Anne has an experience where she dropped her phone in the toilet – the worse thing you could do on your phone. The phone didn’t work but she tried to revive it using the oven and blow dryer and the phone life has been extended for a period of time. Try this at your own risk of course but if your phone is not working already then i don’t think you have anything to lose :)
No. I took the phone home, removed the battery and put it in the oven for a good bake on the “warm” setting, followed by a half hour in front of the blow dryer. It sprang back to life. I thought that was pretty cool, although the first friend I called wanted to know if I’d washed the phone before dialing. I guess he was worried about getting toilet germs in his ear.
Thanks Anne for the tips!
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As a thought for others, you might also want to rinse the phone in distilled water before you ‘bake’ it. Prevents cooking ‘junk’ onto the phone or components ;-) If it was submerged already you won’t be doing any more damage.
…and now you have saved your phone, you could potentially save your life. In your list of contacts add an entry under ICE (In Case of Emergency) Enter a contact number for the person you wish to be notified in case of calamity. And make sure that person is aware of you medical history, allergies etc.
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I don’t see the point of the oven – which seems like a bad place for a battery, no matter how small. I live near a river that people regularly fall into fully clothed and mobile phones tend to recover from the experience simply by drying out.
A buddy of mine repaired aircraft electronics in the US Navy. Sometime a plane would miss the carrier and wind up in the ocean. They pulled all of the circuit boards, rinsed them in fresh water and put them in an oven at 175-200. They also used hair dryers. Worked for me when a burst pipe flooded my basement computers and computer workbench
I had a similar experience; I dropped my phone in the bath while having a pedicure! I fished it out within a couple of seconds; then the nail lady snatched it out of my hand and gave it a good couple of shakes. She then stuck it under the nail dryer while I finished getting my toes done.
I took it home and didn’t turn it on overnight; turned it on the next day and it worked like a charm.
I gave her a good tip!
A lot may matter about when then drop occurred. I dropped my in a toilet that only contained water. I quickly got it out of the water and popped the battery out. I let it dry out for a day and all was good.
If toilet had contained more than water then I would have rinsed out with water (after removing the battery). Salts are corrosive and conductive. They don’t get along with circuits at all.
I think the oven and hair drier suggestions are just to speed up the drying process more than anything else.
the oven seems like a bad idea to me. i dropped my phone in the toilet several months back. quickly snatched it out. took out the battery. put it under a fan and let it dry out overnight. worked fine the next day. several weeks later, however, the circular thing (don\’t know what to call it) around the camera lense fell off. i assume the that the water weakened the glue that was holding it on.
an oven just seems like a bad idea. too much heat or for too long and you might wind up doing more damage than a few seconds of water exposure.
i know someone who accidentally put his phone in the dryer and every since then the mic\’s been fuxxed up.
This happened to a digital camera recently. The battery was quickly removed to prevent frying the device. Then, a hair dryer was used on low temp. (Some of these dryers can actually cook electronics.) The display/monitor had moisture caught between its protective layers. So, we put fresh silica gel in the empty battery compartment and then placed the camera in a Ziplock bag overnight. By morning the display was in great shape and the camera has worked beautifully since.
Why i always save my information to a SIM-Card, and back it up on an excel spreadsheet.
If you’re very careful, take the cellphone apart and “bake” everything BUT the lcd screen. It’s delicate to heat, and might be the first thing to fry, and likewise it’s resistant to water.
My phone ran through the wash cycle, and trying many of the above mentioned methods, I resorted to isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol, 2-propanol, etc). I soaked it without the battery for 2 minutes, air dried it for an hour, and it turned on just fine.
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Ok as someone who drops alot of cell phones in water, here are some tips:
1) Don’t worry about rinsing it off (unless the toilet had something nasty in it) toilet water is generally clean and won’t leave any baked on residue
2) Remove the battery immediately
3) Bake it in a 150 deg oven or LESS for 30 minutes
4) Don’t turn the phone on for at least 24 hours (no cheating!)
Helpful tips:
1) Don’t bake it longer than 1/2 an hour and NEVER back it at 200, it’ll melt
2) If you bake a phone once, you can never bake it again, it melts even at lower temperatures the second time
3) Blow Dryers take too long, bake it, then let it sit, works like a charm
This has worked on all variety of plastic nokia phones. I haven’t had the opportunity to bake my shiny metalic RAZR yet
I HOPE the “it” is putting the phone into oven and NOT the battery!!! Putting the battery into the oven may be dangerous…
As stated above
“No. I took the phone home, removed the battery and put it in the oven for a good bake on the “warm” setting, followed by a half hour in front of the blow dryer.”
Baking doesn’t do a whole lot of good, unless you need it dry fast. The goal is to eliminate the moisture, which shorts some of the components in the device. If the battery remains attached, electrical current flows places it shouldn’t, and the device fries. Pop the battery out and let it dry. If you want to do this in an oven or a clothes dryer (suspended, not tubling), that’s fine, but not necessary.
Rubbing alcohol will help dry it out, since this displaces the water and then evaporates quickly. Silica gel was another great suggestion, or any other dessicant. Again, the goals here are to remove the water before powering up the device.
Tap (or toilet) water does contain impurities, and these impurities may end up dried within the device. If your water is full of minerals (put some water in a clean, small pot and boil it away to see what gets left behind), I would suggest rinsing it out again under some distilled water, as another poster recommended.
A can of compressed air would probably help too to push water out of spaces that it might get trapped in.
The only electronic component that is likely to be harmed by exposure to water are electrolytic capacitors (blue tin cans) with paper tops. The tops may absorb the water and begin to break down.
Remove the Battery! Immediately!
Don’t wait untill you get home. Don’t take the time to power it down, just P u l l t h e B a t t e r y.
As David said, the problem with wet electronics is that fragile IC’s wil get shorted out. No battery. No Juice. No Shorts.
When I worked at an AT&T wireless store, (back in the day when the ‘important people’ carried cell phones) I saw hundreds of water damaged phones. Again, as David said, rubbing alcohol is the trick for cleaning and displacing the water. We pulled the phones apart and cleaned them with alcohol and a old toothbrush and that often saved the day (and the phone numbers). We even saved phones that were dunked in salt water.
Resist the temptation to ‘check it’ before its been cleaned and completely dried. Enjoy life without your phone, camera or iPod for a few hours.
