A little different issue here I think... Ill keep it as short as I can.
Running Viperom1.3 w RCmix kernel. All perfect until last night at 3am, when I dropped my Evo3D in a cup of water (no, not on purpose).
It was not plugged in or charging when this happened, but it was on.
I dried exterior, pulled battery, opened back, slightly lifted motherboard.
Using hairdryer on warm - low, slowly dried phone. Replaced all, booted, and it worked. Took apart again, and left it in front of fan for couple hours to make sure it all dried out.
All seemed fine today. Working like a champ. Sound, calls, etc all fine. Battery got low and plugged in charger. Got red/green blinking light. Bought new battery (since little color indicator inside phone/battery both show water damage). Still blinking. Did factory data wipe and it cleared that problem. Nandroided back to my Rom and all seemed fine but....
16gb sdcard wont show up when plugged in to computer. Dont get the "charge/disk drive" option. Just simply charges.
Went into settings and manually changed it to "d/d" but doesnt show up in computer.
Clicked/unclicked "ask me" box.
Checked/unchecked USB debugging.
Nandroid "mount sdcard" and computer still not recognizes it.
The card is visible in phones apps (root explorer, meridian, ringtones, etc) and all the files on the card are accessible.
Pulled card, replaced with another sdcard, reformatted within the phone, and same issue.
The cable Im using is the stock HTC cable. I also tried 2 other cables with the same result.
It seems to simply be stuck in charging mode. I dont know what else to try. Im not that knowledgable with adb, if that has anything to do with it. Im not against resetting the phone back to any state - maybe unrooting ?
I guess I should be happy that I even have a working phone after this, huh?
Any help would be appreciated. And of course, I did not get the extra insurance/warranty when I bought the phone (I know, I know...).
Thanks in advance.
I guess you can always load and remove stuff off it from a reader til someone can help figure out a better solution.
If you google micro sd card reader, they are like $6.
Hope that's a suitable temporary fix.
Good luck!
another temp solution would be to use an app called web sharing which i use a lot as not to hassle with a USB cable when i want to transfer files from the computer to my phone
WiFi Explorer, works Great! Also was a FREE app on Amazon app's the other day!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dooblou.WiFiFileExplorerPRO&hl=en
Also try Multi Mount, since app's can read the card, maybe Multi Mount will work...
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rafoid.multimountsdcard.widget&feature=search_result
Your not completely dried out, a hair dryer won't do it. Take the back off the phone remove the battery and put it in a zip lock baggy filled with dry white rice. Let it set in there for 24 hours and the rice will absorb all the moisture safely. Never use a hair dryer, you may have fried something. If you have insurance I would make a claim now. The $100 deductible sucks, but at least you will have a phone that you know will work when you need it. Water damage is water damage and your phone will probably never work 100% again. Why do you think the put those water detectors in the phone in the first place??
Got the phone in a rice baggie now. Took the back off to help speed up the process. Hope this will take care of it.
If not, heres my question. Could this still be a software issue ?
Would unrooting it back to stock correct any error anymore than my wipe/rom re-install?
Thanks
Update.
Tried rice/baggie but didnt improve. It had already been a couple days working before I did the rice thing.
Everything else works perfectly on it, just the USB connection. Tried mounting the sdcard via TWRP and no luck. Flashed another ROM and didnt help.
I must assume since it ONLY stopped after the water dunk, that its a hardware screw up.
Have been using a Wi-fi file transfer program, and ordered a new phone through insurance, so Ill put this behind me. And cups of water away from me.
Thanks all
Received my replacement phone and all works well. Could never get the disk drive to function at all - it just charged. I used a wi-fi file explorer in the meantime, which worked well. Thanks again for all the suggestions.
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Ok so I dropped my Eris water the other day and it turns on but the touch screen stopped working. Thats fine, I just went back to my blackberry but is there a way to get info off of the phone. Since my touch screen does not work I can not get into the phone but I have numbers that were not saved, text messages, and other info on the phone that I need the touch screen to access. Is there any way to check my messages from the pc for android or recover them. Thanks
rllong1 said:
Ok so I dropped my Eris water the other day and it turns on but the touch screen stopped working. Thats fine, I just went back to my blackberry but is there a way to get info off of the phone. Since my touch screen does not work I can not get into the phone but I have numbers that were not saved, text messages, and other info on the phone that I need the touch screen to access. Is there any way to check my messages from the pc for android or recover them. Thanks
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if its water dont give up it will come back leave it in a bag of rice to draw out the water
If you turned it on it's probably too late and is broken... if you really are optimistic try the rice but that only really works if the phone doesn't turn back on.
i have heard stories of these going into the wash cycle and coming back after a few days
rice doesnt actually work any better then just sitting your phone on a counter, dried corn actually does absorb humidity out of the air (alton brown actually went into a 10 minute long scientific rant on why this is)
have you tried the master application? i haven't myself, but i bet there are ways to pull data off using it.
