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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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!
If this hasn't happened to you yet., and it's going to happen to you later. You have been messing with your phone without looking at your battery levels and mid rom flash you are out of juice, your phone won't charge. The charger appears to be working but the phone just won't charge.
I used to have a droid x and you have to use a special tool by Motorola to change the os on it. It requires you to be plugged in but sometimes won't charge your phone. Mid update my phone ran out of juice, I had a spare battery but the phone wouldn't turn on or charge. After many desperate appempts I found a fairly easy solution.
The trick is you find any usb cable you don't want.. You strip the end with the adapted part of the usb.. You cut the green and yellow wires.. You put the black wire on the negative terminals and the red wire on the positive terminals
This should give your battery enough energy to start itself up if you hold the wire on the terminals for a minute.. Although I'm not sure if this damages the battery.. I would only use this in case of an emergency,
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How dare you be so awesome!
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What..... Or should I say que?
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Or you could get a cheap $3 wall charger from amazon or ebay (the type that holds the battery not the cable).
Did the same with my droid 2 global
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Or use Amon Ra recovery... it will actually charge a fully dead battery.
Clockwork MOD has issues charging a completely dead battery.
This is for a situation where you need it charged at that moment.. Not wait 1 week for a charger.. Most people know about the chargers, but shipping is nothing near instant
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Preparation however is a key to success.
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Preparation however is a key to success.
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I agree, already have spare batteries, and external charger... In my notebook bag.
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Easiest solution! Don't flash with a low battery.
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Easiest solution! Don't flash with a low battery.
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Exactly. I didn't know people did that. :screwy:
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I was a noob and over eager lol
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This is for a situation where you need it charged at that moment.. Not wait 1 week for a charger.. Most people know about the chargers, but shipping is nothing near instant
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2 days with prime
And you should remember the 6 P's
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2 days with prime
And you should remember the 6 P's
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Reference for those of us who are uninformed?
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Preparation however is a key to success.
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I agree, already have spare batteries, and external charger... In my notebook bag.
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yep, have 8 extended batteries right now. Don't think I'm running out of juice!
What if you could wire the batteries together is some way to make a 1 week shoe box sized battery. That would be worth buying... If you wanted to carry it around
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They already make these "brick" charging devices. Not a shoe box, just a large battery that can charge your phone multiple times before it needs to be recharged. Pretty sure I have seen a 8000mah and higher.
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Reference for those of us who are uninformed?
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Proper planning prevents piss poor performance
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Proper planning prevents piss poor performance
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Haha nice
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If I didn't have an extended battery then i would have two stock ones. Keep one charged and the other in the phone.
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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Woke up in the middle of the night to a ringing noise on my phone, it wasn't coming out of the rear speaker? First thing I did was to check my alarms, sure enough they were turned off. I turned off the phone and it went away 3 min later the noise came back!! While being off. I could only think of being an alarm for a hot battery?
Was the phone really hot? Was it plugged in or running a cpu intensive app?
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It was kind of hot Lol it was under my pillow not plugged in. Anybody has had a similar situation? By the way this is my first HTC device
Your not suppose to put you smartphone underneath your pillow while it's powered. I don't know about the noise but just don't place it under your pillow. You can placebos in your pocket though.
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Your not suppose to put you smartphone underneath your pillow while it's powered. I don't know about the noise but just don't place it under your pillow. You can placebos in your pocket though.
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I put placebos in my pocket all the time.
doesn't seem normal for a a phone to have one
Didn't intend to put it under the pillow I just set it aside in bed, but it ended covered somehow. Temps got up 116 degrees F. Its some type of security alarm I guess, because it sounded while the phone was off too.
That's crazy talk! .. thats interesting.. question is why did it get that hot?
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Yeah 46.7C is pretty warm for a phone...
Same thing happen to me but with my htc one x
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djnicho12 said:
Same thing happen to me but with my htc one x
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Hey I'm not alone!! It felt spooky that the ringing sound didn't go away even by turning off the phone.
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Hey I'm not alone!! It felt spooky that the ringing sound didn't go away even by turning off the phone.
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This same thing happened to me today. I work in a large concrete building with VERY little reception. All of a sudden I head the chirping ringing that you're describing. I guess my DNA was getting hot while it was reaching out for signal all day.
I remember my Bionic getting pretty toasty at the office too, but I guess it didn't have an alert for overheating. Anyway, I'm pretty sure this is temperature related because after putting it in airplane mode and going outside on my break (where it's 45 degrees), it stopped right away. :good:
Now I just need to find out how to disable it, because I work on the phone almost all day, I can't have it chirping up a storm in the background.