Revive a submerged cell phone
Jake Bechtold | July 9, 2006
Reviving a submerged cell phone. Didn’t think it was possible, did you? I guess it is.
No. I took the phone home, removed the battery and put it in the oven for a good bake on the “warm” setting, followed by a half hour in front of the blow dryer. It sprang back to life. I thought that was pretty cool, although the first friend I called wanted to know if I’d washed the phone before dialing. I guess he was worried about getting toilet germs in his ear.
I won’t go in to how the cell phone got dropped in the toilet, but an interesting story, anyway.
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