i washed under tap with all flaps covered but after washing it shutdown.cz batt was low before washing i thouht cz of low batt.so i connected to charger but only charging light .on closer inspection i saw back frame next to mahnet chrger can be pused and water comming out when pressed.now water damage marks there
i can gat calls it rings if i put a torch i can see screeen working.only back liht gone.what can i do .i bought it on another counrty from e bay and atm in anothr country.
pls help
what are my options?
if i spray WD40 will it reppel water?
Lasantha said:
i washed under tap with all flaps covered but after washing it shutdown.cz batt was low before washing i thouht cz of low batt.so i connected to charger but only charging light .on closer inspection i saw back frame next to mahnet chrger can be pused and water comming out when pressed.now water damage marks there
i can gat calls it rings if i put a torch i can see screeen working.only back liht gone.what can i do .i bought it on another counrty from e bay and atm in anothr country.
pls help
what are my options?
if i spray WD40 will it reppel water?
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WD40 doesn't repel water. You could keep it in uncooked rice to let the water get absorbed. But You need to keep it for 2-3 days without continuously, i.e. You can't take it out to check in between.
Thanks didn't help. Repair center said need to replace lcd. Any good place to order?
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So i dropped my beautiful one X in water today ( 3 seconds )
The second i took it out of the water, i dried it with my shirt, pried off the glass and mopped up the insides.
Then i put the motherboard and front screen assembly in the over at 60 degrees ( Celsius ) for 10 minutes.
There is condensation between the glass and LCD.
Does anyone know if this will clear up after a week or two ?? or should i order a completely new assembly and install it ?
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So i dropped my beautiful one X in water today ( 3 seconds )
The second i took it out of the water, i dried it with my shirt, pried off the glass and mopped up the insides.
Then i put the motherboard and front screen assembly in the over at 60 degrees ( Celsius ) for 10 minutes.
There is condensation between the glass and LCD.
Does anyone know if this will clear up after a week or two ?? or should i order a completely new assembly and install it ?
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If the moisture is trapped it could take forever to get out, maybe take apart as much as possible and use a hair dryer on it, not too hot.
Good luck!
gffmac said:
If the moisture is trapped it could take forever to get out, maybe take apart as much as possible and use a hair dryer on it, not too hot.
Good luck!
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I don't want to separate the LCD and digitizer because it's very fragile..
It's doing everything as normal.. charging, making calls, everything works 100%
Just the blotches of water under the glass :\
I'm thinking it'll be there for a while....
you could buy one of these
http://www.bheestie.com/
I think if you put the hair dryer on the screen for like 15-30 minutes it should evaporate completely, just make sure the hairdryer is not too hot.
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AntzCro said:
So i dropped my beautiful one X in water today ( 3 seconds )
The second i took it out of the water, i dried it with my shirt, pried off the glass and mopped up the insides.
Then i put the motherboard and front screen assembly in the over at 60 degrees ( Celsius ) for 10 minutes.
There is condensation between the glass and LCD.
Does anyone know if this will clear up after a week or two ?? or should i order a completely new assembly and install it ?
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http://www.save-a-phone.co.uk/get-yours-now_c57.aspx
Try that, it even tells you when their is no more moisture in the atmosphere (bag).
It will start blue, go to pink whilst its working, and then when it has completely drawn out any moisture located in the phone/bag, it will return back blue.
When that happens, your phone should be fine.
GOOD LUCK !
Good evening XDA,
I'll get right to the point - last night my mom's S3 fell out of her purse and sat on our driveway overnight in rain/freezing rain. It was in an otterbox commuter case so it wasn't naked but there are some issues with it now.
1 - the front and rear cameras are both foggy and look terrible when taking pictures/video
2 - the back key doesn't work consistently
I've looked at the water damage markers and they are both white. Do you think Telus will give her a replacement or will they say something about the foggy looking front/rear cameras? Is there anything I should know before I go there?
