User drops BlackBerry in a puddle-now the battery won't fully charge

"I jet out of the front of the store to my car just to realize that I had from the front of the store to my car dropped my precious 7100i," writes HowardForums member b2k380. " I got back out of the car while getting drenched and found her laying face down in a puddle of water and getting rain pounded out of her back."

Note how b2k380 calls his 7100i "she." Or whatever.

"I knew she was toast but tried anyway, it worked but i still took it to Nextel and they sent me a new one," he writes, (but) today while attempting to charge her something seemed wrong I have had it on the charger and it seems to be full but when i look on the status page it says 80%, it went up to 85% then back to 80% while still on charge. Should i go ahead and get a battery now or what its not fully charging or at least it doesnt seem to be... "

Two fellow Ho-Fo'ers have advice for b2k380. Remember, there but for fortune go you or I..

"You need to drain the battery all the way down until the blackberry shuts off and then charge it back up," Mythmbhurts writes. "This will train the charging system and resync it so it knows what 0% is and what 100% is... If this does not work replace the whole unit as I had this problem before and it was something wrong with the charging circuit."
Chinasaur is next up with some advice.
"When it gets wet, you pop the battery out and LEAVE it out for days," he suggests. "Consensus seems to think 3-4 days is adequate..maybe a day earlier if you've had a fan on it constantly.
"The device has to dry completely."

Three or four days..exercise patience and grace, B2k380.

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