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HOMG IT RANDOMLY STARTED WORKING. I'm sorry for your time.
Hello, I would like to start off by saying that I've looked around these forums occasionally after my friend introduced me to it. I have found this site and forums to be very helpful and I have hit a problem and I would like your opinion. If this is in the wrong section or I have done something incorrectly I am EXTREMELY sorry and would appreciate a point in the right direction.
Okay, so it all started when my friend was kind enough to give me his extra bodyguardz phone protector. So I put the cover on after a lot of tedious and fustrating work and allowed the phone to dry for 2 days. When I powered my phone on everything was fine EXCEPT that my touch screen does not work. After careful inspection I realized there seem to be some water stuck under the screen. I then allowed the phone to dry for a couple more days and I noticed the water amount decreased. At one point or another I did need to use my phone and since it worked beside the screen I figured it would dry even if I still kept using it. The amount of water has shrunken to the point where it is about the size of an ant. It has however remained this size for over a week and I dont see it decreasing. Now I have the Total Equipment Protection on my phone, but I realized that the water damage indicator sticker on the phone was gone red. The battery one is still white (I had the battery off the phone as I applied the protector). So what do you guys think I should do in this situation? Since the sticker is red I don't think they'll take the phone back. Should I just call them and say it was stolen and pay the $50?
Sorry for the long winded story and I am looking forward to your help. Everything seems to break on me and its really frustrating. I just got my laptop back after my back light died on me and the repair center forgot to send my battery back and I'm just getting mad at everything. Also had surgery earlier this week, haha aren't I lucky?
I could be wrong, but if you have TEP, water damage is covered. I was told that it's covered even if you drop it in the toilet or the lake. Many people have experienced a wide variety of results when making a TEP claim, so YMMV. If you take it in to your Sprint store, they may replace it, repair it, or tell you you have to go thru Asurion. If you don't like the answer you get the first time then try another rep.
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I could be wrong, but if you have TEP, water damage is covered. I was told that it's covered even if you drop it in the toilet or the lake. Many people have experienced a wide variety of results when making a TEP claim, so YMMV. If you take it in to your Sprint store, they may replace it, repair it, or tell you you have to go thru Asurion. If you don't like the answer you get the first time then try another rep.
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So you think they wont fuss over the water detection sticker being red?
OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD! IT RANDOMLY STARTED WORKING AFTER 2-3 WEEKS!
I don't think they will fuss about it. If they do try another rep.
Lemme tell ya about yesterday at the river standing on the dock drinking a beer and watching fireworks. My brother-in-law thought it would be SO funny if I took a little night dip in the marina and gave my slightly intoxicated self a nudge in that direction...yup. I actually thought it was hilarious when I climbed out and was laughing while popping another Bud. But wait, yep, my phone is making some strange noise in my pocket...sounds a bit like its choking! Fished it out, it flickered, then died. Than I punched him in the mouth. No REALLY. Spent today babying it and drying it out and it works except that there is river water in what looks like 3 different layers of the screen. Anyway, he's paying the deductible and my new one is on the way. Ugh, it's killed me to even look at it all day. My girlfriends been very happy and I haven't hit F5 even once in the root threads so I guess thats a plus. Just wanted to share my misery with some like-minded peeps, seems like everyone I know just doesn't understand...
Punch him again.
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And again. With a brick.
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Omg lmfao that sucks due atleast your getting a new phone...
it happens, have a laugh, he's paying your deduct so who cares.
just a phone.
I'll kill a 1000 phones for a good laugh.
Alanmw86 said:
it happens, have a laugh, he's paying your deduct so who cares.
just a phone.
I'll kill a 1000 phones for a good laugh.
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Lost cause, you're talking about a dude that refreshes by hitting F5.
Sorry to hear of the unfortunateness. Good to hear your getting another courtesy of brother-in-law.
The EVO line of phones seem to be a fairly robust lot. I left my table at a bar to fetch another drink and return to find my 4G in a pool of spilt vodka/sprite. It didnt turn on a first but once I took it apart (completely) and dried it out, it started it up fine. It also had turned (3) moisture indicators pink.
