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.

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.

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?

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

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)

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


and change the battery

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

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

Must.Kill.Wife.

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.