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Hey all,

Water damage success story:

One night after a night of some heavy drinking, I awoke to find that my GFlex 2 had been literally puked on... Yeah. :rolleyes:

However I fished it out of the muck and saw that it was on and working fine. (It was plugged in and charging, the battery was at 98% by the time I got the screen cleaned off, didnt use water or any cleaner at all. I also tried to blow the water out of the back of the case, at this point I didnt realize the back popped off).Took it with me to class, and by the end of the day it was at like 12%. Soon after it sorta turned off mid text, and only showed a battery icon with a question mark next to it (kinda like the "Battery too low to turn on" message, but closer to "What is a battery")

At this point I wasn't worried, I just figured it was weird low battery glitch, or over heating. I got it home and put it on the charger, and it came on for a few minutes and shut back off with the same behavior. After that point it wouldn't charge.

My first thought was that the charging connector was all gunked up, so I gave the whole phone a nice 99% isopropyl bath, and cleaned all of my connectors with a q-tip. Still didnt work. I tried cooling it off in the freezer, thinking it was a an issue with my battery being too warm, still no joy. I was pretty much thinking she was a goner at this point.

Then i found this LG Gflex 2 disassembly guide while googling: [In comments below] and decided I had nothing to lose, so I decided to pop everything open.

The first thing I did was unsnap the back, and *i found there was still a little dampness inside the back cover.* I cleaned this up, and let the phone sit with the back off for a while. Hoping this was all it would need, I tried a charger again with the back still off...
It charged fine!!! The phone battery was at 0%, so I had to let it sit for a bit, but it charged up okay, and then turned on fine too. I have yet to snap the back cover back on, and I haven't tried my rapid charger yet either, but I have no reason to think either will hurt anything now. The phone seems fine otherwise. I'll update this thread with my back cover results ;)

Anyways long story short: if your flex2 gets wet at all, pop the back cover off and dry it all out ASAP. Hope this helps someone.