Mobile phone in the wash...

[Louch]

Don't be tempted to put it together too quickly, leave it to soak out

 

[PeteXXX]

If it still doesn't work after drying in the rice, add some light soy sauce, a pinch of 5 spice and chuck it all in the wok.........

Blackberry fried rice.. Mmmmmmmm

 

[vernon]

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

Yes it does. My daughter dropped her HTC Desire in the toilet at her friends. She rang home using her friend's phone and I gave her the advice that I'd seen many times:

Remove battery
Place in a jar or bowl of dried rice and leave it in a warm place for a couple of days


After 36 hours the phone would power up and all apps worked but the sim was not recognised. A further 24 hours in a warm place saw the phone restore to full health.

 

[MarkF]

My son is on his 4th Huwaei Blaze in 12 months, the first 3 were all water damaged. He frazzled the first by powering it up, the second was dried in the airing cupboard with rice and recovered (SIM & battery removed), the 3rd, half recovered and is currently at a repair shop.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

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

Yep . Not one of my smarter ideas, I really should have taken the high ground to the right of the path. So I ended up posting it on YouTube for (others') amusement value.

 

[Sara_H]

A friend of mine did the same and the rice did the trick, I believe she left it in there for a few days.

 

[Sara_H]

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

Was it a triathlon? I thought you were meant to get off the bike before you did the swimming?

 

[swee'pea99]

Speaking purely from gut instinct, I think I'd start off the whole process by disassembling the thing as far as possible then swishing everything around in distilled water, to maximise the chances of removing any residual chemicals - after all, you can't do any actual harm that way (it's not going to get wetter than it's been) and it might just do some good. Maybe someone round here who knows about such things can say why that would be pointless, or even damaging...I won't be hurt.

 

[asterix]

In a bowl of rice in airing cupboard

Yes, when it has eaten the rice you will know it is fixed.

 

[Globalti]

If you washed it in ethanol it would dry out even quicker; the ethanol will dissolve the water.

 

[vernon]

If you washed it in ethanol it would dry out even quicker; the ethanol will dissolve the water.

[pedant]You can only dissolve solids.[/pedant]

 

[Maz]

Raw rice, right? Not cooked, right?

 

[Sara_H]

Raw rice, right? Not cooked, right?

Raw. Correct. And none of microwave in minutes buisness either.

 

[palinurus]

Speaking purely from gut instinct, I think I'd start off the whole process by disassembling the thing as far as possible then swishing everything around in distilled water, to maximise the chances of removing any residual chemicals - after all, you can't do any actual harm that way (it's not going to get wetter than it's been) and it might just do some good. Maybe someone round here who knows about such things can say why that would be pointless, or even damaging...I won't be hurt.

That's fine advice.

If there's any conductive stuff in the phone from either detergents or from the mains water a deionized water rinse would help remove it.

 

[slowmotion]

That's fine advice.

If there's any conductive stuff in the phone from either detergents or from the mains water a deionized water rinse would help remove it.

Put it back in the washing machine on a "Rinse" cycle?