What's the Best Way to Rescue a Drowned Phone?
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I have a 6 year old "dumbphone" which I accidentally sent through the washing machine. I of course panicked when I went to put clothes in the dryer. The first thing I did was take the battery out. I did what was said not to do here, and put the phone under a heat lamp to hopefully dry it out (making sure I didn't melt anything or let it get too toasty). After about 6 hours of this I plugged it in and it came back to life! Warning: results not typical. Launder your phone at your own risk. XD
Pyre Vulpimorph OK, time to throw my phone in the volcano to dry it out… Darn… It got melted by lava.
Pyre Vulpimorph
My wife did the same thing, but the phone was still working, so she called me on it. I told her about the rice, and to take the battery out. It then died and never came back.
Still had a year before we could upgrade on our contract too.
Ive had a tracfone i use for work for about 8 yrs. It has been theough the wash 5 or 6 times, rained on, dropped, ran over by various peices of lawn equipment and my car, still works great. Not sure of the model but it is an lg with full touchscreen
Nokia? ...lucky
Pyre Vulpimorph
I doubt the heat lamp would make it hot enough to damage the phone. Just don't dry the battery with it. And well, actually get a new battery. Unfortunately most phones theses days do not allow user removable batteries.
so always drop your phone in distilled water, got it.
Joe Brown your phone is still dirty af and it doesn't take much to make distilled water conductive, even touching it will make it conduct
Distilled water can still corrode components, the only damage your avoiding here is a short circuit.
Shazzkid you wont even avoid that. You get the water dirty by dropping your phone in it and it will start conducting
Xiefux debatable, depends on many factors, a few being the amount of water, and the initial state of cleanliness of the phone.
Why are people responding to this like he's serious?
This has become much harder since android phones started having sealed backs. You can't take any part of your phone apart to aid drying in the newer models.
Plus once the battery starts to go, you pretty much have to replace the phone.
i used cat litter
2:28 Cat litter? Putting your phone in the litter box would make for some interesting cat videos...
piss off, with your turd of a joke
Schrodigers phone
Boris Esquilo
Before you turn it back on it is both still working and broken at the same time
Firaro yup
Sounds like a life-hack... if you want to be arrested for bestiality! Cats aren't known to be forgiving.
I love blurry arial pictures of waterparks 1:20
well thats one way to see it
blurry arial waterpark? imgur.com/fibtdAc
remuladgryta DID YOU JUST.....you sir/ma'am just won the internet today.
NextGen Rager I did, I really did though ruclips.net/video/3NMhGCf20i0/видео.html
Wtf? I don't know how you saw that but now I see it too
I like to use fried rice. Then when the phone doesn't work at least I have my fried rice!
😂
Hahahaha
😂
Dafuq
Me: watching this after dropping my phone in water accidentally and still watching this after it says turn it off
Phones obviously fine if ya still using it to watch the video 😂
Fools, the best way to rescue drowned phones is to give it CPR.
how though?
YOU SIR ARE THE FOOL, THE BEST WAY IS TO YEET THE WATER OUT!
BOTH OF YOU ARE FOOLS! THE BEST WAY TO SAVE THE DROWNED PHONE IS TO HIT IT WITH A GOLDEN HAMMER!
ALL OF YOU ARE FOOLS THE BEST WAY TO RESCUE A WET PHONE IS TO BURN IT
YOU'RE WRONG! THE BEST WAY TO SAVE A DROWNING PHONE IS TO PUT IT IN THE MICROWAVE TO DRY IT!
Use an air blower aiming some holes in the phone for around 20 to 30 minutes.. and you are done. Use cold air.
I had my Galaxy 5 drop in a river, with it's charging hole open (you know, the one they tell you to close to avert water damage) and I took it out, dried it with a towel, and.... that's it. Kept it on, didn't dry more than the surface area, and it worked fine for over a year. Now I own an S7 and my S5 is my spare.
The best possible way to revive many electronics that have been submerged in water is to.
1.Power off device and, or remove battery of possible.
1.Completely submerge device in rubbing alcohol and swish around to displace the water and get to all the components that got wet in water or other solutions( repeat the process multiple times with thicker solutions) until you don't see anything else coming out of the device.
3.If it's a sealed enclosure and only has openings for input and speaker or microphone, then dry the device by rotating vigorously back and forth in a circular manner( in a flat manner like a fidget spinner, until you don't see any more alcohol coming out.
4.Let the device stand in front of a fan, or vacuum it out (while device is wrapped in a towel to prevent dust going in from the opposite end, but this is more with the sealed devices. Hope this helps
thank you sci show for this great public service.
I put mine in a vacuum chamber, pulled it down to below the triple point of water, and boiled the water out.
Cody'sLab You would, Cody.
I'd expect nothing less.
Cody'sLab hi I love your videos!
Cody's Lab
That's probably the only way to safely leave the dissolved solids in the phone... it dries things out so quickly that there's not enough time for corrosion to occur. Might gradually corrode long term though, due to humidity in the air mixing with the remaining minerals deposited on the board?
Good work
Cody, you're a mad lad, this is exactly what everyone expects
Go to your local harley dealer and ask for the silica pack that comes with the leather jackets, they’re huge
I dropped my phone in the sink last night and it literally started playing up, so my dad had to put it in a tub of rice and he left it there overnight and it worked
"for a rainy day!" got a chuckle from that :D
Centrifugal force. Saved mine twice.
Very quickly find very sturdy bag and very sturdy belt. Attach belt to bag handles. Put phone in bag ( easiest way for water to get out down ). Swing around belt+bag in a circle very fast for very long, water gets out of phone thanks to friendly centrifugal force.
OBVIOUSLY : Hang very tight or you have a flying phone. Maybe ask a friend to take shifts swinging assembly around.
Then finish with some rice as per video.
Saves phone every time.
I go fishing quite a lot in a kayak. I've capsized a few times...with my phone in my pocket. I immediately take out the battery, go home and run a fan over it for a few days, has always worked for me, getting the battery out asap is imperative.
I always wondered what those little packets were for when I got new electronics. I always assumed it was a brilliant way to smuggle cocaine into the country. :3
RJTheHero And you thought it was accidentally placed in all of your new shoes, bags and electronics...?
Shazzkid Hey. If it moves units. What's stoping them from doing it? ;)
RJTheHero i dunno, maybe the law, the huge loss in money giving away 50 bucks worth of coke
well there's an idea
Shazzkid jeez learn to take a joke you headass.
“For a rainy day” give that man a raise
Phone repair tech of Montana here. Rice isn’t the best method to dry the phone out. If your phone has removable battery, remove it as soon as possible. If you have an iPhone, disassembly isn’t too hard (you can find the bottom pentalobe screwdriver cheap on eBay), simply follow guides like iFixit and disconnect the battery (only 4 screws needed usually).
If you can remove the motherboard, take that out and brush it with alcohol and then let it dry for around a day or so.
I was 20 miles off the coast of the Maryland fishing when I spilled a water bottle all over my phone. It was inside of an otter box case, so it was basically trapped in a coffin. The thing felt like it was gonna explode, so I had to throw it overboard.
I suspect this topic will bring in a lot of views
Nice transition, Hank! I've apparently always wanted to say that (?).
I have nightmares (actual, literal nightmares) about having my phone in my pocket and ending up submerged in water, and any time I'm with my kids (ages 6 and 4) near a body of water (we live very close to Lake Superior) I imagine pulling my phone out of my pocket and throwing it on the shore before going into the water to save a child in case of emergency. Interestingly, the only phone I've water damaged was long before I had a smart phone, and it definitely fell from my shirt pocket into the toilet. My wife did the same thing with hers a year later, but we've been fortunate not to have such problems since.
Just saved a pair of wireless earphones my wife got me for my birthday and a few phones and other devices through out the years
ive through my phone in the dryer wrapped in a few pairs of socks and a blanket ... worked for me a few time after forgetting my phone in my pocket and jumping into the lake
I left my phone out and it got rained and snowed on, I'm literally praying it works at this point.
