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Title: Drowned phone!!!!!!
Post by: Vamps on 25 July 2010, 16:06:31
Miss Vamps phone has been for a swim in the river :( long story... :-/ :-/

I have striped it down as far as I can, do they dry out ok or is it shot? It's a Samsung.
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Post by: tunnie on 25 July 2010, 16:08:38
fresh water or sea water?
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Post by: Vamps on 25 July 2010, 16:14:43
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fresh water or sea water?

Fresh.... :)
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Post by: tunnie on 25 July 2010, 16:21:44
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fresh water or sea water?

Fresh.... :)

So not corrosive salt then  :)

Take all the covers off and strip phone as far as possible down to the mother board and pop it in the airing cupboard. Leave it there over night, and hopefully should be ok  :y

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Post by: Vamps on 25 July 2010, 16:27:33
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fresh water or sea water?

Fresh.... :)

So not corrosive salt then  :)

Take all the covers off and strip phone as far as possible down to the mother board and pop it in the airing cupboard. Leave it there over night, and hopefully should be ok  :y


Fingers crossed, she is grounded at the moment ::) ::)
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Post by: tunnie on 25 July 2010, 16:31:02
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fresh water or sea water?

Fresh.... :)

So not corrosive salt then  :)

Take all the covers off and strip phone as far as possible down to the mother board and pop it in the airing cupboard. Leave it there over night, and hopefully should be ok  :y


Fingers crossed, she is grounded at the moment ::) ::)

Known some to live, some to not. Women at my last job had a habbit of dropping her phone in the toilet  :o  ;D
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Post by: Vamps on 25 July 2010, 16:36:13
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fresh water or sea water?

Fresh.... :)

So not corrosive salt then  :)

Take all the covers off and strip phone as far as possible down to the mother board and pop it in the airing cupboard. Leave it there over night, and hopefully should be ok  :y


Fingers crossed, she is grounded at the moment ::) ::)

Known some to live, some to not. Women at my last job had a habbit of dropping her phone in the toilet  :o  ;D

Time will tell, thanks Tunnie.. :y
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Post by: Darth Loo-knee on 25 July 2010, 16:38:41
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fresh water or sea water?

Fresh.... :)

So not corrosive salt then  :)

Take all the covers off and strip phone as far as possible down to the mother board and pop it in the airing cupboard. Leave it there over night, and hopefully should be ok  :y


Fingers crossed, she is grounded at the moment ::) ::)

Tight buggar i have ruined a tonne of phones they don't make them like they used too. Plus you can get Elf a new one for a tenna   :P
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Post by: Vamps on 25 July 2010, 16:42:05
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fresh water or sea water?

Fresh.... :)

So not corrosive salt then  :)

Take all the covers off and strip phone as far as possible down to the mother board and pop it in the airing cupboard. Leave it there over night, and hopefully should be ok  :y


Fingers crossed, she is grounded at the moment ::) ::)

Tight buggar i have ruined a tonne of phones they don't make them like they used too. Plus you can get Elf a new one for a tenna   :P

Twas swmbo not me :D :D £10 from where??
Thing is we are at the Caravan (Static) and she tends to disappear for hours.... ::) ::) ::)
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Post by: Darth Loo-knee on 25 July 2010, 17:09:48
Tesco or Asda mate.
Put some string or wool around Elf's foot
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Post by: feeutfo on 25 July 2010, 17:46:42
H had similar, binned the battery, rinsed phone off under the tap, good shake off to get the drips out and left it in the airing cupboard to dry fully expecting a fubar phone, new battery and it was fine. Still going now a year later. Nokia though.  :-/
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Post by: Gaffers on 25 July 2010, 20:22:54
As long as it has not been switched when wet, once dried fully, it should be ok.  If it was on when it went in then I think a call to the insuracne is in order  :(
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Post by: zvi on 25 July 2010, 20:38:55
Usually water kills it  :-?
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Post by: Vamps on 25 July 2010, 21:55:22
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As long as it has not been switched when wet, once dried fully, it should be ok.  If it was on when it went in then I think a call to the insuracne is in order  :(

Don't think it is worth doing that ::) my excess would be more that the phone is worth, she is only 10 so just a cheepish one.... :y
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Post by: CaptainZok on 25 July 2010, 22:05:23
Give it a couple of days in bits in the airing cupboard and try it.
May even be worth putting it in a bag of silica gel to draw the moisture out.
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Post by: henryd on 25 July 2010, 22:48:33
my lad fell off his bike into a river and gave my old nokia a dunking,dried it out in the airing cupboard and all was well,even the battery was ok
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Post by: Gaffers on 25 July 2010, 22:58:31
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As long as it has not been switched when wet, once dried fully, it should be ok.  If it was on when it went in then I think a call to the insuracne is in order  :(

Don't think it is worth doing that ::) my excess would be more that the phone is worth, she is only 10 so just a cheepish one.... :y

Well I got chucked in teh water once with a PDA in my pocket, thankfully turned off at the time.  Stripped off all the battery, etc and put it on top of some radio battery charges for 48 hours.  Reassembled and it still works 5 years on  :y
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Post by: bury omega on 26 July 2010, 00:39:16
my noika phone fell from my shirt pocket a lovely muddy trench, took back off, got the worse of the mud off and stood it up in living room, still working 12 months on, room temp should be fine, not point overheating it and frying its circuits.
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Post by: Vamps on 28 July 2010, 21:10:29
A good result, all seems to be working fine... :y :y

A lucky Miss Vamps...... :D :D :D :D
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Post by: RobG on 28 July 2010, 21:13:14
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A good result, all seems to be working fine... :y :y

A lucky Miss Vamps...... :D :D :D :D
:y :y :y 8-)
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Post by: tunnie on 28 July 2010, 21:32:17
result  :y
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Post by: Amigo on 28 July 2010, 22:04:05
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A good result, all seems to be working fine... :y :y

A lucky Miss Vamps...... :D :D :D :D
Good news. Should this happen to anyone else, do as said & strip down as far as poss then put in in a bag of rice for 24 hrs, (uncooked, not the left over egg fried from the chinky!!). As the Cpn said this draws moisture out & you're more likely to have rice in the cupboard than silica stuff, although in John's case nothing would surprise me!
    Pot noodles tend to kill 'em though. On a night out in my then ERF many years ago the phone rang & vibrated itself off the dash straight into my bombay bad boy.

    Pot noodle:- one,
    Nokia       :- nil. ::)
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Post by: PhilRich on 28 July 2010, 22:45:27
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A good result, all seems to be working fine... :y :y

A lucky Miss Vamps...... :D :D :D :D
Good news. Should this happen to anyone else, do as said & strip down as far as poss then put in in a bag of rice for 24 hrs, (uncooked, not the left over egg fried from the chinky!!). As the Cpn said this draws moisture out & you're more likely to have rice in the cupboard than silica stuff, although in John's case nothing would surprise me!
    Pot noodles tend to kill 'em though. On a night out in my then ERF many years ago the phone rang & vibrated itself off the dash straight into my bombay bad boy.

    Pot noodle:- one,
    Nokia       :- nil. ::)




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