I dropped my Oneplus 3 in the toilet. I then bought a special bag with a block thing in it which sucks water out of phones... which seemed to have worked. My phone now turns on and works... but the camera LED wont turn off! Turning the flashlight on and back off just makes the LED bright... but it stays on (only dimmer) when toggled off.
Any idea how I can fix this or disable the camera LED completely?
Thanks
So sad mate.
Your flash light circuit has been damaged. I had similar issue with my Lumia 625 after dropping into the water. But it had removable back.
Your issue can be fixed by a hardware fix only. But try a traditional method.
Remove sim tray, turn off your phone and place your phone in a rice bowl over night. Then use low flow hair dryer from a distance on your op3.
Good Luck mate
Thanks mate, tried both but the light still stays on. Its not at full brightness so hopefully it wont drain the battery too fast.
Just charged her, the two bottom captivate buttons have stopped working too. I've switched to onscreen buttons.
I'll see if I can live with it and wait out for a oneplus 4 maybe.
I'd love a Pixel but the 128gb one is £820 in the UK! Thats crazy money when this phone is so good.
dismantle the phone, disconnect battery, clean pcb and flex with alcohol. wait till all components will dry. try to power on and see if it helped. Best way would be to wash in ultrasonic cleaner.
just wondering... how the f&*k did you dropped it in the toilet? Do you take your phone with you to the bathroom?
Anyway sorry to hear about the camera.
acmerw said:
dismantle the phone, disconnect battery, clean pcb and flex with alcohol. wait till all components will dry. try to power on and see if it helped. Best way would be to wash in ultrasonic cleaner.
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Thanks pal, might give that a go!
badboy47 said:
just wondering... how the f&*k did you dropped it in the toilet? Do you take your phone with you to the bathroom?
Anyway sorry to hear about the camera.
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I was drunk, it was in my back pocket and I had a sit down piss... it must have just fallen in when I pulled my trousers down :crying:
viperman78 said:
I was drunk, it was in my back pocket and I had a sit down piss... it must have just fallen in when I pulled my trousers down :crying:
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Bummer. Would you be able to open the phone? The process is very easy. Check out few videos on YouTube on how to do that. I have feeling some parts might be still wet.
viperman78 said:
i was drunk, it was in my back pocket and i had a sit down piss... It must have just fallen in when i pulled my trousers down :crying:
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hahahahahahahahaha
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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!
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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!
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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
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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
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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!
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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!
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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 ????
Yo guys!
I just was on vacation and my defy fell in the swimming pool.
So i got it out and it still worked only a red led appeared. After 10 minutes the screen turned off. So i put my defy in rise but it isn't working. Now when I am back I opened my defy and put it in a dry place but when I put the battery back the screen wont start up and I am getting a red light. Still I am 100% sure the motherboard works fine because it starts up and I see the 2nd init bootloader led flashing from blue to green. So does anybody know what I should clean or look at. Otherwise i will flash a stock froyo rom and do a cash wipe/factory reset and sent it to Motorola.
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OK i got some things straight. I opened my defy and found some things.
There is no water left so no shortcuts.
The screen is working!! but the back-light isn't so i cant see **** but its boots up and if i look closely MIUI started up fine. So i guess i should buy a new screen or fix it somehow. The red light is a bug I guess of the battery. I looked a lot on the Internet for the red light and found that a lot of phones show a red led when the battery is broken or something so I will test it at a shop. I guess i cant use my warranty because my case looks awful so i will fix it my self.
Hi,
maybe check if your battery is not completely discharged accidentaly.
I have also heard that the drying process should last a day or more.
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Hi,
maybe check if your battery is not completely discharged accidentaly.
I have also heard that the drying process should last a day or more.
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Yea I know but I will wait an other day. Maybe there are just some shortcuts why the screen isn't starting up because it doesn't look damaged at all.
It look like the device is partially damaged when it decided to jump into the pool..
You should had immediately pull out the battery and check throughout of water getting in the device, and let it dry first before your attempting to reboot it.
Sent from my awesome Moto Defy: Stock Rooted Gingerbread 2.3.3 - XDA Premium
farsight73 said:
It look like the device is partially damaged when it decided to jump into the pool..
You should had immediately pull out the battery and check throughout of water getting in the device, and let it dry first before your attempting to reboot it.
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Funny thing is I did. It was dry but after some minutes vapor appeared between the screen and the screen case. then the same vapor appeared by the camera and ... screen turns off.
michka said:
Funny thing is I did. It was dry but after some minutes vapor appeared between the screen and the screen case. then the same vapor appeared by the camera and ... screen turns off.
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Officially (according to IP67) the defy is water resistant up to 1 meteres do not know how deep the pool was? If you do not have warranty anymore you could open it up and let it dry in seperate parts. But if there is vapour under the screen and camera lens i'm affraid more damage is done....
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Officially (according to IP67) the defy is water resistant up to 1 meteres do not know how deep the pool was? If you do not have warranty anymore you could open it up and let it dry in seperate parts. But if there is vapour under the screen and camera lens i'm affraid more damage is done....
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I think so to.. I have the warranty maybe motorola can fix something for me.
let us know how it goes, im curious how will they respond ^^ and good luck!
OK i got some things straight. I opened my defy and found some things.
There is no water left so no shortcuts.
The screen is working!! but the back-light isn't so i cant see **** but its boots up and if i look closely MIUI started up fine. So i guess i should buy a new screen or fix it somehow. The red light is a bug I guess of the battery. I looked a lot on the Internet for the red light and found that a lot of phones show a red led when the battery is broken or something so I will test it at a shop. I guess i cant use my warranty because my case looks awful so i will fix it my self.
I did it...
Today i took my defy for a little swim, took it under no more than 10 inches of water, pool, while recording a video to see how it goes, when i got it out after 40 secs, the pone kept recording but when i touch to stop recording the phone started vibrating like if i was pressing any of buttons (home, menu, back and search) and then froze i got scared so i pulled the battery and check for water, but i saw that the lens got moisture so i quickly took it to a bowl with uncook rice and left it there for 3 hours. i then checked it and all the moisture was gone.
When i turned it on it booted like if it didn't had any OS so i left it alone and a while later it loaded fine, but then i noticed the moisture was back on the lens cover, took it back to a new bowl with rice, and it has been there for another 3 hours now but the moisture is showing in te screen also.
What do you guys recomend me to do?
Does the waranty should cover any damage?
P.S: sorry for such a long "Answer" to the thread, but i'm worried and didn't want to spam by opening a new one.
HELP
what i did
my defy got wet, no sceen
1. i remove the battery
2. letting it open
3. put it in my desktop where the hot air is coming out
4. i waited for about an hour
great its back
Take note. if your defy is already old, dont deep it in water
d3athr0w said:
my defy got wet, no sceen
1. i remove the battery
2. letting it open
3. put it in my desktop where the hot air is coming out
4. i waited for about an hour
great its back
Take note. if your defy is already old, dont deep it in water
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Or use rice
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ppero196 said:
Or use rice
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mine allso got wet, and seems that now work's fine but it has no backlight to the lcd and to the soft keys. anybody solved this problem? thx!
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Or use rice
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Don't thing Rice is going to do more then a paper towel... It doesn't suck any liquid out of gaps or anything. You can try the little ball's that come with clothing. They suck the water out the air so that the water in the phone can vaporize in the air.
But the one's that come with the things you buy will most likely already be saturated.
The best way is to use rubbing alcohol (as high percentage as possible). The alcohol displaces the water but does vaporizes is normal conditions. So you can just submerge your phone in alcohol (with no battery, sim and sd-card ofc. and best only the logic board) and let it dry for some time. This before you try to put it on. This also cleans out most of the salt and sand as this damages you board over time.
Hey guys I just have a quick question.
So my brother dropped his phone in a poodle awhile back and now screen won't turn on, he put it in rice for a while but it won't turn on.
The phones led light still works,
And it still vibrates, the soft keys turn on a little but not much.
Is their any way to fix it without replacing the screen or is it a goner?
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So my brother dropped his phone in a poodle awhile back
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In a poodle? Poor dog.
After the phone was retrieved from the water was the batter pulled immediately? Was the phone in the rice without the battery in it? How long did you leave it in the rice?
You could try using a hair dryer. If this does not work the phone is probably a lost cause.
Changing the screen won't fix it .The water probally ruined the circuit board if it doesn't dry out an start working.
Hi long story short: Phone slip from my jacket into a ice cold water cooler and spend there at least 2 minutes.
I was able to disassemble and dry it up, did a trick with usb charging and replugging the battery at the same time of powering it up and I got it working again.
