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My x10 Went For A Swim And SURVIVED!

Been reading this board for a few days since I got my x10 (last saturday). Major disaster today. I went out of town and I misplaced my x10. Doh.
No joke, the x10 was in a ditch UNDERWATER (at least 6 inches) for at least 30 minutes. I was calling it with another phone and I saw the x10's display in the ditch. It's definitely worth mentioning that I have the otter box case. There was definitely moisture that went in through the audio jack, but I think it protected the battery very well.
I was ****ting my pants the whole ride home. Finally when I got back, I logged on here and attempted to dry out the phone without opening it up.
After shaking all the water out the phone was buggy. The volume button kept resetting itself to zero, as if the down button was stuck. I decided I needed to open it up. I found this thread: (Thank God!!!)
hxxp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6368979
Anyways, MAJOR respectz to this board. You guys saved my ass big time! Props to Sony for putting out some respectable hardware and otter box - I'm glad I spent the 45 bucks now aren't I! LOL!
- S

Nice!
If you want to dry out components, leave them in a bowl of uncooked rice.... it will suck up the moisture. I've fixed several phones my mom dropped in her morning coffee that way.

well what ilead says is a perfect solution..
thats because just drying the board the will not dry the moisture that might have made way to the internal components... also try not using the phone and keep it in the uncookd rice for atleast a couple of days..
I suggest not to use because chances are that if moisture remains it will at a later stage kill some components..
cheers
chetan

Yes, when I read your post I immediately thought of "rice"!
You should put it in a big bown full of raw rice and cover the whole phone, after of course you have removed the battery and the back cover.
You have to leave it there for 1-2 days, even more if you are not anxious.
The more, the better!

Uhm... Beside the rice.
You should rip the phone apart and put the Mainboard for about 48hrs into a 99% isopropyl alcohol bath (Inside of a closed tupperware box, so that the isopropyl won't evaporate).
Most of the chips are UBGA soldered. Thanks to capillary forces, tiny amounts of moisture will stay underneath and begin to oxidize the soldered balls over a long period of time.
Isopropyl will also suck underneath the capillary way, mix up with the moist and will evaporate for about 100% after another 48hrs, without leaving any residues.

But dont spray it with wd40 lol
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johndub71 said:
But dont spray it with wd40 lol
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Or contact spray / switch cleaner, like someone suggested in another thread

That's pretty interesting...Glad your phone made it.
All these suggestions are wrong though, and it's a lot easier to fix your phone. If it was underwater for 30 mins, just put it in a fire for 30 mins, and the effects counter each other

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If it was underwater for 30 mins, just put it in a fire for 30 mins, and the effects counter each other
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Haha lol...
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Silicagel
I bought 5lbs of silica gel just in case this ever happens to me.

iead1 said:
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If you want to dry out components, leave them in a bowl of uncooked rice.... it will suck up the moisture. I've fixed several phones my mom dropped in her morning coffee that way.
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LOL wow how does she manage to do that

sevryn said:
" I was ****ting my pants the whole ride home."
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ah ha ha... this just about made my day..
i am too scared [more of a noob] to root the my xperia as it is.... far less to have it lost at the bottom of a ditch...
I hope every thing works out for the best...

Swam with my phone for 20 min

On my last day on holiday I forgot to take my phone out of my pocket before going to the swimming pool. Now it's soaked and looks bricked. Does anyone knows if there it's a chance of it working after it's dried up.

If the phone was off and the battery was removed as soon as possible. Another major factor is how pure the water is - sea water will kill your phone unless you wash it out with water with no (or as almost none) salts in it.
The phone was to be allowed suffient time to dry out. Placing it under a gentle heat (ie near a lamp) and with those silicon bags that it equipment comes with or with rice. You are normally talking about a week for drying out time.

I've heard of dripping wet phones drying out and being okay, so it's a possibility.
There's all the usual airing cupboard/bowl of rice/little crystal packs you get in your trainers/bag of salt suggestions, but I think the most prominent one is to be 100% sure that ALL moisture has gone before you try turning it on again.
Have a search through the forums, and not just this phone as this is obviously not a phone specific problem. There's plenty of advice out there.
Good luck mate - I hope you get it working again.

