So I've had the photon since August and it's always worked great. Well this morning it dropped into the toilet and I grabbed it almost instantly, took it apart and dried it off, then put it in a bowl of rice for about 5 or more hours now. When I would place the battery in at first the flash would keep going off and if I plugged it in a white LED light would come on. The screen started turning a white foggyish color and I placed it back in the rice and it went away. I plugged it back in and the LED light flashed green then after a few seconds went to the motrola screen and says starting RSD protocol support and wont go away.
I just have no idea what to do now.
Put it back in the rice, maybe more weird things will happen
On a normal phone, RSD mode turns on when you press and hold power button and volume up button at the same time, so i assume that something is wrong with your volume rocker, the volume button somehow got stuck or something, so when you try to power the thing on it goes to RSD mode (like you are holding the volume up button)
same thing happened to me!
well it didnt happen recently.. but about a year ago i dropped my BB into the toilet
and immediately took it out and dried it off
i then took off the back case and battery and put it fully submerged in a bowl of rice for like a day and a half just to make sure it was all dried out
and even shifted the rice to get "fresh" rice next to the phone
after that it worked perfectly
good luck
and dont take it out too early or the moisture could mess with the phones board
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Alcohol bath also helps. Disassemble the phone clean all connectors and board parts with 99% rubbing alcohol and qtips.
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I think drying it out in the sun (maybe through a window if you live in a humid/rainy climate) works better than rice.
My wife dropped her LG optimus S in her coffee last year. By the time we got the warranty replacement, the old phone was working again. I just unplugged it and pulled the battery and let it dry out. Took a few days. I tell you, it was the best smelling phone we ever had. I almost kept it and sent back the replacement!!!!
Good luck.
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Hey guys. on saturday night. the hero my gf had was dropped into a toilet.
i managed to get it back the following day
and ive head it in a bag or rice ever since then
i took it out this morning to have a look and i tried power button and nothing happened.
i plgged it into usb to see what was up and the charge light came on. however when i press the power button the charge light goes off and the phone does nothing
ive included pictures of the phone below.
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I'm anything but an expert, but it's likely the water has got into the screen area and other parts and possibly short circuited it?
It happened two days ago,i did the rice thing and left it for 48 hrs,
today i did a test and i figured the following :
when i hold the power bottom,the battery icon appears (as empty) for a second and then disappears, at first it was a loop, right now it does this for one time.
when i connect the phone to a charger,the phone starts the (charging state) and the battery appears to be full,at this stage i hold the power buttom and the phone starts perfectly and smoothley,i dissconnect the phone from the charger and phone is working with no problem and the battery is full as i left it before the water damage situation.
Is it the battery or the phone itself...???
do i have to leave the phone back on the rice for a while..??
'The Rice Thing' Whats that, urban legend?
Rice will not work. It is an urban legend. The back of the phone has to come off, not the battery cover, the phone back (7 screws). Carefully pry around the back of the chrome bezel and remove. Blow it out with canned air (the phone not the back cover). Soak in denatured alcohol for 5 minutes. Blow it out again. Leave it alone in a warm place for 3 days. Put it back together and fire it up. If it does not work you may have shorted a component on the motherboard. If so, sell it on eBay and cut your losses.
Trying to use a phone that has not been dried out properly will ruin it eventually. Even just leaving a charged battery in it will ruin it as well even if it is not on.
I have X10 that i bought from a friend. Last month i dropped it when i was on the beach. I Quickly remove the battery and wash it with clean water because i heard that salt water will damage my phone.then i leave it to air for about 2 days, I didn't dissasemble it because i was affraid. Then after 2 days i power up my phone then it backs to normal (there is some kind of water trace on the screen but everything works normal).
After about a week, i charged it but it won't charge at all. I have to remove the battery,put it back after 5 mins and recharge to do it. After about a month I was playing mp3 using headset and went to sleep but what i found on the morning is my phone turned off. I thought the battery has run out of power, I charged it but nothing happens,even the LED won't show a red light. I brought it to SE but they won't repair it because my friend bought this phone at hongkong not in my country. I decided to fix it my self,i tear down the phone and found that the cover of the ICs are rusty, not all of the cover but only some. I try to plugged in the charger to the micro usb slot on that teared down condition and what i found is the power management IC (qualcomm PM7540) got hot.
Could anybody help me?what should I do?
Did you stick it in uncooked rice. I did it when I dropped mine in sanitized water. Left it in for a full 24 hours and my x10 works like a charm. Try it. Just be careful to get ALL the rice out before powering it back up.
slyism3003 said:
Did you stick it in uncooked rice. I did it when I dropped mine in sanitized water. Left it in for a full 24 hours and my x10 works like a charm. Try it. Just be careful to get ALL the rice out before powering it back up.
