Dropped iPhone in a cup of milk, it's fucked right?

[hexpunK]

Well I accidentally managed to drop my phone in my drink last night, and as it was incredibly late I didn't have time to go through proper procedures of fixing it, so far I have dried it, left it overnight, then put in in a tray f rice and baked it at gas mark 1 (about 140F).

After the journey into the wetness, the screen became unresponsive, then flickered, then went pure white (there were no signs of water damage on the white screen). There was no response ot hard resets, tapping, or any other buttons, iTunes and Windows couldn't pick it up any more. About an hour later it shut off. I woke up this morning. Put it in a metal tray with some rice, and stuck it in the oven, still no response ot turning on or off when I got it out an hour later, but if I have it plugged into a PC and hold home, then plug the USB cable it I can see the Apple boot logo for about 15 seconds, then it reboots and loops this until the cable is removed.

It's far out of warranty, and Apple are charging extortionate prices for repairs, but the water sensor inside the phone hasn't gone off I believe, so maybe I can at least get them to have a look at it?

If you have any ideas as to what I could try next (thinking of seeing if house insurance covers these), please post them, I am getting pretty desperate as this is the only working mobile I have now.

[Marlamin]

Those are clear symptoms of a dead/burned out iPhone. I'm sorry for your loss.

[hexpunK]

:saddowns:

I wonder if I could convince someone who keeps scamming his insurance company to give me one of his iPhones from his literal mountain of them :v:

[editline]11:37AM[/editline]

Now it won't even respond to the PC. It's most definitely dead.

[HubmaN]

You shouldn't have tried to heat it with the milk on it. Dipping it in water while off and letting it dry would have cleaned it without damaging it further.

[hexpunK]

I had cleaned almost all the visible milk off and let any in the smaller nooks and ports drip dry out last night for about an hour. But I think there must have been some on the main board or something.

[articpenguin]

You should have put it in a bowl of dry rice ASAP. I did that with my old phone and it fixed it,

[^0mKTank]

If I paypal you the shipping cost can I have it :v:

(I'm being serious)

[hexpunK]

[QUOTE=^0mKTank;20415458]If I paypal you the shipping cost can I have it :v:

(I'm being serious)[/QUOTE]

Depends if my house insurance company cough up :v: And if they want the phone or not...

[ExTek]

[QUOTE=^0mKTank;20415458]If I paypal you the shipping cost can I have it :v:

(I'm being serious)[/QUOTE]

Arent you the guy who stalked me and added me on skype to get my iPhone?

[psp401.com]

How much would you be willing to pay for the repairs?

[Komppu]

Always remember to protect your device from liquids and if you wet quickly it shut it down and let it dry about 2d and hope best.

[hexpunK]

[QUOTE=psp401.com;20426899]How much would you be willing to pay for the repairs?[/QUOTE]

I think it is now beyond repair, I may have actually toasted the motherboard to the extent of various solder joints breaking off :v: And the screen got pretty messed up by this too, I already know that replacing almost all the major components is going to cost me a fair amount (probably more than the £100 excess our home insurance offered for a replacement 3g).

[teeheeV2]

[QUOTE=ExTek;20422944]Arent you the guy who stalked me and added me on skype to get my iPhone?[/QUOTE]

Hes the guy who tries to help you but just lies and swears instead.

OP: That really sucks. My friend dropped a Nokia into milk not long ago, and managed to get a new one in the Trading post. I don't know what Americans call it, It's kinda like Ebay in the paper

[SA Spyder]

[QUOTE=teeheeV2;20438218]Hes the guy who tries to help you but just lies and swears instead.

OP: That really sucks. My friend dropped a Nokia into milk not long ago, and managed to get a new one in the Trading post. I don't know what Americans call it, It's kinda like Ebay in the paper[/QUOTE]

Shift-click restore works. I don't care what you or your friends say.

[teeheeV2]

SA spyder, it doesn't from 3.1.3.

I just found this though : [url=http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=866485]Link[/url]. You can from 3rd gen 8gbs and older, not the 32 though. So maybe we're both right

[aznz888]

the problem with this is that it was MILK, not water. water evaporates with little to no trace residue, while milk practically turns the inside of your iphone to cheese. basically, you're fucked

[BlackWolf97]

Bake for 30 minutes at 275 degrees.