Crystal cat litter is made from silica gel, same thing as desiccant packets, except you can buy a big bag of it instead of keeping a stash of little packets. I bet you it would dry a phone nicely. As a bonus, you can bake it until it's dry again and reuse it, as long as it's only wet from water. 8)
if you are taking your electronics into the bathroom keep a ziplock baggy handy, the snack size ones will fit most phones, tablets/video games will fit in a gallon sized bag. they work, and if you drop your phone somewhere unfortunate you save yourself the trouble with something that costs like a nickle. Also means you can relax in the tub and watch youtube without a worry
Also, if your phone has a removable battery, take that out immediately. Heck, screw turning it off: I'd just rip the battery out as fast as you can. The quicker you get rid of the power, the less of a risk you have in short circuits. Same thing for a laptop, though that can be problematic if it is running updates or something.
Also, maybe not for a smart phone, since they are small and often have security screws, but if you have something bigger, like a laptop, taking the housing apart is a great idea. Leaving the motherboard exposed while it's drying off is a lot more effective for drying it out. Not to mention, that lets you wipe off any water that got on it, as well as any dried syrups and stuff if you spilled something besides water. You don't have to do a complete disassembly, just take it apart enough to where the parts aren't surrounded by plastic/metal.
Now I remembered why I keep the little silica packets. Thank you, Hank and SciShow :)
I first read *"The best way to drown a person"*
Let natural selection do it's thing, waterproof phones will be the norm in a couple of generations
Kevin Deschênes Waterproof will probably not happen in the near future. Better water resistance might.
Doesn't work because phones can't reproduce, that would be cool tho
generations*? We might experience artificial superintelligence in this generations and you are taking about waterproof phones in "couple of generations". Best I can give that is 4-5 years
Waterproof phones are already a thing and are becoming a norm. Have been for a few years now. The Samsung S4 was IP67 rated in 2013. Subsequent phones have been that good and better. My new S8 is IP68. Yes, Samsung is pretty much the mobile device top dog, and I paid a good bundle over the next couple of years here for a top tier device, but others are learning from the example!
Satyam Dahiwal Generations as in a new phone in a line. A samsung S8 is a part of the 8th generation. An S10 would be in a couple generations.
Having worked in a chemistry lab: would it worthwhile to put the phone in a hi-vac container..or are there components that the vacuum would also destroy?
I once dropped one of my ex-phone into a toilet bowl filled with feces... and I had to reach in to retrieve it... yeah... it's my only phone with no backup... so don't judge!
Yuck
I knew I was keeping those silica packets around for something! I've hoarded enough that I probably could use them for an actual rainy day.
I set it on the counter with a hair dryer pointed at it while the iPhone speakers were pointed up. It worked
Hardware stores carry a product called damp-rid which is a competent desiccant and it's easily available.
I just read an article about this recently which said they have studied the rice in a bag technique and found it only removes about 10% of the water and can introduce dust into your phone. The advice was that there are companies which can properly dry phones, so take your phone to them as quickly as possible and never turn it on first!
My approach would be to immediately take the battery out of the phone. Take the phone apart as far as possible, and put in on a (not too hot) stove for a day. But I do like the suggestion by a phone repair person on this page, to have them do the drying. In that case, I would take the battery out of the phone immediately, and get to a phone repair shop
This video should have been made 2-3 years ago
this is when science actually matters
You can put your phone in a food dehydrator. You can also scrub off corrosion with alcohol.
Wrap it in kitchen towel Finely ground salt in a baggie in a warm cupboard
I accidentally put my IPhone 5s in the washer (it was in for about 15 minutes before I noticed) and freaked out. The lcd looked like an 8-bit game almost and it had lines running down the phone. I cleaned it with my shirt first and then dumped a whole box of rice on it. I left it go and the next day the color was back to normal, but it had big splotches of what appeared to be water in it. I put it back in the rice and it progressively got better. After four days the splotch has all but disappeared and although I don’t use that one any more, all that’s left of the water damage is three little dots of water discoloration that you see if you have a white background up (ie safari). All-in-all, I’m sticking with rice.
