The title may seem strange to some, but actually a while ago the trick of drying a wet phone by putting it in rice spread and many magazines and websites started talking about it, and many users are explaining their successful experience with rice, but here we are today we repeat and say that rice is a food and not a tool. Flooding your phone with rice makes the problem worse, especially if it is still running, and on the whole in this article we will explain in detail the beginning of the spread of this trick and the reason for it being wrong, just all I ask you is to follow this article to the end.

Rice is for dinner, not for drying your phone from the water


The trick to using rice for drying appears:

The myth of the use of rice as a drying device dates back to at least 1946 when rice, tea, or brown paper was suggested as a way to keep camera equipment dry, but its main spread was in 2007, specifically in July, when Jorsuss, a member of the MacRumors forum, explained that His phone had fallen from him in the water and he tried to put it in rice as he heard before and indicated that this method did not work for him and it is nothing but a trick, and the next month immediately a Washington newspaper reporter dropped his phone in the toilet and indicated that he was able to save his phone and reuse it by putting it on In Al-Arz and here, many rumors and analyzes began to spread, and the two previous experiences were placed side by side in every conversation about this trick, but today the matter was settled and it was confirmed that this is a trick, even if it sometimes makes the user feel as if it was successful.

Rice is for dinner, not for drying your phone from the water

In 2014 the site Gazelle By conducting a semi-official test to clarify the effectiveness of this trick, and after trying 7 different things to dry the phone, the site indicates that rice is the least effective for drying the phone and explained that it is the worst of the seven options that were tested as it absorbed the least amount of water in 24 hours. Her experience is to leave the phone in the air to dry, and Craig Beinecke, founder of TekDry, a company that provides rescue services for electronic devices in emergency situations, notes that a consulting group has been commissioned to conduct research on the effectiveness of rice and has proven ineffective.


Does rice really dry out the phone?

Let us from now agree on something simple, which is that the phone the moment it fell in the water, sometimes the corrosion strikes important components and sometimes not, and therefore if we are able to dry the phone, whether in the open air or by using another method, we will be lucky because most often the phone will return to work again, and here The idea is that when these people put the phone in rice for 24 hours, for example, this is considered a sufficient period to dry the phone, and therefore it usually returns to work as we have indicated, and here the person thinks that putting it in the rice is the reason for repairing it and restarting it and this is not true because basically this period is very sufficient To make the phone dry from water without using anything.

Rice is for dinner, not for drying your phone from the water


the right way:

The correct way to dry the phone is via Remove the battery The first thing and replace it if it is damaged, then unscrew the other corroded parts of the phone and immerse it in 90% isopropyl alcohol, then dry the alcohol and reassemble the phone thoroughly, but of course if you do not have the ability to do that then the simplest thing you can do is leave the phone in the open air and it will return To work, God willing, in case the damage to the phone is minor, and here I refer to a very important thing which is ...

Never try to turn on the phone immediately after dropping it in the water to make sure whether it works or not, so believe me, this is a major reason that will ruin the phone.

Rice is for dinner, not for drying your phone from the water

And here, my friend, you have two possibilities, the first of which is either that your phone works smoothly and often you just have to change the screen because it often does not work. The second possibility is that the phone does not work at all, and this means that the damage to the phone from falling into the water is severe, and here you need to take it to a place that specializes in phone repairing.

Rice is for dinner, not for drying your phone from the water

So until we are finished, regardless of the evidence that proves the ineffectiveness of this trick, some still believe that it works because it is believed that it works because it provides time for it, meaning that if the phone falls into the water and is left for a period of time, it will work after it dries with or without rice And what happens is that it gets put in the rice and imagine that the rice is the reason for making it work again, but this is not true.

Finally, let us know in the comments, have you ever heard of this trick? And if you've heard of it, have you ever used it? How was the result?

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iFixit | the verge

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