Re: T5 soap problem

"vduran.rm" <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:55:03 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.tungsten-t
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Plain water doesn't sound right to me. I read somewhere on line that
alcohol works well for stuff like this. In particular, I think I read
that if you drop your expensive smart phone in water to dry it off by
dunking it in alcohol. Ah, here it is.
http://www.wikihow.com/Save-a-Wet-Cell-Phone. I haven't tried this
myself. 
Good Luck!

--- In [email protected], "Rich Peterson" <dicknsb@...> wrote:
>
> Hello World
> 
> Newbie here.  My Tungsten T5 got contaminated with some liquid body
soap,
> started acting funny,always defaulting to hotsync when started, fatal
> errors, had to be reset, kept defaulting to previous screens, switched
> programs at random, and finally wouldn't boot up at all. I want to
take the
> back off to clean it up. But after removing the four screw, it won't
budge.
> How do I get the back off?
> 
> I thought about just throwing it in a tub of water to dilute the
soap and
> then just let it dry before trying to fire it up again. Any thoughts
on this
> approach?
> 
> -- 
> Dick n SB