Oh wait.

[Pixel-Heart]

You have to be some kind of drunken moron to drop an iPhone into a glass of milk, and it would have to be a HUGE fucking glass to even fit. I understand the rice trick, drawing the moisture out... but I still can't believe you had the audacity to [B]bake an iphone.[/B] You are aware that it contains a litium ion battery and an LCD screen, right? Those are highly sensitive to heat, and baking them can only make things worse, not better.

This may seem harsh, but with your thought process, it sounds like you deserve your broken phone.

[Panda X]

[QUOTE=Pixel-Heart;20457469]You have to be some kind of drunken moron to drop an iPhone into a glass of milk, and it would have to be a HUGE fucking glass to even fit. I understand the rice trick, drawing the moisture out... but I still can't believe you had the audacity to [B]bake an iphone.[/B] You are aware that it contains a litium ion battery and an LCD screen, right? Those are highly sensitive to heat, and baking them can only make things worse, not better.

This may seem harsh, but with your thought process, it sounds like you deserve your broken phone.[/QUOTE]

140F isn't [i]that[/i] hot to such components.

[Pixel Heart]

[QUOTE=Panda X;20461870]140F isn't [i]that[/i] hot to such components.[/QUOTE]

The LCD screen can warp and/or melt, and the battery could explode. Just sayin... :frown:

[hexpunK]

[QUOTE=Pixel Heart;20467405]The LCD screen can warp and/or melt, and the battery could explode. Just sayin... :frown:[/QUOTE]

Which it probably did :v: Still, there were people who had reported that keeping the iPhone from direct contact with the hot surface and heating it to 140F was safe enough to draw water damage out, but this was milk after all.

Oh and the cup was pretty big. iPhone + palm sweat + drink = dead phone.

[AlienBBBFanatic]

[QUOTE=teeheeV2;20438218]Hes the guy who tries to help you but just lies and swears instead.

OP: That really sucks. My friend dropped a Nokia into milk not long ago, and managed to get a new one in the Trading post. I don't know what Americans call it, It's kinda like Ebay in the paper[/QUOTE]
The Classifieds?

[Cluckyx]

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the insurance company were savvy to checking the Iphone liquid sensors and telling you to fuck off in a similar manner to apple.

[BlackWolf97]

[QUOTE=Cluckyx;20510271]I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the insurance company were savvy to checking the Iphone liquid sensors and telling you to fuck off in a similar manner to apple.[/QUOTE]

run it over? OOPS I DROPED IT STREET

[EvilMelon]

Probably baking it ruined it more than the milk.

[compwhiziitothe]

[QUOTE=EvilMelon;20664720]Probably baking it ruined it more than the milk.[/QUOTE]

thanks for bumping it sherlock holmes! You solved the mystery!

[TheUnDeadGod]

Shows that the IPod touch is better i dropped it down the toilet dried it off with a towel and a hoover and the next day it worked, except the backlight didnt work and a month later that worked, all the problem now is the speaker doesnt work past a certain volume!

[codenamecueball]

Nice bump.

[editline]02:27PM[/editline]

[QUOTE=TheUnDeadGod;25086900]Shows that the IPod touch is better i dropped it down the toilet dried it off with a towel and a hoover and the next day it worked, except the backlight didnt work and a month later that worked, all the problem now is the speaker doesnt work past a certain volume![/QUOTE]

HANG ON GUYS IM GONNA BROWSE THE WEB ON THE TRAIN OH WAIT I CAN'T THERES NO WiFI

[TheUnDeadGod]

[QUOTE=codenamecueball;25087009]Nice bump.

[editline]02:27PM[/editline]

HANG ON GUYS IM GONNA BROWSE THE WEB ON THE TRAIN OH WAIT I CAN'T THERES NO WiFI[/QUOTE]

I dont tend to do that so thats not really a problem for me.
I think the phonecalls is the only extra thing id use.
But thats not the point im just trying to say maybe its more reliable or something, my works and the iphone doesnt, doesnt take a genius to work out which is better in that perceptive.

[Big D Duchovny]

This was so uneeded. I've dropped my phone in water a few times, and it worked afterwards. Seems like an old Nokia is better than any other phone in the world :downs: