Hi!
I went swimming with my phone with my phone in my pocket and once i realized i took it out and once i got home there was water vapor inside the lens. I just used a hairdryer to get rid of the vapor. Later, when i tried to take a picture, the camera kept fc'ing so i decided to wait overnight to see if it may fix itself and reboot it but none of those worked so i reflashed it on flashtool and it still doesnt work.
Does anyone know what I can do to fix this?
Thanks in Advance,
Harrold
harrold11237 said:
Hi!
I went swimming with my phone with my phone in my pocket and once i realized i took it out and once i got home there was water vapor inside the lens. I just used a hairdryer to get rid of the vapor. Later, when i tried to take a picture, the camera kept fc'ing so i decided to wait overnight to see if it may fix itself and reboot it but none of those worked so i reflashed it on flashtool and it still doesnt work.
Does anyone know what I can do to fix this?
Thanks in Advance,
Harrold
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You could try putting the phone into a bag full of rice to allow the rice to absorb any moist in your phone. Remember to open all the flaps to expedite the process.
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Ok so I dropped my Eris water the other day and it turns on but the touch screen stopped working. Thats fine, I just went back to my blackberry but is there a way to get info off of the phone. Since my touch screen does not work I can not get into the phone but I have numbers that were not saved, text messages, and other info on the phone that I need the touch screen to access. Is there any way to check my messages from the pc for android or recover them. Thanks
rllong1 said:
Ok so I dropped my Eris water the other day and it turns on but the touch screen stopped working. Thats fine, I just went back to my blackberry but is there a way to get info off of the phone. Since my touch screen does not work I can not get into the phone but I have numbers that were not saved, text messages, and other info on the phone that I need the touch screen to access. Is there any way to check my messages from the pc for android or recover them. Thanks
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if its water dont give up it will come back leave it in a bag of rice to draw out the water
If you turned it on it's probably too late and is broken... if you really are optimistic try the rice but that only really works if the phone doesn't turn back on.
i have heard stories of these going into the wash cycle and coming back after a few days
rice doesnt actually work any better then just sitting your phone on a counter, dried corn actually does absorb humidity out of the air (alton brown actually went into a 10 minute long scientific rant on why this is)
have you tried the master application? i haven't myself, but i bet there are ways to pull data off using it.
Lemcott said:
rice doesnt actually work any better then just sitting your phone on a counter, dried corn actually does absorb humidity out of the air (alton brown actually went into a 10 minute long scientific rant on why this is)
have you tried the master application? i haven't myself, but i bet there are ways to pull data off using it.
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Both dry rice AND dry corn do indeed pull moisture out of the air for sure.
It's just that most people have dried rice around their house, and most people do NOT have dried corn around their house.
I have had great experience with rice, and poor experience with the 'counter'. I definitely spilled coffee on my Eris last week (a lot), then pulled battery, rinsed it off with REGULAR water (because I didn't want the coffee to dry on there and ruin things), then wiped it quickly, shook it, and threw it in rice for a few hours. It has run 100% since.
I don't feel like leaving it on the counter would have brought that much success.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/20/how-to-clean-up-water-damaged-electronics-the-rice-bowl/
Neither here nor there, I suspect that uncooked rice is a better choice than 'out in the open'.
The most important thing with any wet electronics is probably NOT TO TURN IT ON while it's still wet. Wait at least 24 hours, either in rice, near a stove top, dried corn, or whatever you're going to use.
But DONT' turn it on. That won't make ANYthing better.
Good luck
LOL, you specificically indicated that your question was not about fixing water damage in the title of your post, and you got 5 replies about how to fix water damage.
If your phone was rooted, the easiest way to do what you are asking would be to find another rooted phone, and manually make a nandroid backup via adb, take the SD card out of your phone, put it in the other root phone, and restore that backup to that phone. This would only work if you had USB debugging turned on before the phone got wet.