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rice doesnt actually work any better then just sitting your phone on a counter, dried corn actually does absorb humidity out of the air (alton brown actually went into a 10 minute long scientific rant on why this is)
have you tried the master application? i haven't myself, but i bet there are ways to pull data off using it.
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Both dry rice AND dry corn do indeed pull moisture out of the air for sure.
It's just that most people have dried rice around their house, and most people do NOT have dried corn around their house.
I have had great experience with rice, and poor experience with the 'counter'. I definitely spilled coffee on my Eris last week (a lot), then pulled battery, rinsed it off with REGULAR water (because I didn't want the coffee to dry on there and ruin things), then wiped it quickly, shook it, and threw it in rice for a few hours. It has run 100% since.
I don't feel like leaving it on the counter would have brought that much success.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/20/how-to-clean-up-water-damaged-electronics-the-rice-bowl/
Neither here nor there, I suspect that uncooked rice is a better choice than 'out in the open'.
The most important thing with any wet electronics is probably NOT TO TURN IT ON while it's still wet. Wait at least 24 hours, either in rice, near a stove top, dried corn, or whatever you're going to use.
But DONT' turn it on. That won't make ANYthing better.
Good luck
LOL, you specificically indicated that your question was not about fixing water damage in the title of your post, and you got 5 replies about how to fix water damage.
If your phone was rooted, the easiest way to do what you are asking would be to find another rooted phone, and manually make a nandroid backup via adb, take the SD card out of your phone, put it in the other root phone, and restore that backup to that phone. This would only work if you had USB debugging turned on before the phone got wet.
If your phone was rooted, but you couldn't find another rooted phone to help you out, what you are asking is technically feasible, but far, far more time consuming: reverse engineer the data files for the apps in question. That sounds daunting, but is probably not as bad as it seems, as many of the phone apps use "sql_lite" databases, and text within the database files can be seen using a hex editor or the Unix command "strings"
If your phone is not rooted, I think you are SOL.
bftb0
Thanks for all your help guys. I turned my phone on because I didnt know not to turn it on LOL but I know now. I hope it will turn back on but thanks for your help guys about the data.
Google contacts (not the phone type) automagically upload to Google. And most data other than that should be saved on the SD card anyway.
If you used Google contacts and not phone contacts, login to gmail and goto contacts. They should be in there.
Can't you navigate with the trackball?
I accidentally left my phone in my pocket when doing laundry. I caught it pretty quickly, but none the less, it's no longer working.
I have a replacement coming but I have some photos and backups on the broken phone that I would like to retrieve.
I get no power to the phone and it doesn't connect to my computer.
The internal HDD is referred to as the internal SD. Does this mean it's like an SD card, and if I am able to take the phone apart, I should be able to access it like any other SD?
Any tips for how I could get the data off the phone before I have to return it would be much appreciated.
Afaik the internal disk is hardwired to the board, you may or may not be able to remove it (e.g. if soldered?) but I would rather bring it to a repair center and see what they can do?
Just out of curiosity, did you try and let it dry for a few days? Either in sunlight or speed things up with a hairdryer (not too close). I'm serious!
Once I had my phone (albeit not the SGS II) fall into water and it didn't work afterwards. A few days later, carefully trying to dry it to the best of my abilities it was working again. I admit it's a long shot but if you're extremely lucky it's worth giving it a try, no? The phone is broken anyways.
It fell in water on the 28th. I did the hair dryer and the rice trials. Didn't even try to turn it on for more than 24 hours.
Today, my LG Optimus decieded to go for a swim. This helped me restore it to full functionality [except for some watermarks (How do I fix this? Please help.)]
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wikihow .com/Save-a-Wet-Cell-Phone Read this BEFORE continuing. Now, assuming you've read this, followed the instructions and for most of this, your phone turns on. There may be errors. These may help even if your phone isnt wet.
1)My phone and other cant read/detect my SD Card.
Solution (Worked for me): Heat up the SD Card slot with your breath. Then heat up the SD Card in the same way. Or use a hair dryer. The reason to this is that it increases your SDs lifespan. You should be ok, but just in case, back up all of your data to a computer.
