Today, my LG Optimus decieded to go for a swim. This helped me restore it to full functionality [except for some watermarks (How do I fix this? Please help.)]
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wikihow .com/Save-a-Wet-Cell-Phone Read this BEFORE continuing. Now, assuming you've read this, followed the instructions and for most of this, your phone turns on. There may be errors. These may help even if your phone isnt wet.
1)My phone and other cant read/detect my SD Card.
Solution (Worked for me): Heat up the SD Card slot with your breath. Then heat up the SD Card in the same way. Or use a hair dryer. The reason to this is that it increases your SDs lifespan. You should be ok, but just in case, back up all of your data to a computer.
2) My phone wont charge.
Soulution (tested and works): Rub the copper connections on your phone and battery, while they are seperate of corse with a pin or other non eletric metal. If not, check your charger.
3)My phones sound stopped working.
Solution (tested and works): Rub a Q-Tip in the headphone part of your phone. As easy as it sounds, it works. If not, reboot your phone. I learned to reboot because your phone might think that your phone is connected to headphones.
Hope I helped, and if you need help with something else concerning your wet phone, Ill be sure to try and help.
Whatever you do:
Dont freeze the water or evaporate it. Evaporating it can have harmful effects, leaving behind harmful growths and give it a foggy screen. Freezing it into ice expands its mass, shoving delicate components out of the way.
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So i see there are a few other threads but none that i found were quite like this. My phone randomly restarts and goes to the white screen that says stick together and won't load back up, also when i reset or take the battery out unless i have held the phone infront of my AC in my car or put it in the fridge/freezer it will not boot back up, it has heat issues but it's not actually that hot, i used to play playstation games and it would get much hotter and not freeze like this, it randomly started happening a couple of months after I got it.
it will freeze often in any temperature that is not considered cold, even in room temperature it will do it, any time i try to load my playstation emulator or use the internet it has a very high chance or resetting and not booting,
if the phone gets warm at all though it's a garuntee that it is going to happen, it just depends on when, i could just be finishing a call, sending a text etc, it will happen, and the only cure is putting it in the fridge.
i'm going to guess I have a virus of some sort or something really messed up in the ROM, but i've switched ROM's and it still does it,
should i do the SD card hspl back to SPL and try to find a legit original rom copy or is there a better solution for this? i.e deleting all my addons and going with a different ROM?
my rom history is TOUCH XTREME, Miri and Dinik(this is where it started) and now Energy(it is still happening here)
might be a good idea to go back to stock, though you dont need to remove hspl at this stage, just flash your phones original rom over usb, and have a real close look at the battery pins, they can often get bent leading to all kinds of reboot issues.
If its still the same under stock rom, then maybe remove hspl (no need for sd card flashing, can remove it using hspl2/hspl3(for tmous))
one of my pins was actually bent a while back! i bent it back to the shape it's supposed to be and used a safety pin to widen it back up so it looks like the rest, do you think that caused permanent damage? and if so is there something i can do to the pins to make it work right again? and not reset so easily
Well, i reflashed the stock SPL and ROM and yeah it won't even turn back on, just stays on the white stick together screen. it's done, being replaced by tmobile next week.
hmm, could be, perhaps if the pin is cracked a little, affecting power flow. not sure what to suggest.
I got the exact same problem as lllpulselll. I have already done a lot of things but none of them worked for me.
I did an hard reset
Tryed a lot of different rom's
Used the telephone al while without SD-card but still the same problem.
But I read somewhere that ik could also been your Sim-card, is that logic or not?
And by me also one of the pins by the battery is not right so I will that try to.
