Help! My Mi 11 ultra got moisture inside camera lenses what can I do??
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*Put it in rice!*
You can wait for it to dry, but it’s a sign that moisture is getting inside at least part of the phone and you should have it RMA’d
I’m used to carrying 3 phones so yeah you can say so
Well, I’ve replaced a battery and fixed a usb port on my previous phone. I got the tools. I got an air soldering gun recntly too. I might unglue the back of my mi 10 and keep only the top side glued to access the internals ~whenever I want, like the old phones. I have a case anyways. The glue costs ~4€/50ml. I like to use my phone the way I want.🙃 Warranty probably won’t cover you. Also why pay somebody to take off the back of your phone?🤣 Would you do that with a ~800€ phone in 2008 when removable batteries were a thing?
Use your RMA
Pray! I don’t understand why no one gave this advice.
Yes, hot air is less dense than cold air, so the air inside phone expands and contracts with heat/cold. By running some benchmark or game to get soc warm air expands. Repeat this cycle a few times
Yeah I have the same phone and I’d also do that since i also take extreme care of it. But my one is in ceramic white.
okay… why did you wrap it in tissue paper? Now the moisture has to go from the phone to the tissue paper to the pearls. You need as much air movement as possible between the phone and pearls. Currently it’s probably going to take longer than putting it on a shelf and aiming a room fan at it. If you know anybody with a 3D printer they will probably have something (you could ask to use) to dry their filament like a food dehydrator that blow 40C air around in a box. That would probably work much quicker.
no its completely fine to use alcohol on phones.
Put it in dry uncooked rice in a tight dry container until it is dry. Don’t heat it
I put it in the tissue paper because I found out that the pearls are no silicate gel. They are water/moisture absorbing but also very dusty. I didn’t want my phone to get scratched or too much dust inside the openings like sim card tray
good job!
Use a bag of rice (yes you read it right), open it. Put a small tissue the size of your phone on top of the rice. Let it sit there for a night (it’s better in room with AC)
The rice will extract all the humidity from anything near it. The tissue is used to avoid rice dust enter your devices
Itapon mo na yan sa basurahan
Sadly the lenses now have dirt on them and scratches from the pearls
Idk it seems that alcohol only affects paint however if the glass plate has a filter yes it is harmful
I always wonder if people are joking or there is still people out there believing the rice myth.
“The study not only proves that rice is not an effective drying agent, but that it is actually less effective than simply leaving the device out in the open to dry naturally on its own – but neither method will thoroughly dry the device.”
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140924005241/en/Rice-Myth-Busted-New-Study-Proves-Using-Rice-to-Dry-a-Wet-Phone-Is-Not-Effective
Keep your phone in a packet of rice!
It’s not the water from the outside. The phone laid in a chilly place and I took it to a hot room and played an demanding game. The air inside the phone also contains a lil bit of water and that evaporated. Still annoying but the moist is almost gone mow
Every SD 888 phone will get warm, for some reason these new processors are not as optimised as sd 865 or 870.
For a phone of this price I’d RMA it
Thx! I put it in silicate gel perls, hope it will be gone soon
How hot was the phone exactly? You must have played a intensive game then moved to a very cool room afterwards. Never had this happen to me.
PASS IT UP ABOVE A FLAME, AND I’M TALKING SERIOUSLY, WHEN I WASH A LITTLE BIT MY BLUETOOTH EARPHONES I DO THE SAME LATTER.
Yes it did!
I’ve had experience with my headphone jack. it got wet and i placed it in the sun for 2 hours and no luck.
Then placed it inside a small rice bag and it was fixed in 30 mins.
put the phone inside a transparent box with a dehumidifier (the ones with calcium chloride)
put on the sun for 15 minutes, then take it out of the sun and let it cool (about 1h). repeat this process until the moisture goes away. (do not remove the phone from the box, keep it sealed.
the heat/cool cycle forces the air out>in>out>in>out, replacing with air with less moisture. (waterproof phones are not air tight)
after a few cycles, test it by putting ice on your finger for 10 seconds, then put the finger on the lens of the camera for a few seconds. if condenses on the inside, there is still moisture in it. repeat the sun cycle in the box.
this process works for any camera with moirure inside, that are not air sealed (camera from drones is another example)
you can also heat the phone by using something on it that heat it up (heavy game, video converter, etc)
And the rice is 100% not the reason it worked.
