Help Dropped S3 in water. Now battery life is very low.

[pieq314]

Hi All,

I unfortunately dropped my 6-month Galaxy S3 in water last night. I dried it and it appeared to work fine.

But today, I found out that its battery life is extremely low!!!! Even when it is on standby, I estimated that the batter will last only about 4 hours!

The lower 1/3 of the phone (the part below the battery compartment) is warm. So there may be some short circuit there, or some software option was triggered. Please also note that if I power the phone down, that part of the phone will be cool.

What are your opinions? Should I further dry it? Or some software settings to try? Or the phone is hopeless from this point on in terms of its battery life?

Thanks!

 

[Mikestony]

Immediately shut it off and pull the battery/sd card/sim card.
Put it into a bag of rice for a few days.
Sorry about the water immersion

Do the rice thing and read this too:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s3/719129-dropped-my-gs3-in-water-no-change-indicators.html

Edit: sorry about the shortness of my post there. I just wanted you to get the device into something that will draw out the water as soon as possible.

Suffice to say that water is not good for a device such as ours, so just be prepared for the worst and hope for the best

 

[funkylogik]

Not what you wana hear sorry but you should NEVER have put the battery back in so soon. water takes a long time to kill a phone but water mixed with electricity.....
Id take the battery out now and give it a proper dry out but theres honestly a good chance that the damage is done

 

[pieq314]

I was too anxious to find out if it still works or not

Thanks!

 

[funkylogik]

I was too anxious to find out if it still works or not

Thanks!

Been there lol so i totally understand good luck!

Just noticed you ninjad me yet again Mike lol :beer: