Save Your Soaked Phone

Dropped your phone in a puddle? Accidentally left it in your jeans pocket and it went through the wash? Maybe it slipped out of your pocket and into the toilet?

My brother did the last one. Thank goodness he hadn't peed yet.

Anyway, try out these simple steps the next time your precious phone gets wet:

1. Turn it off.
And don't recharge it, or turn it on until you're absolutely done. You want it to be pretty much dead when you're fixing it.

2. Take it apart and drip dry.
Shake the heck out of it, take of some pieces and just get as much water out as you can.
Unlike young drunk women during Mardi Gras, the more you expose of your phone the better! (This you won't have regrets about.)


There are a few different steps you can take after doing these two steps, but I haven't personally researched all of these methods. But when your precious cell phone is on it's last life line, you might take any steps you can.

Use a towel.
This can help pull the water out as well as clean up most of the mess. Be careful, however, as you might accidentally spread more water around with dampened parts of the towel.

Suck it out with a vacuum cleaner.
Draw the water out by holding the vacuum cleaner nozzle over each wet part for 20 minutes. A very long, tedious process but it'll get things dry.

Surround your phone with rice.
Rice helps to absorb the moisture (kind of like how it does in salt shakers). Not cooked rice, mind you!


Overall, just get it dry as quickly as possible and then give it a while before turning it on, maybe a day or so just to be safe.

Good luck!