mum put her ipod through the wash, can it be saved?

[M1TCH]

her lil nano spent a good hour in there and has been drying out in the garden today but it still wont turn on. we cant work out how to open the darn thing...HELP!

cheers

 

[davep24]

afraid its probably dead, if you can get it open (look on internet for battery replacement) and rinse it with demineralised water the you might be able to save it. dont know where you will get the demin water from thou

 

[The Hoff]

Best chance is just give it time in the heat, i've had two mobile phones survive swimming pools/toilet and they lived to tell the tail.

Overnight in an airing cupboard + hair dryer + sun and it might be ok. They don't have any moving parts, so once the water has disapated it may come back to life.

Might also need a hard reset.

Chance? 50/50 tbh.

edit

Car battery water = deionised and demineralised.

 

[M1TCH]

^ yeh i've had a few moblys recovered after a night in the airing cupboard. ill see if we can get it open and do that, dont think its getting enough air to it all closed up.

 

[M1TCH]

just found a handy vid of how to get the b*****d open

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7680383411313302901

 

[SoA2k6]

I spilt a can of coke all down the inside of my PC while it was on (I leave my case open for switching hard drives). Switched it off straight away, dried the motherboard and cards, worked fine. The only thing I had grieve with was the Hard Drive, seems like the coke was heating up, gwetting sticky and jaming the disks. Soaked it in 110% alcohol, left it for a week. Brand spanking new.

 

[Limca]

lol. mitch im going to APPLE store this weekend to drop my ipod to them to get fixed, if ya want, drop it to me,and ill take it to them to get looked at

 

[jonesyx]

...Soaked it in 110% alcohol, left it for a week. Brand spanking new.

how can something be 110% alcohol? lol

with electronics that are wet first thing you should do is disconnect the battery.
open it up anyway you can and dry it with gentle heat. use a cotton bud to get rid off excess water and rinse it with dem. water as said before.

most things can be saved if you do this quick enough and if you can open them, proved loads of times!

 

[M1TCH]

mum tried to open it but bent the metal and got upset. then I went out and left her too it so dunno if she got anywhere.

 

[White16valver]

parents + technology = dangerous

lol

 

[tommyboy]

NEVER let mums near the mp3 player, never. Had this happen to my old 256mb mpman, after a week of owning it aswell its a bit disappointing....

 

[M1TCH]

^ its her iPod so I can hardly keep it away from her lol. f**k knows why it was in her clothes anyway.

 

[FiDoDiDo]

Dunno about the Nano but the iPOD has a hard drive so you probably won't get much luck. Saying that the Nano is much smaller so probably has storage like USB pen drive.

 

[Alan]

Yep no moving parts mate ^^

Cant you just buy a new one??

 

[M1TCH]

no we're not blessed with money.

 

[Rich1.2]

top and bottom mate its fucked, sorry to be the bearer of reality

 

[Andy_con]

what you need is an ultrasonic cleaner.

it used for water damaged mobiles phones, ones the phone is dryed put it in the ultrasonic cleaner and it helps get the dryed water off the circut board

 

[fUbAr]

the thing you SHOULDNT do is try and turn it on "just to see if it works" straight after... this is when the damage is done due to it not being dry.

you should allow it to dry completely before attempting to turn it on.

from the sounds of it, you've broken it by turning it on too quickly when it was still wet.

 

[Josh@Renparts]

ive got an ultrasonic cleaner. If you get it open to reveal the circuit board. I don't mind doing it for you FOC providing you cover postage. Ive done countless mobiles for my mates etc.
thanks
josh

 

[Andy_con]

^ perfect