So I clumsily managed to dunk my phone in some water last night. Luckily it was just for a second or two and came out working fine...
...except for the power button. Whenever I press it (to wake or lock the phone), the phone seems to think I'm actually holding it down. So I hit it once to unlock it and my phone will shut off, then stay shut off for a while. It will try to reboot itself, too, since it thinks I'm holding the power button, but won't get very far before turning itself back off. Could there just still be some water in there causing a glitch or is this something more serious.
Also, a temporary fix would be pretty nice, since not unlocking it means not using it pretty much. And for long term, should I try taking it apart to try to dry it or just leave it alone and hope it sorts itself out? It was working fine this morning (after getting wet), so I'm thinking (hoping) its only temporary.
Any thoughts?
With any water damage I've always found it best to leave the phone in a bag of uncooked rice overnight. Every time I've done so the phone would be perfect the next day
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Turn it off. Now. And put it in a bag of rice for at least 24 hours. The damage may already be done since you left the device on (ALWAYS power off after contact with water so you don't short anything out) but it may also be reversed. All you can do is try.
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I dropped my phone in water for maximum 5-6 seconds. I pulled the battery out, dried it with a towel then ...(later i realize it was stupid) tried to turn it back on. It just did a fast boot loop without even pressing the power button. It's like the power button was stuck?
Then i read the online guides about the rice. So i put the phone in a rice container for 12 hours. I took it out and turned it on (using the power button). This time, it actually turned on, loaded up the KISS screen (I'm using ICS KISS) then it would just reboot to Vibrant again.
I also tried vol + and got download mode but when i did vol - i did not get recovery
Turned it off, put it back into the rice. Hoping things might change. Got a backup phone for the time being.
Question is... Can I simply flash the phone to stock or is a component linked to the main SDCard corrupted?
Thanks for the help!
Hello there! Are you comfortable with talking the phone apart? If so (only if you are), i myself would take out the battery asap with no power connect to the device. Then i would simply take it apart and leave it in parts to let dry. I would also look around for possible corrosion around soldered connections. If corrosion (usually white powdery looking kinda like a battery terminal in a car), i would take rubbing alcohol and a tooth brush and scrub it away. Then let it sit and let dry. Once dried out reassemble and insure that the connection ribbons are very securely in place. Sometimes when a phone is dropped and starts to boot loop, it just means a connector isn't all the way connected anymore. But considering that water is in the picture, it could be a combination. By the way this is at your own risk and this is what i would personally do and have done with success. Ive seen phones with plenty of water still in them after the rice thing. I hope this helps you out man. Good luck and if you do choose to take apart your phone just take your time and be careful. I would only take out the main board and the board that connects to it and not worry about anything else that isn't a board. Sorry for the book lol.
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If you Google "how to install front faced camera vibrant mobiletech video", watch the youtube video because they take apart the back of the phone. It not as hard as you think. Then put it in a bag if rice like the above post said. Good luck!
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I know I've read it once before somewhere on the Internet. Well it happened to me.
My first EVO was returned because the light leak finally got to me. I too was part of the group who had the big sticker on the box. Other than that the phone was perfect.
The second EVO was pretty much perfect. I had 1 system reboot a day or so into owning it. Figured it was nothing. Less than a week in, I went to charge the phone and the phone restarted. Didn't know what to think. Unplugged it and played with it a little. Plugged it in again and it restarted again. Now I was perplexed. Once it restarted, I unplugged it and plugged it in to see what would happen. It just shut down. No shutdown animation. Just went black. No charging light or anything came on. Won't power up and won't accept a charge from any charger. Now I have a new replacement but I figured I'd share my experience.
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Had to this happen to me. Left the phone alone for 20 mins, even turned on a fan to cool the phone. Starting charging.
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Wasn't so lucky. Left it over night and still nothing.
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Had the same thing happen to me...all you have to do is hold down the power button for 10 seconds and wait for the buttons on the bottom to flash and then the phone should restart.
What's the "sticker on the box" issue?
Happened to me too...started up google latitude on the phone then all the sudden it went black and no calls went through, even though it rang. I was able to turn it on 30 min later, but after I held the power button down for like half a minute.
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Had the same thing happen to me...all you have to do is hold down the power button for 10 seconds and wait for the buttons on the bottom to flash and then the phone should restart.
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Negative. Tried that too. Was tempted to throw it in the freezer too. Someone who had a similar issue said the phone came alive after that.
The phone was completely non responsive.
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What's the "sticker on the box" issue?
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I think some members mentioned that there were different batches. May be a coincidence but some of the phones that were reporting problems came with the larger sticker seal on the phones cardboard box.
