How to Fix a Wet iPhone

Posted in Apple, Hardware, iPhone by Elliott Back on June 14th, 2008.

If your iPhone is broken and won’t turn on because you dropped it in water, got it wet in the rain, or spilled your favorite drink on it, don’t worry it may be repairable. The first thing to try is drying it out. Don’t try to turn it on, don’t plug it into anything, that may only increase the damage, or damage another component, or electrocute yourself. Instead, dry it out with a hairdryer for a while, and then spray compressed air into the earphone hole at the top, and the dock-adapter hole at the bottom. If you’re lucky, at this point it will turn itself on automatically!

If this doesn’t work, follow the instructions here to open the base of the iPhone and proceed to dry out your internals. Note that this is a dangerous procedure and will void your warranty. Please don’t open up your iPhone! It’s probably a better idea to just take into the Apple store and let their geniuses figure things out.

(Note: the iPhone can be “reset” by holding the top power button and the circular “home” button at the same time for a while)

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Rezibeh 5 months ago 1 point
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Take away the "s" from your diagram and you've got my strategy: pray. Pray here, and pray there.

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3iPhoneforme 4 months ago 1 point
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I had the same problem as I dropped my iPhone running in from the car during a storm. I let it air dry for a day but still still did not work. I found a good article via iphoneatlas.com and stated air drying wasn't enough. The article said you had to place the phone in a zip lock bag with silica packets and linked to: http://www.silicagelpackets.com

I ordered a pack with priority mail and let the iphone air dry until I got them (tough 3 days of my life with no iPhone!!!) and as instructions stated I placed the iPhone in the zip lock bag with packets loosely around them. I tried the phone the next day and it worked, thankfully. Hopefully this can help you as well!

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kevin 2 months ago 1 point
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Here is how I fixed my wet phone.

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=b...

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http://www.myspace.com/localpower

thankyou 1 day ago 1 point
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Dear god you are a genius!!! I tried the spray thing a whole day after getting it wet and it turned on while spraying. Thanks a lot I thought I was screwed. You're the man, a cadillac of men and a young adonis.

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