Yes this is going to sound like a horrible lie or excuse to get a new phone but i love my gnex and want to hold onto it. I was in my kitchen and tripped and instead of falling to the ground and being protected by my otter box my phone flew forward into the sink where a pot from dinner was soaking full of water. You can guess what happened next. Like a puma I pulled it out and actually broke the otter box trying to quickly get it out and pull the cover and battery and sim. I removed it all since the phone was fully submerged for several seconds. I placed it in rice and aside from using the only rice I had (had flavoring powder mixed in which hopefully didn't do more harm then good). I did a damage control assessment. Everything seemed fine. Until I noticed my speaker was barely audible and I seemed to have destroyed my handset speaker as well. After several hours ans overnight in rice it appears my handset speaker is back to normal but it seems my loudspeaker is still rather muffled a little bit. It seems close to normal (maybe its in my head now) but I deff notice a small rattle or vibration only at certain points in ringtone (almost want to say when the bass is strong)as if maybe some rice or water is still stuck. The speaker may actually back to normal strength but this little rattle or brief period of abnormal sound is still present. Anyone have any suggestions? And yes I know I am very lucky if this is the only long term thing (aside from getting a new otterbox I escape with after my random gravity check almost destroyed my fav phone ever.
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vlcano57 said:
Yes this is going to sound like a horrible lie or excuse to get a new phone but i love my gnex and want to hold onto it. I was in my kitchen and tripped and instead of falling to the ground and being protected by my otter box my phone flew forward into the sink where a pot from dinner was soaking full of water. You can guess what happened next. Like a puma I pulled it out and actually broke the otter box trying to quickly get it out and pull the cover and battery and sim. I removed it all since the phone was fully submerged for several seconds. I placed it in rice and aside from using the only rice I had (had flavoring powder mixed in which hopefully didn't do more harm then good). I did a damage control assessment. Everything seemed fine. Until I noticed my speaker was barely audible and I seemed to have destroyed my handset speaker as well. After several hours ans overnight in rice it appears my handset speaker is back to normal but it seems my loudspeaker is still rather muffled a little bit. It seems close to normal (maybe its in my head now) but I deff notice a small rattle or vibration only at certain points in ringtone (almost want to say when the bass is strong)as if maybe some rice or water is still stuck. The speaker may actually back to normal strength but this little rattle or brief period of abnormal sound is still present. Anyone have any suggestions? And yes I know I am very lucky if this is the only long term thing (aside from getting a new otterbox I escape with after my random gravity check almost destroyed my fav phone ever.
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I don't have any suggestions for you, but I'm surprised it is working at all. You're very lucky.
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Just yesterday night I found out that I can't get any sound from my phone. Not even notifications sound work, or those ticky sounds what are heard when you turn ringtone volume up or down to hear the level. I have no idea how they are missing now... I dropped my HTC Desire Z in the water weeks ago and some say there can occur problems a long time after water damage, is this true?
I don't remember dropping my phone lately, but I may have dropped it yesterday by accident, but it was not a big drop. There could be a slight possibility tha the speaker died?
When I plug my earphones in, I get sound normally. This indicates to speaker damage indeed. What do you think? Does warranty cover this? I have no idea what causes this. Task killer maybe?
Sorry for the double post, but just bumping and reporting about this issue. Just tested calling from other phone, and the speaker mode won't work. I hear voice normally from internal speaker. I use Automatic Task Killer and there was "Music" -app in kill list, but it adding it to the white list did not affect in anything... besides plus music nothing else with sound works, without plugging in the headphones of course.
I really don't use ringtones that much, but I would like to show some youtube videos to friend with sound sometimes, or speak with speaker on if my hands are not available... this really sucks. ANY thoughts? What should I do?
The unexpected happened!
Haha, this is unbelievable! My 2 year old daughter got my phone for some reason and as soon as I noticed of course I told her "no! give it back" and as soon as she noticed I noticed she's having the phone, she threw it to the wall! (she was standing on the bed and the phone fell down quite a long way). The back cover fell off and I thought the phone is broken for good... since I had already dropped it to the water couple of months ago as you may know.
Well, shouted at my daughter for what she did. Then picked up the phone and put back the back cover. And guess what? The sounds work! Nothing wrong with them, or the phone! Tested out and everything works like charm! Haha I'm laughing my ass of, miracles sure happen!
If YOU have sound problems, don't start to bash your phone please
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Today I went to swimming and dropped while changing to swimwear dropped my pants down while my phone was in the pocket. At home I noticed the sounds are not working again! So I recalled what happened and dropped my pants again in the same way, and the sounds were back again..
So I guess my phone can't stand any more knocks or drop downs... so I try to be really careful in the future. Thank god there is no touch-problems like in bad earbuds when the wire go bad and the sound comes only from the other one, like that I should always keep the phone in right position sounds to work... that would be nightmare.
Just reporting if you out there possibly have similar problems. It can all be symptomps from dislocated speaker like in my case.
Sound is back ...I'm a hard head
I too had lost sound after dropping ...After reading the warning about no trying to bang it back .............well what can I say , I put on the media with music and tapped it on the counter , NO Luck . Being hard headed I then started to slap it into the palm of my hand with a good snap ...Presto magic sound is back . Do not try this at home kids .
For any doubters, here's a story. My Captivate Glide decided to take a little swim in the toilet Friday night (don't ask how or why, because even I don't know), so I dried it off and all the works. I also decided to take part in that rice myth for waterlogged devices. I checked it the next morning, and it still didn't work. So later that afternoon, I was ready to go to the AT&T store and make an insurance claim, and to my extreme delight and surprise, it turned on. Only a couple keys on the keyboard are sticky, but I don't use the keyboard nearly enough to justify a $125 deductible.
So moral of the story is that
A.) the rice myth works
and
B.) the Captivate Glide is one resilient phone!
Keys are sticky? Try wiping them down with lens cleaner ive done that for sticky keys
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Rice always works butbu need to give it more then one day usally then would boot prlly weird the first time cause might still be moisture on th board the steams off. Even if the keys were "sticky" they would eventually get back t proper working condition.. I took a dive with mine in my pocket down 10 ft of water so
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Rice always works butbu need to give it more then one day usally then would boot prlly weird the first time cause might still be moisture on th board the steams off. Even if the keys were "sticky" they would eventually get back t proper working condition.. I took a dive with mine in my pocket down 10 ft of water so
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Hopefully, at least, you took a picture with it, while you were down there.
(Before it died, that is. And auto-saved to sd card, of course.)
From speaking with people who specialize in remediating electronic devices (smoke, water), it seems the single most important thing is to get all forms of power away from the thing as soon as possible.
Including what would be the CMOS battery in a computer.
Apparently it's the (micro?) corrosion between power and water that kills it.
If I had done the dive, I'd be freaking out and ripping the case apart to get at any battery. Probably doing the case in in the process, in my panic.
Good to hear you, and yours, survived. One less thing to live down (if you're married)?
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Rice thing? Pack a dunked device in a bag of rice and leave it for a couple of days? Perhaps with a good fan going nearby? (When my basement flooded, even though only a couple of inches deep, they brought in some industrial fans for several days. Even if the water seems gone, the humidity is still way high, and that's gotta come down, too.)
Okay so my phone as on the table, somehow i didn't notice that the table was wet, i came back after an hour or so picked up my phone still didn't see the water for some reason! and then my message tone sounded very weird, i got a little worried, played music and it sounded horrible, robotic almost so i quickly removed my phones silicon cover. The whole cover was filled with water i quickly turned my phone off. wiped the whole phone clean, took the battery out dried it, dried the speakers then turned my phone back on, everything was fine except the sound was still robotic so i turned it off again, cleaned it again, even hair dried the speaker for 5 seconds, then tried turning it back on again but now it only flashes "Galaxy Note II GT N7000" on the screen. no matter how much i restart it that's what it shows.
What do i do? I checked the water indicator placed inside the battery pocket it's white with purple crosses on it. I googled a bit and it says your phone is water damaged if the sticker is red? If my phone is not water damaged then what happened? =/
It looks a lot like water damage to me. The constant reboot may be cause by a stuck power button.
If the sticker is still white it just means that water didn't touch the sticker, which may be a good thing if you seek a warranty repair. I don't know if there are other indicators.
BTW : N7000 is Note not Note II
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Okay so my phone as on the table, somehow i didn't notice that the table was wet, i came back after an hour or so picked up my phone still didn't see the water for some reason! and then my message tone sounded very weird, i got a little worried, played music and it sounded horrible, robotic almost so i quickly removed my phones silicon cover. The whole cover was filled with water i quickly turned my phone off. wiped the whole phone clean, took the battery out dried it, dried the speakers then turned my phone back on, everything was fine except the sound was still robotic so i turned it off again, cleaned it again, even hair dried the speaker for 5 seconds, then tried turning it back on again but now it only flashes "Galaxy Note II GT N7000" on the screen. no matter how much i restart it that's what it shows.
What do i do? I checked the water indicator placed inside the battery pocket it's white with purple crosses on it. I googled a bit and it says your phone is water damaged if the sticker is red? If my phone is not water damaged then what happened? =/
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well let your phone dry completely before using it now as it will damage the stuff completely keep it aside if possible open the complete panel and stuff and soak it in sun make sure the motherboard does not have water damage , if it still sounds robotic try replacing the speaker only.
Thank you!
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well let your phone dry completely before using it now as it will damage the stuff completely keep it aside if possible open the complete panel and stuff and soak it in sun make sure the motherboard does not have water damage , if it still sounds robotic try replacing the speaker only.
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Thank you so much
I kept my phone in rice for over night, started it up in the morning, used it all day, it works perfectly
Yesterday I was taking a shower and I had my phone laying on my towel awaiting a vibrating noise "since my sound doesn't work" to which was a important phone call. I heard it go off and I unfortunately was in the middle of washing my hair with shampoo rushing down my head to violently rape my eyes, I instantly shriek and wave my arms violently. Thus the nexus flies in the air making a horrible smack onto the tub spilling out the battery. Now I'm battling the shampoo sting and anger towards myself for this stupidity of an act. (It took on major amounts water) I dry off both parts and rush it to the living room/kitchen. The rice thing didn't come to my head yet so I initially try to boot it up and low and behold it does.. But it had issues.
The boot up took almost 2 minutes on the Google Logo. Afterwards it booted but with a wonky screen. Touch didn't work and the screen was flickering. (It started making machinery noises, clicking etc.) I deboot it and then try to boot it back up. Nothing came up. It was dead. No sign of life was in my Nexus eyes. So eventually I remember the rice trick and set it up to till I woke up and did some things. It brought my nexus from the dead however not without some issues. It brought back my sound which has been gone for almost 6 months. However I think my camera is dead. I tried launching various camera apps and none of them will let the camera boot. It always says reboot the phone.
I haven't noticed anything else major as of now but I'm still hoping its only the camera. So the question in asking is could a spill of this magnitude cause damage to the camera rendering it useless?
Thanks in advance and I hope you enjoyed to story
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First of all.... booting it right after being soaked with water was the dumbest thing you could have ever done. You put it in rice and wait about a week or so to let all the moisture dry out. Turning it on while it's wet causes shortages along the circuit board. You're lucky it still even works. I don't think your camera is dead, rather a malfunction with the main board. I doubt replacing the camera will solve the issue.
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First of all.... booting it right after being soaked with water was the dumbest thing you could have ever done. You put it in rice and wait about a week or so to let all the moisture dry out. Turning it on while it's wet causes shortages along the circuit board. You're lucky it still even works. I don't think your camera is dead, rather a malfunction with the main board. I doubt replacing the camera will solve the issue.
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I understand that but filled with adrenaline, anger and to mention I had a panic attack in the shower earlier. I just wasn't thinking.
Thanks for the camera answer though!
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I actually have another question if someone might know the answer.
While my sound came back I never thought of testing media and instead tested call. So my ringer etc. Works but none of the media sound. I did turn on media. I switched it from low to high to low, checked mute etc. And nothing. Is there a reason to this or am I simply missing a sound option muting my media?