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i picked up my phone from best buy on 5/24 like 2 or 3 days into owning it i had my phone reboot randomly 1x. after the reboot it looked fine. 10 min after that it was non responsive and getting hot on the back. nothing i could do would reset it. not even holding the power button down. the row of buttons would flash but no reboot. i then put it on the charger no charge light came on and nothing whatsoever happened. i figured i had a phone that was DOA. after 20 or 30 minutes i pulled the phone off the charger it booted up and i have not had a problem to this day. My phone is not rooted and i am not doing anything crazy with it at this point. i Do have what appears to be a larger sticker on my box. Another problem i had before this was people said my voice faded in and out during calls. i tried everything. finally blowing long and hard into the microphone hole seems to have resolved the issue. just putting my experiences out there. hopefully this was an isolated incident and i will have no further issues. but i will not hold my breath.
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.
All:
Tonight my 4GLTE was plugged into it's charging cord and was at about 95% battery. I received a phone call, picked up the phone and pushed "answer". When I did the phone turned off and it won't turn back on. I've tried the "on & down volume" many times and nothing will happen. When I plug the power cord in the charging light isn't coming on.
I have had no problems with the phone. I'm on the Tranquility ROM and everything has been perfect. When I went through the S-off process back in Dec. the phone "bricked", it acted exactly like the phone is now, will not turn on, no lights come on, nothing. The great people at Dirty Racun walked me step by step through their procedure to unbrick the phone and it started up and has been perfect from Dec. til tonight.
I'm baffled and wish like hell this phone had a battery I could pull. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
thanks,
DC
I take it the capacitive lights don't light up when you hold the power button down for several seconds?
Leave it plugged in overnight and try to power it on in the morning.
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All:
Tonight my 4GLTE was plugged into it's charging cord and was at about 95% battery. I received a phone call, picked up the phone and pushed "answer". When I did the phone turned off and it won't turn back on. I've tried the "on & down volume" many times and nothing will happen. When I plug the power cord in the charging light isn't coming on.
I have had no problems with the phone. I'm on the Tranquility ROM and everything has been perfect. When I went through the S-off process back in Dec. the phone "bricked", it acted exactly like the phone is now, will not turn on, no lights come on, nothing. The great people at Dirty Racun walked me step by step through their procedure to unbrick the phone and it started up and has been perfect from Dec. til tonight.
I'm baffled and wish like hell this phone had a battery I could pull. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
thanks,
DC
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I know is very frustating cause It's happened to me as well.
I did some searching and found some tips. Nothing solid.
Leave the phone charging even though the led doesn't turn one. Sometimes for me it will revive after a while being plugged.
Other is to hold the power button for a very long time. 1-2 minutes and hope it reboots.
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I know is very frustating cause It's happened to me as well.
I did some searching and found some tips. Nothing solid.
Leave the phone charging even though the led doesn't turn one. Sometimes for me it will revive after a while being plugged.
Other is to hold the power button for a very long time. 1-2 minutes and hope it reboots.
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Curious, but were you S-off, and if so, did you use Dirty Racun?
Also, did you have any luck resurrecting your phone?
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I also had my evo lte just die. I'm in the process of mailing it out to HTC. I was completely stock no root. It just never powered back on after it charged over night
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FinZ28 said:
I take it the capacitive lights don't light up when you hold the power button down for several seconds?
Leave it plugged in overnight and try to power it on in the morning.
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Nothing lights up, that's why I described it as being dead. I'm not a novice with these phones as far as rooting and installing ROMs etc. One item I left out last night is that in the last few weeks I've had to "move" the micro usb connector around to get the charge light to come on. It would always light up and charge but had probably gotten worse, not better. Also I have my Evo4G (which I just activated so I have a phone) and with this charge cord I also have to move it around to get it to activate the charging light. I'm going to buy a fresh micro usb cord this morning in the hope that the new cord will make a difference.
I'm really not optimistic that a new cord will change anything. I declined to buy the insurance for the phone when I got it in Dec. I;ve had bad experiences with Sprint and their cost to repair the Evo4G even with the insurance. I think I'm going to install Unix on my netbook again and try the procedure that Dirty Racun walked me through when the phone "bricked" last Dec. They brought it back to life for me although this time I'm afraid it has something to do with the usb port causing the phone to shut off and die. As I said last night, the phone was charged to 95% when the call came in and I picked the phone up and it suddenly went black.
I love this phone and having to go back to the Evo4G is a real step backwards, plus I've got lots of data on the internal SD card of the LTE that I need. I'm in pulling my hair out mode now....thanks for the suggestions, if anyone thinks of anything else please let me know.
DC
Went through this a few days ago. Battery was at 40% and i was playing CSR Racing from the market. Anyways, my phone got super hot so i ended the game and went back to my home screen....few seconds later screen went off and phone was unresponsive. Nothing i did could make it turn on again tried for a few hours. My sister has a evo lte as well so i took apart our phones and switched her battery in place of mine and voila it booted up. Didn't expect the battery to just go out like that.
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Went through this a few days ago. Battery was at 40% and i was playing CSR Racing from the market. Anyways, my phone got super hot so i ended the game and went back to my home screen....few seconds later screen went off and phone was unresponsive. Nothing i did could make it turn on again tried for a few hours. My sister has a evo lte as well so i took apart our phones and switched her battery in place of mine and voila it booted up. Didn't expect the battery to just go out like that.
