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I had a simular situation. I have sprint and pay for the insurance, rather than water damage i droped a 540 lb motorcycle on it. , then threw it against teh house. then threw it in the house.

odly enogh, tho it wouldent turn the screen on or take phone calls, i started it, pluged it in, then accessed it through windows. (if you can itl be in my computer)

this is less likely with water damage.

as far as returning it, obviously your carrier is not goign to replace it, but with sprint all i did was call the insruance company (not sprint) and filed a damage claim, which is what you would want to do.

you do have to send the phone to them, but its not a warrantee thing so they couldent care less what rom it has. they are goign to clear any data if the memory chip is still functioning so i wouldent worry about the data past attempting to retireve it.

again, insurance, not warrantee, so dont worry about the rom. they dont care if you are running dos, they just want the hardware.