Took my impression fishing, got it dried out...(it finally works after 6 months)

I suggest you give it another week. Not much you can do.

from what i have read the best amount of time to leave it in the rice is for 2-3 weeks instead of 1 week.

lol this happend to me too, i was clamming...and texting...a crab bit me...i jumped like 15 feet in the air and splashed my phone..most of the water was on the keyboard but some got in the touch screen. you need to replace your digitizer. i did everything works fine but for some reason i cant connect to att or get a signal....im going to to the att store today...nothing in their warranty says you cant take it apart...

Sounds like you have a short somewhere when the phone warms up from being on...Glad you were able to change out the digitizer no problem, of course, water damage may not always be completely visible.  Also, the cord is fully secure, not wiggly or anything?

Well, after sitting in my kitchen cupboard for the last two months, I decided to give the phone another try.  I put my SIM card in it, installed the battery, and fired it up.  The phone came to life like always and was fully operational to include the touch screen.  I charged up the battery for a few hours and began playing with it by sending random text messages to friends and relearning how to use the phone again.  After an hour or so all was good.  I then took the phone to work, carried it around all day, and it still worked.  Today is the second day of normal operation and all appears to be good. 

This thread has been a long drawn out saga and I'm sure not everyone has six months to wait for their phone to come back to life and giving it a bath.  But, there is hope at least and time is probably going to be your best friend.  So in short, the phone was completely submerged in a lake for several minutes while I was swimming.  I dried it off and opened it up as soon as I could to get as much of the water out as possible.  I then placed it in a container of rice for about a month, but it appears that gently warming it for a while with a hair drier might work better, replaced the digitizer which seems to be a weak link with this phone, left it to dry for another two months (again, the hair drier might have worked better), and now it works just fine.