Water Damaged N1

[veldargk]

So this weekend the old Nexus took a dip-see with me in the lake. There is hope for those that drop their devices in water or liquids. You have to be on the ball and have a little bit of patience.

As SOON as I jumped in I realized that it was in my pocket, ripped it out, took out the battery and started drying it. I let it sit in a sealed tupperware container with rice for 2 days. Whether or not there's any truth to the rice myth, I was not willing to take any chances.

Wednesday I sat down and completely disassembled the phone. I purchased a contact and head cleaner (basically a solvent that quickly evaporates) and sprayed all the electrical contacts and components within the phone. Carefully reassembled the Nexus One, and she BOOTED!

So, there is hope for those water damaged devices. Act quickly, don't try to turn it on, and you may be good to go


Happy water damaged N1 owner,

Jim


P.S. ALL liquid damage indicators within my phone were set off. This really works.

 

[uansari1]

O rly?


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[rydr1]

This is good info. Thanks.

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[tokenwoken]

I was at the beach and water washed up onto my pocket with my Nexus One in it. It was pretty bad the first day, the screen kept flickering on and off and I put it in a tupperware with rice. Then when I took it out after a day, the WiFi wouldn't work, but then started working later on in the day. Now my speakers don't work for some reason. It would cut on and off while my ringtone goes off, but when I listen to music, it plays for a second and then pauses the song. My headphones still work fine with it though. Does anyone have any idea how I should go about fixing this? (sorry for invading this thread OP)

 

[Red MacGregor]

i've done it 3 times now... heh... rice worked everytime, no disassembly.

 

[Red MacGregor]

I was at the beach and water washed up onto my pocket with my Nexus One in it. It was pretty bad the first day, the screen kept flickering on and off and I put it in a tupperware with rice. Then when I took it out after a day, the WiFi wouldn't work, but then started working later on in the day. Now my speakers don't work for some reason. It would cut on and off while my ringtone goes off, but when I listen to music, it plays for a second and then pauses the song. My headphones still work fine with it though. Does anyone have any idea how I should go about fixing this? (sorry for invading this thread OP)

was probably a mistake to turn it on before you dropped it in rice.

 

[Eclair~]

I was at the beach and water washed up onto my pocket with my Nexus One in it. It was pretty bad the first day, the screen kept flickering on and off and I put it in a tupperware with rice. Then when I took it out after a day, the WiFi wouldn't work, but then started working later on in the day. Now my speakers don't work for some reason. It would cut on and off while my ringtone goes off, but when I listen to music, it plays for a second and then pauses the song. My headphones still work fine with it though. Does anyone have any idea how I should go about fixing this? (sorry for invading this thread OP)

Why would you even be that close to water at all with your Nexus in your pocket? Did you think nothing was going to happen? Did you forget it was there? Were you saving someone o_0?

 

[hansmrtn]

This has happened to me, but I thought you were not supposed to close the lid? Condensation has to get out someway besides rice absorbing it. Works for me

 

[veldargk]

i've done it 3 times now... heh... rice worked everytime, no disassembly.

And hopefully 4 months down the road I'm not kicking myself in the ass wondering why my device suddenly stopped working and saying 'Damn, maybe I SHOULD have disassembled and cleaned it...'


And to the above poster: I'm not sure you're supposed to put the lid over either. It's been 37 degrees celsius with the humidex for the past few days and I don't have A/C.. there was so much moisture in the air I had no other choice. But it seems to have worked =)

 

[maxh]

There are much better desiccants out there than rice. Calcium chloride, for one, is easily obtainable as DampRid at just about any grocery store or hardware store. It would be wise to open up the phone and clean it with some isopropyl alcohol, though. Especially the guy who got seawater on his...

 

[avio07]

What kind of an idiot jumps in the lake with a phone in his pocket.

 

[Mokurex]

What kind of an idiot jumps in the lake with a phone in his pocket.

I'm sure it wasn't intentional, maybe he thought he took it out already. Be nice dude.

 

[dogiedogie]

Yeah I would agree there was no need for assembly. Modern electronics are actually very very good when it comes to water. I have about 200 watercooled computers under my belt, and the inevitable leaks that come with them :') Even with deionised water [customer wanted, like an idiot], the worst that happens is it causes a surge, which the mobo force turns off the system. Even then there is NO damage, and just needs cleaning and drying to return it to normal.

It will be the same with the phone, if you can get it off/remove the power, there is abosolutely no reason [other than maybe screen condensing] there would be damage.

 

[alithenake]

Me also, just got back from the dead with my Nexus.

Last weekend I went to a club that had a nice swimming pool and during the night, some idiots pushed me in the water when I was close to the pool. (no one saw who was the idiot).

I got out of the water, and took my phone out from my pocket: it rebooted itself, the screen was flickering and the phone was vibrating hard. Instantly I've removed the battery and put some toiled paper around it.

Went home, put it in the rice, uncovered. Next day, like an idiot, I've tried to boot the phone, which booted until a certain point, then started to flicker and it turned off by itself.

I thought it died completely, but still had a hope for it, and left it in the rice, this time covered for two more days. I've also put inside some little bags with silica (the ones you get in shoe boxes and electronics ones)

Then, yesterday, I've tried my luck and it booted with no problem, now happily working with no issue at all.

I was very close to order a new one

Love this phone!

 

[h0llyw00dj0e]

I'll remember that. Just incase I want to go swimming with my n1.

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