- Jun 29, 2010
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Well, not really, but I forgot to check my swimming shorts' pockets before going for one. So after about 2, 3 minutes, I notice a bulge in my pocket and immediately realise what has transpired. I yank it out (the phone out of my pocket, stop having such a dirty mind!), dry off, disassemble the phone and attempt to dry it off.
Seeing as water damage isn't covered by the warranty, I decided to take it apart completely, removing the back chasis, held into place by the screws with the void stickers, so I could dry it off more completely. Doing this I discovered that the Desire has 5 of these water damage indicator stickers.
So, after about 20 minutes of vacuuming, hairdrying and toweling it, I burried all the parts in a heap of rice for the night to pull all the lingering moisture out, which it did. So this morning I assembled it again and attempted a boot up, but it wouldn't go past the initial HTC screen. At this moment I thought I was thoroughly ****t and had resolved to just send it for repairs in the morning, however after looking at it through the corner of my eye, I decided to just check one more thing, so I booted into hboot and recovery to see if anything could be done there. I ended up erasing the internal storage and trying to boot again...
OMG, it booted up! WTF?
I've since spent about an hour setting everything up as I had it before and testing every thing I could think of to see if it still performs as it did, which it has. This of course requires more extensive testing and I'll report back, but even so, kudos to HTC for making a phone that doesn't just fizz itself into the next incarnation when coming in contact with liquid. And this wasn't just a little splash, remember, the phone spent 2-3 minutes completely submerged in water. Bravo to HTC and "bravo" to me.
tl;dr: phone went in pool, dried out over night, works fine so far.
Seeing as water damage isn't covered by the warranty, I decided to take it apart completely, removing the back chasis, held into place by the screws with the void stickers, so I could dry it off more completely. Doing this I discovered that the Desire has 5 of these water damage indicator stickers.
So, after about 20 minutes of vacuuming, hairdrying and toweling it, I burried all the parts in a heap of rice for the night to pull all the lingering moisture out, which it did. So this morning I assembled it again and attempted a boot up, but it wouldn't go past the initial HTC screen. At this moment I thought I was thoroughly ****t and had resolved to just send it for repairs in the morning, however after looking at it through the corner of my eye, I decided to just check one more thing, so I booted into hboot and recovery to see if anything could be done there. I ended up erasing the internal storage and trying to boot again...
OMG, it booted up! WTF?
I've since spent about an hour setting everything up as I had it before and testing every thing I could think of to see if it still performs as it did, which it has. This of course requires more extensive testing and I'll report back, but even so, kudos to HTC for making a phone that doesn't just fizz itself into the next incarnation when coming in contact with liquid. And this wasn't just a little splash, remember, the phone spent 2-3 minutes completely submerged in water. Bravo to HTC and "bravo" to me.
tl;dr: phone went in pool, dried out over night, works fine so far.
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