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Fun fact: that's not how humidity works. It, in fact, DOES help to get water to evaporate by forcing the local humidity around the phone to stay low. Otherwise you may as well say all the people doing 3D printing that use desiccant to keep water out of their filaments are fools, too.
What it won't do is magically erase any gunk or minerals that were in the water that can short out traces on unprotected PCBs and chips even with the water gone.
So, yes, it is not magic that can fix any phone that saw water. Though it absolutely helps to get the water out of the phone. ... I mean, unless you live in a desert where the humidity should already be sufficiently low most days.
Sure, but rice is a shitty desiccant. If it weren't, it would cook easier and we would ship things with packets of rice rather than silica gel.
Silica gel is a great desiccant. Just because rice cannot match something basically designed for the task, doesn't make it awful.
You might as well be saying, "but my horse cannot run fast! He's always behind Secretariat!"
It makes it awful for the purpose of drying wet electronics. It actually impedes the drying process by preventing air from circulating. Plus rice is typically dusty, and you don't want rice dust in your damp electronics.
You'll have a dryer device much faster if you just point a fan at it.
That depends on your humidity. As I already said, if you're in a desert that's normally dry enough...
If you're not in a desert, though, you'll have to dry the desiccant for it to have an actually significant effect. Though that's true regardless of which desiccant.
Within the phone, general relative humidity is FAR more important than airflow.
Right but none of that makes rice a good enough desiccant to be more effective than airflow. I live in a very humid environment and an hour or so under a fan is sufficient to dry electronics.
lol no. Dried desiccant in a bag will absolutely murder any fan in a humid environment.
An actual desiccant, yes. Rice isn't that.
By definition, yes. Yes it is. It's just not amazing at it.