DROID went Swimming

[WanderingBlues]

Yep, DROID's don't do so well in the water. As a result, I lost my entire phone directory. So, if you gent's whom I had numbers for would be so kind as to PM with your phone #, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

Curtis

[streaminbeast]

have you tried soaking your phone in a bag of rice yet? if not, leave it in the bag for a day. your droid should still work just fine.

i've dropped my iphone 4times..then i decided i should buy a camera.. lol

[WanderingBlues]

have you tried soaking your phone in a bag of rice yet? if not, leave it in the bag for a day. your droid should still work just fine.

i've dropped my iphone 4times..then i decided i should buy a camera.. lol

I did, but it's still fried. Just used an upgrade to get an iphone (I'm an Apple guy since 1985) anyway. Unfortunately the Verizon dude tried a 'hard reset' on the Droid, thus removing all data from it...

[DubL HauL]

My entire 20 year working career was for a company that made cleaning systems for circuit boards. You see when the circuit board is made it must be cleaned because the flux residue will allow the short curcuit and degrade the circuitry.

Then in the 90's some new technology came about called no-clean flux, it was supposed to eliminate the cleaning process but it was not really a good thing. For high-reliability you still needed to clean. The 1st cell phones were made with the no-clean flux but that was 15-20 years ago.

The reason I bring this up, most boards found in your phone are cleaned with water. The flux from the 80's-on are water soluble which replaced rosin flux requiring vapor de-greasing (de-fluxing) CFC's which burnt a hole in the ozone layer right? Still most boards are cleaned with water so water in itself might not be so bad as long as you can dry it.

I've dunked my camera 4 or 5 times now and 48 hours in the rice has worked. I've noticed the zoom lens is not as smooth but the LCD is still working.

If the phone is powered up when it gets dunked that could be fatal. No power, short exposure to water and quick dry should be OK.

Andy

[tree catcher]

oopss

[RiverRat]

I use Verizon and Blackberries free back up assistants. It saved my sons data this week when the store tried a hard reset.

Does your carrier offer this? You would think they all would.

Rayfound has taught me the importance of backing up all data devices, thanks!


shane

[hpskiff]

My Droid saves all my contacts to gmail. Have you checked online.

[planettrout]

I use these for electronic gear around water...

http://www.aquapac.net/usastore/water-e ... 889-0.html


PT/TB

[Hatch71]

Tim

GReat call out on the water proof case... I need to get one of those before mine takes a swin... Curtis.... I love my iphone man... I would of cried if that happened to me... Chris

[Chris Kuhn]

I got one of these. But it has not really been tested yet.

http://www.simmsfishing.com/site/dry_cr ... pouch.html

[Pete]

I got one of these. But it has not really been tested yet.

http://www.simmsfishing.com/site/dry_cr ... pouch.html

Have one, works great. Its what I use when I hit the surf. Although I leave the phone in the truck.

[rayfound]

Yep, DROID's don't do so well in the water. As a result, I lost my entire phone directory. So, if you gent's whom I had numbers for would be so kind as to PM with your phone #, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

Curtis

Curtis, if you had your contacts tied in with google, you should be able to just sync them back on your new phone like nothing happened.