[Droid Incredible General] sstapley_56:
Hi I just wanted to share my super awesome story here with everybody in the xda community. It's pretty crazy!

Recently I was up in the mountains of Utah ice fishing on a lake. I had my HTC Droid Incredible in my shirt pocket listening to some music. I got a bite on my fishing pole so I bent over to grab my pole (I guess I had forgotten to button up my shirt pocket, OOPS!) and plop there goes my phone into the water. I reached my arm down in the hole as fast as I could to grab it but no luck. At that point I thought, well there goes my $200 dollar phone I loved! I had accepted the fact that it was probably gone forever.

So while I was stewing there facing the fact that I had to buy a new phone, a great idea flashed through my mind. One of the guys I went fishing with happened to bring an underwater camera. I sat and thought, well the least we could do is drop it down and see if we could hook onto the phone somehow and get it back on the surface and at least salvage my SD card that was inserted in it.

We continued with dropping the camera down the hole and quickly located the phone, it was lying face down on the bottom of the lake. So we thought, heck lets throw a big hook on the end of the pole try our luck. After a few minutes of playing with the pole a little bit we managed to find our hook on the screen and placed it close to the phone. At this time we were noticing a lot of fish circling around where the phone was (I guess fish like HTC's too!). So for the next hour-and-a-half we continuously tried to hook onto the phone with no luck, although we did manage to catch two fish in the process. We finally caught a break, somehow we managed to hook on to the edge of the screen between the plastic and the glass and flipped the phone over face up, this got us excited and gave us whim of hope that maybe we would be able to retreive the phone. We continues trying for another fifteen minutes when voila, we hooked onto the phone again and this time for good because we pulled it up a little bit and could see it hovering above the lake floor.

We began to reel it up very slowly as to make sure that it didn't fall off the hook and be back at square one. We got the phone up to the surface of the water and I grabbed it as fast as I could. When I grabbed it I realized we had caught it in a place that almost seems impossible. We managed to hook it in the headphone jack and were able to reel it up all the way! The tiny 3.5mm headphone jack! When I grabbed the phone it was vibrating and had been doing so for the near two hours it spent on the bottom of the lake. I took the battery out as fast as I could and put it away.

At this point I was amazed at the fact that I even got the phone back.

So when I got back home, I sprayed out the phone with compressed air and then continued to take it apart all the way down to the mainboard and the lcd screen. I then sprayed it with air once again and proceeded to put all the pieces of the phone into a bag of uncooked rice.

24 hours later I took the phone out of the bag, and knew this was the moment of truth! I put the phone back together and popped the battery in. I pressed the power button and I kid you not the phone booted up and worked! I was truly amazed! The phone still continues to work to this day which Is almost a month later.

I think this speaks for how well HTC makes their phones and how rock solid they are, I know if I had the choice I would definitely buy one again. I thought everybody would appreciate this so I posted the story just for fun.