(Sorry for that bad English)
looks similar to overheating, you could install BattClock (it can monitor batery temperature) to check whether the self-reset happens at the same conditions,
had the same issue, finished with new mainboard (replaced under warranty),
during worst moments before repair I had to put my Leo in the fridge for few minutes before it could restart
p107r0 said:
looks similar to overheating, you could install BattClock (it can monitor batery temperature) to check whether the self-reset happens at the same conditions,
had the same issue, finished with new mainboard (replaced under warranty),
during worst moments before repair I had to put my Leo in the fridge for few minutes before it could restart
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That's probably it then, probably bent the metal things connecting to the battery and messed up the flow causing the battery to overheat or think it's overheating somehow. sucks that that is all that's wrong with it and it has to be replaced, wish the prongs could be repaired.
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probably bent the metal things connecting to the battery
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not necesserilly so don't blame yourself - mine had faulty mainboard (not battery) probably from the very beginning, but as it was purchased in winter, the symptoms did not show up until late spring, when outside temps grew
A little different issue here I think... Ill keep it as short as I can.
Running Viperom1.3 w RCmix kernel. All perfect until last night at 3am, when I dropped my Evo3D in a cup of water (no, not on purpose).
It was not plugged in or charging when this happened, but it was on.
I dried exterior, pulled battery, opened back, slightly lifted motherboard.
Using hairdryer on warm - low, slowly dried phone. Replaced all, booted, and it worked. Took apart again, and left it in front of fan for couple hours to make sure it all dried out.
All seemed fine today. Working like a champ. Sound, calls, etc all fine. Battery got low and plugged in charger. Got red/green blinking light. Bought new battery (since little color indicator inside phone/battery both show water damage). Still blinking. Did factory data wipe and it cleared that problem. Nandroided back to my Rom and all seemed fine but....
16gb sdcard wont show up when plugged in to computer. Dont get the "charge/disk drive" option. Just simply charges.
Went into settings and manually changed it to "d/d" but doesnt show up in computer.
Clicked/unclicked "ask me" box.
Checked/unchecked USB debugging.
Nandroid "mount sdcard" and computer still not recognizes it.
The card is visible in phones apps (root explorer, meridian, ringtones, etc) and all the files on the card are accessible.
Pulled card, replaced with another sdcard, reformatted within the phone, and same issue.
The cable Im using is the stock HTC cable. I also tried 2 other cables with the same result.
It seems to simply be stuck in charging mode. I dont know what else to try. Im not that knowledgable with adb, if that has anything to do with it. Im not against resetting the phone back to any state - maybe unrooting ?
I guess I should be happy that I even have a working phone after this, huh?
Any help would be appreciated. And of course, I did not get the extra insurance/warranty when I bought the phone (I know, I know...).
Thanks in advance.
I guess you can always load and remove stuff off it from a reader til someone can help figure out a better solution.
If you google micro sd card reader, they are like $6.
Hope that's a suitable temporary fix.
Good luck!
another temp solution would be to use an app called web sharing which i use a lot as not to hassle with a USB cable when i want to transfer files from the computer to my phone
WiFi Explorer, works Great! Also was a FREE app on Amazon app's the other day!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dooblou.WiFiFileExplorerPRO&hl=en
Also try Multi Mount, since app's can read the card, maybe Multi Mount will work...
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rafoid.multimountsdcard.widget&feature=search_result
Your not completely dried out, a hair dryer won't do it. Take the back off the phone remove the battery and put it in a zip lock baggy filled with dry white rice. Let it set in there for 24 hours and the rice will absorb all the moisture safely. Never use a hair dryer, you may have fried something. If you have insurance I would make a claim now. The $100 deductible sucks, but at least you will have a phone that you know will work when you need it. Water damage is water damage and your phone will probably never work 100% again. Why do you think the put those water detectors in the phone in the first place??
Got the phone in a rice baggie now. Took the back off to help speed up the process. Hope this will take care of it.
If not, heres my question. Could this still be a software issue ?
Would unrooting it back to stock correct any error anymore than my wipe/rom re-install?
Thanks
Update.
Tried rice/baggie but didnt improve. It had already been a couple days working before I did the rice thing.
Everything else works perfectly on it, just the USB connection. Tried mounting the sdcard via TWRP and no luck. Flashed another ROM and didnt help.
I must assume since it ONLY stopped after the water dunk, that its a hardware screw up.