1. One indicator on the battery
2. Second in the battery bay
3. The third on another board inside the phone
Luckily it didnt have any water on the inside screen.
A friend has a 3D and spilled a Taco Bell sweet tea on it. Sticky stuff. Still works...
@event....nice one douche. Should've saved that haymaker for you I imagine. Thanks for the replies everyone else. I'm always happy to get a new phone regardless. Hope everyone had a good 4th...
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mattinky11 said:
@event....nice one douche. Should've saved that haymaker for you I imagine. Thanks for the replies everyone else. I'm always happy to get a new phone regardless. Hope everyone had a good 4th...
Sent from another dimension...Evo3D
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I think he meant it as a compliment, maybe. Being addicted to root is a badge of honor, for some... of us, lol
If you're in KY near water then there's a good chance I'm close enough to come get 3d video of you punching him again, or maybe asking to see his phone then throwing him in for a swim.
That does suck man. I almost had to go back to a bb curve for a few days when I broke my evo, the horror!
a new one? you mean refurbished .. I'd make him buy a BRAND NEW straight from sprint for 500 .. most expensive push ever.
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I've found myself in that situation far too often, I love to go fishing, and sometimes forget I have a phone in my pocket. Well I've gotten into the habit of when I'm gonna be at or near water for awhile I slip my phone in a ziplock in my pocket. lol
Seems stupid but hey I saved my EVO4G a couple times lol
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I think he meant it as a compliment, maybe. Being addicted to root is a badge of honor, for some... of us, lol
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Haha, it was only meant to be slightly backhanded, so both of you are right.
Punch your self an take your evo 3d to the dump im returnin mine for being so unreal i get 0.05mb on sprint internet come on now cricket is twice that fast
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i had a bricked mt3g with a vodafone splash screen and went for an exchange from tmobile and didnt wanted them to know that it is bricked by the vodafone spash screen. i took a jug of water and poured into the phone carefully so it didnt mess the indicators and then plugged it in and booted, still worked, then i microwaved it for a few seconds until there were some sparks, took it out again booted, idk what htc puts in their phones but they do survive the utter torchure. I ended up disconnecting a wire on mt3g on the inside so it would short out and didnt boot and finally got an exchange. for my n1 it fell off from 8 feet just a dent, fell off 3 floors onto trampoline nothing, fell off 1 floor another dent, fell of 2 floors on its edge broken screen ( no broken glass just screen ) its survived too much torchure. Have HTC Magic 32a bought it on launch still works perfect =O
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i had a bricked mt3g with a vodafone splash screen and went for an exchange from tmobile and didnt wanted them to know that it is bricked by the vodafone spash screen. i took a jug of water and poured into the phone carefully so it didnt mess the indicators and then plugged it in and booted, still worked, then i microwaved it for a few seconds until there were some sparks, took it out again booted, idk what htc puts in their phones but they do survive the utter torchure. I ended up disconnecting a wire on mt3g on the inside so it would short out and didnt boot and finally got an exchange. for my n1 it fell off from 8 feet just a dent, fell off 3 floors onto trampoline nothing, fell off 1 floor another dent, fell of 2 floors on its edge broken screen ( no broken glass just screen ) its survived too much torchure. Have HTC Magic 32a bought it on launch still works perfect =O
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I had the same thing on the mytouch, I just mailed it back to them with the voda splash screen and prepared to play dumb if it was ever brought up. They never asked any questions.
since ur already getting a new one. Try putting that one in a bowl of Dry Rice. Might as well see if the rice sucks the water up and you have an extra 3D its worked for me on some phones.
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Lemme tell ya about yesterday at the river standing on the dock drinking a beer and watching fireworks. My brother-in-law thought it would be SO funny if I took a little night dip in the marina and gave my slightly intoxicated self a nudge in that direction...yup. I actually thought it was hilarious when I climbed out and was laughing while popping another Bud. But wait, yep, my phone is making some strange noise in my pocket...sounds a bit like its choking! Fished it out, it flickered, then died. Than I punched him in the mouth. No REALLY. Spent today babying it and drying it out and it works except that there is river water in what looks like 3 different layers of the screen. Anyway, he's paying the deductible and my new one is on the way. Ugh, it's killed me to even look at it all day. My girlfriends been very happy and I haven't hit F5 even once in the root threads so I guess thats a plus. Just wanted to share my misery with some like-minded peeps, seems like everyone I know just doesn't understand...
