Help!!! Have dropped phone in a cup of tea.... oops

[Tig]

Hello all

quick question - I've looked up what to do with the phone and am following those instructions but my question is....

as i don't have a spare phone but need to get a text msg to someone asap to let them know why I'm not responding to any messages they may have sent today....

is it possible to send text messages from a pc, there are free sites but will they abuse the number that i text to by sending lots of spam texts and calls their way? Help!!!!
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[Nexus Icon]

Ring them on your house phone?

[tvchimp]

www.o2.co.uk (or click here: https://www.o2.co.uk/login?dest=https://sendtxt.o2.co.uk/sendtxt/action/compose)

they have a sms section - sign up, and you can send text messages (i believe you get 10 free, then have to pay for more, which gets put onto your mobile phone bill).

or... www.cbfsms.com (I used this when I was back in school, not sure if it still works)


other than that, take your phone apart, put it on a towel on top of a radiator to dry out. I'd recommend 24hours or so to make sure its all dry internally. This is how I dried my old phone when I dropped it in a glass of juice.
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[Tig]

thanks! I can't ring them from home phone (or any phone) as they're abroad and had already said they'll not pick up as they have to pay for the call

I've taken my phone as much apart as I can , which wasn't very and have put it in the airing cupboard to dry - made mistake of reconnecting battery too soon as was impatient to try it out and think may have fried components permanently according to advice on eHow but won't find out until this time 2mo bugger, can't afford a new phone

In the meantime have dug out my old nokia 3210 and amazingly, apart from a very dodgy connection on the battery charger, it IS working and can send short rudimentary texts from it and receive too, can't remember how the menu works and can't scroll down the predictive text so have to accept first word it offers. Which I don't think is book at all!!

The O2 info is useful thank you! Thank goodness for BCF, it comes up trumps again
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YB100, XS250, GPZ305, VT500, XJ900, XV535, XL125, a scratched up ZZR600 :-S

[MattHirst]

Put it in a glass full of rice
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[stinkwheel]

You would be better to wash it in de-ionised water before drying it if it's been dropped in something like tea or juice.
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[Tig]

[warped one]

Leave it in the airing cupboard for about week. I've done this a few times and it worked.

Patience is the key with stuff like this, because if your don't you'll end up with splodges on your screen and be unable to see or type on it.
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[benandthe]

One I use all the time when I run out of credit: www.cbfsms.com

It has a 160 character limit and adds a small message one the end ("Send free texts from cbfsms.com")

and the person you text can send a reply back and you can read it online, just remember to write down the "message ID" number.

No spam/ abouse of the number/ them recieving messages telling them to pay £5 to read a message.

[Gone]

Sod the phone, did you manage to save the cuppa?

[Paxovasa]

[Gone]

[benandthe]

[Paxovasa]

[Marmalade]

tea mobile oh how i larfd

Clean off the board with water and a toothbrush

Use hairdryer on it, high heat, low fan and cook it for a few mins, it can, does and has dry out the board but also depending on how hard you try can re solder joints but try not to remove components by blowing them away.

Her's one i made earlier.
The older phones used to take it well, built like bricks, new phones are a bit too weak to handle the abuse.

https://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo141/bramble43/Dsc02288-500.jpg

https://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo141/bramble43/Dsc02290-500.jpg

https://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo141/bramble43/Dsc02292-500.jpg
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[Chippa]

[Tig]

[Tig]

[Marmalade]

3210, christ.
I still have parts for these, screens, charging blocks, housings, even vibrate motor upgrades (they didn't come with vibrate as standard)
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[Tig]

[Ed Case]

Mine slipped out of my hand in the kitchen, bounced twice then landed in the dog's water bowl. Bollocks, that was the end of that.

[Tig]

I've put it back together today and it's fine!!!!!!!!!!! It's survived death by tea, phew

yay!
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YB100, XS250, GPZ305, VT500, XJ900, XV535, XL125, a scratched up ZZR600 :-S