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Brought my phone into the pool

Time to play the waiting game?

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:D

In all seriousness, the rice trick really does work, but you may have fried some circuits when you tried to turn the phone on. The immediate response is to remove the battery, stick it in the rice and don't even try to turn it on for at least a few days.
 
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my wife left her blackberry in the washer machine once, we tried all the drying tricks nothing worked...

i did after a few days completely dismantled the phone and found all, and i mean ALL, the little pink stickers and replaced them with white ones and replaced the little void sticker with one i printed out on sticker paper and put the phone back together and then made a regular warranty claim...worked perfect and i my wife was allowed to stay married to me! win win!

I called Verizon and played dumb and said that it just wont turn on. It's currently 95 in Minneapolis and the phone is outside in a bag of rice. Other thing that sucks is it fried my seidio extended battery :mad: I'm getting a brand new one sent to me since I'm within the 30 day period. I also added insurance. I'm going to let my phone dry for days. The sticker doesn't look too bad... do you think they get them then just send them off to HTC? Or will they open it check and charge me if they sense the tiniest bit of water damage? Anywhere I can buy a watermark sticker? lol.
 
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I called Verizon and played dumb and said that it just wont turn on. It's currently 95 in Minneapolis and the phone is outside in a bag of rice. Other thing that sucks is it fried my seidio extended battery :mad: I'm getting a brand new one sent to me since I'm within the 30 day period. I also added insurance. I'm going to let my phone dry for days. The sticker doesn't look too bad... do you think they get them then just send them off to HTC? Or will they open it check and charge me if they sense the tiniest bit of water damage? Anywhere I can buy a watermark sticker? lol.

not sure about buying the watermark stickers...i mean for a price you can get anything just i have no idea from where. and yes i do believe they will open the phone and check, when i did it to my blackberry i had desolder some connections to get a protective plate off of one of the main chips just to get to one of the little stickers, they hide them everywhere, and the re solder it back...if you don't know exactly what your doing they will know you tampered with it and charge you so its risky.

if you got the insurance you should be good, that covers water damage as long as when you make the claim you say there was water damage, and i would be surprised if the water messed up the battery, all of the phones my wife did water damage to the batteries always worked ok on the new phone...
 
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I hope the insurance you got will cover water damage, every cell policy I've had expressly excludes water damage. I have been using "Asurion" for a few years, they're good, but don't cover water damage.

are you sure about that? i am almost positive i have made a claim with them for water damage.., their website even depicts a phone in the toilet and a phone in a coffee mug...
 
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I called Verizon and played dumb and said that it just wont turn on. It's currently 95 in Minneapolis and the phone is outside in a bag of rice. Other thing that sucks is it fried my seidio extended battery :mad: I'm getting a brand new one sent to me since I'm within the 30 day period. I also added insurance. I'm going to let my phone dry for days. The sticker doesn't look too bad... do you think they get them then just send them off to HTC? Or will they open it check and charge me if they sense the tiniest bit of water damage? Anywhere I can buy a watermark sticker? lol.

Make a claim under the 30 day. chances are very good they are gonna check the phone.

Warranty replacement: chances are, they gonna check the phone.

Water indicators are NOT the sole test for moisture damage.

Either of the above happen, you get charged full retail.

Adding assurion insurance before 30 day, but not at activation, when device already broken: The insurance company may want to call the device to ensure it is in working order before activating the insurance. This is straight from the brochure.

Not the prettiest picture for you.

Good luck otherwise.
 
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Make a claim under the 30 day. chances are very good they are gonna check the phone.

Warranty replacement: chances are, they gonna check the phone.

Water indicators are NOT the sole test for moisture damage.

Either of the above happen, you get charged full retail.

Adding assurion insurance before 30 day, but not at activation, when device already broken: The insurance company may want to call the device to ensure it is in working order before activating the insurance. This is straight from the brochure.

Not the prettiest picture for you.

Good luck otherwise.

I think I'll be fine... I didn't have the stock battery in and the water indicators look okay. It's going to sit in a pile of rice for over a week. Please explain to me what the other moisture damage tests are...
 
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Problem with insurance, I might be wrong here, is that not only might they call the phone to make sure it is working, but there is a blackout period I believe, like, you can't make a claim within X days of activating insurance, and I think that X is like 30 or 45 or something. If so... do you really wanna wait 30 days to make a claim, IF you can even activate it? And I think that is pretty standard on all third party insurances of any kind, especially if they don't require proof of it working up front. Insurance can't make money if everyone buys it after their **** breaks. Sucks for us though.

(On a side note I still think unless you are accident prone, insurance is a bad idea. So don't feel bad about not having bought it. If you think about it, insurance is playing the odds. And insurance wouldn't exist if the companies were losing money. In fact, they are making heaps of money. So I'll take my chances. Because in the long run, the odds play in the insurance company's favour and is not worth it.)
 
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