Can you get information off a wet mobile phone

burtons

I've found a old mobile phone out by my backdoor but it's soaking wet so is there a way to get any information off the phone so I can find out who's it is and why it was there.

eDicky

If the battery is removed quickly enough when a phone gets wet, it may still work when dried out. In this case it's probably too late but may be worth a try, otherwise the SIM should still work in a different handset and reveal its phone number and stored contact list.

ballyblack

get the back off, battery out and dry it out & recharge. Unlikely it will start up when reinserted but you can always try

mobilejunkie

If whoever owned the phone was sensible (unlike most) they would have put locks on the sim and phone, making them useless without the codes. However, since they were careless to lose it in the first place they were probably like the vast majority who (stupidly) don't.

pmduk

putting it in a bag of rice is apparently helpful in these circumstances. Fortunately I've never had to try it.

Kernel_Sanders

mobilejunkie wrote: »

If whoever owned the phone was sensible (unlike most) they would have put locks on the sim and phone, making them useless without the codes.

It's an 'old mobile phone', so very likely not a smartphone.

glentoran99

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

It's an 'old mobile phone', so very likely not a smartphone.

Did you not have a pin code on your nokia 3210

mobilejunkie

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

It's an 'old mobile phone', so very likely not a smartphone.

What's that got to do with the price of bread??

Maybe you only just started using a mobile phone.

Kernel_Sanders

It doesn't seem to have the facility to lock the SIM, so I thought that you would need to add software to the phone to do that. It has no SD card slot and a tiny HDD.

glentoran99

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

It doesn't seem to have the facility to lock the SIM, so I thought that you would need to add software to the phone to do that. It has no SD card slot and a tiny HDD.

Huh? What doesn't have the facility?

mobilejunkie

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

It doesn't seem to have the facility to lock the SIM, so I thought that you would need to add software to the phone to do that. It has no SD card slot and a tiny HDD.

Sounds like you expect apps to do everything for you. All the phones I've ever had have security settings for the sim and the phone. Only a few have been smartphones and setting BOTH locks are the first thing I do with a new phone (unless I'm selling it).