My phone is a T-Mobile galaxy s2 sgh-t989
I had my phone on my table, and my air conditioner decided to leak water out of the front, instead of the back. When I woke up, I noticed it, so I took my battery out of the phone. It wasn't completely soaked, but there was a decent amount of water inside the case and sub-frame (think that's what its called). Didn't have rice, since we recently cooked the last of it, so I wrapped my phone parts in some paper towels, and then put in vermiculite to draw our moisture. Once the phone was put back together, it appeared to work fine, but when I would click text messages, it would free up, and most often turn the phone off. Before this problem, my phones WiFi wouldn't turn on (common problem, from what I read). Last night, I did a factory reset, and the WiFi started working. The texting also worked, until the help popup came up (from when you first start using your phones features). When that popped up, it lagged out, and turned off. I did another factory reset, and now the WiFi still works, and the texting works fine, but the phone calling is messed up. I can make a call, and answer a call, but the screen freezes up. After I hang up, it says something along the lines of "android.phone isn't responding" and asks if I want to close it or wait. I was wondering if any of you have any simple solutions. My father works on phones (not for a living), and says that maybe there is still some moisture in it. I, however, think that some of the files somehow got corrupted. Thanks for your time.
I would try a clean install of 4.1.2 with Odin. If it still acts up, it's likely the water damage. And there's not much you can do about that. The phone isn't worth the repair bill anymore, in my opinion. Also... With water, you often fix one hardware component, only to find something else not working.
Good luck!
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Hello all,
I am new to forums and have been searching for sometime trying to find a fix for my phone. Yes, I used the search button before posting. Anyways, I recently got a dash from a co-worker of mine. When she had the phone it worked fine until she dropped it and cracked the screen. I replaced the screen in it and it work fine for a few days. All of a sudden it started freezing on me. I had to remove the battery and wait at least 10-15 mins. before powering the phone back on. Sometimes it wouldnt come back on for a couple hours. I thought it was an issue with the software so I updated to the latest version tmobile offers on their website. This still didnt work. I got a new battery for it (aftermarket) and am still having the same problems. It mainly freezes when ending calls or in the middle of calls. If I "reformat" (dont know technical term for phones) and reinstall software will this fix my problem?
Man, it sounds like you have gotten dust or some type of contamination inside the phone when you replace the screen. These circuit boards are not capable of having dust on these pieces on them. They don't handle well, things overheat quickly. So, I am sure when you make a call, the phone is at its peak power, hence heat.
So, if I were you, open the phone back up, check to see if it looks clean. Maybe, even blow it clean with a can of compressed air. Other than that. It never hurts to flash your phone with a new ROM, but fix a "dead" phone, I don't think so.
Good Luck.
I always start simple.
1. Are you using a memory card? Some cards just dont work well and the access time can slow a phone down alot and even cause freezing.
2. Sim cards can get dirty as well.. clean the contacts off and see if it helps
3. Since your co-worker dropped it, I would look for loose connections.
If all else fails flash a new rom and cross your fingers
Thanks guys. I will try and take it apart again to make sure theres not dust in the phone. There is no memory card so I can scratch that off the list. I will check the SIM card to mak sure its clean. Are these phones tempermental when it comes to clean SIM cards? I ask because my SIM card works fine in my other phone. Anyways, I did a hard reset yesterday and work for about 15mins and then restarted on its own several times. After it did this it finally shut off completley and now I cant even power the phone on or charge it. Looks like I have to suck it up and just buy one.
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I just purchased a GSM Galaxy Nexus From Google last monday. Got it on wednesday the first thing i did was put a screen Protector on it before booting the phone up.(ArmorSuit MilitaryShield) The phone work great on Thursday no issues what so ever. Then i Friday i went to the gym. Kept the thing in my pocket and wiped my hands before touching anything on the phone. (Waiting for otterbox to arrive)
I as soon as i get out i notice Condensation in the front camera. I soon as i received a text my phone hung up and reboot itself. After loading again to the home screen it hung up again as soon as text pop up again. I after 8 tries i final was frustrated. Took the SIM card out and swipe to the right with my finger to try to see if i could unlock it to the home screen.
