Dropped your Mobile Phone or iPod in Water? Rush to the Kitchen

Even after seeing this written up a hundred times over the past year, I still don’t believe the rice has anything to do with getting the water out of the device any faster. If rice could just absorb water out of the air, then here in the south I wouldn’t have to cook it in the summer. I could just set it out on the porch on a hot, humid day and wait for it to absorb the humidity.

I won’t believe it until someone does this side-by-side with a control and other moisture absorbers to see if there is a difference.

Prop to the Chinese rice farmers.

Amit, you beated me :-) When I saw the title the first thing that came to my mind was CONDOM :-)

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Thanks – great read. Would keep in mind next time I drop my iPod in water :)

iRice, anyone?

A simple and very useful tip. Let the occasion come for me to try out.Thanks.

Another way is to remove cover , battery, keypad i.e. all the removable parts and put the parts in a polybag under sun. ( don’t make the polythene air proof, switch it on after two days )

This one is tried and tested formula on Nokia / Sony K900i handsets

Thanks Amit for the usefull tips.

Just drying it out won’t help if contaminates are dissolved in the water( sugar etc.). First you should get some distilled or de-ionized water and soak the thing overnight. Then let it dry for 24 hours or use the rice method to help dry it.
I’ve been in electronics for a lot of years, and
the distilled water method works.

does this actually work cuz im trying it rite now my touch went thru the wash:( i cried.

This may work well, but for quicker results I suggest powering down, removing all removable parts, and then dip it into an alcohol bath. The rubbing alcohol will displace the water and then evaporate quickly. Simple, quick, and effective.

i droped my blackberry in the sink and that happend friday do you think it will still work if i put it in rice or is it too late >?

mine works fine now i just left it in the rice for three days and then plugged it in works perfect all i can say now is i believe in god:)

I honestly think it all depends on HOW MUCH WATER. If it is just a little, do what i did. I was scared at first, but then i took a look on what my bottled water also spilled on… COPY PAPER….. well it soaked it right up! NO DAMAGE DONE!

I just dropped my 80GB Ipod into the toilet! Don’t ask cuz I can’t tell ya how it happened.
Everything is working fine except the darn thing won’t shut off. I guess I’m lucky because most people wouldn’t be able to turn theirs on. I just stuck it in rice. God I hope you’re right. I just got like 4 months ago. I’m a clutz. Excuse my while I go have a good cry! :(

Hi good ideas, but i would like to share my experience that is i dropped my nokia 6600 in my fish tank which has saline water (basically sea water). I had to remove all the removable parts then dip it into distilled water and then dry all the parts with the help of a hair drier. Trust me it worked 4 me. My phone is now working fine.

hi,mobile dropped in a bucket of waer immediately i removed it & took it to repair centre damit he made me fool by charging it & still im having trouble i will try out with the rice receipe hope it works well.

wow. this really works!
i dropped my 8Gbipod in the pool and at first i was freaking and blow dried it but then i saw this and tried it out and its good as new…kinda lol

It works i dropped my ipod in the pool and i dove to get it at the bottom of the pool with my very expensive headphones. The first thing i did was i dried them off and put it straight leading against a book in the sun and i shook it Then i blew dried it and most importantly i stuck it in rice and waiting 24 hours and this morning i woke up and it works perfectly! Try thing it is so more efficient then begging people at the Mac store to replace it.

hey i droped my w910i in the bath i freaked out and tryed dry it then turned it on, it turend on but the screen was not comming up… is it 2 l8 to use the rice method ??? omar ?? : (

I dropped my cell phone in the toilet today around 1:15 pm. Dont ask me how it happened because i dont know. I got it out imediatly, but it was still on when i dropped it and on when i pulled it out. I took out the battery and sim card and dried it out then set it in the sun. Then i put it in the freezer for about 3 minutes and took it out and blow dried it. It is now 5:00pm. Is it too late to try the rice method?

my ipod got washed in the laundry by my maid when i was sleeping my maid woke me up i used the rice thing i really wish it works or my mom will kill me!!!!!!!!!

oh no! i dropped my iPAQ 500 Series Voice messenger phone in the toliet…(long story). Any advice? I have to wait until my dad comes home which is in 3 hours!!1 my dad wont let me touch it and i am freaking out because i want to have a phone!!! ANY ADVICE? HELP!!

does it have to be cooked or uncooked rice??

