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I downloaded a vibrate toggle widget from the market but it didn't work on the the defy. I would like one that works with the defy and also vibrates after the screen times out.
I think that if my father drops his phone into paint like he's done to previous phones, he could thoroughly wash it off and then set it to vibrate and put it in a bucket of water for several minutes. That way if any paint was trapped in the microphone or speaker holes or crevices the vibrations could help dissolve it. I got the concept from an ultrasonic cleaner.
Im sorry, but if your father drops the phone in paint you can trow it away.
Source: I work with paints.
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Why would he throw it away? This phone is waterproof. He uses mostly waterbased house paints. He can wash it. You must work with strong 2 part industrial paints.
Last time he dropped a waterproof phone in paint (samsung b2100) he wiped it off with a wet rag instead of really rinsing it off or submerging it in water so paint dried in the microphone and speaker holes and i had to spend a long time with a needle fishing dried paint out of them. If he cleans it out immediatly when the paint is still wet i cant see why he'd have a problem??
Turn on everything( GPS, 4G radio and such) download a new rom and play music through the speaker
I'm hoping to overheat the phone enough to evaporate all the water haha
Well I'll see how it goes and ill report back soon
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Stick a cut off qtip in the headphone jack (so rice doesn't get jammed in there) and throw it in a plastic sandwich bag filled up with rice, will work much better. Heat + water + electronic will just fog up the screen. Leave it in a bag of rice for a few days, battery out.
Seriously. I had water dripping from my MP3 player, and it's been working for a good year after that, because of rice.
BlaydeX15 said:
Stick a cut off qtip in the headphone jack (so rice doesn't get jammed in there) and throw it in a plastic sandwich bag filled up with rice, will work much better. Heat + water + electronic will just fog up the screen. Leave it in a bag of rice for a few days, battery out.
Seriously. I had water dripping from my MP3 player, and it's been working for a good year after that, because of rice.
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That^
It worked for my key fob that got lost in the snow for 3 months.
BlaydeX15 said:
Stick a cut off qtip in the headphone jack (so rice doesn't get jammed in there) and throw it in a plastic sandwich bag filled up with rice, will work much better. Heat + water + electronic will just fog up the screen. Leave it in a bag of rice for a few days, battery out.
Seriously. I had water dripping from my MP3 player, and it's been working for a good year after that, because of rice.
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I've done that before but it wasn't exciting haha I thought I'd try this for some laughs but its actually working my cameras lenses that were foggy and aren't now and I keep catching some moisture in the housing
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Ahhhhhhh! No no no!
Take the battery out quick quick quick! If you have water damage the first thing you do is remove power to the device! Water isn't what damages an electronic device. In fact water itself in its purest form H2O isn't even an electrical conductor. Water conducts electricity when something is dissolved in it and the ions dissociate, allowing charge to be carried through the water. Therefore if there is a salt, or something, or in this case dust, it will be able to conduct electricity, which if two points of contact in the device are shorted it can be powerful enough to destroy it.
The rice thing can sometimes work, but if the device had a lot of water get inside it there will be water in all the nook and crannies, even inside the processor. If the physical damage is already done to one or many pieces of the electronics there may not be any fixing it.
However, there is always a possibility that the ionized water is shorting circuits and hasn't damaged anything yet. If the device is to the point where it will no longer turn on, or screen appears dead you have nothing to lose in trying to fix it. I have saved several devices in the scenario I just mentioned using a mild solvent. You need to find a tear down guide to disassemble it. When you have it taken apart you can soak each individual part in isopropyl alcohol. You need to use the purest isopropyl alcohol you can find, ideally 100% isopropyl alcohol so it doesn't contain ANY water. However if you can't find a place to get that quickly, locally, for low cost use 91% isopropyl alcohol from Walmart or any drug store. I have used that concentration to successfully cure two devices that wouldn't turn on after water damage.
Put the alcohol in a large enough container that the parts fit in, and completely submerge the parts, may even need to include the battery in the solution. Leave it there about ten minutes, occasionally swirling to get the alcohol deep inside everything, processor, etc. Then remove it from the alcohol and let it AIR dry. To be ultra safe let it air dry for twenty four hours. You can then reassemble the device and test.
