iPod dropped in toilet. Heartbroken.
 

Frantically scrubbed with a towel and stuck it in a bowl of uncooked white rice with a vent heater underneath it (was told by a friend).

Shit is the only thing I care about materialistically, if my phone dropped in the toilet, I wouldn't really give two shits (pun intended).

Anything else people can suggest?

if you can open it up and use a hairdryer possibly, then DO NOT try and turn it out for a day or so, then hopefully it magically works in a couple days.

but be patient with it

I was thinking of just letting it dry naturally of it's own accord, it has a way of short-circuiting itself so it can defend it's electrical components.

Didn't think of hairdryer though, will try that out.

yea I've had a few lucky run ins with water and electrical appliances in my day, but there has also been the few that turned on with a fucked up screen and the few that never even came close to turning on again.

hopefully the prevention thing will save it, but then I have to believe they would make sure any water damage fucks it so they can get more money :/

Deffo on that second point. Seeing as iPod is the leading mobile music product, why would they care about making them militant? Clumsy rich motherfuckers would just buy and buy again. Kinda fucked up, really, but a good marketing strategy.

Worst comes to worse, I'll buy another second hand renewed 160gb for £100 or more. Pissed off though, this cost me £200. :(

yea It's fucked up because in order for us as a whole to survive we must create products that are meant to last, and meant to be upgraded when something new comes out instead of selling a new product.

but as money hungry bastards keep producing the cheapest products they can with hopes of making a new version with in a year we are just using up resources left n' right until eventually we'll have nothing to use any more.

"now we're into stripping mother earth of her resources, waiting for the day that today's considered prehistoric" - Eyedea, This Story

How the fuck dud u manage that? Lol

I was cleaning my bathroom listening to my iPod, at one point I was cleaning behind the toilet. When I stood up, my iPod came out of my pocket and dangled above the toilet because I had my headphones in. The jack plug couldn't hold it and it plunged into a toilety doom. :(

Water seems to be coming out from behind the screen in the bowl of rice though, I have hope.

Sorry bro but I laughed. ^^

gutted. sure simon'll hook u up w/a new 1 tho.

The rice trick is legit. Did it myself.

Have faith!

what he said^

but i cant even find my ipod, idk what i did with it, its prolly under the couch or some shit

lol @ rice chinese kids starving an ya'll wasting rice on iPods

Don't worry Phil, I'll send this bowl of toilet rice to V3Numb when I'm done with it.

He's probably real hungry.

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Mind you, it's Paella rice. Does that count?

I'm sure @Joey Cannoli wouldn't turn a free bowl of rice down either

I could distribute it. I'm motherfucking Oxfam.

@RULE how long did you leave it for? I've had it in the rice for like 30 hours now, gonna give it another day just in case.

Id leave it in for atleast 3 days , atleast, works for phones too.

if its out of the toilet I have to decline phil but i'm a sucker for fried rice :)

3 days famly.

Damn, no blues, no soul, no funk for 48 more hours. :(

Rice didn't work for my old phone. Got stuck in the wash and broke. Lost something like 30 fully scripted cartoons I had written on it. Still coming up with random little concepts every now and again.

That's a bitch. Sometimes the things you lose on it are more precious.

Sometimes I wonder, would I rather lose my notepads or my guitar?

Sounds like a song in the making.