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Early in January 2007, I was in farm land looking forward to test the P990i camera. After a bit of walk, I slipped on the bund, recovered and carried on. Having reached the destination, I realized my P990i vanished - about 5 minutes later. Tracing back I noticed a glint of light - there it was in the stream, the silver back shining.
With the usual kicking oneself, I got it out, pulled the battery and SIM. Needless to say the water damage was thorough. I could see water between the panels on the LCD (perhaps there is a thin touch sensitive perspex seperating). As I dried it out, the evaporating water condensed inside! and the salts in the water began to crystallize. After 2 days there was a small puddle right in the middle of the LCD.
Approached the service senter about 4 days after the incident - who dried out the components and put them back together, saying the motherboard needs to be replaced. The cost of replacement is as good as purchasing a new one.
After a month, tried to power up the P990i. This time I could hear the Sony chime during boot but the screen was white - no image.
After 5 months, took it to the service center, approached an adventurous techncian who was willing to try. He wouldn't warranty repairs. Apparently he redried every component, that he could pull off. He replaced the LCD and the battery. After couple of tries, it's on firmware R6D23.
Phone works. WLAN works. Blackberry is fine. Even the old SMS, notes etc. are intact. As soon it booted on R6, the memory was 18.2MB. With Blackberry, it's about 8-9 MB.
It took the service center about a day and about 90USD including parts and labor. P990i seems to be a phoenix, rising out of the ashes!
Ravi.
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Posted: 2007-06-19 06:18:26
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Wow!!!! one question though, what is the anticipated lifespan of the phone now?
This message was posted from a C1100
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Posted: 2007-06-19 06:29:50
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I had an accident too about a week ago.
The phone has beed dropped into a glass of coke - much more damage by sugar. So i took it apart, got a little bucket of worm water and put everything into the bucket to get rid of sticky sugar, then i dried it using a hair drier and cleaned every component using methilated spirit. Put it back together and it works like new!
It's a shame that some people toss their phones into a rubbish bin after water damage
Denk.
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[ This Message was edited by: Denk on 2007-06-19 05:42 ]
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Posted: 2007-06-19 06:40:48
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that's awesome
i also have a relative story for you, my old K300 phone got washed in the washing machine for 10 mins, never noticing that my loyal phone is within my pants and after washing voila! i got my phone totally wet. tried to open it and look at all the water-damaged parts and it's tottally wet. but a day after that i tried to use an old nokia 2100 battery and use it in my K300 which turned on amazingly! also tried my standard battery and same thing happens. TOTALLY NO CRITICAL DAMAGE on my speaker, camera, LCD and keypad. although i got some issues with the handsfree enabling itself even without my old SE compatible earphones. as a result the phone loudspeaker does not response, but it works stable on service setting test.
just wondering if the same thing would happen for my M600 once i have accidentally dropped it in pool?
those things only proved me that SE can even withstand damages caused by those accidents
the reason why i won't leave SE
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Posted: 2007-06-19 06:46:07
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You guys are few among the lucky. I believe most of water damaged phones did not turned-on, probably battery was not removed immediately after the incident in most of the cases.
My boss had an Ericsson phone that drank coffee. After several days I took it to a service center who cleaned the phone throughly and dried. It worked sometimes but not that reliable. Of course, it did not have restarting function for performance improvement and finally it was discarded with further loss of repairing cost.
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Posted: 2007-06-19 06:58:07
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@rs - Congrats ! But looks like that the motherboard that was troubled most
Give it some more time and see it it will RUN-berserk
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Posted: 2007-06-20 03:43:35
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I unknowingly dropped my trusty Ericsson T29 on a roadside one morning, realized it was gone around midday and tried calling the phone repeatedly in case someone found it, the ringing tone was there but no one picked up. It started to rain heavily around midday and continued on till late night. That's when I decided I would retrace my path. Found it absolutely soaked with the LCD light still on while I tried calling it; it was also the reason I managed find it in the dark. There was no sound. I dried it for a while, it would turn on but behaved erratically when I pressed the keys so I sent it to the Service centre. They said one of the circuits shorted when I tried to turn the phone on before it was completely dry. So it was like brand new out of the service centre, it was in perfect condition and I managed to use it for another 3 years before thieves broke into my house and stole it. Best damn phone I've ever had and the reason I stuck through Ericsson and now, SE
p/s: My S700i was soaked as well from pool water, got it out of the service centre without any parts having to be replaced. It's working a treat to this day, don't know if my P990 is as worthy as the other 2 phones though.
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Posted: 2007-06-20 09:05:40
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a friend of mine lost his k750i for about a week in the lawn of his grandfather, he found the phone after a week, a week where it rained hard.
He let his phone dry for about a week and now it works fine again
amazing
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Posted: 2007-06-22 17:13:52
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i also had an accident with my p990i...i bought it! that was the big accident..although my k750i fell lots of times and it has scratches, it even survived a deep dive into a pan filled with water and fairy ultra
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Posted: 2007-06-22 21:26:22
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Wait until you hear this one.My boss dropped his samsung into the toilet,but managed to grab & pull it out.No doubt the phone was already wet,so what he did was preety Stupid.He quickly put it in the microwave oven with the battery still on the phone.Without a minute he hears a Big Bang from the microwave.Poor guy!
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Posted: 2007-06-23 20:57:00
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