The BlackBerry wasn’t entirely saved, but after Ernesto Londoño, staff writer at the Washington Post, dropped his BlackBerry Pearl in the toilet. Oddly, he didn’t care that much that his BlackBerry wasn’t working. Maybe it was a company phone, he’s been at the Post a few months. What he was worried about was that he met this girl and they had made plans for a date, which he had to finalize. Her number was in his BlackBerry and he didn’t write it down on paper or made a backup in his PC.
Londoño tried to blow dry the phone using his roommate’s blow dryer. The phone wouldn’t start. Then he called a friend, who suggested he dip it in a uncooked rice. Rice draws moisture. Well, it worked but only long enough for him to retrieve the number. The phone is forever ruined but, apparently, every time he dips it in uncooked rice overnight it would return to life if very briefly.
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R Turn says:
I was fishing in a small boat with a buddy of mine when the 2 man boat took on water and I forgot I had my Blackberry Pearl in my carrying case. I took the battery out of it and held it out the window as well as putting it over the defrost vents on the dashboard. I also carefully used a hair dryer and put it in a ziploc baggie with wrapped in a kleenex and used oil absorb pellets.
I was concerned about the water damage and thought my Pearl wouldn’t work again but when the water disappeared from the screen I charged it and it has worked all week.
My advice is to stay away from water, I thought I left it in the truct.
April says:
this weekend me and my b/f were fishin at the lake. i dropped my pearl in the lake and guess what, it was ice fishin so i had to fish it out with a huge hook and some line, after about 3 hrs i finally got it out of the water and took the battery out and dried it, but now im scared to turn it on