Stop putting your wet iPhone in rice, says Apple. Instead buy a new one because we make repairing it artificially expensive by restricting the manufactures from selling parts and we just replace the whole motherboard every time!
Last I heard Apple won't even do out of warranty repair work if the device is water damaged. They just tell you to buy a new one.
Now I feel silly for eating all those packets
You should! They're meant to be crushed and snorted.
Oh no! I have been doing it wrong all the time shoving it up my ass
And here I thought they went in the pee hole
Whoa, man. Way too far, there. Just freebase that shit like all the cool 90s kids!
Boofing is always better
Just pick up one of these:
One day I'm going to make my fortune by writing a silica gel recipe book.
I'll be honest, I half expected them to start selling apple brand "high absorbancy" rice.
Haha yeah right. That's just what big silica wants you to think.
Everyone knows the appropriate solution is drying the device in your microwave.
-brought to you by terrible advice duck or whatever
Wasn't there something with the iphone 5 where people thought they could charge it in the microwave?
IPhone wave. A 4chan trolling campaign.
Man, I can't believe people fell for this. Seeing it now, the copy on the "ad" is just horrendous.
lol at longer for higher wattage.
Given that iPhones have had at least IP67 rating since 2016, you probably just want to dry it off and move on.
The problem is rice getting jammed in the usb port when the phone refuses to charge with a warning the port is too wet to charge
For years, I've saved every silica packet in a coffee can. I stopped a while ago since I have a liter of them and the can is full.
Works great for drying things out.
I realize this is the advice in the article but wanted to point out that they build up quickly and come in just about everything that isn't food these days.
But silica packets stop doing anything once they've absorbed moisture, and so aren't reusable once they've been exposed to normal air moisture. (Unless you've baked them to reactivate them). Is that not right? Because basically no one has a box full of re-baked silica packets hanging around ready for emergency usage.
Hey it's me. I'm the guy with a bunch of bags of re-baked silica packets. I'm sure I'm in a minority, though.
I have 1kg of silica beads I reuse all the time.
there are dozens of us...DOZENS!
I have like a gallon bucket of the stuff right now, Mind you its for drying out filament (3d printer), but if you are near and got a wet phone, look me up.
How exactly do small particles of rice damage a cell phone? I can't think of any realistic way for that to happen
clog ports and speakers
SHOVE IT UP YOUR ARSE FOLLOWED BY AT LEAST 6.5 SLICES OF TOASTED SOURDOUGH.
I was almost convinced the answer was going to be "buy a new iphone"
I found if the car is nearby, place the wet phone over the windscreen de-mister vent and then run the aircon through that vent. Doesn't have to be hot air to dry it as long as the compressor for the aircon is running... Aircon dries out the air before blowing it through the cabin so you will have bone dry air circulating around the phone pulling the moisture out by evaporation. About 10 mins is plenty. Best done idling in the shade. Don't want to sun damage the phone while trying dry it out...
I have been putting the rice in the phone. That must have been the problem.
Good thing I have just as many silica packets lying around as I do rice…
How will I make puffed rice now?
What about puffed silica packet? Delicious with mustard.
Wouldn't salt be better anyway?
Better at drying it or damaging it with tiny particles?
Right, salt is ionic.
Here, restaurants sometimes (honestly pretty rare) put rice in the salt dispensers to keep the salt dry, so I doubt salt is great at that.
Salt absorbs water, and then it does something called caking. Which means it glues into large clumps of crystal when wet then dried, instead of reverting to tiny cubes. The idea of the rice has nothing to do with moisture but to prevent the clumps after the salt dries with a physical barrier. If you shake it in place after it dries, the rice also mechanically break the lumps. It's an old restaurant trick because they use commercial table salt, which is specifically made for and restaurants has no anticaking agents (usually some form of silicate) and no iodine, so it's taste is not metallic. That's how all salt used to be. But modern household table salt does include it, and as result doesn't cake and it remains granular no matter the moist.
If they were to recommend it, I'm sure there would be people who would end up breading it with salt.
I've kinda figured out from YouTube repair videos Immediately disconnecting the battery then using pure alcohol and cleaning the components is probably the best solution.
Unfortunately by the stage I could even open my phone and remove the battery it would probably be wrecked anyway by my attempt to do so.
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