Hi
My partners phone just took a tumble and has developed a hairline crack across the screen from the front speaker diagonally across the top right corner. The screen still works perfectly so there doesnt seem to be any damage to the lower layers, just the glass. It had a cheap cover on and it has still been damaged.
Now my question is, will this phone survive 2 years of use? We can either try to claim on the insurance as lost / damaged or get a decent case and a screen protector which hopefully would hold the phone together. What do you guys think?
farkkraf said:
Hi
My partners phone just took a tumble and has developed a hairline crack across the screen from the front speaker diagonally across the top right corner. The screen still works perfectly so there doesnt seem to be any damage to the lower layers, just the glass. It had a cheap cover on and it has still been damaged.
Now my question is, will this phone survive 2 years of use? We can either try to claim on the insurance as lost / damaged or get a decent case and a screen protector which hopefully would hold the phone together. What do you guys think?
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if you drop it its not going to last .
Damaged insurance claim is worth checking on the excess and a self fix screen cost as posted on XDA .
jje
Hi guys, title says it all really, I have quite seriously water damaged my screen so I took the front panel off to see if I could see where this water is (it appears it has gone right through and destroyed my screen) anywho the water is not what is making the screen black. I took it all apart and then back together again just fine and it worked etc however when I touched something it always jumped tot he right, I thought it was either a little glue had slipped onto the screen or something was shorting out, I went back to the phone the next day and took the face off again to scrape the glue off, I put the screen back on and it is just black.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance, John.
There really is many things that could have gone wrong with water damage. The lcd itself, the digitizer, the ribbons, any part of the main board, all could have been shorted out.
Yeah I thought that but I am not sure if it is the water or me, as it all worked fine until I took it apart a second time, I think the best route is to order a new screen etc and fit it and hope for the best!
So I took my Z ultra for a swim in the pool and took some pretty nice photos with Aqua Camera Light (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=am.tir.z.proximitycamera) and took some nice Video as well
Anyways, after I finished I left the phone in the Sun to dry (30 Degree Celcius) and I kept on swimming when I came back I found the phone was still making random touches like the screen was still wet, but of course it was dry as a desert!
I checked the white water mark under the flaps and it was still white, supposed to turn pink if water damage had occurred.
When I got home and took a closer look at the phone it seems there is moisture on the entire right side of the screen either under the screen protector I had applied on the screen (not the factory one, another one I fitted on top of that) or dare I say it, under the screen it's self :crying::crying:
What I have now done is switched the phone off, put it in a bowl of rice (to suck out the moisture) and left outside in the sun.
Any ideas why this happened or what I can do to fix it?
Why this happened? You said it yourself. You've fitted a 3rd party screen protector on top of the original one, and there's no way the one you put on is as tightly fitted as the original, thus letting water in between the two protectors, and then you'll experience this behavior. I think. Pure speculation from me, but it's logical.
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The reason I installed this 3rd party screen protector is to use a Pen as a stylus, scratches the hell out of the screen, so I thought I'd install that to protect the screen
The thing that worries me is, if the screen is off and it's all black and I look at the screen from different angels i can't see any moisture, when I turn screen on and I look at the screen you can clearly see the moisture! Does this mean it's under the screen it's self ?
So I took the screenprotector off and it is as I feared, the water is under the screen not the protector!
I'm very disappointed from Sony, how can this happen!
Anyways, put the phone back into the bowl of rice and out into the sun
So I took the screenprotector off and it is as I feared, the water is under the screen not the protector!
I'm very disappointed from Sony, how can this happen!
Anyways, put the phone back into the bowl of rice and out into the sun
vivalamoza said:
So I took the screenprotector off and it is as I feared, the water is under the screen not the protector!
I'm very disappointed from Sony, how can this happen!
Anyways, put the phone back into the bowl of rice and out into the sun
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You should put phone and rice in a sealed plastic bag so rice can draw moisture out.
and open the flaps if you havn't alrady
Check your screen if it is glue tight to the phone,make sure your USB cap and micro SD cap rubber ring still good,some are loose and water get in easily.
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vivalamoza said:
So I took the screenprotector off and it is as I feared, the water is under the screen not the protector!
I'm very disappointed from Sony, how can this happen!
Anyways, put the phone back into the bowl of rice and out into the sun
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Ouch! That gotta hurt. You would think that a "waterproof" gadget would indeed be waterproof. I don't think any OEM should sell and market a product as waterproof when it's not always the case. The fact that the warranty doesn't cover water damage on a waterproof product, says it all doesn't it? Sony knows that they can't guarantee waterproofness, so they refuse to cover it. (this includes all OEMs and not just Sony)
- SONY: "Go ahead and jump!"
- YOU: "But.. but will the parachute open?"
- SONY: "Yes, it's totally cool"
- YOU: "Alright, but you're covering the hospital bills if it fails"
- SONY: "Ehm.. no."
Not that comforting is it?
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LOL @ LordManhattan
So the phone is till in the bowl of rice out in the sun for the second day now, but yesterday somehow I found the phone had turned on (maybe due to an alarm or something) I switched it off and put it back, will check it when I get home today, hope the Vapour goes away.
I think what may have caused the vapour under the screen was me trying to dry off the phone in the sun when the heat was 30 degrees celcius, maybe the water evaporated due to the heat and went under the screen!
I'll let you know what happened when I get home.
I personally took mine into the pool last Friday, here in Italy (in Verona, Veneto precisely): there were 34 Celsius degrees.
Water was cool, I stayed in for like 20 minutes, took many pics with touch block+volume button as shutter, videos as well.
As I went out the phone was dry as before entering, I don't know why would you dry a phone that's all metal and glass, water slips off it the moment you take it out the water. It's not like it's a sponge or a piece of cloth or anything.
The time "drying" in the sun was definitely the culprit here. And why you left it in the sun and with the screen ON? To make it even hotter??
And hey, with 34 degrees, in and out of the water and 20 minutes of continuous photos and videos made the phone hot as a furnace, so, again, it definitely DID NOT need drying.
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So here's the update:
So I took the phone out of the rice after 3 days and 90% of the vapor under the screen is gone, just a small spot in the bottom right hand corner left
BUT
after charging the phone and using it for a couple of minutes, the screen started shaking, not flickering, shaking, so everything displayed on the screen is shaking up and down!
Any ideas what can be causing this ?!
vivalamoza said:
So here's the update:
So I took the phone out of the rice after 3 days and 90% of the vapor under the screen is gone, just a small spot in the bottom right hand corner left
BUT
after charging the phone and using it for a couple of minutes, the screen started shaking, not flickering, shaking, so everything displayed on the screen is shaking up and down!
Any ideas what can be causing this ?!
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I'm guessing that water damage would cause that [emoji12] Is the moisture indicator white or red? (the one under the right flap)
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I'm guessing that water damage would cause that [emoji12] Is the moisture indicator white or red? (the one under the right flap)
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It's white
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It's white
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Hmm... Then it would probably be best if you send it in for repairs after you've removed all of the moisture under the screen. It hasn't triggered the indicator, meaning your warranty is still valid. Your screen is obviously not functioning well, so I would grab the chance and get the screen swapped. Try getting the defect on film or something and also be sure to get the white indicator on film, so you'll have proof that it isn't water damaged.
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That's what I'm gonna do, problem is I bought this from Google play store in the USA and currently I'm in Egypt and Google doesn't sell devices here so I can't repair it in warranty
I'm gonna take it to the local Sony dealership to be fixed and I'll have to pay for it myself since they don't guarantee Google play edition devices
vivalamoza said:
That's what I'm gonna do, problem is I bought this from Google play store in the USA and currently I'm in Egypt and Google doesn't sell devices here so I can't repair it in warranty
I'm gonna take it to the local Sony dealership to be fixed and I'll have to pay for it myself since they don't guarantee Google play edition devices
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Ouch! Well in that case you're right. You'll have to pay, so let's hope it won't be a ridiculous amount (but we all know it will be).
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350 $ !!!! They told me the screen needs to be changed and that will cost 350$ !
I will take it to be repaired somewhere else !
vivalamoza said:
350 $ !!!! They told me the screen needs to be changed and that will cost 350$ !
I will take it to be repaired somewhere else !
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Yeah, we all saw that one coming, haha. It's a 6.44 inch 1080p panel after all, and that ain't cheap. You can of course buy the panel and do the work yourself, but I don't recommend that if you've never done it before.
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350 $ !!!! They told me the screen needs to be changed and that will cost 350$ !
I will take it to be repaired somewhere else !
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You might as well buy a new one and sell that one for parts.
hi guys
There was a water spill over my phone and i didn't care much at the time for its water resistance. Now the phone is acting all funny, every time i turn on the phone all the icons and soft keys automatically gets pressed. Kinda ghost touch or sth . I think water got inside the default protective layer as the phone behaves normally just the screen sensitivity is gone . Have you faced a similar issue? I tried rice but it wont work coz i need to take apart the phone. Next thing i will try is alcohol but then i strongly believe its the water inside the protective layer.
Any water won't be between the ASF and the screen, it's just too well glued. If you suspect the water in under the screen then just open the flaps and put in rice somewhere warn for a few days.
Make sure the screen is well cleaned as well
I removed the shatterproof thing... now nothing goes crazy on it, works like the first day
I dropped my realme gt 5g about 2 times with the case still intact and it didn't even touch the ground directly to the screen and the screen still fell off and still had the cable connected. It's not like it broke or anything but I still think it's the manufacturer's fault for not gluing the screen properly.
Is anyone have the same situation as mine ?
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I dropped my realme gt 5g about 2 times with the case still intact and it didn't even touch the ground directly to the screen and the screen still fell off and still had the cable connected. It's not like it broke or anything but I still think it's the manufacturer's fault for not gluing the screen properly.
Is anyone have the same situation as mine ?
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There is some weird cosmic thing going on. I dropped mine exactly the day you posted, about 3-4 hours before you posted and my screen also came of. Luckily I'm in eastern Europe so the repairshop on the corner only charged me 10 euros to glue it back. You are correct in your assumption though - they said the frame is very thin and that there was no glue to hold it - they were even confused what held it in the first place. They glued it back properly (soft elastic glue on the frame + a nice big piece or two of 2 sided tape on the back of the screen so all is well now