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What to do with a mobile dropped in coke!

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smartiejake · 18/07/2008 22:57

This is me giving the advice!
dd was on holiday with her school last week and on Thursday night she dropped her precious LG chocolate mobile in a glass of coke (full fat not diet.)

It worked initially but then not a dicky bird.

24 hours later she arrived home with her now deceased phone rather upset. We tried drying it out in the airing cupboard and putting it in a bag of rice to dry it out. Three days later it would not be revived.

It seemed really sticky. DH immersed it in a bowl of warm water (minus the sim card and the battery) and swooshed it round for about 20 secs and then shook it. It coughed and switched on for a while but then died again and could not be revived. We tried the drying out again but to no avail.

Last night it was sitting on the lounge table when I was on my laptop late last night. I casually picked it up and flicked the on button.

It sprung to life and has been working ever since!

Here endeth the lesson.

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smartiejake · 18/07/2008 23:06

Thought someone might be vaguely interested; sort of story man in the pub tell but this is TRUE!

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modernart · 18/07/2008 23:09

Well done you! I'm impressed. My DS dropped hers down the loo last week. Don't think I'm going anywhere near it, let alone putting it in my rice

pinkyp · 18/07/2008 23:11

perhaps it still was a tiny bit wet (inside) on a important bit lol? Glad it is alive again!

smartiejake · 18/07/2008 23:12

Hmm don't think I would be that keen to revive that sort of "floater" either modernart!

(but you don't have to actually eat the rice after!)

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modernart · 18/07/2008 23:14

Waste not want not smartie!

Oh and typo - DD

AbstractMouse · 18/07/2008 23:15

Yay electronics can be remarkably robust (found this out after dd poured a cup of coffee in the sky box lol)

TheRealPhartiphukborlz · 18/07/2008 23:15

bag of rice?
might try that for my dd's mp3 player that when phut on her school residential!
tried airing cupboard to no avail.

rice here we go

smartiejake · 18/07/2008 23:21

I googled "what to do with a wet mobile" or something like that and the rice idea came from that. Apparently it draws out the moisture (like that silica gel stuff).

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TheRealPhartiphukborlz · 18/07/2008 23:27

like you put rice grains in a salt cellar.. clever
and (shock) that you googled it!

donovan · 18/07/2008 23:30

I acidentally put mine in the freezer for three days. It took about a month to be 100% fine, but worked ok after defrosting.

smartiejake · 18/07/2008 23:35

Why are you shocked I googled it?

I was desperate! She was skint and I was not really very happy about buying her a new one.

She is 12 and it's the start of the summer holidays. She is not allowed out without a fully charged up mobile.

12 year old+ housebound for 6 weeks= AHHHHHHGGHHHH!

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TheRealPhartiphukborlz · 18/07/2008 23:37

well not shocked but um not somethign i would have thought of - good one though,

smartiejake · 18/07/2008 23:39

How did you manage to put a mobile in the freezer and do without it for three days?

My mum "lost " some toilet rolls in a chest freezer for a while when I was a child but there again she didn't need them to keep in contact with anyone!

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donovan · 18/07/2008 23:42

I unpacked it with my frozens after shopping and as I very rarely use it, I never missed it. I only found it when going into the freezer for some meat three days later.

smartiejake · 18/07/2008 23:52

Good job it wasn't then thrown into the microwave to be defrosted along with the meat!

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brimfull · 19/07/2008 00:01

my dd dropped hers down the loo

completely buggered despite airing cupboard and rice thing.

smartiejake · 19/07/2008 00:05

Obviously an inferior make gg! How long did you persevere for?
It took a week for my dds phone!

Strange as lots of people have told me how crap LG phones are.

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brimfull · 19/07/2008 00:11

was in the bag of rice in the airing cupboard for a week whilst we were away on holiday.

she's using an old one now but may get her to try it again

brimfull · 19/07/2008 00:11

can't remember the make

smartiejake · 19/07/2008 00:15

Actually just remembered dds first phone. Was an old one of DHs that we had bought a pay as you go sim card for.

She left that one in the garden for two weeks when we were on holiday. It was lovely where we were but the weather here was wall to wall rain.

That one was also ok after a few days in the airing cupboard.

We must have the magic touch!

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pucca · 19/07/2008 00:22

DH knocked a can of stella over his nokia N80, took it apart and dried it, and a couple of days later was working fine.

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