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That's interesting, my battery has been excellent. I do remember a few weeks ago it getting really hot while charging but it's been fine ever since. I've got the phone apart now. I needed to replace the glass screen and bought, what I thought, were replacement parts for the lcd-glass screen. I've just found out from a video that the lcd and glass screen come together as one part. I don't know if I can take the broken one off and install the new glass screen or if I have to buy the lcd and glass. I'm ticked off because the ebay seller claimed this is all I needed to replace a cracked screen OR an unresponsive LCD touchscreen. I'm glad I didn't pay much for the glass.
Thanks for the info about replacing the battery.
DC
Update: I talked with a Sprint rep at a corporate store yesterday and he told me to bring the LTE in and he was certain HTC would fix/replace it under the 12 month warranty as long as there was no physical damage "not turning on could be blamed for". I told him damage didn't cause it to suddenly go black while plugged in at 95% charge when a call came in.
I'll have to replace my screen before taking it in although the truth is my screen had a crack in it for 2 months before this happened and had nothing to do with the phone bricking itself suddenly.
Any updates?
My wife's phone had this happen at a ridiculously inconvenient time.
Here's what to try:
1. Pseudo-Battery-Pull: Hold power button for 15 seconds, this will force the phone to shut down (if it works). Try powering back up. If nothing, then:
2. Hold Volume Up + Volume Down + Power for 2 MINUTES, and then release. That should reset the battery charge logic. (Note: this will only work at all if the phone is truly powered off) If that doesn't work:
3. Disassemble the phone, disconnect the battery. Wait 20 seconds and then reconnect the battery, and reassemble the phone.
Step 3 worked for me. Hope this helps somebody!
Thanks,
Josh
joshdv said:
My wife's phone had this happen at a ridiculously inconvenient time.
Here's what to try:
1. Pseudo-Battery-Pull: Hold power button for 15 seconds, this will force the phone to shut down (if it works). Try powering back up. If nothing, then:
2. Hold Volume Up + Volume Down + Power for 2 MINUTES, and then release. That should reset the battery charge logic. (Note: this will only work at all if the phone is truly powered off) If that doesn't work:
3. Disassemble the phone, disconnect the battery. Wait 20 seconds and then reconnect the battery, and reassemble the phone.
Step 3 worked for me. Hope this helps somebody!
Thanks,
Josh
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Thanks alot for the suggestions, I'll give them a try when I buy a new screen/lcd etc. and install it. Going back to my once loved Evo4G is such a step backwards I can't explain it.
I have an ASUS Zenfone 4 (ZE554KL), but I don't think that matters.
Recently my phone came into contact with a bit of water, but I quickly dried it off. After a few minutes I got a notification that the charging port was hotter than normal; I imagined that maybe some water was still in it and causing problems, so I shut off my phone to put it on rice overnight, but as soon as it turned off it turned back on, and now the screen won't stay off anymore. Every time I press the power button to turn off the screen it immediately comes back on.
I booted into TWRP to re-flash my phone (yeah I was out of options), and while in TWRP, the screen was able to turn off completely, so there's definitely something I can do software-wise. Any ideas?
Also: while in TWRP with the screen off, my battery still drained quicker than normal, so maybe the CPU is always awake aswell? God damn.
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I have an ASUS Zenfone 4 (ZE554KL), but I don't think that matters.
Recently my phone came into contact with a bit of water, but I quickly dried it off. After a few minutes I got a notification that the charging port was hotter than normal; I imagined that maybe some water was still in it and causing problems, so I shut off my phone to put it on rice overnight, but as soon as it turned off it turned back on, and now the screen won't stay off anymore. Every time I press the power button to turn off the screen it immediately comes back on.
I booted into TWRP to re-flash my phone (yeah I was out of options), and while in TWRP, the screen was able to turn off completely, so there's definitely something I can do software-wise. Any ideas?
Also: while in TWRP with the screen off, my battery still drained quicker than normal, so maybe the CPU is always awake aswell? God damn.
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Must be some water/moisture shorting a contact somewhere inside. It may have moved or evaporated as it got hotter when you used TWRP.
This can be very tricky, especially with new sealed phones. Hopefully you can get back off a can of air could blow it away & then let it dry out 100%. Else turn off & try putting phone in a sealed container with rice (or the moisture absorbing desiccant if you can buy it) for a week ... or two. (turning on & warming it up & putting it back in for every few days might help)
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Must be some water/moisture shorting a contact somewhere inside. It may have moved or evaporated as it got hotter when you used TWRP.
This can be very tricky, especially with new sealed phones. Hopefully you can get back off a can of air could blow it away & then let it dry out 100%. Else turn off & try putting phone in a sealed container with rice (or the moisture absorbing desiccant if you can buy it) for a week ... or two. (turning on & warming it up & putting it back in for every few days might help)
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Hmm I don't think I can open this phone, but I'll google it. My phone already spend 5 days on rice, no difference yet; should I keep it more time?