Your phone got dunked in water? Here’s what to do

rice is good cos it’s readily available but it’s not the most effective moisture control agent. i advise people to keep the small packs of silica gel that come with their bags, shoes, leather products and food.

more. importantly you’ve skipped the most important step which is drying the phone as much as possible via mechanical means eg towelling and then fanning or vacuuming. that should be step #2. dessiccants/moisture control agents are good at controlling small amounts of water or water vapor they’re not drying agents per se

Alternatively, just buy a water-proof smartphone instead

So, can those water proof phones truly stand a soak in the water?

There are holes in the.phone..hole for charging, the microphone, earphone.. are they truly TRULY impermeable.to water?

Stolen from somewhere.

When you hear the words “waterproof phone”, you almost hear the angels singing. You imagine diving into the pool to take funny underwater photos with your friends, or going for a run in pouring rain. Unfortunately, reality is quite different. “Waterproof” phones aren’t usually waterproof; instead, they are water resistant. And the difference is significant.
These “waterproof” phones you see do a good job of protecting against water disasters, like we saw in our Moto G water test. But that’s the point of water resistance—it’s a protection measure. It isn’t a radically new way to use the phone, as much as the ads want you to believe that.

So don’t making calls in torrential rainfall

Waterproof isn’t quite waterproof, as I learned from a colleague today whose nice new Sony phone suffered water damage on holiday. She was told unofficially that waterproof phones aren’t quite waterproof. In her case, the water made it past the seals and socket covers on her device which were firmly closed.

And when you’re away from home, where exactly will you get a badge of rice to immerse your phone in a hurry?

Errrr what are these things you listed up here??? So we should go studying chemistry to dry our phones? Lol

well it depends on the Ingress Protection rating, making calls in the rain is not a threat to any IPx certified device, unless you get pneumonia or get struck by lightning. i say this as someone who’s used an Xperia Z1 & a Nokia 5210. as long as you leave the ports covered and you don’t go diving or leave the phone immersed for long periods, you’re safe from water damage, at least the phone is

interesting, while i had my Z1 (~ 6 months) my friends would routinely test the phone’s water resistance. so much that i started backing up my phone everyday since it was inevitable that something would go wrong one day. somehow the phone survived the constant “testing”, after months of resting in all kinds of liquids (water, coke, beer, wine, name it) the phone managed to get lost (or maybe it ran away from my friends)

Well,we all have to wait till our phone accidentally gets soaked,would be foolhardy to try it just to find out..

yes, i have, many times
it works, most of the time, if you use it well
used to drop the dismantled phone in a ziploc bag full of rice, seal & place in a warm place & change the rice every 12 hours or so.

In her case, she wanted to take a photo in the sea (it wasn’t dunked), and found that the screen was unresponsive. Back at home, she opened the covers and water came out. Originally when she took it back to the store she was told she must have left the covers open which she hadn’t.

I’m of the opinion the IP-rated phones are actually water resistant rather than waterproof. And being waterproof has levels.