If you're phone has been damaged by water, or you accidentally dropped it somewhere, here's a tutorial to fix your water-damaged phone without running to a repair shop or the manufacturer:
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How to fix a water-damaged phone
on May 28th, 2008 GMT +2
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i'm soaking my LG chocolate in rice now! just got it wet yesterday. well, the boyfriend did. just a little sweat from a waterbottle. who knew such little amount of water can cause good amount of damage?! we'll see if this theory works. i'll post again tomorrow and let you know (:
looking forward to see what happens.
good luck!
i'm soaking my LG chocolate in rice now! just got it wet yesterday. well, the boyfriend did. just a little sweat from a waterbottle. who knew such little amount of water can cause good amount of damage?! we'll see if this theory works. i'll post again tomorrow and let you know (:
looking forward to see what happens.
good luck!
I dropped my phone in a puddle outside. It works perfectly but the screen is black. You can talk or do anything, but you can't see it!!! HELP!!
i did the exact same thing as her….dropped it in a puddle and the screen is black….what do i do?
id see if there are any fast ways to get it done quick!!
but that happened to me n my nokia5600 but without the water.. n after a while it works fine!
I got mine waterdamaged AGAIN tho.. so it'll need to be checked anyway.
OH MY GOD THANK YOU THIS WORK VERY WELL!!!! I AM GLAD YOU SAVED ME FROM SPENDING ANOTHER 150 TO GET ANOTHER CELL PHONE THIS HAS HAPPEND TO ME TWICE LOL N I WISH I DID THIS THE FIRST TIME BUT U LIVE N LEARN LOL THANK YOU AGAIN!
i was pushed into a pool yesterday ad my brand new htc touch diamond was in my pocket..its shut off right awy so ..i tried this soaking in rice myth its seem to almost work ..like my phone turns on but i cant see anything on the screen it turn a blackish blue colour…i think its the touch screen that got damaged ..any ideas on how to fix it or how much it will run me to get it repaired ??????? help!
same happend to me today i fell in a river and it wouldnt turn on i put the rice method didnt work i also tried blow drying it it turned on for about 5 min then turned off and no luck now
i dropped my phone down the toilet on thursday night and on friday i tried blow drying it. it didnt work
im now trying the rice thing but its a good few days later.. does anyone think it will work? its a samsung u600 btw. not the best phone but i loved it lol
I had the same experience. My N96 was soak in water. I had it fixed at the service center. After they had it cleaned still it won’t power up. After reading the experiences from the readers. By soaking it in an uncooked rice overnight. It power ups already. But only the master or center button lighted. The screed is black and the rest of the keyboard buttons doesn’t light. Please, help solve my problem. thanks.
I am trying the rice right now I dropped my brand new 2 day old Motorola Cliq in the toilet please tell me this rice will work
Hello! Jennifer, as long as you have not put “on” your Motorola after soaking in water, you have 80% of cellphone recovery. Remove the battery and air-blow your cellphone. Soak it overnight in a sealed “Tupperware” with rice. Your phone is still under warranty you bring it immediately to the service center. But, it you had it put “on” after soaking, you can say good bye to your unit. Because it shorts circuits the IC’s components. I hope this help you.
hola, I bought a used Nokia N95-3 off a local used items website. When I checked the phone out before paying the guy everything worked fine. But after a week the screen went completely white. The phone still works and I can call out and receive calls and texts with the white screen (but obviously can’t read the texts). After blow drying it for a lengthy period of time the display worked again. But every damp and cold day the display dies again. I believe the contacts on the slide screen are the problem. Is it worth taking this to a repair shop? Is it possible to fix this somehow? Can I fix it? I love the phone and it’s features but they’re useless at the moment.
i dropped my nokia 6700in the toilet yesterday and i dried it with a towel and then turned it on. it turned on for two mins and then went off. i have tried blow drying it and it is still not coming on. i want to try the rice method today for 24 hours and see if it will work. but pls help me if there is anything else i can do to gat it work?
yaa, if ur fone turned on for a few minutes then stopped working…u have short circuted the battery…u shouldnt of turned the fone on for a few days until u were sure the water was completely gone…try putting it in te bowl of rice or cleaning it lightly with vacume…..dont use a blow dryer s u can demages the burn the circuts
i have an LG dare and it got into a puddle of water on my sink and i wiped off the cover thinking it was fine .. continued texting and hten it powereed off.. i put it in rice over night and nothing happened. any ideasS?
My LG Voyager got soaked from being in my pocket while i went sledding. I had it in a ziploc bag but I guess water still got through. I continued to text and when I got home it powered off. Im trying the rice thing now lets hope it works!
I spilled a glass of Pepsi yesterday and it got the back of my Intensity. The problem is you can receive calls and messages, but the ear and mouth piece did not work and when I receive a text it tries to call the person who sent it automatically. however, it stopped this for an hour yesterday, started doing it again, then stopped for about 5 hours before starting again. It stopped dialing out this morning but has since started again. How else can I fix this besides rice, will this problem sort itself out after a few days??
Have used this method successfully on both an IPOD Classic and a Nokia 5800, placing in an airing cupboard speeds up the process as well
A creative temporary fix, but unless you dropped the device into distilled water, don’t expect it to live forever. Circuit traces can eventually short or corrode over time. Miracles are not impossible, however. I drowned my Casio Scientific watch and thought it was dead, but their authorized repair shop in L.A. cleaned it up, fixing it a decade later.
This really works even if the phone has been outside in the snow for 3 months. Just take it apart and place it in a container of rice and wait a few days. It worked for me and I am so happy because I did not lose any information.
my phone was in snow since febuary 10 th to march 13 th because i thought i lost my phone but i had just dropped it in the snow that was up to my nees and my uncle found it in his yard 3 days ago when the snow finally melted my phone is a lg dare and it had an invisible shield on and my uncle put it on the heater and then put it to charge it works but the camra is foggy and the recorder only works if you yell really loud. so how am i going to talk on it well only if i use earphones with a mike
sadly i put it in rice just now so hopefully it wont have too much damage.
but what should i exspect it was in stupid Canadian snow for about a month and a week!
not to mention i only had the phone for like a year and i am only 12 years old
I dropped my phone into the toilet last night but the battery didn’t fall in just the phone itself. After hand drying it and disassembling and blow drying it then reassembling it there was a little bit of glitching in the screen and when I would press 1 it would do all of that row. Same for any button. I called the sprint customer service center for troubleshooting ideas to make it work quicker and they told me to remove the battery which it already was and plug it into the charger…. It turned on for maybe half a second and turned off and repeated this for about 2 hours then it gave me the emergency download screen: problem USB port which is where my charger port is. If I had to guess I would say something got shorted out. Does anyone with a little more knowledge recommend anything, or think this would help matters at all?