Phone got some water in it few days ago
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VGAdeadcafe




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PostPosted: Tue, 5th May 2015 00:56    Post subject: Phone got some water in it few days ago
Now it won't turn on. If I connect it to a USB though, it turns on, shows the LG logo and after 4 seconds restarts, infinitely.

How can I tell if the battery is dead or the phone itself? Because if it's the battery I can just buy a replacement. Any ideas?
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PostPosted: Tue, 5th May 2015 01:01    Post subject:
Multimeter.

Remove battery, check Wink
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Janz




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PostPosted: Tue, 5th May 2015 01:14    Post subject:
just put it in some rice. over night the asians will come and fix it Very Happy

or just completely disassemble and put it on a radiator for a few days. but most likely it got shorted. u tried to power it up right after it soaked up water?
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PostPosted: Tue, 5th May 2015 09:02    Post subject:
Yeah best thing to do when it falls in the water is DON"T touch any buttons and remove the battery asap. Then put it in rice like Janz says and wait it out a couple of days


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PostPosted: Tue, 5th May 2015 15:05    Post subject:
Lathieza wrote:
Yeah best thing to do when it falls in the water is DON"T touch any buttons and remove the battery asap. Then put it in rice like Janz says and wait it out a couple of days


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VGAdeadcafe




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PostPosted: Tue, 5th May 2015 16:10    Post subject:
Well, I tried to turn it on about 50 times while it was wet. I was in a club and a friend had spilt drink/water on the bar.

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PostPosted: Tue, 5th May 2015 16:24    Post subject:
VGAdeadcafe wrote:
Well, I tried to turn it on about 50 times while it was wet. I was in a club and a friend had spilt drink/water on the bar.

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Janz




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PostPosted: Tue, 5th May 2015 16:30    Post subject:
shitty lg phones cant handle a half beer? man im glad i have a nokia, there were plenty of idiots who spilled drinks over the table when my phone was lying there

but cmon bro, its wet and u try to switch it on? most likely destroyed it. and dont even think about rma, all water markers most likely have "turned on" inside.

the last thing you can try is the drying and rice stuff, it might work (friend of mine dropped his old nokia n8 in the sink, the idiot tried to switch it on -> was dead for a week but worked again after that drying out completely. but after all thats a nokia)
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PostPosted: Tue, 5th May 2015 21:45    Post subject:
I didn't realize it was wet and I needed to use the phone Very Happy

When I opened its back cover ... it was fucking wet as hell!! I put it under rice, if it's not fixed I will buy an LG L Fino or Sony E4 tomorrow.
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VGAdeadcafe




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PostPosted: Tue, 5th May 2015 21:46    Post subject:
Which one to get noobs?

http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=6882&idPhone2=6592

They are both about 120-130 euros.
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Janz




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PostPosted: Tue, 5th May 2015 21:51    Post subject:
get your budget up to around 200 euros and buy a lumia 830 from a contract extension or from someone who "used" it for a week. they are available for that price (new ones around 250). its worth it, far better than those cheap android fuckthings. otherwise a lumia 640 might be interesting, although i would prefer the 830 cause of a few things
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PostPosted: Tue, 5th May 2015 22:13    Post subject:
Classic Nfohump "buy something more expensive, it's better" Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing

I could buy the Lumia 535 for 120e, it's a very good phone but there are some apps I'm using that aren't available on the Windows Phone platform.
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Janz




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PostPosted: Tue, 5th May 2015 22:16    Post subject:
535 is a nice bugdet phone, but already was on sale for 79 euros and with the 640 entering the market its kinda obsolet. aaaaaaaaaaand the 830 has features like glance, qi charging etc

what apps do you need? maybe there are some good alternatives. and no im not working for microsoft Razz
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PostPosted: Tue, 5th May 2015 22:50    Post subject:
There are no alternatives for some of the apps I need. Some are specific to my country/language, also I intend to use other apps in the future, Microsoft missed the boat and now their store is missing support from devs, even though their hardware and OS is good.

I've made an informed decision to go with Android again, one of the two phones from the link I posted earlier.
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Janz




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PostPosted: Tue, 5th May 2015 22:57    Post subject:
at the end of the year you gonna cry Wink just saying, about the easy conversion tools from ms for android and even swife ios apps. most apps will come as universalapps for win10, cause its very attractive vor devs (unlike now when a complete recode is needed, with the tools its much easier)

but ok, if those two phones: take the xperia, hard decisions but the final point are the 8gb internal storage, 4 on the lg is not enough cause not all apps can be installed on sd etc
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