Hi, Mobile phone was destroyed due to liquid damage. I thought files were backed up but weren't. Sense of loss is mostly of various music ideas I had recorded over the past year (some which I have forgotten but were ones I wanted to develop) and a few photos. Does anyone know if it is possible for these to be recovered? It is really difficult to even take off the back cover and remove the battery, so I don't know which parts are damaged yet. I took it to be mended and was told it would take toool much time to reactivate and I would be better off getting another, which I did. Once I got the replacement, then there was the sinking feeling of realising the files hadn't backed up from the old phone. If anyone knows part of a Samsung Galaxy hardware stores files and data it would also be helpful. Did a,Google search bit can't find an answer. Thanks.
Let it sit for a week or more to dry and and then try it. Some have put devices into ziplock baggies with rice to absorb the water faster, but, ultimately, it has to be bone dry before trying to power it up again.
Depends on what you mean by "destroyed," and the kind of liquid. If it just fell in some fresh water, you should be able to dry it out with the rice trick and recover the data. But if it got corroded by sea water, or it got drenched by a firehose, or is was dunked in a pitcher of sugary soda, probably not.
The bag of rice trick has worked for me on a few occasions with my droid. Sometimes we get caught in a horrendous downpour on the back of a paver. When that happened I'd get about as wet as a person can get as did my phone due to the rain coming down and the steam coming up.
I save up all those silica dessicant packets that come in various products. Might they be more effective than a bag of rice, perhaps if a number of them were used?
I think the silica would be more effective than rice. One can also buy many pounds of it cheaply in the form of “crystal” kitty litter.
