How to Save a Wet Cell Phone

The best way to save your cell phone is not to water it 'cause it won't grow anyways. Listen to m y advice and all will be good.

I had mine in a purse pocket, and my water bottle leaked all through the bottom of my purse. I picked up my cell phone to use it and it worked on a call fine, but the person on the line said I sounded far away then it shut off. For the next half hour I took off the battery and tried to let it dry out. I tried it a bunch of times and it would turn on, for a few minutes, then shut off. Then after a few hours with the battery off, I put it back on and it told me to "Immediately Remove Battery" due to over overheating! I then searched online to research what I could do, and did the rice thing. Then put silica packets with it too, in a paper bag. I am going to try to revive it tonight after about 5 days of it sitting in the rice. Unfortunately, it sounds like I shorted it out by attempting to turn it on soo much. Boo. We will see.

Obviously, noone else works for a cellphone company here!!! I've worked with cellphones for the last 10 years and rice does not fix water damage. Liquid and electronics don't mix, nor do rice on wet electronics. Think about the starch that creates on the board. Don't believe everything you read. I can only tell you how many times our techs have pulled rice out of charging ports :-)

hi i was wondering if you can help me ive just retrieved my mobile phone from the washer and i was wondering if it was saveable or should i just buy a new one it was in there for about an hour please help as it as sentimental pictures on it

One day I needed to make a phone call and I asked my friend to toss me his phone. Well you know how small cell phones are nowdays, when he threw it my mouth was open and I swallowed the phone! I couldn't believe it but sure enough it was down in my belly! I figured that I would grunt and push on my stomach to poop it out and sure enough...plop, plop, plop out comes the brown cell phone! After swirling it around in the used toilet water for 22 times around the bowl, I pee'd on it and I guess the salty water did the trick! I wasn't about to rinse it off with water! So I just use it like it is and saved myself 2-3 hundred dollars! :-)

The rice thing works. My daughter dropped her cell phone in a creek. She came home, crying hysterically. We went to the AT&T store, they tried to sell us a new phone $399.00 because we already had a plan and weren't eligible for a discount. Then they said they had an old phone for only $129.00. We declined. I got a Glad ziplock bag, filled it with rice, dropped in the phone and battery. Next day the phone worked perfectly. Yea!

Hi, Ellie. If the rice thing doesn't work, there are places that sell used cell phones and if the SIM card is usable, you can buy those phones for around $30 and use your old SIM card.

i was on a cruise and my cell phone fell overboard. two years later i was cutting apart a large fish i had bought at the local fish market and struck something hard. it was my thumb.

I manufacture components for cell phones. I also once stepped off the side of my boat with my cell phone in the leather holster.

Most cell phone components are certified to handle a minimum of 85oC or 200oF.

To resolve my "wet" cell phone, I immediately took the battery out, then when I returned home I put the phone in the oven set at the lowest temp (140oF) and left it there for 2 hrs.

Put the battery back in and it has continued working for the last 18 months.

i dropped my phone in the toilet TWO TIMES.
the first time i did, i took it apart and let it dry..
then it worked.
the SECOND time, i did the same thing..
and it worked but i couldnt hear anything but the ringing..
then i took it apart again and blow dried it and it didnt work for a couple hours..
then i tried it out and it worked :)
so basically take it apart and dry it .. and it'll be fine !

the best way to save your phone is to put it in the microwave on low!.... people will tell you that you should not but I have tried this and it did work.... if you do not put on low you will get a few sparks from the metal... don't be alarmed that is the water baking off leaving you a perfect new phone!.... i clean my phone monthly by dipping in vodka and then microwaving... it also disinfects it

I shot my cell phone out of a cannon and it skipped along Lake Michigan. When it stopped skipping, it sank into the lake. 2 months later I was fishing on the lake and caught this beautiful large mouth bass. It took me 10 minutes to catch. Once I got the fish home, I cut it open to fry. My cell phone fell out. I checked the screen and I had 42 messages. The only problem I had with the phone after that was the fish smell. TRUE STORY

My GOD if they should drop it in water, misplace it, or another, then what? Maybe face reality? Maybe no text messages, No constant calls to others, to let them know where they are? No Pics? My My now you can no longer hide behind the phone, now you need to face reality. Yes the real world, you know, now time into present and new relationships, Time for family and feelings, Time for real responsibilities, And mostly time not to worry every minute what some one else is doing. OMG how scary. Don't worry the computer is still there for you.

I had a Razr v3i I dropped it right smack into my cats water bowl.. sucked!! The phone was brain dead after that but of course I did break some of the rules these guys spoke of. For example, I started pressing buttons right away and that showed me for sure that the brain was damaged because when I hit, say, the 4 button this is what I got 44444555666 I was like (time to spend money) dang it! (I have never said Jimmety Christmas or dang it really)... So I ended up searching for a cellphone on ebay same type razr and in doing so this guy who was selling razr's also fixed them and he said he could fix mine so I sent the phone away and he put a new number strip which by the way the razr phone is a serious alien technology phone.. the number pad is a thing piece of some material I mean you can actually tare this if it was out of the phone.. So anyway after the repair all was well and now I keep my cats water and food under a bench :) ding ding.. I was back online!

My cellphone fell down the Niagra Falls, we fished out the phone later the next week when we got some people to actually deep sea dive... Once we got the phone up and onto dry land I immediately jammed in into my muffler and duct taped the hole in my muffler.. we all almost died of carbon monoxide.. but the phone Walla!! Worked like a charm.. despite some black carbon deposits.. Still working I just called a friend who is on the space station way out in space and it sounded like he was right next door. The phone is a pre-paid $20 flip phone. True Story!

I dropped mine in the deep fryer at KFC.

I reached in to retrieve it only to find it had melted. When I pulled my arm out of the frying grease I looked down and my hand was missing! So much for finger licking good!

Using rice is a little impractical sometimes....I play keyboards in a band and we got rained out (over a 1/2 inch of rain in 20 minutes). I own Roland keyboards, players will know what a VK-88 and a 300SX are. They are very expensive to replace not to mention a Motion Sound amp for the VK. All in all, about $8,000 to replace.

All got absolutely soaked. I took them home, dumped the water out, stood the boards on end, turned the house AC down to "meat locker" cool and put a fan on the boards over night......The next day everything worked perfectly. The combination of the cooling (drying the air out) and the fan circulation did the trick.

This trick worked for me twice....once on a phone that ended up in the potty and once on a phone that went through the washer. Worked like a charm!

my phone was set to vibe behind the toilet. it went off and fell in. so i fished it out took the battery out, set it on a towel and used a hair dryer to air it out. it worked perfectly fine after four hours of holding a hair dyer up to it! and it still works perfectly fine