iPhone 5 water damage
On Sunday morning I dropped my phone in the toilet (unfotunately not full of fresh toilet water). I immediately removed the phone, wiped it down as best I could and tried to turn it off. Unfortunately, the touch screen refused to allow a full swipe for off and after a few tries stopped responding altogether. I couldn't turn off my phone immediately as the touch feature failed and holding the lock and home buttons only resulted in a reset. So I threw the phone in a bag of quinoa (I had no rice or other dessicant and I would recommend avoiding quinoa at all costs. That stuff made a huge mess) and started Googling. Looked like it was likely that my charging port has debris shorting it out and resulting in a restart every time the phone was powered off. I cleaned it with some isopranol and was finally able to turn the thing off. Then I went and got some rice and it has been in the rice since. This morning the phone turned on because I had an alarm set and it was on when I returned home this evening as well. I turned it back off each time and threw it back in the rice (which is sitting near my stove). I used these opporturnities to check the screen responsiveness and have been disappointed. I realize it may take about a week to completely dry, but I'm wondering if people believe there is any hope for the thing at this point. Is the screen fried? I don't have anything to open the phone and clean it with so I'm stuck with just the sim card port open. The indicator in the sim card port is still white but I'm guessing at least one of the other two indicators are red. Should I try to wait it out or take it to an Apple store for and out of warranty repair ($149)?
iPhone 5, iOS 6.1.4
