I have no idea how this happened! I woke up and there was a little water under my screen. I blame Snowden... Quickest and best way to remove the water? Please and thank you. [:
Pull out the battery. Put it in a bowl of rice overnight.
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+1 that will cure it right up
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Yep. Dropped the phone in the toilet. But as a testament to the Photons build quality, all is well now after a very low (115 - 125°) warm up in the oven, an hour on the table, and an hour in a rice bag. All except my volume buttons. Up no longer appears to do anything, and down now locks the volume controls on the phone in constant turning up state. So I'm debating returning the phone and turning in an insurance claim. Anyone else had a drop of death into some kind of water that can offer some hopeful words?
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Had an EVO4G that fell in as well. The best thing you can do is wait at least 24 hours to let the internals dry out. If they still don't work, you will have to bite the bullet on an insurance claim.
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ssaggy said:
Had an EVO4G that fell in as well. The best thing you can do is wait at least 24 hours to let the internals dry out. If they still don't work, you will have to bite the bullet on an insurance claim.
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He's right. My photon took a dip as well and I pat dried it as best as I could and then placed it inside a bag of rice for 24hrs and its like new!
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You can also try an alcohol bath. Get 95% and disassemble the photon wipe everything on the board down with the alcohol using a qtip. Let dry and reassemble.
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You can also try an alcohol bath. Get 95% and disassemble the photon wipe everything on the board down with the alcohol using a qtip. Let dry and reassemble.
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Do u know of a guide for how to disassymble the photon? And things seem to have cleared up. Another couple hours in a rice bath and the volume keys cleared themselves up. Now I get a weird "fog" over some of the screen edges. Its mostly cleared up but still happening when I use the phone for am extended period in some spots.
Ya know u think ur careful when you have a phone like thus but all it takes is one mistake to put it in the crapper.
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Do u know of a guide for how to disassymble the photon? And things seem to have cleared up. Another couple hours in a rice bath and the volume keys cleared themselves up. Now I get a weird "fog" over some of the screen edges. Its mostly cleared up but still happening when I use the phone for am extended period in some spots.
Ya know u think ur careful when you have a phone like thus but all it takes is one mistake to put it in the crapper.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1384763
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radrian92 said:
He's right. My photon took a dip as well and I pat dried it as best as I could and then placed it inside a bag of rice for 24hrs and its like new!
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i can vouch for the rice for 24 hours trick... threw my previous phone in the washer - didn't realize it until after the wash cycle... activated the photon in the mean time... previous phone still works after a day with rice.
check your PM's.
roundeye1987 said:
Yep. Dropped the phone in the toilet. But as a testament to the Photons build quality, all is well now after a very low (115 - 125°) warm up in the oven, an hour on the table, and an hour in a rice bag. All except my volume buttons. Up no longer appears to do anything, and down now locks the volume controls on the phone in constant turning up state. So I'm debating returning the phone and turning in an insurance claim. Anyone else had a drop of death into some kind of water that can offer some hopeful words?
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Just remember that even though your Motorola Photon 4G may come back from Davy Jone's Locker and work fine, you may very well wake up one morning to find your MoPho deader than Lazarus and nothing you do will turn it back on at which point you may end up exclaiming "MoPho! MoPho! MoPho!" LOL!
So I dropped my rezound in the toilet while i was listening to music. Since it was connected to my headphones I was able to pull it right out. It was only in the water for a fraction of a second. It worked fine for the rest of the night. I threw it on the charging dock overnight, and now the screen won't turn on. It makes calls, the speaker works, and I can use s voice by long pressing search. I need to know if a screen replacement will fix it, and also where the water damage indicator is to see if I can send it to Verizon.
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Im not judging, but why were you listening to music in the bathroom?
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Trying to change the song while taking a piss. Oh and alchohol was involved
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Lmfao. You will be fine as long as you find and replace the water indicators. Then you can call Verizon for a warranty replacement and send it back. You shouldn't get charged.
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Lmfao. You will be fine as long as you find and replace the water indicators. Then you can call Verizon for a warranty replacement and send it back. You shouldn't get charged.
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Where's the water indicator though?
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Where's the water indicator though?
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Look around near the battery. It could be there. There probably is one on the battery too.
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You might be out of luck on getting that thing snuck by in the long run. Yeah, there is an indicator in the space under the battery and on the battery itself, but...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25302725
Take a look at the second photo. There is (at least) one internal indicator next to the headphone jack.
