Comments on: HOW TO: Fixing Cellphones Dropped Into Water

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:18:05 +0000

Omg my phone spent 2 days in the snow! Help

By: jessica.

jessica. — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:10:36 +0000

well. my phone dropped into the ocean im 12 and im waiting for my pearents to come home and scream at me , lol , and its sitting in rice and the memory card had no pictures on it i guess? and it had, 70 something.. the battery and the memory card are in the rice too,
and everytime i put my batery back in my phone starts to vibrate?? HELPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Dami

Dami — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:20:48 +0000

Hello All,

My less than a month old Nokia 5130c drops in sea water ….and i ad no clue of what to do.I wish i ad read this befoiore it happened.

I still hope it works,its a day now and still dead.

By: temmy

temmy — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:19:38 +0000

Thanks for all the comments, my 2 week old phone just dropped in fruit tea and I found this useful, it’s right now in rice, and the sim in a teabag, really praying it works again.

By: Sakura Aoki

Sakura Aoki — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:51:44 +0000

This is a nice one. Thanks. By the way, do you have anyway to fixed a phone saying – no network coverage – after dropped into the water ?

By: mhadi

mhadi — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:09:58 +0000

My son dropped Nokia 3110c in the toilet. My wife immediately took it out and wiped it. Until that time it was no longer working. I pull out the battery and put the set in dry rice. Next day it turns on well but after some time screen started to flicker. I turned it off and again put it in rice for one more day. Now it works as if nothing ever happed to it.

By: frodo

frodo — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:25:21 +0000

Better to wash your phone down with isopropyl alcohol – you know, rubbing alcohol. Get the bottle with the highest concentration of alcohol vs. water you can find. Alcohol will displace water and then evaporate on it’s own.

But definitely take the battery out.

@bud: Then get the screwdriver your phone needs. It’s not up to the writer of this blog to tell you that – duh. People like you should probably not take your phone apart anyway.

By: bud

bud — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:44:28 +0000

My phone doesn’t take a T-6 torx. Now what?

By: ridzaq

ridzaq — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:55:36 +0000

To late now, didn’t see this website before my phone drooped into sea.(SE W610) Now it can start but the keypad went crazy. Is it worth repairing? Because the technician says once the phone is wet it will do funny things even if you repair it(and repairing cost RM100 here in Malaysia,the cellphone price now is RM500).Please help me!!!

By: bob

bob — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:30:13 +0000

in my opinion, it would be best to switch to regular coke, or fanta.