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palokiller
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dropped into olive oil mixture, now very low sound...
hi, by an accident, i have dropped my phone into a container full of marinated olives in olice oil and herbs. (delicious BTW) now, after dissasembly, troughout cleaning and degreasing, i can get the mic back. i mean, the other side can hear me very faintly. its almost, like im not there talking.
my question is, would this oil eventualy evaporate over time? or do i need to take it apart even deeper and do alcohol bath?
wath would happen, if i submerge this phone (switched off) into this alcohol bath in one piece? would it die instantly? can it get shorted by alcohol?
thanks for answer guys, you are my heroes...
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Scott Head
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I don't think the oil will evaporate, at least not for a long time. It sounds like you may have oil embedded in the microphone still as it is not really an accessibly piece to clean the inside of. I would not submerge the whole phone in alcohol. Your best course of action I think would be to try and clean just the component that has the microphone on it.
It's on step 24 of our iPhone 4 teardown, but you should not use the teardown as disassembly instructions. You should try to access it using this dock connector guide which should allow you to get deep enough in the phone. You can try applying some alcohol with a fine paint brush, but maybe try compressed air.
Make sure the phone is completely dry before you reassemble it and turn it on.
thanx for suggestion i had followed guide up to removing the MB, but then i got scared... i rather leave it. phone is insured, so if i get really annoyed, i still can get it fixed for free... BTW, supprisingly, i think, the oil evaporates a bit. i have been told, i can be heard a bit better now... see ya later...
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Ally
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Bizarrely, my girlfriend accidentally spilled a small amount of olive oil onto my iPhone 3GS. It must have got in the earpiece as now all the sound is muffled. I'm told that olive oil, unlike water, is not a good conductor of electricity and therefore will leave the components undamaged if it can be removed... but how?
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Virginia
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I just dropped my iphone 3gs in a pan of oil. After wiping the exterior off, I to found that the earpiece was very muffled. I got out my high power vacuum cleaner and sucked out lots of oil from the rim of the screen, the earpiece and the speaker and I almost think it sounds better than before!
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taylor
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all you have to do is put it in a bowl of very dry rice. the rice will suck the moisture out of it. you can do this with any electronic item that gets liquid in or on it.
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brandy
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would like to put a little update to this. I got really annoyed by how the phone was acting, so after i made sure, EVERYTHING inside was spotless clean, no fingerprints and oil left visible, I took it to applestore nearby. to my surprise, I now posses brand new phone. these guys have replaced the phone, free of charge. so, if you have to drop your phone into any non-technical liquid, choose oil... it does not leave any water dammage...:D i guess, must have been very lucky as well...
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