I've always wondered how people have managed to lose their phones to toilets. About 40 hours ago, my Nexus 5 went on an unexpected diving expedition.
I was in the bathroom, undoing my belt when my Nexus flew out of my hoody pocket and into the clean toilet.
My first thought was:
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!
Then:
...That's £300 in the toilet
I immediately fished it out from its tragically watery situation and started to panic. I knew I had to turn it off and get it drying.
Problem was that the screen had gone blank, not immediately after I rescued it but not long after and stopped responding so I couldn't turn it off. Too chicken and lacking the tools to prise the battery out, I did what I could and got a plastic box, filled it with rice and placed my wiped down phone into its recovery chamber.
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Rice the saviour and my phones rice rehab box. |
I was terrified. The phone was still receiving emails/notifications, buzzing from within the box and flashing the LED light. Unable to do anything, distressed and tearful, I let the rice do its thing.
The next morning the screen was responding and I turned it off. I'd read 24 hours was the minimum time to leave it so I didn't check it again until the evening. I managed to unlock it and check a few apps before the phone started freaking out, opening and closing and switching between apps. In a panic I turned it off again with the hope that the rice would keep working its magic.
This morning I checked it again and it seemed fine and back to its pre-water experience state. Not wanting to hump the gun I left it another 8 hours and...
IT'S ALIVE!!
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All hail the rice. |
There are thankfully no problems with sound, picture, camera, any other functions and it is behaving exactly as it did before it went in the toilet. I'd lost my iPod a few years ago to some light water damage and seriously thought it was the end for my barely a year old phone. But it had survived to live another day and I've learned a valuable lesson.