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Was this step helpful? Yes No I need help. Remove any plug covers, as they will hold water inside the device. Place in the container of rice or desiccant. Is the warranty void? If the warranty is void, there is no reason not to open your phone if you have the experience.
Open the phone and dry the parts together in the container of rice or desiccant. This will help you see if moisture is still inside the phone. If you don't have experience taking phones apart then don't risk breaking the device. I was wondering how long to keep it in the rice?
Hi Reckit, my name is Allison and I had dropped my cellphone Moto e and the service is through Boost Mobile into the toilet. VisiHow QnA. This section is not written yet. Want to join in? Click EDIT to write this answer. Would the battery in cellphone that was wet 8 months ago be good to use now? Hi sir, how can I charge my mobile? I have it in rice now.
Is my phone already ruined? I have a Boost Mobile ZTE Speed with a non-removable battery that fell into toilet Pulled it out right away, ran downstairs and put it into rice, it wouldn't turn off, I then removed the back and put it into the rice. My phone has been wet for over 24 hours. Can it be saved? Tip 3 years ago. My girlfriend got her Iphone wet and immediately she put the phone in a bucket full or rice and shake it the leave there for a few hours then turn it on and all work ok Reply 3 years ago.
We should get Myth Busters out on this one and finally put it to rest. Where'd you hear it was a myth?? I've had multiple accidents with water and electronics, once I wasn't able to get rice and just dried it out. Never worked again. Whereas whenever I tried it with rice it worked. Liquid damage in electronics is a bit like pancake batter on the counter: on Sunday morning, it's relatively easy to wipe off. Dried pancake battery on Sunday night—that's a different story.
When we put a phone in rice, it is the same thing as doing nothing. Corrosion is instant when a phone hits water.
Sometimes the corrosion hits important components, sometimes not. If we resist turning the phone on until it dries on the counter, in the rice bag, or anywhere else, sometimes we get lucky.
If we had the phone in the rice bag, we think the rice saved the phone. But it didn't! Even if the phone seems to be working, it will have oxidized solder joints that are weakened and brittle. Corrosion will continue to spread inside the phone. We have done nothing but experienced temporary luck. What you want to do is first displace the water—or more specifically, all the conductive stuff in the water.
Open your device as soon as you can, take out the battery, and get scrubbing. Submerge the whole motherboard in alcohol, and scrub away. Only then, dry it and see where you stand. By getting the liquid displaced before it can dry , we are cleaning the pancake batter on Sunday morning. This is your best strategy for liquid damage. Of course, it's tempting to just put the phone in rice—you never know, it might be okay. We want to ignore all that work above and just hope for the best instead.
You'd be hard-pressed to find any experienced professional in the repair industry that doesn't roll their eyes when they hear the word "rice. A picture is worth a thousand words. Maybe it will help show folks the reality of the role of rice in water damage. Reply 11 months ago. Another reason why the rice might not be so good is that is is quite dusty. And in the case of an iPhone or similar where the battery cannot be accessed, all the rice is doing is absorbing water that has already evaporated and has escaped outside of the phone.
In other words, its doing nothing. What I partially disagree with is the idea of using hardcore rubbing alcohol. Solvents like that might attack the plastic and cause color change. There are so many types of plastic and films inside a phone that it is hard to predict what effect iso-propyl would have.
But distilled water should have a much better chance of diluting and washing out the bad stuff. Then putting the phone in a warm place can allow the water to evaporate out faster.
Yes, I actually totally agree with your comment, using rice really isn't the best way. The best way is to immediately take the phone to a professional to get it fixed. However, if you do not have a professional or a handy bag of silica-gel at hand, using rice is still not a very bad idea. Leaving it alone can and will make it worse, as the water inside the phone will stay in one place and damage the circuits inside.
Rice does help in getting rid of some of the moisture inside. Also, as a Korean living in Korea and cooking rice to eat all the time, I can confirm that rice is not dusty at all. Perhaps some types of rice, but most types of rice at least in Korea are not dusty enough to come close to damaging electronics. Leaving a phone out in the open for a couple hours will do more damage to it that leaving it inside rice. While phones and tablets only have a few places for water to flow in freely, a laptop is basically a glorified sieve.
After drowning my phone in that tulip field I mentioned earlier, I dried it out under the fan in my hotel room for a day. It came back to life, but kept powering off by itself every few minutes afterward. After tracking down a tiny phone store in Amsterdam, I managed to get it fixed for under 50 euros, including the cost of a new battery. Your mileage will, of course, vary wildly.
Look for an IP67 rating or better: this means it will handle being dropped in the toilet or caught in a thunderstorm much better the next time around. Photo credit: Shutterstock wet phone , Mark Ou phone in rice. Founder and editor of Too Many Adapters, Dave has been a traveler for 20 years, and a geek for even longer.
When he's not playing with the latest tech toy or working out how to keep his phone charged for just a few more minutes, he can probably be found sitting in a broken-down bus in some obscure corner of the planet.
Hair dryers create static electricity, force dust and other particles into the phone, and can be pretty hot if you hold them too close to the device. I dropped my phone in water. Took it apart and dried it off. I did use a hair dryer and then put it in rice overnight. It works today. I accidentally put my phone in the washing machine. It can through a regular wash cycle.
I took it apart and wrapped it in a paper towel after 48 hours it works fine. I dropped my iPhone in a lake by a dock in 2 foot of water in seaweed. The kids searched for it and after 30 minutes or so they retrieved it. I took it apart as much was allowed without tech support. I gently tapped out any water and then hung it in front of a portable floor fan and left it for approximately 24 hours.
The next day I put it back together and it worked great!! I let the oven get to temp and then turn it off and monitor until the inside temp of the oven gets down to F which, supposedly, is the safe temperature for Lithium Ion batteries. Of course the phone is powered off…. In a May test , Gazelle drowned nine smartphones before attempting to save each one with a different desiccant agent:. After extracting as much water as possible from the device, using large quantities of a drying agent may help accelerate the drying process.
If a drying agent is used, silica gel is the best of the options tested, followed by couscous and instant rice. Conventional cat litter, oats, and chia seeds are not recommended because of the dust and debris that they deposit inside of the phone. Uncooked white rice is not recommended due to its poor performance as a drying agent. Silica gel, as the review notes, is the best option if you have some lying around.
You're probably used to seeing silica gel in the form of those little packets stuffed into the pockets of new clothes or shoes. But acting fast is far more important than avoiding a little rice or quinoa dust, so don't waste time shopping for silica gel packets if you don't already have a drawer full of them.
One last note: If your phone gets soaked in salt water, you should probably flush the whole thing in fresh water before it dries.
When salt water evaporates, it leaves crystals that can damage a phone's fragile components. Just be sure to remove the battery before flooding the device. Repair experts say that we've been duped into the rice theory—and the cat litter theory, and the silica packet theory, for what it's worth. None of these desiccants work, they believe, because corrosion is instant when water gets inside certain components of your smartphone.
Here's the thing: if you keep your phone powered off, toss the thing into a bowl of rice, and happen to strike gold when you turn it back on, it really looks like the rice was a hero.
And you want to believe that.
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