My HTC Desire has been a wonderful phone whcih I've had for a little over a year without mishap ... until last night (Thu 6.00pm) when it fell into the toilet. At least it had been flushed beforehand, so it was clean water.
Before going anything else, I took off the cover, took out the battery, took out the sim, took out the memory card, and stuck it in a container of rice overnight, and prayed.
This morning (Fri 7:00am, 13 hours later) I tried it. It seemed ok with a small hint of some capacitive loss.
One hour later on the way to work, I tried it again. Oh. Quite a lot of capacitive loss, requiring very heavy touches and swipes. Not good.
So it's now apart again and hopefully continuing to dry out in a dry air conditioned room.
Hint - make sure you do up the zip when putting it back in it's belt pouch.
Further updates to come ... all is not lost ... yet.
Fri 4:40pm (23 hours after the event): My latest test results on the phone are promising after giving it more time to dry in an air conditioned room. But it's too early to be 100% conclusive as I only had it on for a few minutes. I'll give it another day to dry out.
Mon 9:00am (3.5 days after the event): Turned it on for the first time in 2.5 days this morning. All appears to be ok. I'll now treat is "normally" and see how it goes. It's currently on charge (a low charge rate via a laptop usb port).
Tue 9:00am: All still ok.
[18-July-2011] 1.5 months later - all is well.
[20-July-2012] 13.5 months later - all is well apart from the camera which has lost it's clarity and focussing ability (which for all I know could be unrelated to the water incident).
[26-April-2013] All is still well.
[9-October-2013] All is still well.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
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