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How To Fix a Wet Zune

Started by Opomon at 10/1/2009 19:24:11. Topic has 28 replies.
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10/1/2009 19:24:11
re: How To Fix a Wet Zune
This thread keeps getting off topic and back on.  It's probably my favorite thread ever hahaha.

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10/1/2009 20:13:22
re: How To Fix a Wet Zune
Only problem is, since the metals in the device have been exposed to water, after a while it will begin to rust...

as such limiting the life of your device
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10/1/2009 20:19:42
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 Vibelight2 wrote:
Only problem is, since the metals in the device have been exposed to water, after a while it will begin to rust...

as such limiting the life of your device
I don't think so...  for two reasons.  1) rust or oxidation requires the continued presence of the oxidant.  If it is removed, the process ceases.  2) I doubt there is much in there to rust...  the body is milled aluminum I believe I have read, and other metal parts are likely to be stainless steel, coated and/or other rust resistant materials.
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10/1/2009 21:56:48
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Rice, a hair dryer, and a little sunlight fixed my Zune 120 after leaving it in the washing machine. (:
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10/1/2009 22:20:36
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 Xaironi wrote:
Rice, a hair dryer, and a little sunlight fixed my Zune 120 after leaving it in the washing machine. (:

yeah... that dry clean only label is way too small to read easily...
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10/1/2009 22:26:38
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 NSILMike wrote:
yeah... that dry clean only label is way too small to read easily...


Doh how did I miss that on my phone? After all it's an HTC, and they always put the best warning labels on things. It must have come off in the wash :( ;)

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10/1/2009 22:29:56
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 Norrath Reaver wrote:
 NSILMike wrote:
yeah... that dry clean only label is way too small to read easily...

Doh how did I miss that on my phone? After all it's an HTC, and they always put the best warning labels on things. It must have come off in the wash :( ;)
LOL.... yeah.  
I'm from Boston and my first stab at that post was that the label was 'wicked' small... and I quickly edited that out...!  But sometimes the Boston 'lingo' is actually perfect...
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10/1/2009 22:44:45
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 NSILMike wrote:
I'm from Boston and my first stab at that post was that the label was 'wicked' small... and I quickly edited that out...!  But sometimes the Boston 'lingo' is actually perfect...


Nothing wrong with 'wicked'.  I actually like the way people from Boston talk. I've picked up some of the lingo over the years and use it over here in Washington, and sometimes people just stare.  Meh, it's not like I'm trying to do the whole accent, but 'wicked' has definitely crept into my vocabulary over the years.

Shortening down street names has too...telling people to drive down Park Ave...instead of saying Avenue full out.

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10/27/2009 20:21:33
re: How To Fix a Wet Zune

My son left his Zune in his pocket and it made it through both the wash and dry cycles.  He was devastated.  I had heard about the rice and freezer trick for wet cell phones so what did I have to loose.  I put it in a baggie of rice, real stuff, not instant, and put it in the freezer for two days.  Then left the baggie on the counter for two days.  I took it out and put it on the charger.  Works just like it did when it came our of the box!

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10/27/2009 21:21:56
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 KinklyFlea wrote:
My son left his Zune in his pocket and it made it through both the wash and dry cycles.  He was devastated.  I had heard about the rice and freezer trick for wet cell phones so what did I have to loose.  I put it in a baggie of rice, real stuff, not instant, and put it in the freezer for two days.  Then left the baggie on the counter for two days.  I took it out and put it on the charger.  Works just like it did when it came our of the box!

John in Oklahoma

I'm glad it worked...next time (and hopefully there never is a next time...) skip the freezer.  You want to suck the moisture out...if you freeze it in place, it can't evaporate... 
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10/30/2009 02:00:58
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Yea I can't seem to think of any way that freezing it would help it in any way, Maybe if it was temporary in case you ran out of rice or something haha.  But thinking about it I can only think of it slowing down the process of the rice being able to suck the moisture out and the fact that the water would expand might do something bad, depending on how much there is inside your Zune.

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11/2/2009 10:19:20
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He's mixing up a couple different things it sounds like.

There's the rice method which is for drying out a device.

Then there's a vacuum sealed bag in the freezer to get a hard drive that's dead to work temporarily (in some cases)

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