I saw my screen flash...
So this thread was very entertaining, and has given me hope to say the least. It seems that alot of the posts happened years ago so i feel dumb being the guy who did it years later...but yeah
So i too dropped my iphone in the toilet, i was just walking in, i'd been playing GTA-Chinatown Wars for about an hour while watching a movie and it was commercial time. The phone was in my hand while i starting to pull my pj's down and the phone just slipped right out of my fingertips. Time slowed down, and i yelled various different things that woke my mother who lives upstairs (she was a little worried too since she barrows my phone for obsessive plants vs zombie gaming and had a really high score.)
Immediately i rushed hand first into the bowl however as my hand touched it, and remember i had been using it, meaning the screen was lit and in use, so as it drowned into the water and just before i grabbed it I SAW THE SCREEN TURN BLACK.
This reminded me of a time long ago when i was 15 with friends in highschool, of a time when i was at the beach, with about 5 friends, a bottle of malibu and ocwardly i was dressed entirely in goth, denim trench coat and everything, we all had a weird phase threw highschool right? and while all my friends went to the beach for the water i obviously went to drink, this made them wrestle me 200 yards down the beach untill eventually i was overthrown into the water with my oldschool nokia phone in my pocket, and instantly as it got wet i'd felt a sudden surge of electricity in my pants, and immediately knew my nokia was done for. (ultimately it truely was, even after days of drying without a battery)
Anyways i pulled my phone out in less than 3 seconds, which felt like minutes of slow motion, i yelled upstairs to inform my mom of my stupidity while i threw my phone on some towels, looking at the screen i could still see my homescreen however it was dimmed entirely, asif it was off entirely but i turned the phone off and removed the sim card with a tac and immedately began shaking it with murderous intent, shaking every drop of water out asif i could wring it like a towel.
After feeling satisfied with the shaking for about 10 minutes, i turned on a small plug in heater-fan and had it blow on the iphone for a few minutes while the iphone was on the towel at a slant to hopefully drain out the headphones and ringer control buttons using gravity.
for about 20 minutes it sat there till i felt it getting hot, and decided to just plug it in the wall, leaving it off actually in hopes that once the iphone discovers itself, the fact that it's off while plugged in usually causes the phone to turn itself on to the charging screen, so i hoped that after a few hours of room temperature drying it might just pop back on and make a chime noise notifying me it's back alive....that diddn't work
after 40 minutes i took a look at the phone and it had already discovered itself without making the noise and on the screen (within it's darkness) was a dimmly lit picture of the itunes icon and a usb cable, and it asked for me to plug it into my computer and open itunes.... so i proceeded to do so within the first hour of damage.
While the phone was plugged in i got a message saying it has to check all these things, eventually it said that itunes has discovered a iphone in recovery mode and needs to download the newest version of iphone software available and blah blah blah, it wants to restore. But i have a jailbroken phone and i put alot of work into customizing it and i have 3 pages of games atleast on my 3gs i've made it my best friend and tool in life....so i'm desperately trying to avoid doing this step, but i'm leaving it open.
I then googled i dropped my iphone in the toilet and i'm and idiot, and found this thread... it's brought me to alot of hope and i believe that after reading everything thus far that due to my phone obviously working still i may have a chance still, based on everybody's lightbulb heating tricks... here's why..
After awhile of reading some of your storys, i began to think about what happened and why my phone still works, compared to my nokia which i just could sense was gone. just like an a unwaterproof watch in the water, if you press a button it breaks, so some of you were lucky enough to not even know your phone was in the washer or pool, i think that also the good thing is that the iphone has no real buttons other then the home key, if we let it dry and it still works the main issue would be the screen, and i think what i'm dealing with is drying the moisture under my screen, and i believe that once it's dry my brightness will return, asif it cannot do something while moisture is in it.
however my girlfriend grabbed my phone and saw my homescreen in its darkness and decided to open up a song in itunes, it's that song by lit- miserable, which didn't help... but the music played fine lol, however now my home button doesn't... i think this may change after more drying but i may be wrong... i turned the phone back off and put in my grow room, it's 12 inches from a 400wat HID hallogen......at one point it did turn itself back on and start playing the song miserable again but i turned it back off and i think it may come back... i will come back with news tomorrow if it works again. wish me luck =P
