Okay, so you’ve dumped your phone in the bath, or the river or the washing up! What next?

Someone probably told you that you can dry it out by putting it in a bag of rice... but does it work, or does it just make matters worse?

The myth is that it works... because it worked once for someone.

The fact is that in the time that it takes to draw out SOME of the water the residues that it leaves behind will, depending on where the water got to, cause problems. If you are very very lucky it might  “save” your phone, but only if the water hadn’t reached the sensitive parts... and then you will tell everyone else that it really does work!

Without stripping the phone down and physically removing the water, and not with rice or a hair dryer as that still leaves potentially damaging residues behind, you cannot dry it out properly.

Does that mean that all phones can be recovered? Unfortunately not. It’s around a 50% success rate.

Anyone promising 95% success rate is putting at least half of their failures into the 5% sector!

The photo below is of the iPhone 5 that was successfully recovered recently - it had been in a bag of rice for 2 days. It is blindingly obvious that it didn’t work - see the drops of water on the backing plate at the top of the picture? - but it didn’t stop the owner from constantly trying to power it up!

That will ONLY increase the chances of it destroying the logic board.

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