Yes, of course, but the phone wasn't "washed" in a washer, which is obviously a different question entirely. A "wet" phone is something different than a phone in a washer, right?
@@drunkpinata1210 . Yes, this is the result of one. "All desiccants and the white rice were effective in removing moisture from hearing aids, with Hal Hen Super Dri Aid showing the largest mean reduction in relative humidity. Based on analysis of covariance results, white rice was statistically similar to several of the commercial desiccants." I strongly suspect a lot may depend on how dry the rice is to begin with.
Well, I *have* used cat litter to speed up the drying process in wet electronic devices. I've also used silica gel bags. They both work pretty well. However, as I understand it the problem is not the device getting wet itself but the minerals, particularly salts, that are dissolved in regular water as they can cause a short-circuit in the device if it's on. Theoretically, if your phone gets wet you could just "wash" it in distilled water to try and remove as much minerals as possible and then let it dry out.
Even distilled water will eventually break down from electric flow and cause shorting; welcome to corrosion. It's a hard one to properly tackle. Yes, it happens slow, but yes, it does still happen, sadly.
@@Lamster66 Even deionized water will eventually corrode; it will pull conductive material from the components themselves over time. IPA is not magic liquid, it wont pull water out from internal components. Like-said; this is more complex of a topic than many assume. All you do with what you just said is delay component death for at max a few more years, or you get lucky and it corrodes in a useless area.
@@KannaKamui I've had a computer running completely submerged in a 150 gallon fish tank for over 3 years now bro. Still running fine. Really slow is more like it...
@@Silentjackll Context intentional misuse. The difference is, your components have nothing on them as they were heavily cleaned. A phones aren't, and are very close-by to most people's yucky hands. Stop ego-driving a "gotcha!" from a isolated experience.
The key to remember here is this: A circuit board when de-energized can be put in a washing machine. Many industrial circuit boards go through exactly this process before being repaired. When your phone gets wet, if you can’t turn it off immediately and water gets to the circuit, it’s toast. If you do manage to turn it off, the next challenge is getting any water trapped inside out. Rice may not be the best option, but it’s one most homeowners have, so it’s easily accessible. Your phone was likely on when it went into the wash, at which point there was no saving it. Still, the point of the video still stands, and it’s worth looking into better alternatives when trying to dry out the internals of a phone if you have access to them.
Rice does not have desiccant properties, which is exactly what you'd want. The other issue is that most people who put their phone in rice also put it in a container, which completely eliminates the evaporation potential. Best thing to do is towel dry, power off or let it die, leave it exposed to air dry, and bring it to a repair place. I used fix phones and people would always bring in phones in a bag of rice and the inside was always saturated when I opened up the phone.
You are forgetting to mention that although circuit boards are washed during manufacture, it is not with water, and it is just the board, not all the components such as speakers, cameras, and other items that are cleaned. If you want to ruin a camera or a speaker, give it a wash. Also worth noting, that if the water is not pretty pure, and contains contaminants, or worst of all, salt-water, then even if you do dry it out, it will probably not function, not for long at any rate.
There is a little more to it than that. The water used in his washing machine wasn't pure H2O. If it were, even posted on wouldn't cause issue; pure H2O can insulate . The water was Contaminated by whatever was on the items being washed, along with soap. The contamination causes the shorting of powered on. Rice will pull the H2O, but nit the contamination....
You can wash your pc in water, but you have to dunk it in isopropyl alcohol after to remove the remaining water. I did this after I spilled a liter of coke over my motherboard, pc and PSU, they are all fine to this day 5 years later. If you just use water it will rust and leave contaminants. Just make sure the parts have been off for at least a couple of hours before you do this so that the capacitors are completely drained.
Actually Dan, the rice will be absorbant in high humidity environments. Maybe that's why it worked for them. If relative humidity is high enough, the rice will pull water from the air. If lower, it will release it's humidity to equilibrium with surrounding air relative humidity. The rice will dry out if the air is more dry. The rice will become more moist if the air around it is more humid. I would just use some form of dessicant and air flow to try and dry a phone. As long as the important bits were ipv protected and not powered on. But even then it still depends on salinity, salt content of the water, or conductivity in general. vs. distilled water, as shorts are what kills a circuit. Corrosion can lead to shorts regardless of saving it in time. You can dry out a wet phone and it will be ok, but under specific circumstances only.
Rice is not magically going to evaporate water from the internals of a phone. If it's already rusted due to the minerals in the water, it's already rusted. Rice isn't mother nature.
Then the other absorbants will still be better to use. In terms of storing your equipment in rice, well rice has an advantage... it doesn't have any dust.
@@SioxerNikita So your phone just got wet, instead of putting it in rice you go to the shops to get these other absorbents, maybe order them on amazon and wait?... It's best to let the water sit there and increase the risk of a short or corrosion? The reason why rice is often suggested is because people have it. The faster you get the water out the better, so why not stick it in rice?
@@kidShibuya Cereal? Oat meal is something you can have on hand with no issue. Beyond that even something like flour will be better, which is pretty common in most households. And beyond that what I was talking about specifically was keeping equipment in humid environments safe, where flour and oatmeal will over time add dust to the equipment and may break especially sensitive equipment, where rice would be an obvious better choice.
I love you man❤ I've been in the phone repair business for ten years at board level and if I had a dollar for every time I have heard "ive had it in rice for a week so it should be ok" I would have made more money than repairing repairable jobs! A note for people that have water damaged their devices that value their data. 1. Dont plug it in or attempt to charge it. 2.Take it to a shop and have them dissconect the battery as soon as possible (a charge running through the shorts will corrode traces and components quickly especially with salt water) you have time to organise a repair if needed at this point. 3. If your data isn't important wrap the phone in a tea towel and put it in the oven at 50 degrees Celsius (don't exceed 150 Celsius as that can damage some lcd screens) take it out every 40 minutes and let it cool then repeat 4 or 5 times and check for condensation in camera lenses and lcd. If there is no condensation you might get lucky so try to charge or turn the phone on at your own risk. 4. If someone tells you to put it in rice because the phone technician is just trying to rip you off promptly punch them in their stupid face because they are not the person that has to tell you your baby photos are now lost forever because of these flacking dumb shits😳
My guess is that the main trick is to make sure the phone remains off (and I mean OFF OFF, not in sleep mode) while there is still moisture inside, to prevent shorting. Beyond that, you'll want to get the moisture out as best as possible. That will be dependent on the humidity of the air, and how well the air is moving through the interior of the phone and the exterior (in order to get the 'saturated' air out, get unsaturated air in, and continue the process of the extraction). I'd be interested to hear more details on that study to see what the humidity was during the test, along with the success/failure rates for each of those surrounding materials. My guess is that in the end a fan blowing into the vents/opening in the phone casing while being near a dehumidifier would be the best case; but that's just a hypothesis that would need to get some empirical testing before I would give the idea any real support.
I got my phone damp and I put it into an air tight ziplock back with silica gel and clean cat litter for about 3 days. Then I opened up the phone and using 99% isopropyl alcohol I removed some water marks - careful not to just slosh the isopropyl alcohol everywhere! I also replaced the battery. My iPhone 6 worked again perfectly including the fingerprint sensor! BUT the phone was never immersed in water, it was on a table when coffee was spilt so hardly any liquid got inside… I did not use rice! Another fab mini Dan 🤩 Cheers 🤗🏴
It greatly depends on how wet the phone got. Or more specifically, how much water got inside the phone. Going through a wash cycle, time for a new phone. But drop in a puddle and pick up immediately, it's worth a try.
Rice doesn’t do anything unless it is literally in contact with the moisture. It’s not going to draw moisture out of any electronics. It’s. Put your phone on a towel will do the same as putting it in rice.
@@highdough2712 Nope. If you put the rice and the phone in a small hermetic container, it will work. The rice absorbs water, the air becomes dryer, and the water inside the phone could evaporate quickier. If you live in desertic clima, maybe you shouldn't bother, but if you live in Buenos Aires, where I live, it totally worths a try. It worked on my phone, LOL.
@@myriampro4973 You might want to look up the difference between correlation and causation. Just because you did something and it seemed to have the desired effect, that doesn’t men that you you did was the reason.
@@highdough2712 I told you why it worked. The evaporation rate increases in dry places, and with high temperature. If you tried to dry clothes in different seasons, perhaps you would be aware of it.
If the device is turned off when it gets wet and you react quickly you can keep it in the off position and stick it in rice and generally it will dry it enough but I've always been told to use the instant rice. I discussed using oatmeal and kitty litter with a phone tech and he said because of the dustiness it's not advisable
The main problem with water in a phone isn't the possible short circuits. It's the corrosion that will happen once the wet electronics gets in contact with air. I remember back in the age before smartphones, a guy who was fishing salmon in a river, lost his phone in the river. And he couldn't find it again. The next day, he did find it. And the phone was still turned on. And it had 10 lost calls and 2 text messages.
It isn't the water/moisture that damages the equipment - it is the process of turning that equipment on while it has not fully dried. (This does not apply to things soaked or rusted.)
Yes. Electronics are very vulnerable to water, which is very conductive. If you do not turn your phone on and you dry the insides completely, it might be perfectly fine (you should use silica gel)
@@belgiumball2308 Actually water itself is a VERY poor conductor of electricity. It's the impurities in it that are conductive. Do a search for electrical conductivity of distilled water and see for yourself.
Assuming that it wasn't already on, which most likely it was. Also, phones don't have a switch that fully cuts power, there's always something running unless the battery is completely dead.
