Help! Wife accidently dumps N900 in sink
 

Don't ask me why I left my phone in the kitchen, but I did and somehow it ended up in a sink full of water.

So, I spent a lot of time drying it out, opening and closing the keyboard to try to get the water from behind there. After I felt comfortable with that, I put the battery back in and booted it back up. It seemed to boot fine, but the touch screen behaved erratically, with it having problems identifying touch on the right side of the screen. Then the screen would go on and off.

Now, I can't seem to boot the phone at all. Do I now own a $300 paperweight, or is there some way I can salvage this. If not, do you think SquareTrade will honor the extended warranty on this?

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If you're not comfortable disassembling it, the trick I have heard used often is to place it in a tupperware container full of dry rice. The rice will absorb the water from the phone. Leave it in the rice for 24 hours.

And never put the battery back in until your sure its completely dried out.

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No mate! Do not put the battery back into a phone that was immerse into water and boot it up! How long did you spent drying the phone?You probably shorted a circuit.....I think that`s the end of it`s life.....You could put it in a bowl full of rice for couple of days before putting the battery back but now it`s too late :(

If you know somebody that is comfortable to dissasemble the phone and replace the required parts go for it.

Re: Help! Wife accidently dumps N900 in sink
 

There might still be some water in the phone, do this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y030QJbaUus

Otherwise I'd look into replacing the digitizer:
http://www.google.co.uk/products?hl=...-8&sa=N&tab=wf

Disassembly video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVEHm325-z8

Hope this is enough to help! :)

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if you don't have a bowl of rice, i suggest a drawer or cupboard, leave it for 48hours+ without the battery in. LET IT DRY NATURALLY! If you try to quicken the process with something like a hair dryer, you will only cause your screen to stop working altogether.

Re: Help! Wife accidently dumps N900 in sink
 

Put it in a container of dry rice and leave it let it obsorb all the water!!! Leave it for a day at least!

Re: Help! Wife accidently dumps N900 in sink
 

Well, he did say that he tried it a few times before it finally dried out and worked, so maybe I'm not screwed. I'll try the rice method.

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this is gunna sound like the DUMBEST suggestion ever but it works as far as the gadget show guys say (tech review show here in the uk) suck the water out with a hoover

linky here :
http://fwd.channel5.com/gadget-show/...adgets-get-wet

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Get this
http://www.damprid.com/index2701.html

and put your n900 and this in a big Ziploc for one night.
It will be up and running in no time. Make sure your phone is switched off with battery out.

I have 100% success rate with this method for reviving wet cell phones.

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Hit her in the head with the N900 then do the rice thing...Hope your phone comes out of its coma bro.

(I was joking about hitting her in the head)

Re: Help! Wife accidently dumps N900 in sink
 

My wife recently drenched her 1 month C6-01 in her bag going to the movies. The phone couldn't work - phone could call out, but gets disconnected everytime. And I couldn't call to that phone. Sounds failed (even that Nokia start up tune). After some attempts, the phone totally failed and would not even start!

I removed the battery and blow dry the phone with a hair dryer from inside (careful not to get too hot - you might fry some circuits, and also since the C6-01 had metal casing you could fry your hands). I also tried leaving the phone in some rice (as recommended) for a couple of hours only, since it was already late in the evening and I just couldn't wait to see the outcome and fate of that MYR 1,000 phone (that's about 170 BigMacs).

Now it's working without any problem. Thank God! Hopefully,your N900 will survive it. Let us know.

Re: Help! Wife accidently dumps N900 in sink
 

Went out and bought a bag of white rice (since we only seem to have flavored rice in the house) and now my phone is in tupperware. Hopefully it does the trick.

Just as an embarrassing note, I did try to boot the phone before reading the updates here and it did start the boot cycle, so I'm more than hopeful that it will work. In hindsight, I agree that it was kinda dumb to try booting it up so soon.

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Now I have a question...after soaking the phone in rice, is it safe to consume the rice?

I only dipped the phone in a tray of rice, so it wasn't a lot to dispose off. But, what do you all feel? Would you consume the rice after using it to absorb moisture off an electromagnetic device?

Re: Help! Wife accidently dumps N900 in sink
 

hope the rice works for you.. next time make sure not to put the battery back in so soon after..

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Sorry to hear that but you made a terrible mistake and permanently damaged the circuits :( NEVER ever turn on a fully soaked electronic device without drying it properly with methods mentioned here ( rice container , heat , 24 hours battery out off etc)

Re: Help! Wife accidently dumps N900 in sink
 

dry it with rice as mentioned by so many posters...


and change the battery

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joseph: dude...just dump the rice.... nasi berlambak la di Malaysia

Re: Help! Wife accidently dumps N900 in sink
 

depends on what kind of moisture were you trying to dry of off the device...

maybe you can make it into a good Nasi Lemak

Re: Help! Wife accidently dumps N900 in sink
 

Must.Kill.Wife.

