ooopppsss... i broke my phone!

Few days ago I accidentally dropped my iphone in the sink-full of water. I tried to dry it using our hand-drier but I think I just made it worse because I lost the screen color - the screen turned white. I turned it off and kept it under my drawer. After few minutes I tried turning it on again but it won’t power up. I tried to charge it and still won’t turn on. I almost threw it out the window when I realised I still have 5 months left on this phone – so yeah, it’s got to be working!

Out of frustration I surfed the internet on anything to fix my broken iphone. I found one website that talks about confining the phone in a box with rice. They’re claiming rice has some special property that eats the moisture in the air, and by enclosing my broken iphone with it, it will dry my iphone completely. And so when I got home I did just that, put the iphone in a ricebox and crossed my fingers hoping it’ll work.

I left the phone in the box for few hours. Before I went to bed, I took the phone out and charged it. This time my phone shows a bit of life, the battery icon pops up however it’s blurry. I’m ok with that little light and so I left my phone charging overnight.

The next morning I checked my phone, it’s fully lit but just like last night the images are blurry. The water must have damaged the screen electronics…oh well; at least I can still use it.
And so I brought it to work and tried to play with it, hoping it’ll restore its original color. But it’s almost end of the day and nothing seemed to have changed. I’m already loosing hope and started finding excuses to live with brightly lit iphone screen. I thought to myself, well, at least I can read and send text messages. Although I can’t play games anymore and won’t be able to take good photos, I can still call and receive calls which is what a phone’s for. So yeah, I think I can live with these.

And so I stashed the phone in my bag and started shuffling out the door, I don’t want to miss my train home. While I was on the train, I got a call from the mrs. We were on the phone for less than a minute when the line is suddenly cut. I thought it must be the tunnel, I normally loose signal inside the tunnel. And so I waited until the train got out of the tunnel before calling my wife. We’re on the phone again for almost the same time as few minutes ago when there again – the line was cut. I called her again and the line just keeps getting cut. Man! Please not my phone! Well, I’m hoping it’s not my phone that’s cutting the line off, I’m hoping it’s just the dead spot around Sydney that’s causing the drop although I have a very good feeling my phone is completely f&%k3d broken!

When I got home I put it again in the same ricebox and forget about it. I didn’t touch it for a week. For this entire time I was using my Motorola phone, everything is fine but rosy.
After a week I checked my iphone and charged it again. To my surprise it’s back to its old self! The color is back to its normal hue - clear and crispy. I swapped the sim card as I planned to use it again. It was lunch time when I checked it again and this time it went back to its crap-self, brightly lit screen with blurry icons. I put it back and checked it again after awhile and it was in its old good self. It must be taking awhile to really get back on its feet. And so I kept using it even though most of the times it’s crappy.

Just this morning I noticed my phone has been in its good shape for a good 2 days. Maybe it’s completely fixed now. My calls are not dropped anymore, I can play games and the pictures taken from the camera is good too. Yey! I can now play the games that I used to play while waiting for anything, be it train, counter, etc. I just hope it stays this way.

So there you go guys, when this thing happened to you try using the rice technique. It works for me!