permanently damaged my water dropped phone? fixable? (hardware?)

[Funkpod]

Hello, i had to jump in the pool because my son was struggling in the water. Forgot my phone was in my pocket.

I tried it out by taking the battery cover off, leaving it in rice for a day and a half, etc. I thought it was totally fine, because it powered up Monday around 7am, and it was fine. Well, it went through some boot loop stuff, but then I went to CWM recovery, reset phone from there, and it was good.

Then, around 4:30pm, after I had it plugged in charging for about 40 min, don't know if that's significant because I had charged it earlier the same day w/o problems.

Anyways, around 4:30pm, I went to silence my phone, and it just shut off. And wouldn't restart. Battery Pulls, nothing. Won't even charge.

AGH! what should I do?

I don't want to pay the $100 deductible through Verizon, especially since I am getting the gsIII next week. However, I wanted to keep this phone around, use it occasionally, let my kids game on it, etc.

Should I try opening it up? Like, get those fancy screw drivers and remove screws and open it up? What could have happened? is this repairable? I am wondering if there was water that hadn't quite disappeared in the phone, and it shorted out (insert technical term here) or something.

it's sitting in rice now...

glad i did jumped in after him, would do it again, but just trying to see if my phone is fixable now...

Okay, let me know, thanks, guys!

 

[Will1524]

I would have done the same thing. My idea is to again take off the battery and soak it in rice for at least 3-4 days then put the battery in and reboot the phone. If that doesn't work then I guess you could try to buy a new battery and see if that was the issue. Is there any screen damage and water drops or anything under the screen? Good Luck!

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[Funkpod]

Re: permanently damaged my water dropped phone? fixable? (hardwar

hey thanks, no, i don't see any water on it, and I have tried using several batteries, to no avail. nothing happens when I plug it into the charger, no light indicator, nothing... ;(

 

[PvilleComp]

Re: permanently damaged my water dropped phone? fixable? (hardwar

Let it sit - if it will come back it will come back after a few days in the rice. You got to get All the moisture out.

 

[Funkpod]

Re: permanently damaged my water dropped phone? fixable? (hardwar

thanks. i don't know if i'm hopeful... it sounds bad.

think i should open it up and try to get to the "wet" parts better?

i am worried i did permanent damage, like it shorted out or something. however, i don't even know what that means, lol.

still rockin' your Incredible, pvillecomp?

gonna upgrade? I'm getting the galaxy s3. hopefully next week. however, i wanted to keep my incredible to play with, different roms, let my kids use it like a game boy, etc....

 

[PvilleComp]

Re: permanently damaged my water dropped phone? fixable? (hardwar

I would hold off on taking it apart - you may have shorted something by charging it too soon, but time will tell. I dropped my Treo in a glass and it fired up 2 weeks later just air drying and it still works.

Keep it in the rice for now.

Still have 2 DIncs. I'm wavering really bad - I'm sitting on 3 upgrades and the DInc 4G looks appealing as does the Nexus at this point.

I'm torn but at some point I'm going to have to jump.

I will still have much love for the DInc though. It's been and still is a great phone. As some of the ICS builds get better I may hold off even longer!

 

[Funkpod]

Re: permanently damaged my water dropped phone? fixable? (hardwar

thanks for the recommendation, i held off from opening it and just have let it sit in rice the past few days. i guess i'll try it out today, but i don't have much hope in it working. we'll see, though!~ there's a phone fix it store that has a machine that uses a liquid that removes most of the corrosion. only thing is that it's $100 to fix, if it doesn't work, it's like $50 for labor. and my deductible is $100.

maybe if it doesn't work... i can try and remove the corrosion by myself?

this may be a stupid question... but i know that wd-40 removes rust. bad idea to try and use small amounts on the corroded parts, if i can find them?

 

[Will1524]

Ehh yeah I wouldn't try to use wd-40 it could backfire, some of the chemicals aren't so good for electronics.

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