Alcohol is very volatile in air, so it evaporates very quickly (specially if that air is heated). Water and alcohol are miscible, so it will remove the water from inside every part. Good luck!
Just take your phone back to sprint and get another....Im going to assume you have insurance. Why take a chance that the phone could sustain some long term damage? Get a shiny brand new one and call it a day..
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Just take your phone back to sprint and get another....Im going to assume you have insurance. Why take a chance that the phone could sustain some long term damage? Get a shiny brand new one and call it a day..
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I would agree with that but he/she might not have $100 to drop around for a new insurance replacement phone. I have heard though of some repair centers replacing water damaged phones with a sprint ordered replacement as long as the phone works.
Sad Panda is 100% correct on the alcohol, so follow his directions! Alcohol has a high affinity for water and acts as a drying agent, drawing the water out of every corner and crevice.
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Sad Panda is 100% correct on the alcohol, so follow his directions! Alcohol has a high affinity for water and acts as a drying agent, drawing the water out of every corner and crevice.
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+1 sad panda to save the day
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The only sensible thing to do would be to do what sad panda posted. What you're doing is just retarded.
I agree. I've been doing this for years on laptops. It also works well off you spill coke or tea on it. It also helps to brush off the components with a toothbrush while soaking them in alcohol.
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Bag of rice will work 99.9% of the time. Depends on how much water it got will depend on how long u need to leave it in there. If it still turns on overnight should work. Take battery off and seal it up.
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Hate to say it but it actually worked... No fog on the lenses, no foggy screen, capacitive buttons all work and respond, speakers sound just like they did before, I know it might just be dumb luck but it worked out and there's no visible signs of condensation I'm the phone so I'm a happy camper
I've done all the alcohol disassembling before but I only had a T6 instead of a T5 torx and I'm a broke college student so I didn't have rice so I tried my way and it worked! so continue with the bashing if you will
(Btw I have TEP but trying something new felt like a better thing to do than waste $100 on a 1.5 hboot replacement)
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I'm a broke college student so I didn't have rice so I tried my way and it worked!
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Dude, a bag of rice is like four dollars.
But your idea is possibly the worst thing you could do for a phone. ONLY reason it worked is because evidently the water didn't seep in enough to cause enough damage.
Running power through a wet phone is the easiest way to kill it. Don't count on it working again for you in the future, you're lucky as hell.
Wow! So happy for you that it worked, don't try it again though! Even for a broke college student a liter of alcohol is two bucks. There are lots of nice guys on here. Even I would have sent you my torx drivers for free to help you out!
Glad everything is a ok! Good job! Phew!
This is hilarious.
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If you have nothing to lose put the phone in bleach. it will bleach the water strip thing back white and leave the red lines. Let it dry then take it to sprint.
but only use this as a last resort. lol
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If you have nothing to lose put the phone in bleach. it will bleach the water strip thing back white and leave the red lines. Let it dry then take it to sprint.
but only use this as a last resort. lol
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To my knowledge this won't get the sticker back to white and still maintain the original red lines. Those stickers work just like litmus paper works, they react over the neutral range of the pH scale. Bleach should react with the red chromophores but I just don't see how it will turn from solid red to anything but solid white, or worse a solid pink.
Have you personally tried that? Also bleach is chlorine + water + uhhh, hypochlorite at equilibrium. Since that is the case, the dissociation of ions have the same property as water and salt, or water and dust as I described before, so as long as one understood you are making the water damage worse, you could do that....your electronic device would likely burn up when electricity was applied again.
Just throw it in the microwave. I'd set the microwave to "defrost" though, just to play it safe.
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Just throw it in the microwave. I'd set the microwave to "defrost" though, just to play it safe.
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LOTS OF QUESTIONS THAT NEEDS ANSWERS ASAP! PLEASE HELP!
So i'm just wondering if the water damage indicator will turn back all white or to its original state, before the water damaged it, after having the phone chill in rice. And does anyone know how long my phone has to chill in rice for ? Does rice only work for water and does it work for stuff like body spray as well ?
