IPod Touch with minor water damage

Hi all,
I was at the beach on a typical windy day in England, I was walking on the pier when a wave crashes over on to the pier and get my jeans wet. My iPod Touch was in my pocket and it wasn't even submerged. So I got back (I'm in a hotel so bag of rice trick) and half the touch screen was unreasonsive. I left it near by a warm place for 2 hours and I tried again, the second half worked tempremental. So I went to asleep thinking maybe the water would have gone over noght. It hadn't, it's even worse. The lockbutton works only maybe 20% of the time and also it does things on it's on accord like poer to switch off, locks by itself etc. Its a second gen, I'm going to be back home this afternoon, so is it too late to do the water in the bag trick or should I just pay £130 for a 4th gen.
Thanks

I would opt for the replacement. Seawater causes corrosion of like switch contacts and the dock connector and causes other damage that drying will not fix.

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