Drying your phone in any way might save your phone if you're lucky, but the problem with a wet phone is the battery which often can't be removed start the process of electrolysis, basically dissolving various metals in your phone. Back when batteries were easily removed, quickly removing it and drying your phone had quite a good success rate in my experience, never used rice though.
Its not the putting in rice part that helps the phone though, it is the leaving the phone alone ( and turned off to prevent short circuits) to dry part that helps.
I dropped a small radio in a stream once. It was ruined. At someone's suggestion, I immersed it in water again, this time distilled water, taking care to wash the bowl I used in distilled water first. I made sure the distilled water went all through the radio, then shook as much as possible out again and left it to dry in a warm place. In a about a week, it worked again! I have tried this with a couple more electronic devices and they didn't work afterwards. In the case of the radio, it was clearly the suspended particles or dissolved salts in the stream which were doing the damage, not the water itself. Worth a try with an electronic device which is already ruined, I reckon. You might be as lucky as I was the first time, and if you're not it'll have cost you no more than some distilled water. I also wonder if isopropyl alcohol would do the trick? It is sold in spray cans for cleaning electronics, but you can also buy it in litre bottles or 5L containers. That should evaporate and dry out much more quickly than distilled water.
Actually it does work. The most important thing however is to turn it off as fast as possible because the water most of the time doesn't reach the circuit instantly and if you turn it off the parts most exposed won't have electricity flowing. After that put it in a bag of rice and actually seal it so that humidity builds. The rise will better absorb the water like the person below me explained better. It saved 2 of my phones I accidentally had on me when dipping into a lake. Also yes you're right, the other options are better, but the crucial part is time and rice is something most households have at home, therefore it evolved to rice is the best option, so yeah, if you have cats use litter and if you have oatmeal use that.
We keep any of those moisture absorbers you get in toys/dog treats etc. Then if the kids get our phones went, put phone in tupperware with a few of those in the airing cupboard overnight. Has worked a few times. Other trick is a hair dryer.
@@SciManDan I would be bit careful about hair dryer. As it can damage internal components if used with force. So light breeze, not that high of temperature.
The main problem I've had with anything that is intended to pull moisture from an electronic item is that it's not really the water (outside of corrosion of metallic parts) that does the damage, a lot of the damage is caused by minerals being deposited on evaporation of that water. You'd really need to flush out all of the contaminated water/minerals first with isopropyl or distilled water first and, at that point, as long as the water does not stand on the boards for too long or mix with things that really don't like getting wet (lithium?) the isop/distilled water should naturally evaporate quite rapidly anyway, unless you're unfortunate enough to get it deep inside a sealed case, in which case rice is going to do squat at pulling it out anyway.
yeah, was going to say this. Unless your device is on, water won't break it. It's all the contaminations that are left over after drying that do. It doesn't matter what you dry your device in.
The thing that most people don’t realize about using rice or anything else to draw the moisture out of electronics is that if the device was one when it got wet the circuits are usually fried and if not dealt with soon enough can be corroded as well. I have had it work on some devices but never a phone but I also would let it sit in the rice for about a week so who’s to say if the rice did anything at all. But like I said if you say drop our phone in the pool while it’s on and when you pull it out off the water and it’s already shut down that means it’s fried and no amount of rice can fix fried circuits. Great video Dan, I’ve really been enjoying these extra short videos you have added between the longer videos, it’s nice get some extra Scimandan between episodes.
It definitely worked for me once. Had a cheap cell phone all through high school. "Accidentally" left it in my pocket when I went swimming. Left it in a bowl of rice to dry out. 3 days later my mom replaced it with a new iPhone. 100% would recommend.
I used to repair handsets for motorola, never tried the rice method, but we did use desicated clay tablets to wick water from components. The most important factor is to remove water without heat or excess air flow, before the nickle in most components can begin to oxidize or corrode. Synthetic transmission fluid, oddly enough, is great for displacing water, and less damaging than water on electronics. On a few DBR-Water handsets we used the method to 'soak' the component and displace the water. It is essentially is (or was) the same thing as board cleaner.
@@bruceyboy7349 Yes, that, and the fact that the insides were exposed for the rice to actually absorb the water, in newer models water can only go in through the charging port, bringing it back out is a bit harder with such as small opening, so, disassembling the phone so the insides have direct contact with the rice makes a big difference.
Yes. I was taking part in the Thai festival Songkran, part of which involves getting soaked and my phone, despite being in a plastic pouch, got soaked. I put it in uncooked Jasmin rice for 24 hrs (with the case and battery removed) and it worked. It is something worth trying as you have nothing to loose.
I assume, putting your phone in rice, helps it dry faster than just out in the open, especially if you live in an area with high humidity. Now, other things will help as well, but rice is usually very common in households, has big grains and is food safe. Oatmeal and Cous Cous are not as common as rice, and especially oatmeal could end up in charging ports or other openings on the phone. And covering your phone, something you touch a lot, in cat litter sounds like something you don't want on your fingers. So putting something in rice to dry it can have its value. But it doesn't magically undo water damage. It just dries things a little faster.
I think if your phone goes through the washing machine, it's not only thoroughly drenched, but it'll be heated water, likely with detergent as well. In those cases I'd wager pretty much nothing can save that phone. Not to mention the concussive "treatment" the washing machine would have given it as well. However, if you just jump into a pool for a minute with your phone in a pocket or if you drop it in there, you might recover it by drying it up. I have a sibling who accidentally did this, went out of the pool and used a blowdryer to dry the phone off. This was a rather old phone (because it was a long time ago) so the battery could be removed quickly as well. It was restored to full function. Much more recently however, my father dropped his phone into a lake while fishing and didn't notice it for about 10-15 minutes. After drying, it was still functional, but the display had taken damage and it was not functioning as it should, often freezeing, programs crashing and the microphone was rendered completely inoperable. Luckily the 3.5mm audio jack was still functional, so if you wanted someone to hear you, you could simply plug in a headset with a microphone and it'd work.
I once had an iPhone 5 in a full wash cycle with my jeans. I had just gotten a new phone a day or two before, the iPhone 5 was completely flat of charge before it went in, once washed I left it to dry out for a couple of weeks with no absorbants, I then charged it up and its still working. I think what saved it was being completely out of charge before going for spin in the washing machine.
I wonder if the rice folklore is partly influenced by a memorable episode in the popular novel, "Mr. Midshipman Hornblower" ("Hornblower and the Cargo of Rice") in which the cargo of rice on a prize ship from New Orleans absorbs so much water after a hull breach that the ship is broken apart and must be abandoned. Because the rice was absorbing the water, nobody realized that the ship was taking on water until too late. I cannot remember if this incident was adapted in the 1990s ITV 'Hornblower' series.
Dan, yes. The rice “trick” works. It does draw out water. In your case, though, you likely had soap in there which won’t work with rice. And your phone was banging around in there. You were lucky it didn’t short the battery. Years ago, my daughter spilled a whole glass of water on my laptop. It stopped working. I didn’t use rice, but after 6 years I plugged it back in and it worked (I only dragged it out again because my replacement laptop had failed). Rice probably would have been faster, but drying it out did work. Desiccants like silica gel would work too, but no one usually has that handy.
Definitely. I had a text based electronic interstate map back in the day (yes these were things) and it got drowned in muddy water. After it dried out completely it was able to work for a few more months until the particulate matter in the mud corroded the circuitry.
The best way to keep your phone dry is a good water proof/resist case before it gets wet. I always tell people it is cheaper to replace screen protectors and cases than phones.
I think it's more accurate to say that rice can prevent damage to your phone if it gets wet. It's not going to fix any actual damage, but it can help dry it off more quickly to prevent any damage from occurring. So no it won't fix a phone left in the washer but if you drop your phone in the sink and can dunk it in rice in a hurry, you might be able to save it.
I remember collecting and using a bunch of old dessicant pearls bags in my camera bag before going to Costa Rica. It worked great but you need to dry them after a while. I used to put them in the oven 50°C air flow at least an hour to "reactivate" them.
I used to collect them like I was a hoarder 🤣 I kept them in with electronic components I collected from old devices to cut down on e-waste, so they were moisture free when I had to repair something.
Yes -- the beads of silica gel that are used to keep products dry, kept in a sealed container and then made completely dry in a warm oven if the extra drying is needed. Since I've had to take COVID rapid tests fairly regularly over some periods, I've held onto the silica packets that they contain.
My best friend is a cinematographer in LA. He's been on shoots where cameras fell into water, becoming completely immersed. He said Panavision, the maker of said cameras, gave them bags to seal the cameras in, still immersed in water. They were then to send the cameras back to Panavision to have them dry them out properly. I think they washed them in distilled water so that they wouldn't have the mineral (in this case salt from the salt water) crusting up and shorting out the electronics. This was when they were still shooting film, and they could recover the film too.
I had good success with putting the phone on a strong fan for a week, turning it every day. Often even the battery would come up. This was in the Southwest USA so the humidity was quite low already. Running that much air past it dried it quite well.
Good job! Smart too, but minute rice and rock salt would speed that process up considerably, but your way is by far the safest and most likely to not be detrimental.
anything that's absorbent, and the idea is to fully pull all the moisture out of the device before trying to turn it on. And yes, I have used Rice to pull the moisture out of a dropped phone and had it work afterwards.
Tenicaly Rice does work but neither rice or cat litter will fix you phone. They will draw out the moisture but most of the time you still need to open the phone and clean corrosion off the PCB with some rubbing alcohol
to clarify what a few others have said: there are multiple problems caused by getting electronics wet. one is corrosion caused by the wetness. one is short circuiting caused by wetness. one is material damage directly from wetness. Rice won't fix any of those. however, the more expeditiously the wetness is alleviated, the less likely they will develop. one thing is for certain, the most important thing is powering off your phone to prevent short circuits. after that, you can't heat dry it or there will be heat damage, so there needs to be something that absorbs moisture. on that aspect, rice is better than nothing, even if other things are better than rice. I suppose one thing that makes it better than oatmeal of couscous is the size of the grains. - less dust to get in places.
@@kenbrown2808 so it’s irrelevant to talk about eternity and it’s OK to talk about temporal things instead? That’s dumb, you’re gonna spend eternity in one place or the other, heaven or hell!
@@kenbrown2808 that’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard all week, yeah a month! Ignore eternal hell, that’s what you said! Better repent sinner, you’re going to be the wood to the fire in hell if you don’t!
@@jjphank when the topic of the video is a specific temporal thing, yes, it's impolite to spam it selling fire insurance. maybe you need to re-read the passage about being nothing but a crashing cymbal or a clanging gong.
Everyone said rice would work to prevent filament from absorbing, water but when I baselined the humidity in my room and compared it to 2 different big boxes of rice I had sitting the rice boxes that had plastic lids locked ontop of them contained over 50% more moisture in the air, seems like it works in reverse if you ask me.
Thank you for making this video. As a phone tech I was given lots of "rice fixed" phones to repair. They were almost always too badly corroded to salvage ☹️ Rice doesn't do squat to stop the liquid corroding the legs off chips and the solder balls under the BGA parts. I almost think this rice meme was started by Apple to make sure they could sell more new phones.
About 5 years ago, I accidentally knocked my out of warranty iPhone off the vanity into an open toilet. It stopped working immediately. I then went to my Apple store ready to shell out for a new replacement. They must have felt sorry for me because they gave me a brand new phone for free.
I imagine small rice-people coming out of the rice and crawl into the phone and clean all the corroded metal and fix all parts which were short circuited.
I collected about 20 of those little moisture absorbing packets from different prescriptions and vitamin bottles and supplement bottles to see if that would work on a wet phone. It did! Take some effort to collect those little packets but you might wanna try it.
Rice works if you immediately open and remove the battery. Trying to salvage a phone after it's gone through the washing machine just ruins the rice. I keep a 40 ounce jar jar filled 3/4 full and a similar jar next to it for such an event. The device is placed in the empty jar then the rice is poured over and completely covering the item. It's left for several days. If rice sticks to it, redo the aforementioned using the first jar. Once the moisture reaches the circuitry with the battery still installed the circuitry will short and burn out the board. I've used the technique on remote controls as well. It doesn't save them all but that's why there's eBay.
As a photographer, the advice to store cameras and lenses in rice when in hot countries is still being used. But it's to prevent the humidity getting to the gear in the first place, not to remove humidity. This is to prevent fungus that can form and ruin optics.. However, it's not great advice as the rice itself can help spread fungi. Better to use modern anti-humidity solutions such as silica etc.
Actually using rice is worse than just leaving the phone to air dry. Since rice can clog up the ports and then there's the fact that starch which rice contains is corrosive. If you want to dry your phone faster use a fan to move the air over it or use some of those silica gel packs.
There's no substitute for taking it apart, displacing the water with something volatile, cleaning any corrosion, replacing any damaged parts, and putting it back together.
A more useful but still similar way to fix this kind of issue is to (taking the battery out first) get a couple of gallons of distilled water, and move the phone through repeated baths of new distilled water, giving it time in each for any minerals inside to dissolve that had gotten there due to normal water or dirty water. Then, ideally, after several baths the distilled water can dry off without leaving any residue or precipitate in the phone, and hopefully it works again, or at least long enough to remove important files to be backed up. Its also important to wait at least an afternoon, if not a day or two, to let the phone completely dry. Ideally there will be no minerals to allow the remaining water to conduct electricity (and damage the phone) but if you did not rinse it well enough there is always a risk of that. So be patient and make sure the phone is fully dry once you've finished. Also be sure to review things such as long term exposure to distilled water for things this ISNT intended to mess with, such as internal phone circuitry contacts that could possibly lose important plating or become affected by it , warranty-voiding internal packaging (like apple uses, which draw moisture over time even if your device is dry, very cool apple), or other important things based on the make and model of your device. TL;DR just to be sure the distilled water wouldn't inadvertently cause different issues before attempting this.
Water ruins a phone by causing a short circuit along its internal circuitry. It's best to actually put your phone in direct sunlight for a number of hours or some form of dry heat. I've heard leaving it on the defrost vents of the windshield of your car with max heat and defrost on works really well but I've never tested that. The theory is the heat causes any moisture to evaporate, and the defrost keeps the air dry and more capable of holding moisture. You have to take the back plate off your phone (if you can even do that with your phone anymore) and remove the battery first. The problem with this method that I can see is that you're going to have to run your car for 1-3 hrs, maybe more, and also make sure your phone doesn't get so hot you ruin other components. The battery should be fine as long as you wipe it dry and shouldn't need to be put in the heat. That's a great way to make it explode, don't do that.
I think there may also be a bit of correlation=causation for a lot of people in this matter. As long as it was turned off, nothing has been irreversibly damaged from being short-circuited, then it probably just needs time to dry. If it's been drying for several days in a bowl of rice next to a healing crystal in the moonlight... it might just be due to enough time having passed for the moisture to evaporate and not any of the trinkets or rice that happened to be around during that time. A nearby fan blowing fresh dry air may have helped though.
No one is claiming rice "fixes" the phone, the whole point is to aid in drying the device out, and it certainly works. Rice is hygroscopic and by virtue it wicks moisture out of the air. Some people aren't comfortable stripping their phone down to clean and dry it properly so as an alternative the rice method "may" work for them provided the phone isn't DOA. We used rice a few times to draw moisture out of avionics from F18s due to high humidity environments in lieu of silica gel. You can't just put the device you want dried in a bowl with the rice, it has to be in a sealed bag in order for the technique to work. Why do you think rice needs to be stored in airtight containers?
Putting a phone in a bowl of rice may remove the water from the outside shell of the phone, but it will do nothing to remove water that may have made its way inside the phone. And even worse, rice corn can get stuck inside the charging port, ruining it when the corn gets soggy from the moisture. Two things you can do with a wet phone: 1: Put it on a heated floor to dry it over night. Like a bathroom, etc. And see if it starts up. 2: Put the wet phone in a clear plastic bag and take it to a technician that can properly clean it for you. The plastic bag will keep the phone wet. Removing water damage from a dried up phone is way harder, and may end up ruining the circuit boards inside. The water that is.
The camera trick works because it stops OUTSIDE humid air from reaching the devices and film, it won’t magically pull water from deep inside the phone. Keep the phone under a heat lamp in a plastic bag and surround it with a passive desiccant (like a suitcase desiccant pack or closet reusable dehumidifiers). Rice can leave dust and won’t help
Never heard of using a bowl of rice. But I dropped an old phone, one with a removable battery, in a sink full of water and immediately opened it up, removed the battery, got as much water out with a paper towel and sealed it in a plastic bag submerged in instant rice. The color indicator showed it had been wet, but after a few days it powered on and worked as if nothing happened. This was a very long time ago, well before touch screens, so I assume it would no longer be effective.
My phone dropped into the sink once. It suffered some sound issues and screen jamming. Putting it into rice for a day actually did bring it back to fully functional condition and I still have that phone two years after the sink incident and it still works as it was designed to do so in some cases the rice trick may work.
Leaving it for a day gave it time to dry a little. If electronic parts get wet, the best way to save them is to remove the power source and allow to *fully* dry. Sometimes the natural drying process and take weeks. I had an electric hand mixer that my moronic friend washed in a sink full of dishes. I left it for 3 weeks and it "came back to life".
@@janX9 I'm using my sink soaked phone to respond to you so it obviously worked. My phone was switched on when it took its swim and I left it on when I put it in a bag of rice. Turning the phone off could cause damage too by changing the configuration or pressing buttons you are causing small signals to be sent around a wet circuit board that may cause a short circuit across some of the PCBs tracks. I was skeptical weather putting my phone in rice would work but hey it did on this occasion. I'm an electrical engineer for various military contracts so I have quite an extensive amount of experience with making and maintaining electronic components for extreme environments and conditions.
Best thing to do is to put it in a dehydrator. I used to work at a phone repair place. Keep the phone off, and then dehydrator for a day. If you know how to open up you phone, disconnect the battery. that's even better to prevent corrosion.
I believe the reason that Rice is the popular choice is that more people have access to rice than have ready access to cat litter, or even oatmeal. And the reason it works sometimes and other times not, is because of the different ways water damage can affect the device. If your phone is wet, the rice (or other desiccant) will eventually get rid of the moisture, and will avoid or delay corrosion on the circuit board. But it will not fix a shorted out component in the circuitry if the water made it all the way into the innards while the device was powered up.
Try a Dehumidifier. Put the phone in an upright position over the exhaust port. This blows ultra dry air out along the phone, drying it out very quickly.
In 2010 my iPod Touch in my trouser pocket went through a hot wash and then fell onto a concrete path when the trousers were hung out to dry. It was dead. I put it in the airing cupboard for 3 months, charged it up, and it worked fine for ages until it became obsolete and couldn't be updated. Thanks, Apple.
It does work... but... If the only issue is that the water is causing a non-damaging short in the electronic device (i.e., phone), then the rice will draw out the moisture, removing the short. But, if the water has cause shorts that damage components on the electronic device, then rice will do nothing more that dry it out. Your primus here is a bit flawed. It seem like it isn't if putting a wet device into rice will fix it, but what household substance absorbs better.