2) My phone wont charge.
Soulution (tested and works): Rub the copper connections on your phone and battery, while they are seperate of corse with a pin or other non eletric metal. If not, check your charger.
3)My phones sound stopped working.
Solution (tested and works): Rub a Q-Tip in the headphone part of your phone. As easy as it sounds, it works. If not, reboot your phone. I learned to reboot because your phone might think that your phone is connected to headphones.
Hope I helped, and if you need help with something else concerning your wet phone, Ill be sure to try and help.
Whatever you do:
Dont freeze the water or evaporate it. Evaporating it can have harmful effects, leaving behind harmful growths and give it a foggy screen. Freezing it into ice expands its mass, shoving delicate components out of the way.
Got a unique issue with my G5. Have had it in a Lifeproof case for awhile now.
Last night, it spent most of the time riding in my back jeans pocket where it always does. I've had zero issues with sitting in the car, and whatnot....as I'm not a hipster that wears tight jeans that could possibly damage the device. Anywho, I got out of the car, dropped the phone into my pocket, and went about my evening at work - which involved ZERO sitting.
I go to pull out the device to make a call, verify my fingerprint, and nothing. Well, almost nothing. Its as if half of my screen is "disconnected", and the other half is out of sync. I've attached a youtube video to see what I'm talking about. ( https://youtu.be/357GcnV2-9Y ) My first thought was the ribbon cable became partially dislodged from its plug on the motherboard. I first tried flexing the phone, to see if it magically worked, or changed. Nada.
This am, brought it to the VZW store, expecting a quick fix, but since it shows no damage at all I got nothing but a warranty replacement request, and a promise it would be delivered within 3 days. Thats not good enough, as I use this thing for work. So I looked at alternatives...
I've browsed the teardown on ifixit, and was surprised at its simplicity. I pulled it apart, and re-seated the display ribbon cable, to no avail. Still apparently toast.
I've managed to get through the boot up pattern security I set up, and the phone is active. I just cant get it into MTP mode to copy my crap as I'm guessing I need to pull down and click on the notification to switch it.....which, of course, I cannot see. Basically, I just want to get my crap out of the internal storage before I ship this one back. Obviously I'm going to wipe it with the Android Device Manager before I deactivate, but still would like to salvage something.
Anybody have any thoughts? Or maybe is there a second ribbon cable somewhere that wasnt mentioned in the teardown?
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/357GcnV2-9Y
I have no advice as to how to get your files off, I'm sorry about that.
But I wanted to confirm that this isn't an isolated occurrence and it happened to me! I also babied my phone and never dropped it and it was always in a case.
I don't know what to blame as the cause, I'm hoping just bad quality control. I was hoping it's not due to flexing because it's not as sturdy due to the bottom of the phone not being physically attached.
Photos of the same thing on mine: https://imgur.com/a/eEAmA
This happened 15 days after I bought it and Best Buy returned it for a new one which three weeks later started bootlooping which was a whole fiasco to get repaired and took over a month. LG's quality control is horrible.
+1 as I am having this issue on a Sprint G5, sent to LG for repair after Sprint was no help. 29 days after purchase.
Hello. A few quick searches on my part found a thread here on the forums for controlling your device from your PC. It also includes a script to run when your phone is in recovery to enable USB Debugging. Try it out ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2786395 ). Hopefully I have helped. If you want to just salvage files, you can enable USB Debugging and pull everything through the USB. However, if you want to still use your apps, or harvest app data, or even use titanium backup or the like to make a complete backup to transfer to the new device, enable USB Debugging, then control your phone. Follow the above thread's instructions to do so.
Thank you for your time,
Xzanah
Hi, I have a problem with my T399n.
My phone doesn't turn on, I installed CM12 and it was good, then I flashed the stock ROM from metro again, everything was good about a month, one day I made a call, whatsapp, text and then I put it in my pocket, then when I pulled it out like 10 minutes later and it was rebooting, I didn't pay attention to this because sometimes my phone reboots itself, later It was power off. I pulled the battery, reinserted it and nothing, connected usb cable, nothing, tried to charge it and nothing, Its like my phone died. Looking for a fix, there is the usb jig that work with others galaxy's.
So I just want to know if I'm fried or if there's a last hope to revive this phone with the usb jig
Thanks!
