How to Recover a Soaked Cell Phone
Dropping a cell phone into the water is an unfortunate and more common error or accident than imagined for many users. Sometimes we might be careless or in a hurry and accidentally drop it. What can we do when this wet nightmare happen? Can the mobile phone still be salvaged?
In most cases, if this happens, users still have a very good chance to rescue their cell phone. Of course, there are a few things you need to remember. First of all, you need to remove your battery immediately from your cell phone. You must not turn on the cell phone as the power supply from the batter might cause a short circuit in your cell phone. Just remove the battery, and whatever you do, don’t try to test whether your cell phone can still send sms or make a call.
Once the battery is removed, dismantle your phone and dry or clean it as much as you can. You can turn a hair dryer on your soaked cell phone and let it dry under a desk lamp / fan for a few days. Some cell phone owners had also been known to use the unusual method of leaving their soaked phone in an oven and guess what? It worked. After drying the phone, you can reassemble it and reinstall the battery. Normally your cell phone will be as good as new and will have recovered its functions.
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July 2nd, 2007 05:51
Yes, this works fine. I’ve had the unpleasant chance to do this a few times.
Once, in a swimming pool.
Once, in a pond while fishing.
Once, in a river in the back of my friends’ house.
Was able to recover it every time. However, on a Nokia N90 (I believe was the model), it burned out the memory card, and the battery terminals had burn marks. After replacing the memory card and scratching off the burn marks, the phone worked fine.
July 2nd, 2007 17:48
I also heard the distilled water works well at recovering a soaked phone, as it removes the impurities that conduct electricity
August 29th, 2007 16:10
hey
i’ve tried it, but althou the phone is working, i can’t make calls:( do u think i can reanimate osaked anthen?
August 29th, 2007 16:11
hey there
I’ve tried it and althou the phone is working, i can;t make calls or send mesages:( do u kno any other ways of reanimating phone when the anthen is soaked?
February 4th, 2008 01:35
claim on waranty or get a new phone
February 14th, 2008 04:01
The oven on lowest setting does work.
Safest bet that I’ve seen, however, is mismantling it as much as possible and putting it in uncooked rice. The rice will soak up all the moisture.
In all these cases, however, even though your phone works fine it might not work in the future. One bout of getting wet can start corrosion on the circuits that won’t appear for weeks, months or even years, but most likely if it has gotten wet once it will die a premature death. :O