I dropped my Droid Eris in some kool-laid. How long should I let it dry out? Or will it be ruined forever?
Pray you got insurance if not prepare to get some $$$ out of your wallet to buy a new one.
Take the battery out immediately, shake out all the liquid you can.
If it was submerged and you KNOW it was soaked all the way through with normal sugared koolaid, PERSONALLY, what I would do is get some distilled water and dunk it a few times in that... It's probably ruined already, but the sugar in the koolaid will definitely keep water attracted to it and will ruin it for sure...
Shake out all the water or koolaid you can. If you go through the distilled water routine, shake it out, rinse it, shake agian, repeat a few times... If it's totally wet inside, making it wetter isn't possible, but distilled water won't contain any minerals that could cause shorting later on.
Once it's cleaned out, and shaken out, use a warm hari dryer to start with, and get some dessicant crystals (used for drying flowers.) from a craft/hobby store, and put the phone in those in a sealed container for a couple of days to completely dry it out... same with the battery, again rinsing if it got wet wtth koolaid/sugar.
After a couple of days in the dessicant, in a warm spot, try re-assembling and see if it works.
Good luck
In the absence of silica gel (dessicant), you can leave the phone in a bowl of rice to accomplish the same thing (do I even have to mention "Uncooked rice"??).
Geri O
mvinduska wrote: I dropped my Droid Eris in some kool-laid. How long should I let it dry out? Or will it be ruined forever?
Follow my steps and possibly your phone may work again. Otherwise if it does not, if you have insurance on the phone then you can get a new phone. Warranty will not cover the phone since water voids the terms. You could also try a new battery in the phone & that *may* make the phone work again. I know when I got my phone wet before it wouldn't work properly. Then tried a new battery for the phone.It worked fine then.
(1) IMMEDIATELY REMOVE THE BATTERY. VERY VERY IMPORTANT!(2) As soon as possible (preferably within 20-30 minutes). dissassemble the phone using Torx T6 screwdriver. (Get this off eBay or service depots, etc) Make an emergency trip to Sears/RadioShack/ACE/service depot/etc.(3) Clean/dry as much as you can, using Q-Tips(4) Dry the electronics components under a desk lamp on a paper towel for 24 hours.(5) Use a blow dryer, set on warm. Blow dry the phone. Make sure your battery and sim card are out of the phone.
(6) You can also leave the battery and sim out. Leave your phone out in the sun. Let it dry.(7) Put your phone in rice for 24 hours w/ battery and sim out(8) Reassemble the phone(9) Put back together(10) Only now it's safe to put the battery back in.
ake the back off the phone, take the battery out, and using a hair dryer, let it sit about 6-8 inches away from the phone and on high blast let it dry your phone for at least an hour and a half or more depending on how long your phone was submerged and how much liquid got inside the phone. mine fell into a tub, and i took it out and did what i suggested to you, and then placed it on my nightstand overnite. the next day i tried turning my phone on, it wouldnt power up, then i plugged it in, and it started up, come to find out that the battery had died out but trecharged an has been running strong every since. Hope this helps
My Samsung Rogue was maliciously attacked by a cocktail as well. Unfortunately it was ruined for good. I tried a lot of the suggestions above, but I think the fact that it was also in a sugary drink and I didn't re-rinse with regular water, that might have been my downfall. It turned on a little bit later that night, but by the next day it was gone.
so, um.....what flavor was it?
k1ngr4t wrote: My Samsung Rogue was maliciously attacked by a cocktail as well. Unfortunately it was ruined for good. I tried a lot of the suggestions above, but I think the fact that it was also in a sugary drink and I didn't re-rinse with regular water, that might have been my downfall. It turned on a little bit later that night, but by the next day it was gone.
I think i might have spilt some alcoholic beverage on my phone (just a little) when I was in a bar. But phone remained to work after.
TheGreatOne wrote: I think i might have spilt some alcoholic beverage on my phone (just a little) when I was in a bar. But phone remained to work after.
Are you saying you lost more brain cells than the phone did that night?
Ok I had the Samsung Alias. Long story short it spent the night in a mud puddle. I called it several times in the morning from my wife's phone. I could swear all night it was in my pocket so I never bothered. The next morning I found it while we were leaving for work and my wife was calling it and it was still lighting up. Needless to say unless you have the full warranty taking it back to the store is out of the question. the 1.99 insurance is for manufacturers problems and doesn't cover getting it wet so I took the battery out and let it dry. It worked for almost a year after that before finally the ear piece went out which may have been unrelated but could very well be from corrosion caused by sleeping with the tadpoles so to speak. It can take up to 2 years for damage from getting wet to affect an electronic device. It will almost definitely still work after you take the battery out and let it sit but the question is longevity. Really the only way to guarantee it will still be good is to put it through the burn in process again and well unless you work at an electrical manufacturing facility and have good connections isn't likely for most of us.
I guess what I am saying is it should be fine for about a year possibly even 2 but unless you have insurance (and with a phone this expensive you really should have the insurance) if you have a problem later even an unrelated problem you are out of luck. Definitely use it as long as you can though. it should last until the early upgrade if you are eligable.
FYI, when people talk about 'drinking the Android kool-aid,' they don't generally mean your Android phone should be the one doing the drinking.
More seriously, the sugar will probably really be what does you in. If you didn't IMMEDIATELY pull out the battery, rinse both quickly with distilled water and then start the drying process, the sugar's probably pretty well set in there by now. I'd start looking into whether your cellular insurance will cover a replacement.
Packet wrote: FYI, when people talk about 'drinking the Android kool-aid,' they don't generally mean your Android phone should be the one doing the drinking. More seriously, the sugar will probably really be what does you in. If you didn't IMMEDIATELY pull out the battery, rinse both quickly with distilled water and then start the drying process, the sugar's probably pretty well set in there by now. I'd start looking into whether your cellular insurance will cover a replacement.
I would consider insurance on my phone but I think it is a waste of money. If I don't even damage the phone in any way then that would for sure be a waste of money. $5 each month (which I believe is the fee) adds up per month.
Rinse it with distilled water. Dry it to the touch, then put it in rice for a day. The rice will absorb the rest of the water, and should help.
Good luck.
