mobile phone in mashing machine!!! any resurrection stories?

[Annabel1]

No no no! It's gone thru full cycle with two spins and is not functioning (surprise!). Has anyone else's had this experience and survived? How long do I give it? Very sad and cross!!

Yikes! You need to dry it very slowly with a hairdryer or on a radiator. Leave it for 3 days. If no life after that, it's definitely buggered. Oh, and no point in lying to your phone provider - all phones these days have a 'water damage detector' implanted.

Best of luck!

i read somewhere to put it in rice as this extracts the water - dh dropped his down the loo and we didnt have rice so he used lentils and it is working again. Dismantle it and dry it well first

Hope it works!

where else but mumsnet?! My phone is packed in rice after slow dryin out with hairdryer! Thank you and we'll see what happens

Did it work Annabel?

Lol at mashing machine.

Twas the death of DH's, sorry!

A word of comfort - my cousin washed her sons mobile in the washing machine and they expected it never to work again, (afaik it wasn't packed in life saving rice or given mouth to mouth or anything quite so dramatic) and it worked! Apparently it lived to text many a day long.