Mobile phone in the wash...

[User]

 

[GM]

It might be a WhiteBerry now!

 

[Basil.B]

Happened to me a few years back.
Decided to wash my jacket at the last minute and threw it in the wash, forgot my mobile was in the inside pocket.
Well buggered when it came out, Good job I only buy cheap phones!

 

[Pat "5mph"]

[QUOTE 2545511, member: 1314"]
Think it'll live?[/quote]
No chance: better charge the back up one

 

[byegad]

Take the battery, SD card and sim card out and put the phone and those three items in the airing cupboard for two or three days.

There's a very slim chance it will fire up OK, otherwise it's screwed.

 

[PaulSecteur]

^^^^
What he said.

Take everything out (put sim in another phone if you need to use it) DO NOT "just power it on to see if it works".

If you have any of those silica gel things you get in the packaging with electronic gadgets put them next to the phone.

 

[Louch]

In a bowl of rice in airing cupboard

 

[Diggs]

Does the leaving it in uncooked rice story I occasionally hear on the internet actually work? A la Silica suggestion above ^^^

 

[Diggs]

In a bowl of rice in airing cupboard

Beaten to it!

 

[Andy_R]

Does the leaving it in uncooked rice story I occasionally hear on the internet actually work? A la Silica suggestion above ^^^

yep...rice draws moisture away. It's also good for putting in salt cellars when weather is humid/muggy - put a half teaspoon of rice in and it draws away any moisture.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I washed my phone in the Yarra River once, didn't do it much good
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuDgcGOXb2g

 

[morrisman]

Killed my phone by having it in my pocket when I rode my bike into the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal after trying to avoid a hawthorn branch when exiting a bridge hole a bit fast

Felt a right tit still sat on my bike up to my waist in the canal.

 

[RWright]

I washed my phone in the Yarra River once, didn't do it much good
View:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuDgcGOXb2g

Sorry to hear about your phone but I was LMAO at that. Sounded like it got deep quick.

 

[slowmotion]

Take the battery and SIM out! The water may harm the lcd display, but the electronic components and pcb will be just fine. We wash all our boards in water to get rid of the solder flux residues. It's fairly standard for boards that have to look nice. As for drying it, rice helps, but if you put it in a tray of rice inside a fan oven with the dial at 45C, things speed up. Twelve hours should do it. You may need a new battery.
Well, at least you tried! Good luck.

BTW, don't forget to take it out of the oven. My mp3 player was subsequently roasted with a chicken.

 

[Fnaar]

[QUOTE 2545644, member: 1314"]I've taken battery out. Stuck all in a bowl of rice and stuck in kitchen window which catches the morning sun. Everything looks nice and shiny.[/quote]

If all else fails, bung it in a BalckBerry curry