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Phone trouble

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My daughter went on a slip-n-slide at school today with her phone in her pocket. While it didn't get completely soaked, it is now not working correctly. It does seem to work, however, if she uses my battery. Her friends (no doubt of superior intelligence, as all teenagers are) recommended she put the battery in a bowl of rice (obviously to try to draw the water out). Aside from buying her a new battery, does anyone else have any ideas - just in case the baby-geniuses' idea doesn't work out?
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  1. paul ·

    I would say a new battery is in order. They shouldn't be too expensive. Depending on the type of battery you could try and return it and say it was defective but usually batteries now have a little sticker on them that changes color to red when it gets wet, alerting the cell phone company it was exposed to water. Same with the insides of the cell phone. I had one that got wet, but just in the rain and barely wet. However the sticker ended up changing color and when I went to go return it for an unrelated problem, e.g. a button had fallen off, they charged me because it had been exposed to water.

  2. gardenmama ·

    Thanks Paul. Miracle of miracles, it appears the battery and SIM card in a bowl of rice method worked. She's back up and running. Amazing. I'm guessing it only works as long as it didn't get totally soaked. I dropped one in the snow once and it totally blew up everything inside. That sucked.

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