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my daughter took her phone for what she insists was a very brief swim in the bog. I've no doubt that it will have been on and in use when dropped.
It's been in rice for days, then somewhere warm & dry. Still no show but when I plugged it into my pc just now the computer recognised an apple device and started setting it up as a windows "thing".
Is it still ****ed or does this suggest that somehow it might still be rescuable ?
I'm thinkning of leaving attached to the pc for a longish while to fully charge the battery - will I die in a shower of molten lithium battery ?
Sounds dead to me, but maybe it’s just the screen. Take it to a repair place - anything bar the board can be fixed these days.
Leave it plugged in, see if it'll talk to iTunes. That would give some indication of it just being the screen or not
Which model? Apple didn't invent water until the iphone 7.
phone shows up in windows as "apple mobile device (DFU mode)" which apparently would mean the screen is turned off, however can't get it out of that mode by the suggested button-presses - I think we're dealing with a dead phone 🙁 🙄
The USB interface on the iPhone would have a ”vendor ID” that your pc will recognise as an Apple iPhone, regardless of whether the iPhone is actually working or not.
I think you might be looking at a dead phone, sorry.
Rachel
Head to the Apple store for one of their 'here's a discounted refurb model, you've ****ed your one up' deals?
tbh, running juice through a phone that maybe damp inside is probably the last thing you should be doing. A local place did manmaged ot rescue an iPhone 3 for my wife once following a dunkign but most of them seem to have stopped even trying with more recent models - it's not worth their time.
yeh, it's been over a week now, in a nice warm dry place. If it's not dry now then it's never going to.tbh, running juice through a phone that maybe damp inside is probably the last thing you should be doing
Might go on the insurance, my wife thinks - to do with her bank account apparently (presumably she's taken up one of those premium accounts)
[i] If it's not dry now then it's never going to[/i]
This is why the repair places crack them open to dry them - there's no real prospect of any water vapour finding it's way out of a 'sealed' phone, it just recondenses elsewhere inside the phone when it cools down.
We have insurance with our smile account - It's £50 per replacement/repair and a max of 4 claims a yearish.
Rice is a bit of an urban myth, you need silica gel.
or just hoover the device out. i've done this. so long as you don't try to power back up while it's still got water in it, just suck the water out through the holes it got in through, and two minutes later you're good to go.
or you can put it in rice in a nice warm place. in a week you'll have a dead device with rice in it. 😛