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Question

Water damaged phone

Jul 29, 2017 3:15PM PDT

I dropped my phone (xiaomi mi5) in a swimming pool, I picked it up and tried to dry it. After two days, I tried to charge it, I turned it on, but the screen didn't response to touches and the battery was draining fast, also there was a violet strip in middle of the phone going from top to bottom. After the phones battery went to zero, I tried again charging it, but it shows only the battery charging with a flash (but no percentage), and after a while the phone gets warm. I don't know where's the problem, does anyone have any experience in this, what can it be?

Thank you!

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Not a lot of hope here.
Jul 29, 2017 3:32PM PDT

'Phones plus water=bad. Seems like it's terminated to me. One thing, don't take 'phones near swimming pools.
Dafydd.

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The consensus is
Jul 29, 2017 3:51PM PDT
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why do they always say they dropped it
Jul 29, 2017 4:43PM PDT

in the swimming pool when it was really someplace that has a little more Porcelain Happy

seriously, the swimming pool has a lot of chemicals that can damage the phone. might has well dropped the phone in some diluted bleach. plan on replacing the phone.

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Water, battery?
Jul 29, 2017 4:52PM PDT

The 'phone doesn't need to be turned on for disaster.
Dafydd.

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Water Damaged
Aug 2, 2017 7:13AM PDT

Its gone.

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O sole mio
Aug 2, 2017 7:25AM PDT
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very little hope but !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aug 2, 2017 8:30AM PDT

you need to dry the phone completely and if it works it works otherwise its gone try to dry it with hair dryer or a blower

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little hope
Aug 4, 2017 1:10AM PDT

After dropped into swimming pool, you should detach the battery and the smartphone, then try to dry smartphone.