Save my phone!

Rice would be a good call. I'm not sure, but I think I remember reading that putting it in rice in the fridge was helpful.

Put battery in rice, and open all ports on the phone and put it into the rice.
 
4T5 said:
Take it to bits as much as you can & put it in your airing cupboard for a week.
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Donnnnnnnnnnnnnt do this! get a pint glass, fill it with rice then push your phone into it and leave it for a good week it'll be fine. Make sure you remove the battery before this and just leave it on a windowsill.
 
Is it an AMOLED Desire? Last September I came out of hospital and dropped my missus phone into a drain outside the house, two days later when I was better I was able to fish it out by pumping the boggy water out and netting all the leaves until I found it. The screen looked like a lava lamp, I rinsed it out in clean water and then dried it in the sun and in the airing cupboard. Guess what, it worked and it's still in use to this day, the only thing is if you look really closely there are some dried out watermarks on the inside of the screen, not enough to warrant taking it to bits and cleaning though.

I was amazed, especially as I could see the phone in the drain, when it dropped in all the buttons lit up so a few things must have been shorting.
 
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Donnnnnnnnnnnnnt do this! get a pint glass, fill it with rice then push your phone into it and leave it for a good week it'll be fine. Make sure you remove the battery before this and just leave it on a windowsill.
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yeh, the airing cupboard sounds like a bad idea, not that ive tried it. Rice seems like a safe bet.
 
If you brought it before ~september it's amoled. From what our repair teams in orange say, water is pretty easy to treat in that if it's quick enough not much gets in but the real problem is that even if you get rid of it all, it can corrode the electronics slowly over time speeding up the phones demise. Rice or silica, both serve the same purpose (although I would take it apart into as many pieces as possible in either method).
 
Wicksta said:
Is it an AMOLED Desire? Last September I came out of hospital and dropped my missus phone into a drain outside the house...Guess what, it worked and it's still in use to this day, the only thing is if you look really closely there are some dried out watermarks on the inside of the screen, not enough to warrant taking it to bits and cleaning though.
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HTCs seem very durable... I dropped my Magic in a glass of water last year and after some drying out it worked absolutely fine. Was very pleased.
 
Well its currently just stuck on the white htc loading screen, not good news.

However it does vibrate when switching on.

Tried my battery in housemates desire and his switches on fine, so ruling that out.

Tried recovery mode in voldown and power button just back to the white htc screen loading now.

Removal Drive flashes up and off on my pc when connected. So cant even see if any files are around.

After leaving the phone for around 5 minutes to boot, the "quietly brilliant" message appeared under the HTC logo, and the sound also played, its bnow stuck on the connect your charger part. But doesnt charge.
 
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Got it turned on today screen worked fine and stuff loaded, turned of withn 2 minutes though then back to the htc loading screen, anyone know how i can restore it back to factory rom? I had a custom one on there.
 
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