Just tried washing my S8.

Works completely fine with speakers and camera, microphone, etc

During the process, it said that water was detected in the charging port, so I had to wait 10 minutes to charge until the port dries.

Overall, awesome!

P.S. How do they detect water???

You can just measure the resistance between the ports.

High resistance connection between usb0 and 3. Try chaining a 100k ohm resistor, should work.

@gamingfail123 @sharktits Cool!

@Floydian Sure is!

Do phones automatically cut any power to the ports once they detect water? Because if not, those connectors could very fast corrode away I think

@ruhe I think so. Charging was disabled when water was detected, at least in my case.

Took me some time to see what the images was about :P

At first I thought it was water going down a sinkhole from all directions.
Only after some seconds I figured that it was the inside of a shower (probably from a handle) shot from below.

you are insane and brave :3

// and probably rich

@cursee Rich substitutes a lot of character traits

@cursee He's not rich, he's @CozyPlanes. @Rich isn't here anymore

For the record, a hair dryer speeds up the process

@ewpratten hair dryer in a wet phone?? NOOOOO

If(wet()) {
Dontcharge();
}

@CozyPlanes In my case too :)
(s7 edge)

You can wash any phone like that really, as long as you don't put water in the ports like a dumbass.
I've done it for years

@MagicSowap you got a typo in username. Aren't you trying to say MagicSoap?

@cursee You sound like clippy sir. lol

@Condor I heard that they aren't using copper, they use aluminum or something similar

This thread is getting very educative and informative. 😆😆

Quite true. Usually comments found under a photo taken in a shower are far from educational. :3

I have the S8 and had a few other "waterproof" phones and I use a wallet case to hold my debit card and ID. Every time my phone takes a bath (and this has happened more than I would like) the phone survives but I end up needing to replace the debit card because the chip can't take the little bit of water that finds its way into the card compartment.

I can't remember which phone, but one of them ended up with an issue at some point to where it constantly claimed that it was wet and refused to charge by cable, wireless charging still worked. It ended up being a bent pin in the port causing the issue.

@bigus-dickus up to 30 mins under clean water i guess

I think it's a capacitive water sensor, the usb pins and the external ground are the two conductors and the air in between it's the dielectric. When the water enters in, the capacitance changes due to the different dielectric constant (permittivity). That implies that the discharging time changes. If they measure with an adc the voltage of the little capacitor every $dischargeCheckTime (discharge calculated with air divided by 10) and the capacitor it's already discharged something like water just entered in the connector (Air permittivity ~ 1000, Water ~ 90). They have already the hardware to do this. The USB charging device has an overcurrent and overvoltage sensors and the cpu has interrupts and timers.
Finally, a resistive solution implies some corrosion on contacts for the electrolisys, a capacitive ones no. It can also detect the liquid calculating the discharge time and checking a material permittivity table.

@localghost Cool!

@Condor