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Hello all. I woke up one morning and found my GNex laying in a puddle of water (radiator leak) struggling for life. I picked her up, dried her off carefully, took her clothes off and wiped her dry before finishing of with the hairdryer.
She slowly came back to life over the next day or two. Her face was a bit blurred but soon came back to perfection. Her charging socket and power button needed replacing and a gentle clean of all internal connections seemed have everything working fine again.
Few days later she developed a bit of a problem, her face (screen) was becoming unresponsive, sometimes was just a short delay before coming to life, sometimes no delay, sometimes a couple of minutes before everything became responsive again. This would always happen on start up and sometimes when she was active.
Problem is, now there is no response at all, totally catatonic.
I was able to plug her into the other darling in my life (laptop!!) and reset her mind totally clean using Galaxy Nexus Toolkit, in case it was a problem with one of her apps but now she is just stuck on the first set up page (country selection) and still totally unresponsive to my touch.
Is she paralysed for ever and would be best taken to one of those Swiss doctors for a comfortable exit from this world or can she somehow be brought back to responding to my touch?????
sferg.410 said:
Hello all. I woke up one morning and found my GNex laying in a puddle of water (radiator leak) struggling for life. I picked her up, dried her off carefully, took her clothes off and wiped her dry before finishing of with the hairdryer.
She slowly came back to life over the next day or two. Her face was a bit blurred but soon came back to perfection. Her charging socket and power button needed replacing and a gentle clean of all internal connections seemed have everything working fine again.
Few days later she developed a bit of a problem, her face (screen) was becoming unresponsive, sometimes was just a short delay before coming to life, sometimes no delay, sometimes a couple of minutes before everything became responsive again. This would always happen on start up and sometimes when she was active.
Problem is, now there is no response at all, totally catatonic.
I was able to plug her into the other darling in my life (laptop!!) and reset her mind totally clean using Galaxy Nexus Toolkit, in case it was a problem with one of her apps but now she is just stuck on the first set up page (country selection) and still totally unresponsive to my touch.
Is she paralysed for ever and would be best taken to one of those Swiss doctors for a comfortable exit from this world or can she somehow be brought back to responding to my touch?????
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If she doesn't come back, sounds like the screen digitizer could be bad and need replacing but I could be wrong.
Yes, I have thought that, but it is not an option as too expensive.. Cheapest screen and digi I see on ebay currently is about £80... Re-sell value of the complete phone is only about £150 now.
sferg.410 said:
Yes, I have thought that, but it is not an option as too expensive.. Cheapest screen and digi I see on ebay currently is about £80... Re-sell value of the complete phone is only about £150 now.
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very very true was going to say that but I was sure you already knew that!
Any other thoughts???
guess not.
disassemble your gnex and clean every part and connector with a soft teeth brush
Tried that... still no response from screen
Use a paralyze heal! Wait...
Seriously though, you've done everything you could've done short of replacing the digitizer.
sferg.410 said:
Hello all. I woke up one morning and found my GNex laying in a puddle of water (radiator leak) struggling for life. I picked her up, dried her off carefully, took her clothes off and wiped her dry before finishing of with the hairdryer.
She slowly came back to life over the next day or two. Her face was a bit blurred but soon came back to perfection. Her charging socket and power button needed replacing and a gentle clean of all internal connections seemed have everything working fine again.
Few days later she developed a bit of a problem, her face (screen) was becoming unresponsive, sometimes was just a short delay before coming to life, sometimes no delay, sometimes a couple of minutes before everything became responsive again. This would always happen on start up and sometimes when she was active.
Problem is, now there is no response at all, totally catatonic.
I was able to plug her into the other darling in my life (laptop!!) and reset her mind totally clean using Galaxy Nexus Toolkit, in case it was a problem with one of her apps but now she is just stuck on the first set up page (country selection) and still totally unresponsive to my touch.
Is she paralysed for ever and would be best taken to one of those Swiss doctors for a comfortable exit from this world or can she somehow be brought back to responding to my touch?????
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time for a new phone
yeah if you have already tried everything short of replacing the digi, might as well just get a nexus 4 now.
nah.. got a Nexus One Black instead.. and am very happy with it...
you just love that nipple on nexus one dont you
hhwong said:
you just love that nipple on nexus one dont you
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my mistake... i meant an HTC One Black... no idea what you are talking about with nipples...!!!!
i see.. original nexus one.. physical button is rather raised.. lol
So last Thursday I dropped my OneX phone into my kitchen sink full of water & soap. It got fully submerged into it for at least 5 sec.
It still worked completely fine the moment i fished it out, but of course i immediately turned it off
Like 30 minutes later, out of of nowhere my phone came back online without me doing anything. I turned it off but it kept rebooting after showing the HTC splash screen. Water must have done something crazy I don't know...
I put in in a bowl with rice hoping it would dry out. In the meantime it kept rebooting for like 1 hour continuously I kept hearing the vibration
After sometime I noticed it was back on the 'unlock simcard screen' so it finally wasn't rebooting anymore. I unlocked the simcard and have been using my phone perfectly normal.
I've noticed some small darker blotches on the right downside of the screen, but those have slowly dissipated too. And today they are completely gone.
I just wanted to share this little story with you, I'm very happy that my One X survived this 'battle' against water haha.
Haha!! Nice to hear it!
Congo man! Srsly! :good:
Clareyboy said:
So last Thursday I dropped my OneX phone into my kitchen sink full of water & soap. It got fully submerged into it for at least 5 sec.
It still worked completely fine the moment i fished it out, but of course i immediately turned it off
Like 30 minutes later, out of of nowhere my phone came back online without me doing anything. I turned it off but it kept rebooting after showing the HTC splash screen. Water must have done something crazy I don't know...
I put in in a bowl with rice hoping it would dry out. In the meantime it kept rebooting for like 1 hour continuously I kept hearing the vibration
After sometime I noticed it was back on the 'unlock simcard screen' so it finally wasn't rebooting anymore. I unlocked the simcard and have been using my phone perfectly normal.
I've noticed some small darker blotches on the right downside of the screen, but those have slowly dissipated too. And today they are completely gone.
I just wanted to share this little story with you, I'm very happy that my One X survived this 'battle' against water haha.
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My wife had an One X but first she dropped it in the toilet. Had to wait a few days to let it dry, but it was OK. Then she dropped it again in a puddle full of water. And what was wierd was it worked. Then these blotches appeared
Then about a day later the screen just would be bright at all!.
I tried taking it apart but to my surprise the battery was so soft and would bend super easy. The insides smelled very bad.
It never worked again but I was surprised it lasted as long as it did!
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
I do hope for you it will keep working, but to be honest I doubt it. Water does strange things to electronic components.
It may even work fine for days/weeks or months after being in touch with water, but it suddenly can stop working or have other strange reactions due to corrosion or the chemical compounds reacting that were in the water at the time.
I have experienced this behaviour a lot in water damaged electronics, as I'm helping people with insurance claims in my profession. It's difficult to prove problems are connected to water damage, weeks or months after the accident occurred.
Repair centers normally don't give any guarantee on repairs due to water damage, in my experience. That's due to the fact damage may occur even after weeks or months, and it can never be foretold a repair was 100 percent successful.
So, it certainly still could have problems later in time, although of course I hope you were very lucky this time!
Rice is indeed one of the best things to try in these circumstances, it probably saved your phones life this time! :thumbup:
A couple of months ago I spilt lots of pure alcohol on my HOX.
At first these grey spots on the right bottom side appeared and then after turning it off for about 10 hours they vanished but a big wide line appeared in the left side of the screen starting from the bottom until the middle of the screen.
Other than that the phone worked absolutely fine no problem what so ever.
I send the phone to be repaired (screen replacement) last week and got it back two days later with a new screen and a notice that there was no cost charged as the replacement was done under warranty.......
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tasos12 said:
A couple of months ago I spilt lots of pure alcohol on my HOX.
At first these grey spots on the right bottom side appeared and then after turning it off for about 10 hours they vanished but a big wide line appeared in the left side of the screen starting from the bottom until the middle of the screen.
Other than that the phone worked absolutely fine no problem what so ever.
I send the phone to be repaired (screen replacement) last week and got it back two days later with a new screen and a notice that there was no cost charged as the replacement was done under warranty.......
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yes because they thought it was a screen failure...htc wrote in the letter that the screen was abnormal so they replaced it with a complete new...but my screen was broken and repaired with just glued glass ...really nice from them to change the whole screen
Has your nexus gone bad? Suffered from a damaged speaker, fried CPU, broken screen or similar? Here's the thread to share your exprerience.
Personally I bought my Nexus, brand new on September/October 2012. Sometime on August 2013 a got caught up in an endless bootloop, even odin or similar tricks couldn't save the day so took it to the repair centre (Smartec Greece) and had it back after 4-5 hours with a new motherboard. Pretty fast- problem solved, didn't have to pay something, even though I never got to know which part actually gone bad.
That's about it. I also have replaced stock battery with a new one as the old one was draining faster than the speed of light, no matter what rom I was on.
So let me hear ya!!!!
The goddamn USB port issue, couldn't charge my phone, until I poked that little bugger in there to rise it up a little, created such a hassle
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adellon92 said:
The goddamn USB port issue, couldn't charge my phone, until I poked that little bugger in there to rise it up a little, created such a hassle
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app
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You were lucky, after a year and a half of use my USB finally took a sh*t completely. Luckily the insurance I use has no deductable so I had to fire up my old Incredible 2 for a few days while I waited for a replacement. I'm so glad we have nandroid. All I had to do is unlock the bootloader on my new device, put TWRP back on and restore my nandroid. No hassle really.
WOW!
itasoulas said:
Has your nexus gone bad? Suffered from a damaged speaker, fried CPU, broken screen or similar? Here's the thread to share your exprerience.
Personally I bought my Nexus, brand new on September/October 2012. Sometime on August 2013 a got caught up in an endless bootloop, even odin or similar tricks couldn't save the day so took it to the repair centre (Smartec Greece) and had it back after 4-5 hours with a new motherboard. Pretty fast- problem solved, didn't have to pay something, even though I never got to know which part actually gone bad.
That's about it. I also have replaced stock battery with a new one as the old one was draining faster than the speed of light, no matter what rom I was on.
So let me hear ya!!!!
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The same happened to me but I let the battery drain and then charge it for a bit to eneter recovery mode to restore from a back up. Why didnt you do that? I think your problem wasnt just a bootloop problem.
Powerbutton becoming faulty.
Sometimes worked sometimes didnt
Trashed my charge port one morning getting out of bed with a bad hangover..Forgot my phone was plugged and snapped the port right off :crying: I just bought a new charge port flex from ebay for $10 and replaced it myself in about 20 mins
itasoulas said:
Has your nexus gone bad? Suffered from a damaged speaker, fried CPU, broken screen or similar? Here's the thread to share your exprerience.
Personally I bought my Nexus, brand new on September/October 2012. Sometime on August 2013 a got caught up in an endless bootloop, even odin or similar tricks couldn't save the day so took it to the repair centre (Smartec Greece) and had it back after 4-5 hours with a new motherboard. Pretty fast- problem solved, didn't have to pay something, even though I never got to know which part actually gone bad.
That's about it. I also have replaced stock battery with a new one as the old one was draining faster than the speed of light, no matter what rom I was on.
So let me hear ya!!!!
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Last year my Nexus dropped into the sea, but luckily survived
My Nexus's battery was damaged so from phone service I got a new one in 2012.
Then My Galaxy Nexus got a screen burn-in ("ghost image") and in the phone service they changed a screen, but my Nexus got that screen burn-in again..
Everything have worked so fine and I never used any other kernels on my Nexus, than the stock ones by Google and CM's kernel and ofc. my modified CM kernel., I have tried some custom kernels, but I never liked any custom kernel. My Nexus has scratches on its cases but screen has always been clean and good. :3
I'm really happy, that my Nexus looks like a new one, but only that screen burn in is annoying
I am on handset number five; one blown earpiece, two cracked screens and the last one had the interface between the digitizer and the motherboard come loose. I was able to wedge some paper between the battery door and phone body to make it work until the replacement came in. Thankfully I got the phone when beat buy had them for free and ponied up for the service plan.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk
Have mine for 2 years... only problem is an oled burn where the notification bar clock is... the green and red oleds have less brightens on lower brightenes levels... apart from that everything ok.
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I'm past the 1.5 year mark with my gnex and the only issue I have so far happened when it fell from my recliner while connected to the charger. The micro-usb metal piece on the cable got bent from the impact and since then I get a weird buzz/rattle when the phone vibrates. Had to reduce the vibrator strength on fancy kernel to get rid of that specific annoyance.
This has been the case for about 8 months now and the phone is still charging fine. Why I don't know is if this is a symptom that will eventually lead to the dreaded no-charging issue that some have shared here.
Had to change whole charging strip. Gnex was showing frequent charging/discharging and battery would drain within an hour!
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app
1.5 year old phone. Volume-up button doesn't work, and hasn't for some time. To increase volume, I have to press volume down and then move the slider up on-screen. No big deal. Also had the USB port break a couple of months ago and had to get it changed. Otherwise it runs fine. Still on stock 4.2 ROM, I keep the GPS switched off most the time, and also have all the lower-level Google sync stuff disabled (screw Google), and battery typically lasts a day and a half of average usage.
Had the Galaxy Nexus since release day and it served me well. It was fast and I only went through a few. Last October I got my Note 3 so I retired my G'Nex, but now I'm going to be using it as a MP3 Player that I can just leave in my car vs using my Phone all the time. Just looking for a Rom that turns it into the Android version of an IPOD touch.
My brother dropped his tablet into the water, powered it on, then powered it off, then put it in rice (2 weeks) . Yes he is stupid and didn't listen to me. Now he gave it to me and I would like to know how to repair it, if it's even possible. He dropped it like 8 months ago. It gave 5 beeps when I turned it on. Now I can't get it to do the beeps anymore though. I own a solder gun and appropriate tools.
Hello, i have two galaxy s4 mini's, one the 3g variant (2) and the other 4g (5). The 4g one got water damaged in 2017, and the 3g just died while i was using it. Today, i tried to turn on them, to just fell nostalgic yk, but i got the bad surprise that they just don't want to turn on! I tried to reball the power management thing on the 3g's board, but that was useless. This charger works perfectly, aswell the cable, so thats not the problem. I tried to swap bateries, but that was useless too. I reconnected all the cabes on the 3g guy, but that did nothing. I can't open the 4g one cuz its water damaged and the screws are fricked. Funny how the water damaged one and the other that ramdomly died are doing the same thing, just vibrating around 10 times slowly instead of turning on, but are charging.
How could i fix this?
Btw sorry for garbage english, it's not my first lang
Managed to make them both come back to life! What a miracle! But the 4g water damaged got a dead display. I just cleaned the metal part of the only battery that was working and charged it for 5 hours.
how did you come to the solution??
Titanity said:
how did you come to the solution??
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i charged it for 5 hours and got the screen from the 3g to the LTE version