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I was vacuum cleaning and my girlfriend comes near me with a panic face. She says:" your phone went off the window!"
Well, we live in a second floor and I started sweating. Looked down and started to think that wouldn't be covered by warranty and that it isn't fully payed yet and that the next one I wanted to buy a top of the line. The phone was without the cover and the battery was next to it.
Started to imagine the cracked screen, twisted chassis. It's dead!
My girlfriend went to get it.
Not a single scratch all parts still fit together all system and hardware all fully functional!
Our phone rocks!!!
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sampainho said:
I was vacuum cleaning and my girlfriend comes near me with a panic face. She says:" your phone went off the window!"
Well, we live in a second floor and I started sweating. Looked down and started to think that wouldn't be covered by warranty and that it isn't fully payed yet and that the next one I wanted to buy a top of the line. The phone was without the cover and the battery was next to it.
Started to imagine the cracked screen, twisted chassis. It's dead!
My girlfriend went to get it.
Not a single scratch all parts still fit together all system and hardware all fully functional!
Our phone rocks!!!
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Your lucky, i got a little scratch on the left rubber near the screen.
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Our phone ROCK.
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Haha u got lucky mate!!
even the phone is of a good build quality
be carefull next time
the thread name says it all
Yep, youre really lucky. I on the other hand, dropped the phone while I was getting out of my ride, kicked it accidentally as it bounced off the pavement and anded on a puddle of water and mud. You've guessed it, it still works(not without some scratches though). So yes, OUR PHONE ROCKS!!!!!
I was in school and my friend pushed me while I was using my phone. It dropped onto the hard cement floor but no scratches.
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Joel Chan said:
I was in school and my friend pushed me while I was using my phone. It dropped onto the hard cement floor but no scratches.
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my brother took my cell and started using my facebook .... i tried to take cell from him... but at dat tym it fell twice on d marble floring ..... still nothing happened ..OUR PHONE ROX
i got scratchs all over i keep on dropping it....my bad
Dropped mine once, concrete, got a ding which i had to file off in order for the back to sit flush
i just wanted to share my experience that happened right now, im relaxing after a tragical fact.
It has nothing to do with my P500 BUT another electronic device had some trouble.
i was drinking beer playing along with some friends League of legends.... on my laptop.
The beer was freezing freezing cold, on the glass, so it had some moisture on it...
Took the glass, had some, and right when i was passing it over my laptop to leave it on desk, it slipped, crashed on the keyboard, and poured ALL OF IT [3/4glass].
TOOK my laptop on the floor, flipping it immediately. I shut it down hard way, removing battery, cleaned it, opened it cleaned it inside too.
ok... after the game ended i got a leave mark
after 30minutes i was ready to turn it on again...
Everytime i was in windows mode, it was crashing.... random time!
Total 3 reboots/crashes.... this is the 4th one, im relaxing now, being a lot anxious about how things go on...
My laptop is a HP Envy [17"]. Pretty expensive, i have warranty for 1 more year, but what the hell, if i didnt open it to clean it, it could be dead by now!
so......... KAISER + LAPTOP = DANGER
im off to bed, bad week, bad weekend, Friday 13th came at Sunday i guess!
hahaha
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.
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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.
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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
eastside08 said:
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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Sunday night my girlfriend put my pants in the wash as soon as I came in from working in the yard without checking to see if my pockets were empty. I had left them in my hamper and jumped in the shower
When I got out of the shower, I realized that I had left my phone in my front jeans pocket. I went looking for my jeans but to my horror realized they were in the wash.
I immediately stopped the washing machine and dug all the clothes out. Sure enough, my RAZR was in there.
I threw the phone in a bowl of rice and contemplated it's fate. Called Verizon and found out that I did have the insurance and that it would be a $99 deductible and they would ship me a new one. After that I watched some disassembly videos on YouTube. I decided that I would try to take it apart and dry it all out before going the insurance replacement route.
I went to Home Depot and got a set of torx bits with T4 and T5, along with some others. The kit didn't have a T3 which the video said I would need, but I decided to see how far I could get. As it turns out I was able to remove the T3 screws with the T4 bit by just pressing hard. I also used the dull edge of a butter knife to pry the case open, that was the only other tool I used for disassembly besides the T4 and T5.
