Dropped your phone into water, mud, soup, or even beer? Here's how you might be able to save it
It seems that people drop their phones a lot, and they seem to drop them more often when they're around the toilet, puddles, or even pints of beer. There are a number of tricks on the web that claim to be able to suck the moisture out of your device, but in my experience they have a less than 50:50 chance of working.
Enter Redux.
Redux is a lunchbox-sized device that can bring back to life liquid-damaged phones. The device has revived phones damaged by beer, mud, and even soup, and the company boasts a success rate of 84 percent.
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Pricing for the successful recovery of a device is $50 for a basic phone or a data device and $90 for a smartphone, in addition to a $10 diagnostic fee. If your handset is not recoverable, you're only down the $10 diagnostic fee.
If you're particularly clumsy, then Redux offers a $29.99 membership program that comes with two free device recoveries in the price.
In order to give you the best chance of recovering your water-damaged phone, Redux recommend that:
- You turn off the device immediately
- If possible, remove the battery (some devices like iPhones do not have removable batteries)
- Do not charge the device or put it in rice
- Take the device to the nearest Redux center ASAP
Nearly 700 Verizon Wireless stores nationwide are now offering the Redux service.
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