The experience that I know!
I have done this many times with phones just like the HTC Inspire, it was another one that got wet! You just have to know what to do as soon as it gets wet to prevent any damage! It isn’t anything new but someone people just do not think about this until it is too late. As for me, I learned that if you can take the power source out of the phone, it stands a much better chance of surviving then when you do nothing and then the wiring gets fried.
What to do if it does get soaked!
I will be glad to lead you through how I saved my ZTE Awe phone and kept it from getting fried. How I dried it and how you can do it without using Rice.
- Once your phone gets wet, your first response is to always pull the battery, if you can! I am sure not everyone thinks about these kinds of things but once you remove electricity from the equation, you stand a much greater chance at saving the electronic device!
- After that, you should get as much of the water off the phone as necessary without breaking the phone. I just flung it around with my hand a few times.
- I also took the back off and left the back uncovered. This will help the phone dry quicker and easier. You may see water spots in the screen if you leave the back on. It has to be able to dry the inside of the phone also.
- I used a Hair dryer, If you used this technique remember the phone should not get to hot. You best bet is to keep it in your hand as you blow air any place on or in the phone you can without causing damage. If the phone get hot in your hands it is time to let the phone cool off. This way you will not damage the phone. BATTERY MUST BE REMOVED before doing this and after this for an hour!
- I then would use the hair dryer every day over the next week to help dry the screen off and get those water droplets to go away from the screen. You can continue to do this as long as you like as long as you do not get the phone extremely hot and you do not have the battery in the phone as you use the hair dryer on the phone!
Now since I got the phone dry I no longer have WIFI or Blue tooth capabilities, and I am seriously thinking about buying a new phone but something that will allow me to make a portable hotspot with laptop and tablet. The only one that looks to be promising for Virgin Mobile, is the Samsung Galaxy S2 (Amazon Affiliate Link). Which I might just buy that myself and use that for my internet at home.
I am sure it was the phone getting wet that caused the wifi and blue tooth to be broken, at least it seems to be the problem. So I want to hear from the community about the Samasung Galaxy S2 and how has it been with Virgin Mobile US? Let me know by leaving a comment,
