What's the Best Way to Rescue a Drowned Phone?
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2017
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I have a 6 year old "dumbphone" which I accidentally sent through the washing machine. I of course panicked when I went to put clothes in the dryer. The first thing I did was take the battery out. I did what was said not to do here, and put the phone under a heat lamp to hopefully dry it out (making sure I didn't melt anything or let it get too toasty). After about 6 hours of this I plugged it in and it came back to life! Warning: results not typical. Launder your phone at your own risk. XD
Pyre Vulpimorph OK, time to throw my phone in the volcano to dry it out… Darn… It got melted by lava.
Pyre Vulpimorph
My wife did the same thing, but the phone was still working, so she called me on it. I told her about the rice, and to take the battery out. It then died and never came back.
Still had a year before we could upgrade on our contract too.
Ive had a tracfone i use for work for about 8 yrs. It has been theough the wash 5 or 6 times, rained on, dropped, ran over by various peices of lawn equipment and my car, still works great. Not sure of the model but it is an lg with full touchscreen
Nokia? ...lucky
Pyre Vulpimorph
I doubt the heat lamp would make it hot enough to damage the phone. Just don't dry the battery with it. And well, actually get a new battery. Unfortunately most phones theses days do not allow user removable batteries.
This has become much harder since android phones started having sealed backs. You can't take any part of your phone apart to aid drying in the newer models.
Plus once the battery starts to go, you pretty much have to replace the phone.
i used cat litter
so always drop your phone in distilled water, got it.
Joe Brown your phone is still dirty af and it doesn't take much to make distilled water conductive, even touching it will make it conduct
Distilled water can still corrode components, the only damage your avoiding here is a short circuit.
Shazzkid you wont even avoid that. You get the water dirty by dropping your phone in it and it will start conducting
Xiefux debatable, depends on many factors, a few being the amount of water, and the initial state of cleanliness of the phone.
Why are people responding to this like he's serious?
Me: watching this after dropping my phone in water accidentally and still watching this after it says turn it off
Phones obviously fine if ya still using it to watch the video 😂
2:28 Cat litter? Putting your phone in the litter box would make for some interesting cat videos...
piss off, with your turd of a joke
Schrodigers phone
Boris Esquilo
Before you turn it back on it is both still working and broken at the same time
Firaro yup
Sounds like a life-hack... if you want to be arrested for bestiality! Cats aren't known to be forgiving.
I like to use fried rice. Then when the phone doesn't work at least I have my fried rice!
😂
Hahahaha
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Dafuq
I love blurry arial pictures of waterparks 1:20
well thats one way to see it
blurry arial waterpark? imgur.com/fibtdAc
remuladgryta DID YOU JUST.....you sir/ma'am just won the internet today.
NextGen Rager I did, I really did though ua-cam.com/video/3NMhGCf20i0/v-deo.html
Wtf? I don't know how you saw that but now I see it too
I put mine in a vacuum chamber, pulled it down to below the triple point of water, and boiled the water out.
Cody'sLab You would, Cody.
I'd expect nothing less.
Cody'sLab hi I love your videos!
Cody's Lab
That's probably the only way to safely leave the dissolved solids in the phone... it dries things out so quickly that there's not enough time for corrosion to occur. Might gradually corrode long term though, due to humidity in the air mixing with the remaining minerals deposited on the board?
Good work
Cody, you're a mad lad, this is exactly what everyone expects
Use an air blower aiming some holes in the phone for around 20 to 30 minutes.. and you are done. Use cold air.
Fools, the best way to rescue drowned phones is to give it CPR.
how though?
YOU SIR ARE THE FOOL, THE BEST WAY IS TO YEET THE WATER OUT!
BOTH OF YOU ARE FOOLS! THE BEST WAY TO SAVE THE DROWNED PHONE IS TO HIT IT WITH A GOLDEN HAMMER!
ALL OF YOU ARE FOOLS THE BEST WAY TO RESCUE A WET PHONE IS TO BURN IT
YOU'RE WRONG! THE BEST WAY TO SAVE A DROWNING PHONE IS TO PUT IT IN THE MICROWAVE TO DRY IT!
Go to your local harley dealer and ask for the silica pack that comes with the leather jackets, they’re huge
I first read *"The best way to drown a person"*
“For a rainy day” give that man a raise
I had my Galaxy 5 drop in a river, with it's charging hole open (you know, the one they tell you to close to avert water damage) and I took it out, dried it with a towel, and.... that's it. Kept it on, didn't dry more than the surface area, and it worked fine for over a year. Now I own an S7 and my S5 is my spare.
