Fixing a Water Damaged Phone.

Stop. Don't just throw away that "dead" phone that you dropped in water. You can make it live again! In most of these cases, the damage is just temporary. Here is what you need to do. Find the right screwdriver. If you don't find it, you can buy the cell phone opening kit at Home Depot for $12. Then, get a hair dryer. Now, open the phone and blow some hot air. If it's just water, it will evaporate and give your phone it's life back. If you see any green stuff, which is the "rust" equivalent that happens to copper in the phone circuits, then drying alone won't help. You need a bottle of Isopropyl Alcohol in this case. Take a cotton bud or thin brush, dip it in the alcohol and clean the places where you see the green stuff. Then let it dry. Now, your phone should come back to life.

80 to 90% of water damages phones come back to life doing this. In some cases the circuit gets short and cannot be repaired this way. In those cases you need to replace the damaged part.

Hope this helps.

Hajuria