When I drop my phone in the toilet, or dive with my phone in my pocket, or spill water on my notebook, what happens to it? Why does it stop working? Is rice any better than just letting it dry?
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Water (or more accurately the impurities within it) conducts electricity, so when electronics get wet the water redirects the electricity within the device resulting in electrical faults. Sometimes an electronic device may work again after it has been dried, but if it isn’t properly dried or the misdirected electricity shorted components within the device it may be permanently affected.
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