John: uncooked. I don’t think cooked rice is really good for your iPod. =]

Doubters have to try it first. Go on, whoever doesn’t believe that rice is magic (it’s not–it just absorbs water.), drop your Touch in the bathtub and leave it in some rice. Either it works, or God is happy with you. And my atheist friend tried it.

It worked.

Anyways, I have a different problem. My friend dropped my iPod Touch down a flight of concrete stairs, and there are two big cracks in the screen. The main problem is that it won’t turn on. Anyone know anything that might get it to work again, or will I have to go pay the Apple people for a new one? I’ll live with the cracks as long as I can get it on.

My Iphone was in the front pocket of my jeans and got soaked in a recent rain storm (5 days ago). It looks like it should work fine but the touch screen doesn’t respond to anything. I charged it, reset it and even rebooted everything and it still doesn’t work.

I just took it out of a bag of rice for 3 days and still nothing. Any other ideas?

i accidentally left my ipod in my pocket then it got washed by our maid. i tried to open it a lot of times, i even tried to charged it. kept on shaking it and felt water coming out. is it too late for the rice method?,but next time i will remember the condom method

It really worked for my Nokia N70, Accidently the water from the water bottle fell on my mobile & I dint realize it until I received a call on my mobile.I could answer the call but the display was blank.
I could even make outgoin call since I had the speed dial option.
Luckily a friend of mine had forwarded this mail & I rushed to the Kitchen & placed my mobile without the battery in the raw rice.
After about 10 hrs, it was back to normal & the display was perfec.

What can I say guys? THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH!!! I dropped my 80GB in the bath as well and even try to switch it on to no avail. I must say it wasn’t in water more than 1 second (cat’s reflexes). Then i try to extract all water sucking it out (I know, really lame) and then I tried in Internet and, after some research, I came across this article.
I left it for a day drying in rice and tried to switch it on without luck. Today I came back home and tried again with same results. Then I plugged the cable to it and to my surprise, a “Charging, please wait” message was displayed. After a while, it changed to the Apple icon and it was recognized by iTunes. I let it charged a bit more and I have now stopped hitting my head against the wall for the bad luck.
Learned lesson: don’t get iPod close to water…
Cheers

I hope this works…my phone’s screen displays nothing although it’s still on after it got sprinkled with water. God, I just bought it. My heads’s already bleeding from banging it against the wall -_- I hope rice can really save my phone.

I’m back! I was getting impatient and was about to tell my dad to bring my 5 month old SE W910i to a repair shop or use the warranty. But I waited more and after more than 7 hours I tried to turn it on and I’m glad that my phone has been revived! Thanks to this tip! My phone’s screen which wouldn’t even show any colour suddenly emitted a rainbow! Whoa, The only thing is that I wasted quite a lot of rice. Also, my phone’s screen is now filled with light scratches from the raw rice but hey, that’s better altogether than a dead phone right?

Rice is such a wonderful thing. I’m an asian and I eat it everyday. I also kind of took it for granted. Man, I seriously see it differently now. God, you’re just awesome. (/-_-)/

it did’nt work with a razar cause my phone was in the pool for about 5 hours.

Hi, Thanks so much for this tip. I dropped my blackberry in water. Reading your advise, I dismantled the phone and left it overnight in a bowl of rice. Did not work still the next day. Left it in the rice for another 24h and it is working fine!!! Cheers.

I dropped my iPhone in a lake yesterday. It was probably underwater for about 10sec. It said the battery was empty and turned itself off. I left i dry all night but it still doesn’t work. Now I’ve seen this blog and i hope the rice trick will work…???

i dropped my iphone into the toilet bowl yesterday, and my friend told me that this method, i tried it, and now still resting in peace on the rice, hope that realy useful and help phone alive.. (*.~ )

This is to people who argue rice needs heat. You can soften pasta and rice with your own saliva if you give it an hour, the same will apply to rice.
It saved my iPod from it’s grave (Rain is evil!). It went from being unsble to be turned off to having everything on it and syncing normally. Although it did fail to rescue the backlight. =(

During a kayaking trip this morning my iPod ended up in the river. Probably about 15-20 seconds. It won’t come on at all. I tried to blow dry it and have it in rice now. I can’t remove anything except the sim card. Should I take that out and lay it separately in the rice? I also tried to plug it into the charger before I saw this email. Was that a mistake?

Sorry – this was my iPhone – not an iPod!!

My ipod touch is now in the rice. I hope it will work ans i think so. Thank you so much for this article!! Ill give yah some news in 2 days.

Well, I was taking a relaxing bath, and not five minutes into it, Shannon Hoon and the Melons all fell into the tub. My iPod that is. I took it out quickly, and plugged it back in. It played for maybe ten more minutes, then suddenly stopped and flickered. It flickered on and off for a while, and stupidly, I plugged it in to charge. My laptop didn’t recognize it, and there was no safe way to unplug it. I unplugged it, and am now doing the rice method. Will it help any? Or is it doomed?

Wow. The rice method really works. I set my ipod in a bowl of rice overnight, I woke up, plugged it in and it works! Thanks much!

This really works!
I accidently left my BLackberry Curve in my pocket and I heard a clunking in the wash. I was terrified! I read about the rice and sat it in a bowl of rice over night. It turned on when I put in the battery (which I also put in the bowl of rice) in it! :-)

The only problem is I can still see water in the screen. Will it kill it, should I put it back in the rice, or should I just leave it alone and use it. It looks like it’s drying up so, yea…

Dropped my Blackberry Pearl in a pool yesterday. I was not aware it dropped until this morning when I asked where my purse is and they said I dropped it in the pool yesterday with everything in it being soaked in water. I almost cried when I heard this but I did not do anything. After about 15 hours of the time it fell in water I had the energy to turn my phone on. It was not turning on so I charged it. I prayed hard before I hit the power button that my phone would work. Then it worked! I sent text messages, listened to voicemails, read some emails and made a few calls. After about 5 hours. I was trying to turn it on and the key pads are not working. None of the buttons were responding but the track ball. I opened the battery and saw some drops of water so I blow dried it and still does not work. I just put in the a bucket of uncooked rice and hopefully tomorrow it will work. All I am wondering about right now is why it worked the first time I turned it on without doing anything to it, and not its not.

Oh man… i dropped my cell phone in my pool as i was cleaning it and dove in to grab it prayin it would work again. I found this article and 10 hours later it was workin just fine. Thank you so much!!!

I dropped my ipod in water it was less then 30 seconds, however the screen went faded then white and was fading fast. First thing i did was dry it off, run to the comp and did a search for I dropped my ipod in water, and then i found this site. I immediate put it into the rice, and slowly within a few hours the faded screen came back, a few more hours later the screen was working fine, clear black letters on it like it was before it was dropped in water. I’m going to continue to leave it in the rice overnight because their might still be water in it! I was completely amazed this worked. I was so worried i would have to go buy a new one, thankyou so much.

Dropped my samsung down the toilet yesterday, just fell out my pocket, dont ask. Now it wont work but I think I may have made the mistake of putting the battery back too soon and it just buzzes like crazy. WIll it still dry out or did i kill it completely by making it buzz? I dried it as best I could butnot sure its worth trying the rice method?

to the person above, my samsung did the exact same thing, i dropped in the bath & it started vibrating like crazy aswell. i blow dried it & now the background will come up but none of the buttons work. that was two days ago, i think i’ll try the rice method. or is my phone dead ?

