How To Rescue Your Cell Phone from the Toilet

We’ve got a lawyer who has dropped his Blackberry in the “sink” (uh huh, sure, I suspect it was the toilet) twice. One time we replaced the phone with a new one. The next time we were able to dry it out and it started working after a few days.

There are lots of ideas about how to dry out a phone. They usually involve rice, silica gel, or hair dryers. It’s hard to know what really works. You really want the phone dried out and working because buying a new smartphone, without the benefit of a contract subsidy, can run more than $500.

Dry-All is a “Molecular Dehumidifier” designed for drying out cell phones. It sells for $20 a bottle plus $5 shipping. You put your phone in a sealed container filled with Dry-All and about 48 hours later your phone is, hopefully, dry and working. There aren’t any guarantees, but it’s a more reliable approach than much of what I’ve read about elsewhere. I’ve got a bottle on the shelf waiting for the next dip in the toilet.

Dry-All is not a one shot deal. You can use it over and over. You’ve got to reactivate it after use by drying it out in the oven. It takes 15 minutes and sounds pretty easy.

Dry-All protects against more than just toilets. It also works on moisture from pools, rivers, lakes, oceans, snow, rain and other sources of water. I suggest you go ahead and order a jar of the stuff. It will be too late to buy it when you really need it.

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Post written by Lee Rosen on February 8, 2010 in Technology