dropped my cell phone in the pool?

Question

i dropped my cell phone in the pool by accident for about 15 seconds the model is a c168 motorla phone

i got out the battery and sim card out after wards but i noticed the screen was all blurry and all messed up


my friends brother said that thier is ink inside the phone and i cannot revive the screen at all no matter what is that true


and does anyone have a way to help get my phone to work

Answer 1

let it dry out a week or so. we have managed to save all of ours

Answer 2

Actually that was on the radio just the other day. The guys wife washed it in the washer and he took the phone to show them. It was very clean and shiny, but didn't work. The phone place gave him a new battery and told him to go home and bake it in the oven at 100 degrees for 5 to 6 hours.

He took the battery out before doing and turned the oven on and let it get to the heat, shut it off and let it set for 2 hours. The spots on the screen were gone and it Worked!

This was a radio show host named Kevin on WFMS 95.5 FM in Indiana. You can go the web page and ask him. He will tell you more. You can email him. He is on the morning show. He couldn't believe it. It really worked. It was hot, of course, to the touch though.

My roommate got her radio wet once and she blew dry it and it worked. (Long story). You could try that too.

Good luck.

Answer 3

Did the same exact thing earlier this summer.

Was pushed into a pool with my phone in my pocket. I went down to the verizon store, because I had a verizon phone. The backlight is a very iffy thing the guy said, but sometimes laying your phone outside in the UV lights from the sun for 24-48 hours helps completely dry it out. It worked for me!!! :) so good luck!

Answer 4

Your phone is broken. Try putting it out in the sun, but that usually doesn't work. There probably is some other way to fix it, but that probably would be more expensive then just getting a new phone. So I would recommend just buying a new phone and keeping it away from the pool.

Answer 5

have self assurance it or no longer water harm can ensue in basic terms by way of sweat or humidity interior the air. It doesnt take various of water to break the telephone or exchange the lil dots diverse colours. i could definately attempt to can charge the battery. in spite of the indisputable fact that, extra advantageous than possibly the chlorine and the water killed it. besides the fact that my dad had an previous nokia telephone he dropped interior the lake it sunk to the backside he took it out enable it sunlight dry and it worked for yet another 3 hundred and sixty 5 days... that infrequently ever happens however. with any luck you have coverage on the telephone!

Answer 6

I take it you dont have insurance? If you do have insurance, use it. But if you dont I think you should either use the phone with a messed up screen or just save up and get a new one.

When you buy a new phone (if you do) make sure to look into insurance. It saved my butt, and it would have saved yours, too.

-I had a motorola V262, but once it died in the tub they gave me an upgrade because the V262 was an older model.-

Answer 7

Okay, listen up...cuz this is gonna sound a lil nutty..but it works. Take the battery out...put it in the oven on the WARM setting...it dries it out. You'll be fine. Oh, and just incase you ever drop it in a cup of Sprite...soak it in rubbing alcohol first...then put in oven. The alcohol helps get rid of the sugar. Hell, it might help to go ahead and do the alcohol thing anyways...cuz alcohol can cause water to evaporate. If you're nervous about putting it in the oven...since it's so freakin' hot lately....put it on your dash in your car where it can get direct sun...it'll dry right up. Oh, and tell your tard friend..your phone doesn't have ink in it anymore than your computer moniter does. Oh, one last thing....DO NOT TURN IT ON UNTIL IT IS COMPLETELY DRY...give it a couple of days...otherwise you'll ruin it.

Answer 8

You need to let the phone dry out for a few days--up to 4. Do NOT touch it in those 4 days. You can put it back together and see what happens, and it may not work but you just never know.

Answer 9

OMG! The same thing happened to me but i filled up my sink and stuff and i dropped my phone cuz i was on it so it wouldnt turn on and stuff so in MOST phones i think in the back there is this little colored thing is it is like red then u got it wet but if its like blue then its fine so just go to the store where u got the phone and they should just give u another and stuff thats what they did for me and stuff that should work. Hope i could help!
Aj.

Answer 10

I had the same problem...except mine fell in the toilet, haha


take the battery and sim card out and let all of it sit in a cool dry place after a few days it should work again. if it doesn't go to where you got and see if you can get a replacement

Answer 11

I dropped my aunt's cell phone in some rootbeer for like no mor ethan a second. She dried it out for about 3 days or so, kept calling the phone company, nothing worked. She had to buy a new phone. Sry I couldn't tell you something like blow on it and it will all be better. sry.