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85 250sx
08-07-2008, 05:17 PM
once ipods get wet is there anyway you can fix them or is there anywhere you can send them to get fixed? This is my second one to get wet and there not to cheap first one was one of the big ones it got wet when i was skiing and the second was a nano that went through the wash. thanks

300rman
08-07-2008, 05:52 PM
its probably junk man.

ebay for a new one

Dirtcrasher
08-07-2008, 07:59 PM
I've washed my phone 3X and each time I took out the battery, tossed it in the oven on WARM wrapped in foil, dried the battery in the sun and all 3X it was good to go.............. Kinda made me not worry so much about washing the prick :lol:

300rman
08-07-2008, 10:36 PM
it could work if you dry it out, but as far as actually servicing it, its toast.

RedRider_AK
08-08-2008, 12:56 AM
If you dry it out and it works, good for you. It's probably not going to work though. I have a friend who buys ruined Ipods on Ebay and then slaps the working components out of each one into a single one, he's actually making profit when he sells the rebuilt ones...

food for thought.

Macs
08-08-2008, 07:01 PM
as long as you pop out the battery imediatley you will be fine. they have an auto breaker in them. it will very rapadly flip until it burns out. then it will start toasting. if you get out the battery right away, let it dry and it will be fine.

TwoHundredEx
08-08-2008, 07:17 PM
as long as you pop out the battery imediatley you will be fine. they have an auto breaker in them. it will very rapadly flip until it burns out. then it will start toasting. if you get out the battery right away, let it dry and it will be fine.

The battery on an ipod is internal though, and is pretty time consuming to take out without hurting anything else.

85 250sx
08-08-2008, 07:35 PM
yeah i took it apart with a knife. but you coulnt realy just take the battery out it was connected with three wires and you counldnt take them off without cutting them so i left it be. i let it dry for a couple days and it still doesnt work all i get is a do not disconect sign with and an ! mark

phreakboy
08-08-2008, 09:37 PM
One of the easiest things to do when a phone gets wet is to just drop it into a bucket of wd40 and let it set and soak. After about 20 mins or so take it out let it drain and try it out. wd40 is non conductive and will force the moisture out of the phone/ipod.

Macs
08-08-2008, 11:03 PM
i was just looking at a schematic. I have never owned an ipod so i figured it had a similiar battery as a cell phone

factoryX
08-09-2008, 01:37 AM
My friends simply takes it back to the apple store and shows them the warrenty and they give him a new one.

piroguedog
08-09-2008, 10:24 AM
If I was broken, this would fix me...........................
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yz250f
08-09-2008, 02:02 PM
I have a friend that buy his nano from the apple web site and just send it back when it brokked. 2 weeks later, apple send back a new nano and the old one. he oppen it and got it fixed up. He got a new nano for free!

84honda200s
08-09-2008, 02:35 PM
If I was broken, this would fix me...........................
67643




ditto that man !!! :beer :drool: :Bounce

cody2
08-09-2008, 08:34 PM
I've washed my phone 3X and each time I took out the battery, tossed it in the oven on WARM wrapped in foil, dried the battery in the sun and all 3X it was good to go.............. Kinda made me not worry so much about washing the prick :lol:

Yeah but you cant take the battery out. Dont bother sending it to apple, i sent my 60gb video to them long time back because the battery would die after like 20 min and it was $150 to fix, almost could have bought a new one for that :cry: i had a 30 and a 80 since.