Dropped iPod in water...
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- ethered
It turned off...
Is it dead?
- SteveJobs0
confucius say:
baptize ipod, and it will give up the holy spirit
- ninjasavant0
The important thing is that you survived.
- Point50
drop it in the dryer
- CALLES0
microwave it
- ninjasavant0
now you can find out if it will blend!
- ethered0
These are all above average responses!
- czawada0
If it was on when you dropped it chances are that it's dead.
You can try letting it dry completely, like open it up and put a fan on it for a few days, it may still be alive.
I did the same with my cell phone and drying it out completely before trying to power it up again worked.
- nearestexit0
I read somewhere that a guy dropped his cellphone is water then put it in pure alcohol, which dried it out and got it working again. Not sure if the stuff you buy at drugstores is good enough (usually it's 70 or 80% alcohol) but it might be worth trying.
Letting it air dry probably won't work (or setting a hair dryer to it).
- ghandolf0
Put it in a bowl full of white (dry) rice and let the rice pull the water and moisture out of it for a couple of days or a week. Keep the rice new and dry... to continue drawing the water out of it.
It's worked before for a friend of mine.
- ninjasavant0
We put a fan on a monitor that got filled with water for a week and it came out ok.
- lvl_130
do the rice thing that gandohf suggested. i know 2 people that this has worked for.
- e-pill0
didnt someone once sy to dunk it in alcohol so and then place it on a bag of rice as the alcohol will make the moisture inside dry up much faster and thus give the moistrue to the rice...??
- lvl_130
not sure about the alcohol part epill. i personally wouldn't want to submerge an already fucked ipod into another liquid...but that is just me.
i know the bag of rice thing has worked though. it also may depend on how much liguid actually got into the inner-workings/how long it sat in the liguid.
- Pixter0
I've heard that you should not try to turn it on, otherwise it may cause short circuit.
I think iRice™ is gonna work.
- slappy0
let me guess, it was in your shirt pocket and when you went to flush the toilet...
plop.
I would say that depending on pre or post urination it might work when dry. Give it a week or so becuase if you try and power it up early it will short.
- ethered0
"let me guess, it was in your shirt pocket and when you went to flush the toilet...
plop.
I would say that depending on pre or post urination it might work when dry. Give it a week or so becuase if you try and power it up early it will short.
"It was actually more interesting than that. I went to flick a bee that was floating upside down in the pool, slightly twitching.. The cord had a knot in it and was not its usual length. I flicked the bee into the air with my finger and as I did that I slightly pulled the chord and the ipod fell in the water. The bee never hit the ground...it buzzed away in mid air(very quickly). The iPod died, but the bee lived.
- slappy0
So it got dunked in pool water?
It may not ever power up. Was it salt water or chlorine?
- lvl_130
So it got dunked in pool water?
It may not ever power up. Was it salt water or chlorine?
slappy
(Aug 6 07, 19:06)who the hell has a salt water pool??!!! that's what i want to know!
haha! think how easy that wouldn't be to clean! but at least you could keep a vast selection of octopus in there! hey look at that shark! wow! look at that dolphin! damn, did you catch a glimpse of that seahorse?
- ethered0
chlorine, no im not filthy rich in miami beach.