ryams27
04-06-2009, 04:10 PM
Hey guys,
I am currently going through this myself, and was hoping you guys could offer some advice about how best to proceed.
On Saturday afternoon (two days ago), I dropped my iPhone 3G in the toilet (which, thankfully, was spotless at the time). Although it was completely submersed momentarily, I retrieved it almost instantly and began shaking the water from it, blowing in the headphone jack and dock connector, and drying with a towel/hair dryer.
While it initially acted a little screwed up (I think it gave me the Emergency Call screen briefly), it quickly rebounded and appeared to be functioning fine. Within a matter of 10 minutes or so, however, the touchscreen lost all functionality. I also began getting the "airplane mode" prompt repeatedly. The buttons on the phone, however, still worked perfectly.
Since that time, the phone has been sitting idle, although the power has been on (reset it a few times, but didn't know how to power it off with the touchscreen not working). During that time, I received several calls/texts that could not be answered/responded to due to the touchscreen. Finally, this morning, the battery ran out of power, and the phone turned off.
After being off for about an hour or two, I plugged the phone back into my computer, as I was planning to try a restore, etc. Well, what do you know--after powering back, everything is apparently working perfectly.
While things appear to be fine for now, I'm concerned that this is merely a temporary revival, and I want to be sure that it keeps working properly (and many people warn not to use the device after being exposed to water).
Do you guys have any advice as to what to do? Should I power it down and keep it off for a while? Try the rice trick? Or do you think I'm in the clear?
As a risk averse person, I would just power it down for several days to be extra safe, but I rely on my phone quite heavily on a daily basis for my job, so I don't want to be without it unless others think using it right now is a bad policy.
Thoughts?
I am currently going through this myself, and was hoping you guys could offer some advice about how best to proceed.
On Saturday afternoon (two days ago), I dropped my iPhone 3G in the toilet (which, thankfully, was spotless at the time). Although it was completely submersed momentarily, I retrieved it almost instantly and began shaking the water from it, blowing in the headphone jack and dock connector, and drying with a towel/hair dryer.
While it initially acted a little screwed up (I think it gave me the Emergency Call screen briefly), it quickly rebounded and appeared to be functioning fine. Within a matter of 10 minutes or so, however, the touchscreen lost all functionality. I also began getting the "airplane mode" prompt repeatedly. The buttons on the phone, however, still worked perfectly.
Since that time, the phone has been sitting idle, although the power has been on (reset it a few times, but didn't know how to power it off with the touchscreen not working). During that time, I received several calls/texts that could not be answered/responded to due to the touchscreen. Finally, this morning, the battery ran out of power, and the phone turned off.
After being off for about an hour or two, I plugged the phone back into my computer, as I was planning to try a restore, etc. Well, what do you know--after powering back, everything is apparently working perfectly.
While things appear to be fine for now, I'm concerned that this is merely a temporary revival, and I want to be sure that it keeps working properly (and many people warn not to use the device after being exposed to water).
Do you guys have any advice as to what to do? Should I power it down and keep it off for a while? Try the rice trick? Or do you think I'm in the clear?
As a risk averse person, I would just power it down for several days to be extra safe, but I rely on my phone quite heavily on a daily basis for my job, so I don't want to be without it unless others think using it right now is a bad policy.
Thoughts?