[MLUG - DISCUSSION] Let's play...Dunk the Cellphone!

[Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Well, I took the boys swimming yesterday and absent-mindedly clambered 
into the pool with my Samsung A900 in the pocket of my trunks.  It was a 
good 20 minutes later that I realized what I'd done and was quite 
disappointed at my discovery.  Nevertheless I pulled the battery (in the 
hopes of avoiding some corrosion) and tossed the phone up on the patio 
with the hope that once we were done swimming it could be revived.  I 
wasn't too hopeful, seeing as how it was chlorinated pool water I was 
dealing with of course...

As of last night it still hadn't regained any real function, so this 
morning I pulled the back of the main housing off and put it up on the 
dashboard of my truck in the hope that any remaining water would 
evaporate.  I was surprised at how little water was in there, the A900's 
metal body is sealed pretty tightly apparently.

This afternoon, I went out and reclaimed the phone, plugged it in, and 
wouldn't you know it the A900 is back in business.  No screen problems, 
no keypad issues, the thing works perfectly.  I am extraordinarily 
impressed with this phone, more so than any other I've had - a 
significant portion of its case is metal and as a result it's extremely 
durable.  Lots of geeky features too like Bluetooth and EVDO...

This isn't the first time water has met one of my cellphones; I had an 
LG PM325 that got dropped into a sink above which there was running 
watter...no submersion but the water still managed to claim that phone.  
It eventually came back and would work somewhat but I lost a whole 
keypad row despite much effort to fix it.  The leads had completely 
corroded together; shows what a little hard water and electric current 
can do.

So...has anyone else revived any soaked electronics?

-N


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