[mac4theblind] Re: damage limitation

  • From: Scott Granados <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:27:43 -0500

Leave it packed for several hours, preferably the better part of a day.

On Nov 12, 2013, at 10:22 AM, David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> good tip, styro preen will work but for how long do you leave it packed?
> 
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> On Nov 12, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Scott Granados <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> If you haven’t damaged the chip or shorted anything out internally you should 
> pack the phone in rice.  The rice will suck the moisture from with in the 
> phone.  By rice I mean of course uncooked dry grains.
> 
> On Nov 12, 2013, at 9:29 AM, David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> 
>> try drying it with a hair drier.  it takes time for all the water to seep 
>> through, dry it in bursts of a minute or so because you don’t want it to get 
>> to hot.  you could also wait another day or so to see if it comes back to 
>> life.  What has happened is that water has reached something preventing 
>> operation.
>> 
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>> Jonnie Appleseed
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>> 
>> On Nov 12, 2013, at 3:31 AM, Mackenzie Andrew (EAST CHESHIRE NHS TRUST - 
>> RJN) <andrew.mackenzie4@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all, I have dropped my iphone into a small amount of water and thought 
>> I’d initially saved it from drowning.  The thing continued to work for an 
>> hour after and has now given up the ghost.  Obviously donn’t know if the 
>> thing is doing anything currently but there is no audible sound coming from 
>> it.  I will get some sighted help with this but it isn’t looking hopeful. If 
>> repair needed here best in the uk to have it done? Due to upgrade in 
>> march/april next year so don’t want to spend an arm and a leg on this.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Andy
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