If you have a dehumidifier place the phone with the battery out and back cover off , near the dehumidifier for 24-48 hours. Then try it.

Ok two days ago i was outside and it started to pour. I was completley soaked and the rain went through my pants pockets and reached my ipod. My ipod can turn on and off, but there is water behind the screen. I tried the rice for 24hrs and nothings happened so far. Any suggestions?

PLEASE PLEASE i need help! My ipod fell in COKE a year ago and has not worked at all ever since. when it first happened I took it a shop with electronics but they said they couldnt fix it unless I paid and they had no guarantee it would work! i have tried the hair dryer, the rice and nothing is working! The ipod says i should go to apple/support i did but no one has my COKE problem! Do i have ANY hope of it working AGAIN??? And any other sugestions??? please answer thanks.

Would yo recommend charging the ipod. I know that whenever I charge the ipod it gets pretty hot and I was assuming that the extra heat would help spped up the evapouration process of the liquid behind the screen………becasue the battery is directly behind the screen?

my sister’s ipod fell in to the pool 3 days ago and hasn’t worked since, but I have found out that when i plugged it in to the computer ever thing worked except the wheel click thing, but when I unplugged ipod everything just goes blank again, and it won’t turn back on unless i plug it in to the computer again. Do you think the rice will solve my problem, and if it won’t what else should i do?

I was in school today and my phone fell into the toilet.. i grabbed it out within 5-10 seconds … dried it off the best i could with the paper towels… took the battery out…dried it out more.. held it above a lighter to try to dry it out a little more.. and then pocketed it until i got home.. unscrewed it and disassembled it and put it into rice (about 3 hours after the incident) any 1 think itll still work? ill let u know in about 8 hours ill try

:) so after i did all that ^^^ i took it out about 10pm which was about 6 and a half hours in rice… i then took it out put it back together and it worked again the display and everything except the sounds and vibration.. so i took it back apart and put it back into the rice… let it sit until 12pm about 14 hours later… put it back together and it works fine again everything is good… this really works!!!!!

My water bottle leaked and soaked my bag containing my ipod right through with water. Tried to turn it on but it just comes up with an extremely weird buzzing noise. Now it is flashing the low battery sign on the screen. Did i kill it by trying to switch it on while it was still wet? I also tried plugging it into my comp but nth worked. Any advice?

ahh i just washed my ipod nano in the washing machine stupid i no! and im trying the rice trick right now but im using pudding rice as i dont have normal rice will that still work or do i need the other rice?

I dropped my ipod in water I was using to clean with it was in the water for 1 second and covered with a cover. It worked fine for about 30 minutes and then went black. I let it set all day and night. this morning I thought I would plug it into my computer and the backlight came on fine and it charged the battery up full. however when I unplugged it it went black and doesn’t come on. I just put it in the rice but I am concerned because it has been since yesterday morning that this happened. I am wondering if it is too late to have this rice trick work? I am hopeful because the computer lit it up. Any suggestions?

I dropped my ipod in the pool. I tried the rice and salt method for 24 hrs. No luck. I could still see the water under the screen when I tried to power up. I then put it in the oven at 150 with the oven door open and the ipod sitting on the front edge of the rack. I left it there for about 2 hours. Success!! I sat it on the dock and it works perfectly.

i put my fone in rice for 24 hours and it fixed it, THANKS!!!

good god i just dropped my ipod nano 3G 8gb into the toilet bowl

DON’T ASK WHAT THE CONTENTS OF THE TOILET BOWL WERE.

i just fished it out. and tried desperately to dry it!

its not working. god! its dead!

i jsut found this article i am trying to do that NOW.