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Put the cell phone in the dryer for about a twenty minute cycle it makes alot of noise but it works well :O)
I’m so glad I found this site (thank you, google!).
My cell phone was in my bag with a leaky water bottle. When I fished it out, I thought it wouldn’t turn on b/c it needed charging. I slipped off the battery (in back of phone, on opposite side of keypad) and saw that the normally-white sticker, was pink.
I took a Q-tip soaked in rubbing alcohol and cleaned off all the components that I could reach. Then, I let the phone and battery bake under a 60-watt lamp overnight and most of today.
This evening, when I came home from work, I reinserted the battery, charged the phone and turned it on. Voila! It works perfectly (so far).
i accidently put my phone in a cup full of soup now it will not work it says “bootloader usb ini” the phone is motorolla e815 can some one help please what should i do.
your help will be appreciated.
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I dropped my phone in the pool and removed the battery and let it dry for several days. I plugged it in to the wall charger and turned it on. Everything works but the lcd screen. What to do!
I saved my phone in a similar manner as well.. Although, mine spent significantly more time underwater than the normal drowning – probably about 45 minutes worth of being completely submerged.
The battery is dead (and it should be after so many minutes completely submerged and with no way to open it to dry), but the phone works 100% (screen and all). Needless to say, I’m surprised it still works. Ordered a new battery and it’s all good.
I baked my phone at 150 but it still melted… Oops.
I dropped my phone in a river and was not able to retreive it for about 24 hours–it got a good soaking. I removed the battery, rinsed it with bottled water, sprayed it with contact cleaner, blew it with an air compressor and set it in the hot sun on my dashboard for two days. It came back to life, but still has some problems. It can’t figure out whether it’s charging or not. It can, however, make calls and the display is fine.
hey i dropped my fone ages ago down the toilet but i dint no u cud out it in the oven so u fink if i get it wet agen then out it in the iven and then the hairdryer it might work agen?
Ok i jumped in the pool with my phone in my pocket, and didnt realise it was in my pocket til i went to get out, (10 min approx?) i took it home dried it out and stuff, so now it turns on but the display wont light up, i can see the screen and it works, just no backlight :(… also the phone gets quite hot, any help would be awesome!
I got in the pool with my cell phone in my pocket and I had no idea until it started vibrating like crazy. I guess its some kind of warning thing??? But luckily it alerted me, and I could get it out of the water quickly. I removed the battery and let it sit out and dry. When I got home though, it still didn’t work. So I just let it sit out and dry.
Then I got on this website tonight and I decided to do the hairdryer thing. But something weird happened. My lcd screen started turning all green. So I turned the hair dryer off and just set it infront of a normal fan. I hope that by tomorrow it will work….
i once dropped my phone in a bucket of pig’s urine, and the only way i could get it to work was by sucking off the urine then then soaking the phone in human urine.
“I resorted to isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol, 2-propanol, etc). I soaked it without the battery for 2 minutes, air dried it for an hour, and it turned on just fine.”
My question is this – does the LCD screen work? I have a new Nokia camera phone and am worried about the screen and camera not working anymore since there’s water behind them.
I’m quite experienced with phones and baths.
I just took a recent bath with the phone in the pocket… During a recent mtb adventure, we decided to cross a river pushing the bikes, and at the end I realized that my phone (Sony Ericsson P910i) was in the ankle pocket, submerged during the whole process.
Pretty scared, I rushed to quickly remove the battery, but, when I took the phone out, I was surprised to see that it is still working, having signal and displaying everything corectly (while with plenty of water on it). But after the initial surprise, I found out that none of its buttons are working, being unable to stop it (other than extracting its battery). Anyway, I was able to operate it with the stilus.
This is the 2nd time this phone had this water problem (first being also on bike, standing in the rain for hours, not having where to hide the phone), and both times it was running during the wash, but having the keyboard problem after. The keyboard simply starts working when the phone dries. I just extract the battery, clean it of water, shake the phone well (to get the water out of it), put the battery back and that’s it. For a day I’m able to operate it only with the stilus, but the 2nd day it dries completely and the keyboard comes to life.
So drying the phone well is required, and a good thing is to shake it continuously (without battery and SIM card, and with its clamp open, if any) for some minutes, to force water get out of it. Definitely a hairdryer helps after that (blowing thru holes around buttons, for example), but I’m not reccomending the oven (phones have many thin plastic components which melts at very low temperatures).
If, after drying it, it doesn’t work well (buttons not doing the right thing or the LCD showing strange things), then put it in alcohol (w/o battery and w/o parts which clearly don’t retain water) for minutes, then dry it again. The idea is to replace the remaining water with alcohol, which evaporates quickly after.
Hi, my nokia cellphone has fallen into the toilet..yes, with pee. :[ I immediately removed the battery and put it under a blow dryer. I put the battery back in to see what happens and it just turns on with a tremendous amount of vibrate. :\ I used a Q-tip w/ alcohal and swiveled it around all the places it could reach..still the same thing. It is now sitting beneath a lamp.
Question about the alcohal: Do I rest it in alcohal or just the Q-tip?
Well, it has stop vibrating now; 3 hours later from putting it under a lamp. But now the screen just lights up and I can’t press the power button..it will not turn off. Suggestions?
Be careful if your oven is not accurate. Safer method!: If you have an old (non-flat panel) computer monitor or television – the top gets to about 120 degrees or more. I put my phone on top and put a small pan over it upside down (to capture the heat) probably could have tented the phone with aluminum foil also. (Just give some room to allow the monitor to vent its heat and not capture it all into your tent).
I have a Sony Ericsson w3001. I sleep with my phone beside me and this morning I woke up to find my phone submerged in a cup of water! I immediatly took the battery, sim and memory card and left it to dry. When I came back from classes that day I put my phone back together as I thought it was dry. I put it on charge. The charge screen did not appear but a red light which usually appears when charging came on. However, My LCD screen on the front of my phone went a silvery colour, as if it was full of condensation. Im not quite sure what to do… Should I just leave it for a few days or should I try the hair drier option??
I was carrying a glass of tea with my phone in the same hand (yeah, stupid idea), and when I went to put down the tea I dropped the phone, which I was holding above the tea, into it. It couldn’t have been in there longer than a few seconds. I grabbed out immediatly it was all vibrating and stuff. Don’t know if it’s from short circuiting or a warning.
