Water Damage to Samsung C225 Cell Phone

If you have had the contract with them long enough to cancel it out, you may be able to talk them into a new phone if you renew the contract. Cingular sends out a renewal leter offfering new phones with a renewal.

You may be able to buy any phone off ebay or elsewhere that is compatiable with the T-Mobile system. There is a sim card in the phone that just pulls out of your phone and inserts into the other phone that will activate it on your account. Usually all your stored numbers will be in that card also.

Your phone may not have dried out all the way. Pull the covers off it as much as you can, even if it is just leaving the battery out. Then leave it in a hot car with the windows closed all day. That should dry it out. I would tell you to put it in the oven with the door cracked and set it for no more than 120 degrees for about 2 or 3 hours but it is often difficult for people to do that without getting the oven too hot and melting the phone.

there is no realistic chance of you repairing it. I'm afraid you made the same mistake almost everyone makes, reconnecting power long before its properly dried out. If you open it and let it dry properly it might start to behave again. Properly means open up any cavities and a week in a warm room.

NT

Which reminds me of a bitch I've got with Cingular. I added a line to my service the other day. I gave my old t226 Sony to my daughter, as I had replaced it with a second hand phone. Somewhere in the process of activation, the guy at the desk asked me if I wanted any accessories for the phone...charger, case etc. I allowed as to how I probably had everything I needed, but the phone was so old they probably didn't carry anything specific to it anyway. He offered a universal case, which I thought would be nice.

As he finished up the new contract, I noticed it was for two years, with a $175 'early out' clause. Under questioning, it turned out that even with my old phone, I had to sign at least a one year contract (still $175 to get out early.) The $5 case he was going to 'give' me was the justification for the extra year!

What a scammer! If I wanted to be tied up for two years, I could have gotten a whole new phone...as he later admitted (but didn't mention until I asked.)

In the end I went with the one year, no accessories and had to upgrade my original service to boot. I left feeling slightly used, as I've had continuous Cingular service since I started carrying a phone in 1993 (originally BellSouth before they merged).

It might finally be time to change carriers.....

jak

I had a JVC camera that got wet and had some peculiar behavior. The problem is that it takes forever to dry out and by then there is some slight corrosion in very thin parts. I took it apart and found that some ribbon connections are so fine that surface tension keeps the water in between just long enough to stop some of the ribbons contacts. I ended up unsnapping the tiny ribbon connectors and cleaning what was left of the very thin contacts. Naturally they dried much quicker and the camera actually worked (who know how long it will , because cleaning the contacts took some of it off). I don,t think modern electronics will dry in time if not opened. On the flip side,( no pun intended) I will take a cover off a CRT tv or moniter and sit it in the shower for ten minutes and set it outside in the sun to dry while turning it a few times to release any water caught in traps. Then put the cover on and thats it. ( It has to be dirty enough to do that, usually if the dust inside look like a magnet dipped in metal particles, then its a go)

I had a portable CD player I dumped a cup of tea (with milk and sugar) through. I partially stripped it, soaked it in clean water with some bicarb dissolved in it and then let it dry out for several days. Still runs OK.