I worked at Staples and we had machines that used light... sort of like a microwave, but obviously not since that would be dangerous, to do this except actually well. While obviously we wanted people to pay to do it, it was genuinely true that the rice trick simply does not work. It doesn't get all of the moisture out especially from the more centralized parts. We have machines and stuff to do this and to save phones (legitimately) that have this sort of accident happen, so I would recommend people speak to a professional before trying out holistic phone therapies.
Actually it does work, you just have to do it quickly after the phone was submerged. Rice isn't magic, once any pins or tiny traces on the board start corroding there is no turning back, but rice can help speed up the process of drying, just like the cat litter, cus cus, or even a hair drier. Any drying method will NOT bring back a phone that stayed in water, it will only give it a better chance of continuing to work if you move fast enough, and at the moment of starting to dry it, the phone still works.
Silica get worked very well to revive a vape I dropped in the washing-up. In fact, the revived vape went on to out-last an identical one that never had any water in it.
Or just put it in the airing cupboard. For the record this only works on superficially wet technology if turned off and treated quickly anyway. A phone that has been washed thoroughly will have many blown components due to the metallic elements in the fluid which create bridges in circuits where they should not be. If you pull 1 Volt through a component rated for 1 mV it will be destroyed regardless of what you do afterwards.
This is dependant on so many factors, how wet it gets how quickly you do something, the problem being that most modern technology use multi layer circuit boards and if moisture gets between those layers the eventually it will go tits up
I live in a tropical country and you can't have salt in a shaker without lots of rice , otherwise salt will be wet after a few hours. You put 80% rice and 20 rice fixes the problem
I use instant rice for my pricey instant read thermometer I use for cooking. If I wash the probe off, or use it when steam is coming off food that I'm cooking, then I fear moisture will inevitably get in places that I don't want it to. I'm not using the rice to fix something. I simply store it in a zip locked bag with the uncooked instant rice as a cheap form of dessicant. Maybe I should buy some desiccant, like the "do not eat" packets?
Should have mentioned packets of soda silicate Dan, it won't repair your phone but it will remove all moisture if your phone is placed in a sealed box or bag with a couple of packets.
the single most important thing when something electronic gets wet is to get the power removed from it ASAP. Then you want a warm place with good airflow to dry it
I keep bunches of desiccant packs from various items in an airtight container. They're not a perfect fix but they have saved a couple electronic devices, that weren't *soaked* to death. Of course the desiccant packs are basically single use when used that way. Buy really, what am I going to do with them when they tell me I can't eat them?
Never washed it... but it fell in a pond. It was an older one, so i could open it into parts... i did put it on the heater, on a low level of heating. 1week later, i assembled it back, and it worked again
The idea is to dry wet electronics. If you spill your drink over your laptop for instance, the recommendation is to quickly turn it off, unplug the charger and remove the battery, wait a couple of days for it to completely dry and your device may work without problems. I don't know where the rice idea came from but maybe someone did it and worked, not because the rice but because the liquid didn't really caused any damaged to the device components and it may just have worked normally if left unpowered for a couple of days.
What does work, is putting the phone in an oven at 50 degrees Celsius for a few hours without the battery(!!!). Provided it wasn’t soaked in salt water. Done that a few times myself
So they didn't test to see if it worked, but they did compare how well it worked against other things. Which means it works. Other things work too. Some work better. But it works. I learned this for old style electronic breadboards, and it worked then too. Works best if you open the case up. BTW, the reason they use rice instead of kitty litter and oatmeal is dust. Rice just shakes off but you have to clean out dust.
It’s never worked for me. I’ve tried cat litter but same result. I think it’s from the minerals in the water. Even if it gets fully dry, after being off and in the water, the water will leave behind the mineral deposits on all the electronics and short them out. If the phone is off, I’m going to try distilled water first, then maybe some oatmeal afterwards. Best thing is don’t get it wet, or only wet for as short a period as possible.
I remember being told to just blow air over it from a fan. The moving air lowers the air pressure, and that allows the water to evaporate easier due it's vapour pressure. Especially with modern phones being more water resistant, it's rare for actual ingress to occur unless the phones is damaged. But if you spill a sugary drink it's all over. I ruined an iPhone 3gs with lemonade on the motherboard.
Uncooked rice IS absorbent. And it's something that a lot of people have easy access to. Cat litter is probably better, but not so many people have easy access to that. The main problem though, is that if you drop your phone in water, the water will get INSIDE your phone. And neither rice nor cat litter will pull water out from the inside of your phone. Rice can be a way to prevent your phone from GETTING wet, but once it IS wet, it's not very likely to be able to remove the moisture.
What does work (as long as the water hasn't shorted it out) is to dry your phone in an oven at 50C (be very careful about the temperature, plastic starts to melt at 60C) for 12 hours.
I also tried the wet phone in rice fix a few years ago - it did not work. However, I did have an iPod shuffle 1st gen accidentally go through the wash many eons ago and would you believe that not only did it still work but it wiped all the music off of it too! Ofcourse what really happened is the wash would have trashed the internal flash memory, and after drying the shuffle would have automatically reformatted the flash - I was truly surprised it still worked though
I have used rice to dry out a couple of phones, and it worked great. Now, putting a phone in a washing machine, compared to having it fall into a sink for a couple of seconds, is a big difference. As far as Kitty litter goes, I have found that the dust from it will get into the phone. So while kitty litter does work for my golf shoes and tools, I would not use it on my phone.
I've seen take out restaurants have a pen in a thing of rice. I still don't have a clue why they would put a pen in rice. Usually Chinese restaurants do this
I've actually had better results with a sealed container and instant rice. The issue was water under a screen. By sealing the rice and phone, while squeezing most of the air out, I had better results than the bowl in the open air absorbing the local humidity instead of the moisture in the object being dried. It didn't take long to dry either. Previous experience had the phone never drying in the open with rice but only 4-6 days in a zip lock bag removed most of the moisture. There was still corrosion damage but it lasted longer than expected. Today I use desiccant pearls, but only because I buy them in bulk for my 3d printing materials.
I use a little bit of rice in my salt shaker to reduce humidity-driven clumping. I would not use rice as a desiccant in non-food applications, just like I would not use a chemical desiccant pack in a food application. I have a bunch of the small packs in my toolbox that I saved out of various product packaging including some OTC meds (fish oil and Prilosec primarily). It helps reduce the rusting my tools get.
the only thing that I know of that "works" is a removal of the battery, a good rinsing in ethanol alcohol a couple of times and a heating cycle with a hair dryer on low setting. The ethanol mixes with the water and will drain easier than water ( something to do with surface tension). When the ethanol drains it takes a good percentage of the water with it. and previously mentioned, this should be done a couple of times if not maybe 3-4 times. The use of the hair dryer at low setting will evaporate the left over alcohol easier than water can be evaporated. Also the low temp will help in keeping the screen from getting "burned" or melting the films in the screen. Heat will damage LCD screens.
@@Lamster66 thats why I specified ethanol, its covalent bonds luv water and helps force any ions into the water better. No need to be adding more water, deionized or not, the idea is to remove all the water along with any ions, plus ethanol is non conductive thus reducing the chances for electrolytic corrosion.
Has the rice trick ever worked for you?
Any studies using a proper desiccant instead?
Yes, of course, but the phone wasn't "washed" in a washer, which is obviously a different question entirely. A "wet" phone is something different than a phone in a washer, right?
Yes
People don't usually have a proper desiccant at home.
But rice is the most common in homes
@@drunkpinata1210 .
Yes, this is the result of one.
"All desiccants and the white rice were effective in removing moisture from hearing aids, with Hal Hen Super Dri Aid showing the largest mean reduction in relative humidity. Based on analysis of covariance results, white rice was statistically similar to several of the commercial desiccants."
I strongly suspect a lot may depend on how dry the rice is to begin with.
Well, I *have* used cat litter to speed up the drying process in wet electronic devices. I've also used silica gel bags. They both work pretty well.
However, as I understand it the problem is not the device getting wet itself but the minerals, particularly salts, that are dissolved in regular water as they can cause a short-circuit in the device if it's on. Theoretically, if your phone gets wet you could just "wash" it in distilled water to try and remove as much minerals as possible and then let it dry out.
Even distilled water will eventually break down from electric flow and cause shorting; welcome to corrosion. It's a hard one to properly tackle. Yes, it happens slow, but yes, it does still happen, sadly.
Correct - it's either the minerals, or if the dampness is not resolved quickly, the corrosion it can cause.
@@Lamster66 Even deionized water will eventually corrode; it will pull conductive material from the components themselves over time. IPA is not magic liquid, it wont pull water out from internal components. Like-said; this is more complex of a topic than many assume. All you do with what you just said is delay component death for at max a few more years, or you get lucky and it corrodes in a useless area.
@@KannaKamui I've had a computer running completely submerged in a 150 gallon fish tank for over 3 years now bro. Still running fine. Really slow is more like it...
@@Silentjackll Context intentional misuse. The difference is, your components have nothing on them as they were heavily cleaned. A phones aren't, and are very close-by to most people's yucky hands.
Stop ego-driving a "gotcha!" from a isolated experience.
The key to remember here is this:
A circuit board when de-energized can be put in a washing machine. Many industrial circuit boards go through exactly this process before being repaired. When your phone gets wet, if you can’t turn it off immediately and water gets to the circuit, it’s toast. If you do manage to turn it off, the next challenge is getting any water trapped inside out. Rice may not be the best option, but it’s one most homeowners have, so it’s easily accessible. Your phone was likely on when it went into the wash, at which point there was no saving it.
