iPod Touch – Dehumidifier
by: One who wishes he could remain anonymous but knows better, Associate Editor
(at least my wife doesn’t read this site)
Let’s say you happen to be passing near a household fixture that regularly holds water. Let’s further say your iPod Touch slips from your grasp. You hypothetically are lucky enough to catch it right as it hits the water. But it still gets a little on it. You quickly turn it off so no power is flowing while you dry it off. A while later you decide to see if you got lucky or not. You turn it on, everything works EXCEPT the headphone jack. Maybe a little drop got into the jack and has not fully dried. What to do?
You leave it in the standard household iPod Touch dehumidifier. Most American homes come with this fixture. Make sure the bottom is in the vent so the air can get into the jacks. A tip, don’t leave it on there too long when your warm air is flowing. It will make the touch pretty hot. Just a few minutes then let it cool and check it an hour later. If you are lucky like the hypothetical person in this post your headphone and all other functions work properly again.
This writer is not responsible if you try this on your own hardware. Either as an experiment or if you are equally unlucky and then this trick fails to work for you.
I wonder if we would still have a blog post about this had the procedure not proved successful?
Comment by Mark Sheppard — December 30, 2007 @ 12:48 pm
lol – you dropped your ipod in the toilet?
Comment by Andy — December 30, 2007 @ 1:12 pm
Wow said hypothetical person is indeed lucky. Great outcome to what could have been an ugly story for someone.
Victor
Comment by typicalmacuser — December 30, 2007 @ 1:34 pm
This story reminds me when 3 months ago, I spilled a cup of coffee into the Mac USB keyboard. I quickly turned it upside down and let it sit overnight, and it now works! It is no longer all white though…
JoeM
Comment by joemanich — December 30, 2007 @ 5:22 pm
About a month ago I dropped my ipod video in the toilet. The toilet was, thankfully, clean, but the ipod was entirely immersed. And for then next several days, completely non-functional. It made some terrible noises for a while, too.
However, after a few days of just letting it dry out without any extra help, it sorted itself out and is now completely fine (after a firmware restore, of course). Patience, it turns out, really is a virtue.
Comment by darusha — December 30, 2007 @ 5:49 pm
Even a “Hypothetical” beating hurts so I would say you are a very lucky Hypothetical person
Comment by Simon — December 30, 2007 @ 5:58 pm
Or, rather, that his hypothetical wife didn't find out that the hypothetical person needed a not so hypothetical replacement iPhone.
Philip
Comment by Philip from Australia — December 30, 2007 @ 7:14 pm
That is a great, hypothetical, way to fix that unfortunate, even if it never happens, accident. Thanks for the tip, may I never know anyone that needs to use it.
Comment by mattbeckwith — December 31, 2007 @ 12:37 am
You can also leave in it a bowl of uncooked rice for a few days for more hypothetically wet electronics devices… Rice is a natural hygroscopic substances therefore can be used in used in desiccation.
Comment by Doc Rock — January 15, 2008 @ 10:32 am
And hypothetically the thing is still working just fine even now two weeks later.
Comment by georgestarcher — January 17, 2008 @ 9:10 pm
[...] I still have a working iPod touch to do this with. Some of you may remember my previous post on the household iPod Touch dehumidifier every US home comes with… Yup my iPod is still going [...]
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