Just when you think the impossible will never happen, it has! You dropped your phone in water! If you think all hope is lost when it comes to saving your wet mobile phone, you are wrong. Before you panic, try these steps - they can get your phone working again.
1. Before even thinking of doing anything else, take your phone out the water and REMOVE THE BATTERY AND SIM CARD IMMEDIATELY! Time is off the essence when it comes to saving your wet cell phone and every second counts - so remove them quickly! Do not turn turn your phone on just to "check if it still works". This just wastes time! You must dry the battery off as much as possible with paper towels and cotton swabs. Next you should wrap the battery in dry paper towels and set it aside. While you won't save all of your information on your SIM card, you won't lose all of it if taken out on time.
2. Dry the phone. You can use paper towels, cotton swabs etc. You must be thorough. Go inside the battery case, between the buttons, and inside any connectors going into the phone that's just been dropped in water. Shake the phone, some more water might appear which you might not have noticed before. Keep drying it and when no more water appears when you shake the phone, set your cell phone aside.
3. Use compressed air or a blow dryer to blow air into the keypad, battery case, and the ports. If your using a blow-dryer, do not forget to hold it away from the phone as the phone will get damaged or melted by the extremely hot air.
4. Once you have dried the phone as much as you can, put your cell phone into a bowl. Pour uncooked rice over the cell phone and make sure you completely cover it with rice. Leave the phone aside for a day. You might think this is stupid, but the rice will act as a dessicant and suck any left over moisture from your cell phone that's been dropped in water.
5. After you've left the cell phone aside in the rice, the phone should be very dry. Reinsert the battery and turn the phone on. There is a good chance your phone might turn on and work if you followed these steps as soon as your phone was submerged from water. Chances of your cell phone working again improve if you haven't tried to turn the phone on while it was wet, and you dry it as soon as you took it out.
That is how to save a wet cell phone, if this didn't work for you, there is nothing more you can do to save your cell phone. Its dead. R.I.P
Good luck.
