Help...

[fudgums]

I just took a swim with my cellphone in my pocket. I heard rice works, any chance of saving it?

[JunkyII]

Take the battery out right away. let it air dry. maybe you will get lucky

[Spikes]

What Junky said, your best bet.

[Shuffler]

Yup set it in the sun if you can also. Heats it up to help the water evaporate.

[Anodizer]

Rice or any other kind of desiccant such as silica gel should be included in your recipe for rescuing this cell phone from drowning..
I would wait at least 72 hours before considering turning it on..

[Shuffler]

I failed to add that if you have a gas oven with pilot light you can lay the phone open on the grating with the battery cover off. DO NOT TURN ON THE OVEN. The pilot light dries the air very well in an enclosed oven. We have even made jerky with this method.

[rabbidrabbit]

hairdryer or heat vent.

[phatzo]

I just took a swim with my cellphone in my pocket. I heard rice works, any chance of saving it?

took a swim or fell in?

[Sikboy]

also, don't give up on it too soon. My phone went from unfunctional, then to functioning but without the screen, to fully functional over the course of a week and half.

that week without the screen was pure hell... I actually had to remember people's numbers!

-Sik

[Babalonian]

Take out the battery and let it dry out real good before powering it up.  And I know it sounds a little crazy, but if you went "swimming" in dirty water (or even a pool with lots of salt or chlorine in the water), try rinsing/dunking/soaking the phone with distilled water from the store to remove any stuff that might of been deposited by the dirty water you swam in.  Then thouroughly let it dry somewhere safe for like three days.

This has worked on one cell phone I went swimming with (but failed on another I tried... but likely because I tried to turn it on and fried it good while it was still soaked with dirty water) and a computer with an open case that my friend owned and whose dog decided to walk up to one day and use as a fire hydrant (in particular, the motherboard and video card).  We rinsed the components thouroughly with the distilled water, then soaked them for an hour each.  We then hand dried them as best (and gently) as we could with clean towels and/or shook as much loose water as we could out of the components.  Then we let them sit in a very dry and warm place for three days.  Looked the best we could for any hints of moisture left on or in the components and reassembled them.  Worked like a charm.

[DREDIOCK]

I know of mixed results with wet phones. Most even if they did get them working again died permanently within a couple of months.
My daughter has soaked her phones twice. the first one we did most of the suggestions mentioned including burying it in rice for a few days.
It worked for a couple of months after that then just died.
The next time she did it nothing worked. Now she's stuck with my sons old scratched up. beat up phone till she can prove she cant take care of it.
And thats how most of them that I know of have gone

Though I know a couple of guys whos phones are still working fine after almost two years.
So its hit and miss. but I wouldnt count on it.

Thats why I got the  G'zOne Boulder 

[fudgums]

thanks gents, and I went out to the store and when I came back, I just had to splash my little cousin. Then noticed it was in my pocket

[rabbidrabbit]

My last cell phone fell off my dock and stayed down there in the mud for 2 days before I retrieved it.  I put the sucker on the heater vent overnight and it fired right up.  Never would have guessed it would still work but it did.

[trigger2]

My last cell phone fell off my dock and stayed down there in the mud for 2 days before I retrieved it.  I put the sucker on the heater vent overnight and it fired right up.  Never would have guessed it would still work but it did.

Something similar happened to one of my old phones... One of the Verizon freebees.. Decided it wanted to take a swim off the boat ramp into Detroit Lake... chased it as it slid... lost it in the murky water, left without it, then about 5 hours later getting the boat back on the trailer, I stepped on the bugger, picked it up, put it next to the heater on the way home (battery out of course), then when I got home as there was still some water behind the screen, grabbed a blowdryer, got that taken care of, and it lasted me 2 more years after that...

[JB88]

rice in a tupperware container.

wait a few days.

good luck.