Drying Out Your Wet Cell Phone

If you have ever had the horror of your cell phone getting wet or dunked, you know that sinking feeling that you receive as you try and figure out what to do. Water is the enemy of your cell phone and can render it a worthless piece of technology. So, we all know that you do not use a hair dryer and that the very first action you should do is to remove the battery. Do not touch any of the keys or power button. Once the battery has been removed, dry off the phone as much as possible to remove moisture from it. Then place your cell phone in a bowl of dry uncooked rice, completely covering it. The rice will absorb the moisture from the phone. This will take a few days or longer to remove all the moisture from the phone.

There are actual products on the market which do an even better job of recovering a wet cell phone. We ran across another one recently called the BHEESTIE Bag and the secret ingredient is the BHEESTIE Molecular Beads. These beads absorb moisture from a wet cell phone far better than rice will do. And the beads absorb twice as much water as when compared to using uncooked rice according to the company.

The BHEESTIE Bag is not going to save your phone if it is in water for too long. At that point, it is a dead cell phone. Having one of these on hand might not be a bad idea in the event that your cell phone takes a dive into water and you are able to quickly pull it out. There are other options out there, but this one seems like one of the better ones to help save the day. You can pick one up from Amazon.com for under $20 so that could even be a great gift.

There are others on the market such as Dry-All bags which come as a Wet Cellular Phone or Wet Smartphone Emergency Kit. There does not appear to be any difference between the two and Amazon only carries the cellular phone product. They have Blue Bead Technology beads which are supposed to pull the moisture out very quickly which they claim to be in as little as 6 hours. The time difference could be a factor if you need to get your phone back in working order quickly.

This one was reviewed by CNet over a year ago and worked well in the tests. And this one has a claim of being able to be reused up to 5 times, which can be considered a real cost saver. But, if you are dunking your phone that often, there are other issues. This one comes in under $20 as well and should be considered as a great gift.

There are other potential products on the market you can purchase and use with great results. But will you have to have already purchased the product and have it with you at the time that you get your cell phone wet. That becomes the real question to ask yourself. If you are not at home, your best bet in that situation is the remove the battery and remove as much moisture with a cloth. Then go and purchase some uncooked rice and completely cover your phone. In these situations, time is of the essential in trying to save the investment that you made in your smart phone.