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Droid 30 day Water Damage

I dropped my Droid in water for a split second. I immediately took the battery out and started blow drying it. After giving it several hours to dry I tried booting it up again to no avail.

My sticker on the battery and on the inside are still white with red X's, so it looks like it never got wet enough to activate the stickers, and my blow drying must have helped. I went to Verizon and they are mailing me a new phone.

My question is if there is any other way for them to test for water damage. I know someone said that there is another sticker internally that can only be seen when the phone is broken down, so I am hoping that sticker is still OK since the other two are. Anyone have any ideas on this?
 
Don't every blow dry the phone. You'll just push water into it.

Use a vacuum to suck water out of it.

Use the rice trick.

Get a new battery.

Don't turn it on until it's thoroughly dry.

Odds are, it'll work.
 
hey guys, i'm new here! my phone was acting ignorant and after the second visit to the verizon store they figured out one of the problems was my trackball did'nt work, so they said they would have me a new one shipped, free of charge! here's the dilemma, that was tuesday, today when i went to the lake i forgot it was in my pocket, got it soaked and wet and the touch screen was half full of water, i'm dryin it slowly with a hair dryer and it seems to be workin, now when my new one gits here and i mail the old one in are they gonna try and bill me since the liquid indicators show it got wet, although they wudnt when the guy at the verizon store seen it wasnt when i first had problems with it?
 
Hi - thought I'd share my story. A little yucky, but anyhow.... I accidentally must have knocked my Samsung Galaxy S into the toilet bowl. Flushed the toilet and it wouldn't flush, thought it was blocked so flushed it three times, then noticed my phone. Took it out, wrapped in towel overnight, then vacuumed it, as I'd read on this forum, to remove any excess water, then sat it in a bowl of rice for two days. Turned it on last night and working perfectly. So far, still working exactly as it had done before!
 
Jesse said:
As a VZW rep, I'd say you're SOL if you tell a rep that it was dropped in the water. If they don't know, you could of course call, add total equipment protection, and then file a claim the next day. It's obviously not a moral decision, but nobody in their right mind is going to pay in the neighborhood of $600 for a new phone if they can get it for for the cost of the deductible.

Anybody telling you to take responsibility for this would do the same thing if they were faced with a $600 price tag for a new phone, so disregard their statements.
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I'm glad someone has the moral high ground here and can speak for the rest of us.:rolleyes:

I would NOT pull garbage to get a phone.
Believing the worst in people is cynical and nasty.
 
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