i just pray this ricebowl thing works…

one day i was working on an oil rig out in the pacific and my phone fell out of its carrying case right into a large puddle. i didn’t notice it for about 3 mins but when i did i took it out immediately. the screen was flashing and the low battery sign was on. i was freaking out and i had no idea what to do so i tried to charge it. when i plugged it in it buzzed then died. now that i see this rice trick im going to try it because otherwise it will suck on the rig.

the other day my iphone fell in the toilet. i imidiatly grabbed it out and dryed it off. the screen kept going white and fuzy and then it jsut shut off. when i got home i got the sin card out and i shook as much water out as i could and tryed to blow the water out as well. it turned on but speakers wouldnt work and the “power off” slider kept comming up. then the speakers werent working. i left it in a bag of rice over night as well as plugges into the charger and when i woke up the speakers were working again fine. the power thing kept comming up and every time i turned it on the volume would go to lowest and i couldnt turn it up for a few mins. i put my sin in my other phone for the day and left the iphone in the rice. now the only problem is it keeps powering on when i turn it off. USE RICE IMIDIATLY, im telling you IT WORKS

Hi There,

My Ipod 8GB got wet after our canoe tipped a week ago. It was barely in the water. I dried it the next day in the sun for a few hours. Nothing happened. I then learned about the rice method and did that for a couple of days. Here’s my problem: I’ve plugged it into my computer to charge and it faintly (blackened screen) says Please Wait…Very Low Battery. I have heard a bit of a grinding, reaving sound itermittingly too, but that seems to have stopped. The screen has lit up twice as if all was well, but I unplugged it and tried to start it up and it did nothing. Please help as it was on loan from my BF. Thanks.

I dropped my Walk-man Tape Deck in a pile of dog-poop. I washed it off with the water hose then soaked it in gasoline to evaporate the water. When I turned it on it caught fire and melted my parachute pants to the play button. I can’t seem to make it stop playing. Should I hit it with a hammer? If so, do you think a 10 lb would do the trick?

I dropped my Blackberry Curve in a puddle and i did the rice thing and everything but the back light works is there anything i can do to fix the back light?

Hello all. Well I was in the shower listening to the music on my iPhone and while changing songs with dry fingers, a drop of water got onto the screen and soaked underneath it! Now I can use the top row of buttons, cannot unlock the phone or answer it.

Right now, I have it in the rice (will leave it in there as long as necessary) and I need to know what else I can do to try to get the water out if the rice doesn’t work with such a small amount of water.

This worked.. Yesterday my girlfriend dropped her iPhone in the toilet…! She fished it out quickly enough and immediately wrapped it in a towel and shook it to get some of the water out, but it immediately started to stop working– the screen flickered then it went into a start/shutdown loop. We used the rice trick. We first wrapped it in a single piece of tissue paper to keep any rice from getting stuck in the ports, then burried it in a bowl of rice. We then put the bowl under a 100 watt lightbulb– not too close– keeping the temperature around 120F as measured by a cooking thermometer. We kept it in the rice for a full 24 hours. We would check it every now and then, though we didn’t try to power it up. We could still see condensation in the camera lens. A few times when we did check it, we saw that it was trying to power itself on, and we could see a very faint apple logo going on and off. At one point it did fully power itself on for a few moments, and there was noticeable water mottling under the screen– kind of a leopard print pattern. So we resigned our self to leave it alone and hope for the best. Today at 1pm, we looked one final time and saw no condensation in the lens. We let it cool down a bit and plugged it into the charger and it powered up with no water stains under the screen, or any indication that it had ever become the toilet-phone.

I killed my fiance’s 80gb ipod video about 2 months ago, so I bought him a new one (*ouch*) and bought a refurbished one for myself to prevent me from killing his again.
So I’ve had it for a grand total of 5 days now, and dropped it in the tiolet (thankfully clean!) when it slipped out of my back pocket. It sat in the water for less than 5 seconds – it took me a few to realize what the KATHUNK! of it landing in the water was. I’m hoping, praying, that this works. I took a can of air to it, trying to blow the water out, shook it a few times, tried prying it apart with no success. The water has already started to condense behind the screen… oh please please please let this work ;_;

i kicked a cup of water over onto my brand new mobile and left it in th rice for 2 days i had no such luck i guess its another expensive trip into town for me :(

I happened to get drenched under a falls with my nokia mob 6610 in the pocket. This happenend 2 days back. from then on I have been keeping my mobile out in air with battery removed and check once in a while to see if it works. When trying to switch it on the NOKIA LOGO screen appears and seems to hang with none of the keys working or the menu being displayed. I have now kept the mobile in rice and hoping it works.
If there is any suggestion please let me know

I have water stuck behind my screen on my iPhone does this rice method work for something like this

dropped my ipod in the bath two nights ago and tried to blow dry it. took it apart to see if anything would come out. Then i found this site. I put my ipod in a bowl of rice immediatly. My ipod is a classic ipod… with the video and everything. It’s been almost two days, but it’s still not working. I waited until this morning to plug it in and all it did was light up. i tunes didn’t recognize it and I unplugged it and opened it up and put rice inside it. Was that a bad idea. i have it in the rice as I am writing this.

i dropped my mobile into the toilet ytd… i immediately
picked it up and opened the phone case, trying to dry it…
i found this article 6 hours later and i immediately buried
my phone into uncooked rice… the mobile wasn’t functioning
at all ytd and today (18 hours later) it starts to have
light and vibration. i, again, buried my phone into rice and
hope for an improvement… (it did became better today)
hopefully, i will post a comment again if my mobile returns
to normal… *pray*

This theory actually works perfectly!
im AMAZED! wow.
i dropped my phone in the toile about 2 days ago and i put my phone into a bag filled with uncooked rice and put it under a lamp for 48 hours.
I just put the battery back in and the sim and turn it on, and it works perfectly, like if nothing had happened to it ;D

how impressive, i cried n shouted the whole day when my friends threw me wif my jeans on n ipod n phone in my pocket in to the pool, n i dismantle my ipod n leave it to dry n it worked so do my phone!!!!!!!!! :)!!!!!!!!!!!

heyy, the rice method ive tried before on a phone [but it was a peic eof crapp].. today my i got out of the shower and tried opening the window..well long story short my ihome and ipod fell. My ihome landed in the trash. and my ipod in the toilet. I snached it out immediatly and dried it off. lol [i have stickers on my ipod and the didnt even get time to get water under them lol].. so i left my i pod alone all day after shaking water out and blow drying the holes.. i turned it on tonight and it works, but its slow? so i stuck it in some rice and in the freezer?
does the freezer hurt it?
b/c a friend said the freer helps??

Water has minerals, these minerals cause corrosion, It doesn’t matter what you dropped your phone or any electronics, just because something dries doesn’t mean it is fixed, you have to remove whatever is on the inner workings, any humid condition will reactivate the corrosion issue. Pop, Coffee, Water, you have to inhibit the corrosion or it is just a matter of time.
I have been cleaning electronics for years, everything from small Ipods to huge servers, this rice method does nothing in ihibiting the problem, There should be a site for people that have had burns or started fires by using rice dried electronics. It is just a temporary fixed, my suggestion is if you get your device working great, get the information off the device saved then toss the phone or take it to someone that knows what they are doing as this blog is not doing anyone a service.

my daughter washed her ipod last friday night is to late to try anything? I didn’t think to check the net for advice?

My fone was in oiled water since it fell in a puddle at school while running away from authority. I noticed it was gone only 10 minutes later after which I found it, got home and tried this method.
24 hours later the fone is JUST AWESOME. PERFECT.

Really AWESOME ADVICE.

What if you were to have your ipod touch in your pocket at the time you were neck deep in muddy pond water? I dried it out and can turn it on but it shuts right back off and there is mud in the display.(BAD STORY!)

My iPod fell in the pool. Do not ask why. I was running around and I fell in too. :[ When I got out, it didn’t turn on. Does the rice have to be cooked or uncooked.?

Tried the rice method after my husband’s phone was left next to a water bottle which sweated in the night. Did the rice thing straight away, as had heard this, but after sitting days in the rice, still no go!!! Doesnt’ work! someone suggested putting them in metholated spirits to evaporate the water out of it, but surely the water is gone by now. Just the damage left behind, yet another phone in the bin!!! Surely they should be able to handle a bit of moisture????!! Keeping us poor!!

I just dropped my phone in the pool and quickly dried it with a towel. I then came on the computer and found this article. My phone is now soaking in rice. I hope it works my phone is my lifeline :(

I dropped my iPhone 3g in the TOILET it was TOTALLY SUBMERGED…after staring in HORROR and running through the house like a mad woman…I started googling on the web. I looked in my phone at my sensor and it’s still totally white.

I have it wrapped in a paper towel, bound with rubber bands, sitting in a ziplock bag of rice. Is that one sensor the only one in the iPhone? In short, can I pull the “gee, it just stopped working” card at Appple?

I dropped my 80 gig ipod in the bathtub the other day while it was powered on. I got it out immediately, but it was inevitable and it was soaked. I tried to turn it off, but it wouldn’t do anything. It eventually went off on its own. I shook as much water out as possible, and later put it into the oven at 150 degrees and in the very front, maybe even with the rack pulled out some, and with the door open. The very dry, hot air will dry it rapidly. Once the screen no longer fogged up, I removed it. Then I put it into the rice for 12 hrs. I think it was probably already dry, but instead of guessing, tried it anyway. After 12 hrs in the rice, I plugged it into my computer and it’s working great. Good as new. I read one or two comments on here about soaking the ipod, phone, etc in distilled water for an hour or two. I didn’t do this, but it sounds like a good idea. I know nobody would want to put it back into water to fix it, but those commenters were correct in that tap water, and especially coffee, soda, beer, etc will leave residue and corrosion. I got pretty lucky, but this may be a step not to avoid. The biggest deal is getting all the water out before applying power to device so it wont fry it out. Good luck everyone! Great job Apple on making one hell of a product. I’d like to take a Zune and do the same thing to it and see what happens. I suppose it is possible to save almost any wet device, but it just seems, judging by the comments on here, that Apple has done a great job with their products. Thanks

my mother put my little sisters new Nokia 5610 throiugh the wash….was probly in there 10 20 mintues before we noticed…..once my mom gave it to me i rushed to the kitchen, ripped out the battery and sim, dried the water off the phone, and burried it in a container of ice….will check back tomorrow and report if it worked

I dropped my phone in the toilet… Long story. I dont know what happened exactly, considering, well anyway… I just dont know exactly what happened. I took evertying off, and then I blow dried it for a good hour. It didnt work. Then, I just randomly decided to retry it, it turned on for a second, but then it shut down again because it was out of batter. I charged it, and thats the end of it. It never turned on again. Its been a week now. Any ideas? Idk if I have a chance anymore. It might be too late, but still. Anything will help.

i was with mates, and we thought a log in the river wud hold us. it didnt. it soaked my fone and iPod 3g. fone’s alrite, but dunno about iPod. the round touch thing doesnt work. Will it be allright??? what can i do????? :(

I dropped my phone in water, yesterday then took it apart then i sat it in my car in the vent , i keep turing the phone on and off the phone turns on but the backlight doesnt work, so today about 1pm I put it in some rice, I will live it in there for about 2 days. Doesn anyone know if tha might work for the backlight or I lost it all together

My friend placed my ipod in a glass of green tea in my car. it got soaked for about a minute or so. The ipod works but it doesn’t stay charged so the only way I can use it is if I keep it on a charger at all times. IT SUCKS cuz it’s only about 2 months old. I’m gonna try the rice thing.

