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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SuPha-L33T-K1LLa said:
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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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
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Current status...the battery is working and the phone is booting,but always in the headset mode...and the touch screen has become laggy.SD card working.trien to flash rom thru recovery but it stops unexpectedly.checking USB.
Help me with ways to install a fresh rom without recovery working.
did this happen to anyones lg p500 ??
Did you dry the phone completely before you tried turning it on?
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sajjan said:
Current status...the battery is working and the phone is booting,but always in the headset mode...and the touch screen has become laggy.SD card working.trien to flash rom thru recovery but it stops unexpectedly.checking USB.
Help me with ways to install a fresh rom without recovery working.
did this happen to anyones lg p500 ??
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Have u tried put your phone in a bowl or rice for 2-3days?
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are you serious dax? or it was a joke?.....seriously in rice?
shrewdgeek said:
are you serious dax? or it was a joke?.....seriously in rice?
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silica gel would be perfect to remove any moisture.
shrewdgeek said:
are you serious dax? or it was a joke?.....seriously in rice?
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No he's right, dry rice is hygroscopic.
@OP - Don't use your phone for 2 days. When water fell on my laptop (A whole glass), I let it dry in diffused sunlight and the water evaporated after 2 days or so and my laptop is now in perfect condition.
Rice is spot on, my kid sister dropped her htc into the bathtub (TEXTING), BUCKET O' RICE FOR 18hrs and like nothing ever happened
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Have u tried put your phone in a bowl or rice for 2-3days?
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s8int117 said:
Rice is spot on, my kid sister dropped her htc into the bathtub (TEXTING), BUCKET O' RICE FOR 18hrs and like nothing ever happened
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If not, put into brown sugar or in the fridge for few mins (not for hours, your phone will be frozen!) It will sucks the moisture and the little bits of water...
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are you serious dax? or it was a joke?.....seriously in rice?
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No kidding, it works on one of the member here...
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Those things work indeed.
About flashing without recovery:
Use KDZ FLASHER
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lol open phone's every part & blow hair dryer on it..dont burn it off..
Rice is hygroscopic, but you can also go to service and ask for something like sonic bath... When i get my old Nokia 6120 some fresh water ;p I took it to service and they use sonic bath on it (to get rid of water and moisture). Up to today, this phone is fully working after falling to real bath
I think using hair dryer is endanger... also don't use microwave - your phoen will dead, but service shouldn't found answer why..
Cheers!
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DaxElectro said:
If not, put into brown sugar or in the fridge for few mins (not for hours, your phone will be frozen!) It will sucks the moisture and the little bits of water...
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I can also confirm that my LG was in fridge for 10-15 minutes and it is still in perfect condition. (I had to do that due i overclocked my processor to 864 MHZ and on set on boot argument... oh my crappy finger ;p.. i was gettlig kernel panic for 30 seconds due to processor overheat)
I attest to mighty power of rice ziploc bag for 2 days. Phone just dropped out of my hand in big cup of tea, one in thousand chance. Rice work. I wouldn't put it in fridge while full of water because ice expands. To cool overheating is good though.
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Thanku ppl....almost everything is working fine except the volume button ..I ll try the rice technique and see.
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sajjan said:
Thanku ppl....almost everything is working fine except the volume button ..I ll try the rice technique and see.
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You usually do it before you turn on your device, but good luck man.
Rayman96 said:
I can also confirm that my LG was in fridge for 10-15 minutes and it is still in perfect condition. (I had to do that due i overclocked my processor to 864 MHZ and on set on boot argument... oh my crappy finger ;p.. i was gettlig kernel panic for 30 seconds due to processor overheat)
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Woah, have you learn your lesson not to oc till 864 mhz? Just kidding..
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Rice works.
I dropped mine in the toilet, 1 day inside a bag of rice an it worked fine.
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Woah, have you learn your lesson not to oc till 864 mhz? Just kidding..
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I had learned many lessons that day... I was on old Andy's rom (hybrid CM and GB) and after this experiment i had to cool it in fridge. What is more, on same day, after succesful flashing miks cm7 my phone turned off. I thought it was bricked. But after 20 minutes i get on well with it (hm, battery became 0%, but i charged it finally). Then... on SAME day i tried to made ext partition for apps on sd.. I forgot that is wiping all data on it... CRAP AGAIN! ;p
All was on holidays, far away from my home's stuff; only with netbook. But i've got copy of sdcard (7 days old...) and good fridge
I know it looks crazy, but it is 100% real.
That was biggest lesson i have ever learn. Now i'am always know, what i am doing. Never get brok again!
Cheers
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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criptix said:
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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roundeye1987 said:
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!
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
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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Royalfox said:
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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Royalfox said:
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