Took My Sony Ericsson Swimming Last Night!
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Took My Sony Ericsson Swimming Last Night!
Bloody daft old duffer I am!!!!
Mobile Phone in shorts pocket and jump into the swimming pool ........
Right, I've never really liked it - the toggle on the phone always plays up, until I strip it and clean it with contact cleaner.
Anyway - it's dead now
I'm on Orange PAYG with this one (my Motorola contract phone, the BRICK lives in the car).
Any recommendations for a replacement?
The Samsung C300 is £29:99 but has bad reviews? Anyone here got/had one?
The Nokia 1600 is highly rated at about the same price £29:99 - any experiences?
I do not want one with a camera and only phone and text ......
Cheap as chips please - BUT, I will go all the way up to around £49 for the right one
Mobile Phone in shorts pocket and jump into the swimming pool ........
Right, I've never really liked it - the toggle on the phone always plays up, until I strip it and clean it with contact cleaner.
Anyway - it's dead now
I'm on Orange PAYG with this one (my Motorola contract phone, the BRICK lives in the car).
Any recommendations for a replacement?
The Samsung C300 is £29:99 but has bad reviews? Anyone here got/had one?
The Nokia 1600 is highly rated at about the same price £29:99 - any experiences?
I do not want one with a camera and only phone and text ......
Cheap as chips please - BUT, I will go all the way up to around £49 for the right one
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It shouldn't be dead -- take the battery out and use a hairdryer on the phone and then leave it in the airing cupboard for a while.
The phone WILL rust but it'll take a year or more.
Steve
The phone WILL rust but it'll take a year or more.
Steve
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As Steve says, let it dry out and it may well work fine. My old Motorola V3 got soaked during a race and after a week of drying out in the airing cupboard it worked again.
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This happened with an LG I had a few years ago - I fell overboard from my boat with it round my neck ....... it never worked again.
The important thing is, it seems, is whether it was turned ON when it was immersed in water ....... if it was OFF then, yes, dry it thoroughly and it should work.
BUT, if it is ON when soaked it seems to kill them .......
I held it under the hand dryer in the swimming pool but - no - it's dead
The important thing is, it seems, is whether it was turned ON when it was immersed in water ....... if it was OFF then, yes, dry it thoroughly and it should work.
BUT, if it is ON when soaked it seems to kill them .......
I held it under the hand dryer in the swimming pool but - no - it's dead
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It's gonna take a bit more than 3 minutes under a hair dryer.
Take it apart (esp take the battery out) as much as possible and leave in the airing cupboard for a couple of days. Do NOT turn it on. Once you're satisfied that it's dried out then turn it on.
Speak to your local mobile shop, they get 'trade-ins' all the time, ask for one of them (free).
Incidentally, is this the virgin phone/contract you had 2 years before virgin mobile existed?
Take it apart (esp take the battery out) as much as possible and leave in the airing cupboard for a couple of days. Do NOT turn it on. Once you're satisfied that it's dried out then turn it on.
Speak to your local mobile shop, they get 'trade-ins' all the time, ask for one of them (free).
Incidentally, is this the virgin phone/contract you had 2 years before virgin mobile existed?
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This happened with an LG I had a few years ago - I fell overboard from my boat with it round my neck ....... it never worked again.
The important thing is, it seems, is whether it was turned ON when it was immersed in water ....... if it was OFF then, yes, dry it thoroughly and it should work.
BUT, if it is ON when soaked it seems to kill them .......
I held it under the hand dryer in the swimming pool but - no - it's dead
The important thing is, it seems, is whether it was turned ON when it was immersed in water ....... if it was OFF then, yes, dry it thoroughly and it should work.
BUT, if it is ON when soaked it seems to kill them .......
I held it under the hand dryer in the swimming pool but - no - it's dead
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Thats bad luck I must say, I lost my first Ericsson when I fell off my boat at the mooring. Since it was sea water it never had a chance. It is just possble that yours might work after a long drying out session. Luckily mine was insured for the first year so I got a replacement and the bloke gave me the battery pack off the old one as a spare!
Les
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Gave my daughter my old Nokia 8210 a few years ago when I changed to a 8310.
She left it in her jeans pocket, only problem was her jeans went into the wash for 1 1/2 hrs at 40deg.
Only found it when the machine was emptied out.
Took the battery off and dried the phone on top of a radiator for a couple of days. The battery was FUBAR - you could see it had swolen up!
Got a cheapo replacement battery and the phone worked fine. In fact I've still got it i a drawer somewhere!
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She left it in her jeans pocket, only problem was her jeans went into the wash for 1 1/2 hrs at 40deg.
Only found it when the machine was emptied out.
Took the battery off and dried the phone on top of a radiator for a couple of days. The battery was FUBAR - you could see it had swolen up!
Got a cheapo replacement battery and the phone worked fine. In fact I've still got it i a drawer somewhere!
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My Samsung was on when the mrs bunged it inthe washing machine. Had a full 40 degree clean and spin. Worked fine for about 6 months after drying on the radiator for a week. Screen failed eventually.
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Mate of mine dropped an Ericsson T28 out of his shirt pocket into a 10L pot of white emulsion paint once. He immediately took the battery off and dropped it in a sink full of warm water, later he took it apart and scrubbed all the paint out with a toothbrush. After it dried out, it amazingly worked fine apart from the earpiece speaker being dead. He got a new one from somewhere like Maplin and replaced it, the phone was just as good as new afterwards. Amazing really!
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My Lab ate through Wifey's D600
Now that couldn't be fixed
Pete, you old tw@t - just go and buy something decent for a change. You're pension should more than cover the price of a good phone
Dan
Now that couldn't be fixed
Pete, you old tw@t - just go and buy something decent for a change. You're pension should more than cover the price of a good phone
Dan
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But a mobile is powered even when it's "off". You can tell because the power button is a soft switch. So you're unlikely to be able to recover it by drying it out. That's usually a successful method on 'dumb' devices, like PC keyboards.
I managed to dry out a USB stick after it had been in the washing machine and it worked fine, but only for a couple of weeks.
I managed to dry out a USB stick after it had been in the washing machine and it worked fine, but only for a couple of weeks.
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I had a Samsung go into the washing machine before, switched on and the works - on a full 40 degree cycle.
Pulled the phone out, took battery and sim out, then stuck it in a bowl of clean cold water for a couple of hours, giving it a good swish about now and again to try and clean any detergent out of it that may have got stuck. Left it on a windowsill out of direct sunlight for a few days, and it worked perfectly after that. Maybe I was lucky - or maybe we should credit phones for being tougher than we think
Pulled the phone out, took battery and sim out, then stuck it in a bowl of clean cold water for a couple of hours, giving it a good swish about now and again to try and clean any detergent out of it that may have got stuck. Left it on a windowsill out of direct sunlight for a few days, and it worked perfectly after that. Maybe I was lucky - or maybe we should credit phones for being tougher than we think
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Blonde moment there ...... the reception doesn't depend upon the make of phone, rather other things like a big tower block in the way or sitting in a deep valley.
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Pete you're not suggesting that every receiver in every make and model mobile phone is of the exact same quality are you?
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