Last winter, I left my Motorola V557 in my winter coat pocket just before I snow blowed the sidewalk, facing a lot of blowback. Unknown to me, my pocket filled with packed snow. I came inside and hung up my coat, and relaxed after dinner. Prior to going to bed, I put on my coat to take out the dogs, reached in my pocket and found my phone under several inches of water (my pocket is waterproof, as I discovered). The little telltale dot was bright blue.
Remembering something I heard several years ago, I removed the back and battery, shook out most of the water, and placed the phone in my toaster oven at 200 degrees F overnight.
Much to my pleasure, I reassembled the phone and it WORKED!!! It’s still working fine.

I ran my Motorola C350 through the wash. Technically, it was my wife. She blames me because she doesn’t check pockets. I always check pockets. :/

After letting it dry out, it worked fine, but the backlight started going downhill and finally just quit working. Otherwise, the phone worked. My wife’s C350 stopped making noise (had to be on vibrate to actually know it was ringing, and one drop too many as the screen is out of place.

The whole family now has V3s. And none of them have been ran through the wash.

I think it depends on how lucky you get, but normally if you use your piece of technology whilst having water in it, then it’s simply asking for trouble.

What with electricity conducting with water and what not.

But you’ll also notice on circuitboards nowadays the tracks are covered over by what seems to be melted plastic or water-proof material (atleast in this situation.)

Some could argue, smaller is handy but not when you forget it’s there.

yesterday super smart me, put my sheets into the wash without noticing my cellphone was mixed admist them. my phone went through the sanitary cycle (156mintues) and stayed there the entire day. This morning i went to go fet my sheets and lo and behold my cell phone was there being stupid i tried to turn it on . i plugged it in to charge and everything. i wish i would have read all these articles before i reacted. im gunna be in a wholeeeeeeeeee lot of trouble when my mom comes back from work thats for sure.

I left my iPod Nano 1st generation in my jeans which went into a HOT cycle. When I got them out, I was like “Oh sh*t!”
After 4 days of drying, and I plugged it into USB, the apple logo appeared but then fuzzed out. This is because the battery is so dead that it doesn’t hold enough power to keep the iPod running when connected to USB. On AC power on the other hand, it works as if nothing happened to it. AC provides a lot more power than USB. All my songs are still there, and play but I just can’t sych anymore so I am going to get a new battery soon.