Have you ever had a phone work after it fell into a toilet?

I know someone who has dropped a phone in the toilet. Not once. But twice. Each time they took the battery out and put the phone in a bowl of rice, battery side down, overnight and it worked in the morning.

I have never had my phone in the toilet but I have jumped inthe swimming pol with it in my pocket many times. All I had to do was take the battery out, lay it in the sun and wait a few hours and it is good as new (:

You mean through my anus? Lol.

Seriously, a friend retrieved it in less than 4 seconds and let it dry. It worked again. Here’s hoping yours too. : )

Btw, I think she removed the battery to check for wetness there too.

It’s kind of working now, with several problems. We’re putting it in rice now. One of his friends suggested that too.

Thanks!

@mazingerz88 I asked how long it was in the toilet. He said “a while”. I guess there was some poo involved. He didn’t want to reach in. lol

No lie… do you keep any old electronics packaging? If so… go search through the old boxes and pull out all the old silica gel packets. Get as many as you can and smother the phone with them for about a day. It will work fine but you’ve got to suck that moisture out and rub down all metal electrical contacts with a pencil eraser after it dries.

@bkcunningham has the solution.

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies Wow. I’ve always wondered if I should keep those for some reason. Now I will. Not sure if I have any though. Thanks for the suggestion.

I’ve got tons of em laying around in a bowl. I keep them stashed all over in my camera bag.

@jonsblond I’ve wondered about that many times, what would I do if my cell fell in the toilet with poo. I guess I would not reach for it since right now, I have a 60 dollar old Motorola from Boost. If it’s an expensive smartphone like that white Blackberry I’m craving, I’m afraid I would go for it but yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkk…iiighhrkkzzxx…!

Yes, I’ve dropped a couple of them in the toilet, I grabbed them pretty quickly though. I hope your son wasn’t too shy about fishing it out of the toilet. The sooner you get it out of there the better. Just let it dry out. It could take several days, maybe even a week, depending on how long it was in there. Do you have it sitting on paper towels? That might help; and keep changing them, the towels, when they get wet; like they’re cell phone diapers. :-).

@lillycoyote We were successful in saving the phone that belonged to our oldest son. It went through the washing machine. We’re keeping our fingers crossed (even as I’m typing. what a bitch. haha)

@jonsblond Isn’t that amazing? I’ve sent a gazillion various, miscellaneous things through the wash accidentally and there was some gadget, some thing, and I can’t for the life of me remember what it was; but it went through the wash and I was absolutely astonished that it came out fine, that it still functioned perfectly after going through a full hot water wash cycle.

Happened to a friend, he left the phone and bought a new one, it was a cheap phone.

Mine worked perfectly fine after. Hope it’s the same with you.

The key is sloooooooow drying in a not-so-hot fashion. Taking the battery out and let both dry separately. Place both in the warm sunshine for a whole day, battery-side up/

A quicker way is a hairdryer on medium heat. Do not let your phone or battery become too hot as it will ruin both. Sloooooow as you go.

Take the battery out of the phone,
place phone- and battery in bag of rice.

Keep them there overnight, cross your fingers,
and if it wasn’t floating around in the bowl for too long you may be ok.

oh and this happened to my friend, after it started working she placed the phone in a plastic baggy and that’s how she used her phone, even when charging.- because the idea of the whole thing grossed her out. A couple weeks later she got a new phone.

edit: just read you already know to put the phone in rice, oops!
I dropped my phone in a mop bucket at work once, it had to be minutes before I noticed, did the rice trick, worked ok!