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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3l3ctr0:
Where these phones still turned on as they got wet and you took them out of the water? Or had they turned off theirselves already?

Which parts of the phone should be bathed?

Thanks guys for your hope;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikzDHD:
Put it in a bowl of rice for a few days to let it dry out and see what happens.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rayvenlee:
It's worked for my old N73, but don't know will it work for GS2. but you can still try it
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] infuse4g:
Just the board. If you drop the phone in it, it will damage other components. Then get a tooth brush and gently clean the board while alcohol is on it. Then check the battery for corrosion on the contacts to see if its fried. If so get a new one soon
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mariosraptor:
keep it away from mics. clean gently as above mentioned with a medium toothbrush. clean all the board but also clean the connectors such as the connector of lcd both on logic board and lcd itself. clean also all gold contacts such as antenna contacts, buzzer contacts ands earpiece contacts.

isopropanol should be sold on every pharmacy. and if you can find glass fiber sticks to clean gold plated contacts as i mentioned above only if they are corroded.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3l3ctr0:
I have dissassembled my device to the logicboard+camera, there are no mics on it anymore, only problem might be the camera connected to it.

The rest of the phone(display,which is glued to the fronthousing i think, usb-connector, and speakers)is still in the front housing.

I´m on step 6 in ifixit.com teardown, only with camera still connected, if you want to see pics.(sry cant post links)

Everything is covered in rice for 24h now

Would it be okay for the camera to be bathed in alcohol? Because the camera is still connected to the logicboard, and i am not shure whether i should dare disconnecting it..its a very thin connector..??

Did anybody revive his device, which was already turned off because of the water damage? Is this even possible in theory, if the device already shut down itself?

I dont get my hopes up to high:(

But thanks all for your help mates;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnebs:
Usually the water will only freeze the phone and will remain on until you take the battery out or the battery power is depleted.

Just take it apart and put it in the bag of rice and forget abut it for a couple of days (*you should have already done this by now*).

As for the alcohol cleaning I'v never done that. The idea of the alcohol is to prevent rust but the rice will remove all humidity out of the phone.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3l3ctr0:
Ok so after 4 days of drying, it now shows a triangle and a battery symbole.

Better than nothing i suppose, at least the screen seems to be working:D

Does anybody know what that symbole means? Is just the battery faulty(my hope)?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bpivk:
Battery or USB plug problem.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Makrilli:
Try other battery, if that doesn't help, get new usb board thingy from ebay
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3l3ctr0:
Great news! I had the chance to try a battery from a friend, and it worked!!

Already ordered a new one, although I am not sure, maybe the voltage from the old one is just too low and recharging would solve the problem, but dont want to risk anything;)

Thanks for your responses all;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] infuse4g:
I probably too late but no dont put the camera in alcohol
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chardar:
Congratz :)

Nice save!!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ohthatsricky:
Im running the Eclipse 901 on my Bionic and the only thing that bothers me is that i cant send group texts, is there any way for me to get the text messaging app that comes with the phone back? since the Eclipse ROM removed it. it would be much appreciated if anyone can help me.

btw sorry if this is in the wrong section
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Bfitz26:
No you can't cause eclipse has blur removed so you can't use the stock launcher not the messaging app as far as I am aware cause I thinks it is a non blur device
[Droid 2 Global General] AuxiliaryPie:
sorry for making yet another "i need help thread" but i need some help.

i had a D2G on the latest OTA GB, SBF'd back to Froyo (blur version 2.4.330) to get on CM7 (now i decided i just want stock). and since the phone is no longer activated, i cannot use System Update (it is greyed out). How can i update to the latest GB? just SBF to the latest? i just dont wanna mess up the phone any more than i already have. any help is really appreciated!
[Droid 2 Global General] Gasai Yuno:
Flashing the SBF for 4.5.608 would be the best solution.

