Don’t Wash Your Cellphone

I recently learned that cellphones were not made to go in the washer. It’s bad for their internal operation, and it’s bad for the LCD screen… but it’s probably MOST bad for the battery, which starts to chemically expand and bind itself into the battery well.

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  1. Ken
    Posted June 2, 2008 at 11:20 am | Permalink

    My cellphone made it surprisingly well through the wash.

    I put it on the charger for a couple of days afterwards to help dry it out. Everything works including the camera. There was a bit of vapor inside for a week or two but now everything has cleared up.

  2. WarAxe
    Posted June 2, 2008 at 11:54 pm | Permalink

    I guess they over-engineer those things. I heard a guy at work tell similar story.

    I dunno… I get worried when the battery starts _expanding_! But if it works then who’s to say different? Who’s to say that merely looking at the magnetic media of a problematic floppy doesn’t impart some positive chi? Who’s to say that plugging in an un-keyed CPU 90 degrees off [insert arcing, smoking, and melting] will hamper proper operation at all!?

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