Annecdote: Touch screen broke, then fixed itself... O_o

[NighthawkIX]

Wierdest thing just happened:

Took my phone with me on a camping trip and was wading through knee deep water and must've absorbed some moisture into the phone. The touch screen became finicky afterwards; working only intermittently and mostly just on one half of the screen with the right edge being completely unresponsive. The left side required very hard pushing to work. Tried to let the phone air out, compressed air dust buster, hard reset, soft reset, ROM reflash, etc. No luck; was about to take the phone to a repair store the following day, but decided to activate a backup phone in the meantime so I could get calls. (Mogul was stuck on screen config screen so it was non-functional).

Right before I took the Mogul to the repair center, I reactivated it. Ta-da, the screen now *works* (crosses fingers and no jinxing...). ??? Any idea why or how this happened? I'm not complaining, but I'm severely confused, in a good way.

[LoneSnark]

Like you said, it seems water got in but took awhile to get out. Placing your phone in a dry warm place would have sped up the repair, such as in an oven that you had on low and then turned off (test the temperature with your hand first, if it burns then that is too hot!). Even then it should take a few cycles.

It needs saying that reflashing your phone was a bad idea. It was unlikely that any data on the phone had become corrupt, but it is possible that the hardware responsible for flashing could have been suffering from water issues, so flashing might have bricked your phone. You could have reflashed after the phone dried out, but you would have had no way of knowing if your efforts at drying it out were working without trying to flash each time.