Couldn't you set an alarm for when the sprinklers.... oh.

Rice my friend, rice.

Sidenote: Wouldn't the sun possibly cause the phone to "steam" instead of drying it out?

I mean, the sprinklers would be ineffective if the phone was already ruined. Most phones need to be submerged to be heavily damaged. Only certain parts of phones are sensitive to water, which are generally internal, so assuming it worked after the water torture, it may be fine.
P.S. Especially if you didn't throw your phone in the grass, like I assume you didn't.

Yeah, but they disassembled it before sprinkling it - so the sprinkler water definitely did get inside the phone.

Now, repairs are going to be very expensive.

Expect to get ... soaked.

That wasn't even a pun?

Yes it was. Soaked has two meanings in this case. It is indeed a pun.

I think some people use 'soak' to mean paying high taxes or imposing heavy charges. It's definitely not widely used enough to be a pun that many people would understand.

"Today not only I was dropped in stinking toilet, but was showered by sprinklers. FML" - Diary of an unfortunate phone...

Despite being completely wet, she is not getting turned on

..oh wait we were talking about a phone

I was gonna ask why you wouldn't expect rain or anything, but then I saw your location.

Use silica gel packets from shoe boxes and such to absorb the moisture from your phone. You don't have to take them out of the package.

bucket of rice, man

Why the hell would you put it outside? Put it in a bowl of dessicant or something.