Removing smoke odour from a phone

ja3h · 19 Nov 2009 at 17:29

I just my hands on a phone I bought off fleabay - and the previous owner must have smoked like a chimney. The packaging, bubble wrap and phone have an immense cigarette smoke odour.

I'm just wondering how to get rid of it.. I thought it wouldn't bother me but I just used the phone for a call and I could smell it quite a bit. (Without returning the phone!)

I took off the back cover and sprayed it with febreeze which removed some of the smell. I've read online about baking soda and vinegar.. but what is safe to use on plastics?

Biohazard · 19 Nov 2009 at 17:30

mobile phones forum?

aproctor · 19 Nov 2009 at 17:30

Smelly plastic?

Is this a joke?

benjo · 19 Nov 2009 at 17:32

Fire would probably work

Le_Petit_Lapin · 19 Nov 2009 at 17:35

You could use some of that lemon scented stuff that you use after you've cleaned TIM off CPU's to clean the surface.

Forget the name, but it should work.

willhub · 19 Nov 2009 at 17:39

Microwave?

Fegruson · 19 Nov 2009 at 17:41

Mustard!

jpmonkey69 · 19 Nov 2009 at 17:43

If you start smoking the smell won't bother you, PLUS you look extra extra cool.

Win.

ja3h · 19 Nov 2009 at 17:45

I decided to post on this forum as it's more general and I hoped I would get more responses.

Okay, thanks lapin I have some of that stuff lying about somewhere, didn't think of it! If that fails maybe fire followed by microwaves or vice versa!

willhub · 19 Nov 2009 at 17:46

This is general discussion, you only get around 30% of serious posts per thread I reckon, not that it's a bad thing, it's a funny place, look at my thread, full of pasty smashers and haxors.

ja3h · 19 Nov 2009 at 17:47

willhub said:
This is general discussion, you only get around 30% of serious posts per thread I reckon, not that it's a bad thing, it's a funny place, look at my thread, full of pasty smashers and haxors.

They all seem valid... apart from the mustard. I don't want my phone to grow hair!

willhub · 19 Nov 2009 at 17:49

Valid? Fire, Mustard, Microwave?

Don't forget you have to do it all in one go, or you're doing it wrong!

Strife212 · 19 Nov 2009 at 17:57

Just wipe it with a damp cloth?

Nash · 19 Nov 2009 at 18:19

Just leave it for a while, it'll wear off.

Biohazard · 19 Nov 2009 at 18:20

nicotine patch?

droyden · 19 Nov 2009 at 18:34

febreze?

Bennie-Mac · 19 Nov 2009 at 19:01

Submerse it in boiling water mixed with baking powder. Then start using it instantly

mark66 · 19 Nov 2009 at 19:08

We bought a Cross Trainer on ebay and it absolutely wreaked of cigarettes. It kept its smell for months even though we washed it down many times and sprayed loads of odour neautraliser sprays at it.

I would never have thought that something made of hard plastic and metal could hold a smell so much but it did...grim.

BigBadBenny · 19 Nov 2009 at 19:09

willhub said:
Microwave?

Winner!

Dark_Angel · 19 Nov 2009 at 19:09

Try googling it. "removing smoke smell from cell phone"

One suggestion I heard was rubbing alcohol. There was also "...I put the phone in a plastic zip lock back with a dryer sheet and now it just smells fresh. I think it will take a few days to lessen the dryer sheet smell, but it helped. "