How to Fix a Wet iPhone
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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i dropped my iphone n water i can turn it on but it dosnt ring and the light dosnt come up its just a dark screen
My iPhone fell in water a month ago and idk if I can still find a way too fix it … When I turn it on it just has the apple logo the it ***** down … Is there still a chance too fix it ?
mine fell in a toilet so it was turned off immediately and is wrapped up in a towel on the radiator
My friend dropped hers in the toilet, I followed your instructions and it came back to life (actually I didn’t use the compressed air, just the hair drier for about half an hour) The first time I plugged in the charger it flickered and the touch screen wouldn’t work, but a bit more with the hair dryer it was fine. Taking out the sim card seemed to help get the air inside. It was definitely wet inside as the camera lens had droplets in it. Thanks!
BTW, If she had a silicone type cover on it, it would not have slipped out of her pocket…..into the toilet.
i was stood in my bath room with my iphone in my jumper pocket ,not even using the toilet but the lid was up
and i must of lifted my jumper abit for some reason and plop in it goes,i stood there n waited for my head to take in what had just happened and once it started bubbling i stuck my hand it and took it out ,didnt even have a case on it ..first thing was on my mind ,get the ipod touch and search wet iphone and found all this
um i dropped my iPhone in the toilet and i took it out as soon as i could. when i got it out i imediatly dried it and took the case off to dry the back part. it was working but the vibrate wasn’t. i thought it was going to be fine but in like 5 minutes or less it completely shut down. i put it in the charger(being the ****** I am) hopeing it would work. it would show the apple logo and then show a bunch of lines and shut off again. i took it out and tried to restart it by pushing the home button and the power one. 5 black lines started to come up and now im leaving it alone. i have no idea what to do. help please?
Guide:
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=416062563&blogID=435512784
dude’s advice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X0QkBiwV6Q
I dropped my iPhone into a glass of water last week and after several days of rice and more days of leaving it in a box of desiccant it still doesn’t work. I sure wish it did.