Advice needed re:water damaged phone

doxybite

Got my upgrade last October, Samsung Galaxy S2 for £25/month for 24 months. Great deal, but now I've dropped my phone down the toilet.

Had cover for my blackberry, £6/month for 2 years. But either there was a misprint online or I read it wrong, but I thought Samsung was £12 cover so didn't bother with it (big mistake, also got told by woman in Orange shop today that it would have been £6 and it's only iPhones that cost £12).

Anyway, I now have a broken phone that won't charge as it's overheating.

Has anyone been through this and know what my best option is?

I don't have home insurance or cover with my bank account either.

As far as I know my options are:

*Buy a new cheap handset and put my sim card in it (if the sim card still works that is!). I can't afford this option really, as I don't want a basic phone, that's why I bought the Samsung Galaxy in the first place!

* Phone up orange customer services and pay some hefty fee (which I was told was around £170, and then I get a new handset and start paying for care each month).

*Pay someone shifty (lol) to fix it if possible

So yeh, does anyone have any different advice?

Thanks!

grumbler

Are you sure it will be a new one from Orange for £170?
I don't think so.

Rusty!

Sell it on eBay as faulty, use funds from that to buy a cheaper smartphone such as the Orange San Francisco II, it's Android so you'll be familiar with it.

doxybite

grumbler wrote: »

Are you sure it will be a new one from Orange for £170?
I don't think so.

That's what the shop assistant in Orange quoted me. Just off the phone to customer services and they said the same. £160-odd to get a new handset of the same model if I agree to take £6/month care for at least 4 months. Or £174 for new phone without the care. Not too shabby at all considering the phone sells for £399 upwards in my work and they aren't at liberty to do anything at all considering it was my own stupidity that broke the phone.

And thanks Rusty - never thought of selling the faulty one, definitely a good idea!

grumbler

This just makes no sense to me unless it is a refurbished handset.
Why would they give you a new £500 handset for £170 if you are tied into the contract and cannot leave anyway?

doxybite

I agree. But I'm certainly not going to complain about it!

candlelight2012

Have you tried opening it up and placing in a container containing rich and leaving for 24 hours?

I know a few people who have revived their phones this way.

It's amazing how many phones end up down toilets!!!

Hope it works out for you

M00se_2

+1
If its only water damage, try the rice trick, worked for me

brightonman123

dis assemble as much as possible, and do the rice thing.. or leave in a warm DRY(!) place overnight..