Something similar to this happened to me, would love to know the answer...
just today...
just today, not 2 hours ago at most I was playing around with my galaxy light, deciced to root and mod it.. first step was to, ofc flash a custom recovery... well like most things I pursue I ended up fighting the damn thing for HOURS!! could not get it to register on my computer for the life of me.. now I'm far from a dev and probably one of the least experienced on/around here but something so trivial as lack of drivers, udev, faulty port/cords isn't my forte.. so eventually I whipped out my handy dandy usb jig and .... nothing... *head scratch* hmmm.... now its got my attention... so I get out the multimeter usb data/charging cable and it does show signs of life, easily registering 5.1v / 0.4 mah ... now I'm getting anxious.... so its time for the next test... usb-otg connected to dbl usb-type-A converter to connect to the pooter (it never works but I wish it would ) and nothing there... so otg to my main mobile, reverse it... hmmm seems this lil guy is taking in charge and no data xfer of any kind... since id already rotated various cables I turned my attention to the charging port.. under 6x magnification and too many lumens light I could hardly see any problems but persisted with the 99% isopropyl anyhow... end result "wtf is wrong with this garbage....?) and just as I went to throw it at the wall I spotted my personal "boneyard" where all of my former problematic/faulty devices end up and just in sight was another tmobile galaxy light, broken lcd but logic board intact.. so a quick flip of the wrist and a smack on the back and the 2 became one... fired her up, plugged it in and BAM.. instantly detected... and for some reason I cant quite seem to put my finger on, I had the urge to power it back off and insert my usb jig one final time to see if it infact would work with the galaxy light.... *device in left hand... jib in the right.... bead of sweat steadily sliding down my ruffled brow... time seemed to all but come to a screeching halt as the two came closer until the moment of trust had arrived... the initial contact, the penetration (lol) .. the pause... BOOM factory mode*
so, now that u read that half illiterate rambling from a barely educated redneck shut-in to determine if the usb jig works with galaxy light or not .. the answer is yes... it does unless its a piece of crap like one of the 2 I own is...
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Hi, I have a problem with my T399n.
My phone doesn't turn on, I installed CM12 and it was good, then I flashed the stock ROM from metro again, everything was good about a month, one day I made a call, whatsapp, text and then I put it in my pocket, then when I pulled it out like 10 minutes later and it was rebooting, I didn't pay attention to this because sometimes my phone reboots itself, later It was power off. I pulled the battery, reinserted it and nothing, connected usb cable, nothing, tried to charge it and nothing, Its like my phone died. Looking for a fix, there is the usb jig that work with others galaxy's.
So I just want to know if I'm fried or if there's a last hope to revive this phone with the usb jig
Thanks!
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It does in fact work. If asking about the USB mount, from my knowledge you would've had to already installed them by turning the function on like I did in the first screen shot.
If you need them I can link them to my drive or mega. Whichever is best. Think I have drop box still too.
And yes. I have bricked this phone I'm using now for a solid 3 days when I first started with it. However cm12 has bugs, after the second time it rebooted and bricked on me I went back to Tigerlily I even had no SIM error but somehow fixed that when flashed back to stock. Cm12 caused me to flash back to stock about 3 times a day. Too much headache. Guess thats why we are not supposed to do this to our primary phones. on tigerlily ive Had a little trouble keeping super su in his place too, Got home last night and POOF, just gone for no known reason. finally got him to stick by installing him into the system with lucky patcher. Flashify, flashfire, and even rom installer all failed to keep him there. . I have also stripped down almost every file just for fun to see what other fine items I could damage, Finally found where they hide the dialer codes for the phone. They are not in any files that i have spent the last for years looking in. The codes are inside of the APK. The last place I decided to look. Everything I know is self taught and just recently started working with apps for windows 10 and merging android files into windows apps.
Now , I'm actually quite impressed with it's capabilities .
Really what's helped me dial everything in was the helped of an app called Mixplorer with all the ad-on's all of which are free.
Good luck with your brick. Myself, I have 3 other phones I'm currently working on unbricking. One of which is a hard bricked LG motion. Flashed th err wrong firmware to it a year ago. Just this week got the cup to recognize it. the code to get into the first service menu pictured here on the bottom left is *#0808#
Really what's helped me dial everything in was the helped of an app called Mixplorer with all the ad-on's all of which are free.
Good luck with your brick. Myself, I have 3 other phones I'm currently working on unbricking. One of which is a hard bricked LG motion. Flashed th err wrong firmware to it a year ago. Just this week got the cup to recognize it.
when youre ready to really see whats going on you can dial *#9900# for all the System Dump features.