IPhone in water - Operable when plugged in, no service no wifi.

I dropped my iPhone in water. I let it sit in rice over night, unopened. iPhone works when plugged in but has no wifi or service. Phone doesn't power on when not plugged in. The date reset, can't turn wifi on, and i am also getting kernal panic error CRC ERR! Any chance this is a software problem?
Can this be fixed? Can Apple replace for a charge for water damage? Phone is less than 1year old. Any help would be appriciated.

Not a software problem.
Doubtful if one night in rice was close to enough time after being submerged in water, but too late now.
Apple offers an out of warranty or not covered under the warranty "repair" price that pays for an exchange at a significantly reduced price off the full retail sales price. For an iPhone 4 the cost is $200 or so in the U.S.

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And after the 3rd time I'll ask them well can they send your phone off to be fixed,It might not be nothing wrong with your phone it might be just they eyes playing tricks on them.Cause I promise you I know my phone had gotten some water in it cause I was sitting on the porch one day me and about 6 other people one of my cousin came out and through a bucket of water at my brother and I was sitting right on the side of him.And when I say my phone look like I than gave it a bath witch when they did that I had already had call the Apple store and told them something was wrong with my phone.And they had gave me appt to come up there,so I went to the Apple store I wanted say two day's latter after I made the appt to let them see my phone but my cousin and brother was playing with that water the day before I had to go so I guess that's why I was mad cause I was going to get other phone the next day after apple look at my old phone.So even with all that they still gave me other phone and I don't see how I didn't have no water in my phone cause of how much water they had through on my phone.
I guess I was luck cause if they would have told me that I would have freaked out so badly.And the reason why cause I wouldn't had my phone for five days and for them to tell me they couldn't do something oh yea they would have done something cause I would have went to jail that day for tearing up something in the store that worth my 400 and something dollars I spent on my phone and it would have bent one of them computer that would have bent history.
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