Have you ever dropped your cell phone in water?

United States
January 15, 2010 9:06pm CST
I have dropped my cellphone in the toliet by accident. I was leaning over the toliet and my phone was in my poket and it fell in the toliet. The worst part was it went right down the hole. When this happened I was at my boyfriends moms house and when I told her she was very upset! She thought she was going to call a plumber. Lucklily her boyfriend was home and tried to pull it out and he did get out. When he pulled it out it had crap all over it. I felt bad for him because it was crappy for him. Needless to say I had to get a new phone!
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@cream97 (29087)
• United States
17 Jan 10
Hi, tuckersheri. No, my cell phone has never fell in the toilet before. But it has hit the hard floor and ground many of times. Luckily, it did not break! I have dropped an bible in the toilet one time. It was an bible that this man gave to my husband. He had to end up buying another brand new bible after this. He was so upset about his bible too. I am sorry that you had to buy a whole new cell phone. Things like this can be very uncomfortable when it happens.
• United States
16 Jan 10
Oh yes me too! I usually drop my cell phone on the floor or so a lot of times. But i accidentally drop my cell phone in the toilet yesterday! It was so gross trying to get it out. And so i end up getting a new one...
• Malaysia
16 Jan 10
Oh, sorry to hear that. I have never dropped my cell phone into the water, but I know someone who did, almost the same incident like you, but this woman was always very busy with her phone even when she was in the toilet. So, one day she accidentally dropped it right into the toilet bowl as well. Of course she was shocked for a while and didn't know what to do, but then when she forced herself to pick it up, it was already too late. So, I always remind myself to be very careful with the cell phone and put it nicely inside my bag as I'm afraid I might drop it especially inside the public toilet. Ewww!
@angela018 (143)
• Philippines
16 Jan 10
hi.. it was so embarrassing. but though it is an accident nothing much to worry.. just buy a new one..
• India
16 Jan 10
well it was rainy season and i had a bag on one hand and umbrella on the other.......i was walking and there were puddles everywhere....suddenly a call came and i had to take my phn out from that situation......i did bit it slipped out of my hand and dropped on the puddle..........i took it and then washed it with fresh water and then i saw that there were water droplets inside the screen......
@danute (1)
• Latvia
16 Jan 10
Yes, multiple times, lucky for me, back then I had an older Nokia. I dropped it in a tiolet at least once, into a pond once, and subjected it to multiple excursions in the rain. Besides that, it's been subjected falls from two-stories high and dirt bike rides. It survived. At one point I had to buy new casing for it, but it did a great job for many years.
@ronnyb (6113)
• Jamaica
16 Jan 10
My cell phoe dropped in water but I didnt do it .It was L6 phone and I really liked that phone .It just so happened that I left my cellphone on the ground and left the tap on in my bathroom or my kitchen and the water came back and flooded my entire one room.Needles to say the water came back and teh cell phone was caught in a stream of water
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
16 Jan 10
I have not done this personally. My 13 year old daughter has cost me three cell phones to accidentaslly dropping them in the bathroom sink or bathtub. Enough is enough I say.
@adamc151 (476)
16 Jan 10
nope i have never dropped my phone in water before, but i know people who have. They say it didn't work but when they put it on the radiator to dry out it worked again, apparently. Im not sure whether to believe this but i guess it may have done :D
@maria1081 (1251)
• Philippines
16 Jan 10
No I havent dropped my cellular phone in the water. But I knew someone close to me dropped his phone in the water two 3 years ago. What he did was he immediately removed it from water, wipe the cellphone carefully with soft and absorbent cloth then removed the battery pack and let it dry in the air. Fortunately the phone is still working. I think the old models of cellphone are more tough and durable compared to new models nowadays.
@agito121 (176)
• United Arab Emirates
16 Jan 10
actually i didnt really drop it on the water, But i always drop it on the floor and its always a pain, My friend however once dropped it while he was doing the dishes and it was a new phone that he bought, he worked hard to save up for the phone but in the end, all his hard work was for nothing......I Laughed so hard but i felt sorry for him as well.
16 Jan 10
I used to put my phone on the top of the toilet cistern and of course when it vibrated through a text or call it dropped down into the toilet I had one of thoses moments when for some reason you just dont move and I just looked at the blue glow under the water then fished it out, it luckily dried on the radiator each time the final time however it was gone, took me a few lessons and eventually I learnt lol..
• India
16 Jan 10
I did not got the unlucky chance to drop my cell phone in water yet. And hope I dont get any chance of doing that !
@nexan29 (86)
• Philippines
16 Jan 10
That's horrible!. I wish it will never happen to my phone. Even we can buy a phone easily, we will lose the sentimental value of it..If it happens, surely i will cry eheh. I think we should learn for that.
• Philippines
16 Jan 10
dropping cellphone into water intentionally "not way" and i don't have the guts to do it, even if i'm on peak of my anger but accidentally, my cellphone was dropped in the toilet bowl.. oh no! it's a brand new then, it really offs when it fell down, then i let it checked for a cellphone technician then right now ..i have used it already.
@MJAL08 (275)
16 Jan 10
Well, i haven't but here's the thing, even if our phone fell in water it can still survive. First things first don't try to turn it on because it would only cause a short circuit and completely destroy your phone. Take out the battery shake the water off then put the battery in a ziploc full of rice grains and leave it there for 3 days, the rice would absorb the water. Also, put your phone in another ziploc with rice grains too and leave it for 3 days too. I swear your phone would survive the accident.
@kaylachan (57244)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
16 Jan 10
I remember coming close once. I was at the pool and I was talking on my phone. A woman near me started to freak out because she had convinced herself, that if I did drop said device that the battery was powerful enough to short-curcut and eletricute her so she said some nasty things and ran off. I simply shook my head. Though when I first met my partner we were out to eat, and he or I knocked over my soda and gave my phone a soda bath. Not plesent.
• United States
16 Jan 10
that's horrible and embarrasing!!!! I dont think I'd be brave enough to tell them that, I don't know what'd I'd do!!! I have never dropped my phone in waterm (I've come close to it), but I've had several friends who have. They all just opened it, shook all the water out, and left it outside to dry, and viola! Still working.
@Gladi472 (82)
• Romania
16 Jan 10
Droped mine once in a well, I was trying to pull some water and it just fell from my shirts top pocket . I fished it out a few moments later but he was doomed for ,never worked after. I'm pretty curios if anyone had a happy ending to this incident.
• United States
16 Jan 10
i was on a boat and i went to flip my flip phone and bloop right in to the watrer my friend was being a smart @$$ and called it to see if it would still light up under water haha good times