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Will water always kill a cell phone?
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Posted by: rozwado1

I have a SCP-5150 that got soaked. I let it dry for 24 hours and it won't turn on.
I have a Best Buy warranty on the phone - do you think they'll be able to tell that it got wet? Nick

Posted by: magnus

My brother dipped his Samsung 8500 in water and let it dry for 24 hours and took it up to Best Buy and they didn't notice it was dipped in water and he got it replaced.

Posted by: seezar

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Originally posted by rozwado1
I let it dry for 24 hours and it won't turn on.

If you can live without it for a couple more days keep letting it dry cause it still may yet come back to life.

As far as the Best Buy warranty, as long as they dont find out it was dropped in water they should replace it.

Posted by: hatoncat

Whatever you do, don't power it on until your sure it's completely dry. Since you have already voided the warranty, you may want to take it apart and let it dry out more.

If a laptop can survive being doused in Dr. Pepper, I don't see why a cell phone can't survive a little water...

Posted by: Aurora

In regards to your original question:

Electronics don't like water.

Water will always kill the stuff if reaches the right areas of the elecronic circuitry.

Posted by: hatoncat

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Originally posted by Aurora
In regards to your original question:

Electronics don't like water.

Water will always kill the stuff if reaches the right areas of the elecronic circuitry.

Yeah, notice on phones like the Sanyo 4900 where the water stickers are placed, like right next to the battery contacts...

Posted by: az1324

No phones definitely aren't always killed by water. My friend and I were partying at the playboy mansion and he fell in the grotto with his cell phone in his pocket. He let it dry out for a few days by putting it in the fridge. It worked like a charm.

Posted by: tnt2sniper

Well you guys do know that the have things now inside the phone, I believe its under the battery that tells a specialist or a simple sprint employee that the phone has been damaged by water...
I think its that Red Cross pattern.. I dunno for sure tho
This women came into a sprint store (A sprint employee told us this) and she said her phone is messing up, he checked and said our indicator says that it has water damage we cant do anything she said, OOO I know why then I keep it inbetween my brests!
so her sweat hurt the phone lmao!

Posted by: rozwado1

please - No more talk about sweaty breasts in this forum.

Posted by: Aurora

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Originally posted by rozwado1
please - No more talk about sweaty breasts in this forum.

rotflmao...I second that request...or demand, depends on how you see it

Posted by: rozwado1

As you can now see, I have a SE T610. I found a loophole in the Best Buy warranty. They may be able to see water damage, but they can't differentiate a defective earpiece from one that was gently stabbed with a pin. I returned my phone and traded to a SCP-5300, then sold it on eBay.

Posted by: magnus

Well I just found out that foam won't kill my 5300...hehe...I went clubbin' friday night and the one club that I went to was having a foam party...so since I was drunk, I forgot all about my 5300 and just went into the foam...afterwards I noticed that my flash wouldn't turn off and I had some moisture in the external LCD. But once it all dried up, my 5300 was back to normal.

Posted by: NutBucket

I had a friend who inadvertenly put his StarTAC through the wash. It worked fine after he let it dry out for a few days. Basically, you just want to make sure the phone is completely dry before powering it up.

Posted by: lostboy23

Once you phone gets soaked or expose to any kind of moisture, that's pretty much the end of it. You might not notice any problems, but over time you'll experience all sorts of problems. Newer phones have moisture indicator on the back and on the battery that turns pink once exposed. If people at Best Buy are smart enough to know this and they check, they would not honor the warranty. Warranty will definitely be voided if you got to a Sprint Service center.

Posted by: hatoncat

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Originally posted by lostboy23
Once you phone gets soaked or expose to any kind of moisture, that's pretty much the end of it. You might not notice any problems, but over time you'll experience all sorts of problems. Newer phones have moisture indicator on the back and on the battery that turns pink once exposed. If people at Best Buy are smart enough to know this and they check, they would not honor the warranty. Warranty will definitely be voided if you got to a Sprint Service center.

Yes, both your Best Buy/Circuit City plan as well as the Sprint warranty are voided whenever the phone even touches water.

