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Touch screen not responding after water damage

Hello community.


I do get the fact that there is million of threads, but I want to know the opinion of others on this particular case.


I dropped my phone into the toilet (luckily, it was clear) and immediately got it out.


As I had no experience with these kind of accidents, I actually didn't turn off the phone. I used a towel and then I wobbled my phone to get rid of the water. Then, as the phone started rebooting itself, I dried it with a hairdryer (yes, I'm an idiot) and used a vacuum cleaner to help the proccess.


It kept saying this error [NAND] FileFlashAndMedia or something like that, so I turned it off for good and tried to restore it - I started getting the -1 error.


After several repetitions, iTunes finally started restoring my iPhone 5 and everything was back to normal. But then I came to the dreadful realization that the screen does not respond. Everything is ok - all the buttons, the display, even the sound seeems to be fine.


So after these 15 minutes of panicking I started to read articles and watch videos of other people. Put the phone in a bowl of rice, sealed it and I turn it on from times to times to find out if the screen started responding.


Any suggestions? Do you think there is a possibility to recover it?

iPhone 5, iOS 6.1.3

Posted on Apr 29, 2013 10:50 AM

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Posted on Apr 29, 2013 10:56 AM

and I turn it on from times to times to find out if the screen started responding.


Not a good idea. Leave it turned off in the rice for 5-7 days... you might get lucky.

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Touch screen not responding after water damage

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