If your phone was rooted, but you couldn't find another rooted phone to help you out, what you are asking is technically feasible, but far, far more time consuming: reverse engineer the data files for the apps in question. That sounds daunting, but is probably not as bad as it seems, as many of the phone apps use "sql_lite" databases, and text within the database files can be seen using a hex editor or the Unix command "strings"
If your phone is not rooted, I think you are SOL.
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Thanks for all your help guys. I turned my phone on because I didnt know not to turn it on LOL but I know now. I hope it will turn back on but thanks for your help guys about the data.
Google contacts (not the phone type) automagically upload to Google. And most data other than that should be saved on the SD card anyway.
If you used Google contacts and not phone contacts, login to gmail and goto contacts. They should be in there.
Can't you navigate with the trackball?
hello, phome got wet yesterday, unplugged battery, let him dry, now evryrhing is working, just camera app dont want to start, no error
More information would help. Are you rooted, what rom, etc. If you are not rooted, do a factory reset. If you are, flash another rom.
However, I can guarantee you the water is the problem, and you probably wont be able to fix it.
sniperkiki said:
hello, phome got wet yesterday, unplugged battery, let him dry, now evryrhing is working, just camera app dont want to start, no error
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Try using another photo app, such as Instagram, just to test that there is no fault with the actual camera.
Happened to me once, my solution was opening the phone completely and putting it on a rice bag for a week
I didnt put it apart, even put in in rice.
And after month and a half (yesterday) camera started working by itself
Hi everyone, my S3 decided it liked swimming yesterday and fell into a toilet and stopped working. As soon as I got it out, I took the battery out, wrapped it in toilet paper, and left it in the sun for 12 hours. Now, its being detected by my computer, and charges, but the screen stays blank. Is there any way without opening up the phone, as it is still under warranty, that I can fix the screen problem. It was running rooted Samsung 4.3 stock rom and was working fine till it had a swim.
Thanks in advance,
PSLover14
PSLover14 said:
Hi everyone, my S3 decided it liked swimming yesterday and fell into a toilet and stopped working. As soon as I got it out, I took the battery out, wrapped it in toilet paper, and left it in the sun for 12 hours. Now, its being detected by my computer, and charges, but the screen stays blank. Is there any way without opening up the phone, as it is still under warranty, that I can fix the screen problem. It was running rooted Samsung 4.3 stock rom and was working fine till it had a swim.
Thanks in advance,
PSLover14
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Im afraid leaving it in the sun would of done more harm than that. This keeps the water inside then allows it to evaporate into even smaller gaps then condense back into water when it can't get out. The "correct" i suppose way of doing it is by pulling it apart a much as you can and putting it in rice etc.
Im don't think there is a way to bring the screen back at this point.
Darke5tShad0w said:
Im afraid leaving it in the sun would of done more harm than that. This keeps the water inside then allows it to evaporate into even smaller gaps then condense back into water when it can't get out. The "correct" i suppose way of doing it is by pulling it apart a much as you can and putting it in rice etc.
Im don't think there is a way to bring the screen back at this point.
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So if I clean up the connector inside the phone, it will do nothing? as everything else works, as confirmed through a ADB screenviewer on my PC (litecam Android)
PSLover14 said:
So if I clean up the connector inside the phone, it will do nothing? as everything else works, as confirmed through a ADB screenviewer on my PC (litecam Android)
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There is defiantly no harm in trying.
Ok, now i'm worried.
I opened my phone up to clean up all the connectors, and now the phone does not even turn on, it just vibrates for a second when plugged in and repeats it every two seconds. Is there any way to fix this? I don't want to have to get a replacement as all my data is on this phone, as before, it was turning on.
