My Xperia m suddenly turned off while I am using and it is not turning on... neither it is charging nor I can get it into flash mode or boot mode. NOTHING!!!.. It falls into the sink full of water 5 months back.. But it was running until now... is my cell dead?: (
Happened on my good old ace. I acedantly (pun indeed) spilled tea over it. I quickly started to dry it and it all seemed good. After 3 months it fell into the deep abyss and didn't get back.
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Droids don't belong in the sink.
Good news, it's ALMOST working. It stayed on, and actually Skype stayed on broadcasting its drop. I panicked, pulled it out, tried to turn it off, pulled battery. Ended up it bootloop.
Flashed a series of images most of the days and finally this process seemed to get me the closest.
1. Flash CWM to boot.
2. Reboot in unlocked fastboot
3. Flash Google stock images
It ACTUALLY booted. I had WiFi, cellular connection and a touch screen.
The touch screen became sluggish, stopped working, my phone restarted itself.
Back to boot loop. Tells me all the hardware is working, just intermittently.
Don't know what else to do.
I'm confused. Is this a story about your phone surviving "water?" Or are you simply looking for help on what to do because your phone is boot looping?
If it's help then it was probably a bad idea to turn the phone back on. Best thing to do is put it in a bag of rice and leave it there for a couple of days for everything to dry. I'm not sure what there is to do now because you already turned it back on and it could of caused permanent damage to your phone. You can put it in a bag of rice and see what happens anyway. You might get lucky.
When you drop any gadget in water, best thing to do is immediately remove the battery and leave it in a bowl of rice for a day or two.
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emuneee said:
When you drop any gadget in water, best thing to do is immediately remove the battery and leave it in a bowl of rice for a day or two.
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Yup. Absolute worst thing you can do is put the battery back in and turn it on.
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all i know is i'll be damned if i ever decide to do a water(or liquid of any kind) test on this phone or any other phone for that matter. phyiscal abuse is a different story....
from my experience, a phone can really take a beating, but when it comes to liquids.. game over!
I should know better. I just wish the person I was Skyping with recorded the demise of my Droid
Just dry it out for a few days, or longer as others have mentioned above, i had a magic that was fully soaked that would boot fine after a few hours of drying but it took almost a week before the touch screen was working stably, i gave it to a friend as i had already replaced it and it went on to be used daily for another couple of years.
I saw somewhere that you can dunk it in rubbing alcohol to displace the water before you put it in rice.
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I saw somewhere that you can dunk it in rubbing alcohol to displace the water before you put it in rice.
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I wouldn't recommend that. I'd recommend opening up the case since warranty shot anyways and pat dry as much as possible, then stick in rice.
My grandma beat me down and took my nexus. Sent from a jitterbug with beats by dre.
I just got a tiny amount of water on my GNex and it's acting like it's fried. It indicated that it was charging while not connected. I rebooted and it went in to a bootloop. !?!?!?!?!? This is so frustrating!
Any ideas on a US carrier/phone that's great right now?
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UPDATED: I looked on ifixit and figured out how to totally disassemble the phone. I then got my wife's hair drier, set it to the cold setting and dried it for ~20 minutes. Afterwards it booted up fine, and seems to be fully functional. The camera got some water in it, and looks foggy, but hopefully that will clear up with time.
Thanks for your help everyone!
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Your Phone is Bricked
I will use ODIN.
Download stock firmware for ur phone...and dumping it use odin.
Root.
Start from the begining.......its need many works...trying n try...new rom....ur phone bricked n start from the begining..... again..
Happen to me mny times.....
send from xperia neo v ics...trying to install edt2kernel.1400.oc.zip without custom rom n bootloop in again....
HEY....DON FORGET DO nandroid backup...so u can restore ur stock firmware n skip to install custom rom....much easier.
let me know if i give wrong statement here..i still noob...and not samsung user...
i had this too but without a water accident.
it always switched the "charging" state. maybe your micro usb connector got damaged like in my case.
but maybe you have other damages too because of your bootloop. try flashing the stock android over odin and if the problem(s) persist you'll need to send it to repair or repair it by yourself. usb connectors are cheap in ebay.
When this happens the best thing to do is immediately remove the door, battery, sim, etc and place them all in dry rice for 24 hours.
I'm pretty sure you don't want to use ODIN as this isn't an official Samsung device or something and other, have seen nothing but broken hearts after an ODIN flash.
