In San Francisco, Tan said he’d had people bring in phones that stopped working after being sent through a washer and didn't bring them in for six months, figuring they were dead and gone. Though for those who can't get somewhere to have their phone professionally dried, there's still hope.
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They also do car key fobs, hearing aids, fitness trackers and TV remotes. "But that's only if they didn't try to charge it or turn it on," he cautioned.īoth DryBox and TekDry charge $69.99 per phone. After that it drops down to less than 50%. The sooner a phone is dried out, the better chance it has of surviving a dunking unscathed, said DryBox president David Naumann. In his experience, within 36 hours the chances for success are three out of four. The machine allows the water inside the phone to boil off at temperatures that can't damage the components, usually within about 30 minutes. The lower the pressure, the lower the temperature at which water boils. The items are placed in a chamber slightly smaller than a shoe box and then put under vacuum while being heated. San Antonio, Texas-based DryBox has about 60 such sites in Texas and Florida that offer self-service vacuum drying for electronics. The preferred method to safely dry phones is to boil off the water inside them at low temperatures under vacuum. After about 48 hours in rice, only 13% of the water came out of the phone," he said.īy the time the phone had fully dried out, corrosion will have had time to damage the delicate electronics inside, he said. "We did a study, and rice was slower to work than just leaving the phone out on the counter. But that actually doesn't work and can introduce dust and starch into the phone as well, said Beinecke. Multiple websites suggest sticking electronics that have been submerged in liquid in a bag of uncooked rice, to draw the water out. Related: Dropped your phone in water? The fix isn't riceĭrying on the counter is as fast as the rice treatment But it’s not common.Īnd while some newer phones are water resistant and can withstand a quick drop in a bucket or toilet, none are water proof. Button start the foreign, oh my God, Im gorgeous. Countin money while they ring, ring, ringin. Think I need two more, line bumpin Im ring, ring, ringin. In a small number of cases swamped phones are able to dry out on their own over the course of days or weeks. I got two phones, one for the bitches and one for the dough. What actually happened is that it took a while for the water to reach sensitive connections inside the phone. "We see a lot of people who come in and say, ‘I dropped it in water and I pulled it out really fast and I figured I got lucky, and then the next day the touch screen didn’t work,’” he said. Turn it off!" said Craig Beinecke, co-founder of TekDry, a Denver, Colo.-based company that has more than 600 sites nationwide where consumers can quickly get small electronics dried out.