Hello, I have problem here. My friend's phone got wet when she plays in the river (how stupid), and she come to my house. Her phone is Samsung Galaxy Young GT-S6310. She wants to repair her phone to me because the touch screen of her phone is not responding anymore and I accept it but, I told her if her warranty is no longer available, and she said it's no longer. I started to disassemble it, and removing the body and I see the residue of water. I began clearing it and test it (without the body) and nothing happen. I check inside of the covering plate (the stainless plate when you remove the battery) and I see some residue but not water anymore, it heated up and cleaning it again, but still nothing. I tried my best repairing her phone but no success. I told her to come back anytime so she go home and so, I start to research someting. But I didn't search that night, I have a very, VERY, slow connection. So today still nothing so that's why I post here for question.
If someone have an idea, please post here.
Jazz_Rae said:
Hello, I have problem here. My friend's phone got wet when she plays in the river (how stupid), and she come to my house. Her phone is Samsung Galaxy Young GT-S6310. She wants to repair her phone to me because the touch screen of her phone is not responding anymore and I accept it but, I told her if her warranty is no longer available, and she said it's no longer. I started to disassemble it, and removing the body and I see the residue of water. I began clearing it and test it (without the body) and nothing happen. I check inside of the covering plate (the stainless plate when you remove the battery) and I see some residue but not water anymore, it heated up and cleaning it again, but still nothing. I tried my best repairing her phone but no success. I told her to come back anytime so she go home and so, I start to research someting. But I didn't search that night, I have a very, VERY, slow connection. So today still nothing so that's why I post here for question.
If someone have an idea, please post here.
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you messed up trying to power it on or use it when there is water inside. best thing you could do is blow dry it to dry anything else and leave it in rice to absorb any drops od rice
Phurkus said:
you messed up trying to power it on or use it when there is water inside. best thing you could do is blow dry it to dry anything else and leave it in rice to absorb any drops od rice
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I tried to rice it up for a whole day, didn't work, I do this 3 times to check inside. Should I buy a new digitizer? It's not available in my current country.
Jazz_Rae said:
I tried to rice it up for a whole day, didn't work, I do this 3 times to check inside. Should I buy a new digitizer? It's not available in my current country.
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yeah just buy a new one. i imagine if its not working now, then it wont be working anytime soon. have a good day mate!
Ok, I already fix it. First, I lie the logic board and the digitizer outside to heat up for 4 hours under the sun, second, I submerged with rubbing alcohol, third dried up and finalizing, and finally, assembled up, plug the charger in, charge up, boot up, it works!
I search some threads that rubbing alcohol will work.
Well I was cleaning up my case but the phone fell into the water like for one second, took it out and dried it as much as I could but the moment I tried to turn it on it wouldn't work. It shows the OnePlus logo and starts the bootanimation but then just random colors and restarts.
Could it be the water or did something got messed up?
When it falls on the water, you have to open it
Unplug the baterry and dry it quickly
Never power it on !
Now, I think it's gone...
You can try to put in in a rice bag for a week, and wait for a miracle... Maybe with Hallowwen, it will come back from the deaths.
Kéno40 said:
When it falls on the water, you have to open it
Unplug the baterry and dry it quickly
Never power it on !
Now, I think it's gone...
You can try to put in in a rice bag for a week, and wait for a miracle... Maybe with Hallowwen, it will come back from the deaths.
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Thanks m8, I'm looking for options on how to fix it since it's my daily driver. Do you recommend trying to take it to a phone repair shop and see if drying it and checking for bad connections, is a good option? @Kéno40
Edit: I forgot to specify that the amount of water that touched the phone was minimal, I unintentionally explained it wrong so it could be understood but the water that it got was from the faucet, very minimal so it's still a mystery why it won't work. Before it has even gotten more water due to rain.
Don't think this is a good sign, right? :/
I don't see the thumbnail...
You Can but a service Center will open it, see the red test Mark and confirm water damage...
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I don't see the thumbnail...
You Can but a service Center will open it, see the red test Mark and confirm water damage...
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Hmmm will see what to do. Thanks for taking the time to answer me!
Don't power it on!
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Don't power it on!
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It came back from the dead, I left it on rice and behind the PS4 fan and now it's back :victory: