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My phone was dropped in water and it turned off. As to the fact Motorola doesn’t allow this phones battery to be removed, I left it off and stuck it in a bag of rice for a day. The phone will now turn on, but the screen looks like there’s still water in it. I tried to turn it off so it could dry another day or two, but the screen doesn’t react. The next thing I tried was holding the power button so it would go off, but of course its a reset button so it keeps turning on. The volume and lock screen buttons work fine. I’m getting a new phone soon, but there are very dear photos to me and I was wondering if I can somehow recover them even if the screen doesn’t work after another day or two of being in rice.
I had this problem after my phone was submerged in water for 10 minutes, and despite my best efforts to dry it out, the touch screen was still unresponsive. I bought a USB - micro USB OTG (on the go), which you can buy for less than £5 on amazon, and then plugged mouse in to the phone. This allowed me to test whether anything else was broken. It took a while to get the hang of swiping (e.g. to unlock the phone) but you can swipe with the mouse. I was able to make and receive calls, take photos, and connect to WIFI, but my laptop wont recognise the phone for me to transfer the data with a cable. To get around this I just changed my settings in google photos so that all my photos now back up to the cloud. Now I can download them from https://photos.google.com/ Problem solved. Hope this works for you!
