Beowulf
12th-December-2008, 12:26 PM
I really shouldn't laugh.. really I shouldn't. But my services have been called apon for a most unfortunate colleague here in the office.
Guy came up to me with a very sorry look on his face. he got himself the top of the range 3g Iphones (what's that the 32gb version? 16gb?? i forget which one is tops!) anyway it's only a few days old and he loves it. However he was frying something in his kitchen the other day, took his iphone out of his pocket and put it on the shelf.. .. above the deep fat fryer.
he didn't count on the vibrate function of a missed call shaking the phone off the shelf.. and into a hot oil bath!!
now MAX KUDOS for the iphone design despite being fried (I had to laugh when he said he'd fried his iphone.. "what did you do to it?" "I literally fried it.. in oil") it still works (apparently the oil wasn't fully up to heat.
we spent about 15 - 20 mins yesterday in the IT / electronics build room with the phone apart. we got most of the oil out but it had no sound and a "shadow" on the LCD screen. Oil's seeped into everything so we stripped it apart and used a mild cleaning solution for electronic equipment and carefully cleaned every component inside. (nicely laid out too,, more Kudos for design considerations!)
The "speakers" were gummed up put a few blasts with an air duster seems to have cleared out things enough for him to hear his ring tones et al again. As far as we can see there is no oil anywhere (at least not that we can get to) we cleaned the screen between the LCD and the outside world.but there's still this "shadow" (for want of a better word) on the screen. it's functional but unsightly.
he's gutted and doesn't have the warranty (for some reason.. I didn't ask)
I suggested he buys a replacement lcd screen (about £56 on-line after a very quick search.) he seems to concur but if anyone has any suggestions that might remedy this without needing a new screen would be most appreciated by my colleague.
See pics attached !
Guy came up to me with a very sorry look on his face. he got himself the top of the range 3g Iphones (what's that the 32gb version? 16gb?? i forget which one is tops!) anyway it's only a few days old and he loves it. However he was frying something in his kitchen the other day, took his iphone out of his pocket and put it on the shelf.. .. above the deep fat fryer.
he didn't count on the vibrate function of a missed call shaking the phone off the shelf.. and into a hot oil bath!!
now MAX KUDOS for the iphone design despite being fried (I had to laugh when he said he'd fried his iphone.. "what did you do to it?" "I literally fried it.. in oil") it still works (apparently the oil wasn't fully up to heat.
we spent about 15 - 20 mins yesterday in the IT / electronics build room with the phone apart. we got most of the oil out but it had no sound and a "shadow" on the LCD screen. Oil's seeped into everything so we stripped it apart and used a mild cleaning solution for electronic equipment and carefully cleaned every component inside. (nicely laid out too,, more Kudos for design considerations!)
The "speakers" were gummed up put a few blasts with an air duster seems to have cleared out things enough for him to hear his ring tones et al again. As far as we can see there is no oil anywhere (at least not that we can get to) we cleaned the screen between the LCD and the outside world.but there's still this "shadow" (for want of a better word) on the screen. it's functional but unsightly.
he's gutted and doesn't have the warranty (for some reason.. I didn't ask)
I suggested he buys a replacement lcd screen (about £56 on-line after a very quick search.) he seems to concur but if anyone has any suggestions that might remedy this without needing a new screen would be most appreciated by my colleague.
See pics attached !