ASDFGHJKL!!!

[severity_softly]

MY iPod JUST GOT SOAKED IN WATER!!! MY BABY! WHAT DO I DO?!?! *places it futilely in dish drying rack* I was trying out the husband's new bike, and was wearing his camelbak hydration pack, and was using my iPod as a timer. As soon as I started actually biking, the camelbak leaked every last ounce of water out into the pouch my iPod was in (and down my back, arse, and legs). I can see water in the display window but it doesn't seem to have any way to drain out! *weeps* I haven't even had it a year! *wails*

This does nothing to ease the foul mood I've been in for the last two days. I know what part of the cause is, but I can't do anything about it without shooting myself in the foot, and that makes it worse.

Comments

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

Google has answers!

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=441190

I'm sorry!

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

Heh, thanks! The arm swinging method there seems to have gotten most of water out (from what I can see by looking at the display, anyway), though that doesn't sound very hopeful considering it was turned on when it got soaked. I wonder if maybe I should have left it on. I sort of panicked and shut it off.

Desiccant ASAP!

[coell.livejournal.com]

Appropriate icon you used!

ASAP - Fill a tupperware/gladlock bowl with uncooked rice, and bury your device in it for a few days, seal it up, maybe even sit it on a slightly warm place. The rice will absorb the moisture in the air and pull the water out of your device.

Silica is a better desiccant than rice, so if you can find it, use that. Some of the crystal kitty litter is 100% silica (the stuff in those little packets in medicine bottles, etc.)

I've heard you should not turn it back on until you KNOW it's dry.

[mosaic.livejournal.com]

If it really, truly is dead, take it to an Apple Store. Usually if you'd had the thing for under a year (if you got warranty on it), so should be able to get it replaced for free. That's what I did when I dropped mine and it broke. I lost a bit of music that was on my iPod but not on my laptop, but it was worth not having to buy a whole new iPod. GOOD LUCK!! *hugs*

[sherlock2040.livejournal.com]

Eeep.

I'm afraid I can't offer any advice

[innerslytherin]

If it's less than a year old, try to get Apple to replace it.

*huggles comfortingly* It is truly horrible to see an iPod be injured, isn't it?