water damaged

[xdarae]

is there a way to rescue my two month old mda ??? its defo water damaged but had a good drying out before i sent it to tmobile for examination who sent it back saying sticker under sim shows water damage thanks for wasting our time we didnae even open it up .. sometime when plugged into charger the red light comes on could this be that internal cmos battery is kaput any suggestions i cant find the pdf to open it

[PREMON]

WATER DAMAGE MDA[/B]:D

(My ENGLISH may not be good enough)
I had slept while I was taking a bath. My mda compact 2 had spent more than 15 min under water (probably best result as for XDA :) ).
When a had been awaken - the diod was slighty flashing, but there had been no other signs of life.
Here is what I did (or had done) and it (had) worked:

I:
1. removed battery
2. dried the phone with towel
3. searched the net for info
4 used a hairdryier to dry the PPC (not recommended by some authors if you can follow the next steps immidiatly ;exept the fith step of course;)
5. had a good night sleep
6. went to shop to buy T6 torx screwdriver - to disasseble the PPC
7. disassembled the xda according to the manual found on the forum
8. here is a terrrible step; put the MAIN BOARD into a demineralised water for
15 min ( remember to shake it very often)
9. put it into 96% ETANOL (bought at "alcohol site" in a supermarket) for 2
hours (shaking it from time to time)
10. dried the main bord and OTHER parts of the MDA for 1 day (sun and
fresh air) To REMEMBER: it is considered to be a basic error to put the battery to the xda too early).
11. Put the battery back into the phone - it didn't work - that was a nightmare
12. Waited 1 day and put the battery into the phone again - it didn't work again
13. Dissasebled the phone and brushed carefully the mainboard with the soft toothbrus - suprisingly there was a lot of contamination (gray-white powder)
14. reassebled the charmer, put in the battery - it worked :D
15 i couldn't believe- it worked
16 sk banchmarks are even better

[ckorakas]

Hello,

My bag with my Hermes200 accidentally fell into a fresh clear water river during a treck in the (lovely) Greek mountains...
I managed to pick up the bag at some point but it was completelly submersed and filled with water ... and so was my Hermes...
I feared that that was the end of it but i tried to save it any way ... and it worked !
1) I prayed to the Hi-tech gods really hard !
2) I immediately took of the batery and everything else i could without a screwdriver (basically the sim card)
3) I opened the keyboard and while firmly wolding it i started shaking it until the last drop seemed to have left the poor hermes...
4) I put it to dry open as it was under the sun
5) I wrapped it with a piece of cloth that was still dry and continued trecking ...
6) At home i took it out again and let it dry for a day ...
7) I then tried to put the battery back and pressed the reset with the pen... it only gave me an orange light and then it switched off...
8) I let it dry another day in sun where possible open without battery
9) I put the battery back and the screen lit up in very psychedelic colours but it seemed to boot (again with the reset). So I took off the battery again and let it dry some more ...
10) The third day it worked just fine ... just the keyboard still presents glitches
when I press Backspace it is giving me a "y", the y gives me a "backspace and y" the h gives an "rh" the r and "rh" as well the b an "fb" the f an "fb" as well ... very weird circuitry ... I hope in the next few days when the Hermes will be completely dry that it will come back to normal again ...
So there is a Hi-Tech god after all ... maybe it is Hermes!

[Skopolamin]

I think , it is not good idea to put board in alcohol. ;) Small molecules of Ethanol can diffund over covers to circuit elements and corrupt semiconductivity...
Much better and safe is isopropylalkohol.