Rice on water damaged phone
- You can also use those "do not eat" silica packs that come inside the box of any piece of electronics you buy...they will remove moisture.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com09-19-09 07:24 PMLike 0 - Or alcohol as it evaporates quickly when air hits it taking the water with it. I'm not brave enuff to test this theory btw.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com09-19-09 11:34 PMLike 0 - When my last phone was accidentally dropped in water, I put some dried grains of rice into a plastic container. I put the phone on top of this, and covered it up with the plastic cover. I let it sit there a couple of hours, opened it up, turned the phone on and it worked like before. This was after it was frozen and wouldn't turn off/on.09-19-09 11:50 PMLike 0
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http://forums.crackberry.com/f2/how-...ht-way-318876/09-20-09 03:56 AMLike 0 - I treated a water logged phone this past sumer using the rice method. It worked like a charm
Before I dumped the wet phone into the rice I wrapped it in a BioBag. This is kind of a fuzzy meshy type bag used for fishtank filters. Its similar to the fuzzy meshy material you see on high quality air filters in homes. If you don't have immediate access to something like this I think wrapping 1/2 of a paper towel around the phone would be enough to keep the rice out while still allowing it to do its thing. If the phone is completely water logged you'll want to change the rice after a few hours and the paper towel even sooner.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com09-20-09 04:46 AMLike 0 - I dropped my storm in the toilet and dried it out in a plastic bag but didnt have rice being on a buisness trip which also sucks not being at home...dried it out using a sealed ziploc as a solar still...bag heats up and water sticks to the inside of the bag. Phone turns on but the buttons dont work. The screen senses my finger but the screen click doesnt register. BUT the desktop manager recognized the BB and i got a good backup out of it. New phone should be here at my hotel tomorrow! So also another way to remove water. Learned this way in my survival school a way to get water out of plants while stranded with no readily available fresh water09-21-09 12:32 AMLike 0
- I dropped my storm in the toilet and dried it out in a plastic bag but didnt have rice being on a buisness trip which also sucks not being at home...dried it out using a sealed ziploc as a solar still...bag heats up and water sticks to the inside of the bag. Phone turns on but the buttons dont work. The screen senses my finger but the screen click doesnt register. BUT the desktop manager recognized the BB and i got a good backup out of it. New phone should be here at my hotel tomorrow! So also another way to remove water. Learned this way in my survival school a way to get water out of plants while stranded with no readily available fresh water
Last edited by barbwyr; 09-21-09 at 04:27 AM.
09-21-09 01:15 AMLike 0 - I dropped my storm in the toilet and dried it out in a plastic bag but didnt have rice being on a buisness trip which also sucks not being at home...dried it out using a sealed ziploc as a solar still...bag heats up and water sticks to the inside of the bag. Phone turns on but the buttons dont work. The screen senses my finger but the screen click doesnt register. BUT the desktop manager recognized the BB and i got a good backup out of it. New phone should be here at my hotel tomorrow! So also another way to remove water. Learned this way in my survival school a way to get water out of plants while stranded with no readily available fresh water09-21-09 04:20 AMLike 0
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