Still, the point of the video still stands, and it’s worth looking into better alternatives when trying to dry out the internals of a phone if you have access to them.
Rice does not have desiccant properties, which is exactly what you'd want. The other issue is that most people who put their phone in rice also put it in a container, which completely eliminates the evaporation potential. Best thing to do is towel dry, power off or let it die, leave it exposed to air dry, and bring it to a repair place. I used fix phones and people would always bring in phones in a bag of rice and the inside was always saturated when I opened up the phone.
You are forgetting to mention that although circuit boards are washed during manufacture, it is not with water, and it is just the board, not all the components such as speakers, cameras, and other items that are cleaned. If you want to ruin a camera or a speaker, give it a wash. Also worth noting, that if the water is not pretty pure, and contains contaminants, or worst of all, salt-water, then even if you do dry it out, it will probably not function, not for long at any rate.
There is a little more to it than that. The water used in his washing machine wasn't pure H2O. If it were, even posted on wouldn't cause issue; pure H2O can insulate . The water was Contaminated by whatever was on the items being washed, along with soap. The contamination causes the shorting of powered on. Rice will pull the H2O, but nit the contamination....
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You can wash your pc in water, but you have to dunk it in isopropyl alcohol after to remove the remaining water. I did this after I spilled a liter of coke over my motherboard, pc and PSU, they are all fine to this day 5 years later. If you just use water it will rust and leave contaminants. Just make sure the parts have been off for at least a couple of hours before you do this so that the capacitors are completely drained.
Actually Dan, the rice will be absorbant in high humidity environments. Maybe that's why it worked for them. If relative humidity is high enough, the rice will pull water from the air. If lower, it will release it's humidity to equilibrium with surrounding air relative humidity. The rice will dry out if the air is more dry. The rice will become more moist if the air around it is more humid. I would just use some form of dessicant and air flow to try and dry a phone. As long as the important bits were ipv protected and not powered on. But even then it still depends on salinity, salt content of the water, or conductivity in general. vs. distilled water, as shorts are what kills a circuit. Corrosion can lead to shorts regardless of saving it in time. You can dry out a wet phone and it will be ok, but under specific circumstances only.
Rice is not magically going to evaporate water from the internals of a phone. If it's already rusted due to the minerals in the water, it's already rusted. Rice isn't mother nature.
Then the other absorbants will still be better to use.
In terms of storing your equipment in rice, well rice has an advantage... it doesn't have any dust.
@@SioxerNikita So your phone just got wet, instead of putting it in rice you go to the shops to get these other absorbents, maybe order them on amazon and wait?... It's best to let the water sit there and increase the risk of a short or corrosion? The reason why rice is often suggested is because people have it. The faster you get the water out the better, so why not stick it in rice?
@@kidShibuya Cereal? Oat meal is something you can have on hand with no issue.
Beyond that even something like flour will be better, which is pretty common in most households.
And beyond that what I was talking about specifically was keeping equipment in humid environments safe, where flour and oatmeal will over time add dust to the equipment and may break especially sensitive equipment, where rice would be an obvious better choice.
@@kidShibuya over 90% isopropyl works best. It gets into all the cracks and pulls the water out.
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I've been in the phone repair business for ten years at board level and if I had a dollar for every time I have heard "ive had it in rice for a week so it should be ok" I would have made more money than repairing repairable jobs!
A note for people that have water damaged their devices that value their data.
1. Dont plug it in or attempt to charge it. 2.Take it to a shop and have them dissconect the battery as soon as possible (a charge running through the shorts will corrode traces and components quickly especially with salt water) you have time to organise a repair if needed at this point.
3. If your data isn't important wrap the phone in a tea towel and put it in the oven at 50 degrees Celsius (don't exceed 150 Celsius as that can damage some lcd screens) take it out every 40 minutes and let it cool then repeat 4 or 5 times and check for condensation in camera lenses and lcd. If there is no condensation you might get lucky so try to charge or turn the phone on at your own risk.
4. If someone tells you to put it in rice because the phone technician is just trying to rip you off promptly punch them in their stupid face because they are not the person that has to tell you your baby photos are now lost forever because of these flacking dumb shits😳
My guess is that the main trick is to make sure the phone remains off (and I mean OFF OFF, not in sleep mode) while there is still moisture inside, to prevent shorting. Beyond that, you'll want to get the moisture out as best as possible. That will be dependent on the humidity of the air, and how well the air is moving through the interior of the phone and the exterior (in order to get the 'saturated' air out, get unsaturated air in, and continue the process of the extraction).
I'd be interested to hear more details on that study to see what the humidity was during the test, along with the success/failure rates for each of those surrounding materials. My guess is that in the end a fan blowing into the vents/opening in the phone casing while being near a dehumidifier would be the best case; but that's just a hypothesis that would need to get some empirical testing before I would give the idea any real support.
I got my phone damp and I put it into an air tight ziplock back with silica gel and clean cat litter for about 3 days.
Then I opened up the phone and using 99% isopropyl alcohol I removed some water marks - careful not to just slosh the isopropyl alcohol everywhere!
I also replaced the battery.
My iPhone 6 worked again perfectly including the fingerprint sensor!
BUT the phone was never immersed in water, it was on a table when coffee was spilt so hardly any liquid got inside…
I did not use rice!
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It greatly depends on how wet the phone got. Or more specifically, how much water got inside the phone. Going through a wash cycle, time for a new phone. But drop in a puddle and pick up immediately, it's worth a try.
Rice doesn’t do anything unless it is literally in contact with the moisture. It’s not going to draw moisture out of any electronics. It’s. Put your phone on a towel will do the same as putting it in rice.
@@highdough2712 Nope. If you put the rice and the phone in a small hermetic container, it will work. The rice absorbs water, the air becomes dryer, and the water inside the phone could evaporate quickier. If you live in desertic clima, maybe you shouldn't bother, but if you live in Buenos Aires, where I live, it totally worths a try. It worked on my phone, LOL.
@@myriampro4973 You might want to look up the difference between correlation and causation. Just because you did something and it seemed to have the desired effect, that doesn’t men that you you did was the reason.
@@highdough2712 I told you why it worked. The evaporation rate increases in dry places, and with high temperature. If you tried to dry clothes in different seasons, perhaps you would be aware of it.
@@myriampro4973 Yes. But it has nothing to do with the rice.
My grandparents lakeside home was always damp. My grandmother used to put rice in the salt shaker to keep the salt from clumping. Seemed to work.
If the device is turned off when it gets wet and you react quickly you can keep it in the off position and stick it in rice and generally it will dry it enough but I've always been told to use the instant rice. I discussed using oatmeal and kitty litter with a phone tech and he said because of the dustiness it's not advisable
The main problem with water in a phone isn't the possible short circuits. It's the corrosion that will happen once the wet electronics gets in contact with air.
I remember back in the age before smartphones, a guy who was fishing salmon in a river, lost his phone in the river. And he couldn't find it again. The next day, he did find it. And the phone was still turned on. And it had 10 lost calls and 2 text messages.
Rice doesn't go inside the phone and remove the water from underneath the chips you muppet.... SIGH
"instant rice"....you mean cooked rice...thats been cooked in water for 20min...?
...how does that work then...!!?
@@manoo422 Yes, instant rice is precooked… and then dehydrated again. What’s your point?
@@TruthNerds 'Dehydrated'!!!!?...I can only assume you have NEVER opened a bag of instant rice...!!
It isn't the water/moisture that damages the equipment - it is the process of turning that equipment on while it has not fully dried.
(This does not apply to things soaked or rusted.)
Yes. Electronics are very vulnerable to water, which is very conductive. If you do not turn your phone on and you dry the insides completely, it might be perfectly fine (you should use silica gel)
@@belgiumball2308 Actually water itself is a VERY poor conductor of electricity. It's the impurities in it that are conductive. Do a search for electrical conductivity of distilled water and see for yourself.
@@eric_d Thank you for the correction
Assuming that it wasn't already on, which most likely it was. Also, phones don't have a switch that fully cuts power, there's always something running unless the battery is completely dead.
Drying your phone in any way might save your phone if you're lucky, but the problem with a wet phone is the battery which often can't be removed start the process of electrolysis, basically dissolving various metals in your phone.
Back when batteries were easily removed, quickly removing it and drying your phone had quite a good success rate in my experience, never used rice though.
Yup, I once dropped my old Nokia 5110 down the loo, so I quickly pulled it out, removed the battery and let it all dry out, and it was fine.
Its not the putting in rice part that helps the phone though, it is the leaving the phone alone ( and turned off to prevent short circuits) to dry part that helps.
I dropped a small radio in a stream once. It was ruined. At someone's suggestion, I immersed it in water again, this time distilled water, taking care to wash the bowl I used in distilled water first. I made sure the distilled water went all through the radio, then shook as much as possible out again and left it to dry in a warm place. In a about a week, it worked again!
I have tried this with a couple more electronic devices and they didn't work afterwards. In the case of the radio, it was clearly the suspended particles or dissolved salts in the stream which were doing the damage, not the water itself. Worth a try with an electronic device which is already ruined, I reckon. You might be as lucky as I was the first time, and if you're not it'll have cost you no more than some distilled water.
I also wonder if isopropyl alcohol would do the trick? It is sold in spray cans for cleaning electronics, but you can also buy it in litre bottles or 5L containers. That should evaporate and dry out much more quickly than distilled water.
