I put my cell in the washage machine on accident ... and now my cell will turn on and the buttons dont exsactly work... I dont know what to do .. because it is now stuck on lock ... how do I turn the lock mode off?
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mds33200 Posts: 4
Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:41 am
hi, you may want to take a look at my water damage site, the best thing you can do is dry it out under a warm light for about 4-5 hours (not to hot) and send it into me. Here is my website http://www.geocities.com/mds33200/waterdammage.html
if you have any other ?'s let me know.
ps. I know you dont know who I am, so if you want me to list a repair service on ebay, I can do that. I have over 1,500 feedbacks, so that way its safer and you will know who you are sending ur phone to, if ur interested that is.
heywoodjay Posts: 1
Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:38 pm
2 rules in the survival of a phone that gets wet or is submerged in water.
1 - REMOVE the battery at once.
2 - FLUSH/RINSE with distilled water. If distilled water not available, use tap water until you can get distilled.
Open the phone as much as possible, meaning remove the battery and as many covers as you can. Rinse the phone in distilled water. Spring or filtered water have minerals in it and will leave a residue. Shake as much water off as possible. Repeat at least once.
Either dry using a lamp or oven, do NOT exceed 120 degrees F; otherwise damage could result.
Once dry (usually after a full 24 hr period) in the heat, the phone should be as good as new.
If the phone falls into an impure fluid (salty water, soda, toilet, etc), make sure the FIRST thing you do is remove the battery. The battery will cause electrolysis to happen, which is basis of corrosion. If too much electrolysis happens, the wires become no more (they disintegrate and copper oxide forms). If there are any white deposits on the board, make sure you and the stiff brush you are using are grounded. Static is another bad thing and will destroy you circuitry. So make sure you are by your kitchen sink, have the board in one hand, the brush in the other and at least have touched your water faucet at least once (minimal grounding for non techy types).
No worries about "rehydrating" the printed circuit board, as all boards these days are made up of fiberglass epoxy and are impervious to hydration. The chips are encased in a high temp plastic expoxy or thermoplastic, so no worries if they get dull, its just plastic. Its the little wires (or leads) that protrude from the little buggers that you have to be concerned about.
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mds33200 Posts: 4
Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:53 pm
on my info page when I said the solution I use to recover water damage "rehydrates chips" I was not talking about the actual board. I said rehydrate the chips, I meant the metal contacts on the actual chips. See my website for pictures. Isopropyl alcohol is something else you can use, instead of distilled water, (as I talk about in my website) but I reccommend isopropyl first, then distilled for max. efficiency. Even when this is done, you will notice the metal parts on the chips are dull or dehydrated, from the oxidation process thich has occured when the water damage 1st occured. This will shorten the life of the phone for sure. Every now and then I get phone calls or emails from people that used distilled or isopropyl, and it "worked" for them, but all the sudden the phone dies out a few weeks or so later. When inspecting the mainboards, I notice that ethere a chip or multiple chips are fried by that point, or the oxidation actuay turns from white to a blackish color, (from to much eletricity being in that chip, since it is oxidised, the eletricity is harder to pass from chip to chip, so if excessive eletricity is in a chip over long periods of time, it will turn black.
dont get me wrong, im not saying the distilled or isoproply will not work, im just saying its usually not a long term solution.
Also, I do know what im talking about, I have repaired water damaged phones that the manufacturer couldnt even fix (I had a customer call me because she had samsung try to recover data from a mainboard that got wet, but they could not do so. They still charged her for labor. All she needed was the pictures in the phone (for court, they were evidance) but samsung couldnt recover anything because they couldnt get it to power up. She had samsung overnight the phone to me, I recovered not only the pictures, but the whole phone, and overnighted the phone back to her and emailed her the pictures.
mds33200 Posts: 4
Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:56 pm
ps. with my method of treatment, the main board is 100% dry within 5 minutes of me finishing the last treatment. If it was to have to dry an additional 24 hours or so, oxidation would already start to reform on the chips. As far as the proof goes- just give it a try.
tlm7274 Posts: 1
Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:01 pm
I have a VX5200 which got eaten by my 9 month old daughter, I took out the battery, wiped it dry and left it over night to "air out" none of this worked, that dreaded "car kit" mode would not go away! I tried the tin foil thing, the code thing, and nothing worked! Until I noticed a person say to move the charger back and forth in the charger place on the bottom of the phone, and BAM! That was it, the Car Kit is gone from my screen and I can hear bleeps again!
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