Dropped my phone in my pool!!!

[Titanium]

Well the title describes itself. i dove into my pool and forgot my phone was in my pocket. it started vibrating and chit. then it sat at the bottom of my pool for probably 15 min because i couldnt find it. how can i get it to work again? any suggestions?

[WhiteYFZ]

take battery and sim out. if there is a sim.. then let it dry out.should be fine.. also, if ur mechanically inclined,take it apart and get ALL the water out.

[Titanium]

Sim?

[WhiteYFZ]

sim card. if its a verizon, it doesent have 1

[YFZ450Ridr]

i dropped my dads phone in steaming hot tea one time, we took the battery out and let it dry out all day and it worked just fine in the morning.

[LittleMissE]

As long as you dont try to turn it on and let it dry first it should be fine..... Mine was after the other night of runing home in the rain and it falling out of my pocket into a puddle and me picking it up I took the battery off and sim card out put it back together in the morning it worked fine!!!!

[Titanium]

I might also add that behind the screen u can see water. and when i brought it up out of the water from its 15 min swim it was still turned on.

[Snow]

Originally posted by LittleMissE
As long as you dont try to turn it on and let it dry first it should be fine..... Mine was after the other night of runing home in the rain and it falling out of my pocket into a puddle and me picking it up I took the battery off and sim card out put it back together in the morning it worked fine!!!!

Yup, dont keep trying to turn it on. The internals are wet and it will fry itself if you keep passing electricity through. I dropped mine at the beach and kept trying to turn it on. The next day when I took it apart I saw that it had shorted out one of the Circuit board things because I kept trying..

[ridered11]

take the battery off and put the phone and battery in a jar oh white rice for a while


it works i'm serious, the rice absorbs all the moisture and the phone will work

[allstock]

your already on 46 i thought you were still on 43

[nickmelll]

or take the battery out and put it in the oven at a real low temp.

Originally posted by nickmelll
or take the battery out and put it in the oven at a real low temp.

Broil@375 for 3 hours.

[Quad18star]

If you can put it in anything that absorbs moisture , you should be alright . Usually you can buy little pucks at the grocery store that you put inside jars ( usually for brown sugar, rice , etc) and they help take out any moisture .

I always seem to jump in pools with my wallet and don't realize it's in my pocket till about 20 minutes after I entered the pool . :macho

[3exrider23]

hair dryer

[exrider008]

Originally posted by nickmelll
or take the battery out and put it in the oven at a real low temp.

yup thats what i did and it worked fine.