I washed my iPod.
Soak, rinse, spin cycle, the whole effing shebang. Would have dried it, too, if I didn't hear something clanking around in the dryer.
I am trying to dry it out and resisting the urge, on one hand, to write Apple a strongly-worded letter on the hazards of selling such cute, sleek, small, lightweight products, (A Newsweek reporter is sure he threw out his MacBook Air with the Sunday newspaper) and, on the other hand, to book it Wal-Mart and buy a new one.
I am an idiot.
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Have you tried: a blow dryer? Hanging it on your car antenna? The microwave? Oven? Kiln?
By the by -- I want to call you but I can't find my phone.
I hate my phone.
PUT IT IN A BAG OF RICE! Seriously. And do not try and turn it on until you think it is throughly dried out! Intersperse it with using a hairdryer. Patience.
oven and rice i've heard both work...best of luck Lu!
Let me suggest, based on experience with cell phones that have been dumped in the Vermillion River, that a zip-top bag filled with silica gel (available at Wal-Mart in the pet isle next to the kitty litter) for 48 hours should remove all of the moisture and thus allow the device to work without needing to worry about corrosion later causing it to stop. You have a nano, correct? I believe that is a solid state device, rather than a hard drive based, so you have a real good chance of saving it, provided you DO NOT try to turn it on before it is completely dry. See, if you had just gotten that portable 8-Track player I was trying to sell you, none of this would have happened!
it's sitting in a bowl of rice--all the water spots are gone, but i've tried to run it on. oh god. i will try blowdryer and silica gel.
oh god.
Can you take it a part at all? Well if you can, do that. If not, don't. And then put it in a bag with rice. The rice absorbs the moisture.
This works for cell phones at least.
Okay, so I didn't read all the other comments before I commented. I was just so excited to help.
Dude. That sucks. So we both lost an iPod this summer. As much as I LOVE my iPod, they suck because you lose them.
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