UNBELIEVABLE — IT WORKS.

I dropped my treasured ipod nano in the toilet.
I google the problem came to this site and read it.
I immediately immersed the ipod in some distilled water (that was more scary, but I trusted.
I next took a bag of rice place the ipod, completely covered in the bag of rice and put that in a bowl and then
sat the bowl in the sun.

This morning I took the ipod out of the rice and wiped it off and took little bit of rice caught in the charger area.
I plugged it in and voila! The apple icon showed. Then the miracle moment occured. It began to charge.

WOW – I love the internet.
Sharable with answers fast.

You can tell I am doing the happy dance today.

Thanks so much for all your sharing.

I just saw another $200 bucks out my pocket
and now that figure is $0 with a little inconvenience.

K

i dropped my ipod touch in the toilet and it does not turn on anymore i dryed it and im to nervous to put it in distilled water and in rice what do i do

i went to eat out and my sister dropped my 80gb ipod classic in the water about 2 months ago will the rice thing work for me or is it to late

i was washing dishes last night and i dont know how, but my new ipod got water in it. it said to restore with iTunes, and i did, but nothing happened.

would it be too late to try the rice thing?

i had left my phone(htc touch diamond) in my skirt pocket and it went into the washing machine without me knowing…it has been three hours and i had tried switchin it on but it wont work…i just read the article and my phone is currently ‘resting’ in the bowl of rice…will it still work???i just got it four months ago and it has so many important stuff in it…i really don t want to spend a whole lot of money buying a new phone of the same model…

My daughters iPod touch got swallowed by a wave with her and won’t start. I think we waited to long to clean it but I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on this unfortunate situation. I watched a video on you tube on how to take it apart to fix it, so we have done this and cleaned parts that we seen needing cleaning and put it back together. I wish I knew about the rice when this happen.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! Took the battery out as soon as I dropped it in my coffee but tried to put it back in a few hours later – Don’t do this!! Found this article, tried to take it apart & could not get the screws in the phone to come out. Put the phone in a bag w/ rice, tried it again several hours later – no luck. Put it back in the bag, & placed it on top of my Satellite receiver overnight. Tried again this morning and IT WORKS! Very grateful!!

This really worked! My phone was in my pocket and one of my “friends” thought it would be funny to dump a bucket of water on me.. my iphone got completely soaked. it still worked afterward, but when people called me i couldn’t hear anything. My friend told me to put my phone in rice and so i did. A few hours later it was as good as new!
EVERYONE SHOULD TRY IT!

This really works!
Read this article within an hour of dropping my brand new Blackbery Bold in the loo at work(Dont ask, I now have a policy of no phone in the loo…lol). Raced to the nearest supermarket to buy some rice and a plastic container to start the drying. Left it totally covered for about 5 hours and after reading another article that said having cat litter crystals(100% silica gel) helped to prevent audio issues, I placed the phone in a 50:50 mix of rice and cat litter! Nearly 48 hrs later(requires paitience) and a lot of praying, it emerged as good as new! Thank God and thank you… amazing what info you find on the net!

My dad put my jeans in the wash yesterday and my
Ipod was in there ! my dad told me not to turn it on and to put it in the airen cuboard to dry . im going to try this rice bowl thing but theres a massive water bubble underneath the screen, will that dry out in the rice or is it completely broken now ?

I dropped my iphone in a puddle picked it up and shook it off and it still turns on but the only thing it shows is the itunes screen and the picutre of the plug….. i have tried restoring it on the computer and the computer recongnizes it but nothing happens, i can also see lots of water spots on te screen. i now have it in rice after reading on the site but honestly do you think it will work i dropped it in the puddle yesterday….. any comments oor help would be nice thank you