onflorasfringe you are having multiple things going on here. "found it a week later" means it started to corroded quickly. "put in plastic bag with rice for 24 hours" does not do anything. Rice is a great food item but has no place in reparing water damage. It does not work. "plugged it in to charge" can spell disaster due to the corrosion. This may further shorten out the phone. Should never been done unless the phone has been cleaned. I would also no longer try to do anything with the phone until it is cleaned, you are running risk of further damaging it.
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The first thing I suggest is that you disassemble the phone using [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4ONeSWTG_M|this video] Then clean the phone with +90% isopropyl alcohol. Use [guide|5825|this guide] to clean it. It was written for an iPhone but everything is still pertinent to your phone as well. Make sure to clean all the connectors and cable ends. After you have everything properly cleaned, '''replace the battery''' Reassemble your phone and re-evaluate. If you do not clean your phone, you will get further corrosion failure later on. You also '''must''' repalce the battery since it was exposed to water damage. These batteries are smart batteries and communicate with your phone. It will, if it has not already done so, fail. Until you have completed these steps you can not properly troubleshoot your phone.
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The first thing I suggest is that you disassemble the phone using [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4ONeSWTG_M|this video] Then clean the phone with +90% isopropyl alcohol. Use [guide|5825|this guide] to clean it. It was written for an iPhone but everything is still pertinent to your phone as well. Make sure to clean all the connectors and cable ends. After you have everything properly cleaned, '''replace the battery''', reassemble your phone and re-evaluate. If you do not clean your phone, you will get further corrosion failure later on. You also '''must''' replace the battery since it was exposed to water damage. These batteries are smart batteries and communicate with your phone. It will, if it has not already done so, fail. Until you have completed these steps you can not properly troubleshoot your phone.
"i'm older, a bit of a hermit" that is okay since a lot of us on here are a bit older.
onflorasfringe you are having multiple things going on here. "found it a week later" means it started to corroded quickly. "put in plastic bag with rice for 24 hours" does not do anything. Rice is a great food item but has no place in reparing water damage. It does not work. "plugged it in to charge" can spell disaster due to the corrosion. This may further shorten out the phone. Should never been done unless the phone has been cleaned. I would also no longer try to do anything with the phone until it is cleaned, you are running risk of further damaging it.
The first thing I suggest is that you disassemble the phone using [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4ONeSWTG_M|this video] Then clean the phone with +90% isopropyl alcohol. Use [guide|5825|this guide] to clean it. It was written for an iPhone but everything is still pertinent to your phone as well. Make sure to clean all the connectors and cable ends. After you have everything properly cleaned, '''replace the battery''' Reassemble your phone and re-evaluate. If you do not clean your phone, you will get further corrosion failure later on. You also '''must''' repalce the battery since it was exposed to water damage. These batteries are smart batteries and communicate with your phone. It will, if it has not already done so, fail. Until you have completed these steps you can not properly troubleshoot your phone.
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"i'm older, a bit of a hermit" that is okay since a lot of us on here are a bit older.
onflorasfringe you are having multiple things going on here. "found it a week later" means it started to corroded quickly. "put in plastic bag with rice for 24 hours" does not do anything. Rice is a great food item but has no place in reparing water damage. It does not work. "plugged it in to charge" can spell disaster due to the corrosion. This may further shorten out the phone. Should never been done unless the phone has been cleaned. I would also no longer try to do anything with the phone until it is cleaned, you are running risk of further damaging it.
The first thing I suggest is that you disassemble the phone using [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4ONeSWTG_M|this video] Then clean the phone with +90% isopropyl alcohol. Use [guide|5825|this guide] to clean it. It was written for an iPhone but everything is still pertinent to your phone as well. Make sure to clean all the connectors and cable ends. After you have everything properly cleaned, '''replace the battery''' Reassemble your phone and re-evaluate. If you do not clean your phone, you will get further corrosion failure later on. You also '''must''' repalce the battery since it was exposed to water damage. These batteries are smart batteries and communicate with your phone. It will, if it has not already done so, fail. Until you have completed these steps you can not properly troubleshoot your phone.