QQ: Why is the Windows "Bluescreen" error screen blue?
Nice transition, Hank! I've apparently always wanted to say that (?).
I have nightmares (actual, literal nightmares) about having my phone in my pocket and ending up submerged in water, and any time I'm with my kids (ages 6 and 4) near a body of water (we live very close to Lake Superior) I imagine pulling my phone out of my pocket and throwing it on the shore before going into the water to save a child in case of emergency. Interestingly, the only phone I've water damaged was long before I had a smart phone, and it definitely fell from my shirt pocket into the toilet. My wife did the same thing with hers a year later, but we've been fortunate not to have such problems since.
I dropped my phone in a lake at yosemite, it was sitting in the dirt bottom of the lake for at least 3 minutes, but was totally fine when i got it out! Could that be chalked up to the kind of water in the lake? I thought for sure if the water didn't get to it, all the minerals in the dirt would.
What phone do you have? It might have a Water Resistance rating
The universe loves you, that's the only explanation
Dougy woah... Woah... Such hate
Unless your phone is water-resistant, the damage is probably already done. Expect it shutting down unexpectedly, losing connection and dying soon.
Dougy
Thanks for the keks
Having worked in a chemistry lab: would it worthwhile to put the phone in a hi-vac container..or are there components that the vacuum would also destroy?
I suspect this topic will bring in a lot of views
I dropped my phone in the sink last night and it literally started playing up, so my dad had to put it in a tub of rice and he left it there overnight and it worked
thank you sci show for this great public service.
I always wondered what those little packets were for when I got new electronics. I always assumed it was a brilliant way to smuggle cocaine into the country. :3
RJTheHero And you thought it was accidentally placed in all of your new shoes, bags and electronics...?
Shazzkid Hey. If it moves units. What's stoping them from doing it? ;)
RJTheHero i dunno, maybe the law, the huge loss in money giving away 50 bucks worth of coke
well there's an idea
Shazzkid jeez learn to take a joke you headass.
"For a rainy day". I see what you did there :D
Now I remembered why I keep the little silica packets. Thank you, Hank and SciShow :)
"for a rainy day!" got a chuckle from that :D
I go fishing quite a lot in a kayak. I've capsized a few times...with my phone in my pocket. I immediately take out the battery, go home and run a fan over it for a few days, has always worked for me, getting the battery out asap is imperative.
I once got into the pool with my phone still in my swim trunk pocket :( I did dry it off and removed the battery and sim card and dried everything off and left them out to continue drying. The phone did work afterwards, but the battery would drain from a full charge to empty in the span of a few hours, even if I didn't use the phone at all, so I had to give it up and get a new one.
Is there any scientific info regarding the visual field / how vision is through compound eyes? That seems really interesting.
when you're phone drowns:
It's the universe telling you to get a new phone.
This video should have been made 2-3 years ago
I knew I was keeping those silica packets around for something! I've hoarded enough that I probably could use them for an actual rainy day.
"Thank you for calling Applecare, my name is Joshua." I've heard this story many times in my line of work.
Dang, only a few minutes after you posted and you already have thousands of views. Us fans are really dedicated.
Let natural selection do it's thing, waterproof phones will be the norm in a couple of generations
Kevin Deschênes Waterproof will probably not happen in the near future. Better water resistance might.
Doesn't work because phones can't reproduce, that would be cool tho
generations*? We might experience artificial superintelligence in this generations and you are taking about waterproof phones in "couple of generations". Best I can give that is 4-5 years
Waterproof phones are already a thing and are becoming a norm. Have been for a few years now. The Samsung S4 was IP67 rated in 2013. Subsequent phones have been that good and better. My new S8 is IP68. Yes, Samsung is pretty much the mobile device top dog, and I paid a good bundle over the next couple of years here for a top tier device, but others are learning from the example!
Satyam Dahiwal Generations as in a new phone in a line. A samsung S8 is a part of the 8th generation. An S10 would be in a couple generations.
The rainy day pun got you a like, Hank.
I once dropped one of my ex-phone into a toilet bowl filled with feces... and I had to reach in to retrieve it... yeah... it's my only phone with no backup... so don't judge!
Yuck
I just read an article about this recently which said they have studied the rice in a bag technique and found it only removes about 10% of the water and can introduce dust into your phone. The advice was that there are companies which can properly dry phones, so take your phone to them as quickly as possible and never turn it on first!
I ran my phone through the washing machine twice and it survived both times, second time however the screen broke, it still responded to everything else though.