I'm also not quite sure why System Update is not available for you; it doesn't depend on activation at all. I've never had my phone activated on VZW and yet system update worked perfectly.
[Droid 2 Global General] AuxiliaryPie:
ok i will do that now, thank you for the help, it is much appreciated!
[Flipout and Charm General] gsmxgsm:
pleas need arabic lang mb511

Adicionada nova firmware para os modelo Android:

Flipout (MB511)

RUTEM_U3_01.14.6
[Flipout and Charm General] gsmxgsm:
i fond flash file arbic here is link

RUTEM_U3_01.14.6_DEBLUR_ARABIC

thanks shadigsm
[Flipout and Charm General] ososmam:
can u give me link for (RUTEM_U3_01.14.6_DEBLUR_ARABIC) plz
[Flipout and Charm General] shahxaibhaq:
Link is attached :)
[HTC Sensation] Skip-Breezy:
Do any of one you have problems connecting to Wi-Fi using a ICS rom? I tried one & I liked it except I couldn't never connect to Wi-Fi.
[HTC Sensation] sshede:
Nope. Even got Wifi calling working on V.I.
[HTC Sensation] k0zmic:
Nope.

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[HTC Sensation] matt95:
take a look right here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1405457
[HTC Sensation] moshe22:
Did you unlock your phone through revolutionary or HTCdev?
[HTC Sensation] supitskevin:
Unlocking phone as in for SIM or u mean rooting? Cuz I thought unlocking is for universal SIMs, and i dont know how that affects Wi-Fi, but rather Data
[HTC Sensation] moshe22:
I meant when you s-off your phone if you did it through the official website or did you do it with revolutionary?
[HTC Sensation] steely123:
I rooted mine through the Revolutionary tool. Have no problems with Elegancia's ICS 4.0.3. Even have perfect wi-fi calling also.
[HTC Sensation] kingston73:
Same here, but with occasional wifi calling FC's. I did find with mine that GreenPower caused a low wifi signal for some reason. Turning that app off immediately increased signal strength.
[HTC Sensation] Skip-Breezy:
I got the phone already rooted & the only ICS rom I tried was ARHD. Everything was good & all but I just couldn't never get my WiFi connected. I don't never use WiFi calling.
[HTC Sensation] Deleted member 4218679:
No prob here, I'm using ARHD 6.2.1. Previous version had a wifi problem. I also have wifi calling available.
[HTC Sensation] Skip-Breezy:
Which kernel are you running on: 1.5 or 1.2 Ghz?
[HTC Sensation] moshe22:
The reason I ask is because there is two ways two s-off your phone one of the ways seems to be causing wifi issues, according to some users. Doesn't sound you know what method was used to s-off yours but sounds like it was with the htcdev site.
[HTC Sensation] DJCodeBlue:
do you have any issues with wifi calling? Because I have the same setup as yours and the wifi calling connection drops every 5-10 minutes even if I'm not on the phone. Yet the WiFi maintains its connection with my router...
[HTC Sensation] Jonny:
Common issue with WiFi calling. Your lucky you have it at all as T-Mobile haven't updated their app since Android 2.3.4
[HTC Sensation] paulgl26:
No problems with wifi on Insertcoin

Sent from my Sensation on Insertcoin
[HTC Sensation] Akatosh:
If you have a WiFi problem you may need to:

