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BlancoNino

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I was going to take a leak and text message this girl at the same time when I fumbled and dropped it in the toilet. I quickly pulled it out (it was submerged for MAYBE 2-3 seconds) and it was turned off. I quickly pulled it apart, dried it, and even took a blowdryer to it STILL won't turn on! This is a brand new phone...could 2 seconds underwater REALLY make it completely stop working?!?!?!

HELP!!!
 
UPDATE!

It just turned on but it's making a hissing noise (like there is water in it) and it's only getting analog reception...should I just let it dry longer and play it safe?
 
Damn, they don't make cell phones like they used to. I was at a party and some girl got pushed in the pool with a cell phone ON and in her pocket... took it out and the darn thing was STILL on....
 
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
I was going to take a leak and text message this girl at the same time when I fumbled and dropped it in the toilet. I quickly pulled it out (it was submerged for MAYBE 2-3 seconds) and it was turned off. I quickly pulled it apart, dried it, and even took a blowdryer to it STILL won't turn on! This is a brand new phone...could 2 seconds underwater REALLY make it completely stop working?!?!?!

HELP!!!
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LOL

my lil brother dropped his in the toliet while he was taking a crap. i'm not sure how the genius pulled that one off 😕


somehow the phone started working later. just let it dry out LOL
 
I dropped mine in a cup of beer once while at a party. I took the battery out right away and left it out until the next mourning and it worked just fine afterwards.
 
Originally posted by: The Battosai
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
I was going to take a leak and text message this girl at the same time when I fumbled and dropped it in the toilet. I quickly pulled it out (it was submerged for MAYBE 2-3 seconds) and it was turned off. I quickly pulled it apart, dried it, and even took a blowdryer to it STILL won't turn on! This is a brand new phone...could 2 seconds underwater REALLY make it completely stop working?!?!?!

HELP!!!
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LOL

my lil brother dropped his in the toliet while he was taking a crap. i'm not sure how the genius pulled that one off 😕


somehow the phone started working later. just let it dry out LOL
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I'm not sure how the genius mustered the will-power to dig around his own crap and pull it out!
 
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: The Battosai
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
I was going to take a leak and text message this girl at the same time when I fumbled and dropped it in the toilet. I quickly pulled it out (it was submerged for MAYBE 2-3 seconds) and it was turned off. I quickly pulled it apart, dried it, and even took a blowdryer to it STILL won't turn on! This is a brand new phone...could 2 seconds underwater REALLY make it completely stop working?!?!?!

HELP!!!
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LOL

my lil brother dropped his in the toliet while he was taking a crap. i'm not sure how the genius pulled that one off 😕


somehow the phone started working later. just let it dry out LOL
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I'm not sure how the genius mustered the will-power to dig around his own crap and pull it out!
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i'm just hoping he hadn't crapped the ocean at the point he dropped it! 😕
 
Dropped my phone into the washer and it went through the whole cycle.

IT came out with the camera LED on. This was my precious Sony Ericsson K750 worth $400 at that time.. Boo. Everything works to this day except the LCD. I Ebayed it for $202 just a couple months ago when a regular K750 was going for $300. Pretty good I say. The joystick wasn't as responsive, but MP3s, phone, camera, everything worked.
 
Lesson learned: Don't piss and txt message.

Also, when electronics get wet, take them apart and dry them off and let them sit around for hours to get dry. You want to be sure any left over water than you can't get to has a chance to evaporate, so you'll have less of a chance of something shortin' out on you.

My friend pushed me in a pool a while ago with my cell phone in my pocket and I made sure to keep it off overnight. It worked again, although it had a little aquarium in the display.
 
you should have washed it in distilled water to remove any ions in the water so that the electonics don't corrode, and should have let it dried for a few days before attempting to test it, turning it on while it was still wet was stupid
 
the day i bought my phone, i went 4 wheelin with it.

it went deep into a VERY large puddle, and sat there for about a minute.

pulled it out, it still worked, then suddenly it died.

let it dry for about 2 days, used isopropyl alcohol to clean the insides out, and to this day (almost 2 years) the only things that are weird about it are: the volume up on the side doesnt work, and it starts in weird color/pictureframe when i start the camera.
 
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
I was going to take a leak and text message this girl at the same time when I fumbled and dropped it in the toilet. I quickly pulled it out (it was submerged for MAYBE 2-3 seconds) and it was turned off. I quickly pulled it apart, dried it, and even took a blowdryer to it STILL won't turn on! This is a brand new phone...could 2 seconds underwater REALLY make it completely stop working?!?!?!

HELP!!!
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2 seconds or 2 hours will make no difference IMO. Whether it works or not afterwards, I dont know, but wet is wet.

I dont think it can get "more wet" due to prolonged exposure..

Although maybe more time in the water will allow more to seep in to small crevices? Not sure.

I just hope you hadn't peed yet when the phone took a dive!!
 
Originally posted by: thepd7
I heard putting it in the oven @ 250 for a little while works great.
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LOL, my co-worker spilt coffee on his work phone and it stopped working. I said it probably just needs to dry out. But I sort of suggested that sometimes you can speed that up by putting the object into a oven at low heat. Well he decided that putting the phone into a toaster oven would work, but he put it on broil and walked away for probably 5 to 7 minutes. Poor phone started to melt and deform the battery area. Well the phone still worked but only if you pushed the batter really hard into the compartment.
Not his brightest moment.
 
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
I was going to take a leak and text message this girl at the same time when I fumbled and dropped it in the toilet. I quickly pulled it out (it was submerged for MAYBE 2-3 seconds) and it was turned off. I quickly pulled it apart, dried it, and even took a blowdryer to it STILL won't turn on! This is a brand new phone...could 2 seconds underwater REALLY make it completely stop working?!?!?!

HELP!!!
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I never could understand why people can't just stop with the damn cellphones for a few damn seconds!!!! Do they administer cocaine directly into your bloodstream when you touch them? My phone doesn't seem to do that. It often sits unused for days at a time. Maybe I'm immune to its (apparently) extremely addicting effects.
But in the bathroom? I'd think that the person on the other end wouldn't want to hear you peeing. Granted, this was a text message, but people will be on the phone while in public bathrooms. That just strikes me as very weird.

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
What's with text messaging these days?
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The phone companies must love it. How much do they charge per text message? Several cents? Speech is a constant stream of audio data. Text is a tiny chunk of data. I'd love to know how many bytes are sent per minute of audio versus how many bytes are sent per text message. I imagine that the cost per byte (and profits) for text messaging is insanely higher than that of audio.
 
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