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Allen — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:37:18 -0000

Left my iPhone in the rain overnight. In the morning I kept shaking it until no water came out. Then I blew into the holes. Kept it in a dry place and after a day or two it returned to full function. The bluetooth didn't work initially, but I re-paired it and I'm fine now. NOTE: the Apple store knows when it's been in water! There's a piece of paper inside one of the ports that turns red when contacted with water.

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MouatMac — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:04:13 -0000

I had to jump into a swimming pool to save my son from drowning and my iPhone was in my pocket and it got completely sub-merged in the water.
When I got it home, I used a hair dryer and blew warm dry air into both headphone and data connector sockets for about 10 minutes. I then sat my iPhone on my Apple TV, Screen up, over night. Apple TV runs very hot and the warmth of the Apple TV over night will gently dry out all parts of the iPhone. The following morning I connect it to iTunes and iTune thought it was a brand new phone, but game me the option to restore. I did this and my iPhone is now fully recovered. Working 100%.

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LUCKY! — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:00:24 -0000

VACUUM VACUUM VACUUM!!!So far after i vacuumed its workin i really tried my best 2 get the speakers the buttons the sim port the headphone jack and where the 2 sides of the phone meet i did the hair dryer then the vacuum now im gonna leave it in a ziploc with silica packets for 3 days.

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thankyou — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:16:28 -0000

Dear god you are a genius!!! I tried the spray thing a whole day after getting it wet and it turned on while spraying. Thanks a lot I thought I was screwed. You're the man, a cadillac of men and a young adonis.

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kevin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:00:03 -0000

Here is how I fixed my wet phone.

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3iPhoneforme — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:06:35 -0000

I had the same problem as I dropped my iPhone running in from the car during a storm. I let it air dry for a day but still still did not work. I found a good article via iphoneatlas.com and stated air drying wasn't enough. The article said you had to place the phone in a zip lock bag with silica packets and linked to: http://www.silicagelpackets.com

I ordered a pack with priority mail and let the iphone air dry until I got them (tough 3 days of my life with no iPhone!!!) and as instructions stated I placed the iPhone in the zip lock bag with packets loosely around them. I tried the phone the next day and it worked, thankfully. Hopefully this can help you as well!

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Rezibeh — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:58:13 -0000

Take away the "s" from your diagram and you've got my strategy: pray. Pray here, and pray there.