IPods, Cell phones and salt water
 

My son went swimming with his Ipod and Cell phone in his pocket. He
was in the water only a few minutes and when he realized it we got the
battery out of the cell phone.
I took the phone to work and soaked it in methanol (to soak up residual
water and remove salt) and then put it in a vacuum system to pump out
all the water as vapor. Cycled it several times. Then removed
corrosion from the battery terminals.
Amazing, it turns on. However, it seems to indicate that it cannot
read the memory card. The memory card contacts are clean. Could this
card have been wiped clean by immersion?

Now, on to the IPod. I had no idea how to remove its battery so it
will suffer more. So, what should I do with it?

IPods, Cell phones and salt water
 

Harry:

You miss the entire point of being a techie geek.

After looking on the net, I am going to open her up and take out the
battery and basically soak it in methanol and then do the vacuum
chamber trick on it. If this works, I'm gonna put my son into business
fixing water dunked cell phones and Ipods.


Harry Krause wrote:
wrote:
My son went swimming with his Ipod and Cell phone in his pocket. He
was in the water only a few minutes and when he realized it we got the
battery out of the cell phone.
I took the phone to work and soaked it in methanol (to soak up residual
water and remove salt) and then put it in a vacuum system to pump out
all the water as vapor. Cycled it several times. Then removed
corrosion from the battery terminals.
Amazing, it turns on. However, it seems to indicate that it cannot
read the memory card. The memory card contacts are clean. Could this
card have been wiped clean by immersion?

Now, on to the IPod. I had no idea how to remove its battery so it
will suffer more. So, what should I do with it?



Buy a new iPOD and trade your son in on a smarter model. :-)

IPods, Cell phones and salt water
 

IPods, Cell phones and salt water
 

The last pager I owned several years ago vibrated in my pocket
as a dying gasp on being dunked in sal****er at the boat ramp
trying to rescue a most uncooperative boat.

Just for a split second, I wondered "whos paging me now?"

Hehe heh.

db~ bzzzzz...blub..blup .......


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My son went swimming with his Ipod and Cell phone in his pocket. He
was in the water only a few minutes and when he realized it we got the
battery out of the cell phone.
I took the phone to work and soaked it in methanol (to soak up residual
water and remove salt) and then put it in a vacuum system to pump out
all the water as vapor. Cycled it several times. Then removed
corrosion from the battery terminals.
Amazing, it turns on. However, it seems to indicate that it cannot
read the memory card. The memory card contacts are clean. Could this
card have been wiped clean by immersion?

Now, on to the IPod. I had no idea how to remove its battery so it
will suffer more. So, what should I do with it?

IPods, Cell phones and salt water
 

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Harry:

You miss the entire point of being a techie geek.

After looking on the net, I am going to open her up and take out the
battery and basically soak it in methanol and then do the vacuum
chamber trick on it. If this works, I'm gonna put my son into business
fixing water dunked cell phones and Ipods.


Harry Krause wrote:
wrote:
My son went swimming with his Ipod and Cell phone in his pocket. He
was in the water only a few minutes and when he realized it we got the
battery out of the cell phone.
I took the phone to work and soaked it in methanol (to soak up residual
water and remove salt) and then put it in a vacuum system to pump out
all the water as vapor. Cycled it several times. Then removed
corrosion from the battery terminals.
Amazing, it turns on. However, it seems to indicate that it cannot
read the memory card. The memory card contacts are clean. Could this
card have been wiped clean by immersion?

Now, on to the IPod. I had no idea how to remove its battery so it
will suffer more. So, what should I do with it?



Buy a new iPOD and trade your son in on a smarter model. :-)


I suspect you know this, but in the event you don't --- add some heat if you
can to the ipod gizzards while it's in the vacuum chamber. Quartz lamps or
calrod heaters will do it. The problem with moisture in vacuum is that
although it initially boils off in monolayers as the pressure decreases, it
then instantly freezes, so your drying process really becomes a long winded
sublimation process.

You hafta add some energy to those molecules.

RCE