towel dried it and took it apart. it is now in a bowl of rice. i tried to turn it on and all that is happening is the screen keeps blinking. but it still viberates like normal. can i fix it?
My advice: Keep it in dry white rice for a week so you can get 100% of the moisture out, I know it's hard to resist and you are curious, but the more you turn it on with damp hardware the worse off you will be.
I have been there with my Mytouch Slide, it's a pain, but when you get all of the moisture out, there is a decent chance it could survive.
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My advice: Keep it in dry white rice for a week so you can get 100% of the moisture out, I know it's hard to resist and you are curious, but the more you turn it on with damp hardware the worse off you will be.
I have been there with my Mytouch Slide, it's a pain, but when you get all of the moisture out, there is a decent chance it could survive.
Lol I was gonna say the same thing, The rice trick works... Just dont jump the gun after 1 day and think its dry. When you drop your phone in water, take the battery out ASAP and get a bag fill it with rice and put your phone in it for a week. This works sometimes.
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Rice may work if you keep the phone in it long enough and the water was pure enough. Years of owning a cellphone store taught me how to fix dunking, though.
1) IMMEDIATELY remove the battery!
2) Get a large plastic container, about 12" X12" or larger. Pour in at least 2" of rubbing alcohol. Put the phone into the alcohol and swish it around for a few minutes, to get alcohol all over the inside of the phone.
It'll wash off the dirt and minerals that were in the water and it absorbs water.
If you're adventurous, you can open the phone and wipe everything inside with an alcohol swab or other piece of gauze.
3) Take the phone out of the alcohol, shake it dry.
4) Now put it into rice for a day or two.
5) Give the battery the same treatment - it'll only take a second in the alcohol to dry it. Dip it in, shake it out, put it in the rice.
6) When everything is dry, the phone should work.
Drying it in rice alone, if any corrosive chemicals or some carbon dissolved in the water, got into the phone, may get the phone to work for a few days, or even a few weeks, but it's slowly being damaged by what you didn't remove, and it'll eventually stop working.
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I actually dunk the phone in alcohol to soak it thoroughly immediately, then disassemble it and wipe every nook and cranny down with lintless swabs soaked in alcohol, but I've had customers who saved their phones just by soaking them.
Clean the phone and battery separately, of course, because leaving the battery in the phone when it's wet causes corrosion (by electrolytic action) starting immediately. Even if you have to break the battery cover to get the battery out, you might have to spend $2 to save a $200 phone. The faster you get it out, the better the chance that the phone will keep working until you get tired of it.
I've never dried a phone in rice - I just let it sit in a warm dry place for a couple of days. But if you want to use the phone the next day, rice should dry it out overnight. Silica gel or a hearing aid dryer (which is silicon gel) should work faster than rice.
But get the phone clean with alcohol before you dry it. And, yes, it's better to never need to know all this stuff.
I dropped my phone in water once and I took it apart, used a hair dryer. Within a few hours it started to work again and it still works, a year later. Wasn't a smart phone, but you could still try the hair dryer, then see what happens.
Rice may work if you keep the phone in it long enough and the water was pure enough. Years of owning a cellphone store taught me how to fix dunking, though.
1) IMMEDIATELY remove the battery!
2) Get a large plastic container, about 12" X12" or larger. Pour in at least 2" of rubbing alcohol. Put the phone into the alcohol and swish it around for a few minutes, to get alcohol all over the inside of the phone.
It'll wash off the dirt and minerals that were in the water and it absorbs water.
If you're adventurous, you can open the phone and wipe everything inside with an alcohol swab or other piece of gauze.
3) Take the phone out of the alcohol, shake it dry.
4) Now put it into rice for a day or two.
5) Give the battery the same treatment - it'll only take a second in the alcohol to dry it. Dip it in, shake it out, put it in the rice.
6) When everything is dry, the phone should work.
Drying it in rice alone, if any corrosive chemicals or some carbon dissolved in the water, got into the phone, may get the phone to work for a few days, or even a few weeks, but it's slowly being damaged by what you didn't remove, and it'll eventually stop working.
Hello all, i guess i am buggered, i just dropped my galaxy tab (1st one) in soapy water and i dont have the tools to open it to remove the battery. (((((
Hello all, i guess i am buggered, i just dropped my galaxy tab (1st one) in soapy water and i dont have the tools to open it to remove the battery. (((((
If you took the time to connect to this site it was already too late with soapy water. That's highly acid and will eventually etch the PC board into a nice non-conductive piece of fiberglass.
take the battery out Throw it in a bag of rice and leave it alone for a couple days it sounds wierd but the rice acts like a dehumidifer and absorbs all the moisture out of the phone ive watched a friend drop his phone in his dog water bowl god knows how many times and hes still on "nice" phone number 1.... long as you get it powered down ASAP it ant short circiut without power thus no damage to your circuit board
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Dropped phone in water how do I fix it?
Galaxy tab
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