Help dropped in bath, boot mode??

[jaybo1973]

Hi guys

I dropped my phone in the bath earlier, doh. It still worked but the volume keeps going down. It ran out of battery and when i switched it back on it went into some sort of boot mode, i guess from the volume switch being pressed down. Please help, i dont want to bodge it up even more.

Thanks

 

[Hadron]

Take the battery out and put the phone in a bag of uncooked rice. Leave it for a day or two for the rice to draw moisture out.

It may well be too late, but that's all you can do. You really should do that the moment a phone gets wet - turning it on when there is moisture in it is a very bad move.

Fingers crossed.

 

[jaybo1973]

Thanks

I have done that and ill hope for the best. its near a radiator too. Why is it going to HBOOT?

 

[Hadron]

Dunno for sure, but if the "volume down" button were shorting that would do it.

 

[jaybo1973]

When it was in the HBOOT mode, it was none responisve, i.e up and down didn't work. Nightmare. hopefully leaving it in the rice will sort it. If it does become responsive again, what do I do to get it out of HBOOT? Never been in it before.

Worst case scinario, if it is dead, if I get my LG viewty unlocked, will my sim work in it? until I get something sorted. At least ill have a phone.

 

[SUroot]

When it boots to hboot, its down to failure of software or hardware. Software is ususlly an update that's gone wrong. Hardware often shock damage or water damage. The worst thing you could do after water damage is turn it on.

No offense, but I can't understand why anyone would do that. Anyway this is always a good lesson for insurance and the bag of rice trick (WITHOUT power). I myself lost a phone to water damage and learned about insurance the hard way. I have also saved a few phones with rice.... not my own though....once you've fished your phone out the toilet, you get more careful

 

[jaybo1973]

Im not insured wonder if the house insurance will cover it? If not, unsure what to do, I have 6 months left on my contract

 

[SUroot]

It might do. Worth checking.

I pay an astonishing 7 quid a month extra on my contract. It sounds a lot but when I had my 400 quid, brand new phone lost / stolen, it was replaced the next day. It had an activated sim card too...

 

[jaybo1973]

Im covered by house insurance but with

 

[SUroot]

No amount of rice will help you now. Its on its way out. It will get progressively worse until it fails 100%

 

[jaybo1973]

That isnt good news There is a shop in town who say that they repair water damaged phones.

 

[jaybo1973]

That isnt good news There is a shop in town who say that they repair water damaged phones.