Anyway, I couldn’t find any rubbing acohol so I just wiped it with soaked paper towel and then dried it off again and blew in several of the crevices and around the buttons… I took out the the SIM card and battery pretty fast too. Some stickers got soggy under the SIM card does that matter? Anyway, I’m letting it dry under a lamp with the customize panels removed. It’s a Sony Ericsson.
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I was in the middle of washing dishes and had to take an important phone call (yes both HAD to be done at the same time guys .. sigh), alas I dropped my precious treasure into the sink full of water. To look on the bright side, it couldn’t have been submerged for more than a few seconds. I immediately took out the battery and it has been sitting over there on my banister for about 8 hours now drying out. I just checked on it 10 minutes ago and it seems completely dry. I shook it and heard nothing. I’ll wait until tomorrow evening to turn it back on just to be safe, but it seems fine now. I’ll try the whole “hairdryer” thing for ten minutes before I turn it back on, too. This site was awesome, thanks!!!!
You know I would normally not be a fan of the rinse and bake mehod but I had a very important call I was waiting on. I have a Moto Razr that got placed in a drink by my 3 year old when I was not looking. Rinsed it out. put it on the top shelf of the oven at 170 for 20 min (no bat or sim card). Let cool, replaced sim and Bat and all works. I will be using my insurance though but it got me through. Thank you.
Hi, I accedently washed my phone. I had no Idea what to do so I just left it alone.I tried to use my parents batterys but it still did not work. Now a week later it shows the little cover screen and has sound again but i don’t have my full screen still. Is there any hope to fixing it, or is it too late?
Hi I will be giving your oven trick a go this evening !! I dropped my phone down the toilet and pray that it gets back on its feet as it not even paid for yet.
Hello, LOVE the site. I just tried to swim and my phone was in my pocket… Would it be okay and put it in alcohol now after it is almost dry. Brand new phone not even paid for. I need help. This is a brand new phone. Does anyone have a LG ax355 Can i just go buy insurance and then in about a week call them up and say it broke. I HATE WHEN THINGS HAPPEN TO ME. Thank you
THANKS TO ANYONE WHO CAN HELP.
My girlfried dunked her phone in APPLE JUICE for about 5 minutes. She was on the freeway, at night, crossing a long bridge and couldn’t fish it out right away.
She finally pulled over and dried it off…sort of. When she got home she dried it off more.
Now, the next day, even with the volume all the way up, voices are quiet.
How do you CLEAN a damaged/coated SPEAKER?
Would alcohol do the trick?
yer i think it does i droped my phone in a creek for 3 days the fished it out the amazing thing is that i still works ista motorola l6 but its pink o yer alchol doe work to clean the speaker
So I used rubbing alcohol.
It:
Cured her speaker problems nicely.
Fixed the connectivity problem w/ the USB.
Has really screwed up her display.
So….I’m not sure what I’d do if I could do it again. I guess I’d just really really make sure no alcohol gets on the screen or inside the phone if at all possible.
I too dropped my phone in the toilet (with urine), but after I took the battery out and let it dry for 24 hours. Now it works just fine. Should I still try to give it an alcohol bath just to make sure it is clean, or should I leave well enough alone and be happy that it works?
Thanks
I forgot to take my phone out my jeans and put it in the washer, only a hour or so later i figured out i hadn’t removed it from my jeans. I then tried to turn it on but luckily it didn’t short circut, then i took apart and then read up on google how to rescue a wet phone. then everyone said to put it in the oven and i thought that was a bit drastic, so i decided to leave it to dry, i blow-dry it sometimes bacause there is water on the screen and it looks really black. I will have to see if it wor5ks or not now
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This morning my 11 month old daughter threw my Lg 5300 in the bathtub, I managed to get it out after only a couple of seconds. I did’t take the battery out right away. I also tried to turn it back on. Right now the sound doesn’t work and when I open my phone, the screen is white. Is there something that I can do to make my phone work again? Please help!
i left my cell phone in my car the battery died and i was busy and left it in there a couple more days then got around to charging it it wont come on the charge light comes on but it was feezing those few nights is it froze for good?
AHHHH i just dropped my friends phone into hot chocolate i really dont know what to do. Have taken it apart and tried drying but it wont turn on. should i put it in the airing cupboard?
Please help casue i feel like a fool!
Thanks You x
so i dropped my phone in the sink while i was doing dishes, and now my phone is vibrating like crazy and won’t stop. The screen is dead, and everything is completely blank. >_
I recently dropped my samsung t809 in the toilet n it got soaked with water. I didnt know to pull the battery out immediately. It’s been a few days now. What should I do now? Should I try to buy a new battery and pray that it will work? I would appreciate any helpful advices
i sat on my phone and it smells like butt. can anyone help me with this?
Help !! 4 day old Moto Razor went through a complete wash cycle.. i got it out as soon as the cycle stoped. I took out the battery and took a blow dryer to it,, and let it sit overnight,, the next morning i put the batter in and the LCD screen was very blurry,, but as the day went on the screen cleared up and now its fine,, all my contacts and everything are still in there.. i switched service to a different phone.
Should i try putting my service back on the phone ???? help
I dropped my nokia in the urinal a few months ago like around november i think. I tried the hair dryer and it helped a bit but the phone still dind’t fully function (still turning on and off on it’s own) Just around feburary i checked it again. Everything works perfectly fine except for 2 buttons that are kind of jammed but still work and there’s no signal.
Anyone know how i can regain the signal?
I washed my cellphone in my jeans – nothing works now and it was soaked.- i will try the hairdryer trick- batteries tend to explode with lots of heat- so I won’t try the oven.
my phone in a bucket of water and i took out the battery but when i tried to back on the phone the screen is white with water spots
I recently went swimming with my Razr and didnt know it till 20 minutes later. Didnt take out the battery till i got home. Dried it with a blow drier for 30 minutes. Now it will power up (sortof) but it wont recognize my SIM card. Rised it with clean tap water, and still no dice. I’m gonna try the alchohol. I really need my pictures from the phone. Any way of doing that? The computer wont recognize the phone anymore. If i cant get it to work how I’m gonna sell it for parts. How can i wipe the memory?
