soaked mogul =\

Your screen is burning out, sorry dude, find another broken one and frankenstein it.

[bbsandkm]

Originally Posted by DDrake

Your screen is burning out, sorry dude, find another broken one and frankenstein it.

nicely said

[gameover]

Hey all heres another update took it outta the dry rice about 1 hour ago everythings working great so far(no screen flicker)Only problem i didnt have the patience to see if it really would work so i decieded to get a touch diamond last night from the sprint store $199 (i got insurance on this 1 ) Ill post 1 last update on the phone if the screen problems return in a day or 2. Thanks all.

[No1ustad]

that works too. mogul to diamond? if you need a decent keyboard i'd recommend the cootek touchpal

[nelly04]

I use pcm keyboard for the keyboard with mr. hawaiis skin at xda. works wonders!

[6700noobie]

Dang, if I read this earlier I would have said rinse it out with distilled water first. Iced tea has a lot of impurities and that's inside your phone now. I think like salt, if you run current through your device and salt is on your solder joints, the salt and current pulls the solder off your contacts... That could explain why your screen is acting that way. My apache screen was doing that, but that's because I physically broke connections, but smackin' it too hard. I replaced the screen with a part I bought from HK off ebay. The parts are there and there's a disassembly video youtube. I've taken my mogul apart and my apache for that matter. It's not too hard. Just be careful and don't pull things apart too hard.

[sykosoft]

This happened to my 6700 once, I dropped it in the toilet as I was standing up. I immediately fished it out, popped out the battery, and doused it with rubbing alcohol, and let it sit in the alcohol for around 15 minutes. Then I took it out, and let it dry out. The alcohol will evaporate quickly, plus it'll clean it out. It worked fine, but had bubbles behind the screen, so I filed an insurance claim.

Michael

[6700noobie]

Hahaha....sniff sniff what's that smell... hahaha....I needed a good laugh. too bad it had bubbles behind the screen. But yeah to get impurities out, you need to dilute them/rinse, hence the distilled water.... Zero impurities...but yeah in your case, rubbing alcohol is probably a good thing. disinfect. hahaha... Glad you were able to get a new phone through insurance. That's what it's for.

Sprint didn't add the insurance when I asked them to when I first got the phone. 2.75 years later I didn't really need the insurance, but I did bust the screen by "tapping" on the screen a bit too hard when I got fed up with dropping calls at work. Sprint wanted $120 for the repair, I said no thanks and got a $27 replacement from Hong Kong. Installed it myself and voila, good as new!

[coolwhip1220]

Phones will usually work perfectly fine after being in liquid if, and this is the biggest if, YOU LET THEM DRY COMPLETELY!!! Wait a couple days to be safe. What usually fries them is impatientence and powering them on too fast. The OP only waited a half hour with it in the rice. My clothes don't even dry in the dryer in a half hour.

[6700noobie]

Even with salt water? Water dries up and salt is deposited all over inside your device. I'm pretty sure that'll kill your device when you turn it on even after it dries. My friend dropped her camera into the water at the beach and we dried it out in an oven. She turned it on later and it was on for a little bit. Then zap zap sucker shuts off without retracting the lens and we hear parts rolling around inside the phone. Took apart the phone and little surface mount parts rolling around inside. If it's just water, usually the impurity content is low. If it's the sweetend iced tea, good luck. If it's unsweetend iced tea, probably ok, but you know something is making the water brown... rinse with distilled water or de-ionized water. electricity doesn't flow in de-ionized water so even when wet it shouldn't short stuff out. Water itself is a horrible conductor, but add electrolytes to it and you're screwed.