Nixta Rolls

These quotes all come from this page’s comments on how to dry out a soaked iPhone/iPod. Let this be a warning to you. Don’t keep the slippery bastard in your back pocket whilst preparing for some toilet time. It’s nearly happened to me twice, and now it’s happened to DMC (I believe it will work fine when we power it on again this evening).

Let’s start with the surprisingly criminal:

My fone was in oiled water since it fell in a puddle at school while running away from authority. I noticed it was gone only 10 minutes later after which I found it, got home and tried this method.
24 hours later the fone is JUST AWESOME. PERFECT.

then the entirely mystifying:

What if you were to have your ipod touch in your pocket at the time you were neck deep in muddy pond water? I dried it out and can turn it on but it shuts right back off and there is mud in the display.(BAD STORY!)

and finally, and inexplicably ucoördinatedly:

My iPod fell in the pool. Do not ask why. I was running around and I fell in too.

Interestingly, DMC’s doesn’t show any sign of the water indicators having been triggered, which surprises me. However, it was still working after its 2-second soak with only a complaint about incompatible devices (clearly a short in the dock connector socket) and service seeming to drop out (either a delayed reaction to losing service underwater, or a short on the antenna). We turned it off immediately, and it’s been sitting in a bowl of rice, as advised, for the last 16 hours.

It’s only a phone. I find the whole thing quite amusing, and I’ve learnt something new about the desiccant properties of dried rice and their role in saving electronics from drowning.

Update: Tonks today placed his iPhone in a cup of water. His wife had placed a cup of water in the car’s cup-holder while he was driving her around, as best as I can tell,  but he didn’t notice until he realised the reason he couldn’t read the message on the phone was that he was looking through a cup and some water.

Coincidence? Oh, I think so.