[rolandgabor]

Hi all,

My 3 year old dropped my 2 day old 16GB 3G into the toilet bowl :-)
The phone is dead of course.

I waited 4 days and went back to the apple store to exchange it. The dude in the genius bar looked into the earphone hole with a similar device ear doctors use( small funnel like object with a magnifying glass on the other and) and let me know that the phone is dead because moisture got into it.
He came to that conclusion due to a small metal strip inside the whole which became bright red due to water.

Do you guys know anything about this? Is there a way to make it look "new" again?

[Dash-2]

Yep, it's there. Here's what it looks like on a Razr:


I don't know anything about faking it though. =/

[rusty778]

Take a Q-Tip and put rubbing alcohol on it. Then stick it down the jack and rub it on the sticker. Alcohol will absorb the water turning it white again.

[movalwebmaster]

i could have swore i saw somewhere on here in mmi that something about pealing off a layer or something makes it look good again? but that was for the first gen iphones, try using the search at the top and see if anything pops up

[rolandgabor]

Thanks for the advice.
I will try the rubbing alcohol if it helps.
Cant do anymore harm

[pingywon]

kill 2 proverbial birds with 1 stone:

sell the kid and buy a few new iphones