The display is soaked in water still no matter how much I try to dry it using a hair dryer. So I order a new one. + a new battery just in case this ones goes bad eventually.
Now my problem is that the usb is not being recognized while plugged on a computer.
Beside this I don't know what other hidden issues it might have.
How screw am I ?
How much mileage can I get out of this phone now?
Do you have any kind of corrosion on metal contact and/or phone motherboard? If so, the only way to fix corrosion is to clean it in ultrasound bath with chemicals.
you're not suppose to turn it on until it fully dried, too late for that
you should have left it in some rice for a few days
do it now and it might still be recoverable since it seems to still work, but don't get your hopes up
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you're not suppose to turn it on until it fully dried, too late for that
you should have left it in some rice for a few days
do it now and it might still be recoverable since it seems to still work, but don't get your hopes up
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it was still on when I took it off the cooler, I couldn't turn it off without using the power button and this is not a galaxy that I could remove the battery right away. I wasn't at my place and didn't have any tools with me.
The phone is working now, but I don't know for how long. thanks for your advice thou.
then it's probably fine then, it can't get worse at least
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then it's probably fine then, it can't get worse at least
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Yes it can, sometimes water damage shows itself after a few hours or days (corrossion). Hope OP is lucky and there is no permanant damage :fingers-crossed:
gee2012 said:
Yes it can, sometimes water damage shows itself after a few hours or days (corrossion). Hope OP is lucky and there is no permanant damage :fingers-crossed:
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Thanks for your reply, this is what I am mostly worried about. I don't know what I can do to meausure the extend of the damage at this point, so I am sailing blindfolded atm.
Icharius said:
Thanks for your reply, this is what I am mostly worried about. I don't know what I can do to meausure the extend of the damage at this point, so I am sailing blindfolded atm.
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Put the turned off phone covered in a bowl with uncooked rice asap and let it in for a day or two to extract as much moisture as possible :good:
Well it seems it is done.
First the volume button went out, then the power button. I tried and clean it again with alcohol to no avail. Send it to a repair shop to see if they can fix it since the phone is still working but can't turn it off without the buttons.
Thanks everyone that chime in. really appreciate it!
So sitting in my hot tub switching songs and I turn to look at something and dipped the very bottom portion of the phone in the water the outside screen turned green and turned off I put it in rice for 3 days the outside screen does not turn on anymore but the inside screen did.. and now will not hold a charge and the battery has died.. it says it's too cold and needs to cool down before it can charge. are there any remedies for this? I'd like to get the rest of the stuff off the phone or get it fixed
Power down and do not restart or attempt to charge.
The battery should be disconnected asap.
It needs to have the cover(s) pulled and dried out first.
Rice is useless. Tik-tok, time is not a luxury you have. Corrosion never sleeps.
blackhawk said:
Power down and do not restart or attempt to charge.
The battery should be disconnected asap.
It needs to have the cover(s) pulled and dried out first.
Rice is useless. Tik-tok, time is not a luxury you have. Corrosion never sleeps.
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This actually happened a couple of weeks ago.. and I don't know how to pull the covers
If the water is outside on the port it wouldn't be a problem but it's internal (display failed). Get it looked at soon.
If you never removed the cover(s) before now may not be the time to learn. If salt or brine water got into it it's already dead, fresh water may be salvageable.
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If the water is outside on the port it wouldn't be a problem but it's internal (display failed). Get it looked at soon.
If you never removed the cover(s) before now may not be the time to learn. If salt or brine water got into it it's already dead, fresh water may be salvageable.
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If the water is outside on the port it wouldn't be a problem but it's internal (display failed). Get it looked at soon.
If you never removed the cover(s) before now may not be the time to learn. If salt or brine water got into it it's already dead, fresh water may be salvageable.
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It's hot tub water which is soft water but these things are supposed to be water resistant
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It's hot tub water which is soft water but these things are supposed to be water resistant
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Obviously not. Regardless of their IP rating I always assume my N10+'s are not safe to water exposure.
Try using a hair dryer with the cool air setting to blow the Type-C port for a while. Then try again. If that doesn't work then try a different cable
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Try using a hair dryer with the cool air setting to blow the Type-C port for a while. Then try again. If that doesn't work then try a different cable
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The display was effected meaning the water is inside. Trying to power it on will only do more damage.