I dropped my Samsung s6 in water

[Android Central Question]

It was only in the water for a couple of seconds then i ran to put it in a bowl of rice will this help

 

[Kodak2]

Generally getting phone that wet is not good news. If water has penetrated into the internals of the phone it can start to corrode the circuit boards over the next few months, the speed of corrosion depends on the purity of the water, usually salt water is the worst.

I wish you luck in drying it out. Please join Android central so you can keep us informed as to progress.

 

[Rukbat]

Water resistance (only the Nextel i57sry and a few military phones were waterproof) depends on the water pressure. IP68, the highest rating, is for 1.5 meters of water, about 59", of just under 6 feet. At about 0.49 pounds per foot, that's protection against ingress of water up to about 3 pounds of pressure. Dropping a phone into water from a couple of feet will easily exceed 10 pounds of pressure at the point at which the phone hit the water, so if it dropped in on its side, there's water in the phone, and unless it was triple-distilled water, it has lots of mineral salts in it. (The purest spring water is very high in mineral salts.) The water will evaporate eventually, but the minerals will stay in the phone, and if any of them are corrosive or conductive in any way when wet, every time the phone is in a place with any humidity, even 10%, something is going to be happening inside the phone.

The water resistance actually hurts the situation. With the old "leaky" phones, you could swish the phone around in a few alcohol baths (just plain old $1/quart rubbing alcohol) and wash the salts out. I've never studied how well that works on a phone with IP-68 resistance, but it would probably take hours to get enough alcohol into, then out of, the phone to clear all the minerals out. (See Oh, no! My Phone got Wet!)

We'll see, but I'm afraid that "water-resistant" phones dropped into water in a way that lets water in are going to be doomed. They didn't protect us from dropping the phones into water, they just guaranteed that getting them cleaned out isn't going to pay, because the labor involved (and it has to be done immediately, so you run to the repair shop and a tech has to drop what he's doing and start taking your phone apart - and with everything "sealed", that's going to take a lot of time) is probably going to be almost as much as the price of a new phone.

Water resistance is for getting stuck in a sudden rain when you're on the phone, or the phone is on the table and you spill something and it gets to the phone. It's "last ditch insurance", not a "take your phone swimming" invitation, or even a "leave your phone on the bathroom vanity when you take a shower so you have music" invitation (steam can get through IP-68 water resistance). It's good for what it is, not if we abuse it.