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    Damnit last night I was driving and put my phone in my console, I had a massage the day before and had a damn cup of water there that I stuck my phone in! Is there anything or is it completeley ruined? I tried to blow dry it a bit and it was just doing weird things last night. It kept calling a 656 no matter what I tried to do. I just got the phone and my plan is with sprint isn't the phone have a one year warranty? I can just say it stopped working?

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    Oh noooo

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    Actually I took it to sprint and they told me it looked like I had gotten it wet and there was nothing they could do. I was like I need my contact info and he was like if we can't turn on the phone we cant get it. The bottom half was still lighting up so he said I could bring it were they repair phones. Long story short they put a new screen on and it worked. They were going to charge me 35 but said no charge when I picked it up because the screen was not perfect. So happy, sprint rocks!

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    +1 for rice.

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    I accidentally ran mine through the wash. Did it on a friday so I took a screw driver to it and took it apart. left it on a sunny window sill to fry out.

    Put it together on sunday night and charged right up. No harm done.

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    Thanks guys, now I know what to do if I do it again which I probably will, seems I am always getting it wet and I use wet ones on it constantly which isn't good for it either but I am a germ a phobe. Ha, ha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ArmySGT. View Post
    I accidentally ran mine through the wash. Did it on a friday so I took a screw driver to it and took it apart. left it on a sunny window sill to fry out.

    Put it together on sunday night and charged right up. No harm done.
    I dropped it in the sink once and did essentially what you did. It worked well for awhile but died a quick death. Make sure any information not saved to a SIM card is saved somewhere.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ArmySGT. View Post
    I accidentally ran mine through the wash. Did it on a friday so I took a screw driver to it and took it apart. left it on a sunny window sill to fry out.

    Put it together on sunday night and charged right up. No harm done.
    Best advice!

    Never let them know you got your phone wet!

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    Yeah get your info and pics of it now just in case - I got mine wet and it kept calling random numbers and turning itself on and off. I took it apart and put it in rice for a day or two and it went back to working fine, woohoo!... a few weeks later it completely broke and the guy at Verizon said it was damage from the water that caused it.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Kisca View Post
    Best advice!

    Never let them know you got your phone wet!
    Problem is they have something inside the phone, usually behind the battery, that determines whether the phone got wet or not. If it changes color, the phone is deemed to have gotten wet.
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    ^ Yes that's how he knew I had gotten it wet, by the battery changing. Funny thing the guy at the other store said it didn't show that. They put a new screen on so I hope that works since I'll be out of town the next week and don't know and wont have time to save info to a sim card.

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    Dropped my phone in a urinal. Twice. Once can be forgiven--maybe. But twice? That suggests a drinkin' problem.

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    Default Re: Messed up cell phone

    Even if they can't turn the phone on, if you buy a new phone at Best Buy, they 9 out of 10 times can put it on this machine that I guess transfers the info on your sim/memory card so your new phone will have all of your contacts and pictures and what not.

    My blackberry dropped in the toilet and it died a slow miserable death (wouldn't even turn on) and I bought a new phone at my then job (Best Buy) and my new phone had all my info on it. I was soooo happy.

    Then I bought another new phone from Radio Shack and those bastards said there wasn't any way to transfer my contacts. And they were transferring it from a perfectly working phone to a brand new one so if Best Buy can do it from a dead phone to a new one, Radio Shack has no excuse.

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