Possible an internal indicator got tripped. VZW reps aren't careful, but the refurb process might catch you. Then you're looking at a HUGE charge on your Verizon account weeks after the fact. :/
Just giving a heads-up. Possible the water wasn't in there long enough or seeped in deep enough to trip the sensors either, I've submerged an old Pantech with indicators intact before.
Know stuff happens when drunk, just try and remember under all frames of mind to pull the battery immediately and put in rice to dry. Good luck.
Found the battery indicator and the one under it and they're both fine. But thanks for the heads up. Hopefully it works.
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You should have tried the rice trick. Immediately after getting your phone wet, tear it completely down - as in, unscrew the back cover, disconnect the mainboard, etc. and put everything in a bag of rice for at least 24 hours. I brought back my Incredible that way.
You're lucky that your water sensors didn't get triggered the one under my battery got triggered and I haven't gotten a drop of water on it just humidity triggered it so I replaced it with my external battery I then returned it and it worked
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Hope all goes well man .
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Yes good luck with warranty fraud .
Would have tried the rice trick but.....alchohol....and it was working fine. And in the water for so little I though I was okay.
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In the future, you can possibly avoid ruining the phone if its dropped into water by immediately removing the battery and setting the phone inside a zip lock bag filled with uncooked white rice. The rice will absorb the moisture from the phone and without the battery inside the phone its less likely to short out cause there should be no moving electricity.
So i went to a party that had a pool. I forgot that i still had my Evo in my pocket. Just got home and tried turning it on or charging and both didnt work. What should i do?
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So i went to a party that had a pool. I forgot that i still had my Evo in my pocket. Just got home and tried turning it on or charging and both didnt work. What should i do?
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Wow, that stinks. You could try to find some sort of desiccant to wick away the water, like those little packs that come in boxes or like dry rice. Once it is completely dry, hope for a miracle.
Tupperware -Bowl of rice - 24hrs hope for the best. Leave battery out. Don't try to power on again.
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So i went to a party that had a pool. I forgot that i still had my Evo in my pocket. Just got home and tried turning it on or charging and both didnt work. What should i do?
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Leave battery out. Don't try to power on again.
You can use hairdryer to drying your phone motherboard, please open your back cover to drying.
Good Luck
hi, my galaxy s3 was in my pocket today when i was out in the rain, i got soaked and the phone did get a bit wet to,i took the phone out my pocket to see the flash just flashing away by its self, i took the battery cover off and there was a bit of water under it,, and also it the flash comes on when i press the on button for some reason, whats the chances that its shorted a circuit out? or will it be fine when it drys out? ive got it in a bag of rice just now and ive not had it on since so i dont even know if its just the flash thats dodgy, but it does still turn on i just turned it off straight away.
hope its not damaged as its not even insured
Rice works wonders, just make sure you have the battery out of the phone.
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Rice works wonders, just make sure you have the battery out of the phone.
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i hope so as i cant see it being a cheap fix if it has shorted something out, a thought they would have been a bit more waterproof than that though lol will overnight just be enough in the rice? or should i leave it longer?
Personally I would just open it up, pop off all the connections and leave like that for an hour or 2. Takes only a few minutes.
I did that to a mate's S2 when he dropped it in salt water while fishing. It was under for close to a minute. 7 months later and it's still running fine.
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Personally I would just open it up, pop off all the connections and leave like that for an hour or 2. Takes only a few minutes.
I did that to a mate's S2 when he dropped it in salt water while fishing. It was under for close to a minute. 7 months later and it's still running fine.
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i will give that a try if the rice doesnt do the trick
As the title says, my friend's x10 fell into the swimming pool. Since x10 is not water resistant, is there any method in saving the phone?
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Why don't you try dry it out under the sun? Maybe you can go to some shop and ask them to dry it using some vacuum..
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As the title says, my friend's x10 fell into the swimming pool. Since x10 is not water resistant, is there any method in saving the phone?
Cheers :fingers-crossed:
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dont try to switch on the phone
remove the battery
put the phone fully immersed in a bowl of dry rice for 2-3 days.
After that put on battery and try to switch it on. If it works, you are saved or else the phone has to be repaired.
Thanks guys. The phone is saved!! XD What a luck. I take out the batteries. Vacuumed the phone and then immersed it in uncooked rice XD well, no need to buy a new phone
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SuPha-L33T-K1LLa said:
Thanks guys. The phone is saved!! XD What a luck. I take out the batteries. Vacuumed the phone and then immersed it in uncooked rice XD well, no need to buy a new phone
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Glad to hear that