TA123 said:
On my last day on holiday I forgot to take my phone out of my pocket before going to the swimming pool. Now it's soaked and looks bricked. Does anyone knows if there it's a chance of it working after it's dried up.
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open the back panel take evry thing out
dray it
dray the phone from back with an hair dryer with medium heat
for one hour
put it outside in the open for 4 hours
again one hour with hair dryer
and pray a lot
this is what save my nokia n95 ....so be optimistic
In my case I was saving a child from drowning ...so maybe it was an angel that thought it is not a good day to kill my phone
(try doing a good thing before the process)
good LUCK

20min is a long time for the phone to be in the water
It will also depend on if the phone was on or off when it went for a dip.
if it was off, there is a small chance it could be ok, leave it for a week to air and then cross your fingers.
if it was on, id take a guess that your goose is cooked.
sorry to hear bud.

Thanks a lot for all support! Well the phone was on :-( but the water was fresh. Anyway we have already checked out so no access to a hair dryer. Rice is not available until we're back to England this evening. Will report back if the phone survives.

Dissamble your phone completly (tutorial on youtube), place the mobo in a oven @ 100 degrees C for 5 a 10 min
Try first to dry your board with a hairdryer

I once fixed a friends (cough) iphone that was full of dirty water. Stripped it down, put the main components in clean water to wash it out, then put in a 50 degree oven for an hour. Left if over night then reassembled. Worked a treat afterwards, so there is hope. The secret is to give it plenty of time to dry out.

Use distilled water to rinse. Or even better, isopropanol; no baking needed.
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it looks it's fried :-( I disassembled it and dried up but it does not show any signs of life. Will try to call my travel insurance company tomorrow to see if it's covered.

hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahah
LMAO!
TRULY SORRY for loss, but your story cracks me up.

ops.. use rice for save it.

emeky said:
ops.. use rice for save it.
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It was covered with rice for the whole night without any results

U need to cover it with rice and put it in an box u can close so no air would come in
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just_nos said:
U need to cover it with rice and put it in an box u can close so no air would come in
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it should be perfectly dry after everything that has been done to it.

I would be tempted to take it apart and leave it for a week it 2 to dry out. There's a good chance it will work again as long as you don't turn it on while its still wet. If it was salt water or water with chlorine wash the phone with clean water well while in pieces. It shouldn't cause any damage doing this. Its best to remove all salt & chlorine as to prevent long term damage.

Sorry to be the dictionary police but its kinda a habit of mine, swimmed with makes no sense, I think you were aiming for swam.
Sorry about your phone dude, I know its a pain when it happens. Good luck with it all.

yusuo said:
Sorry to be the dictionary police but its kinda a habit of mine, swimmed with makes no sense, I think you were aiming for swam.
Sorry about your phone dude, I know its a pain when it happens. Good luck with it all.
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Oh, I was so heart-broken to watch my grammar

TA123 said:
it should be perfectly dry after everything that has been done to it.
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It takes a Minimum of 2 weeks to cure a water damaged phone. If it has salt in it, it wont work at all. IN such a case you should have rewashed it with clean water. You also need to keep it air tight with DRY rice inside a airtight box for 1 to 2 weeks. This will make sure all the fluids are extracted from the machine.
It can feel dry, but it does not mean it actually is. Also, DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT charge the phone with the battery in it after a water accident for the first time again.

Well, both of my insurance policies explicitly exclude mobile phones .
So it is now like either the phone will survive or I will have to use my old Hero for the next 12 months.
So I washed it again to make sure no chlorine left and put it in a tightly closed box with a lot of yummy rice
Anyway, I do not hold my breath. I think I fried it when I thought it is dry and was trying to switch it on.

my note fall in the toilet :-(

hi!
my note fall in toilet in friday morning before i went to work, i blow air from an hairdryer but it still acting like crazy. then i put it in a bag with rice, it become better. the only problem is that the screen is blincking like +- screen brightness, now i have it in a bag with 2 silica gel bags that come in example shoe package , is this good ? do you think my phone will be like before:-(

Should have put in rice immediately and left for at least 24 hours
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Rice for 24 for sure, then up close to a light bulb for several hours to get some heat in it.
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I feel your pain
Most importantly, turn it off and don't turn it on until you are sure it's completely dry
Silica gel is good. I've used alcohol to save an android phone in the past (HTC Magic) after it fell into a toilet (with the added bonus of sterilizing it!) but YMMV with the Note. I filled a quarter of a ziplock bag with 99% alcohol, dropped in my phone and shook it up. In theory, the fluid alcohol should replace the water molecules along the circuit board, but will evaporate at a much faster rate. After a few minutes, I removed the phone, gave it a good wiping and let it air dry for about 12 hours, then to be safe put it in a bag of rice (same effect as silica gel) for another day and a half. The phone still works.
But I'd recommend this as a last resort - try the silica gel/rice treatment first.

DO NOT PUT IT IN RICE!!! THATS A WIVES TALE! THE DUST FROM THE RICE WILL CAUSE ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS... I own a mobile device repair shop... turn it off first and foremost. Most electronics turn themselves off when they get wet... they don't get fried until you turn them back on. Take it apart as far as you can and sit it under a source of dry air (aka A/C) and leave it for ATLEAST 2 days (preferably a week). You need to take the back plate off. You can find tutorials on how to do it online.
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baaj said:
I feel your pain
Most importantly, turn it off and don't turn it on until you are sure it's completely dry
Silica gel is good. I've used alcohol to save an android phone in the past (HTC Magic) after it fell into a toilet (with the added bonus of sterilizing it!) but YMMV with the Note. I filled a quarter of a ziplock bag with 99% alcohol, dropped in my phone and shook it up. In theory, the fluid alcohol should replace the water molecules along the circuit board, but will evaporate at a much faster rate. After a few minutes, I removed the phone, gave it a good wiping and let it air dry for about 12 hours, then to be safe put it in a bag of rice (same effect as silica gel) for another day and a half. The phone still works.
But I'd recommend this as a last resort - try the silica gel/rice treatment first.
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Everything else here is dead on... just omit the rice.
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falluja said:
hi!
my note fall in toilet in friday morning before i went to work, i blow air from an hairdryer but it still acting like crazy. then i put it in a bag with rice, it become better. the only problem is that the screen is blincking like +- screen brightness, now i have it in a bag with 2 silica gel bags that come in example shoe package , is this good ? do you think my phone will be like before:-(
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Stop watchingporn on the toilet.... jk
yup rice for 24 hours or bust

daddymatt said:
DO NOT PUT IT IN RICE!!! THATS A WIVES TALE! THE DUST FROM THE RICE WILL CAUSE ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS... I own a mobile device repair shop... turn it off first and foremost. Most electronics turn themselves off when they get wet... they don't get fried until you turn them back on. Take it apart as far as you can and sit it under a source of dry air (aka A/C) and leave it for ATLEAST 2 days (preferably a week). You need to take the back plate off. You can find tutorials on how to do it online.
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Wives tail? I RESPECTFULLY disagree. Worked for me and my wife and countless others
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i hope the silica gel will help. the phone was normal a while after the rice but then it started blinking then

What is the logic of using rice?
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What is the logic of using rice?
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Draws out all of the moisture
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falluja said:
hi!
my note fall in toilet in friday morning before i went to work, i blow air from an hairdryer but it still acting like crazy. then i put it in a bag with rice, it become better. the only problem is that the screen is blincking like +- screen brightness, now i have it in a bag with 2 silica gel bags that come in example shoe package , is this good ? do you think my phone will be like before:-(
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baaj said:
I feel your pain
Most importantly, turn it off and don't turn it on until you are sure it's completely dry
Silica gel is good. I've used alcohol to save an android phone in the past (HTC Magic) after it fell into a toilet (with the added bonus of sterilizing it!) but YMMV with the Note. I filled a quarter of a ziplock bag with 99% alcohol, dropped in my phone and shook it up. In theory, the fluid alcohol should replace the water molecules along the circuit board, but will evaporate at a much faster rate. After a few minutes, I removed the phone, gave it a good wiping and let it air dry for about 12 hours, then to be safe put it in a bag of rice (same effect as silica gel) for another day and a half. The phone still works.
But I'd recommend this as a last resort - try the silica gel/rice treatment first.
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Good Lord! It's surprising how many people have dropped their phones in the toilet! Needless to say, I am never touching someone else's phone again.
This one time a colleague of mine dropped his iPhone pouch in his pants at the toilet at work. He thought he lost it. All this time it was stuck to his butt crack & he found it the next day! LOL. I have never touched his phone since.
Lesson learnt... Think twice before bringing somebody else's phone to your face.

You should close shop.
I've done the rice thing at least 20 times with friends and family. Worked everytime .
Most important thing Is to be patience. Take battery and leave it alone for a few days.
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DO NOT PUT IT IN RICE!!! THATS A WIVES TALE! THE DUST FROM THE RICE WILL CAUSE ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS... I own a mobile device repair shop... turn it off first and foremost. Most electronics turn themselves off when they get wet... they don't get fried until you turn them back on. Take it apart as far as you can and sit it under a source of dry air (aka A/C) and leave it for ATLEAST 2 days (preferably a week). You need to take the back plate off. You can find tutorials on how to do it online.
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Bucket of rock salt?

*Roleplaying CSI*
I guess this victim has mixed herself...
... with a ****ty kind of company.
YEEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

There are plenty of desiccants out there that work MUCH better than rice. I think most people preaching the rice route have only done it that way. They don't know if they'd just placed it anywhere with a supply of warm, dry air and waited, it would've worked just as well. If you want to use a REAL desiccant, you can get a product called DampRid at most hardware or grocery stores. It's a plastic tub with anhydrous calcium chloride in the bottom, underneath a perforated plastic plate. Just pop the phone in and snap the lid on.
Personally, I'd just disassemble as far as you feel comfortable and place in a warm dry area for awhile. A rinse with 99% isopropyl alcohol wouldn't hurt, either. But step one is always remove the battery first!

falluja said:
hi!
my note fall in toilet in friday morning before i went to work, i blow air from an hairdryer but it still acting like crazy. then i put it in a bag with rice, it become better. the only problem is that the screen is blincking like +- screen brightness, now i have it in a bag with 2 silica gel bags that come in example shoe package , is this good ? do you think my phone will be like before:-(
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LoL...what were u really doing in toilet with d note???
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Put it in your dryer, on heavy duty. That always does the trick for me!

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Put it in your dryer, on heavy duty. That always does the trick for me!
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You are kidding right?Won't the heat destroy it?

Remove the battery
I think only one poster implied it... REMOVE THE BATTERY as well as drying it out.
Even if you turn it off there is still current being drawn from the battery - else the power button would never work.
Then follow the excellent advice here - esp the alcohol route - and hope.

Farewell!

Today at work my Nexus popped out of my pocket and into the rain. Screen broken and water damage has destroyed my baby. Can anyone post a step by step of how to access USB Mass Storage?
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Today at work my Nexus popped out of my pocket and into the rain. Screen broken and water damage has destroyed my baby. Can anyone post a step by step of how to access USB Mass Storage?
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Sorry to hear that. If it can't turn it on then no. However there are ways to get water out of the device. Put it in a sack of rice for many days . I'm not quite sure about it. Search google about water removal.
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rice can be good solution ... not hard to try

If rice doesn't cut it, you can try to open it and clean it. Or get someone who knows how to do that, to do it for you.
It is a desperate solution, but quite a few things can be fixed like this. And since the NS doesn't require special screwdrivers...

A tip from my friend experiencing similar accident is:
Don't ever turn the phone on after it sunk in the water.
Remove the back cover, put out the battery.
Bury them (phone, battery, back cover) in a sack of rice for some days.
My friend told me that he got his Nexus S revived after doing this.
Hope this helps.

coming from an engineering background I would first take it completely apart and rice those components. the more surface area to dry the better.

My phone survived complete submersion
glennkaonang said:
A tip from my friend experiencing similar accident is:
Don't ever turn the phone on after it sunk in the water.
Remove the back cover, put out the battery.
Bury them (phone, battery, back cover) in a sack of rice for some days.
My friend told me that he got his Nexus S revived after doing this.
Hope this helps.
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This is perfect advice.
One night while fishing I fell out of boat into the water with my HTC Wizard on in my back pocket. Once I was safe, I pulled the phone out of my pocket and took the battery out. When I got home I packed the phone and battery in rice for a few days. That got 99% of the water out. There was still water behind the screen. So I did a Google search and found some guy in france who fell in the water fishing, and did what I did, then used a MICROWAVE to get the rest of the water out of the screen. Soooo.... I stuck the phone in the microwave for 3 seconds at a time until the screen dried. Worked like a frickin champ.

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This is perfect advice.
One night while fishing I fell out of boat into the water with my HTC Wizard on in my back pocket. Once I was safe, I pulled the phone out of my pocket and took the battery out. When I got home I packed the phone and battery in rice for a few days. That got 99% of the water out. There was still water behind the screen. So I did a Google search and found some guy in france who fell in the water fishing, did what I did, then used a MICROWAVE to get the rest of the water out of the screen. Soooo.... I stuck the phone in the microwave for 3 seconds at a time until the screen dried. Worked like a frickin champ.
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damn lol crazy stuff

my LCD is broken haha. I wish it only had water damage. I loved this phone.
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Ahh I remember you from a sprint thread, that rain hit So Cal hard this Friday, sorry about the phone :/

stellar said:
Ahh I remember you from a sprint thread, that rain hit So Cal hard this Friday, sorry about the phone :/
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Sprint thread? & yeah. I worked outside during it haha.
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I dropped my phone in the toilet, how do I dry it quickly

I was making a video trying to do a prank on my friend, and it just slipped out of my hands. It was in there for around 5 seconds and was completely soaked. I put it in a bag with rice, but that's pretty much all i know how to do.
Is there any other things I should be doing to make the phone dryer?
Thanks for your time.
Heres the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92FKug77YKA
I havent tried to turn it on yet, the sd card works via card reader though, i guess thats good.

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I was making a video trying to do a prank on my friend, and it just slipped out of my hands. It was in there for around 5 seconds and was completely soaked. I put it in a bag with rice, but that's pretty much all i know how to do.
Is there any other things I should be doing to make the phone dryer?
Thanks for your time.
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You may get it done using a hair dryer, using caution though, but it will still have internal water present, best would be to get a ziplock bag, 1/2 full of white rice....place the phone in there for 24-48hrs, it will absorb pretty much all the moisture. time will be the issue...
do not rush it.

Well...just leave it in for a few DAYS and hope for the best...not one day but a FEW...just cause it appears to be dry doesn't mean everything inside is dry yet
Good luck
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mg2195 said:
Well...just leave it in for a few DAYS and hope for the best...not one day but a FEW...just cause it appears to be dry doesn't mean everything inside is dry yet
Good luck
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and make sure you do not try and turn on to soon, it may damage it further...

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and make sure you do not try and turn on to soon, it may damage it further...
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The best option is to go ahead and diassemble it and clean everything with high grade Isopropal alcohol. Even if it's not 100% alcohol it's better than the water thats in there. Also, tap water has chemicals and minerals in it that will stay behind when the water is gone that will short out all kinds of things on the boards. These need to be rinsed off so that when you do energize it, no harm will be done. No way would I allow it to dry without flushing everything first.

