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Wife dropped the iphone in the toilet.
Been drying out on a sunny windowsill for a couple of days.
What's the likelihood it'll recover?
Or is it going to be deaded?
There are lots of reports of people dropping all sorts of things down toilets without any adverse effects, your crapper will be fine.
put it in a bag of rice overnight, it should draw any moisture out.
There can be problems with corrosion of contacts, which may mean taking it apart undoing the connections to the motherboard and cleaning with Isopropyl alcohol.
but will probably be OK.
just dont fire it up till its dry. and then it might work..
I plunged my phone into a glass of ribena*, took it apart, washed in soapy warm water dried in sun - is healed again.
*Unintentionally
There are lots of reports of people dropping all sorts of things down toilets without any adverse effects, your crapper will be fine.
Ah, good suggestion... I may even have some of those silicone gel sachets wot come in shoe boxes and what-not...
Careful cooduv cracked the pan. 😐
Is there an app for that?
was a funny story on adam and jo about this
was the toilet full of wee or pooh?, did she reach in to save her precious kinda like trainspotting
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washed in soapy warm water
why soapy water, out of interest?
put it in a bag of rice overnight, it should draw any moisture out.
It might be worth clarifying, uncooked rice.
I dropped mine down the loo, O2 told me to turn it off and leave it in an airing cuboard for at least a week. Then try. Came back, screen was a little bit vague at first, but now it's fine. They were very insistent to not to try and turn it on until dried out completely
If it is borked you can get an out of warranty replacement from Apple Stores (book a genius appointment) and they will give you a refurbed iPhone (looks like new) for £139. Did it myself last week.
washed in soapy warm waterwhy soapy water, out of interest?
To clean the ribena stickiness from it.
Have washed motherboards the same way - it occasionally brings them magically back to life.
except washing up liquid contains salt, which corrodes the contacts slowly. Best off dunking the whole thing in deionised water for a while, then letting it dry out in rice or even in rice in a low low oven.
You need to open the case as much as you can even if it means prying it open with a screwdriver :?,then leave it somewhere warm [like near but not on top of a radiator]and leave it there for a few days.Make sure you remove the battery before drying it as moisture will hide in all the nooks and the more room in there for it to evaporate the better.
If it was switched on when you dropped it in then its probably shorted out,might be done in 😕
except the batteries are hard wired to the mobo on all but iphone 4s, assuming it wasnt a 4.