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Friday, February 20, 2009

How To Save A Wet Cell Phone

by Joshua Fruhlinger,
Whether you've dropped your phone in the toilet (as do 885,000 British citizens per year), or made the mistake of trying to take underwater phone cam portraits of your pet fish, you'll want to find out about a little trick that may save your phone from a water-logged death (or at least keep it on life support long enough to transfer your photos, contacts and other data to a new one).

Remember, though: It's only a phone. Don't ever risk your life chasing a phone that's been dropped in water ... unless you count fishing around in a public toilet a risk to your life, which it might very well be. As we've previously reported, two drowning deaths have recently been linked to cell phones: a boy who tried to fish his out of a lake and a man who went chasing after his in a sewage drain.

GO HERE to view this video and they'll show you how to possibly fix a wet phone.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

AT&T gave me similar advice except they said to also pull the sim card out as well as the battery and dry each separately.

Anonymous said...

This worked for me about 2 months ago. after 24 hours in the rice, the phone worked, and is still going strong. the LCD display was wonky for for about a week afterwards, but that cleared up too.

Pull out your memory card too if it is a smart phone.