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Is it possible to rescue a sim card from a mobile phone that has gone through a washing machine.The phone is screwed but IF I could save the sim and the account?

Oh BTW it wasn't my phone it was my son's.I never leave anything in my dirty washing. :angel: Trouble is because I don't, I forget others may not remember to. :rolleyes:

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sim card ought to be ok. Its only a piece of memory
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Was he making dirty phone calls!!

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I've accidentally washed a SIM in the past and it ended up working fine - yours should be fine.

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leave them both in the airing cupboard for a few days. if you're lucky, they might both work :)

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No the phone has gone!!! I'll try getting a cheap or second hand phone to try the sim if the advice is that the sim should be ok. ;)

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you mean "gone" like the lost sock syndrome in the washer

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No,gone as in completely dead as a parrot. ;)

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humour me, try it. what have you got to lose? ;)

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until its totally dried out you never know it might still be alive

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my thoughts exactly. however, if it were me, i might not want it to work (see it as being 'forced to upgrade'? :D ;) )

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Oh come on I already dried it out,tried turning it on then tried to recharge it.Nothing,de nada,dead as the famous dead parrot in the MP dead Blue Parrot sketch. ;)

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insurance claim?

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If you get another mobile it will need to be able to work with the sim so you will either need a new mobile that is on the same network or a mobile that is unlocked.
My old mobile went for a swim in our outdoor pond in Peterborough, 24 hours on a warm (not hot) radiator opened up with it's battery out and it was fine for about 6 months until I upgraded it.

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'look it moved!'

fair enough, i'll shut up now :p:

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Frankly he doesn't deserve an upgrade...anyway I'm the one that pays the bill for it so he gets what he gets...UNLESS he agrees to pay for a new one.

This is the second phone he has borked in two months BTW. :mad:

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Like other have said place it in a warm place for 24hrs, In the current weather outside will do! :)

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a bit different to 90 mins on the boil wash!

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iirc its not the water that kills it, its the minerals/chemicals. soak a phone in deionised water, dry it out and it will suffer no ill effects*


*theoretically. i'm not suggesting anyone tries it on their new £300 phone!
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oops! give him a tin can. he can pay for the string... :p:

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The heat and vibration on spin wouldnt have done it much good

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With luck your sim card will be fine.

I'd get something like this too...

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=s...G&title=587000

Just in case it happens again. You can do a weekly/monthly backup of the sim just in case.

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lol, would be much better to get a metal detector to scan the dirty laundry ;)

backing up the sim wont save your account. Only your address book etc

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Ok!As we type my son has just tried to ressurect it yet again.Guess what? Yes it has just worked.Lucky little s*d!

Guess the suggestion that he was paying for a new one galvanised him... :D

Will see what happens AFTER it has recharged.

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must have dried out then

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Personally I wouldn't plug it in until it has had time overnight to fully dry out or any moisture still lingering in the phone could short it out.

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Oh it's been drying out for three days.

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What sort is it? I'm impressed......

I'd still get the sim copier if it's in the hand of an accident prone person :)

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now i'm not one to say 'i told you so', but... :D :angel:

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I agree, however its a low risk as chargers are only 9 or 12 volts and mA's of current so you dont get much chance of tracking

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Should be safe to plug in then lol. If you plug them in before they dry then then more often than not you will completely ruin them. It might be that the lifespan of the phone is shortened now but it should be ok for a while. Time enough for him to save his pocket money up ;)

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He's actually having a better day than he deserves.His father has brought him home a second hand Tv/Monitor which means he can keep the £300+ that he has been saving for a TV so he could play his Xbox in his room.

Bah! This now means I have to go to his room to play Fable. :( a most smelly experience. :(

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put him in the washer then :D

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Correct- pure water is actually an insulator - with a pretty rigid structure - it's the charged ions that move around in solution in the impure water that conduct.

But surely even if you soak in deionised water, you will still get residual minerals inside it...

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http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1373323

It seems the recommended cycle for drowned electronics is:

0. Remove power and power sources
1. Tap water rinse (preceded by detergent cleaning, perhaps, if the soaking was in dirty water)
2. Flush with distilled water to reduce tap water residue
3. Alcohol (if available in sufficient quantity and purity).

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I'll second Matth's point #3, you need plenty of alcohol Incognitas, taken internally, forget cleaning the phone with it :D

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Cheeky %&*&&! Are you implying I have an alcohol problem? ;)

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For a living, I make, and sometimes install, boxes of electronics like the one below. Unfortunately, they have a habit of filling with water when in use; either because someone forgot to tighten a cable gland or because the air in the box is expanding and it's breathing down a cable. After a while of sloshing about they stop working and are send back to me. After I've opened them up, it will usually take 2~3 days in a very warm airing cupboard to get them going again. If you have a phone that is almost completely enclosed then I wouldn't be suprised if this took a week or two. If you can pull the back off then this should speed things up. But don't expect the phone to be very reliable again. When I take these boxes apart there's often a furry growth all over the place that takes a good deal of scrubbing with a toothbrush and IPA (Iso-propyl Alcohol, not India Pale Ale ;) ) to get rid. Yep, ordinary tap water is full of stuff that will leave while splodges over any electronics but I'm not sure that dunking a whole phone in alcohol is ideal - it'll probably get into the LCD too.

My suggestion would be to keep drying it out but start thinking about a new phone too.

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Am I eck, but if alcohol is going to be suggested, don't waste it on a phone is all I'm saying, especially in this heat :D

Blooming eck Altis, what are those big blue & white parts on that board?
They look a bit big to be ordinary poly caps.

Wouldn't by chance be on a JCB?

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IPA is highly toxic and will make you blind so drinking it is not recomended :D

As Atlis says... A good clean down with IPA will help remove any minerals and dirt from the pcb...

NB.. Sometimes IPA can discolour plastics so be carefull with the casing !

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Well as he rushed out of the house because he was late for the bus to college I don't know the state of the phone..

I'll have to wait until tonight and wait until he is in a 'better' mood than he was this morning..If he wasn't nearly 17 I would smack him on the back of his legs like when he was smaller..


Mind if he was that small again I'd just hug him. :) I miss my little boy a lot these days. :(

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It'll change and you'll get him back again .... patience.

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Do it any way! :)
I know what you mean my son is 14 and I miss the sweet boy that was my son before he was replaced by a "TEENAGER"

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Those big blue and white blocks are Grayhill opto-isolated I/O modules. The blue ones convert 4-20mA into a TTL signal with a freq of 14.4 to 72kHz. The white ones are digital inputs.

AFAIK, JCB don't make anything this big. But you're in the right area - it's on a piling rig. Here's me on a repair job in Ireland. As it happens, I was chasing a fault that was created by water (although most of it was, by now, ice) which had caused corrosion in a connector that was 'conveniently' placed (not by me) in the middle of the mast.

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No I won't.Mothers lose their sons and hopefully, if they are lucky gain a super daughter-in-law....A son becomes a husband and things being the way they are, no longer need their mother(which is how it should be).


We do however get to be our daughter's best friend. :tu:

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What is that old saying

A son is a son untill he takes a wife
But a daughter is a daughter for the rest of your life