Water damage on iPhone? Can it be saved?

I left my iphone in my bathroom near the shower by a window and I discovered that there was water on the inside of the screen, and then the screen didn't respond to my touch for a little bit and then it eventually did..and there was still water on the inside of the screen but i was sort of in a rush to call someone, and it had 3% remaining and i plugged it in a wall charger. It worked fine with the charger for about 15 minutes, and then the screen suddenly turned black and it turned itself off. I panicked and then tried turning it back on again but then it just showed the apple logo and turned itself off and wont come back on again. What damage have I done to my phone? Did I fry the logic board or something? I'm really hoping it could still be revived.
I've since submerged the phone in a bag of rice. But I'm hoping that I didn't completely fry it. I now realize that i act very stupidly and carelessly in dire situations haha.
Please help!

Now that i think about it, do you think that it's just the screen itself that's messed up?
Because my phone wasn't completely submerged in water, it was in a steamy bathroom and there was just water markings underneath the screen that made the touchscreen unresponsive for a while.
But then I charged it. Which could have heated and fried the inside entirely.
I really don't know how.
But thank you for the answers!

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tonefox,
Your response is about as helpful as a mechanic in a car accident repair body shop giving you a lecture on how to drive. Thanks for that!
everyone else,
My wife's friend had her iPhone 4 helpfully placed into the toilet by her 14-month old boy. Delightful. She went into the Apple Store in Leicester and the replaced her phone with a working one (I think it was brand new, but might have been refurbished) for £119. On Saturday, our 14-month old boy managed to do the same. Oh dear, they get everywhere, these young explorers, just when you're least expecting them to (tonefox, you need to add 'don't have kids' to your simple rules...)
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niamhjd,
I am writing this post hoping that it will help you and anyone else who searches the Web wanting advice for a water-damaged iPhone. Bottom line: Our water-damaged 3GS doesn't work, but we were able to salvage our photos!
My wife had a similar issue - her iPhone 3GS was dunked into salt water and wouldn't respond to any buttons. We dried off the exterior and left it in a warm car to dry it off. I later read that you can speed up the drying process by putting it into a bag of rice or silica gel packs, but don't overheat it. Anyway, after a few days we took it to the Apple store, where a "genius" told us there was nothing we could do to repair it.
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After charging the phone for about a day, it still wouldn't respond to the lock button. So I figured, there's nothing to lose by plugging it into my Mac desktop. I was surprised when iPhoto launched as usual, and shocked when the iPhone appeared in the Sources pane. It read all the stored photos, and let me download all of them except one movie. It even launched iTunes and stepped through the sync process: backup, download purchased apps, updated apps, syncing files, etc. It seemed to balk, though, when I tried to access app data.
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I have done the requisite, rice in the cupboard trick so will see what happens, but just wanted to know what my options are if the phone is dead.
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Water damage on iPhone? Can it be saved?

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