Is it just my phone, but when I'm talking on the phone and my face is moist (sweat) from the hot weather when I try to click over or hang up it won't respond. I have to turn the screen off and turn it back on or wait til the person hangs up. Is anyone else having that problem or is it my phone?
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Moisture is a touchscreens worst fear. Anytime they get wet they will do funny things. Just wipe it off on your shirt or whatever...
I do and I have a screen protector on. It still doesn't work. It doesn't be a lot of sweat jus a very little.
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Then u got a Killer sweat!
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Screen protectors make it worse... for me it always has anyways. I'm a mechanic and use my phone all day, and even without a screen protector I haven't scratched the screen on my hero, shift, or this phone in the last two years I've had a touchscreen/smart phone. They make them pretty resilient, ya know.
Lol.. It may be my phone. Who knows.
I jus switched screen protector hopefully this one works.
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So I was in an important phone call outside, when it was 107, and it seems the sweat got into the lcd. now I see some smudges on the screen.
Is there anyway to get it out? or will warranty cover it? does anyone think the rice trick will work?
Place it on top of your cable box while on. Just needs some dry heat for a night or two.
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I'll give that a shot.
In the meantime, I guess I'll have to leave the PC on and have the calls forwarded through GVoice.
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Place it on top of your cable box while on. Just needs some dry heat for a night or two.
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It seems that trick might have made it worse. Gonna do the rice trick now.
phone wasn't submerged, but enough water got to it to cause the water seal to turn pink. I blew dried it and dumped it in rice and what not.
I attempted to start it up the screen had no discolorations and it booted riight up but everything was force closing while trying to enter the phone from the lock screen.
so I rebooted and the phone stays at the galaxy s2 screen.
i attempted a nandroid (I already have a saved nandroid) but wanted to backup this one since i'm not sure it syncd some of the contacts.
when attempting the nandroid i got an error during the backup portion of the data.
Does that mean i should just recover from my original backup or is thier anything i should be doing?
thanks
Um i think you might have to get a replacement phone..
When i had a iPhone i dropped it in my pool so i let it dray out for 2 years and now it works.
Though i have a Galaxy S II cause i love android and the thing doesn't break plus i spilled water on it and it works fine with no effects.
Get some 90% alcohol. Remove covers, battery, Sim cards, etc.. submerge the phone in it for 3-5 minutes to displace any moisture still trapped inside. Take it out, let sit and evaporate for 10-15 minutes. Place inside your oven at 125° for 4-6 hrs. Replace battery and fire it up. If it still won't boot then return for warranty as your humi-dots will now be white
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Get some 90% alcohol. Remove covers, battery, Sim cards, etc.. submerge the phone in it for 3-5 minutes to displace any moisture still trapped inside. Take it out, let sit and evaporate for 10-15 minutes. Place inside your oven at 125° for 4-6 hrs. Replace battery and fire it up. If it still won't boot then return for warranty as your humi-dots will now be white
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No way.
If you're going to try this at least wait an hour before the oven. And be sure to preheat it.
I have baked Nokias back to life.
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I rework/repair circuit card assemblies for the largest defense contractor in world....
I use this process daily on boards worth more than your house....
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What's the water seal?
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What's the water seal?
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He means the humi-dots. Little white stickers that turn pink/red when a certain humidity level is reached..
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I rework/repair circuit card assemblies for the largest defense contractor in world....
I use this process daily on boards worth more than your house....
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I do too......well not really but I did stay at a holiday inn express last night.
Haha, I couldn't resist.....
do you work in Huntsville ala by any chance.
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Grand Prairie Texas.
Lockheed Martin Missles and Fire Control..
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Grand Prairie Texas.
Lockheed Martin Missles and Fire Control..
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Cool. I work for kratos out of Huntsville
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Nice.. That looks like fun. ;-)
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I rework/repair circuit card assemblies for the largest defense contractor in world....
I use this process daily on boards worth more than your house....
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Okay. Still at least preheat the oven so there isn't direct heat on the device which is much greater than 125.
And do the boards have a screen? Is that an issue?
