Phone soaked with beer, can I retrieve numbers?

I seem to have killed my phone. (it got soaked with beer) it comes on, for about a second then goes off again, does anyone reckon it will come back to life?

anyhows... being an idiot, all my numbers were stored to the phone, not the sim card, is there any way of retrieving the numbers?

Not if it won't stay on long enough to connect

Try this posted by Webclaw:

We'll due to demand I'm writing this to help get those broken phones back up and working again.

Before I start, LED's are the small lights that make your keypad bright, indicator light flash, and the battery status blink. The LCD is your screen! Do NOT get this confused.

There are many factors that damage a phone. Water is NOT one of them. No matter what you might think, water is not harmful to the main-board (mB also FEY mB {keyboard assembly}), LED's or XCOMM chips. What is harmful is when your battery is putting voltage through the cell phone, causing shorts, corrosion & ruining the mic/speakers.

Water damage is permanent if your LCD is affected. There is no way at all to repair water damage from an LCD. Your battery life will be terrible as the LCD will be shorting itself all the time. Additionally the backlight is a chemical, it degrades with moisture.

If you phone gets wet, do the following;

1. Immediately take out the battery, remove your SIM card and pray you LCD is not wet.
2. Make sure you review the repair guide for your handset; it will tell you how to take it apart without damaging anything.
3. Take apart your handset, separate the FEY layers. *FEY layers are the individual the mB layers, some phones have 3 FEY layers (they are the long pieces that have chips on them.
4. If you have a vX or vXXX or cXXX series phone, remove the mic and disconnect the speaker. Speakers will sound overly “trebly (very high pitched)” if wet.
5. Immerse the FEY layers in 30PCT rubbing alcohol or higher.
6. Get a Cutip and sweep the keypad, FEY layers and all contacts. Push fairly hard, your Cutip will turn a brown if you’re pushing hard enough. There is no need to worry about getting the LED’s wet.
7. Let the FEY layers sit for 2 minutes. Reswab with a Cutip sweeping everything.
8. Shake the unit in the solution, it will break up corrosion, and ensure there are no short circuits.
9. Place the FEY layers in a kitchen oven. Heat the oven to 200 degrees (Celsius). Do not worry silicon and those chips can take heat up to 400 degrees without melting! Let sit in the over ½ hour. If you have a FEY that is larger than a candy bar, let sit an hour.
10. Remove unit, shake well, and put back into the oven for another 10 minutes.
11. Take FEY layers out, let cool for 3 minutes and rebuild phone. Don’t forget to put your mic back in. The Mic can be dried out in the oven as well, but do not immerse in alcohol.

Recipe serves 1 – 4 people.

Hope this helped you. It is how professionals repair phones.

wow, looks hard, yesterday the phone was on, just with no screen, so i thought i could steal my phonebook via bluetooth, but that didnt work.

seems like its shorting itself out from what is wrote above!

If it stays on you might be able to connect long enough to retrieve them if not you need to do the above and hope it allows you to do so

Hiya,
My wife's PEBL is at the repair centre at the moment and contrary to what they told me last week about the problem being a keypad and software fault, they're now saying that the boards show signs of oxidation and that the phone has been wet, thus they won't repair it. I know it hasn't been immersed- however, it WAS placed on a wet patch on the table, and was dried off afterwards (approx 1 minute).

The repair centre have said that the phone can't be repaired at all, although it does switch on, there's just problems with the keypad responding. Do you think that the method you described above may possibly work?

And do you have any idea of where to get appropriate products? (the "it turns brown if you press hard enough" bit)

Cheers,
Jellybean

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