If you’ve ever dunked, washed, or otherwise immersed your phone in water, you feel like you’ve lost everything. But what if you could undo the dunking?
Take your freshly dunked phone, get a cooking pot or deep bowl, fill it full of uncooked rice. Submerge the phone in the rice and leave it there for a few hours or overnight.
Afterward, it should work as normal.
It needs to be noted, however, that this is not guaranteed to work; but it should.
And now, a couple of things that you should definitely not do with a wet phone:
- Use a hair dryer to dry it off. The heat can damage components.
- Put it in the microwave. The metal will spark and internal components can short out, so even if they were to dry, they would be fried.
- Leaving it out to air dry. This would work with a CRT monitor, but not with a phone; the water would have no where to go, and could continue damaging internal components.
Also, this is intended to work with water or water-based liquids (like coffee), not with syrup based liquids like soda (the water leaves, leaving the sticky syrup behind).