I learnt long ago that putting stuff into a washing machine without checking the pockets is a bad idea.
Actually it does work. The most important thing however is to turn it off as fast as possible because the water most of the time doesn't reach the circuit instantly and if you turn it off the parts most exposed won't have electricity flowing. After that put it in a bag of rice and actually seal it so that humidity builds. The rise will better absorb the water like the person below me explained better. It saved 2 of my phones I accidentally had on me when dipping into a lake.
Also yes you're right, the other options are better, but the crucial part is time and rice is something most households have at home, therefore it evolved to rice is the best option, so yeah, if you have cats use litter and if you have oatmeal use that.
We keep any of those moisture absorbers you get in toys/dog treats etc. Then if the kids get our phones went, put phone in tupperware with a few of those in the airing cupboard overnight. Has worked a few times. Other trick is a hair dryer.
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@@SciManDan I would be bit careful about hair dryer. As it can damage internal components if used with force. So light breeze, not that high of temperature.
I assume you mean silica gel packets, something you would NEVER get in toys or dog treats...!!!!!!!!!!
@@manoo422 The packets have the instruction DO NOT EAT printed on them to warn the dogs. You just have to train them to read first.
@@richardvinsen2385 Damn I never thought of that...
The main problem I've had with anything that is intended to pull moisture from an electronic item is that it's not really the water (outside of corrosion of metallic parts) that does the damage, a lot of the damage is caused by minerals being deposited on evaporation of that water. You'd really need to flush out all of the contaminated water/minerals first with isopropyl or distilled water first and, at that point, as long as the water does not stand on the boards for too long or mix with things that really don't like getting wet (lithium?) the isop/distilled water should naturally evaporate quite rapidly anyway, unless you're unfortunate enough to get it deep inside a sealed case, in which case rice is going to do squat at pulling it out anyway.
yeah, was going to say this. Unless your device is on, water won't break it. It's all the contaminations that are left over after drying that do. It doesn't matter what you dry your device in.
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The thing that most people don’t realize about using rice or anything else to draw the moisture out of electronics is that if the device was one when it got wet the circuits are usually fried and if not dealt with soon enough can be corroded as well. I have had it work on some devices but never a phone but I also would let it sit in the rice for about a week so who’s to say if the rice did anything at all. But like I said if you say drop our phone in the pool while it’s on and when you pull it out off the water and it’s already shut down that means it’s fried and no amount of rice can fix fried circuits. Great video Dan, I’ve really been enjoying these extra short videos you have added between the longer videos, it’s nice get some extra Scimandan between episodes.
Use the rice before the components shorts. After, it’s no use.
If any electronics get wet, turn it off asap.
It definitely worked for me once.
Had a cheap cell phone all through high school. "Accidentally" left it in my pocket when I went swimming.
Left it in a bowl of rice to dry out.
3 days later my mom replaced it with a new iPhone.
100% would recommend.
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I used to repair handsets for motorola, never tried the rice method, but we did use desicated clay tablets to wick water from components.
The most important factor is to remove water without heat or excess air flow, before the nickle in most components can begin to oxidize or corrode.
Synthetic transmission fluid, oddly enough, is great for displacing water, and less damaging than water on electronics. On a few DBR-Water handsets we used the method to 'soak' the component and displace the water. It is essentially is (or was) the same thing as board cleaner.
It worked with older phones, back when you could take the battery out, I saved a few phones that way.
I think taking the battery out before it short circuited is the key.
@@bruceyboy7349 Yes, that, and the fact that the insides were exposed for the rice to actually absorb the water, in newer models water can only go in through the charging port, bringing it back out is a bit harder with such as small opening, so, disassembling the phone so the insides have direct contact with the rice makes a big difference.
Forgot to mention, White rice is not that great at it, is better to use uncle ben's Instant Rice.
I was going to mention. Phones aren't as simple these days.
Yes. I was taking part in the Thai festival Songkran, part of which involves getting soaked and my phone, despite being in a plastic pouch, got soaked. I put it in uncooked Jasmin rice for 24 hrs (with the case and battery removed) and it worked. It is something worth trying as you have nothing to loose.
"Less absorbent"? In what way? Total water absorbed after a long time, or how fast it absorbs initially?
I assume, putting your phone in rice, helps it dry faster than just out in the open, especially if you live in an area with high humidity.
Now, other things will help as well, but rice is usually very common in households, has big grains and is food safe.
Oatmeal and Cous Cous are not as common as rice, and especially oatmeal could end up in charging ports or other openings on the phone.
And covering your phone, something you touch a lot, in cat litter sounds like something you don't want on your fingers. So putting something in rice to dry it can have its value.
But it doesn't magically undo water damage. It just dries things a little faster.
I think if your phone goes through the washing machine, it's not only thoroughly drenched, but it'll be heated water, likely with detergent as well. In those cases I'd wager pretty much nothing can save that phone. Not to mention the concussive "treatment" the washing machine would have given it as well. However, if you just jump into a pool for a minute with your phone in a pocket or if you drop it in there, you might recover it by drying it up.
I have a sibling who accidentally did this, went out of the pool and used a blowdryer to dry the phone off. This was a rather old phone (because it was a long time ago) so the battery could be removed quickly as well. It was restored to full function.
Much more recently however, my father dropped his phone into a lake while fishing and didn't notice it for about 10-15 minutes. After drying, it was still functional, but the display had taken damage and it was not functioning as it should, often freezeing, programs crashing and the microphone was rendered completely inoperable. Luckily the 3.5mm audio jack was still functional, so if you wanted someone to hear you, you could simply plug in a headset with a microphone and it'd work.
I once had an iPhone 5 in a full wash cycle with my jeans. I had just gotten a new phone a day or two before, the iPhone 5 was completely flat of charge before it went in, once washed I left it to dry out for a couple of weeks with no absorbants, I then charged it up and its still working. I think what saved it was being completely out of charge before going for spin in the washing machine.
I wonder if the rice folklore is partly influenced by a memorable episode in the popular novel, "Mr. Midshipman Hornblower" ("Hornblower and the Cargo of Rice") in which the cargo of rice on a prize ship from New Orleans absorbs so much water after a hull breach that the ship is broken apart and must be abandoned. Because the rice was absorbing the water, nobody realized that the ship was taking on water until too late. I cannot remember if this incident was adapted in the 1990s ITV 'Hornblower' series.
Dan, yes. The rice “trick” works. It does draw out water. In your case, though, you likely had soap in there which won’t work with rice. And your phone was banging around in there. You were lucky it didn’t short the battery. Years ago, my daughter spilled a whole glass of water on my laptop. It stopped working. I didn’t use rice, but after 6 years I plugged it back in and it worked (I only dragged it out again because my replacement laptop had failed). Rice probably would have been faster, but drying it out did work. Desiccants like silica gel would work too, but no one usually has that handy.
Definitely.
I had a text based electronic interstate map back in the day (yes these were things) and it got drowned in muddy water. After it dried out completely it was able to work for a few more months until the particulate matter in the mud corroded the circuitry.
The best way to keep your phone dry is a good water proof/resist case before it gets wet. I always tell people it is cheaper to replace screen protectors and cases than phones.
I think it's more accurate to say that rice can prevent damage to your phone if it gets wet. It's not going to fix any actual damage, but it can help dry it off more quickly to prevent any damage from occurring. So no it won't fix a phone left in the washer but if you drop your phone in the sink and can dunk it in rice in a hurry, you might be able to save it.
Can tiny rice particles cause damage to the interior of the phone?
If it worked then it would have been fine even without putting into rice
it's a big confirmation bias issue
I remember collecting and using a bunch of old dessicant pearls bags in my camera bag before going to Costa Rica. It worked great but you need to dry them after a while.
I used to put them in the oven 50°C air flow at least an hour to "reactivate" them.
I used to collect them like I was a hoarder 🤣 I kept them in with electronic components I collected from old devices to cut down on e-waste, so they were moisture free when I had to repair something.
Yes -- the beads of silica gel that are used to keep products dry, kept in a sealed container and then made completely dry in a warm oven if the extra drying is needed. Since I've had to take COVID rapid tests fairly regularly over some periods, I've held onto the silica packets that they contain.
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Had to explain this to my dad after he put my phone in a bag of rice because my brother thought it would make a great boat
My best friend is a cinematographer in LA. He's been on shoots where cameras fell into water, becoming completely immersed. He said Panavision, the maker of said cameras, gave them bags to seal the cameras in, still immersed in water. They were then to send the cameras back to Panavision to have them dry them out properly. I think they washed them in distilled water so that they wouldn't have the mineral (in this case salt from the salt water) crusting up and shorting out the electronics. This was when they were still shooting film, and they could recover the film too.
I had good success with putting the phone on a strong fan for a week, turning it every day. Often even the battery would come up. This was in the Southwest USA so the humidity was quite low already. Running that much air past it dried it quite well.
Good job! Smart too, but minute rice and rock salt would speed that process up considerably, but your way is by far the safest and most likely to not be detrimental.
anything that's absorbent, and the idea is to fully pull all the moisture out of the device before trying to turn it on. And yes, I have used Rice to pull the moisture out of a dropped phone and had it work afterwards.
Tenicaly Rice does work but neither rice or cat litter will fix you phone. They will draw out the moisture but most of the time you still need to open the phone and clean corrosion off the PCB with some rubbing alcohol
to clarify what a few others have said: there are multiple problems caused by getting electronics wet. one is corrosion caused by the wetness. one is short circuiting caused by wetness. one is material damage directly from wetness. Rice won't fix any of those. however, the more expeditiously the wetness is alleviated, the less likely they will develop. one thing is for certain, the most important thing is powering off your phone to prevent short circuits. after that, you can't heat dry it or there will be heat damage, so there needs to be something that absorbs moisture. on that aspect, rice is better than nothing, even if other things are better than rice. I suppose one thing that makes it better than oatmeal of couscous is the size of the grains. - less dust to get in places.