Also, if I disassemble the phone to try and dry the cameras, will this void my warranty? I couldn't see a warranty void sticker...
I've put the phone in a ziploc bag full of rice so hopefully that helps getting the foggyness out of the camera and if it does, I'll definitely try and get it replaced for her.
You should have put in in rice before you try anything.
Maybe hard-brick the phone and tell them you don't know what happened
Not sure myself, I personally knocked over a cup of tea and I'm fairly sure some of the water got in around the home button.I dried the water immediately, and the phone was powered on, so I just kind of left it. I have driving mode turn on-off randomly for a day, usb connecting even when not connected and randomly and random shutdowns for a month. Seems all fine now.
My slippery fingers dropped the G4 in water (not salt water). Removed the battery as quick as I could and put the phone, battery into a rice bowl. Booted it up after about an hour and it's just showing me "Firmware Update" without a USB cable plugged in.
I haven't tried flashing it to anything just yet. Is it possible that the water might got somewhere into the USB port and making the phone think it's in download mode? I'm gonna dump it in the rice bowl for a few more hours.
Edit - The liquid contact indicator above the SD card is still white. The LCI on the battery is red thou.
Try replacing battery first
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Try replacing battery first
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Thanks for the advice. Now it's booting fine with both batteries (I had one extra that wasn't water damaged).
I think there's still some water left in the headphone jack since the G4 thinks it's plugged into an audio out device. I've tried cleaning the hole with some very soft cloth but no change. If I blow hard enough into the jack, it'll momentarily come out of that mode just to go back soon as I stop. I guess I just have to wait a few more hours.
Edit - When blowing air into the headphone jack, LG Voice Mate app comes up. Rather weird.
Sadly yes, it´s a known issue, first when they see the headphones they will think the phone was skinny diving
I'd like to take this opportunity to advise people not to put their phones in a bag of rice. You don't put your laundry in a bag of rice to dry it, you hang it up in a warm area with moving air. The rice and bag will keep the water in your phone longer than drying it in the sun. It works eventually, but it isn't as good as putting it on your heating vent or just in a sunny spot. By the way, I don't recommend a clothes dryer.
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Sadly yes, it´s a known issue, first when they see the headphones they will think the phone was skinny diving
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After a few more hours of rest near in a dry, warm place, the jack is back in service. Hopefully no more crazy jack again.
The battery with red LCI seems to be working fine still. Should I retire it completely?
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I'd like to take this opportunity to advise people not to put their phones in a bag of rice. You don't put your laundry in a bag of rice to dry it, you hang it up in a warm area with moving air. The rice and bag will keep the water in your phone longer than drying it in the sun. It works eventually, but there's it isn't as good as putting it on your heating vent or just in a sunny spot. By the way, I don't recommend a clothes dryer.
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Rice always seems to have worked for me. Anyway, I chose a sunny spot later on.
I have heard the opposite about rice - it is better than putting your phone on heater or using hair dryer. The best solution would be to put it in an airtight bag with silica gel (those small, white paper packages that come with your newly purchased bags and shoes).
You and everyone else have heard the same thing, but testing has shown that putting your wet phone in a bag of rice will keep it wet longer than just putting it on a counter (that's not in a locker room). And it makes sense, compare putting a wet sock in a sealed bag of rice (or silica) and another hanging somewhere, like over a heating vent. In one you've sealed the moisture in a bag, in the other you're letting heat evaporate the water and providing air to take the moisture away. It's a myth that a bag of rice is helping you.
Throwing my rice experience in here. It is TRUE. Rice does work and absorbs the moisture. My son took a swim (SWIM!) with his Atrix 4G in the DEEP END of the pool. He immediately disassembled it as I've told him to. We got rice and a bag, completely submerged in the rice and put ALL pieces (except the back) in it for 5 days in the window of our house that got sunlight. After 5 days, the Atrix booted up as good as before the swim. The trick is to disassemble right away AND DO NOT TRY TO POWER IT ON FOR MINIMUM 3 DAYS! We also shook it out until no more water was coming out of any holes. So to those skeptics, you're wrong, it does work if you have patience.
