Water damaged phone. Phone won't charge after everything else works. Can it be fixed?

[AC Question]

I was exploring a creek with my friends and my phone fell into the creek. I have a Samsung Galaxy s5 and the charging port cover was on, the back panel was sealed and I had an otterbox commuter on the phone. The phone fell into about 3 inches of slowly running water and my friend retrieved the phone within 40 seconds of it falling in. I made sure to wipe down every part of the phone accessible with a soft cloth/shirt. When I got home about 2 hours later, I put the phone in front of a fan and let it sit for 5 minutes and then let the phone sit submerged in a bag of rice for 13 hours. When I tried it then, everything is working fine but when I went to plug the phone in to charge, the phone does not charge. Every couple seconds it charges and then stops and then begins again and even after unplugging the phone it will say it's charging. I need a fix asap and I do not want to give it to a professional or open up the phone completely, is there anything I can do? P.s I used a vacuum on the port for like 15 seconds and it had no effect :/ .

 

[belodion]

'Asap' without proper repair attention may mean about a week in a warm place in a bag of desiccant. Even then, any improvement may be temporary. By now, even a proper repair may, if at all successful, be no more than temporary.

[GUIDE] Oh, no! My Phone got Wet!

https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?sh...tral.com/showthread.php?t=477140&share_type=t

 

[smvim]

When you referred to leaving your phone in a bag of rice for 13 hours you didn't state if you had removed the back cover, removed the battery, and a microSD card or SIM card. If you did not, just placing your S5 into a bag of rice for a few hours won't help remove any water that did get inside -- a phone left entirely intact will take weeks if not months for all the water inside to evaporate. The tolerances inside any smartphone are pretty tight so water flows into into a lot of very small places just through capillary action and unless you open up your S5 as much as you can the water is more or less 'sealed' in. The dry rice can only absorb what water that is exposed to it. The few openings that your phone does have (headphone, charging port, minuscule gaps around the power and volume buttons just don't allow enough exposure. So if you didn't open up your S5, there's most likely still moisture inside it. You might want to try opening up your phone, put it back into a bag of dry rice and wait a couple of days. Maybe, (just maybe) it will be OK after that.

But at this point, since you've been using it since the accident odds are it's damaged in some way. Worst case is some components on the motherboard have shorted so it needs to be replaced. But you might want to just try replacing the battery, they're not very expensive and with the S5 it's easily replaceable.In any case, since it sounds like the phone is still functional accept for this battery charging issue, using your power adapter be sure to back up your data if you don't already have a backup solution in place.