i droped my moto razr v3 in a pool?
when it dried it could make and receive calls. but when the battery died i plugged it into the charger and it said “unable to charge” wat is wrong with it, and i dont have insurance on it a and i cant afford a new phone.
April 16th, 2009 at 2:42 am
Even though it dried and can do some things, it is fried. You can try a new battery but most likely the water damage has killed it. Try ebay for a cheap option to get a new phone.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:22 am
My phone does that “unable to charge” thing ALL the time.
i never dropped it in the water before but it still does.
what i do is
unpluged the chager and plugged it in till it said it was charging
my phone is also a motorolla
April 18th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Cell phones do not like water. something prolly fried inside the phone. You could try sending it to motorola they can fix it but its going to cost $75-$150 Depending on whats wrong
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but its the truth
April 21st, 2009 at 5:38 am
The problem is residue left behind when the water evaporated. These are generally mineral salts which can conduct electricity. You were LUCKY that the phone even worked at all! You have nothing left to lose by opening it up and giving it a bath. Remove the battery first, and then open the case and give it a bath in pure distilled water, The distilled water has no minerals or impurities and will work to dissolve the residue left behind from the pool water. Swirl it around in the water for a while. You want to dissolve as much as possible, and it is not immediate, so give it a few minutes of swirling in the water. The moving water is what will dissolve the residue. Shake out as much water as you can, and place the phone in a warm place with moving air, NOT a hair dryer, which is WAY TOO HOT, but somewhere where there is moving air. It is the moving air which will promote the water to evaporate out. All it takes is gently moving air, not a hurricane. Leave it sit for a while, a day or more, the longer the better, and then reassemble it and try it and see what happens. I did this exact same thing to a laptop computer after a friend of mine spilled an entire bowl of ramen noodles on the keyboard… and it worked! It took a week, and 2 gallons of distilled water. I used a small room fan on the kitchen table as my moving air source and let it sit for a week before I put it back together and tried it. No guarantees that this will work for you and of course, if you try this, it is at your own risk.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:55 pm
There’s other Razr’s that’re free.