I also suggest removing the battery, the SIM chip if you have one, remove all covers, open it up, pull out the antenna and let it sit for a couple of days. There very well may be water inside the case. Letting is just sit and air dry for a while may bring it back to life, without risking melting anything. If you have any desiccant, that might help too.
Yeah. But did you have eight persons spend almost a half hour looking for your wallet, which was, all the while, in the pouch of your sweatshirt?
I’m an idiot of a higher magnitude.
Bah. Amateur idiot at best.
I washed and dried my favorite butane lighter. Twice. It still worked, but I think I shortened its lifespan appreciably. Luckily for me, it didn’t ignite and/or explode in the gas dryer.
Bah. After three years of having them safe and secure, did you manage to lose the second set of car keys for the car you’re trying to sell? Keys that must be purchased for an exhorbitant fee directly from the mfr with the secret code that you’ve also lost? Please, I’m a MUCH bigger idiot than you.
I third(?) the suggestion to open it all up and give it time.
Sweetie washed and dried his cell. It was dead. We opened it all up, pulled the chip and battery, and left it sitting open for several days to dry. (I think in front of a fan or vent; I quit drying electronics in the oven when they quit putting in pilot lights.) Plugged it in, it charged up, and has worked fine since.
But it did take several days before it came back to life.
Patience, grasshopper!
I do not understand the “zip it up” comment. What does it mean?
I hope it’s not the microwave oven. You should see what that can do to a CD.
I am a mother. I do laundry. I check the pockets of every single garment that goes into my washing machine, a habit born from bitter experience. (Crayons in the dryer, anyone?)
I am amused at myself, however, for checking the pockets of my 2-year-old son. Which I’ve been doing since he was an infant wearing clothes which inexplicably had pockets. I suppose it’s a good habit, but I still laugh at myself for looking in a baby’s pockets for papers and change. 
Did you ever lose your wallet–which contained your bank cards and $1200 in cash–at the mall?
Talk about ‘here’s your sign’…
I washed hubby’s cell phone yesterday. Needless to say, we had yet another discussion of who should check the pockets of their own clothes. Anyway, it went through the wash at 2:00pm. I checked it for gits and shiggles around 7:00pm and, lo and behold, it was perfectly fine.
This is a cheap little Mortorla, by the way. He suggested we send the story to Motorola including the dialogue of our discussion as an idea for a commercial. I don’t think it would pass the censors.
Dude, come here…
(gives him a punch on the shoulder and a knuckle-rap upside the head) 
Mine went into the toilet once. It was attached to my hospital scrubs in a holster and it dislodged as I um…seated myself. Luckily I noticed it right away, not after having uh, made the “deposit”!
So don’t fret. There’s always someone who’s done somnething dumber.
In this instance it was your older “brother”! :smack:
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A few weeks ago I managed to drop mine in an auto-flush toilet at work, when I was getting up. Thank God I’d only had to pee. I got it out before the thing could flush, yanked the battery out and stuff and rinsed it really quick at the sink and then left it to dry for a couple of days. Ever since, I am very very careful at work when I’m pulling my pants up!
The phone is fine. I’ve never washed one, though I’ve washed debit cards and such before.
I tightened a 3/4" drill bit onto a drill with a keyless chuck… by holding onto the bit instead of the chuck.
Ow.
I noticed what I thought was a thin crack in my windshield, way up in the upper lefthand corner. I didn’t remember a rock hitting it, but didn’t think much of it since it was out of the normal line of sight. I looked at it last night and thought, is it getting longer, and weird how it is following the path of the wiper… :smack: Perhaps that’s because there’s a piece of metal on the wiper that is bent and scratching the windshield over -flip- and over -flip- and over…
Now, if this floater that I’ve had for three months turns out to be because of a detached retina, I will be some pissed.
Hal, she couldn’t use the dryer. The cat wasn’t done yet. :eek: