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BigonaBianchi
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Thanks...right..rice and airing cupboard for it tonight then 
Drying out a mobile phone
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Shouldn't have put the battery back in and "fired" it up, that and the amount of water means it's most likely...........shagged. My son has just got his 6th phone in 18 months, the previous 5 were all water damaged. The airing cupboard is good, silica is good, but even if you get it back to working (highly unlikely), I did that twice, problems later occur, there'll always be residue on the contacts.
What I have found is that hardly anybody actually repairs water damaged smart phones, they might advertise that they do, then lie through their teeth that they do on their premises, but they just send them away. It's been cheaper for me to just buy replacements off Ebay.
What I have found is that hardly anybody actually repairs water damaged smart phones, they might advertise that they do, then lie through their teeth that they do on their premises, but they just send them away. It's been cheaper for me to just buy replacements off Ebay.
PaulSecteur
No longer a Specialized fanboy
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Profpointy
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Although it's worth a go as others have said, if water has got inside the screen (ie into the lcd proper) it's probably had it. I've successfully dried out an old motorola - which got totally submerged in a muddy pool and which was very robust generally, and had no success with a Trio (one of the earlier smart phones) - but the latter was very delicate at the best of times and I got through 4 or 5 in merely normal use beside the soaked one. An iphone or whatever - doubtfull, but i've been ultra carefull with mine.
A photographer friend of mine ( a professional no less ) was wading in water taking some pictures, unfortunately deeper than the neck strap of his (film) nikon. After drying out, it was fine - but the negatives had a tide mark half way up . Doubt if a digital camera would fair as well.
Sea water though - forget it.
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
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I once put my Nokia (C113?) into the washing machine then went for a shower. After I got dried and dressed I started to look for the phone as it lives in the back pocket of whatever trousers I am wearing but couldn't find it anywhere. As I walked past the washing machine I heard a rhythmical thunk thunk thunk and it instantly dawned on me that the reason I couldn't find my phone was because it was in the back pocket of the last pair of trousers I had been wearing!
Slowmotion's advice is about the best and pretty much what I did. A forced drain cycle and then removed the battery and as much of the casing as possible before rinsing in copious amounts of cold tap water (Demineralised would be best but I live in a relatively soft water area). After a vigorous shaking to remove excess water it spent about 48hrs on a radiator and then fired up and worked as though nothing had happened
The LCD screen was a bit hazy for about a month but even this dried out in the end, some water must have crept in between the layers of the screen.
This was with a big box biological powder as I had been doing some particularly dirty work digging foundations for my extension in the rain. If you have used that rubbishy non-bio muck then I cannot guarantee similar results.
EDIT: I have just passed this phone onto my oldest son as his first phone. It is 18 months since the washing machine incident.
Slowmotion's advice is about the best and pretty much what I did. A forced drain cycle and then removed the battery and as much of the casing as possible before rinsing in copious amounts of cold tap water (Demineralised would be best but I live in a relatively soft water area). After a vigorous shaking to remove excess water it spent about 48hrs on a radiator and then fired up and worked as though nothing had happened
The LCD screen was a bit hazy for about a month but even this dried out in the end, some water must have crept in between the layers of the screen.
This was with a big box biological powder as I had been doing some particularly dirty work digging foundations for my extension in the rain. If you have used that rubbishy non-bio muck then I cannot guarantee similar results.
EDIT: I have just passed this phone onto my oldest son as his first phone. It is 18 months since the washing machine incident.
I don't know if is archived but the Gadget Show did an item on this about ... oh crumbs ... 1 (cough) year ago ???
IIRC, you can buy a Drying Bag thing for about£5 £15 (see below
) which worked very well indeed - and was only beaten by the phone which had been sent away and special nano-technology treated; it just didn't let any water get near/stay on anything ! They commented on the fact that it was - at that time - the first 'real-world' application they had come across for all the nano-technology stuff.
IIRC, you can buy a Drying Bag thing for about
) which worked very well indeed - and was only beaten by the phone which had been sent away and special nano-technology treated; it just didn't let any water get near/stay on anything ! They commented on the fact that it was - at that time - the first 'real-world' application they had come across for all the nano-technology stuff.
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Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
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[QUOTE 2893752, member: 1314"]Why will a bowl of rice tempt a Chinese person into the house?[/quote]
Food presumably.
It was a tasteless (like the rice) joke on Facebook recently, although it wasn't Chinese people:
'If you get your mobile phone wet, just put it in a bowl of rice overnight. The rice will attract Asian people who are also good at fixing things, so you will have a working phone in the morning!'
I know, I know!
Food presumably.
It was a tasteless (like the rice) joke on Facebook recently, although it wasn't Chinese people:
'If you get your mobile phone wet, just put it in a bowl of rice overnight. The rice will attract Asian people who are also good at fixing things, so you will have a working phone in the morning!'
I know, I know!
[QUOTE 2894018, member: 9609"]put it in a condom, as it says on the packed "Electronically Tested" (or least that was the claim 30 year ago)[/quote]Reiver! Dry spell or not, you aren't supposed to keep it in your wallet for 30 years! For heaven's sake nip into Boots and invest in a new one.
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
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I dropped mine in the sink I was about to shave in. 48 hrs in the airing cupboard (battery out, sim out, sd card out, covers off) sorted it out. It was as good as new. I had at first tried to turn it on, and got similar buzzing and fizzing I then googled what to do. First site I came to said whatever you do, do NOT try to turn it on
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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Kind words, but I have failed. I fell asleep in the bath with my MP3 player. I took my own advice and then stuck it in the oven. A chicken followed it a few hours later. Both were roasted, one terminally.
Perhaps The Health and Safety Executive could print some suitable warning labels for domestic ovens?
Freds Dad
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Harry_Palmer79
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I dropped mine in the sink I was about to shave in. 48 hrs in the airing cupboard (battery out, sim out, sd card out, covers off) sorted it out. It was as good as new. I had at first tried to turn it on, and got similar buzzing and fizzing I then googled what to do. First site I came to said whatever you do, do NOT try to turn it on
I dropped mine in the loo today and did the exact same thing as you and tried switching it on, d'oh... It started beeping and showing the little 'charging' symbol so I switched it off sharpish. It's now in the cupboard in a bowl of rice, hope I have the same outcome you did!