Extract the Rom file on the pc and it may have an unsecured boot.img file. If so then download adb and put the boot file in the same folder as the adb file. It has to be the same folder. Then hold shift and right click on the folder and press open in command prompt. The phone needs to be in fastboot, go into hboot and click fastboot and have it plugged in. Then on the command prompt type fastboot flash boot boot.img , after that is done type fastboot reboot-bootloader and then fastboot reboot. This flashing should be done after the Rom has been flashed, I do it before the first boot.
[HTC Sensation] kingston73:
I've tried using wifi calling on at least 3 or 4 different ICS roms and it does the same thing dropping the call within a few minutes. I don't even bother trying it anymore, too bad as it would be really nice to have. Maybe when HTC releases a final version but I'm not holding my breath.
[HTC Sensation] Skip-Breezy:
I found a ROM that works...thanks anyways.
[HTC Sensation] lVlaciiiii:
Yeah, no problems here on V.I. 3.5.0
[Nexus S General] knarfrabot:
My power button has been malfunctioning for about 2 months now. That isn't to say it is 100% dead, but at times it'll work if I smack the button about a few times, and sometimes it will be completely unresponsive. I have read up on the subject and found a thread with a response from a guy claiming to be an engineer who said the micro switches they use in these phones are somewhat weak and only work for a limited number of presses. Recently, I changed roms, and to my surprise the power button worked great for a short period of time. Since then, I've found that when my power button starts acting up, wiping the dalvik cache put it back to normal. This lead me to thinking, and I've come to believe it could very well be a hardware problem that is meant to happen. I am by no means a coder/programmer but I have studied it enough to know that certain code can be written for a device that sets a "timer" for a piece of hardware to die out or malfunction. If that's the case with this, then it makes sense somewhat that wiping the dalvik cache resets this timer for a short time. Anyone have any thoughts? Am I crazy tinfoil hat wearer or does this make some sense?
[Nexus S General] Tw1tchy:
I AGREE! I thought it broke a while ago but I did a complete wipe and put a brand new rom on it. Heck I almost sent it to Sammy but for some reason it stared working. I dont think its the dalvik cache though. I have a feeling its ClockworkMod Recovery because sometimes it says a key was disabled and I had problems after that. I couldnt lock my phone.
[Nexus S General] simms22:
well, you solved your own theory in your statement. since when does smacking your phone equate to a software issue? my power button went in august, mostly. it started showing the behavior that you described about 4-6 weeks beforehand. i say mostly, because the physical button doesnt work anymore(rarely a response from it). but ive figured out how to work it to my advantage/needs. i can wake my phone by shaking it now, and put the screen to sleep. also can be done with a light smack in the right place on the back of the phone. but to be practicle, i remapped my search button to use as a power button and wake my phone with the volume button. really, the only hard part is navigating in the bootloader menu since the volume buttons wont work there with the power button broken. so ive learned to work it by lightly, very lightly, tapping on a certain place on the back of the phone near the power button. this "loosens" the volume buttons and lets me navigate the menu. then i tap the phone again to make a selection. this in no way indicates a software issue/conspiracy to me. when it just started displaying this behavior, i thought it might be a software issue too. but it turned out to be all physical damage.
[Nexus S General] knarfrabot:
You know, the funny thing about when it stops working is that it's never all at once.

It's a degrading process of malfunction until it takes repeated button pressing, not so much force, to work. After that it works so seldom that I'm forced to do something about it. It's for those reasons I think it's something more than a hardware problem.

From your experiences, even after a full wipe/new rom installation, your power button still doesn't work, if only for a brief time?

P.S. The new touch based recovery from team win works really well for those of us who can't use our power buttons
[Nexus S General] Tw1tchy:
@simms22

Hmm my guess is that there are multiple issues that result in a malfunctioning power button. Props to remapping your search button to lock your phone. It would be a great work around if my phone ever had this problem again. Have search to lock the phone and volume keys to wake it. I'm unsure how you remapped your search button though. Maybe you can tell me how?

Agreed! If you have no access to a computer with adb/fastboot control the touch ClockWorkMod recovery would be very useful.
[Nexus S General] simms22:
ive been using twrp recovery for a while. even the non touch version has a no power button option. but i dont believe that theres anything else but hardware issues here. it is a degradation. at first it comes and goes, later it mostly just comes( ;) ) and doesnt go. i can even hear a slight rattle in the power button area now if i shake the phone.

about after flashing.. at first, 50% of the time it would work after flashing, but it was just coincidence. but now no. btw, i flash many times a day, even then when it first started acting funny. flashing, wiping, it just doesnt make a difference, its coincidence.

---------- Post added at 09:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:16 PM ----------

ButtonRemapper app, available here on xda for free http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9399440&postcount=1

you want v0241. i have all the power button functionality with my search key except waking the device(volume rocker wakes my device). short press screen off, long press power menu, long press plus volume down for screenshots.
[Nexus S General] knarfrabot:
@tw1tchy, I totally agree it is multiple factors, which is why I can only speak for myself based on my experiences, although your overall experience seems to be similar to mine.