I was finally able to get into the phone and turn on airplane mode before it hung up again. After i did that i Sut down phone and put the SIM card back in. Repeated the the same steps. As i turn airplane mode off the phone hung up again! (Seems everyone in the mother had to text me at that moment) I was able to make two phone call's before it lock up, but i couldn't hear them and they couldn't hear me. Called 611 then i was able to hear at&t computer but sound like the speaker was dieing. Then the phone lock up and reboot itself.
So i go into the boot loader. The phone was functioning perfected in the boot loader. Play with it for about 10mins. No hangs up. I found that weird. So i reboot the phone was able to get myself into the Factory reset. After that i did a hard factory reset.
So i call Google and they sent me over to Samsung. Samsung wants to do a replacement. I don't mind doing that i just don't like the fact they need a CC number just in case they have to Charge if the phone was abuseded which it wasn't. Baby the hell out of it. They asking me if the phone came into any touch with liquid. The the only thing i could think of was the solution the screen Protector Company sent. I didn't spray the solution directly on the phone but the direction told me to spray couple of sprays on the side of the SP that was going on the screen. (2 Sprays).
The Samsung rep told me the systoms don't sound like water damage. So after getting off the phone (About 1 hr) i notice the condensation was disappearing from the lens. So i took a quick blow dryer to it for about 30 secs. Turn the phone back on and everything been rock solid (Expect for wifi cutting in and out for some reason) for about 2 days.
So tomorrow Samsung fiance department will be calling me for my CC info. My question do you think i should send it in ? Do you think they will find water damage? Was this water damage ? Does the GSM galaxy nexus have Water Sticker ? I'm not able to find one. (Every where i googled no one had a direct answer)
I'm not trying to rip Samsung off i just don't want this to happen down the road again. If it was water damage ill just deal with it i guess.
I wonder if i don't open the new phone tey send me and just use my old 3gs in till i hear back from them... will i be able to send the Replacement phone back if it was water damage ? Just pay the shipping costs? First time dealing with something like this
What do you think i should do ?
Thank you for any input.
Sorry for the wall of text.
Just Notice i posted this in the wrong section My bad ill ask for mod to move it.
Look at the water contact indicator under the battery and see if it is red. A wet apply screen protector should not have caused this, but be careful to not let water get in the speaker and crevices when applying. In the future if your phone does come in contact with water or condensation remove the battery and sim Immediately and place in dry rice for 24 hours, do not try to power it on. Many others are reporting wifi instability, check the threads for solutions.
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Look at the water contact indicator under the battery and see if it is red. A wet apply screen protector should not have caused this, but be careful to not let water get in the speaker and crevices when applying. In the future if your phone does come in contact with water or condensation remove the battery and sim Immediately and place in dry rice for 24 hours, do not try to power it on. Many others are reporting wifi instability, check the threads for solutions.
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Looks like your good to me, I don't see any red.
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Looks like your good to me, I don't see any red.
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Do you think Samsung will find anything ? Sorry for all the questions. The lens on the front camera was white. Is there stickers inside the phone where the CPU is
I heard there was like 3 water indicators in the phone.
That I couldn't tell you, I've never taken the phone apart so I would only be guessing. You might could find out by looking for a "tear down" of the phone, there should be several online if you do a Google search. Is the phone continuing to function well for you? Besides the wifi?
Yeah its been running great. Just got off the phone with Samsung. I think i just keep this phone. I don't want to pay for repair cost's. If the phone dies in month then i guess it was water damage. I hope there's no corrosion on PCB. I would love to take it apart but i don't want to void the warranty to check. Is there warranty Sticker in there ?
The wifi thing might be my fault. My laptop does that sometimes too. I'm just freaking out. I love the phone. I don't want it too die. Just ran a CPU stability test for about 15mins. No errors the battery was at 42c temp. Went ahead and sut the phone down. Going to wait 15 mins then turn it back on.
