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Started by Opomon at 9/28/2009 17:42:36. Topic has 28 replies.
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9/28/2009 17:42:36
How To Fix a Wet Zune
This works with all the electronic devices I have ever tried it with including: Zunes, iPods, and Cellphones.  Get a plastic bag of uncooked rice and place your device inside it, making sure that it is completely surrounded on all sides by the rice.  Leave the device inside the bag for at least a couple of days and the rice will suck the moisture out of the device.  Here is another forum post of mine telling a specific story where the latter has worked: How Tough Is Your Zune?

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9/29/2009 06:14:16
re: How To Fix a Wet Zune
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9/29/2009 06:20:19
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The process is called dessication and while it will work for devices that barely got wet...it will usually not help devices that were wet for prolonged periods of time.

Also getting it straight into the desiccant (weird how desiccant has 1 s and 2 c's but dessication has 2 s's and 1 c eh?) is key. The best one on the market if you can find enough of it is silica gel. However rice makes a somewhat reasonable substitute (only about 70% as effective). Use regular white rice, avoid Minute Rice.

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9/29/2009 21:08:40
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Well That sure is some good vocabulary you have there haha, how did you come by this knowledge?  But thanks now I know the details behind this method.

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9/29/2009 22:10:36
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Beans work too btw.

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9/30/2009 11:51:27
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I've had to fix many wet electronics in the past for people, and myself at times.

As for the vocabulary...well embarrassingly enough I have a near eidetic (photographic) memory...and it gets me in trouble a lot ;)


Also for the beans recommendation. They are only about 30% as effective as silica gel, and 50% as effective as the rice.

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9/30/2009 21:04:13
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Hahaha I can bet it would get you in trouble a lot, but it must have been very helpful in school.

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10/1/2009 01:55:07
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 Opomon wrote:
Hahaha I can bet it would get you in trouble a lot, but it must have been very helpful in school.


Oddly enough it was a curse which is why I left school early and went to work for the state of Washington for a while just as I turned 18. It was hard to sit through school repeating a lot of the same information year after year.

When they start teaching us basic algebra in the 2nd grade (remember those like 2+?=5 problems? Yeah basic algebra) it's hard to sit through it for another 7 years before they even try to teach you anything else.

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10/1/2009 02:10:33
re: How To Fix a Wet Zune

This is an interesting thread.  Coming from a hispanic househould, there's plenty of rice and beans (more rice tho) and it's interesting to understand what silica gel is used for instead of just something that I shouldn't eat.

When I was taking the bus because my car broke down, my Zune got a little wet but thankfully it didn't damage anything.  If it happens again, at least I'll have a way to try to resurect it by using the rice since it's cheap and readily available.

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10/1/2009 02:15:45
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 daelin73 wrote:

This is an interesting thread.  Coming from a hispanic househould, there's plenty of rice and beans (more rice tho) and it's interesting to understand what silica gel is used for instead of just something that I shouldn't eat.

When I was taking the bus because my car broke down, my Zune got a little wet but thankfully it didn't damage anything.  If it happens again, at least I'll have a way to try to resurect it by using the rice since it's cheap and readily available.

Lauren



Yup just remember that while it may fix it from a little water, it may not if it gets totally soaked.  I recently broke 2 of my ribs...first broken anything for me at almost 30 :P

Well after that thanks to pain meds and the like I was a bit out of it...and accidentally left my brand new expensive Windows Mobile Phone in the pocket and ran it through a full wash and dry cycle.  I left it in the rice for about a week and it now starts up intermittently...but only when it wants to. Everything else on it seems to work...but I can't control when it turns on and off. I may be able to fix that later on, but for now it's shut down until I get time to work on it later.

So like I said...it works most of the time, but not always if it's soaked for too long ;)

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10/1/2009 03:05:59
re: How To Fix a Wet Zune
hmmm never heard of the rice trick you said. But i dropped my phone in to the toilet and took it out and place it in the sun. It seems to do the trick too...

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10/1/2009 03:08:41
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 CRAZZZY STONER wrote:
hmmm never heard of the rice trick you said. But i dropped my phone in to the toilet and took it out and place it in the sun. It seems to do the trick too...


That will sometimes work if the amount of water inside the phone is really small. It will just evaporate out.  That's a passive form of desiccation. The silica/rice/beans version is a more active form since they actually pull the moisture out.

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