Comments on: How to fix a water-damaged phone

By: Coti

Coti — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:47:08 +0000

I dropped my phone into the toilet last night but the battery didn’t fall in just the phone itself. After hand drying it and disassembling and blow drying it then reassembling it there was a little bit of glitching in the screen and when I would press 1 it would do all of that row. Same for any button. I called the sprint customer service center for troubleshooting ideas to make it work quicker and they told me to remove the battery which it already was and plug it into the charger…. It turned on for maybe half a second and turned off and repeated this for about 2 hours then it gave me the emergency download screen: problem USB port which is where my charger port is. If I had to guess I would say something got shorted out. Does anyone with a little more knowledge recommend anything, or think this would help matters at all?

By: amy addams

amy addams — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:28:12 +0000

my phone was in snow since febuary 10 th to march 13 th because i thought i lost my phone but i had just dropped it in the snow that was up to my nees and my uncle found it in his yard 3 days ago when the snow finally melted my phone is a lg dare and it had an invisible shield on and my uncle put it on the heater and then put it to charge it works but the camra is foggy and the recorder only works if you yell really loud. so how am i going to talk on it well only if i use earphones with a mike sadly i put it in rice just now so hopefully it wont have too much damage.
but what should i exspect it was in stupid Canadian snow for about a month and a week!
not to mention i only had the phone for like a year and i am only 12 years old

By: Cheno

Cheno — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:02:35 +0000

This really works even if the phone has been outside in the snow for 3 months. Just take it apart and place it in a container of rice and wait a few days. It worked for me and I am so happy because I did not lose any information.

By: iPhoned

iPhoned — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:47:33 +0000

A creative temporary fix, but unless you dropped the device into distilled water, don’t expect it to live forever. Circuit traces can eventually short or corrode over time. Miracles are not impossible, however. I drowned my Casio Scientific watch and thought it was dead, but their authorized repair shop in L.A. cleaned it up, fixing it a decade later.

By: Greywolf

Greywolf — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:41:46 +0000

Have used this method successfully on both an IPOD Classic and a Nokia 5800, placing in an airing cupboard speeds up the process as well

By: Justin Rexx

Justin Rexx — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:10:36 +0000

I spilled a glass of Pepsi yesterday and it got the back of my Intensity. The problem is you can receive calls and messages, but the ear and mouth piece did not work and when I receive a text it tries to call the person who sent it automatically. however, it stopped this for an hour yesterday, started doing it again, then stopped for about 5 hours before starting again. It stopped dialing out this morning but has since started again. How else can I fix this besides rice, will this problem sort itself out after a few days??

By: Tee Jay

Tee Jay — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:38:34 +0000

My LG Voyager got soaked from being in my pocket while i went sledding. I had it in a ziploc bag but I guess water still got through. I continued to text and when I got home it powered off. Im trying the rice thing now lets hope it works!

By: olivia

olivia — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:41:40 +0000

i have an LG dare and it got into a puddle of water on my sink and i wiped off the cover thinking it was fine .. continued texting and hten it powereed off.. i put it in rice over night and nothing happened. any ideasS?

By: uhuh

uhuh — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:43:35 +0000

yaa, if ur fone turned on for a few minutes then stopped working…u have short circuted the battery…u shouldnt of turned the fone on for a few days until u were sure the water was completely gone…try putting it in te bowl of rice or cleaning it lightly with vacume…..dont use a blow dryer s u can demages the burn the circuts

By: yaa

yaa — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:00:20 +0000

i dropped my nokia 6700in the toilet yesterday and i dried it with a towel and then turned it on. it turned on for two mins and then went off. i have tried blow drying it and it is still not coming on. i want to try the rice method today for 24 hours and see if it will work. but pls help me if there is anything else i can do to gat it work?