well guys, i kinda left my phone sitting nexto my glass of water when i was sleeping, woke up..and the phone was off, and the battery had a RED TAB on it. SO i put it in a bag of rice for 2 days, turned it on with a new battery and it worked COMPLETELY FINE, i used it all day, that night i turned it off and when i tried to turn it on the next morning something went wrong, The galaxy S2 logo shows up, closes then pops up again, then it boots up to the main screen where my lock screen is, the touch screen doesn't work at all anymore, So i boot it up into recovery mode, and i go to try a factory reset, and the power button doesn't let me select anything.but when i hit the little menu button on the bottom left, it takes the recovery to a loading screen, so the touch screen must be working right???... SOO i thought that id try a 1 click ROM, so i tried to connect it to my computer,and the computer doesn't read it AT ALL....i put it into ODIN mode, tried connecting it again, nothing, SOOO i really dont know what to do here, it was working perfectly fine... and the WERID THING is, when it turns on to the lock screen, i can receive texts,emails,phone calls, and the phone is updating games and stuf i have installed...i just cant unlock the screen, so if ANYONE could help me here it would be greatly appreciated, Thank you
Sounds like your phone had residual moisture trapped inside and that seeped into circuits or connections and caused a short that's borking your digitizer.
Whenever you have a water mishap like that you need to disassemble your phone and pack all the pieces in rice or suspend them in front of an air conditioner while letting the cold dry air blow over and around the parts overnight.
The a/c part I know first hand because my wife toilet bombed her epic last summer, and that's what I did, reassembled the next morning and its still working fine.
Of coarse when the phone hit the water it was pulled instantly and I pulled the battery and instantly disassembled the phone.
In your case I don't know if disassembling it now will help.
You may need parts to fix it.
Start Googling. There is NO software that's going to fix your phone.
Pp.:beer::thumbup:
From me to you on an Epic Touch running the best rom ever.
well im taking it to a cell phone repair shop in town tommorow, see if they can possibly fix it, well have to see...
Mine fell in a pot hole left it in rice for 3 days still didn't work was very laggy had to get a replacement phone
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When I got my first one I went overboard off the boat I was working on. Five minutes in the water, it was toast. That was salt water though...
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Liquipel, email them and ask them to officially support the Sprint GS2 as well as the AT&T & Tmobile that they already support for waterproofing, I already did and they said they'd do it, but it's not official yet cuz not enough people have been asking I think for the ET4G version.
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Yesterday morning my girlfriend knocked over a cup of water off of my bedstand and after wiping up the mess we went back to sleep. I woke up and realized my phone was drenched as a result of this happening, as it was charging in a spot I usually don't put it. I fumble around with it and realize it's messed up pretty bad, though not black screen.
Fast forward to doing the rice treatment and using an un-harmed battery without the pink water damage indicator, all seems good. Phone turns on, runs full speed, plays sound, camera works, data works, etc. This is running task's AOKP.
I use it throughout the next day and then I notice my mobile connection drop completely. This isn't like 1 bar, it's like the triangle logo empty as in no service. Flipping between airplane mode doesn't seem to help like it normally does. Sporadically I'd get a bar with 3G or something.
Then, I flashed the new version of AOKP and upon reboot my phone's data is still not working and the network connection is always dead as well. But, there is also noticeable lag. Pressing the app drawer takes 3 seconds to load and I see the animation in very slow motion. Using a countdown app, it is literally noticeable that seconds are taking substantially longer than they should.
ODIN to complete stock and the lag is still there. Data is in and out. Also if I let the phone sleep, it sometimes either turns off or freezes, I need to take the battery out to boot it again. Basically, something is up - and it's making no sense. My phone is working in slow motion with no mobile data/network after drying out water damage, and flashing new ROM's or ODIN to stock didn't fix anything. I checked APN's, I checked kernel speeds (when it was still on AOKP, right now stock), I checked mobile data on and off, nothing is working. On the off chance I do get lucky and have data + network, I try to make a call and both of them vanish.
I don't think I'll get any help bringing this to ATT cause the indicator on the phone itself is pink, so does anybody here have any ideas on what the heck to do? Being that the issues persist whether I'm rooted or not, custom rom or stock, I believe it's a hardware issue - right?
Yep. Most likely. A trip to repair will most likely be required.
The most common error is trying the phone out after it gets wet.
Best to do is immediately take out the battery, and use the rice, desiccant, blow dryer, whatever method right then.
After a few days of sitting in the rice or silica gel packs (in a sealed bag) THEN try powering it up.
Those first seconds of powered up state with the moisture present are the most damaging.