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I did dump it ... in my case, I was using a tray with less than 1cm depth only. I just wanted to rice to get around the sides of the phone, and not contaminate the internal portion. But still that content could have fed 2 medium size plates :(

For OP's case, he got a bag of rice and using a tupperware to dry his phone. Seems waste to throw away that quantity of rice.

Re: Help! Wife accidently dumps N900 in sink
 

hey your rice can make, nasi uduk or nasi padang.

Re: Help! Wife accidently dumps N900 in sink
 

the only thing helps is isopropanol and an ultrasound device...

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hahaha... I wouldn't dare eat it. Even if it was made into the best nasi briyani in the world....

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Anyway, you'll need to rinse the rice before cooking it for consumption, right? And what could be the level of "contamination"?

Don't you just love these threads and how they evolve to something else everytime...Maemo community are a bunch of fun, creative thinkers!

Re: Help! Wife accidently dumps N900 in sink
 

Well, good news and bad news. The good news is that the N900 boots up fine and seems to behave normally. The bad news is that it doesn't seem to act like a phone anymore: I get no cell signal or recognition of T-Mobile's network. Any suggestions? (I did have the SIM card in another phone for today and it worked fine.)

Re: Help! Wife accidently dumps N900 in sink
 

Let it stay even longer...out in a dry place, rice now I think it's useless. Let it dry a bit more...

As suggested, keep an eye on the battery or change it.

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You might need to disassemble to clean it up in this case, as it seems that the mosture has already corroded some contacts.

It might already too late to dry it up but if you wanna do, use silicon gel and put them with your N900 in an air-tight container for a day. Silicon gel is strong enough to extract the mosture inside the layers of circuits.

Silicon gel can be easily found in all shops selling professional cameras. Howeve, beware of the fact that silicon gels will change from blue to colorless(thus make them ineffective) very quickly if you expose them to normal room environment. So make sure put them into an air-tight box after the package is opened.

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Oh wow... sucks to hear man.

But let's be honest... maybe it was a hint that you were paying more attention to the N900 than your wife. Shameful.

All jokes aside, I hope it straightens up for you though man...

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Not sure if this will work, but how about (gently) rubbing the SIM contact with a pen-eraser? Since you mentioned only network is not registering, it could be some contaminant on the contact points?

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Check /var/log/syslog - see if there are any CMT errors, or what errors you see there.

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Well, I did open it up. The area under the screen has some water spots and a little bit of corrosion on the covers. Problem is, I don't know what it looks like under the covers. Backside looks pristine.

Not sure how I'd be able to do any more.

If I truly was paying more attention to my N900, it wouldn't have been in the kitchen. :eek:

Not likely considering that it was one of the first things that probably was dried, since I could reach that. The contacts don't look corroded, and the phone does seem to recognize that there is a card in the slot.

No such file in that directory.

Right now, I'm going to charge the battery for a little bit (since it was almost dead) and I'm going to leave it open for a bit. Not sure what else I can do here...

Re: Help! Wife accidently dumps N900 in sink
 

Put a mast on it and set it asail hehehe it will take to water like a duck haha.

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I feel bad for suggesting this, but in case there's permanent damage and you don't want to fix it (due to cost or something else), you could still salvage the usable features of the N900.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=69609

Re: Help! Wife accidently dumps N900 in sink
 

If you install the sysklogd package and reboot you will. Lots of useful info.

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Hey dude ?? convey my congrats to her ,,, she did a great job to the crap phone :D :P

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I don't know how to do that.

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8 Posts - all of them pointless. My congrats to you sir.

Bummer about the water damage to the N900. Rice has worked for me in the past but of 3 phones I got wet only one ever made a full recovery. Strangely enough it was an old nokia.

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No further luck in getting the cell service working. Barring any other suggestions, I'll probably eventually contact SquareTrade to see if they will honor the extended warranty on it. I'm not counting on it, tho.

In the meantime, I'll use it like a PDA and use my backup phone as a phone. It will suck not having internet access when I want it, tho.

Re: Help! Wife accidently dumps N900 in sink
 

take phone insrens out on it the report it stoilling in like 3 munths and u get a new 1 dun this so meny times

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Sorry to hear about that mate i know how you feel as i have been in similar situation my n900 fell in the sink i took the battery out straight away and put it on top of my home heater radiator for about a week before putting battery back in and thank GOD my n900 is still with me running perfectly fine!