Guys last week i was at the beach and the phone was in my pocket the whole time but somehow looks like some debris or water might have crept in and i am constantly getting the message evenafter a week. I did disable the moisture check warning by the hidden menu but the phone charging speeds have slowed down . Now the phone is not fadt charging. Should i just format and reinstall or just send it to lg for repair?
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Oh hey guys. I need your help! I did that awful, stupid thing where I dropped my phone into the toilet. I immediately took the battery out and placed both pieces of my phone into a Ziploc with rice for about 2 days. When I popped the battery back in, the Tbolt booted fine, but as I was checking my messages, it began turning itself off and on.
I am rooted (running liquid thundersense with no previous problems), so I tried to just manually boot into recovery and restore. But as it keeps turning itself off and on, I can't get it to do this. I tried charging my battery externally, but that did not help.
Thank you in advance!
Trying placing it on top of something which produces dry heat. I placed my phone on top of the cable box for a day when water leaked onto my screen. I've also tried this on another phone which was completely submerged in water. Second phone took about 2 days to dry. It has the same problem as yours, it kept rebooting.
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I left my phone out overnight and am experiencing the same rebooting. My battery water indicator is red, but I was just going to buy a new battery and send it in to Verizon. Will they know there was water damage if I don't send a battery that has the water damage indicator turned red?
jasonadiehl said:
I left my phone out overnight and am experiencing the same rebooting. My battery water indicator is red, but I was just going to buy a new battery and send it in to Verizon. Will they know there was water damage if I don't send a battery that has the water damage indicator turned red?
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Did the whole phone drop in the water? I have taken this phone apart many times and they have those water detector right underneath the kickstand. If they open it they would know for sure. Not to burst your bubbles but I don't want you to get charge full price.
I've heard dumping the phone on a 99.9% alchol and let it dry takes the rest of the water out .
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It didn't drop in water but it got sprinkled on. Can I see this under the kickstand indicator without taking the phone apart? Also, if I send it in and they find water damage does that mean I have to pay full price or could I just tell them to send me my sort of working phone back? Thanks so much for the information.
I think once your send it that's that. You can't get your phone back (qoute me if I'm wrong). If you just sprinkled it then I highly doubt it that you got the water indicator behind the kickstand (inside wise).
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I am pretty sure this is a warranty claim but I wanted to run it by the community. Excuse any poor typing I'm literally on a mountain right now.
I think some moisture got into the bottom port. My s2 always thinks it's plugged into a computer. I get samsung kies connection prompts when I get into the os and battery usage tracker shows the phone as charging when I look at usage with wild spikes up and down. Can't toggle USB dev mode because it always tells me to remove USB cable. Luckily I got a tibackup just a few days ago that I offloaded to my memory card.
When I power it down I immediately get the green battery showing it's charging. In a few seconds it starts flashing between that and a battery with a temperature gauge and a exclaimation point.
Only way to get her to turn on is by plugging into a power source and holding down power.
Did a factory reset same problem. Won't be able to reset the kernel till I get home in 10 days.
Any ideas or straight back to phones 4 u warranty claim? If water damage then insurance claim ( loved my baby. Thanks
mate please in case you returned it tell me if they accepted it. I have the SAME problem :|. please tell.
Get some rubbing alcohol solution (Isopropyl alcohol) from your local pharmacy.
Pour it into a bowl.
Remove the battery cover.
Remove the battery.
Dip your phone into the bowl, and swirl it around.
Place on an air conditioner to have the alcohol and water sucked out from the dehydrated cool air conditioned air for overnight. If it is winter, put near the heater which also has dehydrated warm air.
Place battery into phone.
Turn phone on.
See if you have the problem again.
No, I am not joking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopropyl_alcohol
I'm having this same exact issue - I've even had my phone unplugged for about 2 hours, yet when I go to battery status, it says it's only been on battery for 2 seconds... how did your warranty replacement go?
There was somebody on a Dutch forum who has the same problem.
His phone was wet.
And if it is water damage, i hope for you that you have warranty and dont have big water problems ...
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There was somebody on a Dutch forum who has the same problem.
His phone was wet.
And if it is water damage, i hope for you that you have warranty and dont have big water problems ...
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had it sealed in a ziplock bag, so no outside water got in - perhaps it got too hot in the bag or there was moisture in the bag when it was sealed? (I should've put in some silica gel or something..)
Hello,
Sorry for going MIA.
Basically I returned this to phones4u, sent it in, and they processed a warranty replacement. They didnt say anything luckily about water damage but I think its because on a rainy day some water got into the bottom. From what I could tell they cleaned up the connector at the bottom with alcohol or something - it was spic and span when i got it back and the phone worked ok.
Side note, I recieved it and saw they scrached up my phone pretty good so i complained and sent it in a second time. Recieved it and the scratches were gone, but to do this they did a new screen replacement.
THe new screen had a bright red stuck pixel. I thought I could live with it but it drove me nuts as my original screen was perfect. So i went back to phones 4 u and sent it in a third time, this time they're saying they will just give me a swap. So although the problem was fixed a mess ensued and now i'm sitting around waiting for my "swap" and next surprises with dealing with them.
THey have been ok though I'm almost sure there is water damage on that phone but they dont seem to have picked up on it, i hope i can get it swapped and then dont have to worry about water damage again.
Cheers.
