Originally Posted by MidnightBlue
My nephew dropped his mother's BlackBerry into the bath. My uncle, who can usually fix such things was away for a few days. We rang him and he said don't try to dry it, remove the battery and put it into a glass of water until he got to look at it. It stayed in the glass of water for four days - he got there, pulled it apart, dried it with some sort of spray and a hairdryer, put it back together and it worked fine. He says that corrosion begins immediately and it should be kept wet and away from oxygen until it can be cleaned and dried properly. He is an electronic engineer.
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