Cell phone in the toilet. Cell phone accidentally left in your swim trunks pocket. Cell phone securely placed on your desk, but some psycho-maniac coworker walks by and pours a can of Coke on it. Surprisingly, the wet cell phone dilemma is more common than you might think.

• First, don't panic. As much as you want to start blurting out words you've never used before, try to remain calm. There may be a way to salvage your waterlogged phone.


• Next, get your cell phone out of the water. Duh.


• Because you're probably not taking my first piece of advice about not panicking, you may have the urge to turn your phone on right away to see if it's still working. BUT DO NOT DO THIS!!! Do not turn it on or plug it into an outlet. You'll definitely fry it then.


• Again, stop panicking.


• Remove the battery from the phone and the SIM card right away. Usually these are what get damaged first. Take a paper towel and dab them dry.


• Once you've wiped them down, set your phone, battery, and SIM card in a warm place to dry (but not the oven, or under a hair dryer, or on the blazing hot dash of your car). This is too hot and will certainly cause it to fry. Instead, use a desk lamp set 12 inches or so from the phone so that the heat from the bulb will help the phone dry sooner.


• After about a day, I would then feel comfortable turning it on to see if it works again.

Please, bear in mind, my advice is not guaranteed to work, but hopefully it does. Just sharing from my own personal experience.

And just how many cell phone did you go through?

not that I have ever done this, but what do you do when you get ticked off and throw your phone across the room, and it smashes in to several parts.

and again, not that I have ever done that. and besides I have phove insurance, one time when I took my phone back they found food on my sim card, I have no clue why that would happen, and chocolate the part you speak in.

hey Mark can you spell phone?

Attend anger management classes!

Yes I can spell PHONE, I like my anger just the way it is and like I said it's not that I ever have throw my phone. well maybe a little toss. it was most likley a cheap phone that made it explode, yeah thats it it was a cheap phone,yeah! cheap phone!

Anger management. :) That's hilarious! As is the chocolate in the speaker!

Debbie could have used your advice last summer. She accidentally threw her phone in the swimming pool!