And one is short circuiting eternal life, especially by ignoring God, which is an eternal hell sentence!
@@jjphank Phones don't have souls, so that is irrelevant to this discussion.
@@kenbrown2808 so it’s irrelevant to talk about eternity and it’s OK to talk about temporal things instead?
That’s dumb, you’re gonna spend eternity in one place or the other, heaven or hell!
@@kenbrown2808 that’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard all week, yeah a month!
Ignore eternal hell, that’s what you said!
Better repent sinner, you’re going to be the wood to the fire in hell if you don’t!
@@jjphank when the topic of the video is a specific temporal thing, yes, it's impolite to spam it selling fire insurance. maybe you need to re-read the passage about being nothing but a crashing cymbal or a clanging gong.
Everyone said rice would work to prevent filament from absorbing, water but when I baselined the humidity in my room and compared it to 2 different big boxes of rice I had sitting the rice boxes that had plastic lids locked ontop of them contained over 50% more moisture in the air, seems like it works in reverse if you ask me.
Thank you for making this video.
As a phone tech I was given lots of "rice fixed" phones to repair.
They were almost always too badly corroded to salvage ☹️
Rice doesn't do squat to stop the liquid corroding the legs off chips and the solder balls under the BGA parts.
I almost think this rice meme was started by Apple to make sure they could sell more new phones.
About 5 years ago, I accidentally knocked my out of warranty iPhone off the vanity into an open toilet. It stopped working immediately. I then went to my Apple store ready to shell out for a new replacement. They must have felt sorry for me because they gave me a brand new phone for free.
@@richardvinsen2385 The person who gave you that free phone DEFINITELY wanted your "phone number" 😉
Because that is NOT standard practice at all !
I imagine small rice-people coming out of the rice and crawl into the phone and clean all the corroded metal and fix all parts which were short circuited.
I collected about 20 of those little moisture absorbing packets from different prescriptions and vitamin bottles and supplement bottles to see if that would work on a wet phone. It did! Take some effort to collect those little packets but you might wanna try it.
You can buy desiccant packets. They're fairly inexpensive. Fwiw
Rice works if you immediately open and remove the battery.
Trying to salvage a phone after it's gone through the washing machine just ruins the rice.
I keep a 40 ounce jar jar filled 3/4 full and a similar jar next to it for such an event. The device is placed in the empty jar then the rice is poured over and completely covering the item. It's left for several days. If rice sticks to it, redo the aforementioned using the first jar.
Once the moisture reaches the circuitry with the battery still installed the circuitry will short and burn out the board.
I've used the technique on remote controls as well. It doesn't save them all but that's why there's eBay.
As a photographer, the advice to store cameras and lenses in rice when in hot countries is still being used. But it's to prevent the humidity getting to the gear in the first place, not to remove humidity. This is to prevent fungus that can form and ruin optics.. However, it's not great advice as the rice itself can help spread fungi. Better to use modern anti-humidity solutions such as silica etc.
Actually using rice is worse than just leaving the phone to air dry. Since rice can clog up the ports and then there's the fact that starch which rice contains is corrosive.
If you want to dry your phone faster use a fan to move the air over it or use some of those silica gel packs.
There's no substitute for taking it apart, displacing the water with something volatile, cleaning any corrosion, replacing any damaged parts, and putting it back together.
Maybe i's rice pudding that fixes wet phones.
You can also put the phone in a frost free freezer for a period of time. We've all seen "freezer burned" meat, basically desiccated or freeze dried.
A more useful but still similar way to fix this kind of issue is to (taking the battery out first) get a couple of gallons of distilled water, and move the phone through repeated baths of new distilled water, giving it time in each for any minerals inside to dissolve that had gotten there due to normal water or dirty water. Then, ideally, after several baths the distilled water can dry off without leaving any residue or precipitate in the phone, and hopefully it works again, or at least long enough to remove important files to be backed up. Its also important to wait at least an afternoon, if not a day or two, to let the phone completely dry. Ideally there will be no minerals to allow the remaining water to conduct electricity (and damage the phone) but if you did not rinse it well enough there is always a risk of that. So be patient and make sure the phone is fully dry once you've finished.
Also be sure to review things such as long term exposure to distilled water for things this ISNT intended to mess with, such as internal phone circuitry contacts that could possibly lose important plating or become affected by it , warranty-voiding internal packaging (like apple uses, which draw moisture over time even if your device is dry, very cool apple), or other important things based on the make and model of your device. TL;DR just to be sure the distilled water wouldn't inadvertently cause different issues before attempting this.
Water ruins a phone by causing a short circuit along its internal circuitry. It's best to actually put your phone in direct sunlight for a number of hours or some form of dry heat.
I've heard leaving it on the defrost vents of the windshield of your car with max heat and defrost on works really well but I've never tested that. The theory is the heat causes any moisture to evaporate, and the defrost keeps the air dry and more capable of holding moisture. You have to take the back plate off your phone (if you can even do that with your phone anymore) and remove the battery first. The problem with this method that I can see is that you're going to have to run your car for 1-3 hrs, maybe more, and also make sure your phone doesn't get so hot you ruin other components. The battery should be fine as long as you wipe it dry and shouldn't need to be put in the heat. That's a great way to make it explode, don't do that.
I think there may also be a bit of correlation=causation for a lot of people in this matter.
As long as it was turned off, nothing has been irreversibly damaged from being short-circuited, then it probably just needs time to dry.
If it's been drying for several days in a bowl of rice next to a healing crystal in the moonlight... it might just be due to enough time having passed for the moisture to evaporate and not any of the trinkets or rice that happened to be around during that time. A nearby fan blowing fresh dry air may have helped though.
No one is claiming rice "fixes" the phone, the whole point is to aid in drying the device out, and it certainly works. Rice is hygroscopic and by virtue it wicks moisture out of the air. Some people aren't comfortable stripping their phone down to clean and dry it properly so as an alternative the rice method "may" work for them provided the phone isn't DOA. We used rice a few times to draw moisture out of avionics from F18s due to high humidity environments in lieu of silica gel. You can't just put the device you want dried in a bowl with the rice, it has to be in a sealed bag in order for the technique to work. Why do you think rice needs to be stored in airtight containers?
Putting a phone in a bowl of rice may remove the water from the outside shell of the phone, but it will do nothing to remove water that may have made its way inside the phone. And even worse, rice corn can get stuck inside the charging port, ruining it when the corn gets soggy from the moisture.
Two things you can do with a wet phone: 1: Put it on a heated floor to dry it over night. Like a bathroom, etc. And see if it starts up.
2: Put the wet phone in a clear plastic bag and take it to a technician that can properly clean it for you. The plastic bag will keep the phone wet.
Removing water damage from a dried up phone is way harder, and may end up ruining the circuit boards inside. The water that is.
The rice will get soggy from the moisture? I would think that would take a whole lot of water to get the rice soggy.
The rice trick sure works in keeping table salt from clumping in the salt shaker here in humid Florida.
The camera trick works because it stops OUTSIDE humid air from reaching the devices and film, it won’t magically pull water from deep inside the phone. Keep the phone under a heat lamp in a plastic bag and surround it with a passive desiccant (like a suitcase desiccant pack or closet reusable dehumidifiers). Rice can leave dust and won’t help
Never heard of using a bowl of rice. But I dropped an old phone, one with a removable battery, in a sink full of water and immediately opened it up, removed the battery, got as much water out with a paper towel and sealed it in a plastic bag submerged in instant rice. The color indicator showed it had been wet, but after a few days it powered on and worked as if nothing happened. This was a very long time ago, well before touch screens, so I assume it would no longer be effective.
Absolutely loving these misconception minis
My phone dropped into the sink once. It suffered some sound issues and screen jamming. Putting it into rice for a day actually did bring it back to fully functional condition and I still have that phone two years after the sink incident and it still works as it was designed to do so in some cases the rice trick may work.
C'mon man, you know it fell in the toilet and you were too embarrassed to admit it! LOL
@@Frie_Jemi lol no it fell into the sink while I was shaving and watching TH-cam. If it fell into the toilet I'd have let it die and got a new phone.
Leaving it for a day gave it time to dry a little.
If electronic parts get wet, the best way to save them is to remove the power source and allow to *fully* dry. Sometimes the natural drying process and take weeks.
I had an electric hand mixer that my moronic friend washed in a sink full of dishes. I left it for 3 weeks and it "came back to life".
@@janX9 I'm using my sink soaked phone to respond to you so it obviously worked. My phone was switched on when it took its swim and I left it on when I put it in a bag of rice. Turning the phone off could cause damage too by changing the configuration or pressing buttons you are causing small signals to be sent around a wet circuit board that may cause a short circuit across some of the PCBs tracks.
I was skeptical weather putting my phone in rice would work but hey it did on this occasion.
I'm an electrical engineer for various military contracts so I have quite an extensive amount of experience with making and maintaining electronic components for extreme environments and conditions.
I was told to put my phone on top of a gas heating radiator
The rice could pull out the water, but it's not pulling out the oxygen bound to the fine metallic elements.
Its a bit early in the day to be drinking dont you think...
@@manoo422 I'm sorry that you don't know what rust is, but that's your fault and not mine.
@@Matuse ...you think there is Iron in a phone...!!