The best thing to do when a phone gets wet is to immediately disassemble it and clean everything with a high grade isopropyl alcohol. That will get all the moisture out and remobe any corrosion on the boards. I would still take it apart if I were you and let it dry completely for about a day. It may bring it back to life. There may be some water hanging in the antenna wire plug or in the radio itself. Watch some youtube videos on the the disassembly and go slow.
my wife dropped her z1 compact in the toilet yesterday.
she wiped it off and put it in a bag of rice, to get rid of the moist.
it was working when she put it in there, but after a few hours when we took it out to check it, the screen wouldn't light up.
it was (is) still working though, cause she got lots of messages.
i can see that there is water inside since there are tiny drops of water inside the flash and the camera looks all moist inside...
today, it's the same story, but now the problem is even bigger, since i tried all sorts of fixes i could find, which included turning the phone off/ rebooting (powerbutton+volume up).
i had hoped to hook it up to a computer and transfer all the photos, but since i can't see the screen, i can't enter the pincode and get access to her phone.
when i do connect it to a computer, it starts loading, so the connection seems fine, but since i can't "enter" the phone, the computer won't recognize it as a device.
do you know of any way to at least save the photos?
would it it be possible to use the warrany for this?
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my wife dropped her z1 compact in the toilet yesterday.
she wiped it off and put it in a bag of rice, to get rid of the moist.
it was working when she put it in there, but after a few hours when we took it out to check it, the screen wouldn't light up.
it was (is) still working though, cause she got lots of messages.
i can see that there is water inside since there are tiny drops of water inside the flash and the camera looks all moist inside...
today, it's the same story, but now the problem is even bigger, since i tried all sorts of fixes i could find, which included turning the phone off/ rebooting (powerbutton+volume up).
i had hoped to hook it up to a computer and transfer all the photos, but since i can't see the screen, i can't enter the pincode and get access to her phone.
when i do connect it to a computer, it starts loading, so the connection seems fine, but since i can't "enter" the phone, the computer won't recognize it as a device.
do you know of any way to at least save the photos?
would it it be possible to use the warrany for this?
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If it still connects OK, there's probably hope with adb...
I wouldn't do anything with it until all traces of water have gone. This might take a couple of days. Open all the flaps while it is drying in the rice.
brynte5 said:
my wife dropped her z1 compact in the toilet yesterday.
she wiped it off and put it in a bag of rice, to get rid of the moist.
it was working when she put it in there, but after a few hours when we took it out to check it, the screen wouldn't light up.
it was (is) still working though, cause she got lots of messages.
i can see that there is water inside since there are tiny drops of water inside the flash and the camera looks all moist inside...
today, it's the same story, but now the problem is even bigger, since i tried all sorts of fixes i could find, which included turning the phone off/ rebooting (powerbutton+volume up).
i had hoped to hook it up to a computer and transfer all the photos, but since i can't see the screen, i can't enter the pincode and get access to her phone.
when i do connect it to a computer, it starts loading, so the connection seems fine, but since i can't "enter" the phone, the computer won't recognize it as a device.
do you know of any way to at least save the photos?
would it it be possible to use the warrany for this?
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Well, You could try connecting the phone via HDMI and at least get an display. And the by making assumptions of where the numbers are, You could press the passcode and connect it to pc then.
The first thing you should have done after picking it from the water was to turn off the device. Less risk of something shorting out like it probably did in your case.
brynte5 said:
my wife dropped her z1 compact in the toilet yesterday.
she wiped it off and put it in a bag of rice, to get rid of the moist.
it was working when she put it in there, but after a few hours when we took it out to check it, the screen wouldn't light up.
it was (is) still working though, cause she got lots of messages.
i can see that there is water inside since there are tiny drops of water inside the flash and the camera looks all moist inside...
today, it's the same story, but now the problem is even bigger, since i tried all sorts of fixes i could find, which included turning the phone off/ rebooting (powerbutton+volume up).
i had hoped to hook it up to a computer and transfer all the photos, but since i can't see the screen, i can't enter the pincode and get access to her phone.
when i do connect it to a computer, it starts loading, so the connection seems fine, but since i can't "enter" the phone, the computer won't recognize it as a device.
do you know of any way to at least save the photos?
would it it be possible to use the warrany for this?
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Try keeping it for a week iinside rice or silicon bag.
And you can't claim warranty unless the phone is faulty!