iPod Shuffle Drop in Water

I accidentally put my ipod shuffle with my t-shirt into warm water and detergent and when I sat down I wanted to listen to an audiobook and realized what I had done..That was on the 19th July, I took it out, put it into rice. They say that's what you should do to with a mobile phone removing the battery prior putting the mobile into rice.

The next day, the 20th July I hung it on my balcony to dry. Now I live in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the temperature here is really high, like 35-40 degrees Celsius, which is 95-104 F..It was drying for 12 days and today I tried to see whether the battery is dead so I plugged it using an adapter and the iPod started blinking red, meaning that the battery was empty, so I connected it to my laptop to see whether iTunes would recognize it and it worked..

So, it if gets wet, rice first, drying in air second and it works.

The only help that the forum can offer is to suggest that you replace the iPod. Water and electronics do not make a good mix.

I would NOT drop it in alcohol. The most used method to attempt to dry it out would be to put it in a bag of uncooked rice for up to a week (perhaps change out the rice two or three times during that). If it works after that, you are lucky, but no one can say whether it will or will not work. It is entirely possible that it shorted something major out almost as soon as it got wet, in which case nothing in this world is going to revive it.

Also, please do not keep bumping a thread like this. This is a volunteer forum of users helping users. You post your question and you'll get answers whenever you get them. Pestering people for an answer doesn't help.

My iPod Shuffle (4th generation) was attached to some clothing that soaked for five minutes in the washing machine before I discovered my blunder. After drying it out by putting it in a bag with some rice for a couple of weeks I found that it worked, sort of, but that the VoiceOver button didn't work. It would go through the playlists when you turned it off and on again and you could get where you wanted with the play, forward, reverse buttons. Battery life was short and it didn't hold a charge when idle. After getting a new iPod Shuffle, I decided to experiment by dipping the defective one in alcohol just to see what would happen. The use of the VoiceOver button came back. The battery life remained short. It didn't lose its charge when idle. If I soak another iPod Shuffle, I will try the alcohol approach first. I will also try to locate my Shuffle before doing the laundry.