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Help! Just put Son's phone through a wash cycle!
Hi,
Just put my Son's phone ( Blackberry) through a wash cycle in the machine!! I've taken it out, back off ,battery Sim, dried it as best as I can and put in in the airing cupboard. It looks OK apart from some water droplets on the inside of the plastic screen ( not on the electronic screen itself. Any thing else I can do? Thanks |
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Get a plastic freezer bag or something similar, put the phone in it, fill it with dried rice, seal it up and leave it somewhere warm, it's worked for my partners iPhone when it went down the toilet and several friends one of which put an iphone 5c though a full wash cycle.. Don't turn it on for at least a week though..
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Get a plastic freezer bag or something similar, put the phone in it, fill it with dried rice, seal it up and leave it somewhere warm, it's worked for my partners iPhone when it went down the toilet and several friends one of which put an iphone 5c though a full wash cycle.. Don't turn it on for at least a week though..
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As above and if you can find any of those sillica gel packets you get with shoes and other things chuck them in the bag also. Make sure the bag or container is sealed well
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Well just tried it - dead as a doornail. red charge light came on and off twice, then nothing completely dead ! Anything else I can try? could it be the battery that's dead and not the phone itself?
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Well just tried it - dead as a doornail. red charge light came on and off twice, then nothing completely dead ! Anything else I can try? could it be the battery that's dead and not the phone itself?
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There is quite a bit of salt in washing detergent. Salt kills electronics. Likely the battery is most likely culprit but I doubt it would last long or even at all with a new battery.
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Get a plastic freezer bag or something similar, put the phone in it, fill it with dried rice, seal it up and leave it somewhere warm, it's worked for my partners iPhone when it went down the toilet and several friends one of which put an iphone 5c though a full wash cycle.. Don't turn it on for at least a week though..
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the refugees in my airing cupboard ate the rice
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