Helpp!!!!!!!
Dropped my xperia mini and it got very slightly wet.
It didn't turn on when i tried.
I took out the battery, wiped it and put it back in.
Then it booted normally. After a while it shut down.
And it didn't turn on. Then I started charging it after about 15 min of not responding it turned on. It was charging till 20%. Then when i started using it for a bit turned off. Now waiting for it to turn on.
What should I do?
Should I get new phone with warranty?
Or is there solution?
Thanks in advance.
Had two incidents like this, the first incident shorted out my phone (just one second in the water), the second one I wiped dry, wrapped a piece of cloth around it and put it in a sack of rice to absorb the moisture (googled it).
Moral of the story: Never turn on a wet cellphone immediately (even after wiping it dry) lest you want a shorted out unit.
Dunno if doing the latter will make much difference seeing as you turned it on and charged the unit. If it is still under warranty you can try to have it fixed, just don't mention the water incident (though there is a possibility they might find out even after it's dried, dunno really)
-Xaeons
Thanks my friends told me not to turn it on straight after i wiped it so am getting it fixed.
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Ok, Here's what happened
I was cleaning the toilet at home and foolishly placed my phone on the tank, as I finished I picked up my phone, slipped out of my hand and fell in the toilet. I know I know, why did I take my phone to the toilet? I have no idea, its the first and last time have done that.
Anyway, I removed the battery, sim and sdcard straight away and tried to dry the phone off as much as possible, then placed the phone and battery separately in a concealed bag filled with dry rice (to absorb moisture), I can now boot my phone.
The problem is that the phone says I need to charge my battery, now when I try and connect the charger, it says, 'Charging has stopped due to overheating'.
My question to all you pros, is this a battery or phone issue? I don't really want to order a new battery to find it's a problem with my phone. If it helps, when I tried charging it, I noticed excessive heat down one side of the phone, as shown in the attached image.
Be gentle :crying:
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You didn't mention how LONG you kept the phone components in bags of rice before trying to reassemble and power the phone.
If it was anything less than several days (if using rice as a desiccant, most recommendations I have seen are a week, minimum) and this is the only technique you attempted to use to dry the phone out, then it is very likely the phone was not completely dry when you powered it back up, and you may have permanently damaged key electronic components by allowing an electrical charge to flow through them before they were completely dry.
MistahBungle's call of the board responsible for the USB port is a good guess on which component, though.
Thanks for your replies guys.
I only kept it in the bag for 48 hrs. As you mentioned this probably wasn't long enough. I may just try and claim through our house insurance as it does cover smart phones, I don't have normal phone insurance because I've never needed it until now.
Thanks again for your help.
So my phone overheated with twrp- my phone did not like the version I updated to. I was using a replacement battery- non OEM. When I got my problems solved-I noticed a chemical odor coming from the phone when I pulled the battery and restarted after the initial overheat.
I went back to the OEM battery, got past my twrp problem, and was on a custom rom- Jedi-SofA. Weeks go by and yesterday my bluetooth refused to turn on. I restarted several times and no go. I thought it might be the update of the rom- build 4. When I got home the phone was hot and half the charge was gone in an hr or so. I pulled the battery, the same chemical smell was in the phone again. I restarted the phone and when I got back to it the bluetooth was now on. I could turn it on and off several times with no problems. So something was stuck and overheated my phone.
My question is What is that chemical smell being put out? Is the battery putting out gasses from overheating? It looks fine- no swelling, and it recharged fine and held the charge.
Any battery specialists out here? Thanks.
The chemical smell is most likely a component or solder point within the phone being heated beyond its limits.
I round recommend only OEM batteries, as applying too much voltage can fry things.
Water got into my phone(obviously) and I tried turning it on because of water resistance. It didn't respond. So I tried charging it. Tell my why the phone's battery screen flashed? NVM that, I tried the ol' bag full of rice trick. I left it there for about 12 hours. I tried again, and I got into recovery, but with a reddish tint. Well, I tried re-installing my ROM, hoping that it was an easily fixable issue. When the rom was installing, I unplugged my phone, instant power off. And my phone was at 100% before the install. I panicked, and knowing that I had to use my phone soon, I did probably the stupidest move ever, and put it on AN ELECTRIC HEATER. I left it there for 5 minutes, because that heater gets so hot that the air in my whole house is dry after ~30 minutes. Now sometimes when I turn it on, if the charger isn't in, the apps initialize, then power off, other times I get nothing. If I put the charger in, I sometimes get a white-ish triangle with a red thermometer(I'm guessing temperature warning?) and sometimes the battery flashes periodically. Please help, because of family health problems I need to be able to use my phone.