“After monitoring the weight loss of a phone simulator placed first in an open room for 48 hours and second in a container of rice for 48 hours, both times containing the same initial weight of water at the same temperature, evaporation reduced the water weight of the device left in an open room by 14.7 percent while enclosing the device in a container of rice reduced the water weight of the device by 13.1 percent”
Hmm ok I will have to find out how the glass has been produced
or hit it with a sledgehammer, the shockwave will blow the droplets out
Metalo en arroz :v
With sim card tray removed?
I love the phone, I never ran into an issue since now, but other have the same problem too and I think it will sort out. No the phone only gets hot during this specific game. Yes I recommend it 🙂
IMO not worth it (specs are fine, but size is too big for my personal taste).
Not a myth, I tried it myself and it works! 🤓
Phone was in a chill place, I took it to a hot room, there I was playing se videogames and the phone got super hot, the water in the air inside the phone vaporized :/
Put your phone in Rice and wait for hope
“Solar smasher” is the name of the simulator game.
Yes I went into an air-conditioned room after gaming
I have seen watch repairers clean moisture with petrol over the glass of watch face. May be check youtube.
It looks for me like some water resistance in the phone is damaged. Maybe check it for warranty. So when something happens they won’t tell you just watered the phone( seals would turn red) solutions with zipbag and moistoure absorbing bags is good. But do not puncture the bags.
The difference is that those who you pay are professionals and have got you covered in case they break something. What if you screwed up your $1000 phone?
Hate to be that guy, but this is actually condensation. Water vapours from hot air inside depositing on the glass due to cool environment/glass.
How wut?
Whole rice is a good moisture absorbent, I have tried it myself when my earbuds and phone fall in water. Not sure it will remove it totally but tey it, it might help, also it’s totally harmless, so no risk involved. You can give it a try
It is moisture
I Heard about that.
I stopped playing games on Phone.
I mean mi 10p gets hot when on heavy load , but only when outside the temperature is 30°C
I plan on using mi11 for social apps some video and photo as it has good camera
Move to Africa
Ago wtf? Looks like mold and it’s really creepy to me.
Oh so you like wearing belts huh!
Ip68 😂
Just wait for a week and if it doesn’t dry by then, take it to a repair shop
Trash can it is. Time to get the Mi 12 Ultra.
Wait for it to evaporate.
Put it in rice, and it’ll be gone in a few hours
Check teardown videos. You probably have to unglue the battery cover and clean the plastic. (Though you have a rear screen, ~dunno if that will make it harder.)
Is this harmful for the glass plate which sits above the camera?
Assuming you didn’t have a rapid lowering of the temperature your phone is taking in moisture from somewhere. I would recommend RMA as it’s supposed to be IP rated iirc.
well now you have better idea’s for next time 🙂
is it moisture or dust?
xiaomi is really lacking in this department… my Note 9S has been through warranty (they refused to give me a new phone and just replaced the camera) because one of the lenses had dust particles… and it is already starting doing that again.
Thx!!
Use vacuumed chamber.
Take an airtight container put your phone in it and cover it with rice overnight.
Filter like Blue light or Taint etc
Microwave could help remove the moisture.
Thx will take a look
What do you mean super hot it overheats or?
Im Planing to buy it . In your opinion is it worth it to move from mi 10 pro to mi 11 ultra as there is no mi 11 pro option where I currently live
Thanks
Good same on mi 10p .
Only some apps to that
Will definitely look into buying one
Thanks
Did everything expect the hairdryer, will try it later
so did it dry out wrapped in tissue paper?
Just wait until it dries itself.. don’t attempt any openings… It will dry, it just takes days to dry…
samsung made sd888 and fucked them.
Best way to dry that out would be to leave it in the sunshine! Used to have to do that with a faulty watch I had
Try rubbing alcohol with high solution outside since it evaporates easily idk if it will also absorb the water inside.
just don’t buy it
No idea, I’m located in Europe :/
Are you serious man? Why on earth would you do that to a $1000 phone? Just use warranty or pay for a repair.
Find some of those moisture absorbing packs you get with certain products and put them in a ziplock bag with your phone, it should dry out quicker.
When my watch had the same issue i fixed by heating it carrefully with a lighter. Just to warm the glass a bit to help evaporating it
I bought 1Kg of them. My phone is wrapped in a tissue paper and i put that in a sealed container with the pearls
Haven’t seen anything like this how did it happen?
Well, if you can’t open the back of the phone, xiaomi’s planned obsolescence probably wins. It’s probably just a glue around the edge which you can remove with a little heat/alcohol/acetone and an opening card. I ~just completely deslike that kind of design. Before that they used screws which was easier. And before that they just had “clips”. I want to own my device. Lol, professional cover opener, is that a serious profession?
Planning to buy Note 9s but bot anymore hahah