupt the software. It is the hardware (mostly contacts) that is damaged. You can dismantle the phone and clean it with cleaning agents for electronics. Dry it for a day, then assemble and then try to boot. The various contacts are important. Clean them with extra care.