wanted to share a little trick

[Dakota1820]

so yesterday my EVO 4g had little "stuck pixels" all through out the middle area of the screen. i did some research and people said massage the screen, try factory resetting the phone and i did all of that and nothing worked. so i thought well i guess ill eventually have to get a different phone. then i though hmmm wonder what will happen if i put it in the freezer. so when i got off work and picked my son up from my mom's i visited for about 45 mins and stuck it in the freezer while it was off. well that got rid of almost all of them. so when i got home i stuck it in the freezer again over night and its perfect now and has remained that way. so if you ever have this problem. try the freezer method. it worked great for me

 

[97prizm]

While i'm glad it fixed your screen, typically this is bad advice for people. LCD screens can freeze and crack or thus ruining the screen permanently.

 

[Quattro Pete]

The little droid dude must have gotten frostbite.

 

[Kestas]

So, I shouldn't forget my cell phone in the car on a cold winter night?

 

[yonyon]

Freezing can damage batteries, do don't leave a battery in there if you freeze it. Also, keep in mind that removing a cold object from a freezer can make it a cold wet object so take appropriate measures to keep moist air off of it and don't power it up until it's been at room temperature for a while.

 

[Dakota1820]

Well all I can say is it worked great for me. Proofs in the pudding. Also I agree with the idea of putting it in a ziplock to keep moisture away and waiting awhile to turn it back on

 

[Rand]

I would say this method is good if you want to ruin someones phone and void their warranty with water damage (condensation)

like say a pesky coworker.

Freezing is good for some things like resurrecting a dying hdd.

I dont see how its going to do anything "good" for a li-ion battery or LCD.

Maybe it was the 45min thing that kept it from self destructing..

 

[Dakota1820]

I see you never responded to my message rand.....what a suprise.

Also it was In the freezer overnight. If you read the post you would have seen that. And thirdly we can discuss how it can't and won't work but it did work. And if your in a situation like me where your out of warranty and if it stays the way it is your going to get a new phone what's the harm in trying it you have nothing to lose. And if you put it in a freezer bag you wont have any issues with water damage . That was also said above

 

[cchase]

The chances of experiencing problems with an LCD screen from putting it into a freezer would seem to be astronomically low.

After all, cars with nav screens and GPS units are routinely subjected to sub-freezing temperatures. As do digital cameras and cell phones in bags and elsewhere all winter, every winter around the country. And I highly doubt that delivery trucks for new cell phones are climate controlled.

 

[daves87rs]

Strange, this is now the second time I've heard that this week...

 

[Rand]

Originally Posted By: chevyboy14
I see you never responded to my message rand.....what a suprise.

Also it was In the freezer overnight. If you read the post you would have seen that. And thirdly we can discuss how it can't and won't work but it did work. And if your in a situation like me where your out of warranty and if it stays the way it is your going to get a new phone what's the harm in trying it you have nothing to lose. And if you put it in a freezer bag you wont have any issues with water damage . That was also said above




I see you still write in hard to read bricks of text and still fail miserably at any kind of good descriptive forum topic title. What a "suprise"

back on topic

Typical GPS/electronics dont go room temp. to -10F to room temp which can cause condensation inside the phone/device while warming up and also making the moisture sensor give a false positive.. which void's warranty due to water damage.

If you look at the operating temp in the manual you may be "suprised" at what it says about operating and non-operating conditions and whats acceptable.

 

[cchase]

Originally Posted By: Rand
Typical GPS/electronics dont go room temp. to -10F to room temp which can cause condensation inside the phone/device while warming up and also making the moisture sensor give a false positive...


Of course they do. Every time you go out to your car in the morning in the winter, it's at ambient temp. Then you turn the heat on in your car, and by the time you're at work, it's at room temp.

 

[kkreit01]

Now you have a lot of cold solder joints.

 

[javacontour]

But the heat doesn't start immediately.

It's different going from the freezer to the room with the different temps and relative humidity. The change is in seconds.

When you start your cold car, the car takes time to warm up and it then takes the heater some time to warm up the car.

Now the bigger shock might be turning ON the device at the cold temp. I would agree that it's likely the device designed for use in a car is designed to take that into consideration.

Originally Posted By: cchase
Originally Posted By: Rand
Typical GPS/electronics dont go room temp. to -10F to room temp which can cause condensation inside the phone/device while warming up and also making the moisture sensor give a false positive...


Of course they do. Every time you go out to your car in the morning in the winter, it's at ambient temp. Then you turn the heat on in your car, and by the time you're at work, it's at room temp.