March 2009

Living with a Water Damaged iPhone

Phone drawn with water

A few months ago I had the horrifying experience of dropping my beloved iPhone into the toilet. After a few weeks of rice baths, contact cleaner, and other attempts at recovery, the phone is working except for the home button.

Those of you who own an iPhone know how important the home button is to the every day use of the phone. Its the only way to exit an application to the home screen, the only way to take a screenshot, the only way to put it in recovery mode, and needed for a lot of other common tasks.