Swimming phone?

**Kathy@watten** · 09-Oct-09, 18:33

Any idea how to rescue my phone, I accidentally dropped it down the loo when changing for a shower, I rescued it very quickly, dried it off and hairdried on low and left to dry completely on low heater, has been left to dry all day but to no avail it seems to have stripes on the screen and no icons coming up, does sing away to its self a bit but I will be lost without it...any ideas to aid its recovery?

**Leanne** · 09-Oct-09, 18:41

Mine has worked in the past when I have done what you have done. But the trick is to not turn it on until it is completely dry - you will fry the battery or the screen

Bad news is though that most phone insurance doesn't cover you for water damage either so you would have to claim off the house insurance...

I have a sony k800i that you could have £20 if you want it - its locked to O2 though

**Kodiak** · 09-Oct-09, 18:43

Looks like the time has come to buy another phone.

**chaz** · 09-Oct-09, 18:46

lol i dropped mine in the horses water last year after a couple of days on the heater it was ok

But the next week it got dropped and in the straw and yes one of my four legged friends trod on it, so it was new phone time.
Now only buy cheap phones

**Scorpio12thNov** · 09-Oct-09, 18:53

I ended up getting another phone as months later the phone I dropped in water STILL wouldn't work.

Mobile phones are a conspiracy, they aren't made to last, therefore we go buy ANOTHER phone. You'd think with todays technologies all mobiles would be waterproof.

Eh Government!

**LMS** · 09-Oct-09, 19:12

Open it up and set it in a bowl of rice. Worked a treat for me after trying unsuccessfully to dry it out on a radiator.

**Jester** · 09-Oct-09, 19:14

There are some videos on youtube that show you what to do.
From what I recall, it was basically
Take your phone to pieces
Dry up all excess water with kitchen towel
Put each piece of the phone into dry rice
Put into the airing cupboard for a day or two

The bloke in the video deliberately dunks his phone, and demonstartes it working at the end

This needs to be done immediately after getting wet

**Vistravi** · 09-Oct-09, 19:20

Leave it to dry for a few days in the airing cupbaord or on top of a radiator. My sister droped her phone in one of the burns on dunnet beach and it was ok after a couple of days drying out.

If you are on contract then fonesafe are excellent insurers. They cover you everything.

**smee** · 09-Oct-09, 19:27

Don't do what my mate did, he put it in the micro wave to dry it.......needless to say, micro chips!

**twiglet** · 09-Oct-09, 19:29

Take it to bits and leave out to dry in an airing cupboard. Worked for me.

**Jester** · 09-Oct-09, 19:32

Originally Posted by smee

Don't do what my mate did, he put it in the micro wave to dry it.......needless to say, micro chips!

Brilliant

although better than the person who did the same thing with their cat!

**octane** · 09-Oct-09, 20:50

Tbh even if you did get it up and running your gonna end up with a faeces reception because of where its been. People will think your talking urine on the other end too...

**grumpy1** · 09-Oct-09, 22:50

Originally Posted by Leanne

Mine has worked in the past when I have done what you have done. But the trick is to not turn it on until it is completely dry - you will fry the battery or the screen

Bad news is though that most phone insurance doesn't cover you for water damage either so you would have to claim off the house insurance...

I have a sony k800i that you could have £20 if you want it - its locked to O2 though

hehehe not funny i know but i did the exact same thing with my iphone...once it dried out, it works fine but wont hold a charge..the bad news is house insurance wouldnt pay our either.. apparantly water damage isnt accidental....like u would drop it down the loo on purpose..