Do the rice trick first. Make sure you wait 48hrs at least before power-on. If that doesnt work you will have to try taking it apart.

I left my s2 hanging on a heater vent for the whole night a year ago when that happened to me. I dropped it in a sugary drink so it was worse , had to wash the charging port with distilled water before hanging it on the vent. Another time I had my phone in my pocket while walked into the ocean on the beach, that phone was a goner for obvious reasons.
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I have done this with two different phones (a Nokia N95 I dropped in a cup of coffee and an Inspire 4G on a pool) and got life from the phones for a couple of years after it happened, basically they keep working until I replaced them.
Remove the battery immediately, go and buy distilled water and submerge the phone to flush the impurities that got into the phone; for the N95 I dropped in coffee I repeated the process about 5 times until the water was clear, the one in the pool just a couple of times.
Rinse it, do not use a hairdryer as the heat can losen some stuff inside, put it on rice for as long as you can (I waited a full week).
Done!, YMMV but this was my solution to flush impurities without disassembling the phone.
I hope it helps, good luck.

i have used 98% alcohol to flush out any water because it doesn't attract any electricity. then i put it in a bag of rice for 1 day and it worked. (so to speak you and still use the phone when submerged under the alcohol. i made a video of it with an older flip phone)

Just get a new one it was in 5he toilet for heaven sakes
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starxgamingx said:
I was making a video trying to do a prank on my friend, and it just slipped out of my hands. It was in there for around 5 seconds and was completely soaked. I put it in a bag with rice, but that's pretty much all i know how to do.
Is there any other things I should be doing to make the phone dryer?
Thanks for your time.
Heres the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92FKug77YKA
I havent tried to turn it on yet, the sd card works via card reader though, i guess thats good.
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Like everybody else is saying take the battery out, and put the phone, and the battery in a bag full of rice. Wait 3-4 days and it should work. A hair dryer alongside that may not be a bad idea, and if u ever get it working, u might want to look into getting a case.

deron37129 said:
Just get a new one it was in 5he toilet for heaven sakes
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I agree. Not sure I would want it up against my face again even if its completely cleaned.

You know what's annoying?
It's when your non-technical friend on Facebook asks the public for assistance when they get their phone wet.
And you tell them to leave it in a bag of rice for 48 hours.
So they leave it in for 12 hours and then say everything is fine because it turns on now.
Ummh, hello. The 48 hours is not simply to get your phone to a point where it turns on. It's also to get as much of the remaining moisture out as possible, because EVENTUALLY the rest of the water is going to start corroding the phone internals and cause flakey problems down the road.
Sorry OP, I just found your thread a perfect opportunity to give a mini-rant.
ps. If it were my phone, I'd first do an isophrophy bath.

Place it in the microwave.

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Place it in the microwave.
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I can't tell if you're being serious or not but that is _not_ helpful, and if it isnt obvious do NOT ever do that with anything metal. I know I'm new here but serious replies only please FFS. I know plenty of people that have done this and the rice trick (with alcohol or distilled water flush as recommend previously in the thread if necessary) will work if anything does. Time and patience!

xerythul said:
I can't tell if you're being serious or not but that is _not_ helpful, and if it isnt obvious do NOT ever do that with anything metal. I know I'm new here but serious replies only please FFS. I know plenty of people that have done this and the rice trick (with alcohol or distilled water flush as recommend previously in the thread if necessary) will work if anything does. Time and patience!
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You know plenty of people who have dropped their phones in the toilet? Crazy..
I was joking btw. I never said to turn the microwave on, I just said to place it in the microwave..
You could just take out the battery and make sure it is completely dry. Then you could get a hair dryer and if it has a cool button, you could try that. or a can of air or an air compressor..
It just takes time.. let it sit there for a week and then try it.. If it doesn't work, then maybe you should get one of those lifeproof cases.. would've saved you on this one..

Heh alright fair enough. I read it and said out loud WTF? but yes, my friends are terrible with their phones I dont know why. Good luck with your phone OP, let us know how it works out for you.
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