My Iphone 5 remains on searching?

After recovering from some water damages- my phone remains on searching instead of picking up reception. I do not want to replace the phone, are there any fixes to my problem?

This happened before with my Mom's phone and it couldn't be fixed but usually it's a result of updating over the air. Back it up, restore it (via iTunes), and and then restore the backup. If that doesn't fix it then you will have to replace the phone, but at least you backed it up.

Hope I could help.

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