SternWake
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Samsung s4 mini.
It was not a full dunking/ submersion. It was playing music, upside down, and some water had accumulated in the little pool formed by the protective casing around the camera lens and LED light.
It shut itself off. I ripped out the battery, SIM and microSD card, then used my buckethead shop van on a reduced speed via my router speed controller to suck out all the moisture I could, and left it to run for 20 minutes moving the hose occassionally to suck air through/around/across a different area of the underside.
Then I stuck it in my bag of Trader joe's Brown rice medley, and left it for about 18 hours with a fan blowing over the top of the bag in low ambient humidity and only spilled about 1/3 the contents of the bag all over the place about 3 different times
Today I cleaned all contacts of sim SD and battery with Deoxit d5, replaced battery, held the power button and it vibrated and fired up and I danced a jig.
I was not looking forward to paying for or learning a new phone and it appears I do not have to.
Posted just incase it can help someone else.
If you get it wet, time is of the essence, get the battery out, suck out all moisture possible, and let a dessicant works its magic for at least 12 hours before trying to restart it.
Those 18 hours without a phone was also enlightening, Heck i had to turn on my stereo or laptop or TV just to know what time it was.
It was not a full dunking/ submersion. It was playing music, upside down, and some water had accumulated in the little pool formed by the protective casing around the camera lens and LED light.
It shut itself off. I ripped out the battery, SIM and microSD card, then used my buckethead shop van on a reduced speed via my router speed controller to suck out all the moisture I could, and left it to run for 20 minutes moving the hose occassionally to suck air through/around/across a different area of the underside.
Then I stuck it in my bag of Trader joe's Brown rice medley, and left it for about 18 hours with a fan blowing over the top of the bag in low ambient humidity and only spilled about 1/3 the contents of the bag all over the place about 3 different times
Today I cleaned all contacts of sim SD and battery with Deoxit d5, replaced battery, held the power button and it vibrated and fired up and I danced a jig.
I was not looking forward to paying for or learning a new phone and it appears I do not have to.
Posted just incase it can help someone else.
If you get it wet, time is of the essence, get the battery out, suck out all moisture possible, and let a dessicant works its magic for at least 12 hours before trying to restart it.
Those 18 hours without a phone was also enlightening, Heck i had to turn on my stereo or laptop or TV just to know what time it was.