My Motorola V60 slipped out of it’s holder, bounced off my foot and into the Chesapeake Bay – 6 feet down. Got a net, scooped it out after about 2 minutes. Leather case helped keep water out. I immedieately ran tap water over it as i pulled case off and battery out. Disassembled all panels – pulled display screen cover off also – put all parts in a box on the dashboard of my car for a day – dried it all out great – plugged battery back in and it works fine. battery no longer seems to last as long so may get a new battery. Just in case, I copied out all my phone books entries in case it dies later. I really like the car dashboard heat for drying – nothing that a cel phone would not likely be exposed to anyway so safer than the oven.
i dropped my phone in a cup of tea this morning, took it out and started pressing the off button.. didn’t take the battery out until about 20 minutes later, now i’ve got it drying out. think it’ll be okay?
hey…i got some moisture into my phone(razr)somehow, i can see the screen sometimes, what do u guys recommend should i put it in the oven or not or should i do something else??
i dropped my phone down the toilet,yes drunken night! i took out the battery after about 10mins i fink mi worst mistake was being extremely inpatient n consistantly placing the battery back in to test. i left in warm place overnite the next mornin i tried it out and it didnt work. i left it again in warm place,this morning i tried it out and after reinisterin sim and battery it worked fine started chargin but cut out :( it is now still drying and i have re ordered a new battery is there any hope?
you know i accidentally sat on my phone and i was worried because it smelled like butt. i found that if i sprayed the darn thing with lysol it was all better. hope this helps.
I had a water balloon in the same pocket as my nokia slider. As you can guess, some one popped the balloon. I didnt know to take out the battery, so the battery stayed in overnight, and now my volume wont stop turning down. Is my phone a gonne, or can it still be saved?
Dumbass
I have a sprint/samsung m300
I was at my friends house about 2 days ago and got into the pool with my clothes on haha and my phone started vibrating like crazy like it was a warning or something i got the phone out took out the battery and let it dry for a day and everything works but the phone keeps on vibrating like crazy and today i just keep on letting it drie and i put under a lamp.
i have the same issue with mine and its driving me nutts
i have nokia 6102i and eveything works, except vibrates crazy think motor is shorted or exceeds current flow, cant remove it either its cemented on the board!!!! AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
hi, i went swiming with my phone yesterday, and it ddint go so well i took the battery out ( i was in the pool for about 2 minz be4 i found out that it was in my pocket) i put it infront of the ac for like 30 minz and it was off and put it on my side table the next day i jus stuck it in my fan, should i turn it on yet or not? it has chlorine in it idk if that would do anything 2 it? please reply back
i washed my phone in the washer. after my load was done washing i remembered i washed it. took it apart and tried blow drying it and now it will only turn on and off. the screen then turns black. any suggestions??
As has been said – remove the battery, rinse with distilled water if needed, and a good bake in the oven at the LOWEST SETTING (usually 150degF), again without the battery. To those concerned about the heat, keep in mind that this temp is about on par with the inside of your car on a sunny summer day. Your phone doesn’t melt there, it won’t melt in your oven.
be4 my screen turned on and now my screen dont even turn on idk what happend any suggestions?
I dropped my phone in the toilet as well, dove in after it, and appeared to dry it off. It is a Sanyo Katana, and everything seemed to be working fine. They keyboard started to freeze up, and the color went to a silver and orange, but I have it all working now. However, two of my arrow buttons and my “1 2 3″ on my key pad are not working at all. I do not have insurance, is there anyway to get a new button or anything?! I can’t afford a new phone. I am wondering if Sprint can repair it for me for an amount. Thanks!!!
I jumped in the pool with my Samsung SYNC like two days ago and i am filled with sceptiszm. The battery is not an issue because i have a new battery that did not get wet. I followed most of the rules on this website to save it, except i used 70% rubbing alchohol. I tried putting the battery back in and the front says download, and the main screen is blotchy red. Will the phone eventually dry to its normal state, or should i consider buying a new one
okayy yesterday i dropped my grandma’s pink Razr in the pool. & i gave it to mycousin who wiped it off but couldnt get the battery out and tried to turn it on. then i took the battery out and wiped then shook it. when we go to the hotel i shook and wiped and tried turning it on several times. then i took the battery out again and wiped, put the battery in and the screen lights up without me turning it on. So i tried turing it on AGAIN sevral times and when i got home i came 2 this website and everyone said take the battery and sim card out and let it sit and dry. i was being impateint so like 20 mins later i tried turning it on still the screen lighten up when i put the battery in so i left it over night and when i woke up i tried it AGAIN! still the screen lightens up when i put the battery in. i now got it apart (battery,sim card, and phone) in front of the fan can i still save the phone?
Hi, please help me
Just 20 minutes ago my cell phone (a Nokia 6600) slipped into the toilet while i was peeing (embarrassing) and I imediately got it from the bottom (GROSS). The problem is… I cleaned it with a towel and tried to turn it on…
At first Id idn’t realise it, but the battery (I think it was the batery, not sure) was making a strange noise.
So I put my cell under the hair drier for about 2 minutes ( =( ) and I tried to turn it on several times.
When I inserted the battery, the screen would light up automatically, but now it doesn’t work anymore, neither when i put the battery in the cell nor when i press the On/Off button…
15 minutes later I was reading this site which tells me that I should have remover the battery straight away…
Can I still reverse this situation?
ok i dropped my lg chocolate phone in a pool today and wen i took it out and dryed it off and then my frnd also has a chocolate and he put my battery in his and it worked so my battery works its just lke my fone doesnt and it was having lke going physco wenever i turned it on and ikd wat to do with it soya
sorry ppl i typed really bad there ill explain it better:
i dropped my lg chocolate phone in a pool today and when i took it out i dryed it off and everything and i took my battery and put it into someonelses fone to tell if it was the battery that didnt work or not but the battery is fine. its just the phone..it goes lke physco wenever i turn it on and idk wat to do so ya
I put my phone in the washing machine today. I took the battery out and let it dry for a little bit then i tried to turn it on and it did. It was working fine and then two hours later the screen didnt work anymore. help!
my phone works now all i did was put it under a lamp for 24 hours and it works perfectly except the camera
do i put my phone in alcohol or what?
WELL…….MY SISTA WASHED MY PHONE IN THE WASHER A FEW DAYS AGO AND YES I TRYIN THE OVEN TRICK RITE NOW DO U THINK ILL HAVE ANY LUCK…….I HOPE SO!!
phone went into the pool with my husband – dried it out – works fine except it won’t stop vibrating. Any solutions?
thats what happpened to me! well except it was the toilet…. anyways dont turjn it on at all for like 2 or 3 days and let it sit in arm and happer cat litter or unbaked rice! the vacum it it gets the excess water out then just to be safe i put it back in the rice for a day
I accidently drowned my N-gage to the water for nearly a second. I took it out, rub it with tissues. I thought it was okay. Everthing seemed fine. Then, suddenly I lost my signals, which rarely happens in my area. Plus, the phone didn’t even say that it couldn’t register my SIM card. What’s worst, the power button didn’t work, no matter how many times or how strong I pressed it. So, I took out the battery. I removed everything, the battery, case, SIM card, mem. card and I used hairdryer to try to dry the phone. AND. What’s weird, as I inserted my battery, the phone turned on by itself. Yet, the power button wasnt still working and so as the SIM card. I removed everything again, but this time I inserted a SIM card from another country which wouldn’t work here. This time, the phone said that it couldn’t register the SIM card. I inserted my original SIM card to another phone and it worked well.
So what’s wrong with my phone??! I really don’t know what to do. Please help! I beg you.
I just dropped my cell phone in the toilet. I took out the battery and sim card immediately and shook it and dried it off with a towel. I let it dry for about 5 min then i tried to put the battery in. It turned on but the screen went blue. Does this mean i short circuited the battery, the phone, or both? Can i save the phone?
lol. i love reading all these morbid cell phone death stories. OVER THE WEEKEND, i had a horrifying experience with water damage and my cell phone. i had a lot to drink that night, cell phone was in my back pocket. i passed out in the passenger side of my car, where i proceeded to piss in my pants. so, my poor phone died :( i just got it barely a month ago! at first, it just continually vibrated when i turned it back on. then slowly the buttons started to work, and the keypad back light. the only thing that doesn’t want to work is the LCD screen! so it’s monday, and it still hasn’t fully recovered. i can still see liquid inside the screen when i mash down (GROSS I KNOW!). i have been using you’se guys techniques of alcohol (not the kind you drink :)) and drying by fan thus far. i am too scared to bake it though, so i’ll be doing the hair dryer thingy later. HOPE IT WORKS. in the mean time, drink responsibly!
so today i was washing the dishes and talking on the phone as usual. my phone slipped off my shoulder and fell into the water. so i took it out and saw i lost my call. so i took out the battery and dryed it off with a towel. then i used compressed air to push out any access water from inside. then took a blowdrier to it for about 15 mins and it works fine. ive already made some phone calls on it.
py phone works again!!! thanks to everyone with their good advice. i cleansed it with alcohol, blow dried it and sat it by a fan to dry completely. it was giving me some problems, the keypad wouldn’t work correctly. after the 3rd day, i just let it charge completely overnight, and miraculously worked 100% the next morning!!! it feels like christmas :)
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so my phone fell into the toilet, with urine, and im wondering about this rubbing alcohol trick… do i use a q tip or do i completely dip it in alcohol? thanks!
My Nokia 8800 Sirroco fell into toilet bowl. Was submerged for a good period of time because the pipe was too long to reach the phone. Good thing it was protected in the leather casing that came with it and had an additional drawstring pouch so was able to fish it out with an improvised clothes hanger.
Got it out, immediately dismantled the battery and rinsed it under tap water.
Wanted to leave it on the car dashboard for it to bake under the sun but friend advised me against it saying that once the moisture dries the circuit board will be spoilt.
The phone’s battery contact point is kind of blackish and i assume that was caused by the battery short circuiting during the ‘dip’.
Wrapped it with tissue paper and kept it in a ziploc bag. Has been 4 days now. Will drying it help anymore or should I just send it for repairs?
I DROPPED MY FONE IN A TOILET WITH PEE IN IT!!!!!!
after fishing it out (ew ew ew) i took paper towels nd wipped it dry b.c …since i was in school when this happened… i wanted to stop touching my pee. (: .
so after it was somewhat “discontaminated”–>dry …. i took out the battery && dried that too. My friend who was in there when this happened said that if there was any water damage, the battery would have a red spot on it
it didnt
thank God.
so i wrapped it up in a paper towel and put it in my locker seperate from my battery and sim card.
When i got home, my friend had told me to put it in the freezer… so i did.
nothing really happened so i came on this site (thank you thank you thank you!)
i then discontaminated it with soap and clean water WITH OUT the BATTERY AND SIM CARD. then i put it in the oven at 100* for 12 min nd then read that someone who put theres in at 150*’s melted so i took it out
i then blew dried it for 10 or so min. on cold (the battery and fone seperate with out the sim card in the phone)
now its sitting under a lamp which i will keep there for 24 hours. then ill put it back together and see if it works.
ILL KEEP YOU POSTED!
ok so i droppped my phone in the toilet. i got scared as hell. i pulled the thingout and stupid me i tryed turning it on after a halkf hour and then 3 times that night, boy was the stupid, because i found this sight and it said not to turn it on for a while/dammm. lets see what happens tomoorw?
i work with electronics and the trick they teach us is submerge it in rice. dry uncooked rice. the rice soaks up the moisture left in the parts and allows for them to dry. it works immediately
my moto razr went through the wash, i took it out and blow dried it alot. that was 3 days ago, it stil ldont owrk. wtf do i do!?
hey yall, i dropped my phone in the toliet and removed the battery and put my phone under a hand blow dryer for about 2min the tried to put the battery in to c if it worked but it didit lighted up and started dialing numbers so i took the battery out for about 2hrs than put it back in and my phone started vibratin n vibratin lol…….. so i took the battery out …………n its been drying for about a wk n wont turn on but i put my battery in some one who have the same phone and it worked…. do yall have an suggestions on how to get my phone to work again>??????????????????
Haha, I dropped my phone in a bowl of cereal. First, I got the frosted flakes out. Then, I just kept talking. lol
The next morning it started vibrating. I turned it off for about a month thinking it was too late to save my phone. Turned it on today and it works. ;D
However, I need a new phone anyway; The dog chewed on it. D:
i dropped my brand new samsung SCH-U740 in the toilet! =[ it was my second one of this phone and my fathers face immediately popped in to my head so i didn’t think twice about submerging my hand in the water and getting it. i dried it off with a towel and turned it on but the screen was blank. so i took it apart and blow-dryed the peices, it turned on and immediately turned off claiming there was low battery. i was just happy to have the screen working, i’m going to let it sit like someone suggested, but i hope after i charge it tomorrow it works! wish me luck!