Have been using a Wi-fi file transfer program, and ordered a new phone through insurance, so Ill put this behind me. And cups of water away from me.
Thanks all
Received my replacement phone and all works well. Could never get the disk drive to function at all - it just charged. I used a wi-fi file explorer in the meantime, which worked well. Thanks again for all the suggestions.
I accidentally left my phone in my pocket when doing laundry. I caught it pretty quickly, but none the less, it's no longer working.
I have a replacement coming but I have some photos and backups on the broken phone that I would like to retrieve.
I get no power to the phone and it doesn't connect to my computer.
The internal HDD is referred to as the internal SD. Does this mean it's like an SD card, and if I am able to take the phone apart, I should be able to access it like any other SD?
Any tips for how I could get the data off the phone before I have to return it would be much appreciated.
Afaik the internal disk is hardwired to the board, you may or may not be able to remove it (e.g. if soldered?) but I would rather bring it to a repair center and see what they can do?
Just out of curiosity, did you try and let it dry for a few days? Either in sunlight or speed things up with a hairdryer (not too close). I'm serious!
Once I had my phone (albeit not the SGS II) fall into water and it didn't work afterwards. A few days later, carefully trying to dry it to the best of my abilities it was working again. I admit it's a long shot but if you're extremely lucky it's worth giving it a try, no? The phone is broken anyways.
It fell in water on the 28th. I did the hair dryer and the rice trials. Didn't even try to turn it on for more than 24 hours.
I foolishly took my new S3 for a swim the other day, and now I seem to have a phone that will not connect to the network anymore.
Events so far:-
1. Took phone for 90min swim while turned on
2. Stripped, cleaned and dried phone
3. Phone seems to work in all respects but will not connect to network
4. IMEI is still there, SIM card reads data. Connect to network says connected, but when I try to make call says not connected
5. Left phone off without battery in overnight
6. Now have null IMEI and will not read SIM
So after searching the web and these forums I have tried
1. Rooting Phone
2. GSII Repair
3. Blowing stock ROM in over the stock Orange one already there (This phone had never been changed from the factory settings until swimming trip)
Still to no avail. I do have the IMEI written down, but I do not have an EFS backup.
Is there anyway I can recreate the EFS partition with my IMEI, or is this phone now a pretty ornament as far as GSM connectivity goes?
The best thing you can do is, disassemble it for as much as possible (if that can be done without damaging it)..
then clean the PCB with pure Alcohol, that way you rinse off all the dirt/minerals etc that will cause corrotion soon otherwise.
I'm not sure if this is solely a software problem, if there is dirt in ur phone shortening stuff (like anything of the radio)
you can get weird problems, i had this with a tiny bit of dust one day in a old phone. Therefor i think its a hware problem
I would wash it in alcohol anyway, after taking off the screen, and for the rest as much as possible.. then dry it for 8hrs +/- (alcohol vaporates easily). After that , see if you still have software problems.
Xssjaakie said:
The best thing you can do is, disassemble it for as much as possible (if that can be done without damaging it)..
then clean the PCB with pure Alcohol, that way you rinse off all the dirt/minerals etc that will cause corrotion soon otherwise.
I'm not sure if this is solely a software problem, if there is dirt in ur phone shortening stuff (like anything of the radio)
you can get weird problems, i had this with a tiny bit of dust one day in a old phone. Therefor i think its a hware problem
I would wash it in alcohol anyway, after taking off the screen, and for the rest as much as possible.. then dry it for 8hrs +/- (alcohol vaporates easily). After that , see if you still have software problems.
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Thanks I think it's as clean as it can be. No sign of any physical damage. Stripped right down to seperate pluggable components. It is either an electrical problem now or NV data being lost I think.
Hi! My Realme7 (RMX2155) drown in the sea. The only problem is non-working touchscreen (it loads in normal or recovery mode, connects wifi). Official service confirmed that phone is unrecoverable (problems with motherboard).
Stock recovery. No root, no usb debugging.