I was 20 miles off the coast of the Maryland fishing when I spilled a water bottle all over my phone. It was inside of an otter box case, so it was basically trapped in a coffin. The thing felt like it was gonna explode, so I had to throw it overboard.
buying a waterproof phone that still has a headphone jack prevents phone drowning
I wish I found this video 1 month ago...... my found is still in the ICU 😭😂
Thanks for this so much now I can save my phone!
i watched this video because im at the beach for vacation and was walking along the water and running around with my friend while all this happened i did notice that my phone that was in my pocket was no longer there, it was night time so the tides were strong and it wast too dark to see it. i lost my phone in the ocean and some how thought this video could help
Since I have ESD safe electronic specific tools, wouldn't it be okay for me to take the phone components apart carefully and use something like blue disposable shop rags to gently dab and pull water away as much as I can and then use my dial adjustable heat gun on a low setting positioned to dry it out?
ive through my phone in the dryer wrapped in a few pairs of socks and a blanket ... worked for me a few time after forgetting my phone in my pocket and jumping into the lake
I can watch a 3 hr video of hank watching paint dry
I the phone is soaked, would it be useful to give it a bath in distilled water, to get rid of the ions? Or would it make things worse?
This guy is the best
I think just dropping your phone is the number one panic causing incident. Less likely to break a phone but for that brief moment
*Added to favorites *
The joy of waterproof phones. Ahhh Thank-you Galaxy s7!
Crystal cat litter is made from silica gel, same thing as desiccant packets, except you can buy a big bag of it instead of keeping a stash of little packets. I bet you it would dry a phone nicely. As a bonus, you can bake it until it's dry again and reuse it, as long as it's only wet from water. 8)
I set it on the counter with a hair dryer pointed at it while the iPhone speakers were pointed up. It worked
My greatest fear is that a power surge will fry my phone through the charger, which I think is what happened to my previous phone. A few years ago I also had a charger create a glowing ball from the short (completely different location), and that was extra scary, although that phone somehow survived that one.
Surge protectors are cheap
A friend of mine was in the hospital and left her cheap $30 talk and text phone tangled in her bed sheets. When the sheets were taken to be laundered the cellphone was put through a hot water cycle with detergent and bleach, and still managed to keep working afterward.
You take it apart and work over the insides with a soft cloth or Q-tips.
One of my phones spent the night outside in the rain once, works fine. It even had maggots living inside a tiny supporting sponge when I took it apart.
I couldn't hear a thing, I was watching this WITH my phone that drowned :')
Imagine having a non water proof phone.
...Which is why my phone is always in a zip lock baggie!😀👍
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SciShow I drop phone milk and its works
SciShow
The rice doesn't work period. I guarantee that leaving the water damaged phone in a container filled with uncooked rice even for a few days won't get rid of the moisture inside the phone fast enough to prevent damage just because the phones are sealed too well.
SciShow I love your channel and the great job you guys do at educating everyone. However unfortunately the rice thing in your video is incorrect. Rice doesn't help.
Question: What about a Vacuum Chamber? Lower the pressure to boil off the water like freeze-dried icecream. use a separate damp paper towel to monitor how quickly it's dried. In theory this should work, Assuming a cellphone can survive inside a vacuum chamber... I'd recommend removing the battery... don't want that to rupture or get wet.
Some years ago I found a tip on youtube to use a vacuum cleaner, using your hand as a funnel while sucking moisture out of every opening.
It took a few minutes and surprisingly got my cellphone working again.
Just saved a pair of wireless earphones my wife got me for my birthday and a few phones and other devices through out the years
The rice fairies saved my phone.
Hilarious my phone dropped in puddles from top of ladders from roofs answered it in pouring rain or in the shower and never once had to put it in rice LG makes the greatest phone i have ever owned
Well i cant just open the phone and dry it with a cloth because i have the kind of phone that dousnt open at all you cant acsess your battery. So my question is if the phone is cield can the water still get inside?
*Maybe* don't eat it afteward? Challenge accepted, Hank.
Back in town the twentieth century there was a saying that goes "Don't put all your eggs into one basket"
What I've learned from spilling water on the keyboard of my notebook: the damage can come even after you think all went well. You should immediately switch it off and take the battery out and make sure that you dry it for days.
I left my phone out and it got rained and snowed on, I'm literally praying it works at this point.
this is when science actually matters
I thought the title said "What's the Best Way to Rescue a Downed Drone?"
I'm pretty sure breaking the glass is the leading source of cell phone dismay... dubious intro
Once, I forgot my old flip/keyboard style phone was in my pants pocket and it went through the washing machine and dryer. Didn't even realize it until I was putting everything away. Panicked and checked to see if it was still working and it came right on, no damage at all from what I could tell except an extremely small line in the screen.
