Fixing drowned phones.

[rbeau30]

Resurrecting drowned iPhones from the dead. Any folks out there that do canning recognize his machine?


http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2014/11/13/fixing-wet-phones.cnnmoney/index.html

[00tec]

That company is in thornton...

[sabot_round]

I can do the same thing with some rice in a bowl, and I get to re-use the rice. Way cheaper than what that machine will cost. I have done this four times with the wife's and the daughter's phones with 100% success.

[Rooskibar03]

http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah253/Rooskibar03/56E2FD8C-6C97-4D35-85E8-42DABF3DB353_zpsxbv7l7c7.jpg (http://s1382.photobucket.com/user/Rooskibar03/media/56E2FD8C-6C97-4D35-85E8-42DABF3DB353_zpsxbv7l7c7.jpg.html)

[TFOGGER]

Meh...I've had good luck using highly concentrated alcohol to get the water out, and then dry air to get the alcohol out.

[TFOGGER]

http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah253/Rooskibar03/56E2FD8C-6C97-4D35-85E8-42DABF3DB353_zpsxbv7l7c7.jpg (http://s1382.photobucket.com/user/Rooskibar03/media/56E2FD8C-6C97-4D35-85E8-42DABF3DB353_zpsxbv7l7c7.jpg.html)


Oh hell....I'm glad i wasn't drinking anything...[ROFL1][ROFL1]

[sabot_round]

http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah253/Rooskibar03/56E2FD8C-6C97-4D35-85E8-42DABF3DB353_zpsxbv7l7c7.jpg (http://s1382.photobucket.com/user/Rooskibar03/media/56E2FD8C-6C97-4D35-85E8-42DABF3DB353_zpsxbv7l7c7.jpg.html)

I will show this to my wife, who happens to be Asian, and see what she thinks about it.

[SideShow Bob]

I can do the same thing with some rice in a bowl, and I get to re-use the rice.

Let us hope that the phone didn't fall into the gas station toilet first when you reuse that rice for dinner.......

[rbeau30]

The little "chamber" he puts it in is literally a presto pressure cooker. He must have just put it in a pelican case to make it look all cool, and a bulkhead fitting to some tubing which is hooked up to an air pump. Creates a vacuum in there and voila!

[Great-Kazoo]

The little "chamber" he puts it in is literally a presto pressure cooker. He must have just put it in a pelican case to make it look all cool, and a bulkhead fitting to some tubing which is hooked up to an air pump. Creates a vacuum in there and voila!

Use a food vacuum sealer, if you have one. 90+% Alcohol does the trick.

[Mtn.man]

But 100% alcohol will make ya happy quicker while your phone is out.

[Irving]

What about a food dehydrator?

[tim-adams]

fixed my moms phone in 48 hours.. Rice makes the phone better :-)

[sabot_round]

Let us hope that the phone didn't fall into the gas station toilet first when you reuse that rice for dinner.......

[ROFL1] Not for cooking...for drying out electronics.

[kwando]

Hear putting in fire will dry it out. I'm Asian I shoukd know

[TFOGGER]

Hear putting in fire will dry it out. I'm Asian I shoukd know


there's always the microwave too...

[RonMexico]

Hear putting in fire will dry it out. I'm Asian I shoukd know
Must only be half with a reply like that. [Coffee]

[mtnrider]

Meh...I've had good luck using highly concentrated alcohol to get the water out, and then dry air to get the alcohol out.

^ This is he way to go. Highest percentage of alcohol you can find. Unfortunately the big down side of the iphone is you can't remove the battery to really flush it. Rice is nice but it doesn't get inside to remove residue.

[MrPrena]

I put drowned phone into the PC box near the CPU fan for about 1/2 working day. It works well.