EDIT***: Phone WILL turn on now, condensation on both cameras, and battery temp too low to charge, so now there's a broken thermometer.
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Water got into my phone(obviously) and I tried turning it on because of water resistance. It didn't respond. So I tried charging it. Tell my why the phone's battery screen flashed? NVM that, I tried the ol' bag full of rice trick. I left it there for about 12 hours. I tried again, and I got into recovery, but with a reddish tint. Well, I tried re-installing my ROM, hoping that it was an easily fixable issue. When the rom was installing, I unplugged my phone, instant power off. And my phone was at 100% before the install. I panicked, and knowing that I had to use my phone soon, I did probably the stupidest move ever, and put it on AN ELECTRIC HEATER. I left it there for 5 minutes, because that heater gets so hot that the air in my whole house is dry after ~30 minutes. Now sometimes when I turn it on, if the charger isn't in, the apps initialize, then power off, other times I get nothing. If I put the charger in, I sometimes get a white-ish triangle with a red thermometer(I'm guessing temperature warning?) and sometimes the battery flashes periodically. Please help, because of family health problems I need to be able to use my phone.
EDIT***: Phone WILL turn on now, condensation on both cameras, and battery temp too low to charge, so now there's a broken thermometer.
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This phone is not water resitant. So trying to turn it on, before it dried completely was not that great of an idea. You could still have someone disassemble it, clean the board in alcohol and replace the battery. I think you just overheated the battery and you might have several shorts on your "mainboard". So please stop using it, until someone cleaned the board at least in some isopropanole or even better isoprop in an ultrasonic device. Dont just throw it in completely, but the "mainboard" only.
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Dropped my Poco F1 in the sink. I didn't turn it off immediately as it worked for ~30 minutes (this is stupid I know.) Eventually the screen stopped responding and turned off. I took it to a phone repair place who pulled the back off and dried it out mostly, but as they were unfamiliar with the phone didn't want to proceed further. It's since been 2 days since it got wet so i tried plugging it in. The charge light started flashing which was the first sign of life i'd seen from the phone. I tried turning it on, the screen came on with a faint black very briefly with a short vibration also. The phone promptly shut off again and now not even the charge light is showing anymore.
What would be the best thing to do from here? I thought about getting a replacement screen however it takes at least 2 weeks to ship to Australia from any of the vendors I've found online. Would the replacement screen be worth it, or is the issue something else?
oggerz said:
Dropped my Poco F1 in the sink. I didn't turn it off immediately as it worked for ~30 minutes (this is stupid I know.) Eventually the screen stopped responding and turned off. I took it to a phone repair place who pulled the back off and dried it out mostly, but as they were unfamiliar with the phone didn't want to proceed further. It's since been 2 days since it got wet so i tried plugging it in. The charge light started flashing which was the first sign of life i'd seen from the phone. I tried turning it on, the screen came on with a faint black very briefly with a short vibration also. The phone promptly shut off again and now not even the charge light is showing anymore.
What would be the best thing to do from here? I thought about getting a replacement screen however it takes at least 2 weeks to ship to Australia from any of the vendors I've found online. Would the replacement screen be worth it, or is the issue something else?
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It's completely damaged.
Screen got shorted out from the water and motherboard is damaged based off of the nonresponsiveness / partially damaged response of the Android OS.
It progressively got worse because the water caused corossion of the metal components.
Sad to say it's completely unsalvageable except maybe the camera.
oggerz said:
Dropped my Poco F1 in the sink. I didn't turn it off immediately as it worked for ~30 minutes (this is stupid I know.) Eventually the screen stopped responding and turned off. I took it to a phone repair place who pulled the back off and dried it out mostly, but as they were unfamiliar with the phone didn't want to proceed further. It's since been 2 days since it got wet so i tried plugging it in. The charge light started flashing which was the first sign of life i'd seen from the phone. I tried turning it on, the screen came on with a faint black very briefly with a short vibration also. The phone promptly shut off again and now not even the charge light is showing anymore.
What would be the best thing to do from here? I thought about getting a replacement screen however it takes at least 2 weeks to ship to Australia from any of the vendors I've found online. Would the replacement screen be worth it, or is the issue something else?
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Pocophone has no given IP Water Resistance Rating since Xiaomi launched the Pocophone, but only certified Splashproof rating. See the video on JerryRigEverything wherein he did a teardown video and saw all components of the Pocophone and proven no water protection in Type-c port, headphone jack, speakers, etc.
In your case, 30 minutes underwater? It is dead. You can salvage it but not everything.
