How to Save a Water-Logged Cell Phone
My daughter left her cell phone in the back pocket of her jeans recently, and it went through both the washer and the dryer. (I realized something was up when I heard the thump-thump-thump in the dryer.) I assumed the phone was ruined, and suggested she start saving up for a new one. Silly me. Her friends at school told her to come home and put the phone in a bag of rice. My response: “Sure, and then go outside and wave it over your head and bawk like a chicken?” (Fans of “Dick Van Dyke” will get that reference.)
In any case, it worked. We opened up the phone and buried the battery and the cellphone in a plastic bag containing about one cup of rice for three days. We checked it after two days and the phone worked but the texting didn’t; that third day in rice revived the text function. Apparently the rice soaks up the moisture in the phone. (I did a subsequent search for “wet cellphone” it returned more than a million hits — so I appear to be the last person on earth to know this money-saving trick.)
Got any weird tips to rescue one of your belongings from a similar mishap? Comment here or email me at laura at laurarowley dot com.
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