S8 getting hot and battery draining after going swimming...

[Android Central Question]

I have a s8 and it recently went under water in a pool. The next day the it would not charge pass 12% even when turned off and was getting hot and then the battery would drain. I tried got to like 40% and it drained within minutes. I changed the battery but there wasnt much improvement. I factory reset and cleared the cache.

The phone still is getting hot and giving problems to charge as i have to unplug it when it gets hot and resume charging when it cools. I managed to get it charged to 100% while turned off. When i turned it on the phone dropped to 24% within 2 and a 1/2 hours with very minimal usage and didnt get as hot . Placed it to charged it reached 36% and started to drain as it got hot. So i unplugged it and placed it aside

The LCI within the sim tray still remains as before and hasn’t changed to indicate water damage.

Now i am lost as to what i should do. Can anyone help??

 

[Golfdriver97]

Welcome to the forums. It sounds like water did make it in the device. Usually there isn't much to do when damage gets this far. If you have insurance, now would be the time to use it.

 

[mustang7757]

If you have futher questions ,I'll leave a Link to register so you can communicate here as a guest account you can only post questions but can't reply.
https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=409154

 

[Rukbat]

The phone is rated IP68 - Protected from long term immersion up to a specified pressure. The pressure is about 2psi. If you moved much putting it into the water, you exceeded that. ("Water resistant" means "if water runs across the table, and gets the phone wet, the phone is probably going to be okay." It doesn't mean "you can have the phone in the bathroom when you take a hot shower" [steam is a vapor - it can get into a waterproof phone], or go swimming with it [moving increases the pressure].) "Going underwater" probably forced water past the seals, getting the inside of the phone wet. And the hydrochloric acid (chlorine and water form weak hydrochloric acid) probably didn't help any.

It's cheaper to buy a new or used S8 than to have yours ripped apart and repaired. (If you're lucjy, the case is usable. The buttons are plastic, so they're probably okay. Everything else has to be replaced. And that's very expensive.)

 

[VidJunky]

The phone is rated IP68 - Protected from long term immersion up to a specified pressure. The pressure is about 2psi. If you moved much putting it into the water, you exceeded that. ("Water resistant" means "if water runs across the table, and gets the phone wet, the phone is probably going to be okay." It doesn't mean "you can have the phone in the bathroom when you take a hot shower" [steam is a vapor - it can get into a waterproof phone], or go swimming with it [moving increases the pressure].) "Going underwater" probably forced water past the seals, getting the inside of the phone wet. And the hydrochloric acid (chlorine and water form weak hydrochloric acid) probably didn't help any.

It's cheaper to buy a new or used S8 than to have yours ripped apart and repaired. (If you're lucjy, the case is usable. The buttons are plastic, so they're probably okay. Everything else has to be replaced. And that's very expensive.)

I've kind of been watching this post since I first saw it but the OP never showed up so I figured why bother. I've said similar stuff in other threads that mention taking phones into water like a toy but each time it was met with, I've done this with my last 2, 3 phones and nothing has ever happened. It's funny to me how casually people take a water resistance rating to mean the device is waterproof and will argue how many times or how often they've done it. I get that you could maybe get away with it in a perfect world where quality was 100% but this is the real world where someone went to work mad and decided that they just didn't care if that little o-ring was slightly out of spec or that mesh piece didn't get on there exactly square. But maybe it's just me.

 

[belodion]

^ It isn’t just you.

 

[Golfdriver97]

I know I have said this before, but I view water resistant devices as an extra layer of insurance against accidentally getting caught in the rain. Not as in I can swim with sharks and take photos.

 

[B. Diddy]

I know I have said this before, but I view water resistant devices as an extra layer of insurance against accidentally getting caught in the rain. Not as in I can swim with sharks and take photos.

Wait, so it doesn't have Bat-Shark Repellent built-in? What a ripoff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnFOs7QlJSI

 

[Golfdriver97]

Wait, so it doesn't have Bat-Shark Repellent built-in? What a ripoff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnFOs7QlJSI

No Bat Shark repellent. But I hear it's an ok Penguin repellent.

 

[mustang7757]

Wait, so it doesn't have Bat-Shark Repellent built-in? What a ripoff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnFOs7QlJSI

Hey , I use to watch that batman series on TV