I've heard that baking your iPod in the oven for like 10 minutes will dry out the water and make it work again, but I'm not sure so I wouldn't reccomend that unless you really have nothing else to go on. It's got something to do with how water evaporates at 100 degrees Celsius but silicon takes a much higher temp to melt. (silicon is what the insides of the Ipod are made of, supposedly).
ummm if you are brave just open the ipod, put a small fan blowing on it for about a day, and then try it, if it don't work means your main board is shorted out, Is a good time to buy a new ipod since last year models are been discounted, you can pick up an 80gb ipod classic for about $180.00 usd Look at the apple site click bellow. Good Luck Ipod Classic Sale
Cheers guys My current line of attack is to wrap up with kitchen tissue, and place it into a box with salt in it, can take up to 5 days,but i've been told the salt soaks the water up. I let u know the out come
I know this is a month old, but after the blow drying you can let it sit in rice for 24 hrs or so. Mine went through the wash machine. I let it dry out for over a week before I even attempted to turn it on. Just my display was hooped. It would go from bright to dark. The rest worked fine.
I know this is over a month old but heat and salt can ruin electronics. Although sicicon melts at over 1000 F the insulation on your wires melts at a fairly low temp. A hair dryer is fine. Hopefully, you did not let the salt touch your ipod. However, if the towel gets a bit damp the salt solution will get into your ipod killing it beyond repair. Bake rice in an oven at 375-400 F for an hour to get it real dry then put that and your wrapped ipod in an air tight contaner for a week at a time. Then repete the drying step with the rice. I would expect a wash in a washing machine would kill it beyond repair but who knows, the older one were built right.
I suspect it's totally bricked... all that soap residue under the sm components. A phone repair station may be able to strip it down and soak it in their chemical bath.. then dry it properly.. Costs between £25 and £40....even if it doesn't work!! Salt and heat and damp = goodbye. That must be the most ill informed suggestion I have ever seen.. and I have seen some crazy things in my time.
