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Ipod went for a dive in full glass of Diet Coke

OK, so the story starts at my friends house on a monday, and short story short i let go too soon and my Ipod touch (64GB 3rd Gen) fell straight into a glass of diet coke. It fell in and was completely submerged for about 2-3 seconds before i snatched it out and then attempted to turn it off as i saw the screen slowly dim out and i couldn't see it. we put it in rice for an hour and a half (i know they say a week) and took it home, put it in a bag of rice for another 2 days. take it out friday the same week and i see the apple logo as i turned it on (probably not the best idea) and everything works, except for the LED backlight. i can adjust the brightness meter but it does nothing, and for the first few hours every now and then the screen would freakout like... the bottom half of the screen would be scrambled up lines vertically facing, but it has done nothing else that shows it's damaged otherwise. my question is, based off of this, what could be wrong with it, and how to fix it without burning my wallet out, i am a college student after all and i cant afford to buy a new ipod. My last note would be, if i turned it off completely, put it in water, kinda shook it around in there for a few seconds then rice again... would it get rid of the sugar that might still be present inside?


P.S. i've done some looking around at people's questions like this, and have had no luck anywhere, so not to be rude but i'd like people to post helpful info that will encourage progress 🙂 thanks!

iPod touch, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on May 11, 2012 11:09 AM

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Posted on May 11, 2012 11:14 AM

Dry it in rice longer, like five more days and change the rice daily.

The try a restore to factory defaults. If it works then OK, if not then the iPod requires service/parts replacement.

Apple will exchange it for this price:

Apple - Support - iPod - Repair pricing

A third-party place like the following may be less expensive

iPhone Repair, Service & Parts: iPod Touch, iPad, MacBook Pro Screens

FIx it yourself. Howevery, yu really do not know what parts require replacement.

iPod Touch Repair – iFixit

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May 11, 2012 11:14 AM in response to DaNinjaSmurf

Dry it in rice longer, like five more days and change the rice daily.

The try a restore to factory defaults. If it works then OK, if not then the iPod requires service/parts replacement.

Apple will exchange it for this price:

Apple - Support - iPod - Repair pricing

A third-party place like the following may be less expensive

iPhone Repair, Service & Parts: iPod Touch, iPad, MacBook Pro Screens

FIx it yourself. Howevery, yu really do not know what parts require replacement.

iPod Touch Repair – iFixit

May 11, 2012 5:06 PM in response to varjak paw

varjak paw wrote:


I missed the "diet" part, but there is a lot of other stuff that will leave a residue and quite possibly short out the circuitry, as well as the corrosion from the acid. Again, it's very unlikely that any amount of drying is going to help.

I agree. In a former life in the US Navy I was a Miniature/ Micro-Miniature Electronics Repair Inspector/Instructor. I also have a pretty good background in chemistry, and I can state unequivocally that ALL carbonated drinks have some amount of carbonic acid in them. Carbonic acid is formed when carbon dioxide combines with water. A natural example of this can be seen in places like Lurray Caverns. As rain falls through our atmosphere, carbon dioxide is entrained in the drops, forming a weak solution of carbonic acid. As the rain water percolates through the ground it dissolves minerals and carries them away... And when that mineral laced water drips through the ceiling of an underground cavern we get stalactites and stalagmites....


The bottom line is, your iPod is toast. The display must be replaced, and acid has had plenty of time to do its dirty work....

May 12, 2012 3:14 PM in response to cliftonfromrichmond

Ok, i'll restate this... i'm well aware of the acid that possibly ate away at the curcuitry, but here's the status of it right now... it's been 3 weeks since the incident, and it has shown no sign that it is being eaten away at, and everything is working fine BUT the LED backlight. theoretically, i could just forget repairing it and use it the way it is... everything works otherwise (bluetooth, wifi, settings, apps, etc.) and nothing shows sign of failing... but i wanna know if i turn it off completely and swish it around in water for a few seconds then put it in rice for a while longer, would that flush out anything that remains of the soda? again the ipod IS fully functional except for the LED.


P.S. hehehe the ipod will never be toast! hahaha i've had this dumb luck of never having a device fail me of any kind before... i intend to keep it that way >:)

Ipod went for a dive in full glass of Diet Coke

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