For years it has been believed that if you drop your phone into the water by accident or by being careless, you should instantly place it in rice, and it will get fixed overnight. It was okay when companies used to manufacture phones that had a removable battery door. But over the years, manufacturing designs have been changed and now they don’t make phones with open battery doors. As convenient as it was, now one can’t remove the battery even if the phone falls into the water.
No wonder people used this technique, and everyone believes it as well. While sitting in a group of friends you just have to ask someone and you will be amazed to know that one out of every three people will say that they believe it and even if they haven’t tried it, they will do it for sure their phone falls someday!
What to do in such cases and how to find out if this technique is good or not? Let's have a look.
What is bad about putting the phone in rice?
Rice simply won't fix your phone. The device doesn't even dry out properly. In Gazelle.com's tests, they did a test. What they did was that they wetted some sponges with water and tried different things to dry them out. After a specific time, they found out that after using various substances like cat litter silica gel, regular cat litter, uncooked white rice, immediate rice, rolled oats, instant oats, chia seeds, and couscous, uncooked rice did the worst of all the substances and couldn’t dry the phone at all. The best way they discovered at that time was, putting the phone in the open air. Nothing could compete with it and hence it was proved that putting a phone in rice is a bad option.
The second thing that was observed was that there's dust on rice. When we see it, it looks like the rice is fairly clean, but the unseen dust is always there, and it can enter into your phone via various openings of it.
This dust can cause various problems in your phone and can make it harder for the water to get out of your phone in any case. And if in future it happens again the dust will get mixed with the water and create a layer on the surface. This will become a path for electricity and can cause corrosion inside the phone.
The final observation was that rice does not in any case repair corrosion. When you get any kind of fluid inside your cell phone, corrosion immediately begins. That's the reason why the battery was taken out. If it gets wet, the electricity in your phone could follow a path, but also, corrosion that is caused by the electricity will really destroy a phone. Your battery's electricity will cause electrolysis to happen inside your cell. It eats away from the microscopic connections and can in no time destroy those connections beyond restoration.
What should you do?
It isn’t necessary that your phone is going to be irreparable if it gets wet one time. Although it is recommended that you take out the battery of your phone as soon as the water gets inside your phone. And if there is no such possibility you should not just start repairing it yourself. In such cases, you need proper assistance.
Go to a repair shop that can handle this situation and can get your smartphone repair right away. The process that is followed at repair shops is that they open the shop, try and remove the mainboard and try to remove any hindrance that can cause water to stay there. There are ultrasonic cleaners that are used to place the board inside. After going through the cleaning process the board is soaked into alcohol to displace the water that was inside it. Then the phone is placed inside the oven to evaporate any residual alcohol or water. Once this is over, the liquid is gone, the board is clean, the shopkeepers put it all back together and check it out. Most of the time this process helps to get your phone back. However, it is not unusual for the water to permanently damage speakers and microphones. If that is the case, we replace those pieces. All this concludes at a point that whatever you choose to do or whoever you consult about your wet phone, don’t put your phone in rice.
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