Someone please help me TT___TT
From what I understand the ldi or liquid damage indicator window is white, when exposed to moisture three red or pink dots appear, also check to see the phones metal terminals where the battery goes they should be gold with with no corrosion or discoloration. Good luck with the rice thing-
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How you people can be not so cerful
A relative dropped her phone in water and lost touch screen and capacitance buttons. Everything else seems to work. Is there any fix for this, upto and including replacing the screen or should I just tell her to throw it out (or sell it) and buy a new one?
Thanks,
Scnd.
It will survive, don't turn on, get a bag and some silicone jelly bags and do this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGQOhVGFbyk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Minute: 7:05
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Rice works too! Just leave it over night with the battery door, battery, sd card, and sim off.
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Just open it up and dry it out. Lift all the clips and clean.
On a fishing trip earlier this year, a friend dropped his in sea water and it took us about a minute to find it. I put it in fresh water to remove the salt. After opening it, I removed all the components and let it dry in the sun for an hour. It was all good again. Still works to this day.
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All the above is good advice, but only if done right away after the water incident - if you've left it wet for a while, or put the battery back to test it then you'll need a repair/new phone.
Depending on what else got into the phone along with the water (salt, soap etc.) then corrosion may means things will get worse over time.
well as the tittle said, there is water in my Z2 screen......
I wash my phone on bathroom with cold water like 30 secs... then I dry it using the toal... and later i started to blow air at the buttons, like power, volume and even the speakers. later I saw some kind of transparent spot inside mi screen at the right side of the screen.... The phone works fine camera, speakers, everything is working fine... touchscreen etc. but I dont know what to do with that water. maybe hairdry? rice? what else?
You used blower and push water around side keys with high pressure air into lcd panel.
I work in mobile service center and dismantle too many xperia Z series, these are water resistance, not water proof
Never use blower again, your phone dry water itself after a few hours
pedramgolchin said:
You used blower and push water around side keys with high pressure air into lcd panel.
I work in mobile service center and dismantle too many xperia Z series, these are water resistance, not water proof
Never use blower again, your phone dry water itself after a few hours
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well after I dry the phone using the taol, with my mouth I blow some air on the keys..... Now I am using rice and hairdry and almost 90% of the water is gonne, some little white dots are missing....
Hey check if the water damage indicator is still white. I believe it's inside the micro sd card slot and the micro sim slot. If they are still white, go to Sony and tell them that you just wash the phone in tap water for awhile and dried it using a cloth. They should bring in to service it and it should be out pretty soon. Good luck!
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Hey check if the water damage indicator is still white. I believe it's inside the micro sd card slot and the micro sim slot. If they are still white, go to Sony and tell them that you just wash the phone in tap water for awhile and dried it using a cloth. They should bring in to service it and it should be out pretty soon. Good luck!
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yeh, the water damage indicator is still white....
pedramgolchin said:
You used blower and push water around side keys with high pressure air into lcd panel.
I work in mobile service center and dismantle too many xperia Z series, these are water resistance, not water proof
Never use blower again, your phone dry water itself after a few hours
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but Sony says these are waterproof
I wash my z2 every week, so far no problem
You should nvr use a blower to blow water out as It could actually blow the water deeper into the phone.
Instead use a vacuum cleaner.
Leave your phone in rice for around 3-5 days with all ports open and micro sd card and Sim card taken out. ( that was the amount of time I used when I couldn't turn on my phone at all after dipping into a waterfall ?)
That ought to get all The Water out.
well after about 8 days on trying to fix the phone, I used Hair dryer, rice , etc. there was still some moisture on the screen, like white little dots, so I decided to sell the phone that way.. and now I got a new Z2 black color. now I dont know if I should wash my phone....I am afraid of water now for phones.....
I wash my z2 every time that I go bath
Don't hesitate on this, just when you wash it, don't use blower etc
pedramgolchin said:
I wash my z2 every time that I go bath
Don't hesitate on this, just when you wash it, don't use blower etc
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can you tell us about the presure sensor the phone have? how it works on your phone?