@simms22, I have never noticed a rattle in my phone, its likely that you and I have different causes attributed to the power button failure.

Not trying to beat a dead horse but just for the sake of being thorough, have you tried ODIN? I noticed a substantial difference when I ODIN'ed back to stock.
[Nexus S General] rener78:
Me everytime I drop my phone on concrete my battery door opens and the battery falls of my phone...And you know what's the most odd part ...I get scratches on my phone when I pick it up .....Does anyone else gets this ??

Envoyé depuis mon Nexus S avec Tapatalk
[Nexus S General] staplebox:
I really like my Nexus S, but I kinda hope this power button self destruct kicks in soon. I see it as a feature - to make buying a Galaxy Nexus easier to justify. Good looking out Sammy.
[Nexus S General] voyager_s:
I've had a similar problem for the last 4 months or so. It started when I dropped my nexus without the cover onto concrete floor. Not good I know.

But anyway...ever since then the power button been funny. Sometimes it didn't work at all and I couldn't turn the screen off and on. It was really bad. It took a while but now I kind of know how to handle it. Still annoying mind u.

Basically with mine the trick is to press the button really really hard towards the top end and it works fine. I've also noticed what some others are saying about changing rooms and doing resets etc. It seems to help as well.

But yeah...I still love my nexus. Lol. I think by me dropping it is the reason for my problems. It probably landed badly and loosened some part of the connection in that section or something. But as I said...all Is good now that I know the trick to it.
[Nexus S General] MistaJae:
I've had my NS since Christmas Eve 2009 and the power button completely stopped working 2 days ago. I did notice over the past few weeks that it wasn't responding properly. TBH, my NS has been through a LOT in the past 14-months (multiple impacts, spillages, kids etc), I'm surprised it's lasted this long ;)

I'm now using the ButtonRemapper app to use 'search' as the power button. Works great! Plus my volume keys wake the phone up so all is ok.

I love my NS and wish I bought another one when CPW had them for £150 sim free!

It might be time for me to let go of the NS :(, just have to decide which phone is next (but thats for another thread lol)
[Nexus S General] shahravi94:
ugh mine is under a year old. im very angry that this happened so quickly. im gonna try giving samsung a call. hopefully the will replace it. i shouldn't have to hack my phone in order to make it usable.
[Nexus S General] knarfrabot:
@rener78 You seem to have a vast misunderstanding of how sarcasm works. Just as future reference, posting dry, tasteless irony up on the internet as a smart-mouthed statement of ill will is about as practical as a chocolate teapot.

@staplebox Lol! Well played, sir or madam. I can't say posting a thread containing the words conspiracy theory doesn't grant me at least a well placed snarky comment. Although to be fair, I was kinda bored when I wrote it.

@ALL Yes, I get it, we've all dropped our phones before. I guess I expected a bit more from Sammy since my little old HTC hero that I beat halfway to hell is still going strong, while I pampered this nexus and its already giving me problems >1 year in but that's a whole different discussion I suppose.
[Nexus S General] tankmaster90:
great mine just went out yesterday... had mine for a ltl over a year now.

No tapping certain areas or anything works.

I did notice it slowly degrade over the past few weeks.

I used the fix my power button app so my volume keys wake up my phone, but sometimes after using that 5 or 6 times it will stop working too so i have to plug my phone in the charger to turn it on. Is there another way of getting the volume keys to act as a wake button??