OK I’ve done this many times never had a failure, take the battery out and Sim card, shake the phone dry, place all the parts into a Tupper Ware container or something like that, cover the whole thing with rice or dry cereal or the like, leave for two days, recharge and all is well, even with the iPhone when you cannot take out the battery
hi, I was in a party last month and the waitress dropped champagn on me and my sony ericsson 750i. I removed the battery then I cleaned it(wiped with clean cloth).Next day I connected it asked pin nr. I presses nothing happing but some lower keyes were working. To day I cleaned with some alcohol but sill
the SOME numbers AND * AND C – - not working.
The phone is taken apart. What should I do ?
sue the waitress and buy a new phone?
Accidently washed an LG in pants pocket, ran through rinse cycle and found it at the bottom of the machine. Removed the battery and dried the phone overnight on top of the hot air heater vent. Took it apart and dried the screen well and it works fine.
don’t do anything…just let it dry under a fan for 1 day..it vil be ok.. wait patiently..
two days ago i put my phone in my bag w/ a box of juice. i forgot bout it and then accidently stepped on it so the juice box exploded and it soaked my phone. i immediately removed the battery, sim card, and memory card and left it to dry on my desk. the next day, i took it apart and then tried to dry everything out but it still doesn’t work. today, i tried the rubbing alcohol and the hairdryer so hopefully it will work by tomorrow |: .
I threw my cell in the ocean because it was telling me to worship the devil. Now it calls me twice a day and wants to pray to the dark under lord. It says it won’t stop until I tear out my eyes and fry them for supper. Can anyone help me with this?
no
you have been hacked.
Got to church and by a new phone.
JUST BELIEVE IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST HE IS YOUR SAVOIR PLEED THE BLOOD OF JESUS OVER YOU GOD IS WITH YOU
I have big green boogers
I have (had) an LG Chocolate since Christmas and unfortunately, left it in my trouser pokcet and [put it in the wash. It had been in for half an hour maybe more. Got it out, removed the battery and sim card then my Dad put the battery back in and turned it on. Didn’t short circuit, just the touch screen lights came on and didn’t go off. So I turned it off, again took the battery out and left it to dry for a day or so. Now I turn it on a white screen appears and air bubbles are in the screen. I har dried it, then soapy stuff comes up but again the noises work, everything works apart from the screen. Any one expirenced the same problem with the same phone?
Arrgh I red about the red spot thing and it had a red spot on it arrrgh boo hoo
Water damged battery =[[[[[[
Are “Sony Ericsson’s” cursed or something? lol, I just seen a bunch of comments of ppl dropping those ones in particular in the toilet and whatnot, I dropped my cordless phone in the tub about an hour ago, put it in the oven for a bit, now, just letting it dry out normally, we will see what happens, if that don’t work, I’m gonna put drowned it in rubbing alcohol, then put it back in to the oven.
Remove the battery, put the phone in a dry sock, inside another dry sock, toss it in a load of dry towels and run the dryer on low heat for about a half an hour. You should be able to turn the phone on after and make calls. you may have to run the phone on vibrate since your ringtone speaker will be bunk. Its better than nothing.
i dropped my Motorola RAZR phone in the toilet , i took it out as soon as it fell but i didnt take the battery out the phone was still on for like 2 minutes but than it turn off. what should i do??? i dried it then tried to charge it but nothing would turn it on. Is there anything else I can do??
please answer back =[
My phone was in my back pocket, and it fell in the toilet. I didn’t realize (it was really dark), i flushed the toilet (luckily it didn’t go down) and also, i left it in there for about 10 minutes because i didnt know i had dropped it in there for a while. I have an env2 and its really hard to take it apart :[ but i’ve wiped it with alchohol and placed it in white rice.
hopefully it will work!!
hello, this morning i dropped my phone in the toilet while it was flushing!
it’s a samsung sch-u740. i took the phone out as soon as i could, and cleaned it off. it was probably in there for 10-15 seconds, the phone vibrated then shut down.
i turned it back on and it worked, it just didn’t have signal.
after awhile it turned to a blank white screen.
then it worked for about a minute, with signal and everything! then the white screen came back.
after 5-10 minutes i took out the battery.
and dried everything out again.
i kept putting in the battery and seeing if the phone worked, i probably did that 10 times!
i’m very worried. it still has the white screen.
i took out the battery, put a little bit of alcohol in it and put it in a bowl of uncooked rice.
what else should i do? and do you think this will work?
Dude, the oven works but it is still shorting .. It didnt work at all before that.. I am still going to leave it off all night
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i dropped my phone in the toilet and put it in a bag of rice. day by the day it slowly started working, the screen works and it charges fine but wheen i call people, the sound doesnt work. anything else i can do?
I love all the people on here saying things like “I dropped my phone in water, and it shut off.. so i turned it back on but after a while it quit working, what can i do?” Did you read any of what anybody else said? You fried your phone. Water + electricity + fragile elctronic components = bad.
Anyway, dropped my HTC Touch Pro2 in a toilet full of piss this morning. Fished it out fast as I could (while i uttered a string of expletives), yanked the battery, slid out the keyboard and stuck it a few inches away from a lit light bulb for about 2 hours, then put it in sealed ziplock bag full of uncooked instant rice, and stuck it on the seat of my car (covered it with white paper to prevent direct sunlight) and left it there for about 6 hours. After getting home from work I checked it out- no visible water anywhere so i powered it up. Phone boots fine, touchscreen still responsive, speakers sounded good.. could see a little condensation on the inside of the lcd and the keyboard was doing crazy things so I immediately pulled the battery again. It’s been sitting in a sealed container, submerged in dried rice for 4 hours now above a light bulb, and i plan on leaving it for the night. Pretty high hopes that it’ll work fine once it’s fully dried. I’ve had a few computer keyboards that took several glasses of different drinks spilled into them, never cleaned them with alcohol or even water and they worked fine after drying (granted a keyboard is much less complicated than a phone) so since its just the keyboard having problems it should be ok.. ANYWAY
The point of my small novel is REMOVE THE BATTERY and leave it, until fully dried. Granted it’s hard sometimes (even i risked it knowing it could brick my $650 phone)
UPDATE: left it drying overnight, and all afternoon in rice inside my car the next day; tried it and keyboard STILL doing crazy nonsense. Found a small packet of silica gel so I stuck that in the battery compartment and put the phone back in rice for the next 2 nights and 2 days.. alternating between hot car and lightbubls. Tried it earlier today, keyboard fully functional again! Does a few very random double key presses, and I can still see some moisture inside the LCD.. but I’m very confident those will both disappear with time.