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LOL i did something like this last month went in to the girlfriends pool and then when i got out. i had not only my phone but her phone both in my pocket totally my fault but i was just like seriously WTF lol. btw both the phones where evos :/.
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a new one? you mean refurbished .. I'd make him buy a BRAND NEW straight from sprint for 500 .. most expensive push ever.
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Since the device is so new... the chances of him getting a brand new one is very high... $100 deductible may just send him a brand new phone.
Yeah, I'm hoping the $100 gets a brand new one sent to me. I guess I'll have to wait until tomorrow and see. As far as the rice goes, I let it sit in rice for about 24 hours and though the phone is dry, there are still the three different layers of water inside the screen. One layer of water banding, one layer of large droplets, and another layer of banding running the opposite direction. Really strange to look at...
@event- apologies to you, I'm usually a little more grown-up than the name-calling. Was just in a foul mood last night over this. I do run a firefox addon to auto-refresh xda.
There are not 3 layers of water in your phone, just one, it's a 3D phone remember, it's a feature.
Anyway sorry to hear about killing one already, glad you are getting another.
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I've always read many people telling tales of their phones being ruined by being dropped in water and pretty much either having to do the rice bowl treatment for a week or giving their phone a tear jerking burial/insurance return. Well here's my tale:
While defrosting some zip lock bagged steaks in a kitchen sink full of water my Galaxy S II which was streaming Pandora at the time decided it either didn't want to sit on the counter with the seasoning or decided that it would be nice to go for a swim - actually it was probably the grocery bag being moved that knocked it into the sink - me not paying attention noticed the change in sound of the streaming music from clear to muffled looked for it then in disbelief saw the phone at the bottom of the water filled sink!!!!
I think my heart grew 10 times smaller as I thrust my hand into the sink pulling the phone out from under the depths of the water and zip locked frozen steaks, as I pulled it out from the water the music was still playing but sounded rather tinny so I frantically took a towel and wrapped it around the phone to get the water off of it then pushed the power button to see the screen light up to the lock screen. I then swiped the unlock screen and quickly closed pandora and frantically pressed the power button choosing the shutdown option dreading the worst that the phone was playing it's curtain call song and was about to die any second, then the screen went thru the shut down phase then the screen went blank and all of a sudden it turned back on and I saw the android mascot and some red and yellow text (perhaps I pushed the power button too long or the phone looked like it went into recovery mode?) and started doing "something". I said oh sh*t put the phone on the counter screen down and peeled off the back cover and yanked the battery.
at this moment I started examining the phone, the inside was completely dry sans a droplet of water over by where you pry off the back, no water on around or under the battery, around the camera or flash, the power or volume rocker, or any visible leakage around the screen. I then shook he phone over the towel I had initially dried the submerged phone with and did see a drop come from the speaker slits and then I put my mouth to both the usb and headphone jacks to suck water out of those openings (phone CPR?) and got a tiny drop maybe from the USB but nothing from the headphone jack.
At this point I was still in shock but very surprised that the phone was pretty stone dry sans from the water I wiped off of it and the tiny bit that was in the speaker opening. I gave everything a once over again with the towel just in case I missed some microscopic droplets and shook the phone again put the battery back in put the back back on and pressed the power button and voila, the Samsung Galaxy S II logo popped up and in no time the phone was back on and running like nothing happened - I ran a plethora of tests for the rest of the nigh dreading the worst but everything was golden with the exception that the speaker sounded a little tinnier that it initially was which pretty much cleared up buy the morning and sound as lout as it was out the box, I think that the water on the speaker had to dry.
Call me lucky but I've never never never experienced such amazement with a phone before in my life, it was as if the phone had a waterproof force field around it lol. I had initially though about taking the phone back to wait for the Galaxy Nexus on ATT but after that experience I'm totally on board with the Galaxy S II - I did get a tad paranoid that something might end up going wrong with the phone from the submerging to I took it back to the store last night to exchange it for another stating the speaker sounded tinny which they gladly did and after grueling task of reconfiguring all my settings and installing all my apps the new one is back as my main player and my Captivate is back in it's box (used it during my paranoid night of testing everything after the submerging).
