I’ve got bad iPhone Problems.
I was trying to be a good wife and serve my husband dinner. Anyone who knows me, knows that my arms are extremely long and lanky and tend to flail from my body like a wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man. As I dished out his dinner, one of my extremities knocked over my giant glass of water. My poor, helpless iPhone laid there, in the stream of gushing water, enjoying a nice cold bath. At that moment, I would normally shift my gears to cleaning the water off my high-maintenance kitchen table. But ran to try and save my iPhone. Screw the damn wood!!
It was too late. There it sat, swimming in a pool of water. Of course I never bought insurance for the phone like a dumb ass so all my husband kept thinking about was how he was going to have to buy me a freaking brand new phone. I pat it dry, give a little prayer and see if it will turn on. To my dismay it did! We both let out a big sigh of relief but then it started going psycho. Turning itself on and off, blinking craziness and not letting me power off. Here we go.
I always heard of a weird rice drying method. I would try anything at this point to get my phone back to normal. The thought of being with out a phone made me go half insane. I have issues, I know…but you all would do the same! I grabbed a Ziploc baggy and dumped some white rice in then immersed my phone in that. After a long and torturous couple of hours I tested it out. And it worked like normal. I was thrilled and so was my husbands wallet. I checked all my functions and go figure, there’s freaking condensation in my backside camera. Back into the bag it went for the rest of the night, in a nice, warm drawer along with a few more prayers and maybe a voodoo witch ritual. Low and behold it needed all that time to dry up and this morning my phone was 100% back to normal, minus a few pieces of rice stuck up in it.
So, if you ever get caught in an unfortunate incident such as this with your iPhone or any phone for that matter, this is all you gotta do:
Step 1: Dry off phone as much as possible.
Step 2: Get a baggy immediately and fill with rice.
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Step 3: Place said phone into rice baggy and put it in a nice, warm area for as long as you can.
dry the eff up!
A drawer, by the DVR, or your computer-where ever you can get some generated heat.
Step 4: Remove phone the next day or two and test it out. Make sure to get out those pesky pieces of rice, don’t want any more problems!
stowaways
Hopefully after doing that, your phone will be brought back to life, like mine. If not, well then, you’re pretty much screwed!
Unless you had more brains than myself and purchased insurance.
Note to self: purchase insurance dumb ass!
– Amanda