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My wife dropped her Moto Z Play into a puddle and the bottom half of the phone was submerged. Initially the phone continued to work and she wasn't concerned, so she did not properly dry the phone off. Eventually the screen stopped working and she plugged it in before she told me about it. I dried the phone off as best I could, removing the cover and taking out the sim card. I placed it into rice, where it has been for about a week now. The phone will not power on at all, it makes no noises when plugged in (the phone usually makes a high pitched, very quiet tone when charging). The forward facing light does blink white when it is plugged in but it makes no other response. I do not know what that means and I have not seen anything about it at any forums. The battery is not removable. Any suggestions on what to do now and any explanation on what the blinking white light means? Thanks
same exact situation...
Same thing happened to a friends' moto z play this weekend when she was tubing at a local river. The battery had died so her's was not on when it hit the water and was only submerged for a few seconds. She dried it off best she could and plugged the charger in to see if it would charge. It just blinks the white light on the front three times and then the battery lightning bolt graphic displays momentarily and repeats this. Phone will not turn on as well. We haven't left it on the charger for any period longer than a minute or two. Found this thread, looking for similar situations hopefully for a solution.
FWIW - we did find this youtube video water testing the Z play and it seems as though this phone should be relative water resistant.
since i haven't made 10 posts I cant include url but if you enter watch?v=dxvLKskmkg8 after you tube dot com you can find that video. THIS IS NOT SPAM and very relevant to this thread.
Thanks for sharing @ABTF16 anyhow... Hopefully someone knowledgeable to this scenario will be able to provide an answer at some point in the near future.
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My wife dropped her Moto Z Play into a puddle and the bottom half of the phone was submerged. Initially the phone continued to work and she wasn't concerned, so she did not properly dry the phone off. Eventually the screen stopped working and she plugged it in before she told me about it. I dried the phone off as best I could, removing the cover and taking out the sim card. I placed it into rice, where it has been for about a week now. The phone will not power on at all, it makes no noises when plugged in (the phone usually makes a high pitched, very quiet tone when charging). The forward facing light does blink white when it is plugged in but it makes no other response. I do not know what that means and I have not seen anything about it at any forums. The battery is not removable. Any suggestions on what to do now and any explanation on what the blinking white light means? Thanks
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Quite weird!
It passes the water test with no problem.
Speaker working fine camera working fine touch working fine.??
And in the video he said that the Motorola claims that it has advanced nano coating technology which can protect it from accidental spills or splashes.
Trust me, my Moto X Force went the same way
One second drop in water, it was upright and it was only the bottom inch and for less than one second as I immediately removed it, continued to work for the rest of the day but died in the evening and would not turn on
Sent to Moto and returned with 'unit beyond economical repair' along with a photo and half of the components were corroded
WTF!! one second in water
Don't get me wrong I love Moto's (I have a Z Play now) but they are rubbish if they even get moist
If your phone gets wet you are supposed to leave it off for at least a day in a dry area. I left mine in a hot car with leather seats. You need to let all the components dry out. You could achieve the same affect with a hair dryer.
Turning it on, or trying to charge it is no good idea.
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ABTF16 said:
My wife dropped her Moto Z Play into a puddle and the bottom half of the phone was submerged. Initially the phone continued to work and she wasn't concerned, so she did not properly dry the phone off. Eventually the screen stopped working and she plugged it in before she told me about it. I dried the phone off as best I could, removing the cover and taking out the sim card. I placed it into rice, where it has been for about a week now. The phone will not power on at all, it makes no noises when plugged in (the phone usually makes a high pitched, very quiet tone when charging). The forward facing light does blink white when it is plugged in but it makes no other response. I do not know what that means and I have not seen anything about it at any forums. The battery is not removable. Any suggestions on what to do now and any explanation on what the blinking white light means? Thanks
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I had accidently taken my MZP under a running tap and with the pressure the water went all the way inside my MZP but then at first it worked fine for 1 hour or less. Then it switched off automatically and started rebooting. I still managed to get it on then it started to show results like camera stopped working and fingerprint scanner stopped working. I shaked the phone and then removed the water which was remaining. Then I managed to switch it off and then put it in rice for 2 days. After that its working fine, only fingerprint scanner was not working but yesterday it started working and now everything is back to normal. Try isopropyl alcohol which is 99% pure alcohol and then dip your phone in and then put it again for 2 days in rice. I hope this works. However I just needed rice to do its work and mine worked. Hope yours work but if its damaged go to the service centre asap.
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