Call me sold, I'll definately be keeping the wonder phone AKA Galaxy S II until the Galaxy S3 comes out , and I'll definitely be keeping it away from water, not gonna try my luck twice!!! Glad to see it's somewhat waterproof but please don't try this at home my heart could barely take it LOL!!!
Wow, I would panic if that happened to my brand new phone! Glad yours is still working
just tried this and it doesn't work
Next time (hopefully never) just leave it in a bag of rice for a while just in case instead of just powering it back on.
Coincidently, I came across this video today of the original Galaxy S:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8puSOR2wWfQ
When I used to work for best buy repairing laptops at their GSC, I had a broken keyboard laptop come in. When I went to replace it, I found corrosion from head to toe all over the motherboard from some sort of spill. But everything on the laptop still worked (sans the KB, but it did after replacing). I tested the hell out of it, took pictures of the water damage, wrote it up for the customer. Some people just get lucky with water damage
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just tried this and it doesn't work
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Lol
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Glad you didn't wreck your phone dude, that would /could have been really horrible.
Cool, I'm gonna give it a try....... NOT!
Years ago (late 90's I believe) I had an Nokia 6130 that I dropped in a inch plus puddle in a parking lot as I ran into the store on a rainy day. I didn't notice it until I was returning to my car later. Had to be at least 10 minutes or more. I let it dry out over night and to my surprise it functioned. I don't remember but I think the battery may have come off when it hit the ground, either way it pretty impressive.
Sheesh.... I don't think I would've waited for it to shut down... I would have been yanking that battery out post-haste.
Congrats, you were a lucky one... I think you should go buy some lottery tickets tonight... Don't wait until tomorrow.
Don
Yeah I had though about the rice bowl treatment before turning it back on but since it was so unbelievably dry and water free I took the chance and turned it right back on, even plugged the sucker in to charge it back to 100% leaving it on the charger all night with no issues at all the next day. I should have kept it as a good luck charm but didn't want to press my luck and have something go awry later so since it was still working with no issues I took it back the following night to exchange for a new one - just in case.
Let's see a metal phone take such abuse LOL, like it or not Samsung knows what they are going making their phones out of lightweight yet solid feeling plastic components, survive drops, scratch resistant screen and now add to the list moderately waterproof - it takes a licking and keeps on ticking! I summarize it down to the plastic, plastic expands as it gets warm which probably made a more watertight seal than when turned off, flimsy back my foot - I doubt a phone like the Inspire would have survived that dunking without catastrophic results.
As Fragile as it seems the Galaxy S II is pretty safe to carry around naked and survive most elements, and that's how I'll continue to carry it - while making sure to avoid water like the plague!!!
phones are weird when it comes to water, I had an iPhone 3G that sat in 3 feet of lake water for a good bit -- it still works to this day -- it had the same tinny sounding speakers for awhile and occasionally an incoming call would have really odd ring sound... when that happened i would have to hang up and call back -- but rarely happened.
Glad to know the SGS2 is potentially [moderately] safe against water exposure
I have lost a few family members to water, but not my phone!
Glad to hear I might have a chance when dropping this bad-boy into my sink.
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I have lost a few family members to water, but not my phone!
Glad to hear I might have a chance when dropping this bad-boy into my sink.
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would probably survive a drop into the toilet or a bath as well, LOL, just some of the experiences I've read on the net but know a lot of people use their phones around these water hazards as well LOL .
Got my truesmart last week. 2nd day in the touchscreen stopped working. Shortly after the screen went all white and wouldn't work at all. Later that day the screen started working again but no touch screen.
Left it alone for a couple days. Started working again. Everything appears to be fine. Only thing I can think of is i accidentally wore it in the shower (I am used to wearing my casio watches in the shower) but it barely got wet as I took it off as soon as I realized. Though this shouldn't matter as the watch is supposed to be water proof/resistant.
I have emailed the service omate email address and have yet to receive any response.
