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Hi! I'm new to this forum so I hope there will be some understanding for the urgency.
Here's the deal; I dropped my HTC Desire in the toilet, clumsy me. I managed to grab it within a few seconds and so I removed all parts and let them dry over a towel. Stupidly enough, I tried to reboot the phone after some time, not thinking that electricity and water does not mix too well. I dried the cell phone with a vacuum cleaner for about 5 minutes and placed it in a bowl of rice. Just recently, I tried to start the phone with the charger plugged in but it won't work this time either. The phone keeps vibrating and vibrating until I remove the battery - what should I do?
Any help is appreciated!
Difeddy said:
Hi! I'm new to this forum so I hope there will be some understanding for the urgency.
Here's the deal; I dropped my HTC Desire in the toilet, clumsy me. I managed to grab it within a few seconds and so I removed all parts and let them dry over a towel. Stupidly enough, I tried to reboot the phone after some time, not thinking that electricity and water does not mix too well. I dried the cell phone with a vacuum cleaner for about 5 minutes and placed it in a bowl of rice. Just recently, I tried to start the phone with the charger plugged in but it won't work this time either. The phone keeps vibrating and vibrating until I remove the battery - what should I do?
Any help is appreciated!
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the fact its vibrating must be a good sign, atleast it means you didnt fry the whole thing when u tried to switch it on wet, the best i can recomend is put it back in a air tight container filled with rice, make sure the desire is totaly submerged in the rice and leave it for 24 hrs+ , if it wont switch on after that, then its a repair job
AndroHero said:
the fact its vibrating must be a good sign, atleast it means you didnt fry the whole thing when u tried to switch it on wet, the best i can recomend is put it back in a air tight container filled with rice, make sure the desire is totaly submerged in the rice and leave it for 24 hrs+ , if it wont switch on after that, then its a repair job
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Have to agree; at least it's giving some sort of sign! Problem is that it won't stop vibrating and the screen remains black - no lights, etc. I suppose I'll have to give it a try and see what follows. My parents wouldn't be too happy with me explaining the circumstances... Lesson learned.
Thanks for your help!
AndroHero said:
the fact its vibrating must be a good sign, atleast it means you didnt fry the whole thing when u tried to switch it on wet, the best i can recomend is put it back in a air tight container filled with rice, make sure the desire is totaly submerged in the rice and leave it for 24 hrs+ , if it wont switch on after that, then its a repair job
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and if it is a repair job, have fun
http://tjworld.net/blog/htc-desire-tear-down
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=720717&highlight=teardown
I used both guides to fix my broken AMOLED.. good luck!
hope this helps! and hope your Desire isnt broken!
!PANDA said:
and if it is a repair job, have fun
I used both guides to fix my broken AMOLED.. good luck!
hope this helps! and hope your Desire isnt broken!
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Thanks for the reply! Are you quite sure if it's worth the risk, though?
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F*ck. I placed the cell phone in a box of rice and let it stay for about 20 hours, but it won't start at all now after a few attempts. No vibration at all. I'm starting to think that I'm screwed.
YES!!!
It booted up now! The power button doesn't appear to work properly, but it will start!
Difeddy said:
YES!!!
It booted up now! The power button doesn't appear to work properly, but it will start!
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well thats a start, give it a few more days in a bowl of rice and if that wont help (to make sure everything work!) hopefully it will! but yu know.. if you have no insurance and have no choice, get a compressed air spray and have fun
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well thats a start, give it a few more days in a bowl of rice and if that wont help (to make sure everything work!) hopefully it will! but yu know.. if you have no insurance and have no choice, get a compressed air spray and have fun
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The power button isn't working now either. Will check if the warranty covers this, I'm just hoping that there will be no indications of water damage.
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The power button isn't working now either. Will check if the warranty covers this, I'm just hoping that there will be no indications of water damage.
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There are usually little white stickers inside the phone which turn red if they get wet, so my guess is you've got little hope trying to get a warranty repair.
Regards,
Dave
foxmeister said:
There are usually little white stickers inside the phone which turn red if they get wet, so my guess is you've got little hope trying to get a warranty repair.
Regards,
Dave
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Well, there is a sticker near the battery slot on the phone and another one on the battery itself. Both of them are white, luckily enough. We'll see what the guy says, thanks for the help though!
Hello!
Got any luck with a service with power button?
I have the same issue. Phone fell into water.. after few days phone works fine, except power button.
HTC Service refuses to make a guarantee repairment (suprisingly - liquid damage).
I think, in my case power button is short-circuited: when inserting the battery, phone is turning on and starting up w/o any problems (normally, Desire doesn't do that, I've tested friend's phone).
Unfortunately, get the root and remap sleep button to optical trackball isn't an option for me...
Someone advised me to disassemble the phone, and try to clean the power button with an alcohol. But I didn't tried this yet...
AE777 said:
Hello!
Got any luck with a service with power button?
I have the same issue. Phone fell into water.. after few days phone works fine, except power button.
HTC Service refuses to make a guarantee repairment (suprisingly - liquid damage).
I think, in my case power button is short-circuited: when inserting the battery, phone is turning on and starting up w/o any problems (normally, Desire doesn't do that, I've tested friend's phone).
Unfortunately, get the root and remap sleep button to optical trackball isn't an option for me...
Someone advised me to disassemble the phone, and try to clean the power button with an alcohol. But I didn't tried this yet...
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I'm a bit late, I suppose.
We sent the phone for a repair job but it was "quickly" sent back to me. Good of them to say this a month later, when I was eagerly waiting for them to send it back, whole and functional. Anyhow, I got it back and fortunately; it worked. There were no issues, what-so-ever, with the goddamn power button.
But, ironically enough, I managed to trip into a lake yesterday. What goes around comes around. At least I wasn't browsing for some porn this time. Jokes aside, the power button doesn't seem to be working anymore. Sometimes it'll respond when I boot the phone up, but now it doesn't seem to do this anymore.
Disconnect motor
Disassemble the phone and disconnect contact on vibration motor? Or remove motor and reassemble phone. Worth a try to get a functioning phone minus vibration option. :fingers-crossed:
Hey can know how much the company charge for d repair ????
Right after my phone fell on the floor, I found out that the camera was not working.The first time I tried pressing the camera button,I finally had to force close the application as it didn't respond.In a few hours the battery was emptied though I had just charged it.That night the whole phone almost crashed,it was awfully slow and extremely hot.
I took it to a repair shop (no customer services or guaranty from Sony in my country),and it cost me not very much money to repair everything except the camera.They told me that there was a serious hardware problem and the camera had to be changed.
Problem is, I can't find the Arc camera in any of the cities in my country,and I have to leave my phone cameraless while the first reason I bought it was the 8mega pixel camera.
The volume down button doesn't work either.
Has anybody experienced any problem similiar to this with Xperia Arc?Does the camera really crash so easily with one fall?!
Sarina90 said:
Does the camera really crash so easily with one fall?!
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I've dropped mine a few times to the point my phone is quite badly scuffed on all corners but the camera has never failed. Sounds like an insurance job to me.
unfortunately for your phone
Did you try to reinstall the rom after a hard reset. You can either reboot once the phone withouit the sd card and the sim. Then, reboot with only the sim. Finaly reboot with the sim and the sd-card.
For me, a fresh install after a herd reset can solve the problem.
lol I actually dropped my Arc on the floor the other night but luckily it fell of the bed so the drop wasn't too bad, it fell on It's screen and got some scratches, I've been paranoid ever since but I haven't find any problems. You can try installing 3rd party camera apps if any of them might workout for you.
aye insurance i agree. sometimes manufacturers can't guarantee repairs or replacements due to lack oe spare parts for repairs, or the cost of the repair is too high that you are better off buying a new phone.
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So, I got an Xperia Play a few months ago on eBay, and everything was fine with it. But last month, my front camera started acting funny. It started showing the image in neon green, and then later stopped working in general. It would say "Couldn't access camera" or something like that. Then, a little later, my earpiece stopped working in calls. I would have to switch to speakerphone or plug in headphones to be able to hear anybody. Then, a little later, my backlight started acting funny. It would turn off sometimes, so I could see what was on screen, but not be able to interact with it. Putting it into sleep mode and back out would fix it. But soon, I had trouble pulling it out of sleep mode. I'd have to press the button like 50 times (not an exaggeration, toward the end) Then a little later, I had trouble turning the phone on at all. It would turn on, go the Sony Ericsson screen, sit for about 5 seconds, then the backlight would shut off, and it would stop doing anything. Now, 99 times out of a hundred, the phone won't boot, and if it does, I can't let it go to sleep, or I can't pull it out of sleep.
I couldn't think of any problem that could cause all of these problems. I tried reflashing the firmware, but that didn't fix the problem. Does anybody have any idea? Any help would be greatly appreciated...
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So, I got an Xperia Play a few months ago on eBay, and everything was fine with it. But last month, my front camera started acting funny. It started showing the image in neon green, and then later stopped working in general. It would say "Couldn't access camera" or something like that. Then, a little later, my earpiece stopped working in calls. I would have to switch to speakerphone or plug in headphones to be able to hear anybody. Then, a little later, my backlight started acting funny. It would turn off sometimes, so I could see what was on screen, but not be able to interact with it. Putting it into sleep mode and back out would fix it. But soon, I had trouble pulling it out of sleep mode. I'd have to press the button like 50 times (not an exaggeration, toward the end) Then a little later, I had trouble turning the phone on at all. It would turn on, go the Sony Ericsson screen, sit for about 5 seconds, then the backlight would shut off, and it would stop doing anything. Now, 99 times out of a hundred, the phone won't boot, and if it does, I can't let it go to sleep, or I can't pull it out of sleep.
I couldn't think of any problem that could cause all of these problems. I tried reflashing the firmware, but that didn't fix the problem. Does anybody have any idea? Any help would be greatly appreciated...
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When you get it to turn on use flashtool and flash a stock ftf file
I did flash stock firmware. It's still not working... I have a bad feeling it's a hardware problem.
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I did flash stock firmware. It's still not working... I have a bad feeling it's a hardware problem.[/QUOTE
Yeah sounds more like a hardware problem. Tho I might be wrong.
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Those same things were happening to my old xperia play which i dropped in water...
Hm... Well, I dunno, if anybody has any other ideas, please let me know. I don't think I ever had a situation where I could have exposed the phone to water
Green tint on the camera means hardware problem. Had those problems with the old K810 Cybershot phones.
Well, anyone know specifically what KIND of hardware problem it would be? I might try to fix the phone if it's not too expensive.
I will probably send it to repair servoce of Sony, my phone is still in warranty (relock bloader )..
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Hm... Well, I'm too poor to send the phone to Sony. I could probably buy a replacement part and do it myself, but that's only if I know what part I need. If not, I may just have to put this on the back burner for a while.
leetxperia said:
I will probably send it to repair servoce of Sony, my phone is still in warranty (relock bloader )..
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Did you unlock your phone by official method
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The green tint on the FF cam for me usually gets fixed by a wiping the cam. >.<
I did not unlock my phone. I wanted to, but I wasn't able to
the front cam failure and failure of the earpiece were 2 of the faults that I had as a result of a defective flex cable which was repaired by vodafone under warranty. as it happens, the flex cable on my phone has failed again and has again been sent away for another flex cable replacement
hope this helps
tom
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Did you unlock your phone by official method
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Who would pay for unlock is bootloader unlockable is true?
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You don't have to pay for unlocking bootloader
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Hey everyone, i got the HTC One X from a friend for repairing it, but i think its bricked, i know how to flash with clockworkmod from my LG Phone but this Phone just dont boot anyway, no bootloop, no nothing, its not starting
when i connect micro USB, the LED is red and is going to green after a few minutes, but its not booting or touch keys are flashing, nothing :/ volume and power dont work either, do you guys have an idea?
My only suggestion is to hold power down for 10 seconds and if it restarts its ok
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My only suggestion is to hold power down for 10 seconds and if it restarts its ok
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not working
i think it has water damage because he found it in the rain after loosing it xD
any other ideas?
eek, not good, is it insured?
Plug the phone into your PC, if it shows as apx in device manager it is a hardware fault, if you take the phone apart leave the main board in place, leave in a dry warm place for a week, u could use rice or a dessicant like the bahs u find in shoe boxes, this will dry the device out, there are also lots of shops that offer water damaged repairs services.
Ultimately tjo even if u repair it after water damage the phone will never be the same
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Jonnibravo said:
Plug the phone into your PC, if it shows as apx in device manager it is a hardware fault, if you take the phone apart leave the main board in place, leave in a dry warm place for a week, u could use rice or a dessicant like the bahs u find in shoe boxes, this will dry the device out, there are also lots of shops that offer water damaged repairs services.
Ultimately tjo even if u repair it after water damage the phone will never be the same
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thanks for your advice, it has white things on the USB Port and i think its bricked like my LG Phone they wont repair water damaged phones cheap in germany
facekill1337 said:
thanks for your advice, it has white things on the USB Port and i think its bricked like my LG Phone they wont repair water damaged phones cheap in germany
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Sounds like internal water damage caused and short circuit by powering the device on with water in it.
A friend of mine had the same exact problem, he had his phone insured though (not for water damage but he lied and said he was calling and it suddenly went raining, they actually believed that and he was given a brand new hox)
I'm on a cruise right now, my phone just fell into the pool and it stop working, then I realized the pool is fill with salt water. Now the phone is not working. I try to blowdry it and put it in a bag of rice. Is been 10 hours the phone is only flashing red led and is not starting up at all. This phone have no warranty because I import it from Europe as I don't think Sony USA will fix it.
Please help! What can I do right now? I'm still on the cruise right now and 2 more days till I get home
Just contact Sony and ask if they will try to repair under warranty. Not to make you scared, but I think they will not fix it onder warranty because of the salt water. But this is the only thing you can try.
The red flashing LED means that the phone is still intact, you can try to plug the phone into your pc when you're at home.
Killastyle said:
Just contact Sony and ask if they will try to repair under warranty. Not to make you scared, but I think they will not fix it onder warranty because of the salt water. But this is the only thing you can try.
The red flashing LED means that the phone is still intact, you can try to plug the phone into your pc when you're at home.
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But will Sony USA fix a phone not from their region? Or should I lie about the water damage is from regular pool??
3vilhomer said:
But will Sony USA fix a phone not from their region? Or should I lie about the water damage is from regular pool??
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I don't know. Sony is Sony.
Read this http://www.xperiablog.net/2015/09/10/sony-changes-stance-on-waterproof-phones-do-not-use-underwater/
Killastyle said:
I don't know. Sony is Sony.
Read this http://www.xperiablog.net/2015/09/10/sony-changes-stance-on-waterproof-phones-do-not-use-underwater/
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According to that, my phone have no hope...
hello if it flashes red is the battery that is completely unload the load test to see !!!
xrenoix said:
hello if it flashes red is the battery that is completely unload the load test to see !!!
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um i dont understand what you mean...
Killastyle said:
Just contact Sony and ask if they will try to repair under warranty. Not to make you scared, but I think they will not fix it onder warranty because of the salt water. But this is the only thing you can try.
The red flashing LED means that the phone is still intact, you can try to plug the phone into your pc when you're at home.
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i charged the phone for 1 hour using original QC charger, still flashing red.
i plug it into the PC and PC doesnt detect the phone at all, leaving it on charging only with flashing red
i hold vol up to plug in PC i get a solid blue LED but still no screen.
what else can i do now?
3vilhomer said:
i charged the phone for 1 hour using original QC charger, still flashing red.
i plug it into the PC and PC doesnt detect the phone at all, leaving it on charging only with flashing red
i hold vol up to plug in PC i get a solid blue LED but still no screen.
what else can i do now?
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I think it is a hardware problem. Guess you really have to contact Sony. Nothing you can do yourself. Just play stupid and say it fell in the water.
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I think it is a hardware problem. Guess you really have to contact Sony. Nothing you can do yourself. Just play stupid and say it fell in the water.
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should i let it sit in the rice for more days to suck more water out??
3vilhomer said:
should i let it sit in the rice for more days to suck more water out??
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you made mistake in the first place, you shouldn´t use blow dryer, you should put in the rice instead. now you probably made some damage in your phone with blow dryer.
also this is warning for everyone, if your phone gets broken after getting touch with water, don´t use blow dryer, put your phone in the rice and leave it at least for 24 hours.
spaha-bih said:
you made mistake in the first place, you shouldn´t use blow dryer, you should put in the rice instead. now you probably made some damage in your phone with blow dryer.
also this is warning for everyone, if your phone gets broken after getting touch with water, don´t use blow dryer, put your phone in the rice and leave it at least for 24 hours.
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o crap!! so basically my phone is doom...
spaha-bih said:
you made mistake in the first place, you shouldn´t use blow dryer, you should put in the rice instead. now you probably made some damage in your phone with blow dryer.
also this is warning for everyone, if your phone gets broken after getting touch with water, don´t use blow dryer, put your phone in the rice and leave it at least for 24 hours.
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https://www.gazelle.com/thehorn/2014/05/06/gazelles-guide-water-damage-truth-rice-galaxy-everything/
after a week the phone is still not charging, is not even able to connect to the PC, i try holding vol up and it doesnt give me any blue LED. everytime i press the power button it only flashes red LED. does this mean my phone is a brick now?
i had contacted SONY and they said i bought this phone from hong kong considering as grey market phone and wont fix it for me in USA. what can i do with the phone now? is there any other local shop can fix SONY phones? i ask a few and most of them dont know how to fix SONY phones, only Samsung and iPhone.