One more.. i’m completely amazed at how well my HTC Touch Pro 2 returned to normal after it’s swim in a piss-filled toilet. Honestly can’t tell a difference anymore.
Also, you may have heard about putting your phone in rubbing alcohol to help dry it out quickly.. DO NOT i repeat DO NOT put your lcd screen in rubbing alcohol. Everything else is fine but alcohol RUINS lcds. If it doesn’t completely destroy your LCD, it may leave permanent residues between the very fine layers of the screen in which case it’ll still work but look like crap…
(please note: like most everyone else on this website, I can only speak from personal experience). In a nut shell- air-dry, preferably in front of a fan to speed up the process.
I think you’re in good shape if you avoid putting the phone in the dryer. Even better shape if it’s an LG phone (of the 4 phones that have gone through the washer, 2 were Sprint/Samsung and 2 were LG’s, only my LG that did NOT go through the dryer recovered via air dry).
Don’t lose all hope if you tried charging it up with the wet battery still attached, but by all means take the phone apart and dry them out for an hour or 2.
okay here is what you should do take your phone do not shake it the water will go deeper in the phone get a bag put rice i it i know this sounds crazy but it works take your sim card and battery out of your phone and put it all in the rice make sure that the phone is coverd then let the phone sit for 30 minutes check it and if it donesnt work leave it in the rice over night im positive it will work after that
my Samsung was dropped in water, I did the rice in a bag trick and it seemed to be working fine. Then last night it started acting up and now the screen has a big red line across it, with the word DOWNLOAD. Has anyone experienced this and what do I do now? Thanks for any help!
i dropped my cell in the toilet…. now all the buttons work except for the menu button wich is like the most importnat…
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dropped my phone into a bowl of frosties cereal, was in for ten seconds so took the battery out and placed the phone into the cereal packet overnight, it now works grrrrreat
Phone fell in the toilet,Turned it on,It got broken then it got fixed…
My cellhpone fell in the the toilet recently and the battery,cover and phone separated as it hit the toilet full of piss. I got my phone and panicked and made the mistake of putting it back together and turning it on too soon. I opened my phone and It only showed a faded white screen and nothing else. I tried opening it about four times and the same thing happened. I was afraid I had fried my phone. I was told that I should put it in a bag of uncooked rice and not turn it on again, but I was far away from home when that happened,so I had to wait for a day. In the meanwhile, I let my phone dry in the sun, the screen had moisture,so I think some water might have evaporated due to heat. When I got home, I immediately put in in uncooked rice and I put the battery separately in uncooked rice as well. The next day, my phone turned on and was back to normal as if nothing had happened. It hangs up at first and the volume button is faulty, but now it all works as normal.
How did you get rid of the piss smell, the same thing happen to me, but the smell makes me sick.
I have a question i need answered as soon as possible. i have left my cell phone on my computer tower while i had it charging. Now when i try to turn it on, it doesn’t even make the slightest effort to start up or anything at all. Once in a while the red led light flashes, but that is the only thing that it will do. Does anybody know if my cell phone can be fixed and if so how do i fix it? Or has my cell phone been fried and there is nothing that i can do about it. Somebody please tell me if i can fix it ASAP.
Need Help locked phone can’t unlock it don’t have a PKU code please help
Are you sure it isn’t asking for the PUK code not the PKU code. If so, call your phone provider and they will give you the code after answering security questions.
ya its 1111 cuz i had the same problem! hope it works!
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I went swimming with my Brand New Lg Banter Touch Phone! I was in for about an hour when i relized it was in my pocket! I took it home and took out the battery and put it in rice! The screen is slowly fading of water! is there anything else i should do to make sure the phone will work fully?? PLEASE HELP!
i have an At and T HTC FREESTYLE cell phone i had just finished brushing my teeth and the water was draining i had my cell on top of a towel to my right side on top of the sink i pulled the towel forgetting the phone was there and it slipped into the sink with the water i quickly grabbed it took it all apart and i put it into a tightly sealed full bag of rice i even put rice where the battery was inside the phone it was said that the rice would absorb the water in the phone , so for 24 hours i left it in the zip lock bag ( make sure your phone is buried right in the middle of all the rice along with the battery) and put it on my dash board in my car for like ten hours in the heat and then for the rest of the night just placed it in my room next day it worked perfectly ! no joke i didnt believe it would work but it did for me also some say blow dryers mess up your circuits in our phone if you use it on really hot or too long so be carefull. give the rice thing a try though hope fully this information helps!!!:-)
This did help. My battery patch fell off my phone when it got wet. Should I get a new battery?
i didn’t use my motorola w270 for a month,and aftr that my mobile doesn’t work due to the battery,because when i keep that in the sun for 3 hrs that started working and after few hours when it again cooled,mobile becomes off…..what should i do now??? pls help?????????
I had the Sony Ericsson Elm a while ago and my mum put it in the washing machine as it was in my jeans, i’ve took it apart, dried it out and still no signs of life yet. Please reply with other ways to fix this problem.
Ok, I dropped my htc evo shift in a sink full of water. I immediately took it out, and took out the battery I tried it the best I could the battery and inside of phone and keyboard. Then I put battery back in and turned phone on and it turned on for a while but noticeably water inside screen. So I took battery out again and dried it and let phone dry for minute and slowly repeated this process for about 20 minutes but eventually the phone didn’t turn on anymore.
Now after a week the phone won’t turn on at all. The charging light still shows, but won’t turn on. The battery patch is pink so phone has water damage. Is there any hope for me saving my phone so can avoid getting replacement? If so what do I have to do? All help appreciated..
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I jumped into my neighbors shallow end of her pool. It comes up to like my belly button. Me and my neighbor Were making a video so I hopped it and there was a drop right where I leaped in. My phone was under water for literally like not even 3 seconds since it was in my hand. The battery patch fell off so is my battery broken. All parts of my phone are sitting in rice now. It’s been about 3 days. Should I get a new battery?
