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| Thread ID: 141443 | 2015-12-22 05:08:00 | HELP!!! My phone has died :( | DakotaNZ (17161) | Press F1 |
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| 1413204 | 2015-12-22 05:08:00 | Hi guys, my phone decided to go swimming last week and apparently it's not very good at it. It is a Galaxy S2, I popped it in the hot water cupboard straight after it happened but alas it refuses to come back to life :( R.I.P. Anyhoo, the most upsetting thing here is that all of my photos that were on there are now possibly lost forever (I had some of someone who has since passed, and am very mad at myself for not copying them earlier) as it didn't have an SD card. Does anyone know any tricks to get the internal memory off the phone, or hacks that may help me some how turn it on long enough to transfer them on to my PC. Any help would be much appreciated :) | DakotaNZ (17161) | ||
| 1413205 | 2015-12-22 05:59:00 | Did you not have auto backup to your google account turned on? | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1413206 | 2015-12-22 07:13:00 | Put it in the hot water cupboard inside a bag of rice, this should hopefully draw the moisture out and hopefully get it working sooner. Patience would be virtue, even after months they can come back to life, usually rust be the biggest killer, its quite hard to short chips with water but still possible. Cheers, KK |
Kame (312) | ||
| 1413207 | 2015-12-22 20:59:00 | Coffee went all over mine, a few weeks ago. Thankfully it was a windows phone and the front is pretty thick. All I had to do, was pull it to bits. and wipe it with water. And it was all go again |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1413208 | 2015-12-22 22:32:00 | Rice is useless and an old wives tale. It does absorb some moisture but not enough to be useful. In tests it was shown to work worse than open air. What you want is those little desiccant bags that come with some gear. In the US I've seen adds for special bags designed for the task but never seen them here. Also I hope you immediately removed the battery as that's the most important step, leaving the power connected is what actually kills devices when they get wet. Leave it with the battery out somewhere warm and dry for at least a week then try again. Tiny traces of water get trapped between surfaces and may take a very long time to evaporate so even if you decide it's dead don't throw it away for a while, it may miraculously burst into life if no permanent circuit damage has occurred. As for how to retrieve the data if it truly is dead, no Idea who would be able to do that and suspect it would be expensive if possible. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1413209 | 2015-12-22 22:48:00 | Rice is useless and an old wives tale. It does absorb some moisture but not enough to be useful. In tests it was shown to work worse than open air. What you want is those little desiccant bags that come with some gear. In the US I've seen adds for special bags designed for the task but never seen them here. Also I hope you immediately removed the battery as that's the most important step, leaving the power connected is what actually kills devices when they get wet. Leave it with the battery out somewhere warm and dry for at least a week then try again. Tiny traces of water get trapped between surfaces and may take a very long time to evaporate so even if you decide it's dead don't throw it away for a while, it may miraculously burst into life if no permanent circuit damage has occurred. As for how to retrieve the data if it truly is dead, no Idea who would be able to do that and suspect it would be expensive if possible. Rice works well . One of the girls I work with had her iPhone in her bag and the rain got in on her way to work. After a day here of trying to dry it out unsuccessfully she took it home and dropped in in a bag of rice and next morning it was fine. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1413210 | 2015-12-23 01:53:00 | Or use this, it supposed to work | PeterQ (16315) | ||
| 1413211 | 2015-12-23 02:18:00 | Rice works well . One of the girls I work with had her iPhone in her bag and the rain got in on her way to work. After a day here of trying to dry it out unsuccessfully she took it home and dropped in in a bag of rice and next morning it was fine. The trouble with evidence like that is you have no way of knowing if it would have dried out the same if you didn't put it in the bag of rice and I'm telling you it's been tested and proven that rice is worse than nothing. You have no causal link. smartphones.wonderhowto.com or from here www.theverge.com So, does the trick work? In 2014, Gazelle.com ran a semi-formal test that indicated it didn’t. Of the seven household desiccants they tested, uncooked rice was the least absorbent, behind cat litter, couscous, oatmeal, and instant rice. Unless you’re willing to spend serious money, leaving your phone on a shelf to air dry, they suggested, may be your best option. or here www.businesswire.com So now I've provided evidence you could easily have found yourself, please stop advocating rice as a remedy for wet electronics. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1413212 | 2015-12-23 05:15:00 | The trouble with evidence like that is you have no way of knowing if it would have dried out the same if you didn't put it in the bag of rice and I'm telling you it's been tested and proven that rice is worse than nothing. You have no causal link. smartphones.wonderhowto.com or from here www.theverge.com or here www.businesswire.com So now I've provided evidence you could easily have found yourself, please stop advocating rice as a remedy for wet electronics. And this one here says it's fine www.intelfreepress.com |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1413213 | 2015-12-23 05:54:00 | It mentions it in passing with no evidence as to it's effectiveness. I assume just repeating the same myth you've heard without testing it. the rest of the advice on that site is pretty good. I heard rice worked as well but it seemed unlikely to me so I looked it up. If you want to convince me find one site that's actually conducted tests and found it works like I've linked sites that tested it and found it doesn't. The sites I listed actually tested and compared effectiveness objectively. You may well find sites that suggest it as a method, but that's not the same thing as testing it. Still, if you want to use rice it certainly won't hurt anything. It'll just work slower than leaving it out in the open air, but it may actually still work. The important part is it doesn't improve the drying performance at all. Silica Gel on the other hand works very well. I did find one study which seemed to support rice as a moisture absorbant but it wasn't clear if they actually compared it to using nothing like the sites I linked did. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
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