Originally Posted by
Wingnutdal
Anyone ever taken their iPhone on a romantic swim in salt water? Did it dry out and work again?
Mine took a bath in the MD88 when it was 2 weeks old. I hadn't gotten my otterbox yet for it and so as we started to move I noticed that slick little devil was about to take a long fall. So just put it in a safe place... like the cup holder!
Coming through 20,000' or so I look over and decide to move it... that's when I realized it'd been headlong into about 2" of water. It took everything, and I mean everything, not to turn it on to see if it was okay.
I felt like I had one option which was to heat it up so I wedged it in the glareshield and the heated windshield and let it bake in the sun for the 2-3 hour flight.
It's worked for I guess 2-3 years now. I still think the camera is fuzzy but it's a 3Gs so that just may be how it is.
From experience the rice trick absolutely works. The hardest part is the not turning it on to see i it works now. You've just got to let it go.