Trying to salvage my razr after a swim.

[tech_head]

All wrong.
Pool water has clorine or salt which makes it conductive and it may have left residue behind.
The rice on dries the water. It does not remove residue.
If it went into a pool it is almost certainly dead.
A rinse through 90% isopropyl alcohol would have been good to remove any residue. The fact that the Razr doesn't have a removable battery is tough.
I was able to revive an iPod Nano by submerging in 90% isopropyl alcohol after a kids Capri Sun was spilled all over it.
Still working but it required a couple of rinses to get the sticky stuff from under the LCD.

Pool water is waaaay bad for electronics. More so than falling into the sink.

 

[FoxKat]

I agree that pool water is comparatively worse than tap water but the amount of concentration of either salt or Chlorine in a properly balanced pool is so small that I don't think it's a huge issue. I agree about using 90% or 95% alcohol, I just got done recommending that to someone else who got coffee in their phone.

Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk 2

 

[razr_jmay]

Phone will not power on after a night of sitting on the charger.

 

[94lt1]

Keep it on your charger, you are using the one that came with it right?

You may consider leaving it on there 24-48 hours. If it does nothing, then you've got a dead device, a factory cable or an insurance claim are all you have left for options.

DROID RAZR MAXXIMIZED!!!! PREPARE TO BE VANQUISHED!!!

 

[razr_jmay]

Keep it on your charger, you are using the one that came with it right?

You may consider leaving it on there 24-48 hours. If it does nothing, then you've got a dead device, a factory cable or an insurance claim are all you have left for options.

DROID RAZR MAXXIMIZED!!!! PREPARE TO BE VANQUISHED!!!

It's currently plugged in here at work, on the charger that came with the phone (USB > 2 prong connector > wall outlet)

When I plug it in here at work, I get no white "charging light" indicator, it does not flash at all. Which makes me think it's dead dead.

 

[cr6]

Bummer! Tell me you purchased the insurance.
Good luck man!

**tap'n**

 

[razr_jmay]

It's currently plugged in here at work, on the charger that came with the phone (USB > 2 prong connector > wall outlet)

When I plug it in here at work, I get no white "charging light" indicator, it does not flash at all. Which makes me think it's dead dead.

SEMI-UPDATE.

Messed with the connection of the charger, switched wall outlets, the white "charging light" indicator flashed, currently plugged in, hoping for the best.

 

[razr_jmay]

Looking at the phone here at the office, moisture has formed on the camera lens and flash (when I pulled it out of the rice yesterday the camera lens and flash were dry).

So.. leave it plugged in? there's obviously still a bit of moisture in the phone.

Advice!

EDIT: On a side note, how long would the battery need to be dead before it "dies forever"?


EDIT AGAIN: Also, it may just be me, but the back of the phone definitely feels a bit warm, even as they keep it like 68 degrees in this office. Which I would assume is maybe a good thing.

 

[razr_jmay]

New update.

Since I found more moisture in the phone yesterday, I sat it in rice overnight to dry it out more. Brought it to work and plugged it in, got the white led for a split second when i plugged it in, let it sit on the charger until about 10 minutes ago.

Decided to look at it, unplugged the phone, attempted to plug it back in, no white led at all.

I unplugged the USB end of the cable from the 2 prong adapter, and plugged it into my computer here at work.

I now have a solid white LED at the top left and it is currently sitting plugged into my computer.

Thoughts on this guys?

 

[razr_jmay]

Where the hell did everybody go?

 

[FoxKat]

White Light of Death, indicates the voltage is too low for the phone to initiate the Charge Only Boot sequence. Some have had mixed results trying the car adapter rather than the home adapter. Others have had to resort to more extreme measures including opening and direct connecting the battery terminals to power.

 

[FoxKat]

Looking at the phone here at the office, moisture has formed on the camera lens and flash (when I pulled it out of the rice yesterday the camera lens and flash were dry).

So.. leave it plugged in? there's obviously still a bit of moisture in the phone.

Advice!

EDIT: On a side note, how long would the battery need to be dead before it "dies forever"?


EDIT AGAIN: Also, it may just be me, but the back of the phone definitely feels a bit warm, even as they keep it like 68 degrees in this office. Which I would assume is maybe a good thing.

It's not a matter of how long, but a matter of how low the battery voltage is. A warm back is a good sign but the remaining moisture may be shorting the battery and draining it. See my last post.

 

[razr_jmay]

White Light of Death, indicates the voltage is too low for the phone to initiate the Charge Only Boot sequence. Some have had mixed results trying the car adapter rather than the home adapter. Others have had to resort to more extreme measures including opening and direct connecting the battery terminals to power.

I will try a car charger in a bit.
I've seen people having to resort to the direct connection.

So the voltage out of the PC is too low to initiate the charge only boot, can you explain why only sometimes I get the white LED to flash when I plug into a wall outlet? Sometimes it does not flash at all.

(Thank you very much for replying!)

 

[FoxKat]

No, the voltage out of the PC is 5V +/- 5%, which is within range of the wall adapter. It's the Current (Amperage) that's likely too low. It takes a good bit of current to kick-start the phone while at the same time the battery is pulling current in a desire to charge. The wall adapter puts out 750mAh (750 MilliAmpers/Hour), and the battery can actually take all of that and more, depending on what State of Charge (SoC) it's in. If it's deeply discharged, it will soak up all that current like a dried up old sponge.

The USB ports on PCs (depending on how old and what generation of USB they are), may only be putting out 550mAh, so it's considerably less than the wall adapter. Some car adapters put out 1Amp (1,000mAh), so they have the necessary excess current to satisfy the starved battery and still enough to get the gears turning in the phone.

The brief flash of white light with the wall adapter is actually a good sign. No flash or a solid white light are the bad ones.

 

[razr_jmay]

No, the voltage out of the PC is 5V +/- 5%, which is within range of the wall adapter. It's the Current (Amperage) that's likely too low. It takes a good bit of current to kick-start the phone while at the same time the battery is pulling current in a desire to charge. The wall adapter puts out 750mAh (750 MilliAmpers/Hour), and the battery can actually take all of that and more, depending on what State of Charge (SoC) it's in. If it's deeply discharged, it will soak up all that current like a dried up old sponge.

The USB ports on PCs (depending on how old and what generation of USB they are), may only be putting out 550mAh, so it's considerably less than the wall adapter. Some car adapters put out 1Amp (1,000mAh), so they have the necessary excess current to satisfy the starved battery and still enough to get the gears turning in the phone.

The brief flash of white light with the wall adapter is actually a good sign. No flash or a solid white light are the bad ones.

Thank you for the education.
Which is worse, no flash or solid white light?