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Last Thursday my Tilt fell off my belt (inside it’s case) and into a Thomas Crapper here at work. Our toilets here are the auto flush type, it hit the water as the bowl was filling back up (thank goodness) and as I reached in to grab it, I caused the toilet to flush a second time.

It’s one of those high pressure flush toilets, the ones that go KAWOOOOOSH when you flush them and it sprayed water directly into the phone. I guess this is one case that the size of the tilt came in handy, it didn’t go down the drain.

I pulled it out, the screen was still on, and everything looked normal. I quickly pulled the phone out of the case, water was pouring out of it, and I slid the back off and pulled the battery out of the phone.

I’ve always read that you want to get the power source removed ASAP from the device because it will burn out if there are certain shorts made from the water.

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I took the phone to the sink, and shook all the water out of it, there was a surprising amount of water INSIDE the phone. I pulled my SIM card out (very wet) and pulled my SD Card (bone dry) out too just to be safe. I put the phone in my pocket and all it’s parts into another pocket, hopped on my motorcycle and rode home.

When I got home, I took my phone out of my pocket, it left a very wet spot on my leg, and opened it up (like you’re typing on it) and set it under a light on our buffet. I also took the back off of it in hopes to get as much air to the phone as possible.

After sitting like that for about 5 hours, I tried to plug in the battery again, and fire it up. The phone would start, boot all the way up, give the ‘low battery’ warning, and shut down. I plugged it in to the wall, fired it up, and it would never complete booting, it would hang at the ATT Logo. Then I noticed that the speaker was still wet, so I am guessing the phone was still wet.

I put the phone back down, took the battery back out, and went to bed. In the morning, I put the battery back in the phone, and, much to my surprise, it started right back up!!!

Everything seems to be working fine, for the first few days, the audio on the phone was a little muffled (I kept telling people it sounded like crap, get it!? wakka wakka wakka) but that seems to be gone and cleared up too. The ONLY problem I have had, is that the Y key doesn’t seem to be quite as responsive as the others, but the more I use it, the better it gets.

I guess I am writing this because I’m pretty surprised that my phone still works. I guess this thing is a tank. I was already looking to see what it was going to cost to replace the thing, and I wasn’t happy at how expensive it was going to be (I am only 6 months into my contract). I need to look into phone insurance.

Kip

P.S. If you like that graphic on my article, check out the webpage it’s from (click the image, you’ll get a new window), the guy has some pretty cool sketches.

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