I know that nothing is more horrid than having your precious iDevice (in my case iPhone 5) take a dump in water or liquids.
And yesterday, it has happened to me.
I was on a family visit in a city near my home town, when I noticed that my Ice Tea bottle with Nestea was flooding my purse where my iPhone 5 was in. So I took out the phone like mad, scrubbed everything off, rushed to turn it off and it didn't turn off. The touchscreen was irresponsive as well, so I started to panic. I held down the home and power button, but the phone just kept rebooting. AAARGH. The single thing about the iPhone that REALLY sucks is that you can't take the battery out in case of such an emergency :mad:
After a few tries to shut the thing off, another horrid thing happened: The screen just went white. Home, power button and mute switch still worked. I lost it at this stage. The screen was flickering and showing black spots with purple tints, but I didn't care at this point. I went for the train.
At home, I took out the SIM card and shook off any water, but there was none. Even the water damage indicators appeared to be fine. So I took the blow-dryer and tried to dry the phone inside. No luck.
Then I put it on a charge to see if it would respond. But it just vibrated. The screen still kept flickering.
So I decided to "google it". So I googled "iPhone 5 water damage" and found tons of entries from peoiple advising what to do in such an emergency.
One of the advices said something along the lines of "Don't put your phone on a charge, it will short circuit" or "Don't blow-dry your iPhone".
My heart sank!!!
Then I found a website of a phone repair facility neat me that specifically advised putting the phone in a tupperware full of rice overnight and then bring the phone over in the next day. So I submerged the phone in rice and left it there overnight. I couldn't sleep.
So today I brought the iPhone 5 to the repair shop and the guy took the IMEI, serial number and everything, typed in something and told me that I'll hear back from them tomorrow.
Right now I'm in a state of panic as I did the most idiotic things in the state of panic I was in, and I'm so worried that the phone will be toast. I just got the phone on Christmas on a 2 year contract with O2 (one European provider) :(
What do I do.... :(
And yesterday, it has happened to me.
I was on a family visit in a city near my home town, when I noticed that my Ice Tea bottle with Nestea was flooding my purse where my iPhone 5 was in. So I took out the phone like mad, scrubbed everything off, rushed to turn it off and it didn't turn off. The touchscreen was irresponsive as well, so I started to panic. I held down the home and power button, but the phone just kept rebooting. AAARGH. The single thing about the iPhone that REALLY sucks is that you can't take the battery out in case of such an emergency :mad:
After a few tries to shut the thing off, another horrid thing happened: The screen just went white. Home, power button and mute switch still worked. I lost it at this stage. The screen was flickering and showing black spots with purple tints, but I didn't care at this point. I went for the train.
At home, I took out the SIM card and shook off any water, but there was none. Even the water damage indicators appeared to be fine. So I took the blow-dryer and tried to dry the phone inside. No luck.
Then I put it on a charge to see if it would respond. But it just vibrated. The screen still kept flickering.
So I decided to "google it". So I googled "iPhone 5 water damage" and found tons of entries from peoiple advising what to do in such an emergency.
One of the advices said something along the lines of "Don't put your phone on a charge, it will short circuit" or "Don't blow-dry your iPhone".
My heart sank!!!
Then I found a website of a phone repair facility neat me that specifically advised putting the phone in a tupperware full of rice overnight and then bring the phone over in the next day. So I submerged the phone in rice and left it there overnight. I couldn't sleep.
So today I brought the iPhone 5 to the repair shop and the guy took the IMEI, serial number and everything, typed in something and told me that I'll hear back from them tomorrow.
Right now I'm in a state of panic as I did the most idiotic things in the state of panic I was in, and I'm so worried that the phone will be toast. I just got the phone on Christmas on a 2 year contract with O2 (one European provider) :(
What do I do.... :(