I need to recover user data (mainly photos) from it. As touchscreen is not working, I can't login to enable any settings (USB debugging, MTP, PTP).
I tried to:
plug in mouse, but OTG is disabled by default (need touchscreen to enable it in settings).
flash twrp recovery, but it returned red state (needs bootloader to be unlocked?)
made a full ROM backup and tried several recovery tools on it, but I see abracadabra in file names and in file content (see screenshot, encryption?).
I've no more ideas, pls help
BIG trouble, you did the wrong and worst thing...
Pull battery immediately.
Salt water is highly corrosive especially with energized circuits.
Your only hope is to pull battery and submerged in warm RO warm for 30 minutes, replace water and repeat. Move it around and try to completely flush out all salt. This will be impossible to completely do but it may be enough to allow temporary operation.
Drain water. Compressed clean dry low pressure air helps.
If it doesn't have a LCD display* flush liberally with anhydrous isopropyl alcohol minimum 96%.
Then displace as much of the alcohol as possible. Place in a warm, DRY room with a fan directly on it for a minimum of 4 days to dry.
Reconnect battery and attempt boot up. Even if it boots it will fail sooner or latter from the salt caused damage. Retrieve data asap.
No time to dilly-dally Mr Wick... tic-tok
Alternatively if this fails or if the data must be recovered, hire a data recovery service that will pull the chipset and attempt to retrieve the data.
The chipset with the data on it is most likely a BGA form factor. If the water got under it, it's corroding away its contact pads underneath.
*never get solvents of any kind near a LCD display. It will poison the liquid crystals.
blackhawk said:
BIG trouble, you did the wrong and worst thing...
Pull battery immediately.
Salt water is highly corrosive especially with energized circuits.
Your only hope is to pull battery and submerged in warm RO warm for 30 minutes, replace water and repeat. Move it around and try to completely flush out all salt. This will be impossible to completely do but it may be enough to allow temporary operation.
Drain water. Compressed clean dry low pressure air helps.
If it doesn't have a LCD display* flush liberally with anhydrous isopropyl alcohol minimum 96%.
Then displace as much of the alcohol as possible. Place in a warm, DRY room with a fan directly on it for a minimum of 4 days to dry.
Reconnect battery and attempt boot up. Even if it boots it will fail sooner or latter from the salt caused damage. Retrieve data asap.
No time to dilly-dally Mr Wick... tic-tok
Alternatively if this fails or if the data must be recovered, hire a data recovery service that will pull the chipset and attempt to retrieve the data.
The chipset with the data on it is most likely a BGA form factor. If the water got under it, it's corroding away its contact pads underneath.
*never get solvents of any kind near a LCD display. It will poison the liquid crystals.
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The problem is - it's too late It happened more than a month ago. I couldn't pull the battery - it's non removable (it was the first thing I tried). It was not easy to remove back cover without equipment (it is glued). Official service tried to repair the phone, they flushed out salt, changed screen, connectors, but with no result - motherboard was damaged already. However it still works completely, except the touchscreen.
I gave up trying to repair the phone, I just want to recover data - in any way.
Hire the recovery service is a good idea, but quite expensive. That will be my last hope
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The problem is - it's too late It happened more than a month ago. I couldn't pull the battery - it's non removable (it was the first thing I tried). It was not easy to remove back cover without equipment (it is glued). Official service tried to repair the phone, they flushed out salt, changed screen, connectors, but with no result - motherboard was damaged already. However it still works completely, except the touchscreen.
I gave up trying to repair the phone, I just want to recover data - in any way.
Hire the recovery service is a good idea, but quite expensive. That will be my last hope
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At that point break the rear cover off if need be as every minute counts.
Even with quick action is likely already dead anyway. The salt leaves a residue that attracts moisture. It may have given you enough time though to retrieve the data latter when it was flushed and dried.
See what kind of quotes you get. Probably starts at at least $400.
Hope that repair shop told you any repairs only be temporary at best... salt water is insidious.