I had this issue, mine was from getting spray bottle happy when putting on a screen protector. I removed the battery and put the phone in a Ziploc bag full of Rice for 24 hours, has worked perfectly fine ever since.
can someone change the threa title, it should be "announces" and not "releases" -.-
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When this happens the best thing to do is immediately remove the door, battery, sim, etc and place them all in dry rice for 24 hours.
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This method works great and saved both my wife's and my brother's phone. My brother dropped the phone into a lake while fishing, it took us about 30 minutes to find it (about 12 feet deep) and by then it was thoroughly soaked. Not really thinking it would work we left it in rice for a week (you could see water sloshing around beneath the screen) . To our surprise it worked perfectly without any problems when we booted it up and it kept working.
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This method works great and saved both my wife's and my brother's phone. My brother dropped the phone into a lake while fishing, it took us about 30 minutes to find it (about 12 feet deep) and by then it was thoroughly soaked. Not really thinking it would work we left it in rice for a week (you could see water sloshing around beneath the screen) . To our surprise it worked perfectly without any problems when we booted it up and it kept working.
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Wow, that is really cool. I knew dry rice works well for some water exposure but coming back after being fully submerged for half an hour is next level.:good:
So um.......where do I start? My s3 just got drowned by the cold water from the cooler that poured into my pocket which my s3 was as I was picking up my bags from my car. I did put my phone and the battery out and put into the full pack of rice to suck up the water out. After few days, It started to work again until this month. My phone is starting to get super weird and crazy, it shut off on it own and never turn on after 30 mins. Then when I lock my phone, it start to freak out, lag, shut off, turn back on for 5 sec., and shut off again.
Also, my phone is running on official OTA JB update and task's rom too. (I tired the other ROMS to resolve the problems like stock ones and it is doing the same thing too). Does it means that I have to get new phone because of the system got mess up?? :/
Hey guys!
I went to the beach yesterday and got my phone drowned accidentally (was bound to happen anyway). I took the phone quickly out of the water and switched it off. The phone is now kept in a bag of rice and it's been a while, say, 15 hours...I was wondering if it would cause any harm if I kept it outside in the sun to speed up the drying process? Any thoughts on this?
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Hey guys!
I went to the beach yesterday and got my phone drowned accidentally (was bound to happen anyway). I took the phone quickly out of the water and switched it off. The phone is now kept in a bag of rice and it's been a while, say, 15 hours...I was wondering if it would cause any harm if I kept it outside in the sun to speed up the drying process? Any thoughts on this?
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The phone needs to be kept in rice for at last 3-4 days for the procedure to work. You could try opening it up, but there is always a fear of something going wrong.
If you have any skill go on YouTube and look up a disassembly and talk it apart and dry manually
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So, while juggling two toddlers last night during bath time, my phone gets knocked into a sink full of running hot water. I immediately snatched it out, shook, stripped the case, back, battery, and cards. Ran to kitchen and threw it in a bag of rice. Sat in it from 21:00-04:00 this morning. I put it back together and... Nothing. No lights or anything. So, I plugged it in, figuring: F**k it. It's fried anyhow and I'm screwed. The charging indicator came on fire half a second then went off. On/off. Repeatedly. Unplugged. Removed back and battery. Plug. Nothing. Unplugged. Half a second charge and half a second boot screen. Nothing. Put battery back in and pulled battery as soon as indicator came on. Stayed on for 10 seconds. Repeated, and reinstalled battery as boot screen came on. Fired up. Still running. SOOOO... How screwed am I if at all?
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There is likely still moisture in your phone -- I would leave it in a bag of rice for a few days... leaving it in rice for a few hours does almost nothing. Make sure you protect the earphone plug, rice will get in there and then you are really in hot water. Still, only time will tell... You could get lucky, or unlucky... water issues could surface much later. Moisture is very hard to get rid of... key is to leave it in a very dry environment for a long time. If you can, find a place to buy those gel packs that they put in new shoes, and new electronics... Rushing to use the phone is not a good idea.
Personally I would disassemble the phone and put all the parts in front of a fan overnight. You don't have to be crazy with the dissassembly, just enough to get good airflow inside the case of the phone. These things are super easy to take apart.
Wait a few days or even weeks and you'll see: it's dead.
Still working like a champ! Not a single glitch since. I'm gonna retire it once the Note 7 (SIX) comes out anyhow, I figure. It's paid off now. Just gonna get that yearly upgrade plan they have now: this is the first phone, despite its shortcomings, to actually last me over a year anyhow.
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Still working! Sweet. Maybe I only got marginal water into the device itself? Kinda impressed. It was completely submerged for a second.
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