OK. About the "waterproof" thing. IP67 is a static immersion test. This means it is gently put in a 1m deep tank that is already filled with room temp water. The water pressure at 1m is 1.4psi. This is about 1/20th the water pressure in most homes. Even running it under a tap exceeds 1.4psi.
Yep. Selling it as waterproof is very misleading IMO.
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It is and Sammy does it, so does Sony, Moto, pretty much the entire industry. Not saying it's right but at least Omate says they will warranty their stuff, nobody else does.
I love that logic
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Meanwhile i am still waiting for any reponse. Also had waterdamage only a few days after i got mine. Its super if omate give you warranty on this but it sucks to wait for many weeks to even get a response beside we will get back to you in the upcoming days...
Would be oke if they did but still waiting.
Good luck
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I love that logic
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I'm not saying it's right but I've read countless posts by people giving Omate hell of the use of the term "waterproof" all the while doing it from or owning a device from a manufacturer that doesn't even have a liquid damage warranty.
Then there's the use of the term "waterproof". It's used only once in an image on the KS page yet water resistant is used something like twelve times.
I'm not saying there isn't some QC issues but when put into perspective Sammy would have told users "sucks to be you, go buy another one". That's what they did to me.
Omate got back to me.
They think its the battery not sitting correctly and have instructed me to open the back and put some tape or something on the inside to help the battery sit better.
They also said once they have repair centers set up in my country (Canada) that they will honor any warranty service.
I got a reply for Omate!
Only to bad its not what I hoped. Since I bought my Omate 2nd hand from a seller online they cant give me warranty. They also said they were clear about the avoid warranty with waterdamage.
Now its waiting time for me till they have a repaircenter.
Well, I too seem to have this issue... My screen is mostly white, but you can sort of see. Attached is picture of it. Also, my top right button doesn't work anymore. Could I have gotten water in it, maybe.. But I have not removed anything but the SIM card cover. I will be contacting OMATE, but have low hopes for resolution.
Well, after a week of owning a new G3 I managed to drop it in the toilet. I pulled it from the water after about 3 seconds of being submerged, stripped the back cover off and pulled the battery. I then disassembled the entire device so I could get it dry. After disassembly I put every piece in front of a small fan for 24 hours. I inspected everything before I began reassembling my phone and to my surprise my device booted normally. I have been using my G3 quite heavily for the last 2 days since the toilet incident and have found nothing wrong or out of the ordinary while in use. LG, I must say, has built quite a robust device. My only question to other G3 users that have dropped theirs in water, did your G3 start acting up later on in life?
Considering the G3 is not water proof, I'd say you got lucky. Would be interesting to hear if others experienced the same as you though.
I felt pretty darn lucky after I assembled the phone and it booted right up. I haven't experienced any hiccups after 3 days of heavy use now.
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There are actually videos of it sitting underwater for hours on youtube. Many think LG didn't want to pay to have the phone officially rated.
http://bgr.com/2014/07/09/lg-g3-waterproof-test/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CBlm-L9qGg
Was it before or after you had used the toilet?
This is a big fear of mine - we all bring our phones with us when we sit upon the porcelain throne, and every time I'm maniacally careful to put it way far away of the bowl. Glad yours survived its plunge!
Thank goodness it was before. Haha. I just sat down and bam, in she goes!!
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I actually use it in the shower from time to time for music and it gets sprayed on but I do use a case but it doesn't cover the ports and I don't have any problems with mine so I think it's secretly water resistant but LG just didn't want to advertise that for some reason
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I actually use it in the shower from time to time for music and it gets sprayed on but I do use a case but it doesn't cover the ports and I don't have any problems with mine so I think it's secretly water resistant but LG just didn't want to advertise that for some reason
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That's taking a risk. I have a blue-tooth speaker for the shower and that's what I use. Not taking the chance on getting the wrong drop of water that gets in and destroys the phone.
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That's taking a risk. I have a blue-tooth speaker for the shower and that's what I use. Not taking the chance on getting the wrong drop of water that gets in and destroys the phone.
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Yeah I'll look into a speaker because I'm screwed it that happens hahaha, and I don't need that stress in my life
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