Curious
Derrrrrr
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ok everything seems to have worked. looks like my data was corrupted and restoreing worked...my only issue is with my volume down button, I have to apply either a lot of pressure or tapp hard repeatedly to get the volume to go down. Also my humi stuff is still pink. as i didn't want to take the phone apart.
any suggestions for the volume button and the humi?
I will thank everyone for responding to this thread
thanks again
Any residual moisture still trapped inside the board layers will slowly develop copper dendrites and kill your phone. The only way to stop the process is to bake it out. This will also dry out your humi-dots and turn them white again. It may work for now but in a couple months the problems will get worse.
Just my $.02
Edit: Check out metallic electromigration phenomena. Exactly the reason for humi-dots and not honoring warranties on phones exposed to excessive moisture..
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Any residual moisture still trapped inside the board layers will slowly develop copper dendrites and kill your phone. The only way to stop the process is to bake it out. This will also dry out your humi-dots and turn them white again. It may work for now but in a couple months the problems will get worse.
Just my $.02
Edit: Check out metallic electromigration phenomena. Exactly the reason for humi-dots and not honoring warranties on phones exposed to excessive moisture..
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i have to take the phone apart to bake it at 125? to make sure that is.
No , Remove your battery, Sim cards, sdcards and bake it without the back cover....
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No , Remove your battery, Sim cards, sdcards and bake it without the back cover....
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thx i will do that right now. and for aprox how long?
2-4 hrs should do it.
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curious how this worked out. My wife dropped hers in the toilet like...a week ago. we've been doing the rice thing....
if we did this, how do you put the phone in the oven? won't it melt? scren up or down? on a cookie sheet? pizza stone? suggestions?
It's booting up now, but it gets REALLY hot on the back of the phone, (volme rocker) side, toward the bottom if you pop the back off the phone and look there, it's just below the circle that's molded into the plastic. it'll booth and run for a minute tops and then just turn off. this alcohol idea is intriguing to me.
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curious how this worked out. My wife dropped hers in the toilet like...a week ago. we've been doing the rice thing....
if we did this, how do you put the phone in the oven? won't it melt? scren up or down? on a cookie sheet? pizza stone? suggestions?
It's booting up now, but it gets REALLY hot on the back of the phone, (volme rocker) side, toward the bottom if you pop the back off the phone and look there, it's just below the circle that's molded into the plastic. it'll booth and run for a minute tops and then just turn off. this alcohol idea is intriguing to me.
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I'm going on a limb here and say they were joking about the oven
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Wow, big surprise to me. I was sort of annoyed at the small size of the notification light on the side of the screen, but I just realized that they put one on the back of the phone, and its much larger. Cool!
Yep
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It was one of the new main features of the phone besides the screen and internals
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Yep. Most of the time I'm using the phone for voice chat (phone call or VOIP usually), the phone is face down. It automatically switches to speaker when the phone is face down so all you need to do is either hit call or hit answer and place the phone on your coffee table while you work. Very convenient feature and you don't have to worry about missing notifications while it's face down because of the rear notification light. This also applies when you leave the room for a bit and return. I personally love the feature but from what I've heard, other people consider it a nuisance. To each his own I suppose.
I haven't really noticed it, seems kinda useless.
Too bad most of the cases cover it
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Too bad most of the cases cover it
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That's probably why I didn't notice it. Mine has been wrapped in Otter Box since day one... Gonna have to pull the case just to check it out lol
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Picked my One up today to replace my freshly broken Nexus 4. So far so good, but this home "button" registers about one out of five presses. Anyone else seeing this behavior? The back button works fine every time.
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Got a screen protector on it?
The sensitivity is a bit low for it to register perfectly. Happens on mine.
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I sure do! I guess I will try peeling it back and see if it helps.
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I have no screen protector and my home button doesn't register often either. Also when trying to touch places in the standard browser it doesn't register immediately. Starting to think there's a defect in screen or software.
