Help Desperately need help with phone

[Kcsuper]

Ok, so I was camping last night in the woods and it was pouring outside. I was sleeping in a tent but a gust of wind came by while I was sleeping and blew my tent completely down; now the rain is flooding me and, unfortunately, my phone since the rain guard blew away. My phone was in my pocket and obviously got wet...now it turns on fine, charges fine, and works fine except for the touch screen. Certain icons/buttons work (power, camera, and volume all work fine) but many don't. I can scroll through screens and bring down my notification bar no problem. I'm tethering with it now so that's fine. I can see that the touch screen works but part of it seems to not work too well. Anyone have any advice on how I can remedy this. Is there possibly any type of recalibration method? Thanks for reading and hopefully the help Oh, lock screen is unresponsive so I need to call my phone in order to bypass the lock.

 

[ArmageddonX]

I have heard that putting your phone in a ziplock-bag with white rice for 48 hours can sometimes fix the phone. You might want to try it!

Here's a great article on it:
I can confirm: Rice does heal water-damaged cellphones

~ ArmyX

 

[Valkillmore]

+1 for rice. It saved a friends phone from a toilet dunk.

That being said they IMMEDIATELY put the phone in rice as they had already read this somewhere online....probably the link provided above.

They left the phone in the bag for 2 days and not a problem so far. This was a couple weeks ago.

Hope you can save it.

 

[wetbiker7]

+2 for the rice. It saved a buddy of mines phone after taking a swim in the toilet.



EDIT: what was learned from his ordeal????? Don't piss in a toilet and talk on the phone at the same time.

 

[kolosus]

BTW. It's uncooked rice.

 

[Kcsuper]

BTW. It's uncooked rice.

HAHAHA. Thanks guys for the advice - apparantly it fixed itself after another night with the battery out. Man it's a relief cuz I had a frickin clutch which I hate so much that I was gonna transfer over. Dodge it.

 

[ArmageddonX]

Probably wouldn't hurt to still do the rice thing. It would get any residual moisture out of the device. =)

~ ArmyX

 

[wetbiker7]

Probably wouldn't hurt to still do the rice thing. It would get any residual moisture out of the device. =)

~ ArmyX

Absolutely. I would still leave it in a bag of rice overnight or for 24 hrs. I can almost guarantee there is still moisture in the phone.