edit: i'm gonna try out that button remapper i saw in an earlier post.
[Nexus S General] simms22:
if you are using an ics rom go to the main settings, security, lockscreen.. now disable the lockscreen. you can now wake your device with the volume button. its a feature built into ics.
[Nexus S General] tankmaster90:
interesting did not know this. Thanks, I think I'm still gonna use the button remapper to change the function of the search key to the power so I can reboot and stuff and go into recovery and such easier since i'm running cm9.
[Nexus S General] simms22:
thats what i do. my search button has all the features of the power button but being able to wake the device.
[Nexus S General] tankmaster90:
Here's another question what if i need to pull the battery?? I'm rooted and running CM9 what if i go into a boot loop and i need to pull the battery with no charger around (i know how to do it with a charger) would the button remap solve this?
[Nexus S General] simms22:
no. the button remapper app doesnt do anything when off or the screens off. honestly, i no boot many times a week(because i test the trinity kernel as its being developed before release), ive figured out a system of light taps near the power button to let the volume buttons let me scroll, and to select in the bootloader.so for me its a non issue. to power up from being powered up, i dont do anything. a, pluging in powers it. b, tapping the back powers it when no usb is available. c, it powers up by itself usually, seconds to a few minutes after powering off.
[Nexus S General] mikkkg:
Being a heavy user of my nexus s since July 2011, the power button died last Sunday.

One of the most important problems i had after that was that i was unable to lock bootloader before giving the mobile to samsung service, because the stuck power button caused problems to fastboot commands and the bootloater usage(menu) in general.

Finally i decided to go to the service and give the phone. The result was that in about an hour they replaced the button and gave me back the mobile. The repair was covered by the 2 years warranty and the unlocked bootloader did not cause any problem to that.

Up to now i have a "brand new" nexus s and i hope that the new button will last much longer.
[Nexus S General] hkt03:
wow.. this literally JUST happened to me. the power button hadn't been acting up though. the only difference in my phone is that it had started a bad habit of phantom vibrating randomly over the last couple of weeks.

Samsung has really let me down with this phone.
[Nexus S General] al_madd:
My nexus s power button start malfunction 3 months ago..very sad..

At first I sent it to samsung center..then they said they dont have hardware for my nexus s because my nexus s is i9020t while official nexus s for south east asia is i9023 ..so they cant repair it..

So I turn off my phone using screen off app from market and wake up my phone using wake all app also from market..

Just yesterday i can root my phone back(because before i want to send my nexus to samsung center I unroot my nexus)..thank to the devs who create root script without enter booloader..

This power button problem really make me unhappy because nexus s community is very friendly and encouraging..

Who knows? After 10 months this topic will be discuss too at galaxy nexus section?:rolleyes:
[Nexus S General] al_madd:
How do you did this??using what application??

If button remapper I cant remap volume button..
[Nexus S General] MistaJae:
How do you get into recovery without the power button?

Aaaarrrrgggghhhh!

My phone went into a bootloop and I had to pull the battery. I need to do a nandroid restore, but cant get into recovery mode. Does anyone know how to get to recovery without the power button working?

I can get to fastboot mode (by plugging into USB while holding the 'Volume Up' button), but the volume keys aren't letting me scroll to 'recovery' anymore :(

EDIT: I solved it by following simms instructions from this post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=22720334&postcount=2
[Nexus S General] tobice:
Really weird power button behaviour

Hey guys, my power button also stopped working properly. Waking up the screen isn't a problem mostly (but not always), however it is almost impossible to lock the screen. Sometimes the button does nothing, sometimes the "Power Off" menu pops up.

I tried to send power button signals using adb in usb debugging mode and everything worked properly, the screen got locked/unlocked immediately. So I assume it's a hardware problem.

However... and that's weird, I tried to enter the bootloader menu, where you actually select menu items by pushing the power button, and it worked flawlessly!

The possible explanation could be that normal Android system waits for the "release" event, whereas the bootloader waits only for the "press" event. And in my case, the release event is broken... that could be also why sometimes the "Power Off" menu appears... the system notices that the button was pressed and never released, so it thinks that I'm holding the button which is actually when the "Power Off" menu normally should appear. Hmm this idea came to me while writing this post :D At first I thought this was some kind of software issue and I was going to ask for help, but now with the "press/release" thing... it is most probably really a hw issue... Luckily the phone is rather new so hopefully I will be able to use the warranty and get it fixed for free... however I'm not sure, how am I going to survive those few phone less weeks :D

Anyway, I hope this will be useful for someone.