Thanks to a window, that may as well be a whole in the wall, my phone got wet.

This happened at work last week. We've been getting a lot of rain 'round here.

My Nokia 6230i is a great little phone. Fairly basic, and does everything I need.

I made the mistake of turning it on before dismantling it to check it out. Everyone one told me later that "Oh no, you don't turn it on!". Pearls of wisdom that would have been more effective earlier rather than later.

I thought all was OK. It turned on and seemed to function. However, after a day or so, the keypad started to 'act up'.

I pulled the whole thing down to component level, noticed that the backup battery was starting to corrode... can't be a good thing for the phone in the long run... but couldn't see any water or damage.

After assembling and disassembling a number of times and getting nowhere I had almost resigned myself to having to get another phone. Even had one picked out. But, given a bone, I'm not one to stop chewing on the thing till I get it sorted.

So... at the suggestion of one of our cabling technicians I pulled it down again and left it on the window sill. I did this and have been walking around with my little Nokia 8210 as a backup.

The suggestion was to leave it for 3 weeks. I don't have that kind of patience, so today I put it back together.. just to check you see.

TADA! It works!!!

Just in case, I have iSync'd the phone to my MacBook to make sure I have a backup of everything.

Fingers crossed, it will continue to work long enough for me to get an iPhone... perhaps. But that's another story.