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thx for your reply,i have tried it last night.but only for a night because I'm sure that it is already dried ( I leave it to air for about a week ). Still it won't powered on,looks like short circuit problem. My friend told me that i should buy a new mainboard but it cost so damn high. I just want to know if there is another way to fix it.
Now, for this device already is late to help, but for the future, to other users such advice:
If your device visited salt water, then
1. Take off a back lid and battery
2. Carefully and repeatedly wash in the distilled water all parts
3. Dry up to the complete drying out at a temperature 40 ะก
so my phone got wet.. probably something was spilled over it or something...
anyway it shut down immediately (obvious)
i've opened the battery and pulled it out and i had water there.. i've dried it with a napkin as best as i could and power it on.. id didnt work
i've tried to plug it in the charger (probably shouldnt but was in panic heh) and i got the boot logo and the battery showed 5 precent.. i've waited a couple of minutes and it went up and up.. then i booted the phone... everything worked fine.. thought it was over and all was good.
then after 30 minutes or so i've unpluged the phone and after maybe 5 minutes it shut down (battery showed like 30 precent)
anyway.. i've then dried it some more with a hair drier but still the phone didnt boot
every time i connect the charger it shows 5% but doesnt move from it.. always on 5%..
When plugged in i can try to boot up but i see the M logo and after a few seconds it shuts down, nothing happens
I also can enter recovery or RSD or all the things...
What can i do?? is that the battery thats faulty? or the phone is gone? what can i try??
Well you have probably ended up frying something by turning it on while it was wet. I think you should let it dry out completely and then try to boot it up. If it still doesn't boot its a goner.
Google ways how to dry it. One way is to put it in a bag of rice for 2 days.
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Towards the right of the SIM card, there is a whole in the plastic that has a moisture indicator spot, if that is white, then things are goodish, but if it is red??? then you may be in bad shape. Also, on the underside of the battery, there is another indicator, it should be mostly white with red + all over it, however if it is all red??? then the batter may be a goner. However, electronics these days are protected from some type of moisture, so it may just be still wet on the inside and may just need to be dried up.
To dry up electronics, as mentioned, a bag of dry rice is a great moisture sucker. Otherwise if you have an abundance of silica gel packets laying around, you can toss the phone into a container with those and let them sit for a few days.
However, you did you a hair drier, to that I say good luck. That kind of direct intense heat is horrible for most electronics, there is a very good chance you have destroyed some other internal component, and you probably won't be using your ATRIX any longer.
The issues you are running into are hardware related and the fact you can power on the phone at all surprises me. If you have a warranty plan that supports water damage, you can try reaching out to them and see what they want to do to help you, but considering you blasted a hair dryer at it, I would be very surprised.
take the battery, sim, sdcard, etc out and put in dry rice.
You plugged it into the charger, so game over imo. Whether it turns on or not you have damaged it. Better to cut your losses and look for a new phone. Done it myself.
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take the battery, sim, sdcard, etc out and put in dry rice.
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Its too late for that.
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Thanks for the replies.. An update for the situation..
I've waited more for the phone to dry and rest and then my girlfriend (her phone actually) started to mess with it and somehow turned it on and it actually works now.
The spot near the sim is white but the spot on the battery is totally red..
Now the strange thing is that the phone indicator shows that there is 5 percent left but when I looked at the battery voltage it showed 4196.. In the morning I checked the voltage and it was 4100 and the indicator showed 1%..
What's up with that??
Is the battery ruined? Or something else? Im going to buy a new one anyway but still...
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You may have got lucky and just ruined the battery. Watch for corrosion on the connectors in the phone for battery, sim, and sdcard. That may be the next problem if a new battery works out.
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My wife dropped her phone in water the other day and it was in there for probably 15-20 seconds fully submerged. I put it in a container of rice overnight and the following morning the screen came on but was green overlayed. I used a vacuum on the bottom charging and headphone ports to help draw out any remaining moisture that I could. I then put it in a bag of silica packets for a couple of hours. Upon removal it booted up fine with normal screen colors but wouldn't charge because of the Moisture warning. The phone worked fine for about an hour then the screen started wigging out and went blank... After a few rigorous smacks on my palm the screen came back on but it was lighter and lacking some contrast. Back into the silica it went overnight. This morning we plugged it in and it comes up to the charging lighting bolt but it won't turn on.. It keeps reverting to the lighting bolt. I'm thinking I may have to take it apart and clean the contacts in it. If I heat up the adhesive to remove the back cover, will it re-adhere, or will I need to replace the adhesive? If so, what would I use? I have double sided tape for those plastic film window kits.
I opened the phone up last night to clean the contacts and cables... After reassembly it doesn't do a single thing. Plugged in, button combos, rain dances... Nothing, not a peep or subtle vibration. Should I try again, or is something toasted?
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I opened the phone up last night to clean the contacts and cables... After reassembly it doesn't do a single thing. Plugged in, button combos, rain dances... Nothing, not a peep or subtle vibration. Should I try again, or is something toasted?
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