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One IMPORTANT step was left out!

IF your phone was dropped in anything but clean pure water, you need to RINSE the phone off with clean pure or better yet, distilled water.

If the liquid was a drink, beer, wine, muddy water, SALT water. You phone is probably toast anyway. Salt water especially is very corrosive. I dropped my Nextel into some soapy water in a sink, and immediately proceeded to completely rinse it off with clean flowing water. Of course turning it off and removing the battery is very important.

The tricky items on the phone are the moving parts, keyboards, switches, contacts, and also the radio transmitter. The circuit boards and chips survive ok. However if the liquid is corrosive at all, it might dry out work for a while, but then die later. Hence the reason for a clean water rinse.