water damaged mobiles, merged threads

tim_n

be careful with motorola phones as they put an indicator strip behind the battery which changes colour. From this they can ascertain if the phone has been water damaged. It should be a white dot about 4-5mm across. If you have a different coloured dot be careful and pray they don't check it!

concho1

The phone dried out but alas it is still knackerd! never mind, just phoned up my contents insurance & they are covering it. Needless to say that my wife is very happy, even though I still have to pay out £50 excess I am happy to. Good old Nationwide.:T

tim_n

Just a quick note to MSE'rs

Don't ever put a water damaged battery back into a phone - especially one put through a washing machine. Many LION and similar batterys react badly to water and may explode causing very, very serious injuries. Is being blinded worth the cost of a cheap new ebay battery?

yellowchick

whoops!dropped my n70 in the sink...left it overnight and the next day it turned itself on,with a blank screen.then came on properly for about an hour so i could make phonecalls.but then it froze up!so i turned it off and now when i put it back on its just a blank screen .im on a contract but have no insurance silly me!!

any ideas
thanks in advance

drahcir_2

needs untrasonic clean for best chance of working again

yellowchick

does it cost alot?

thor

tim_n wrote:

be careful with motorola phones as they put an indicator strip behind the battery which changes colour. From this they can ascertain if the phone has been water damaged. It should be a white dot about 4-5mm across. If you have a different coloured dot be careful and pray they don't check it!

I have a had a motorola v220 which kept turning itself off a few seconds after being switched on. I only had the phone for less than a month so eventually sent it off to a motorola repair center. They sent it back unrepaired claiming that the phone had suffered liquid damage and consequently was not covered under their warranty agreement. I knew that this was not true because my phone had never been near water or in a humid environment in the short time that I had it and sure enough the white dot you refer to is still white. I thought about making an insurance claim but there was a £25 excess and I did not bother with it seeing that the phone was so fragile(as well as any repair not guaranteed to work).
in the end I opened up the phone and had a look at the pcb. Everything seemed soldered well enough but as I had nothong to lose I just resoldered some of the component connections and I must have got lucky because the phone began to work. The only problem I have is that it takes a few tries to get it switched on but when it does turn on it stays on. If you are out of warranty and have no insurance it might be worth just fiddling around the circuit board like I did - like I said, you have got nothing to lose!

Jimble

....while bathing the kids it rang, slipped out of my hands and into the bathwater. I have tried to dry it out but when start up the screen goes on and off intermittently - its a Sony Ericcson W800.
What should i do, is it dead?

Edinburghlass_2

Jimble I have merged your post with another thread about water damaged phones if you read back the way, hopefully you will find some help

goodybags

Beieve it or not whilst reading this section of the forum,
I knocked accidently my Motorola V3 into a glass of water,
Hve only had it two weeks,lost the last one got replacement on Orange contract, have switched off removed sim battery, will see in a few days what has happened,