I figured I would need the T3 to properly reassemble. I found a kit after work the next day at Fry's that included a T3 along with 29 other bits for a reasonable $11.99. When I got home, I first gave the main board some time under my girlfriend's hair dryer set on medium, just to get any remaining moisture out. Then I carefully reassembled everything. Nothing happened when I first pressed the power button, so then I put it on the charger and started to see signs of life; it was charging the battery! I waited until the battery was 10% charged and the attempted to power up again. Success! The phone booted right up! And everything is working just as before. I am so happy.
This adventure has given me the confidence that I would also be able to install the larger Maxx battery kit! I think I'm going to get it for myself on my birthday!
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nice fairy tail story :laugh:
You wife dropped hers in the toilet, after fishing it out she cleaned it in the sink with hot water then dried it off. It stilled worked so later she told me what happened and I used air to blow more water out of it. I called and paid the $99 for the new one but she continued using her old one for a few days till I got her new one restored. Verizon support said it would eventually begin to corrode inside and stop working. Hope yours continues to work.
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One thing that may have helped in my case is that I have a front-loading washing machine, which uses far less water than a top-loader.
I did open the phone up and dry it out completely so I hope that corrosion is not an issue. But I guess we'll see. If it starts malfunctioning a few months down the line, I will blame it on the dip it took in the washing machine.
Isnt razr supposed to be partly waterresistant?
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It is not water resistant but splash resistant as it was advertised. It was not designed to survive a washing mashine attack.
@Op, good story bro. Nice to know that my phone can survive such conditions.
The razor is also water resistant. It also has a special coating on the boards.
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Could you pay a little more on the insurance and get a maxx instead?
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.
Have there been any cases of water damage with the Razr?
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Mine was dropped in the bathtub. It was completely submerged for about 10sec. I turned it off to be safe and removed both the sum and memory cards. Then I used a hair dryer on low heat to try and push some of the water out. After about 30 minutes from the incident I turned it back in and have been using it ever since with no problems at all.
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noobletsausecakebbq said:
Have there been any cases of water damage with the Razr?
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From what I've seen it's pretty good. There's this video on youtube where a guy drops his in a bowl of water and gets pretty psyched. No case or anything. And I guess they put some protective coating over all the internal parts to make it less prone to water damage.
I had mine completely submerged in a tub full of used motor oil (I'm a mechanic) and have poured coffee on it twice and there have been no adverse affects so far. I have, however flexed it being in my pocket without the otterbox on it and broke the LCD/digitizer combo screen which is about 200 bucks online. Thank god for insurance...
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The nano coating on the Droid Razr, is supposed to give it a Water Resistant verification, with enables it to resist ocassional liquid splashes. However, it does not have any waterproof (Submerge) certification, which proves that constantly submerging the device will not be a good idea.
It's Water "Resistant" not Water "Proof."
Yes it can take on water damage. Fresh water, such as dropping it in the tub or the toilet might not hurt it too bad, but if you drop it in salt water, it will eat away the nano-coating and damage the phone.
I don't think constantly submerging ANY electronic device is a good idea...
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My awesome Motorola Droid Razr M
Awesome phone!!!! Had mine almost two years now. No problems. I left it in a storm in my driveway on two separate occasions and i also dropped it in the toilet. Without having to cut it off and wait for it to dry out my phone was still on all three times and its still on and popping.
Please I wanna know if I can able install lollipop on my Motorola Droid Razr. Please is it supportive ?
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Please I wanna know if I can able install lollipop on my Motorola Droid Razr. Please is it supportive ?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2950906
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RAZR is splash proof. Not water proof..
I've taken in out during rain. Also dropped it in a jug of water for 10secs for a bet. But I won't suggest anyone dropping inside water for long time.. It won't withstand.
A true death involes being left in a pocket and put in the washing machine. My phone is a 2nd generation replacement after my father forgot to take his phone out of his pants pocket before throwing them into the washing machine. He figured it out just after the fill cycle. The phone was dead. The subsequent replacement (a refurb) had some HW issues but Verizon replaced it with a new phone at the store.
Don't wanna hijack this thread but my Atrix HD was once dropped into rain water (4 months back) It was submerged for atleast 3 minutes and when I pick it up and turned it on it was okay. I turned it off immediately to be on safe side, later turned it on after an hour or so and it's working fine till now.