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Re: ok, I TRULY bricked it. Advice please...

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Originally Posted by ryanbg View Post
Place your phone in a container with uncooked rice, in a cool dry place. Wait a couple days. Remove the battery ASAP before you do anything at all. Then give it a shot. The rice will absorb most of the moisture if you are lucky.
That's an old Electronic Tech's trick, 99% of the time it works. Water doesn't damage electronics so much as the electronic shorts it create across circuits. Dry it out completley and you may be surprised to find it working again, or at least enough to trade in for a new one.
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