When your ipod is water damaged is the red in the earphone hole vey visible or is it hard to see?

hey Posada143, don't worry about seeing the indicator dye. You know if you dropped it in water, and if your not sure treat your iPod as if you did. Leave it turned off, do not use or attempt to charge it until you have dried it out. Put your iPod in a sealed bag of uncooked rice for at least 10 days, (yes, you heard me 10 long days), change the rice every couple of days. With a little luck you will get it to work, if you do the first thing you want to do is connect to your computer and make backups of everything on your iPod. You never know when / if your iPod will fail, water damage is a tricky thing. You may need to charge your iPod to get it to turn on, plug it into the charger and keep a close eye on it, if you hear crackling sounds, or see smoke or smell something burning or if your ipod get HOT, unplug it immediately! These are signs of something shorting out. You may need to Reset, or Restore to New or go into DFU recovery mode to get it to work, and just to be clear-- it may never work again, the rice thing has spotty results, depending on what get wet and for how long AND IF you turned it on when it was wet. That is almost a certainty it will not work. But for a few a bucks worth of rice worth trying. From reading your other post, who ever told you Apple will reboot a water damaged iPod is full of gas and doesn't know what they're talking about. Although, you can go to Apple see about purchasing an out of warranty refurbished iPod to replace your water damaged one. And don't even think your going to fool the Apple tech's in believing you iPod has not been water damaged, They will know before you can think up a good cover store. Hope this helps, Good luck. Cheers.

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Turn off the iPod as soon as possible.

Do NOT TURN IT BACK ON NO MATTER WHAT.

Place the iPod in a bag of rice (cheap method) or take apart the iPod and use a soft paintbrush to dry the internals (preferred, more likely to work, and more effective method).

Allow the iPod to dry out for AT LEAST 4 DAYS, preferably 1 week, AND AT MOST 2 WEEKS.

After 4 days - 2 weeks try to turn it on. If it does not turn on, take it in to your nearest Apple Store for service.

Austin

No problem!

I hope your iPod is fine!

Once, my iPod nano went through the washer while it was on! (I forgot to turn the HOLD switch to HOLD, let alone take it out of my pocket). And it was fine.

I hope you get everything sorted out! 🙂

Austin

Glad to help. Follow the directions to the letter, and DO NOT TURN IT ON UNTIL DRIED OUT!!! Have used this method to dry out 3 phones and a recorder, I know friends have had about 60% luck with there iPods or iPhones, so it's not perfect, but it does work; most of the time, provided you don't turn it on to soon, stick with a 10 day drying time. Good luck.

Sometimes, though, it's better to not wait before taking it to Apple because the longer the water remains in the sealed device the longer it has the opportunity to not only fry the components if you turn the device on but also corrode the device's internals regardless of whether or not its turned on.

Austin

Hey Austin, You do have point. Trust me the 10 day thing is from trial and error-- and being to far out to just pop into the store. If the water has gotten into the components, memory chips, etc, there is usually nothing that can be done but give your iPod a proper burial (recycle it). That kind of damage can happen in seconds if your very unlucky. Like I said earlier, it's spotty but worth trying. (When your 500 miles from the nearest outpost you try anything!) 😉 Cheers!

Ten days is way overkill to dry small electronics. 5 days is about the maximum I've ever used. If there was enough water in it to take 10 days it was ruined from the start. Even setting in aside in a cupboard with no drying agent it should dry completely in that 5 day period.

And this is from a lot of experience.

It depends on the amount of water. If you don't mind, might I ask why you want to know this? 🙂

Austin