dropped phone in water now camera doesnt work

@luna24 couple of things you will have to do. first, skip the rice. It is an absolute myth to use rice. It will not repair your phone, it will not stop corrosion or prevent shortcircuits. You will have to disassemble your phone. Use this guide for some help with that. Then you will have to clean everything with isopropyl alcohol. Remember to remove all EMI shields from your circuit board. Use this guide for some idea on how to clean. It was written for an iPhone but all the points are still pertinent to your phone as well. After a proper cleaning, replace the batter. Then reassemble your phone and re-evaluate. Of course, best course of action would be an ultrasonic cleaning. So if you have that available, use that instead. Until your phone is properly cleaned, it is very difficult to trouble shoot. Remember that water damage is the hardest to diagnose and to repair since virtually any part may have failed.

"For those who have intermittent camera after a fall/drop: TAKE case off and any accessory such as S pen. Get hair dryer, concentrate on the back top because that's where you will gently pry open with a thin pvc nfc ( or similar) card, guitar pick, or other pry tool. You need to continue applying heat, until your pried enough of the cover up to see and press the camera ribbon cable end down to make sure it's not lose. It doesn't have to be snug to sometimes work. I've done thru that with a Samsung.

Currently, I've a Galaxy Note 9 that's *supposedly* rated highly water resistant and can withstand up to 1-2 minute with NO damage, and to 5min even. Yeah, right!

Mine had a completely sealed Otter Box on and fell into a washing machine that wasn't even full enough for the water to touch the top clothes, which is where it fell. I grabbed it immediately. It whacked out, screen fritzed with colored rainbow lines. Did not even seen more than damp. Want not submerged, is the thing. Now, 2 weeks later, opening the camera does 1 of 3 things: Opens with a black screen then state camera is busy then “bout 4 responding, close app"" 2. Opens to black screen and freezes entire phone and causes flashlight to come on and stay on even when it shuts down itself, staying on all night 3. Just stays black.

Tried third party apps, selfie only app worked a few times when Icould force front to work. Now, Im taking this $1k thing apart since Asurion via Verizon does not help in my area and will follow the above directions that I'd already figured out halfway for myself. If possible, I'll update what I find under the hood and try linking to or inserting photos. I think it may be disconnected and wet from the fall."

I've used rice plenty of times and it's worked for me every time. Just have to make sure to take the battery out immediately or shut it down asap… as far as the camera not working, my issue was the fall, not water. Every other time I would drop it, it would work until it was dropped again.