N900 water damage solution
 

hello guys.....it is my n900 in water for about 30 mins.....wt shud i do now
wen i tried to charge it after 2 days.....the yellow led light flashed n then suddenly the green light started flashing n did not stop until i removed the battery......so now wen i try to switch on my phone.....it does swicth on bt after some time of loading it gets turned off!!!:confused::(:confused:....what to do???


pls help me
thnxx

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Don't laugh at me...

Put it in rice, for 20 hours!

I Googled, and came up with this... Try it... Although you shouldn't have connected it to power supply, you might still stand a chance.

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try the rice.. http://www.tehkseven.net/news/nokia-...mage-solution/ good luck!

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k i'll try dat 1 ....tthnx fr the sol

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:lol:
No problem! Click on 'Thanks!' for us! (Just joking mate!)

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k thnxxx.......................

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haha..... :D

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30 minutes? seriously? never leave your child unattended near water!

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yah mayn....30 minutes.......i don hav a child

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Better than the rice trick, disassemble your phone as much as you can, then soak it in >90% isopropanol (rubbing alcohol). Dry it by blowing air duster on it and into crevices.

Repeat this a few times, soaking/dousing it in isopropanol and drying it with air duster. It saved my phone.

You'll probably have to dissassembly the LCD screen and carefully wipe it off to remove streaks.

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i was referring to ur phone as ur child, treat it like a baby, wipe it, change it, love it, dont let it go swimming by itself. so just how did it end up being immersed for so long?

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hey......the rice trick didnt wrk fr me......so nw better den diambbeling it i m thinking of giving it to nokia care.....aint dat ryt???

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it was wid me....in ma pocket while i was in da sea.... :(

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You were in a sinking ship?

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Do the rice trick, but keep it at least 5-6 days. Do not turn it on. I kept it dissasembled in rice for 48 hours and when I turned it on it had water stains on the screen and I thought it was dirt. But after a week the stains dried of on their own and the screen started to turn of on it's own.

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In the sea=salt which is not very good for any electronics no matter what you do. If this was fresh water that would be different but salt/iodine corrodes

No phone that I know off will tolerate Salt water fresh water yes but salt nope, I could be wrong but that phone is good as dead

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Isopropanol (rubbing alcohol to noobs) will clean that salt off there and its not electrically conductive which means you can dunk your phone in it all you want to clean it.

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Was the phone turned on when it went under? I imagine it would have better chances of surviving if it was not running.

And with the alcohol thing, make sure there is no chance of electricity running anywhere (don't short circuit anything though), otherwise, if the sea didn't kill it, the fire might....

Also, remember that alcoholl often isn't pure, it's dilutted in water.




While you're trying to play Dr, Frankenstein with your pricey paperweight, you probably should consider getting another N900 to use while you don't fix your original one (dunno how long till you finally fix it, if ever)

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I would imagine it was on

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seas contain fresh water and fish ****, while oceans contain salt water and fish ****

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are you sure you're not thinking of lakes?

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hi there , even i have seemed to mess up my baby with a little water spillage.it was fresh water . I've kept it in rice for over a day now. I tried turning it on but no go. There seems to be no signs of life . The thing that worries me is that i didnt do anything the night that this unfortunate event occured .I opened up the battery cover and wiped out any signs of water streaks inside but it didnt seem that wet . So i put the battery back and tried starting it , but it wouldnt. I left it like that with the battery in it overnight and the next day about noon i did the rice thing after reading these posts. I have 2 questions though ..
1 . Does my phone stand a chance of making it after a couple of more days in a rice bag ?
2. Is it possible that any part in the phone could be replaced to fix it ?

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Just a sidenote, the (salt or dirty) water messes up the battery first (short circuits it), then the buttons where the dirt prevents contact. Also the camera is not waterproof? Speakers and mic are also very sensitive to debris and water.

@vmayur_23: Let the phone dry out in the rice, the few days should be enough. If you can find something dryer, use that? There are many things that can go wrong with water, and the phone needs maybe only one thing malfunctioning to not function. Also, something can be broke internally - the water caused something to malfunction and that malfunction broke something else.
The phone is a very complex device, it usually is cheaper to replace it completely than diagnose and replace parts of it. Battery, SIM card and memory card are the only salvageable parts, maybe you can keep the external shell as replace parts for the new phone.

http://ezinearticles.com/?10-Simple-...Wet!&id=455630

http://www.helium.com/items/631539-h...er-it-gets-wet

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This thread may be useful
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=49887

I don't think that rice is a good solution, in these cases clean and dry as fast as possible is a must.

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I've kept the phone in rice for sometime now ...might probly keep it there for the next 4-5days ..I would also like to try another battery just incase mine's gone bad .. till then will try to find someone with a N900 ..coz where i live i havent seen anyone use a N900..If anyone from Mumbai here reads this post pls help me out ..i would just need to try out a working battery to test my phone one last time if nothing else works ...shoutout to anyone from Mumbai here pls send me a pm..thanks will post back in 4-5 days.

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Nokia 5800 uses the same battery and is far more common than the N900

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Alright guys ..so nothing worked for me tried every trick posted on here . Finally approached the nokia care guys. They were courteous enough to check if anything could be done to salvage the phone even after all the water damage.After 2 days of waiting ..they finally called up. It seems the motherboard has shorted.Asked if anything can be done or if the motherboard could be replaced,they say they cant do that as the IMEI no. would change. Heartbroken!! ..don't know what to do.It didn't have any of the known issues like a loose usb port or anything.It was PERFECT!.I took really good care of it . Its been seven months this 15th that i got the phone and there wasnt a single scratch on the phone .I never flashed it out of fear of bricking it. I never let any of my friends mess with it. Always kept it safely in my bag everytime i went out on a crowded street out of fear of it getting robbed.I can't digest the fact that the phone is dead coz of my clumsiness. Thanks u guys for all ur support .This is a really awesome phone with a really awesome community backing it. If i had the money i would get a new one right away but alas ! :(
Hope to be back here soon .

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murphy laws do work unfortunately, I bet if you would get more relaxed about your device, this would not happen, sorry for your loss.

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Hey Buddy I have same problem with my N900. Nokia Care people said that it's CPU is gon and you know how it feels when you hear that "it can't be repaired." Anyways if you find any solution then PLEASE tell me.... I miss my N900 too.

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Number one N900 water damage solution:

Not getting it wet...

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When the same thing happened to my Lenovo T61 notebook half a year ago (it received a sticky Campari longdrink shower) and wouldn't power on afterwards, I disassembled it, cleaned the parts as good as I could and put the parts to dry on the radiator over night (except for the battery of course!). And voila: after reassembling it the other day, I found it to be alive again and it hasn't failed since :)