The best possible way to revive many electronics that have been submerged in water is to.
1.Power off device and, or remove battery of possible.
1.Completely submerge device in rubbing alcohol and swish around to displace the water and get to all the components that got wet in water or other solutions( repeat the process multiple times with thicker solutions) until you don't see anything else coming out of the device.
3.If it's a sealed enclosure and only has openings for input and speaker or microphone, then dry the device by rotating vigorously back and forth in a circular manner( in a flat manner like a fidget spinner, until you don't see any more alcohol coming out.
4.Let the device stand in front of a fan, or vacuum it out (while device is wrapped in a towel to prevent dust going in from the opposite end, but this is more with the sealed devices. Hope this helps
"for a rainey day " you say
Ever here about the one where you douse your already wet phone in isopropyl or everclear? The idea is that the alcohol quickly displaces the water inside the phone, does not react with the phone internal components, and it's far more volatile that water so it dries relatively quick.
People's greatest panic of a drowned phone is the concern of having to pay $700 for a new phone again.
If the phone falls in toilet then all your memories are flushed clean!
My iPod once went through the washer, it still worked after
Where was this video exactly a week ago? *sad face* my phone is long dead…
I have also heard somewhere that you could use ethanol to save your phone, is this actually feasible?
MrTapier withmoustache yes it is feasible
Question about the silica packets: Do you have to take it out of the little paper packing or is that reaaaaally dangerous and you just shouldn't because you'll die?
Hardware stores carry a product called damp-rid which is a competent desiccant and it's easily available.
I accidentally put my IPhone 5s in the washer (it was in for about 15 minutes before I noticed) and freaked out. The lcd looked like an 8-bit game almost and it had lines running down the phone. I cleaned it with my shirt first and then dumped a whole box of rice on it. I left it go and the next day the color was back to normal, but it had big splotches of what appeared to be water in it. I put it back in the rice and it progressively got better. After four days the splotch has all but disappeared and although I don’t use that one any more, all that’s left of the water damage is three little dots of water discoloration that you see if you have a white background up (ie safari). All-in-all, I’m sticking with rice.
Having a water-resistant phone in a waterproof case is pretty smart
I've heard that you can also put your phone in a vacuum... not the household one... one that reduces the pressure to a point where the water inside boils at room temperature. This evaporates the water allowing it to escape. I have not tried this, but sounds like it's worth a shot.
What about rinsing it in distilled water to make sure to leave no ions into it?
Could you investigate how our internal body clocks work? How is it that regardless of what time I go to sleep, I can wake up 5 or 10 minutes before my alarm? That would be fascinating!
Maybe also attaching a float, so you can fish it out of the water in the first place.
Its a good thing it's a windy day because i'm about the kite!
As a repair tech, to dry soaked laptops- I would set them in from a warm air flow. If I could, I would take them apart as much as possible. On a cell phone, remove the battery very first thing, if you can. Leave it out till it is dry. A good warm air flow, in front of the refrigerator.
Also shaking the water out helps. Warm water seems to shake out better then cool water. So warm it, to about 100 degrees. Very warm but still able to hold. It can take lots of time to heat its insides. So, tap it against something soft every few minutes. Sometimes nothing will help.
Next video: How to Rescue a Cracked Phone
I once sat in a bathtub washing my cat for an hour with my phone in my back pocket and it was okay fast :x
Heat lamp saved my iPod. . . twice after going through the washer. Gotta check those pockets.
I dropped mine in the bath, panicked, picked it up then dropped it again, panicked even more, PUT IT ON THE SIDE AND IT FELL BACK IN, THEN I ACTUALLY REALISED I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DRYING IT AND STARTED TO DRY IT
yeah, and then I spent half an hour shaking it and hoping it wasn't deader than my soul
What is dead may never die.
Also, if your phone has a removable battery, take that out immediately. Heck, screw turning it off: I'd just rip the battery out as fast as you can. The quicker you get rid of the power, the less of a risk you have in short circuits. Same thing for a laptop, though that can be problematic if it is running updates or something.
Also, maybe not for a smart phone, since they are small and often have security screws, but if you have something bigger, like a laptop, taking the housing apart is a great idea. Leaving the motherboard exposed while it's drying off is a lot more effective for drying it out. Not to mention, that lets you wipe off any water that got on it, as well as any dried syrups and stuff if you spilled something besides water. You don't have to do a complete disassembly, just take it apart enough to where the parts aren't surrounded by plastic/metal.
Cool thanks
just think: in the future, this won't even be an issue.
My phone fell in the water but it is working expect mic and speakers...what should I do
I drop phone milk and its works