Cell phone battery meter problem

[sam686]

Note, this cell phone is mine, and was mine for a past month.

The problem started when the cell phone went in the washing machine by accident. So the phone got wet, and it shuts off, but got the phone to dry off after 4 hour behind the hot air coming from my computer. Now it turns on, now with a strange battery meter problem. Battery meter always shows too low, but the battery meter goes to full when playing sound or listening to someone on the phone.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ6C3AER5A8

Now, I seem to get "Low battery" warning all the time.

[Little_Apple]

And the moral to this story is: cell phones arent machine washable.

The first thing you should've done was take the battery out of the phone, and put the battery along with the phone into a bowl of dry rice.

[sam686]

The cell phone still works for talking into it, the problem now is it has the strange battery meter problem, and the vibrate mode doesn't work anymore, but the ringing sound for incoming call still works.

[Little_Apple]

Get a replacement battery? And if that doesn't work, iPhone?

Try putting the cell phone in a bag of rice and shake it. It should work perfectly in a day.

Try putting the cell phone in a bag of rice and shake it. It should work perfectly in a day.

The first thing you should've done was take the battery out of the phone, and put the battery along with the phone into a bowl of dry rice.

Ahem.

Drop the cell phone into water again and dry it quickly. Then replace the cell phone after you replaced the battery.

[sam686]

Somehow, the battery problem seems to have fixed by itself after a day of problems. It could have been the battery itself that behaved strangely, but not sure as I don't yet have a second battery to test with.

The cell phone is still broken, you need to throw it against a hard surface to let the chips inside of it to bounce around and go back to its fixed place.

Try putting the cell phone in a bag of rice and shake it. It should work perfectly in a day.

The first thing you should've done was take the battery out of the phone, and put the battery along with the phone into a bowl of dry rice.

Ahem.

Thought that said "dry ice" lol