Question about water resistance

[tadpoles]

If someone gives me a working iPhone 7 or greater I am willing to sacrifice it for a rice drying experiment. I am not willing to waste a perfectly good Android phone for this but an iPhone? ...I'll do it.

 

[Mike Dee]

If someone gives me a working iPhone 7 or greater I am willing to sacrifice it for a rice drying experiment. I am not willing to waste a perfectly good Android phone for this but an iPhone? ...I'll do it.

There are more effective home remedies that come to mind. One of them is a food dehydrator...lol

 

[tadpoles]

There are more effective home remedies that come to mind. One of them is a food dehydrator...lol

That sounds like fun.

 

[Gary02468]

maybe someone from the blog can do a test for an article. one drying on its own, one in rice and one in paperclips don't really need to be phones for the test.

The journal article I linked to above did exactly that sort of test (but with hearing aids instead of phones):

Results: All desiccants and the white rice were effective in removing moisture from hearing aids, with Hal Hen Super Dri Aid showing the largest mean reduction in relative humidity. Based on analysis of covariance results, white rice was statistically similar to several of the commercial desiccants.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27869510/

 

[ClintRo]

I work in a school district where we use rice in a Rubbermaid container for laptops and iPads and I would say about 90 percent of the time it works unless something corrosive like soda is spilled on the device or they waited too long to tell us.

But does it work better than air drying ... that is the question here.

 

[AndroidFanboy8]

I learnt my lesson a few devices ago......I stay wide and clear from anything requiring a liquid adhesive or bonding step. It's too easy to leak adhesive into the ports ruining your phone. And washing is a huge nono, def NO for a 2000$device....yikes.

I would never intentionally either for any other reason other than to get off liquid adhesive that wouldn't common off with alcohol wipes.

 

[Apav]

I learnt my lesson a few devices ago......I stay wide and clear from anything requiring a liquid adhesive or bonding step. It's too easy to leak adhesive into the ports ruining your phone. And washing is a huge nono, def NO for a 2000$device....yikes.

So do you use any screen protector? I haven't used film in many years, worried that won't be enough to protect from drops. Regular tempered glass with pre-applied adhesive is apparently a no-go for curved screens, it won't adhere good enough. If only this phone didn't have a curved screen....

For the record my phone seems fine, if there was water damage to the internals I would've noticed it already no? But the soap may have weakened its future water resistance. Not like I'd willingly get it wet for any other reason other than getting adhesive out of its crevices, and the next time I do that I won't be using soap.

I've heard the Whitestone Domeglass is less runny and have seen many success stories with it here, so I think I'm going to try that next. I just value my screen being crack and scratch free above anything else. The only deal breaker is if the adhesive in the crevices harden under UV light, but that didn't happen with the AmFilm.

 

[scribe4food]

I have run most of my Notes, and the current 20 Ultra, under running water from the sink when I wanted to clean the screen; and have never had a problem.

That is not me saying there is nothing to worry about. I'm only contributing my experiences.