I dropped my samsung mess 2 phone into a bucket of very thick motor oil…literally!! Ok the phone actually still works except for th oil in the screen..very hard to see. Took the phone apart and removed most oil in ares I seen. My question is does anybody know a solution to get the oil out of the screen w/o hopefully harming the phone?? Thank you Carrie
No i say you go get a new phone sorry
Please anybody???
I’d like to share how I revived my HTC Desire mobile. I dropped it by accident in the toilet and it was absolutely submerged in water. Although in warranty, no one wished to deal with the possible water-related damages and everybody advised me to get a new handset.
The thing is, you have to grab it out asap, reassamble all the parts – back cover, battery, sim card, memory card, as I did. I wiped all parts quickly with toilet paper and held them under the hand dryer. However, I was so panicked and upset that I wanted to check whether it is going to work and tried several times to turn it on. DON’T DO THAT! It made some attempts to revive and then went dead, absolutely dead.
I jumped to the internet to seek for advice and I saw the weird advice to put the mobile in a pack of rice. Desperate as I could be, I ran to buy a packet of rice and I dug up all the parts into it. Checked it in a couple of hours – nothing again. I kept it in rice for another couple of days, bought a new battery and tried again – no success. I decided I have lost my nice smart phone for good and ordered a new handset on-line. Luckily, the company (Simply Electronics) was not in a hurry to deliver it and 10 days passed without any result. In the meantime I assembled my HTC Desire (except for the battery) and left it in its box. Really can’t say what made me try it again this morning, probably the fact that I still didn’t have any response from Simply Electronics or the fact that I had to use my old Nokia, which is a great phone but does not offer all the perks my HTC does. Guess what – I used the new battery and turned it on. And IT WORKED!!!!!!! Still can’t say what kind of miracle it is but I LOVE my smart phone. All the information I had on it is intact – all my photos, music, games and contacts, everything!
Therefore, if you ever get in a similar situation – don’t panic – USE THE OLD RICE TRICK! It works! Just leave your mobile phone in the rice long enough – 72 hours at least and don’t be tempted to try to switch it on earlier.
Really hope there won’t be any side effects. Fingers crossed to get my refund for the ordered new handset!
If you put the phone in a bucket of dry white rice after taking the phone apart it works in like 12 hours
Dropped My LG in the toilet! I heard a kuplunk looked over and said F*ck. my mom said i cant get a replacment help wanted needed and appreciated i turned it on but it wont stop saying the sound is off and the sigh wont go away even wen i set it to he loudest setting HELP
I had my phone in my pocket when i fell in a lake. I immediately got out, and my phone was only in my wet pocket/in the water for about 10 seconds tops. Unfortunately, the battery case won’t come off, so I can’t take the battery out. Am I screwed?
I dropped my phone in the toilet, of course, I fished it out right away, washed and disinfected with antibacterial lotion, took the battery out and pulled the sim card out, I then dried it by placing it in front of the heater’s vent. I retried my phone a few hours later, it worked fine, I could answer and place calls, but the monitor never came back, so now I am thinking on going out and getting a new one, I will keep my old one, just in case!
I was going to the bathroom during 2nd period and my phone was in my jacket pocket and all of a sudden fell in the toilet-_- but my mom said i didnt get another phone if something happened to this 1 so i wasted no time before plunging my hand in the toilet and grabbing my phone. i took it all apart and held it under the hand dryer at school. it didnt turn back on so i had 2 wait til i got home and i put it in a bag of uncooked rice. lets hope it works. and ironically enough my last phone died in water..in the pool. and it didnt work then-_- pplzzzzz work.! if it doesnt i have 2 buy my own phone this time.. the only good thing about tht is even tho ill have 2 spend my own money i have enough for an iphone;D
I washed my phone in the washer when it was in my pants pockets. i heard something ratteling around in the dryer and then i went to discover it was my phone, the one i had for only two weeks. it is a Pantech, i’m not sure what kind. it looks like a blackberry. i put it in rice for close to four days, and took it out, nothing. then i left it on the sunny windowsill forgetting about it for months. one day i went to it, and plugged it in, it turned right on…BUT it was charging for close to five minutes then powered down. i sometimes get it to charge, but only for a maximum of about ten to fifteen minutes.. its not the charger though. the chaArger works fine on other phones….what ia wrong with my phone???
I Lost my Phone in my Apartment and Just can’t find it, Plus it’s OUT of battery so I can’t call it :s Please Help me ><
i dropped my phone from like a foot and when i turn it on the sound works but the picture wont work what do i do?
i diddnt drop it in water….
I dropped my fone in a bucket of water while i was washing my car, I put it in a bowl or rice overnight, then at work i put it in the bake out over at 80C and it works fine. only problem is that I can still see water in my screen, but the phone itself works great
ok so my phone just randomly started being weird like it wouldnt freeze but part of it would either turn black or white and now the whole screen is all black and i wanna find a way i can i guess fix it myself??but i didnt drop it or anything nd my dads too cheap to get new ones nd we r out of our contract, its a samsung exclaim with sprint, plz help.(:
it turns on, recieves txt nd makes noise but just the screen isnt working and its driving me nuts!!
About 2 years ago I changed cell phones, ditching my LG Envy for the then latest and best Verizon Blackberry. How happy I was with this phone! Even came with its own case that clipped on to the waistband of my pants. Learning it was pretty easy and I was making good progress! One day when arising from the toilet seat, after attending to my hygiene, I sought to pull my pants up only to watch the phone in its case do a 360 right into the bowl! Fortunately I had flushed the toilet before this occurred but it was still very dismaying and horrifying to see my phone imitating one of the Flying Wallendas! :-) I immediately recovered the phone, removed it from its, dripping water logged case and promptly removed the battery. Curiously, the phone was still on after yanking it out of the toilet bowl. After towel drying the phone, with the battery cover off I thoroughly dried the interior and exterior as best as I could with a hair dryer on the high setting. I then set the phone aside for a day to give it a chance to dry out thoroughly and recover from it trauma. To my astonishment, when I turned it on again a day later, it worked as it had in the past and continued to do so till I traded it in over a year later. All’s well that ends well, I guess, though I would have felt much better about all this if the phone had been supplied with an accessory bathing suit. :-)