I don't doubt that a phone which has been wet, then put into a bag of rice, will eventually dry. My point is that it would have dried much faster if you had done something else. Just because your phone worked after putting it in rice, doesn't mean the rice helped you, it just means it didn't hurt enough to keep the phone from recovering. Again, try wetting 2 socks, then put one in a bag of rice, and one on a clothes line. The one on the clothes line will dry faster, but maybe the one in the rice will eventually dry also. Most people don't want to wait 5 days for their laundry, so we've found better ways of getting water out of objects.
Water will hurt your electronics in a few ways, one is that it is the universal solvent and may dissolve something (like a glue or flux) if left there too long. But most likely the biggest issue is that it conducts electricity if it has enough minerals in it. If the phone is on when it gets wet and the water has high mineral content, it's possible that some parts will just short circuit and burn out some. If most of the electronics are off, then the biggest problem is the left over residual minerals that will stick to phone parts and conduct electricity where it shouldn't, but that depends on how hard your water is. In some cases, you'd be better off washing the phone in deionized water which doesn't conduct electricity and is used in cleaning electronics.
My Phone(OnePlus 3) Was Sinked Accidentally & Now My Phone Won't Turn On...
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My Phone(OnePlus 3) Was Sinked Accidentally & Now My Phone Won't Turn On...
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Put it in a bag of rice, it might work.
I heard putting it in destilled water does help ro wash out the minerals from regular water. And after that let it dry some time.
But better google that again yourself before im telling bull**** here.
i just wanted to give my experience with electronics in water.
If you submerge your device in water the first few hours are critical. First you must power down the device and if so remove the battery doing so might prevent a short and kill the device. If you can, rise the phone with distilled water. (Its not the liquid that kills electronics its the minerals in water that will cause the short. ) Shake any water you can out of the device. If you have access to desiccant packs, like the ones you find in beef jerky or new shoes. place them in a sealed container. if you dont have access to them, you can use rice but this will not be as effective as actual desiccant. Allow a lot of time for the moisture to evaporate. its going to take a while because the phone is semi sealed and its hard for water vapor to escape.
Enjoy your Oneplus 5!
Guysss! My Drowned Oneplus 3 Is Back to life... But the issue is rear camera and capacitive buttons are unfunctional.
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Guysss! My Drowned Oneplus 3 Is Back to life... But the issue is rear camera and capacitive buttons are unfunctional.
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Keep it in there a little longer I would say... Distilled water might safe your camera.. I'm pretty sure it has to do with the contact points.
A lil longer is not two hours btw. We talk about 2-3 days of waiting.
Buddiess... Finally My phone recovered only thing , the recent capacitive button ain't working .. other than that no issues with it... thanks for your help guys!
Seems like waiting and not risking the phone to die completely is impossible here... Good luck then.
I got a very small amount of water in my M9 when I was cleaning it. Water only entered between the glass and the metal by the front facing camera. There's a small blob on my display that has been slowly spreading. I'm pretty sure it's under the backlight as I can only see it when the screen is on. I had tried warming up the phone but it did nothing other than making the blob bigger and less opaque. It's right by the SD Card Slot. Any ideas on how to get it out?
If the screen has delaminated you'll have to replace it. Place the phone in a sealed jar with a few packets of silica gel for a few days and let the gel draw the water out. If you heat or cool the water it expands and does more damage. Leave it at room temperature (19c-21c).
My guess is it's delaminated.
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If the screen has delaminated you'll have to replace it. Place the phone in a sealed jar with a few packets of silica gel for a few days and let the gel draw the water out. If you heat or cool the water it expands and does more damage. Leave it at room temperature (19c-21c).
My guess is it's delaminated.
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Its fine now. There is just a dark spot where the water was.