But that's not saying that water can kill a phone. Electronics CAN but not always ARE damaged by water. As long as electricity wasn't flowing to the portions of the phone that was hit by water, there's no reason that it can't survive water damage.

I've seen laptops survive water damage, heck even Java damage. As long as you let the phone completely dry out before turning the phone back on, there's a good chance that there will be no damage. Of course, there's a good chance your phone will be dead or die shortly after...

Posted by: scottjf8

I have a Sanyo 5150 and it was turned on yesterday sitting on the counter. I always have it on vibrate mode, and yesterday it vibrated all the way off the counter into my dog's water bowl.

It was turned ON at the time.

Should I assume it's dead? I called SPCS and they said at the
store, that for $150 I can get the 8100. Should I?

Posted by: magnus

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Originally posted by scottjf8
I have a Sanyo 5150 and it was turned on yesterday sitting on the counter. I always have it on vibrate mode, and yesterday it vibrated all the way off the counter into my dog's water bowl.

It was turned ON at the time.

Should I assume it's dead? I called SPCS and they said at the
store, that for $150 I can get the 8100. Should I?

I would do it, because the 8100 is a nice upgrade from the 5150...better color LCD and it is vision enabled. Not to mention that it has a built-in camera.

Posted by: Chuk13838

i had an i95 that i took with me into a canal on a four wheeler and it spent a good minute and a half in nasty canal water, i took it apart and dried it out and about 6 hours later it was great, used it for 6 more months now my friend has it and hasnt a had a problem either (about 3 months) so i dunno about the whole over time problems thing but hasnt affected it yet

hopefully i'll never find out how 5300s do in water

Posted by: scottjf8

Well I got the 5300 from Costco.. It's nice, but a few things bug me...

1) When I'm on it, I'm always putting my finger on the camera lens, so my pictures are blurry... sucks

2) The web browser - it's SLOW, NO faster than my old Non-Vision phone.. why is it so slow?

3) The web sites... it sucks.. the text is small (and I even set it to big).. do people use other browsers than the default one?

Posted by: hatoncat

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Originally posted by scottjf8
Well I got the 5300 from Costco.. It's nice, but a few things bug me...

1) When I'm on it, I'm always putting my finger on the camera lens, so my pictures are blurry... sucks

2) The web browser - it's SLOW, NO faster than my old Non-Vision phone.. why is it so slow?

3) The web sites... it sucks.. the text is small (and I even set it to big).. do people use other browsers than the default one?

This is way off-topic, but OK.

1) The camera is cheap, you have to hold it still for a second before taking a picture

2) The web browser itself is at fault. New phones like the SE T608 use a much better, faster web browser.

3) There are a couple of HTML Java web browsers but nope, that's the main one.

Posted by: VCI_Cell

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Originally posted by Chuk13838
i had an i95 that i took with me into a canal on a four wheeler and it spent a good minute and a half in nasty canal water, i took it apart and dried it out and about 6 hours later it was great, used it for 6 more months now my friend has it and hasnt a had a problem either (about 3 months) so i dunno about the whole over time problems thing but hasnt affected it yet

hopefully i'll never find out how 5300s do in water

I dropped my (powered-on) Samsung a460 in a toilet, then put it in the shower ... two days later it worked perfectly. Gave it to my best friend, who still uses it today. He reports that he dropped it in a glass of water by accident (phone must have a curse) and yet it still works beautifully.

In my store, I'm perfecting a (warantee-voiding) post-water damage cleaning technique that so far has been successful in restoring a flooded Nokia 6360 to life. So long as we're talking about fresh water damage, and the battery is disconnected promptly after flooding, and a good fresh water rinse is undertaken as soon as possible afterwards ... cellphones are pretty durable.

Posted by: gkaste

A long time back I dropped my first and only PDA into a swimming pool. (TI Avigo, anyone remember those) I shut it off as soon as I got it out, let it dry out real good, and it worked for the next six months(when it all of a sudden stopped working, dont know how that pda got on the floor and how the leg of that chair got over it...)