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Dropped my client's iPhone in the toilet (it LIVES! pg 2)
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So my client gave me a company iPhone to use
And I went and dropped it in the toilet
My first (albeit stupid) reaction was to plug the damn thing into my computer and attempt to turn it on. After reading the very condescending Mac forums, turns out that's the worst thing I could do.
So now it's sitting in a bag of rice in a ziplock bag for the next couple of days
What's the chances that it'll recover at all? Is there some place I can take it to fix it? Also I have my Canadian iPhone back at the apartment. If I take the sim card out of the American one and put it into the Canadian one will it recognize it and work?
And I went and dropped it in the toilet
My first (albeit stupid) reaction was to plug the damn thing into my computer and attempt to turn it on. After reading the very condescending Mac forums, turns out that's the worst thing I could do.
So now it's sitting in a bag of rice in a ziplock bag for the next couple of days
What's the chances that it'll recover at all? Is there some place I can take it to fix it? Also I have my Canadian iPhone back at the apartment. If I take the sim card out of the American one and put it into the Canadian one will it recognize it and work?
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edit: the words 'dropped in toilet' don't specifically need to be used, mind you. though for pity points it might actually help
The sim card will only work in the other phone if both handsets are on the same network.
Urgh, beavotron. I know how this feels when it's your own phone, never mind a client's. Best thing to do now is not spend emotional energy trying to fix the phone, come to terms and figure out a plan for dealing with the fallout.
I dropped my 3G into a pint of beer at a Flaming Lips show last year, and it came out basically good as new. Being drunk as I was (it was a Flaming Lips show...) I kept fucking with it all night hoping even knowing full well that was the worst thing I could be doing. I was unable to send texts for some reason, buttons were nonfunctional, and I could only hear through the earpiece but speak through the speakerphone.
I went to bed defeated and tried again the next morning. It worked fine -- with one caveat. The 'volume down' button stopped working. So while the functions that are easily exposed to water (mics, speakers, buttons) were damaged initially, they started working again once they dried and the water didn't penetrate far enough to do any real damage. Turns out this is a relatively common thing -- the tight construction of the iPhone combined with the fact that 90% of people who own one use a case means water doesn't actually get too far into them unless submerged for a significant amount of time.
So your client's phone might be fucked, but it's possible that it isn't. The best thing you can do is tell them, but you should also probably just leave it in the rice bag to dry for at least a day and see what happens.
edit: oh, also, the volume button started working again randomly 6 months later. I can't explain that one though, I don't really understand how that happened.
You know, IF I was actually dumb enough to keep my phone next to the shower, and IF the act of pulling my towel off the rack on my way out knocked it into the toilet, and I'm not saying it did.
Other than that, these things do happen and you need to tell them about it. Possibly it's insured?
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So it was a corporate phone, not a personal-owned? That'd actually be a little better since they probably have more relaxed exchange/repair polices than an individual account.
Even if it works, you'll want to tell them it got wet, since if there's ever another problem with it they could be denied service if the immersion strip changed color. As I believe that's out of warranty?
you can't actually take the battery out of an iPhone. turning it off should be good enough, though.
Fun times. I now no longer have my phone anywhere near toilets.
Very much so related
It happens. My Razr went through the wash a few years back. I did the rice thing, but it never turned on again. It would randomly make the turning on noise periodically though, but it would never respond when I went to check it. I eventually gave up and tossed it.
Don't tell your client just yet, see if you can rescue the thing.
If it makes you feel better back when I lived at home my mother washed my phone and it survived.
Twice.
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It's a iphone, not the end of the world coming
I put mine through the wash and 45 minutes of dryer. Kept the battery out (it was knocked out in the dryer) and put the handset in a ziploc bag with a big desiccant pack, and the next morning I put the battery back in and it worked alright for a couple more years.
[edit] Also, don't take your phone to the can.
[edit] Additionally, put the lid down when you're done. (advise does not pertain to majority of commercial washrooms)
Man I don't want to be talkin' business while you be doin' yo business. Call me back.
Small problem...capacitant touch screens don't work when they're wet and the only way to turn an iPhone off requires use of the touchscreen.
Also, if my iPhone is in my pocket in the bathroom, what will I play games on while I am on the crapper?
It's just hanging out in the rice for now, I'll test it again in a few days.
what
you baked it? in rice? like a casserole?
beavs, please stop believing everything you read on the internet
....it WAS on a low temperature, right??
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How did the rice taste?
....
...Door's that way right? I'll let myself out.
it dries it all out.
Because you really don't want to heat stuff like that over 45 C
In fact i suggest you take it out right now. Corrosion by air exposure is not your biggest concern here.
Shorting very sensitive electrical equipment is, and you've already done that.
edit: really beavo? i really don't know what on earth possesed you to hook that thing up, but drying it like a wet pack of cigarettes is even more backwards.
that seems foolish
no offense
btw
This is false.
You can hard reset it by holding down the sleep and home buttons simultaneously for a few seconds but holding down the home button by itself doesn't do anything. The slide to power of screen appears and then if you continue to hold the button down the screen reverts to normal and then releasing it puts the phone to sleep.
There are only four ways to power down an iPhone, hold down sleep then slide to power off, wait for the battery to drain, take the phone apart and disconnect the battery, or physically damage it (drop it in water eg).
but the screen has dulled considerably
like it all looks washed out
but as far as usability goes, i could still use this as a phone
crazy iphones.
Client most likely has insurance on the phone anyways and they replace stuff like this (with a deductible of like $50 or so) so you may just let them know that it got wet on accident and see what happens.
Yeah, the hot rice ontop of it probably burned the screen a bit. Made the plastic go hazy.
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