Got my ZU a week or so, totally in love with it! "i'm a size queen" lol
leaving this aside, I went on to test it's underwater capabilities and was quite confident as my previous Z was a warrior and no water infiltration in one year!
after submersion, that was for ~5 seconds I carefully wiped it dry and made sure there is no water left in the headphone jack
6 hours later I leave work and plug my headphones in and SURPRISE! at max volume the phone acts like it loses contact with the headphones and pauses the track in WALKMAN.
same in FM radio, tried with 3 different pairs of headphones.
should I let it more toooo...idk get the headphone jack dry off?
Water damage indicator is white, no infiltration and i made SUUUURE i had the flaps closed.
help me guys
UPDATE:
left it alone for a while and it's all good now
seems there was a droplet of water or smth still in the headphone jack.
sigh, maybe a protective flap for it is not that bad afterall? lol
thanks anyway guys
back to being happy with my ZU ^.^
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Hi
I've read that when XTZ speakers get wet makes them muffled, which s normal if there is water in the holes.
But there is something strange I observe. When I get my XTZ-3G wet, one speaker is muffled, but the right one is complete OFF - no sound whatsoever from it. And when the speaker is halfway dry it works, but I observe a buzzing sound coming from it with the music...
This is not observed with the right speaker. And when tablet is dry - 30min later speakers sound OK.
Is it possible to be defective, etc to get water damaged?
I checked the ports and they stay dry, indicators are not visible .
Rozamar said:
Hi
I've read that when XTZ speakers get wet makes them muffled, which s normal if there is water in the holes.
But there is something strange I observe. When I get my XTZ-3G wet, one speaker is muffled, but the right one is complete OFF - no sound whatsoever from it. And when the speaker is halfway dry it works, but I observe a buzzing sound coming from it with the music...
This is not observed with the right speaker. And when tablet is dry - 30min later speakers sound OK.
Is it possible to be defective, etc to get water damaged?
I checked the ports and they stay dry, indicators are not visible .
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Officially you should wait at least 3 hours for the speakers to dry, but my own experience is in line with yours, 30+minutes. For me, the right speaker was clogged badly too but I assumed it was because the Right speaker was submerged longer. It played sound, but very muffled and distorted. I'd recommend doing as Sony says and avoiding use of the speakers till dry if you want to avoid damage.
So for about 2 seconds, my shiny new Samsung Galaxy S4 (Verizon) was submerged in water. I pulled it out, jerked the battery and fed it to the rice for a couple of days.
Amazingly enough, the unit survived - but with one caveat.
Anytime the speaker is powered up to play a sound, you can hear "radio noise" ... popping, clicking, etc.
Most of the time, the audio DOES PLAY as well, but even if you have the sound muted complete, the speaker still gets a power hit when a sound is "supposed" to play (muted or not), so it makes it impossible for me to use my phone in silence with all the popping and snapping and noise.
Audio clip available upon request.
I ordered and replaced the loudspeaker assembly (four screws, no cables - seemed like a brain dead easy solution). This had ZERO effect on repairing the issue.
Can ANYONE point me in the right direction? I would have thought replacing that speaker assembly would have been a slam dunk win but I'm no expert.
Thanks so much!
By the way, no other audio is affected. Headphone sound is perfect, earpiece sound is perfect. Mic appears to be perfect.
Rice doesn't remove moisture completely from your phone. You have a short. Silica works the best for an emergency situation. You best bet live with the speaker or its time to use the insurance
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Rice doesn't remove moisture completely from your phone. You have a short. Silica works the best for an emergency situation. You best bet live with the speaker or its time to use the insurance
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Unfortunately, I had no silica at the time
Insurance is not an option (I don't THINK) because Verizon considers it "customer supplied equipment" - and I still have 11 months to "pay it off". Very depressing.
Probably not going to be cost effective to repair either. Sigh.
Well then .. turned out to be insured after all. $100 deductible. I gotta say, they got the replacement system down pat.
I had a new phone and was up and running withing 36 hours.
I have Sony Xperia Z Ultra and i always play games and listen to music while taking a bath, but sometimes internal speaker is just too quiet, and since headphones port dosent have flap i was thinking about taking my headphones with me when im taking a bath, does anyone know is this safe?, i dont plan to put the phone underwater while headphones are connected but im afraid that steam and vapour might break my phone when headphones are connected but then again im not sure since phone works fine underwater even tough headphones port dosent have flap (i put it in water the same day i bought it but without headphones connected)
Please someone answer my question, i need answer fast.
Thanks in advance.
Sorry for my bad English.
I've done it quite a bit, like you say, not dipping it in, but yeah, it's fine.
Yes you can. I always do that. Just be shure to wear some waterproof headphones ( or at least fitness ones).
Are you sure that steam and vapour wont cause oxidation in my phones connector and that it wont void warranty, i think i can see water sensor in headphones port, can you check if you can see something white or red in your port (if its white then its fine but if its red then warranty is voided) but im not sure if it is really water sensor, btw does it make any difference if headphones are water resistant (fitness) or normal ones because i dont have water resistant or fitness headphones, but i dont really care if headphones break, its not problem to buy new headphones but im more worried about my phone because i dont want to buy new one
Hey guys. I recently had to walk in the rain for about 30-40 minutes to my Dads work, and no I don't have a car at the moment. My phone had closed flaps and everything when I was walking. I had my rain jacket on but my phone was in my jacket's pocket. When I arrived at my dad's work I saw how wet my phone was, so i dried it off with a towel. First thing i tried was listening to music using my earphones, and it didn't work, so maybe i though it was my earphones. Then I tried to watch an MKBHD video (Yes, why not.) on youtube in landscape mode, but it didn't work, so I tried playing a tilt racing game, and my car didn't turn at all. So up to that point, i got stressed out. So I rebooted my phone, and first thing I noticed was that my Notitfication panel was Stock Marshmallow and not N themed anynmore. Then approx 7 seconds later, BOOM. Everything on screen went gone. Since it wasn't an amoled screen, i could still see that the backlight was still on, with slight darker areas around the bottom right corner. The touchscreen was still working. I was able to boot into the 'invisible recovery' (lol) and I could swipe and press and do everything, but still nothing on-screen was showing. The I looked at both of my cameras, and I could see on moth there was waterdroplets around the lenses. At that point, I got extremely stressed out, but i still ate pizza because i was hungry. (lol) So I putted in rice when i got home overnight. Still nothing happened. When rubbing the power button, i can feel water sliding out gently. I couldn't understand up to that point. "The Z2 is waterproof! Water damage was the last thing on my mind to happen to this phone!" Any solutions or tips from you guys? Thanks alot for any help!
And please don't comment that I'm a troll and i deserve it, because I'm not! Anyway, I just need help on this. Thanks!
Put it back in rice and leave for a lot longer on a radiator. Leave flaps open. Whenever phones act up after being in contact with water you gotta power that thing off. I know to late but keep drying that phone off. Best you can do. I had some say they did it for week. This worries me for my phone. But the phone really isn't that waterproof. This flaps can fail with just a little dust trapped in them..
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Hej as I wrote in PM to Brandon, last year I send my phone to service couple of months old z2 for faulty pixels and themselves replaced casing, flaps, and also some parts of screen. They only commented that casing with flaps was faulty. Precaution with water... Then saying that I submerged it in swimming pool for coupe of minutes and shot a great video, phone still works.
I recently replaced both microphones in my V30. Both became so weak and barely pickup any sound. To my surprise, there was no visible water breach/damage or dirt accumulation. The MICs basically just died of old age.
Is this common? What can cause MICs to die like that? In one of my cars, I have a magnetic phone holder but that seems to be a long shot possible cause.