Water damaged Iphone stuck in recovery mode

You can keep posting all you want. Doesn't change the fact that your phone is toast.

Buy a new iphone or buy an out of warranty replacement

It's toast. You'll have to bring it to an Apple Store to get it replaced. Cost is $269+tax for the iPhone 5.

~Lyssa

Again, it's toast.

My guess is that there's a hardware problem preventing it from connecting to the internet or something similar...

Are you getting an error message?

~Lyssa

From another thread, here are some things that could cause that error:

"Possible causes:

1. Your antivirus is blocking access to gs.apple.com.

2. Your phone is jailbroken.

3. Your computer has been used at some time in the past to jaibreak some iOS device (not necessarily the phone with the problem), and its network database was corrupted by the hacking software that was used.

4. Apple's activation servers are down (very rare, and never for more than an hour or so).

For 1. try disabling your antivirus.

For 2. & 3. you need to go somewhere other than an apple forum for help. Although you can try deleting lines containing gs.apple.com from your "hosts" file on your computer."

~Lyssa

If you were using third party software to get the phone out of recovery mode, it's entirely possible one or more of those programs is one that could also jailbreak your phone.

You may have to try restoring your phone on another computer to see if that helps any.

~Lyssa

The only thing you can do is try restoring it on another computer. If that fails, you can try bringing it to Apple to see if they'll exchange your phone for an Out of Warranty replacement, which is $269+tax for the iPhone 5.

~Lyssa