Potentially Water Damaged S2

Royale with Cheese

Have a Galaxy S2 that refuses to turn on or charge. Long story short is that I got stuck on a 4 hour walk in torrential rain where I was completely soaked through. The phone was in my jacket pocket but was a bit wet when I took it out, it was working fine though. Worked alright for the next day, then I found it dead in my pocket. Plugged it in and it started charging, so I figured I had nothing to worry about. Checked it later and it refused to charge or turn on, has been that way ever since.

Is it water damage? I'd have thought if it was water damage it wouldn't have worked for the day after it got wet? I wanted to buy a new phone anyway, so I'm not too pissed it's broken. But there's about 100 photos on there I really want to get off it and am not able to if it won't charge. The battery was starting to go anyway, and I'd ordered a new one a day or so before it got wet. I've since tried a different S2 battery in it though and it still won't turn on.

Any ideas what's wrong with it or how to get the photos off it?

danniemcq

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

Have a Galaxy S2 that refuses to turn on or charge. Long story short is that I got stuck on a 4 hour walk in torrential rain where I was completely soaked through. The phone was in my jacket pocket but was a bit wet when I took it out, it was working fine though. Worked alright for the next day, then I found it dead in my pocket. Plugged it in and it started charging, so I figured I had nothing to worry about. Checked it later and it refused to charge or turn on, has been that way ever since.

Is it water damage? I'd have thought if it was water damage it wouldn't have worked for the day after it got wet? I wanted to buy a new phone anyway, so I'm not too pissed it's broken. But there's about 100 photos on there I really want to get off it and am not able to if it won't charge. The battery was starting to go anyway, and I'd ordered a new one a day or so before it got wet. I've since tried a different S2 battery in it though and it still won't turn on.

Any ideas what's wrong with it or how to get the photos off it?

take out the original battery and look at the top of it (maybe bottom) for a pink/red line. If you see one yeah thats more than likely water damaged.

I guess what you could do is the usual rice trick etc but it might not work especially after working and then dying.

for your photos any chance they saved to external SD card or synced with dropbox/google or anywhere else?

Pj!

Is there a removable memory card in the phone? If lucky the pics might be stored on that.

In future it would be best to backup. It's possible that you got free 50gb dropbox storage with the S2. Upload all your photos to it and you can never lose them.

danniemcq

Pj! wrote: »

Is there a removable memory card in the phone? If lucky the pics might be stored on that.

In future it would be best to backup. It's possible that you got free 50gb dropbox storage with the S2. Upload all your photos to it and you can never lose them.

link for details? thought that was s3 only, would like to get it for the GF

Pj!

You're probably best googling it for more details danniemcq.

A quick search shows this. Maybe it's network dependant, I'm not sure.