Best thing to do is to put it in a dehydrator. I used to work at a phone repair place. Keep the phone off, and then dehydrator for a day. If you know how to open up you phone, disconnect the battery. that's even better to prevent corrosion.
A few grains of rice in a salt shaker stops dampness clogging up the hole.
I believe the reason that Rice is the popular choice is that more people have access to rice than have ready access to cat litter, or even oatmeal. And the reason it works sometimes and other times not, is because of the different ways water damage can affect the device. If your phone is wet, the rice (or other desiccant) will eventually get rid of the moisture, and will avoid or delay corrosion on the circuit board. But it will not fix a shorted out component in the circuitry if the water made it all the way into the innards while the device was powered up.
You can use Silicagel, as it is specifically made to absorb moisture.
Try a Dehumidifier. Put the phone in an upright position over the exhaust port. This blows ultra dry air out along the phone, drying it out very quickly.
In 2010 my iPod Touch in my trouser pocket went through a hot wash and then fell onto a concrete path when the trousers were hung out to dry. It was dead.
I put it in the airing cupboard for 3 months, charged it up, and it worked fine for ages until it became obsolete and couldn't be updated. Thanks, Apple.
Comparing washing machine with a puddle or rain is like comparing a nuke to a pistol.
It does work... but... If the only issue is that the water is causing a non-damaging short in the electronic device (i.e., phone), then the rice will draw out the moisture, removing the short. But, if the water has cause shorts that damage components on the electronic device, then rice will do nothing more that dry it out.
Your primus here is a bit flawed. It seem like it isn't if putting a wet device into rice will fix it, but what household substance absorbs better.
I worked at Staples and we had machines that used light... sort of like a microwave, but obviously not since that would be dangerous, to do this except actually well. While obviously we wanted people to pay to do it, it was genuinely true that the rice trick simply does not work. It doesn't get all of the moisture out especially from the more centralized parts.
We have machines and stuff to do this and to save phones (legitimately) that have this sort of accident happen, so I would recommend people speak to a professional before trying out holistic phone therapies.
I wonder if a kitchen dehydrator on its lowest setting might be much more effective...? IDK
Actually it does work, you just have to do it quickly after the phone was submerged. Rice isn't magic, once any pins or tiny traces on the board start corroding there is no turning back, but rice can help speed up the process of drying, just like the cat litter, cus cus, or even a hair drier. Any drying method will NOT bring back a phone that stayed in water, it will only give it a better chance of continuing to work if you move fast enough, and at the moment of starting to dry it, the phone still works.
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Air compressor works best.
Nothing dries water quicker than fast moving air. You want to dry it as fast as possible before corrosion happens.
What kind of cat litter? Clay? Clumping or unclumping? Scented/unscented? Single or multi cat? Is store brand alright?
Silica get worked very well to revive a vape I dropped in the washing-up. In fact, the revived vape went on to out-last an identical one that never had any water in it.
Or just put it in the airing cupboard. For the record this only works on superficially wet technology if turned off and treated quickly anyway. A phone that has been washed thoroughly will have many blown components due to the metallic elements in the fluid which create bridges in circuits where they should not be. If you pull 1 Volt through a component rated for 1 mV it will be destroyed regardless of what you do afterwards.
Just use desiccant, and a fan, or better yet a fan with some heat.
exactly
it's your best chance. and taking apart as much as possible
This is dependant on so many factors, how wet it gets how quickly you do something, the problem being that most modern technology use multi layer circuit boards and if moisture gets between those layers the eventually it will go tits up
The little silicon sachets you get with various electrical equipment is good.
I live in a tropical country and you can't have salt in a shaker without lots of rice , otherwise salt will be wet after a few hours. You put 80% rice and 20 rice fixes the problem
I use instant rice for my pricey instant read thermometer I use for cooking. If I wash the probe off, or use it when steam is coming off food that I'm cooking, then I fear moisture will inevitably get in places that I don't want it to. I'm not using the rice to fix something. I simply store it in a zip locked bag with the uncooked instant rice as a cheap form of dessicant. Maybe I should buy some desiccant, like the "do not eat" packets?
Should have mentioned packets of soda silicate Dan, it won't repair your phone but it will remove all moisture if your phone is placed in a sealed box or bag with a couple of packets.
the single most important thing when something electronic gets wet is to get the power removed from it ASAP. Then you want a warm place with good airflow to dry it
I keep bunches of desiccant packs from various items in an airtight container. They're not a perfect fix but they have saved a couple electronic devices, that weren't *soaked* to death. Of course the desiccant packs are basically single use when used that way. Buy really, what am I going to do with them when they tell me I can't eat them?
Never washed it... but it fell in a pond.
It was an older one, so i could open it into parts... i did put it on the heater, on a low level of heating.
1week later, i assembled it back, and it worked again
The idea is to dry wet electronics. If you spill your drink over your laptop for instance, the recommendation is to quickly turn it off, unplug the charger and remove the battery, wait a couple of days for it to completely dry and your device may work without problems. I don't know where the rice idea came from but maybe someone did it and worked, not because the rice but because the liquid didn't really caused any damaged to the device components and it may just have worked normally if left unpowered for a couple of days.
Funny, my parents used to put rice in the salt shaker during summer to keep the salt from clumping on humid days.
The reason rice is used in lieu of oatmeal or cat litter as a dessicant is it isn't dusty or powdery like the other two can be.
What does work, is putting the phone in an oven at 50 degrees Celsius for a few hours without the battery(!!!). Provided it wasn’t soaked in salt water.
Done that a few times myself
So they didn't test to see if it worked, but they did compare how well it worked against other things. Which means it works. Other things work too. Some work better. But it works.
I learned this for old style electronic breadboards, and it worked then too. Works best if you open the case up.
BTW, the reason they use rice instead of kitty litter and oatmeal is dust. Rice just shakes off but you have to clean out dust.
It’s never worked for me. I’ve tried cat litter but same result. I think it’s from the minerals in the water. Even if it gets fully dry, after being off and in the water, the water will leave behind the mineral deposits on all the electronics and short them out. If the phone is off, I’m going to try distilled water first, then maybe some oatmeal afterwards. Best thing is don’t get it wet, or only wet for as short a period as possible.
I remember being told to just blow air over it from a fan. The moving air lowers the air pressure, and that allows the water to evaporate easier due it's vapour pressure. Especially with modern phones being more water resistant, it's rare for actual ingress to occur unless the phones is damaged. But if you spill a sugary drink it's all over. I ruined an iPhone 3gs with lemonade on the motherboard.
Uncooked rice IS absorbent. And it's something that a lot of people have easy access to. Cat litter is probably better, but not so many people have easy access to that.
The main problem though, is that if you drop your phone in water, the water will get INSIDE your phone. And neither rice nor cat litter will pull water out from the inside of your phone. Rice can be a way to prevent your phone from GETTING wet, but once it IS wet, it's not very likely to be able to remove the moisture.
What does work (as long as the water hasn't shorted it out) is to dry your phone in an oven at 50C (be very careful about the temperature, plastic starts to melt at 60C) for 12 hours.
I also tried the wet phone in rice fix a few years ago - it did not work. However, I did have an iPod shuffle 1st gen accidentally go through the wash many eons ago and would you believe that not only did it still work but it wiped all the music off of it too!
Ofcourse what really happened is the wash would have trashed the internal flash memory, and after drying the shuffle would have automatically reformatted the flash - I was truly surprised it still worked though
I have used rice to dry out a couple of phones, and it worked great. Now, putting a phone in a washing machine, compared to having it fall into a sink for a couple of seconds, is a big difference. As far as Kitty litter goes, I have found that the dust from it will get into the phone. So while kitty litter does work for my golf shoes and tools, I would not use it on my phone.
I've seen take out restaurants have a pen in a thing of rice. I still don't have a clue why they would put a pen in rice. Usually Chinese restaurants do this
Silica gel packets will work and they come for free in many packages. I don't throw them away when I get one.
I've actually had better results with a sealed container and instant rice.
The issue was water under a screen. By sealing the rice and phone, while squeezing most of the air out, I had better results than the bowl in the open air absorbing the local humidity instead of the moisture in the object being dried.
It didn't take long to dry either. Previous experience had the phone never drying in the open with rice but only 4-6 days in a zip lock bag removed most of the moisture.
There was still corrosion damage but it lasted longer than expected.
Today I use desiccant pearls, but only because I buy them in bulk for my 3d printing materials.
I use a little bit of rice in my salt shaker to reduce humidity-driven clumping.
I would not use rice as a desiccant in non-food applications, just like I would not use a chemical desiccant pack in a food application.
I have a bunch of the small packs in my toolbox that I saved out of various product packaging including some OTC meds (fish oil and Prilosec primarily). It helps reduce the rusting my tools get.
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the only thing that I know of that "works" is a removal of the battery, a good rinsing in ethanol alcohol a couple of times and a heating cycle with a hair dryer on low setting. The ethanol mixes with the water and will drain easier than water ( something to do with surface tension). When the ethanol drains it takes a good percentage of the water with it. and previously mentioned, this should be done a couple of times if not maybe 3-4 times. The use of the hair dryer at low setting will evaporate the left over alcohol easier than water can be evaporated. Also the low temp will help in keeping the screen from getting "burned" or melting the films in the screen. Heat will damage LCD screens.
@@Lamster66 thats why I specified ethanol, its covalent bonds luv water and helps force any ions into the water better. No need to be adding more water, deionized or not, the idea is to remove all the water along with any ions, plus ethanol is non conductive thus reducing the chances for electrolytic corrosion.