From our dear friends at Park Slope Parents comes an email about what to do when the little one tosses the cell phone in toilet:
My daughter threw my motorola cell phone into the toilet, and it was at least a minute before we noticed and saved it. My husband took the battery out and set the thing out to dry for a few days. When we reassembled and tried to charge it or turn in on, the screen flashed an eerie blank white/blue. Is there any remedy or hope for my little slider phone that I love so much? Which also contains all my phone numbers, improvidently not saved on the SIM card?Please advise, Meanwhile, I am surfing for a cheap no-nonsense unlocked phone.
I guess what we really want to know is was there any Number One or Number Two there when the Motorola went into the drink? It could give new meaning to having shitty cell phone service.
9 responses so far ↓
1 bill b. // Nov 5, 2008 at 11:04 am
are you kidding me? on this historic day – this is what you post?! who cares! and literally – who gives a shit! does anyone on this list really care about this?
2 bigmissfrenchie // Nov 5, 2008 at 11:30 am
There’s no way to tell whether it will come back or if it does, if it will work properly. I washed my Samsung a few years ago and it took quite a while for it to completely dry out, though the battery for some reason never quite held a charge very well afterwards. It might help to take it apart as much as you can and take a hairdryer to it.
3 anonymous // Nov 5, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Service on the high-speed channel tunnel train between Paris and London had to be suspended for four hours one day last week when some idiot dropped his cell in a toilet…and then got his hand stuck trying to retrieve it.
There ARE more important things to think about today, but take a minute and read this:
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_28540.aspx
4 t-bomb // Nov 5, 2008 at 1:06 pm
I’m with bill b. on this one.
This is retarded.
5 iheartbk // Nov 5, 2008 at 2:03 pm
I dropped my beloved iPhone in the toilet (don’t ask) for a split second and it never worked again. It was a costly (and stupid) slip up. I wouldn’t hold out hope that your phone is going to come back to you.
6 The Vidiot // Nov 5, 2008 at 2:24 pm
An electrical engineer once told me that you can put any wet electronics in a 250 degree oven to dry it out. He said if a cell phone can sit on your dashboard on a hot sunny day and survive, it can certainly survive a 250 degree oven. I can’t remember how long though, probably like 30 minutes to an hour or so.
7 roby // Nov 5, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Nothing else to write about except stolen messages from parkslopeparents?
8 Michael // Nov 5, 2008 at 8:09 pm
One counterintuitive way of fixing your phone after it is submerged in water is to disassemble it and then submerge it is a bowl of methylated spirits (which is an Australian term and I think it is called denatured alcohol in the US). This will expel all water from the phone. Remove after 30-60 minutes and allow to dry – it will evaporate quickly. You should be in business. My father has saved a number of phones like this including a colleague who dropped her phone in the toilet during a business lunch.
9 j dog // Nov 6, 2008 at 12:49 am
wtf does this have to do with neighborhood news? i wish there was a way to bury these posts, like on digg.
just go buy an iphone, park slopers. surprised you don’t already have one. they’re very trendy!!! (so why don’t you have one already?) and keep your contacts on your computer and your phone synced. then you can flush as many of them as you want and not have to worry.