EMMANUEL KANT, BUT DESICCANT CAN

" Your phone fell in the water, quick, put it in rice!"  So goes the popular belief.  The rice would absorb all the moisture overnight and the next day the phone would work again.  Recently, my son's Android phone showed the water droplet icon and would no longer charge.  He tried vacuuming and blowing air into the power port but nothing worked.  Before going the rice route, I read a bit about it and there were actual articles saying that it does not work.  Little bits of stuff in the rice may get into phone's port(s) and make things worse.  But packets of desiccant would make a good alternative.  I've been working in the computer industry for a while now.  New computers and computer equipments normally come with little bags of desiccant, to absorb moisture and what not during transit.  At one job, someone told me he wanted them, since we were throwing the packets away after unpacking the computers.  Ever since then, I started to save them, too.  Yeah, I save too much crap to use some rainy day.  But recently that day came!  I put a few of those desiccant bags in a rectangular food takeout container - two instances of re-use! - and then the "wet" phone.  Placed a heavy book atop the container, waited overnight.  I am not 100% sure if that did the trick, but next day my son's phone worked again.  It's been more than a week now, so far so good.  My mother had a similar problem a few weeks earlier.  I did the same for her recently but when I asked her if it helped, she just rambled on about something else and I couldn't get a word in edgewise.  I will have to see it for myself this weekend, sigh.