I dropped my phone in a lake at yosemite, it was sitting in the dirt bottom of the lake for at least 3 minutes, but was totally fine when i got it out! Could that be chalked up to the kind of water in the lake? I thought for sure if the water didn't get to it, all the minerals in the dirt would.
What phone do you have? It might have a Water Resistance rating
The universe loves you, that's the only explanation
Dougy woah... Woah... Such hate
Unless your phone is water-resistant, the damage is probably already done. Expect it shutting down unexpectedly, losing connection and dying soon.
Dougy
Thanks for the keks
I once got into the pool with my phone still in my swim trunk pocket :( I did dry it off and removed the battery and sim card and dried everything off and left them out to continue drying. The phone did work afterwards, but the battery would drain from a full charge to empty in the span of a few hours, even if I didn't use the phone at all, so I had to give it up and get a new one.
Ooh my god I just realised, is this where the "have you tried rice?" meme comes from?
I always though people just said it as a random joke
"For a rainy day". I see what you did there :D
Ways to save your phone based on availability of materials/equipment. Use one or several if possible, some are better, others might cause collateral damage if not applied properly:
- Take out excess water with a cloth / paper towel / napkin
- If phone has removable battery *¡TAKE IT OUT ASAP!* otherwise:
- Shake it trying to get the water out*
- Put it on uncooked rice
- Put it on cat litter
- Put it on sillica gel (using lots of those tiny dissecant bags or the cans sold on home maintenance stores)
- Use a vacuum cleaner*
- Use a blowdryer on low heat*
- Use a soft heatsource like a light bulb
- Apply centrifugal force, like attaching it firmly to a bicycle wheel hoping it won't fall and get smashed*
- Put it inside a vacuum chamber
*This might get water deeper if it's not placed/applied properly.
"Thank you for calling Applecare, my name is Joshua." I've heard this story many times in my line of work.
As a repair tech, to dry soaked laptops- I would set them in from a warm air flow. If I could, I would take them apart as much as possible. On a cell phone, remove the battery very first thing, if you can. Leave it out till it is dry. A good warm air flow, in front of the refrigerator.
Also shaking the water out helps. Warm water seems to shake out better then cool water. So warm it, to about 100 degrees. Very warm but still able to hold. It can take lots of time to heat its insides. So, tap it against something soft every few minutes. Sometimes nothing will help.
I ran my phone through the washing machine twice and it survived both times, second time however the screen broke, it still responded to everything else though.
You take it apart and work over the insides with a soft cloth or Q-tips.
One of my phones spent the night outside in the rain once, works fine. It even had maggots living inside a tiny supporting sponge when I took it apart.
QQ: Why is the Windows "Bluescreen" error screen blue?
Isopropyl alchohol is the best way to dry a phone. Bathing the whole thing in a tub of alchohol for a day, changing the alchohol then waiting another day then let the alchohol drip out (or use a dessicant). The alchohol absorbs a lot of the water and cleans any corrosion out.
I,sadly,dropped my phone in water.I wanted to shut it down,because it had near 80% batery...Then,after i took it out,it shut down by itself.Such a gentlephone.
Just bring it to a phone repair shop, they know what to do. I work in such a shop and have successfully repaired dozens of water damaged phones. Don’t wait till it dries out by itself, the quicker you get a professional involved, the better your chances of getting your phone fixed. I hear the rice stuff a lot but most of the times it just leads to rice inside the phone, a thing you don’t want.
If you drown your phone, turn it off. Remove the battery if possible. Send it to Louis Rossman or Jessa Jones (ipad rehab) for correct repair. Alternately, find a competent micro circuitry repair service near you. Rice does nothing except create more issues. Check out Lois Rossman or Jessa Jones (ipad Rehab) on RUclips for details on exactly how rice does not work. Oh, by the way, heat from a hair dryer will not likely be harmful unless you just plain cook it. But that hair dryer also will not remove the water inside and neither will desiccant or rice. Basically, the entire main circuit board in the phone needs to be removed and cleaned with alcohol in an ultrasonic cleaner in order to displace all of the moisture. Also, in less time than it takes to get that drowned phone to a repair service, corrosion has already become visible within the phone. If you have irreplaceable photos on that phone, get them backed up the second you get it running again because that phone's lifespan has been shortened; potentially drastically.
