[Q] Water in mah Vibrant=Capacitive buttons don't work?

[ashasaur]

Here's the deal folks...my mom washed her Vibrant in the washing machine a few days ago. 2nd Vibrant by the way. Anyways, pulled it out, threw it in some rice, got LOADS of water out of it and voila! Amazingly, after being through an ENTIRE wash and rinse cycle...it basically works! Everything...screen, cell radio...everything, except for the buttons. My question of course is why does everything else work except the capacitive buttons? They light up, but pressing them doesn't actually make anything happen. If anyone has been through this, please let me know what you did to fix it. Help a mod out anyone? THANKS!

 

[a400meter]

Perhaps there is still a little moisture in there preventing it from reading the touch. Just a thought, haven't had to deal with this. *knocks on wood*

Edit: if thats all that doesn't work. I'm sure a replacement part would be relatively easy to install. Beats the price of a new phone...

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[kemp77]

Crack it open and look for any white mineral deposits that may be on the mainboard and clean them off. Of course let it thoroughly dry out again. I have used a toothbrush and alcohol to clean them in the past.

Sometimes that can help.... Good luck!

 

[xriderx66]

Open phone take out everything battery sim etc.
Now just turn it on its back and leave for a hour or so eventually if there is water it will drip out if you notice little bits of water on the thing you put your phone on then there's probably more water in and do the rice thing again. Can't give much more suggestions than that.

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[setrepaca]

My T959 is dead

Here's the deal folks...my mom washed her Vibrant in the washing machine a few days ago. 2nd Vibrant by the way. Anyways, pulled it out, threw it in some rice, got LOADS of water out of it and voila! Amazingly, after being through an ENTIRE wash and rinse cycle...it basically works! Everything...screen, cell radio...everything, except for the buttons. My question of course is why does everything else work except the capacitive buttons? They light up, but pressing them doesn't actually make anything happen. If anyone has been through this, please let me know what you did to fix it. Help a mod out anyone? THANKS!

Wow...I always knew these vibrant phones are not easy when it comes to dying.

I have sorta a related story as well....

I'm in Canada right...and once when we had 15cm of snow amidst -20C or -4F, I needed to go shovel all the snow mess off the ground.

I had my T959 in my big ass jacket's pocket so its all nice and warm in there...but once I came back to the house, I noticed it was wet from all the sweating. Damn, that snow shoveling is a real hard workout for reals.

Anyhow, I opened my Vibrant up as per this guide on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOvt6atrin8

There's no traces of water and my buttons still will not work, they do light up but that's it.

I'm not into warranty, I love to get in and pull and push...play engineer sorta. Didn't work...now I might be looking into buying some spare parts.

Funny thing is the rest of the touch screen is still super responsive even when I'm out in minus weather...just these heat sensitive touch buttons grrr.