Help Water damage or app malfunction?

[Pearlsheep]

I have an odd predicament. I was using Handcent for my messaging services. I applied an update today. Then before I tried the app after the update, I had spilled some water on my device. I quickly towel dried it, removed the cover and battery, dried the inside. I didn't think water had leaked too deeply into the device since there wasn't much under the battery cover, only a few small drops. The water damage stickers are showing no water damage on both the device and battery.
I let it dry for about 10 minutes, turned my phone on and went to reply to a text. Handcent froze, so I tried a couple more times with no avail. Then I tried the default messaging application and that froze too. I can't tell if the app caused the malfunction or if my phone is water damaged or short-circuited from turning it on too soon.
I uninstalled Handcent, and tried the default messaging app again, but as earlier it freezes at the point of sending the text. I'm not certain if my texts are being received or not.
Originally I set my phone to delete old texts after 150 for each thread, due to Thunderbolt's known message lag with excess messages. Handcent seemed to be working fine despite ignoring this rule. One thread had 1,000+ messages, others had hundreds; yet it continued to work fine until the above mentioned incidents.

I'm wondering if anyone would have any idea if the malfunctioning I'm experiencing could be from the water damage (and turning on the device too soon) or would it be purely from the Handcent app update malfunction?

Thank you for any assistance provided.

 

[tensazan]

Try taking the battery cover off and the battery out, and set in phone in a bowl of uncooked white rice. The rue will get any moisture out of the phone and hopefully that would help

 

[Dark Jedi]

Dude you spilt water on your phone and you are going to think an app is causing your problems. Just because the water damage stickers shows no red don't mean there is water in the phone. The water just didn't get on the stickers. Put rice in a zip loc bag and seal your phone in there with cover and battery removed and leave in there a few days.

 

[TxGoat]

lol, damn talk about impatient. You spilled water on your phone and thought a quick dry job would fix the issue and allow you to resume your texting? Your phone probably would be in better shape if you took the time to dry it out properly, but if there was even a hint of moisture inside some vital circuit and you powered the device on, then you just gave your phone a kiss of death. Good luck getting it fixed since phone manufacturers typically don't place those stickers just on the outside......


All you can do now is a restore and hope that it's fixed...or try logging into safe mode and see if it works.