water logged smart key FOB unlocked doors once, then not again

I would try a 2nd name brand battery

 

I think you should've waited longer to get all the moisture out. Now it could have fried the thing

 

Unfortunately water and electronics don't mix! You can try a hair dryer to make sure all moisture is gone, however, my experience is once an electronic device is dropped in water it is never the same.

 

do you have the second fob?

 

Yuck. Water and electronics can mix. As long as the electronics are TOTALLY dry when you re apply power. Unlocking doors may have connected power to unlock doors once, Then kill the fob. I'd open the thing up, dry more and longer, then try again. New battery wouldn't hurt just to rule that out. With a meter you could test old battery voltage to see if it was good or not. My fob is beaten badly with 2 missing button covers and a third that's on its way to falling off. I need to transfer the insides to a new case before mine gets accidentally dunked.

 

I remember when I was a kid, my brother and I would sit on the floor just a few feet away from our enormous 19-maybe 21 inch color TV. In a 1/2 hearted attempt at mixing bad parenting ( Too much TV ) with better parenting ( real concern) my mother would yell in from the kitchen that we shouldn't sit so close to the TV.

I don't know what she thought would happen if we continued to "close up" our viewing of Star Trek or Gilligans Island, but I think it was based on some 1960's fear of radiation that she was taught when she was young.

It was probably good advice, even if my brother and I ignored it.

But in an effort to resurrect the school of too late, ignoreable advice, I'm just going to say "Don't go swimming with the fob in your pocket!".

OK...too late. But the good news is at this point? I don't think you have too much to lose. It's either fried or fixable.

Assuming you have another fob that allows you to continue to use the vehicle, I'd place the Atlantis Fob in a bowl of rice for a good week. And I'd light a white candle next to it every night while chanting "Dry and Functional" 20 times.

Replace the battery again? Sure why not? It's only money. And compared on what you are going to spend getting a new one? Very little money at that.

I think a lot of problems can be solved with just a good attitude and a bowl of rice. Probably NOT this problem, but a lot of them.

Best of Luck.

 

May be one of the buttons on the fob is now stuck down in the "on" position.

 

If its completely dry and your seeing the led light come on without a switch being activated I would start looking for a replacement.