I plugged my phone into the charger as I always do when I go to bed. When I woke up the green LED was lite up to say it was fully charged but my S3 was turned off for some odd reason. It wouldn't turn on despite trying different batteries and chargers.
I took it into the Carphone Warehouse to get it repaired under warranty and last night I get a call to say it's fixed so I go to collect it. The chap brings me my phone after he had a long talk with the "expert" in the Geek Squad, and told me it's not fixed as there is signs of water damage at the USB port. But how can he tell? I didn't think there was a sticker there to show this.
I just don't understand how it can be working fine then the next morning it's broke and they claim it's water damage. I thought if water got into any electrical device it would break it then and there? Either way I haven't let any water drip on it, it's always in a case and I look after it. But they told me even moisture from moving from a warm room to the cold outside can cause water damage Just seems to me they can claim anything to avoid repairing it.
It's being sent off to their main repair center for a second look.
Hey guy's so I was out at a part a couple of nights ago, came back in drunk and started listening to music on my s3, was drinking water so the hangover the next day wouldn't be to bad. I remember moving the bottle slightly and some water come out the top (just a small splash). I didn't think anything of it, if it wasn't drunk i would have turned the phone of right away and put it on the radiator. The next day I went the charge the phone (it had ran out of power and had been switched of all night) for the first 10 mins it was charging fine, then intermittently it started to connect and disconnect some time it would connect thinking it was in dock mode although i was charging it from the main, so i tried charging it from usb from the computer, that wouldn't even charge it at all although the wall socket would, so it was doing this for a good couple of hours, eventually it stopped and i managed to get the battery up to 50% and then it started again, it stopped and again i managed to get the battery p to 100%. So i was using it all day yesterday, I went to charge it today again and it would not charge at all, even from the wall, i thought crap.... so i put the phone on top of the radiator for like 45 mins / 1hr full blast (full heat, very warm) plugged it into the computer (which was not working at all since i got water in it) and boom it started charging! now it has been charging for the past couple of hours i am at 90% or somthing, the dock connected thing has started again but this time it is not disconnecting like it was before so... although i keep getting this annoying dock message i can still get it charged, is there any way i can disable dock mode without installing a custom rom and voiding my warranty, also any ideas why i am getting the dock message? i have a theory that the water, although a small amount when i splashed the phoned, got mixed with some oils or some crap on the case of my phone and is bridging/shorting something inside the usb interface...
I know that is long... thanks for reading and TIA!
- Anton.
Probably you get some water inside the device. Try keeping it on rice for 24 hours and try to use the phone again. Your warranty is already void as the device has water indicators to shows that it got wet.
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Probably you get some water inside the device. Try keeping it on uncooked rice for 24 hours and try to use the phone again. Your warranty is already void as the device has water indicators to shows that it got wet.
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Just thought i would update this thread for anyone who has the same problem and comes across it. The problem has slowly petered out, i can still get it occasionally but no wear near as much as i was, i think if i take my phone into a place that has a high moisture levels i.e. a sauna/shower room or something it could play up again and the dried up oils could become loose, but for the time being its running good. but i believe the issue was the water i got on the interface or the home button was ever so slightly mixed with some oils i had on my fingers from eating a curry lol and it lingered a little longer due the the oils resins retaining the water and stopping them evaporating, thats my theory any way hope it helps others out there.
As a final note, if you get water in your phone pop the battery out immediately and get it under a hair dryer or on a already hot radiator to minimize the damage. Even if you turn the phone off and wait till you get home to dry it would be better in terms of stopping things for shorting out etc. The moral of the story is, get a cheap mp3 or ipod touch for listening to music went you are drunk lol.
Peace!
Hello everyone! This is my first post here!
So anyway
2 days ago, a drop or 2 of water got into my USB connector of my nexus 5, and i didnt notice and unfortunately plugged it in to charge it. Suddenly, i heard crackling sound and started smelling smoke/burning silicon/rubber.
I quickly unplugged it, but it was too late and it could no longer charge. however, later at night, i tried cleaning the formed rust off the connector with a thin piece of metal, and now its charging properly, but it is a bit sensitive (aka moving the usb cable will stop it from charging)
however, i started noticing that my battery is dying really quickly, i mean approximately 1% every 2 or 3 minutes when im just browsing the net or even just arranging my homescreen icons.
The top back of the phone (near the camera area) is also getting hotter than usual when only doing the above mentioned things, and the temp decreses at the bottom part/battery of the phone. so im guessing its the cpu thats heating up (top)
however, i was talking to a google rep about a replacement before i got the phone to charge, and she made me factory reset it before i send it to them (but ended up not sending it because theyll charge me because theyll find out its water damage), and i dont know whether the problem is because of the burnt connector (thats functional now...) or because of the reset. I reset it a second time, but the batter/cpu temp is the same.
in battery stats, Android system is in 2nd place the whole time. Screen is about 40% and andoroid system is about 15% (with a CPU total and Keep Awake of 12min)
So does the damage of the connector have to do with the battery/cpu heating up? like could it have affected them? because my battery was normal before the factory reset/usb damage.
thanks a lot
Note that i have disabled all unnecessary functions ie. location, lte, have set auto brightness, and have all the settings i had before the factory reset
Did you do anything else like installing a new app or make any changes besides the water damage?
It does not seem to be related but with the crackling sound and burnt smell this may somehow be related.