Help! I've washed my mobile phone

[Droopy Dick]

Well, I got home last evening after a day out with two mates, during which we all got a thorough soaking.

Although it dried out towards the end of the afternoon, I got re-soaked on my way home from Chichester, when the M27 seemed to attract every water droplet in the universe.

Anyway, I got home, ripped the linings and armour from my jacket and trousers, and threw them in the washing machine, with the intention of applying some reproofing gunk when they were clean. The trousers had already contrived to leak at the crotch, so I spent the day feeling less than human. I guess it's what a baby must feel with a wet nappy. No wonder they get grizzly!

It was after I withdrew the now-clean garments from the washing machine that I discovered that I had contrived to leave my mobile phone and wallet in my jacket. Silly, I know, but usually neither are kept inside my jacket I only put them inside the Gore-Tex lining to keep them out of the rain.

Now, the wallet was easy to sort. The notes have already dried out, and the plastic wasn't harmed.

The phone, however, is 100% dead. Ruined. Totally Class F.

The SIM card looks OK. Of course, ALL my stored phone numbers were in the phone's memory and not on the card ......

As I know 3/5ths of bugger all about mobile phones, can anyone tell me if I can simply buy a cheap PAYG one from somewhere and swap the SIM for my SIM? The kids have been giving me 'advice' and now my head is spinning.

Oddly, it seems cheaper to buy a new phone on PAYG rather than upgrade my existing one.

 

[cookie]

take the battery out, get the innards out of the phone & put the whole lot in the airing cupboard for a couple of days.

you might be lucky. i was, after swimming a river with a phone in my pocket

 

[Droopy Dick]

take the battery out, get the innards out of the phone & put the whole lot in the airing cupboard for a couple of days.

you might be lucky. i was, after swimming a river with a phone in my pocket

Hm..

I've no idea how to 'take the innards' out of the phone.

The little colour screen looks as though it has water under it.

It'll teach me NOT to take the thing off my belt and stick it in an inside pocket.

 

[STUBBS]

let it dry out slowly dont try over heating it and you may be lucky and get away with it

 

[Bigtwin]

Been there with a Nokia, did the drying thing, it worked again - screen was a bit iffy, but useable - give it a shot.

 

[Clive]

Well, look at it this way - if it ever works again, you might start getting clean phone calls rather than dirty ones

 

[MikeP]

Sick it in the microwave, 30 sec should do.

If it doesn't dry it out the fireworks will cheer you up!

 

[Droopy Dick]

Well, look at it this way - if it ever works again, you might start getting clean phone calls rather than dirty ones

I wish I did get dirty phone calls .......

I seem to attract huge volumes of truly filthy e-mail spam, but I regret that I have no interest in Lolitas doing it with dogs, or grannies doing it with donkeys, or mothers doing it with sons.

 

[enabb]

I,m on T mobile, now about 7 months into a 18 month contract, my phone (sony ericcson K750i) decided it needed to practise flying while I was on a roof..... it failed

Now sporting a basic PAYG nokia bought from the link
Work,s with my sim no problemooo

 

[Nick Marshall]

best bet

tumble dryer... sorry

 

[steve16]

Might.......

be worth giving it a good ring out !!

 

[Keyframe]

it's just like

we're all sitting next to you on the bench...

 

[Droopy Dick]

I popped into Carphonewarehouse to see what they could do.

I'm on a low user tariff, so a 'free' upgrade available wasn't much cop.

The guy tried to sell me on a veyr fancy hpone that would bung my monthly payment up by amost £25!

When he managed to work out that I wasn't wanting to do that, he immediately lost interest. It was like a swtich going off.

I'm not a happy bunny.

WIll my Vodaphone SIM card work is any PAYG phone that I buy?

 

[komatias]

Ok this is what you need to do


take the battery out and throw it away it is now dead. Take all the covers off the phone. The damage that is done to the electronics of the phone is due to the various salts that are killing the conections so you will ned to get some de-ionised/destilled water and wash the circuitboards thouroughly using a small paint-brush to scrub the surface of the connections/chips etc. Then rinse the phone thoroughly with the de-ionised water and let dry or use a hair dryer.

The good thing is your sim card will not have died under water so it is re-usable.

 

[Droopy Dick]

Well, follwoing the latest advice, I tried the phone with a replacement battery.

And it works!!!!!!!!!

36 hours on top of the hot-water cylinder has done the trick.

Better yet, none of the stored phone numbers have been lost. (I just moved them all from the phone memory to the SIM card!)

It would seem that a 45 minute, 40 deg wash in NikWax has done no harm to the phone!

 

[cookie]

It would seem that a 45 minute, 40 deg wash in NikWax has done no harm to the phone!

lucky you didn't use conditioner. it clogs up the little holes in the earpiece

 

[STUBBS]

Well, follwoing the latest advice, I tried the phone with a replacement battery.

And it works!!!!!!!!!

36 hours on top of the hot-water cylinder has done the trick.

Better yet, none of the stored phone numbers have been lost. (I just moved them all from the phone memory to the SIM card!)

It would seem that a 45 minute, 40 deg wash in NikWax has done no harm to the phone!

is it waterproof now