Dang, only a few minutes after you posted and you already have thousands of views. Us fans are really dedicated.
buying a waterproof phone that still has a headphone jack prevents phone drowning
A friend of mine was in the hospital and left her cheap $30 talk and text phone tangled in her bed sheets. When the sheets were taken to be laundered the cellphone was put through a hot water cycle with detergent and bleach, and still managed to keep working afterward.
This ALWAYS WORKS! : Put the phone in a vacuum dessicator with a tray of sodium hydroxide (lye) in the bottom dessicant area. Pump the air out and wait for a day or so. The phone should be like it never happened (less the water marks inside the screen, but hey: it beats a dead phone!)
The rainy day pun got you a like, Hank.
I dropped mine in the bath, panicked, picked it up then dropped it again, panicked even more, PUT IT ON THE SIDE AND IT FELL BACK IN, THEN I ACTUALLY REALISED I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DRYING IT AND STARTED TO DRY IT
yeah, and then I spent half an hour shaking it and hoping it wasn't deader than my soul
when you're phone drowns:
It's the universe telling you to get a new phone.
Don't just power off. Yank out the battery. Even in case of non-remvable battery, disassemble, and disconnect the battery. Follow by disassembling to the maxomum extent you are comfortable with. Yoy may want to flush it with an appropriate substance after, but avoid doing it to LCD screen and other sensitive parts. Dry with silica gel or rice, whatever. Carefuly inspect for corrosion damage, clean if found. Reassemble, hope for the best. Or, if you can't do this - do it just to the point of removing the battery and rush it to a lab.
I think just dropping your phone is the number one panic causing incident. Less likely to break a phone but for that brief moment
People's greatest panic of a drowned phone is the concern of having to pay $700 for a new phone again.
Aaaaand I think Hank & Co. also forgot to suggest bathing your phone in rubbing alcohol. That'd remove the water from the crevices in your phone, and will evaporate far faster than water would.
Once, I forgot my old flip/keyboard style phone was in my pants pocket and it went through the washing machine and dryer. Didn't even realize it until I was putting everything away. Panicked and checked to see if it was still working and it came right on, no damage at all from what I could tell except an extremely small line in the screen.
I soaked my pants in a pail of water yesterday. While scrubbing my pants I realized there was something hard in it.I knew then it was my phone.I quickly took it out and dismantled the phone. Separated the battery, cover, SIM card and the main body. Wiped it and left it to try in the sun. I'm not sure if it will ever work again!
The hair dryer works, in fact I have done this more than once and saved my phone. #1 open your phone remove battery as fast as possible. #2 shake out all water hard. #3 hairdryer. Electronics do not like heat when they are on, the phone is off. #4 Desiccant. I have like you said saved up as much of the stuff as I can from purchases and keep it ready for emergencies. This is now less of a problem as new phones are waterproof but cannot be repaired easily
i watched this video because im at the beach for vacation and was walking along the water and running around with my friend while all this happened i did notice that my phone that was in my pocket was no longer there, it was night time so the tides were strong and it wast too dark to see it. i lost my phone in the ocean and some how thought this video could help
Drop the phone into distilled water, remove it to drain, and repeat several times.. Then place the phone in a vacuum jar and pull a hard vacuum for several hours. Don't panic if the phone ices up. After 4-6 hours the phone will be ready for a charge and should be good to go.
Maybe also attaching a float, so you can fish it out of the water in the first place.
I'm pretty sure breaking the glass is the leading source of cell phone dismay... dubious intro
Positive air is better at wicking away moisture. Not a blowdryer, but a fan. Blowing cold, dry air is best.
I've heard that you can also put your phone in a vacuum... not the household one... one that reduces the pressure to a point where the water inside boils at room temperature. This evaporates the water allowing it to escape. I have not tried this, but sounds like it's worth a shot.
What I've learned from spilling water on the keyboard of my notebook: the damage can come even after you think all went well. You should immediately switch it off and take the battery out and make sure that you dry it for days.
The joy of waterproof phones. Ahhh Thank-you Galaxy s7!
Using rice as a desiccant to dry out a phone is actually a really bad idea as a container of rice typically has a rather large amount of very fine dust grains from the rice itself in it which can also damage the phone. I would think the same would be true of cat liter. The best bet is the sealed packets of silica beads made for the specific purpose of keeping moisture out of electronics and other things.
*Maybe* don't eat it afteward? Challenge accepted, Hank.
Ever here about the one where you douse your already wet phone in isopropyl or everclear? The idea is that the alcohol quickly displaces the water inside the phone, does not react with the phone internal components, and it's far more volatile that water so it dries relatively quick.
Hilarious my phone dropped in puddles from top of ladders from roofs answered it in pouring rain or in the shower and never once had to put it in rice LG makes the greatest phone i have ever owned
*Added to favorites *
Thanks for this so much now I can save my phone!
External drying is, what Hank said, essentially mostly hoping for things to work, but not really effective. What you really want to do is: open the phone quickly, get the battery disconnected (very important first step) and then dry the circuit board directly (If you have never opened your phone before, best to practice that once before it falls into water to be ready). Clean with e.g. with 99% alcohol (isoprop or ethanol) as it dissolves in water thus quickly reducing the concentration of water; then it easily dries in air (hair dryer directly on the circuit board is also ok as long as it is not too hot). Also make sure to look under shielding containers on the circuit board (some are easy to open as the top is just a conductive sticker).
Ideally you remove the whole circuit board from the case and give it a good clean, but not everyone wants to do that when this is their first time opening a phone.
Henner Zeller I can't do that with an iPhone
Why not ? Phones are not magic, all of them open.
I use a clear plastic zip up sandwich bag as a 'raincoat'/screen protector for my phone. The touch screen and fingerprint reader still work right through the plastic. Zip it tight around the headphone jack (if you still have one), fold the excess around the back, and I've found most people don't even notice it's in a bag, unless they are deliberately looking at the phone. Cheap and effective, replace it once a week or so if you use it a lot, or keep one in your bag for rainy days. Has survived direct coffee and hot sauce spills. Bonus side-effect: If you're using your phone in public and someone's out looking at phones people are using to steal one, they probably aren't going to steal the phone that's in a baggie. ;-D
I wish I found this video 1 month ago...... my found is still in the ICU 😭😂
just think: in the future, this won't even be an issue.
The description for the video is as follows: The procedures only apply to Iphone/Apple brand items as those are the only products that need this kind of maintenance.
For best chance to save your phone, Pull the battery out, then put one of those reusable hand warmers in the fridge and activate it, then put the phone (with no battery) on top of the hand warmer in the fridge. The next day, put the phone in a ziploc bag and seal the bag. Only then , remove it from the fridge and allow the phone to warm up to room temperature BEFORE opening the bag.
my dad made a small kit that would pull the water out of a phone in about a half hour.
Also if you dropped it in the sea use 90+% alcohol to clean out the inside first, this will get rid of any sea water which when dried would leave salt and also it will dry quicker. Also it will make your screen super clean.
If its an android, remove battery and place it in front of a fan for 24-48 hours. Works everytime. I often give my comouters motherboard a bath. Litterally. Unplugging everything and submerging it in the tub. Clean it up and then place it in front of a fan. Rotating it every few hours. Works.
I reckon in 5 Year’s this won’t be a problem, most mainstream, flagship phones are waterproof now, this feature will get thought out phone ranges
Could you investigate how our internal body clocks work? How is it that regardless of what time I go to sleep, I can wake up 5 or 10 minutes before my alarm? That would be fascinating!
My iPod once went through the washer, it still worked after
If you have a baby or a toddler, use the filing of a couple of diapers to fill an air tight container and put your phone in there. Much more absorbent and faster than rice.