Wife's mobile dropped dead any ideas on how to test/fix?
 

Hi guys, so this mobile won't work at present - if you've any ideas on how I might fix or test various bits on it to see if it could live again I'd be really grateful. Thanks alot :)

Supposedly, rice will dry out electronics. Check these links:

Using Rice to Dry Out Electronics

Hey RoadiJeff, I've put the phone in a tub with rice for a couple of days to see if it will dry the thing out. Could be new phone time tho :)

Cheers man
Roger

The rice thing didn't help in my case... I need a new phone.

Think it's going to be time for a new phone coffee and electronics just dont mix. Most of the boards I'm sure would be fried

If you didn't try and turn it on afterward, putting all the components in a bag of rice for at least 2 days sometimes works. I've had a 80/20% success rate with it.

If the phone was powered on at the time it hit the drink, all the rice in the world probably won't help.

That's not necessarily true. More often than not, a phone is on when it gets wet. I've quite a few that I've brought back to life and they were powered up when they went swimming. I've had them come out of pools, snowbanks, toilets, glasses of soda and a few other beverages. :-)

Hi Guys, well predictably enough the phone is dead even after the rice experiment to dry it out. Nevermind, at least I learned how to take one apart and what the various big parts are. I guess 4 yr old kid + mobile phone + mug of coffee (all within 100ft of each other) = dead phone.

Thanks for your ideas on this.
Roger

Are you sure she didn't plop it in there intentionally, so she could get a new phone already?