The sooner a phone is dried out, the better chance it has of surviving a dunking unscathed, said DryBox president David Naumann. In his experience, within 36 hours the chances for success are three out of four. They also do car key fobs, hearing aids, fitness trackers and TV remotes. Though for those who can't get somewhere to have their phone professionally dried, there's still hope. Plain water, or even toilet or flood water, is bad enough.
Salt water is another thing entirely, say experts. The salts in ocean water are strongly corrosive to electronics and can much more quickly damage a phone. Facebook Twitter Email. Your smartphone got wet. 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…. The air it out method is far safer. Yep, we definitely recommend using a proper desiccant kit as per option A. Just take out the cards after drying it in a towel and gently apply the vacuum cleaner on slow to all orifices then start looking for a spudger.
A plectrum is fine but never use a knife. Time to join Ifixit! Note the little bags of desiccants in shoe boxes etc are filled with silica gel. You can reactivate this if you are super careful. Note you will need to collect a lot for them to work well. Or just buy some. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. But it seems that leaving your phone on a shelf may be the best option.
We recommend focusing on shaking, blowing, or vacuuming as much water out of the phone as you can before trying to dry out your device. You should only rely on drying agents such as silica gel or rice to absorb the last few drops of residual moisture. If you absolutely must save your phone or data, your best bet is probably to open the phone up as soon as possible and leave it in front of a fan. Leaving your phone in open air, perhaps with a fan for better air circulation works just as well. Your drowned device is probably still worth some good money, so trade that wet phone in and you can use the cash to help pay for a new one — or a waterproof case.
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Remember, swimming pool water, whether a salt water pool or a chlorine pool is very caustic when it comes to electronics. Submerge it in clean, clear, cold water and rinse, rinse, rinse. Follow the recommendations in the article for drying it out. Forget the rice and silica. It has to touch the water to absorb it Take the battery out immediately.
A quick dunk in denatured alcohol will absorb the water, and is easier to evaporate. Dr Hopwood pictured left himself experienced disaster when he dropped his phone into the toilet while helping his four-year-old daughter. Later he dried it on a warm window sill and the phone works again, with a new battery. But the incident meant that Dr Hopwood began to investigate the best ways to dry a mobile and realised that this would make an ideal research project for Claire, who was working with him during the placement year that is built into her degree course.
A survey has shown that 31 per cent of mobile phone users have experienced water damage — with 47 per cent of them confessing to dropping the gadgets into the toilet. But she has compiled an initial report — Desiccation methods to save a wet mobile phone — which concentrates on the silica gels and different kinds of rice, plus techniques involving a vacuum cleaner or placing the phone in front of a lamp — a method which, says Claire, replicates conditions on a sunny window ledge.
However, she warns against using a hairdryer, which might force water into the phone and cause even greater damage. The Top Ten desiccation methods are:. The granules must be dry before being placed in a box with the wet mobile — removing its battery first. Various types of rice performed differently. After 24 hours, flaked rice was found to soak up 78 per cent of moisture and basmati did well, too, at 73 per cent.
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