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Pocophone has no given IP Water Resistance Rating since Xiaomi launched the Pocophone, but only certified Splashproof rating. See the video on JerryRigEverything wherein he did a teardown video and saw all components of the Pocophone and proven no water protection in Type-c port, headphone jack, speakers, etc.
In your case, 30 minutes underwater? It is dead. You can salvage it but not everything.
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It wasn't underwater for 30 minutes. It was only underwater for a few seconds, but it was working for about 30 minutes after it got wet, and then shut down completely. I have taken it to another repair tech who got it working again, it is responsive/vibrating however the screen is still dead. Any recommendations for a replacement screen?
Place it in a sealed bag full of rice for at least 24 hours.
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It wasn't underwater for 30 minutes. It was only underwater for a few seconds, but it was working for about 30 minutes after it got wet, and then shut down completely. I have taken it to another repair tech who got it working again, it is responsive/vibrating however the screen is still dead. Any recommendations for a replacement screen?
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How deep was it? Where did it fell from?
What was the outcome ? Have exact the same accident
oggerz said:
Dropped my Poco F1 in the sink. I didn't turn it off immediately as it worked for ~30 minutes (this is stupid I know.) Eventually the screen stopped responding and turned off. I took it to a phone repair place who pulled the back off and dried it out mostly, but as they were unfamiliar with the phone didn't want to proceed further. It's since been 2 days since it got wet so i tried plugging it in. The charge light started flashing which was the first sign of life i'd seen from the phone. I tried turning it on, the screen came on with a faint black very briefly with a short vibration also. The phone promptly shut off again and now not even the charge light is showing anymore.
What would be the best thing to do from here? I thought about getting a replacement screen however it takes at least 2 weeks to ship to Australia from any of the vendors I've found online. Would the replacement screen be worth it, or is the issue something else?
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Hello,
could you mabye say if the display replacement worked for your pocophone? I had exact the same accident (phone fell in 2-3 centimeter salt water, worked for 30 minutes, after then screen went off, charging light is working).
Now I know what sould have to do first: turn off the phone immediately. Second mistake, I did not save the holiday photos on external storage, just on internal.
All data maybe is lost...
BR,
Alessandro
I have an ASUS Zenfone 4 (ZE554KL), but I don't think that matters.
Recently my phone came into contact with a bit of water, but I quickly dried it off. After a few minutes I got a notification that the charging port was hotter than normal; I imagined that maybe some water was still in it and causing problems, so I shut off my phone to put it on rice overnight, but as soon as it turned off it turned back on, and now the screen won't stay off anymore. Every time I press the power button to turn off the screen it immediately comes back on.
I booted into TWRP to re-flash my phone (yeah I was out of options), and while in TWRP, the screen was able to turn off completely, so there's definitely something I can do software-wise. Any ideas?
Also: while in TWRP with the screen off, my battery still drained quicker than normal, so maybe the CPU is always awake aswell? God damn.
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I have an ASUS Zenfone 4 (ZE554KL), but I don't think that matters.
Recently my phone came into contact with a bit of water, but I quickly dried it off. After a few minutes I got a notification that the charging port was hotter than normal; I imagined that maybe some water was still in it and causing problems, so I shut off my phone to put it on rice overnight, but as soon as it turned off it turned back on, and now the screen won't stay off anymore. Every time I press the power button to turn off the screen it immediately comes back on.
I booted into TWRP to re-flash my phone (yeah I was out of options), and while in TWRP, the screen was able to turn off completely, so there's definitely something I can do software-wise. Any ideas?
Also: while in TWRP with the screen off, my battery still drained quicker than normal, so maybe the CPU is always awake aswell? God damn.
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Must be some water/moisture shorting a contact somewhere inside. It may have moved or evaporated as it got hotter when you used TWRP.
This can be very tricky, especially with new sealed phones. Hopefully you can get back off a can of air could blow it away & then let it dry out 100%. Else turn off & try putting phone in a sealed container with rice (or the moisture absorbing desiccant if you can buy it) for a week ... or two. (turning on & warming it up & putting it back in for every few days might help)
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Must be some water/moisture shorting a contact somewhere inside. It may have moved or evaporated as it got hotter when you used TWRP.
This can be very tricky, especially with new sealed phones. Hopefully you can get back off a can of air could blow it away & then let it dry out 100%. Else turn off & try putting phone in a sealed container with rice (or the moisture absorbing desiccant if you can buy it) for a week ... or two. (turning on & warming it up & putting it back in for every few days might help)
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Hmm I don't think I can open this phone, but I'll google it. My phone already spend 5 days on rice, no difference yet; should I keep it more time?