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I'm having the sane issues it does it with the back button as well. Did it before I put the screen protector on it. It doesn't help that they sit so close to the screen. When I start tapping frantically trying to make it work I end up pressing whatever is right above it on the screen. Thinking about returning it to try another but if it's a common problem I don't want to waste my time. It's not too bad usually at least one of the two buttons will register if the other one won't
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I'm having the sane issues it does it with the back button as well. Did it before I put the screen protector on it. It doesn't help that they sit so close to the screen. When I start tapping frantically trying to make it work I end up pressing whatever is right above it on the screen. Thinking about returning it to try another but if it's a common problem I don't want to waste my time. It's not too bad usually at least one of the two buttons will register if the other one won't
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Yeah it's my back button as well, I thought about replacing. It seems that quite a few people are having the issue. I don't know should I try and replace or if it's a software issue.
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I know I just put the screen protector on along with a carbon fiber skin. The idea of having to go and deal with the people at AT&T alone makes me want to just deal with it. Also afraid I'll just get another one
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I know I just put the screen protector on along with a carbon fiber skin. The idea of having to go and deal with the people at AT&T alone makes me want to just deal with it. Also afraid I'll just get another one
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I agree, if the issue is only on our variant then it could be software or hardware. I have no idea what to do.
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I agree, if the issue is only on our variant then it could be software or hardware. I have no idea what to do.
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Me neither. I suppose deal with it and wait to see how common it is and if any dev can fix it. I'm waiting to unlock and root anyway
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I had the same issue on my device. It took three swaps to figure out it wasn't the phone but, the Zagg HD screen protector I had on it. Once I took it off, everything started behaving as intended,
I noticed last night that my Zagg screen protector still had some water bubbles (very tiny ones) near the home button. So today after another night the bubbles are gone and the home button works well enough I can assign a double tap short cut.
Never had any issues with the back button, just for reference.
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Noticed the issue as well. Saw it mentioned in a recent review of the phone. You have to be really precise because the buttons are so small.
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Noticed the issue as well. Saw it mentioned in a recent review of the phone. You have to be really precise because the buttons are so small.
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Precise isn't the word lol. I hope a software update will fix it completely
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I had the same issue on my device. It took three swaps to figure out it wasn't the phone but, the Zagg HD screen protector I had on it. Once I took it off, everything started behaving as intended,
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I'm almost 100% sure it has to do with the screen protector.
I was using an Otterbox Defender case which has the screen protector with the soft keys uncovered. I was using the phone without a hitch. But this morning I decided to use a different screen protector other than the one provided by Otterbox and that screen protector covers the soft keys.
Now I'm having issues with the sensitivity of the soft keys.
Somehow covering the soft keys with the screen protector affects the sensitivity level of the soft keys. I'm thinking of uncovering the soft keys just to finally confirmed that, that is the problem.
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Same problem on Sprint variant. I went to the store and the display model also had same problem. Neither had a screen protector.
This is either a widespread hardware defect or a widespread software problem.
Some have said the latest update to the Taiwan variant fixed it.
RE: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2245637
I have had the issue as well and I believe it's software, rather than hardware. If my back button freezes and I turn the screen off and then back on, it works fine. It only seems to do it when I "overload" the back button in an app that needs it a lot, like this one.
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Ok lately I've been experiencing some strange thing's going on with my phone like it just going ham at times with the touch screen going crazy and pushing all sorts of bottoms while I have the keyboard on or openning apps while just on the home screen. I'm not sure what it is but I'd like to get to the bottom of this with some help. Thanks in a advance...
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I've only really noticed that when the screen has any liquids on it. If it does that I just turn the screen off, wipe it off, and turn it back on. Besides that you could make a backup and try a new rom and/or keyboard to rule out any software problems.
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I've only really noticed that when the screen has any liquids on it. If it does that I just turn the screen off, wipe it off, and turn it back on. Besides that you could make a backup and try a new rom and/or keyboard to rule out any software problems.
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Ok you may have a point. From the moment I bought it I have always had a screen protector on it but I recently took it off and it's been naked for a while. But I have noticed the same thing even with other roms. I was about to blame it on the KDDI Radio I put on it simply because this coincided with the time frame when I decided to do the update. Thank you for the response, I will put a screen on it and see if anything changes...
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