It may not have happened to you yet, but chances are that sometime in your life, you may end up dropping your cell phone in water whether it be the kitchen sink, a puddle, or maybe even… the toilet! So what are you supposed to do when something happens to your precious phone? Today’s helpful tip explains two things that you can do should your phone get wet. Our source of information was wikiHow, so checkout their site for additional tips.
Get a bowl of rice…
That’s right, get yourself a big bowl of uncooked white rice, take your battery out (and SIM card if you have one), and then bury your phone in the bowl. The rice will soak up the water from your phone and there’s a good chance your phone will work once all of the water is removed.
Use a Hair Dryer on low…
Once again, be sure to remove the battery and your SIM card and don’t turn it on to see if it works! The key here is not to use high heat, but to use the lowest possible setting on the hair dryer. The heat can actually damage the phone even more, so keep that in mind before you go putting it under a heat lamp, in the microwave (this will destroy the phone and possibly the microwave), or blast it with hot air from a dryer.
Additional Tips
- Most phones have an indicator (many times there are multiple indicators, some which you wouldn’t be able to see, and one is usually under the battery) which changes color if the phone has been exposed to water. If you were to take your phone back to the place you got it from, they’ll likely check this indicator first. Many insurance plans on phones will not cover damage from water, and this is the way that they’ll check.
Image Source - Be sure your phone is completely dry before you try turning it on for the first time. This means the non-visible inside parts need to be dry too. Give the phone plenty of time to dry both on the outside and the inside.
Drop your phone in water? Tell us what you did, and if it worked!
I actually tried all of those and more and nothing brought a girlfriend of mine’s back from the dead.
She didn’t even get that wet running from the car to the house, but the indicator dote was changed, so T-mobile wouldn’t help any.
Phone was less than a month old, too.
lol now that is real funny!!!!!
I did this kind of work a month ago. It was SE, about 2 years old. After couple of day on central-heating radiator, I put the battery and
SIM card back and guess what, it worked!
I heard that putting the phone in a bowl of gin/vodka etc overnight works.
I wonder if someone tried to turn the phone on while it was still wet. That’s a common thing that people do after getting their phone wet, and it will immediately short the circuits if they are wet.
That doesn’t even make sense. You are trying to dry the phone so you put it in something wet overnight?
If your phone gets wet you need to use Silica Gel Packets to completely dry it out. Place your phone in a zip lock bag with Silica Gel Packets. Silica Gel will remove all the moisture from its components, that is what Silica Gel does… dries things out! It is used in all kinds of new products from factory line your cell phone, electronics, etc. There is a reason they use Silica Gel!
Google “Silica Gel Packets” and you will find several companies selling these products.
none of those things worked for me and i dont want to go to thr store and get a new one. and i dont think that my parents will let me do that they think that i did it on purpoes!
HELP my brother put his phone through the wash i have it in the sun drying it is starting to work he did this about 3 days a go any tips
If your phone is wet and you havent tried anything. DONT TURN IT ON. Take out the sim card and the battery. Open up your phone and expose everything. Use a hairdryer on it for a few minutes then put it in a bowl of rice. Let it dry out for a few days.
help?!?! i spilt lucadaze all over my pohne and i-pod, i put them both onto a heated radiator for a few hours, my i-pod worked, but my phone still isn’t working
any tips i really need my phone
thanks,
guys i really need help im really stupid i turned my phone on not knowing that it turned it self off because of the water. I dropped the back of it in a sink for like 2 seconds and it wouldnt turn back on. so it put it on the charger cause i thought it all of a sudden died (cause my phone battery is really messed up but worse than it is now) and when it said it was full 2 seconds lateri unplugged it and it shut off again. I just got my phone from a ziploc bag of rice yes with the battery the and every other part over night. it all looked really dry but the camera in the inside kinda looked blurry. does rice absorb the inside too if you wait two days. Please answer my question and ill tell you if it worked. Email me at ben.tekle2009@gmail.com. Thanks
Rice will work, but it may take a while. If you feel like not using the camer for a week, you could just put the phone in every night, whn yu aren’t using it. Th blurriness could also condensation on the inside of the lens, which wont need rice to clear up, but may take a while. If you have a smart or semi-smart phone, you could have fried the part of the camera that does the focusing, which would be almost impossible to fix.
Working, but slowly.
lose top on a nalgene in my locker didnt end up so great for my phone. I was dumb enough to turn it on, only about 10 mins after i got it wet. It hat really bad keystick and random typing, but other than that, it seemed to be internally okay.
I let it sit untill I got off work, then I did a really basic rebild, pretty much just removing the plastic plates and keyboard cover…
Put it in a bag with some old silica packets, that seemed to work slowly, reducing the severity and frequency of the keystick and glitching.
I read up online about the silica gel and found that IF YOU ARE NOT USING FRESHLY MANUFACTURED SILICA GEL, IT NEEDS TO BE RESET. This is because silica gel can only absorb so much water, which it commonly takes from the air, making the gel spent or full and only efective for large ammounts of water.
[robotroom.com] shows you how to reset the gel back to its original state. Put some freshly reset silica gel in a ziploc with you phone for a day or two and it sould dry up pretty nicely.
waiting for results, I just got mine out of the oven and im hoping to fix the keystick.
My understanding is that rice is easier to get, but cant be dried out. Might als try a dehydrator on the silica gel.
I’ve had good luck several times rescuing totally submerged phones by taking them apart and holding a large shop-vac hose to each side and all the openings, then placing on a warm, not hot, heat source.
Be sure to open the caps over the charge/data port and headphone jack and go around several times pausing a fwe seconds at each side.
Usually got it up and going in less than an hour, although the longer wait, (2days)would probably increase your chances of success.
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