Help! Yesterday at around 8:30 pm I was walking and I slipped on some water. My Samsung SGH-d807 fell into a concoction of bleach, PineSol, and water. That was about 15 hours ago. It is now Wednesday morning, and the phone now works fine, but the screen is severely damaged (it was an LCD). It looks like it has bubbles coming out of it, and the screen looks like there is an electronic crater with bubbles around the edges. What do I do? and will the warranty cover it if it's not fixable? Please help- any help will be GREATLY appreciated: Best answer gets 10 points!
2007-03-21 05:31:25 · 12 answers · asked by Justin B 4 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cell Phones & Plans
Your warranty is not going to cover it if they find out it got wet. When you call to get it replaced, they will notify you of that and probably ask you if it got wet. In the event you tell them no, they will send you a refurb (more than likely) as a replacement. Under you battery of your broken phone, there will be a sticker. It's probably red or pink now. When you get the replacement phone, you'll notice the same sticker is white. I'll let you figure out what to do from here.
As for drying it, and all the other suggestions. Yea, that might work for a bit. But eventually the phone is going to die, I can pretty much gurantee it. So go ahead and get it replaced now because it is going to eventually die.
2007-03-21 05:44:23 · answer #1 · answered by Hollywood 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hopefully you have insurance on the device, if not then you are going to have to fork over some money on a new phone. Water damage is not covered under any manufacturers warranty, and insurance is the only way to get the phone replaced. Depending on what carrier you have your insurance costs to get the phone replace may be more than it would cost to get a phone off of ebay to be honest. Find out if your phone was insured, and then the cost to get it replace with the same model or if they dont have the same model what model they would send you as a replacement and check the price of the phone on ebay and see which one is cheaper.
2007-03-21 06:15:05 · answer #2 · answered by Kenneth W 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have no idea but have you tried to use a blow dryer on low setting? take the battery out and use the blow dryer on it all over. Around the screen and the sides for a while but do not get the phone to hot you may need to do this a few times.
If that does not work call your cell phone place and see about the warranty. My son got his wet and we took it back but we had to pay for a new phone it was not covered. Maybe you will get lucky and they will cover it.
I hope so..
2007-03-21 05:37:46 · answer #3 · answered by Tonya R 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
See if the screen is modular and able to be disconnected. Contact a repair facility about purchasing a screen. Replace it.
Otherwise you will have to either purchase a new cell phone, or get on another contract and buy one for a penny.
2007-03-22 04:59:09 · answer #4 · answered by joshnya68 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey dude, it's a goner, i tell ya....It is not covered by the warranty. You can't fix it. Even if you do manage to find someone who fixes it, it's gonna cost you a bomb and you will still have problems with it. My advice? Find some 2nd hand dealer to sell the workable parts. Cut your losses. That's what i did when mine went for a dive in a pail of soap water 3 days after i got it from the shop. Heart twang.....
2007-03-21 05:53:17 · answer #5 · answered by blue_blue_bedsheet 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the same thing thing happened with my nokia 6610i.though i hav sold it now but the prob was same.i ud advise u 2 remove the cover of the ph and the keypad.then lower a table lamp n under it keep the ph.the distance between the tb lamp n the ph should b little.put on the tb lamp and keep 4 hre.slowly the water that went in will dry up n it wil b normal.
try it.
2007-03-21 05:41:37 · answer #6 · answered by king 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This got here approximately to me, different than mine went throughout the washer, and it did no longer artwork, i might turn it off and take the battery out, wait an afternoon or 2 to enable it dry out and then attempt it lower back. additionally on the decrease back on the telephones or batteries??on which one, there's a green dot, whilst it gets moist it turns purple, additionally some thing to look into to make certain how undesirable your telephone is broken. sturdy success! I insured my telephone once I washed it!
2016-10-02 12:33:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For water damaged phones you must have insurance. If you don't you would have to purchase a phone at full retail price. If you dont want to do that go and by one from ebay and pop your sim card in it.
2007-03-21 06:01:45 · answer #8 · answered by JustAnswer 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you have warranty yes it will help the damage but I think your phone is ruined if there are bublles it's dead
2007-03-21 05:35:49 · answer #9 · answered by Maze 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
unless you have insurance, the phone company wont replace it for water damage. you can try to dry it with a dryer, but chances are if it got bleach in it, that wont work.
2007-03-21 05:40:07 · answer #10 · answered by knnygrl 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