Dropped my phone into my beer - Munich

Apparently last night I wasn't able to type on my phone anymore, so I was pissed off and the phone landed in my beer. Is there any way this phone can function again after it's been drenched, or should I wait a couple of weeks before I tell my boss that it doesn't work anymore?

you could try to take it apart and make sure it's really dry inside, but from personal experience, I found that my phone was dead as a dodo after I dropped it in some beer - had to get a new one and face the embarrassment of telling my boss that my work phone no longer worked...

Good luck

yes that's why I think it's better that I wait until Oktoberfest is over... I have a spare phone I can use, so I figure I use that one for a bit and then tell it somehow doesn't work anymore.

Yeah, my phone never recovered and I had it drying for a couple of days after too

Thank god I haven't been the only one who threw his phone in the beer.

Did you really need to use your phone at the end of a drinking session?

A phone of mine once fell into a toilet and it worked just fine afterwards -- didn't feel like touching it much after that, though...

I washed mine in 40 degrees for 90 minutes in my jeans pocket once - just let it dry out and next day it worked fine (phone, camera, radio, mp3 - everything) and was clean on top of it

Since then - I will never buy anything but a nokia

I drowned mine once in a cooler full with iced water and beer, never saw the light again.

I think it's not the moisture but rather the stickiness of the beer that's a problem. Since it's dead anyways, try dousing it vigorously into fresh water a couple of times. Then let it dry out for a few days. Can't hurt to try.

Agreed... water in and of itself isn't particularly bad for electronics, it is anything that leaves a resude on exposed circuitry. If you have nothing to loose, wash it in distilled water and let it dry.

edit: Just to be clear, I'll qualify this by saying I'm specifically talking about circuit boards and microcrontrollers. Things like LCD screens can most likely suffer permanent water dammage... but again, unless you have a CFC vat, you have nothing to loose.

I don't think so. 100% of cell phones I dumped into fountains were dead as a doornail after the procedure.

Is that a daily thing you do?

maybe water is the trick

my friend somehow managed to pour a snakebite into her hand bag one night at a walkabout in london, we pulled her phone out and it was completely dead. A week later on the train ride home she threw up into her hand bag and said dead phone was still inside as you can imaging everything in that bag got hosed down rather thoroughly and much to her amazement the phone started working again.

edit: on second thoughts maybe you need to vomit on your phone???

Warm/Hot water. We used to fix keyboards like that with water from the kettle. Gets the sticky icky out that is causing the shorts. Might be terminal already but got nothing to lose.