Dropped my phone in the water (Can it be fixed)?

[Johannez691]

I was swimming in the lake and forgot to take out the phone from my pocket on my shorts when I was jumpong in. I was swimming in around 10 minutes then when I got up I felt that my phone was in the pocket. I've opened the phone. Been using a hair dryer in it and now it's laying and drying during the night. It's a touch-phone. Can it still work? Do I need to do something else?

[thecad]

hmm all i know is heat it xD other than that i wouldn't know

[Johannez691]

As I said. It works now. It's just the display who nis a little fucked up.

[Black Cat]

With a bit of luck then the display will work/look like it used to in a while.

Nice work btw!

[Johannez691]

The water is goon but it's 3 disturbing dirt-things in the display.

[Kirby]

That's pretty amazing considering the conditions it was in for a prolonged amount of time.

[Johannez691]

The fun thing that I swam to the deppest place of the lake and there was a bridge to jump from. So I jumpoed with my body like a nail and came very deep down the lake.

[ChickenButa]

Well, all u need to do is tkae out the moisture from teh phone, do what I do
Put it in a ziplock bag in rice, the rice will suck up all the moisture and keep it in there for 3 days

[Challokas]

Oops, didn't notice it was resolved.

I have heard rice works very well with that, but I think that method would only work with direct contact. The problem with your idea is that 99% of phones can't be disassembled, so to put it in rice you'd have to keep the cover on, which defeats the purpose of the rice. He'd have a better shot if he placed the phone (AFTER REMOVING THE BATTERY!) in an enclosed space that generated a fair amount of heat. Not enough to melt or damage components though! Just enough to lightly warm the phone and evaporate all the water. Or just leave it at room temperature for a week or so.

TL;DR : Rice doesn't work unless it's direct contact. Try using light heat to evaporate the water, obviously taking out the battery before hand to avoid battery acid everywhere.

The dirt in the display? Unless you can disassemble your phone, that's a no-go. You'll have to live with it unfortunately.

[NightcoreRaverLily]

Put your phone in a bag of rice or a pot of rice... If your asian enough to have a rice pot ;P and leave it for a few hours or overnight and it should work ;P

[Johannez691]

This topic is like 7 weeksa old and my phone's fine. Thx though for all help :-)