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Dog urinated on Motorola RAZR V3i - Screen is black

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lilrich3
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Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:07 pm 
Well.
Knowing that motorola is makeing *** phones these days i bought a razr v3i . had it for a while and then i set it down outside. took my dog out for a pee and my dog urinated on my phone icon_frown.gif GRR. now i can turn my phone off but. the screen is black and i cant see nothing. (not one happy person) so i come seeking help.

if you know anything about this what i can do please tell me
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mikekay10
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Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:12 am 
Well its not Motorola's fault your dog went on your phone. No phone likes getting wet regardless of manufacturer.

Disassemble the phone and ensure it is totally dried out before trying to turn it on again
lilrich3
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Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:22 am 
how long should i wait before turning back on. and wont there be left over minerals and stuff left in my phone?
lilrich3
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Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:36 pm 
ok wel i turn my phone on now. and its working like i can hear sounds and stuff. but the backlight is not comeing on. so i cant see anything. what do i do now?

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Fri Aug 24, 2007 6:55 am 
LCD could be damaged, or the flex cable.

Did you ensure everything inside was totally dry before turning it on? Water and power don't mix.
lilrich3
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Sat Aug 25, 2007 2:24 am 
ok well LCD or flex cable prolly damaged. yea everything is dry .
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Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:51 pm 
When a phone gets wet, the liquid finds it way into all the connections in the phone, where it stays until it dries out, but any impurities are left in the phone when it has dried out. Even "clean" water will leave some deposits. As it was dog pee there will be lots of impurities, urea, salts etc all of which will crystalise on the connections such as the keypad and the flexi connector contacts.
So now that the phone has dried out, and you find that the display does not work, it indicates that there are shorts on the connections to the display or on the display itself: the display uses minute currents and so even high resistances appear as short circuits. Urea and salts are going to be pretty good conductors in themselves.
So your best bet is to try to open up the phone, or get someone to do it for you, and dissolve all the impurities that are shorting things out, maybe an ultra-sonic cleaning bath will do the trick.
I do have to say that as it was such an obnoxious liquid, I wouldn't hold out too much hope of it working at all again, or if it does it may not perform very well: a friends phone suffered badly with symptoms of very short battery life after a water damage incident. and after all the V3's are not all that great in that department anyway!
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