By merrr - 20/01/2014 20:34 - Canada

Today, I dropped my phone in the wet snow. I read that putting it in rice helps to get the water out. Three pieces of rice are now frozen into the power port, and I can't get the charger in. FML
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koalabear_55 11

Just leave it alone for now and go back to it when the rice defrosted. Get a tooth pick and try to get it out of there gently and if that doesn't work go to your provider and hopefully they can be of some use. Good luck OP :)

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shortunbiased 6

Is your name Brian by any chance?

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Kataclysm97 32

What, may I inquire, is the difference between a man's hair dryer and a woman's hair dryer?

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completly_derped 5

The rice thing is a joke people say if your phone is broken you should put it in rice and leave it over night and Asians will be atracted to the rice and come fix your electronics. It will not really fix anything!

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awesomeamandas 37

Just because someone made a joke about something doesn't mean it isn't true anymore. Rice will remove the moisture.

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Zebediabolical 40

People have been using dry rice to get the moisture out of electronics longer than facebook has been around to share that shitty joke.

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10showgirl 16

I live in Southeast Louisiana and we eat rice with nearly every meal. If rice was that absorbent, wouldn't it just plump up from all the humidity that we have?

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jujuthefroggy_fml 16

hmm uncooked rice absorves humidity, cooked rice do not....

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TheLittleOnion 18

Oh my gosh! How many times do people have to explain that IT IS A FACT!!!!!!! Rice absorbs the moisture out of the phone, and my dad has done countless times!

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Rainhawk94 27

Giraffes #65, the answer is obviously giraffes

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TheUngerWithout 7

I'm not sure how you accomplished getting rice frozen in your charger port, but that has to suck....

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majlymad 2

why where you trying to charge it while it still had ice in it? that's water so let me spell it out for you! ice is a form of water. what happens when you mix water with electricity? goes fizzzzz then maybe a pop. in short do not reproduce

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SouthernLady12 13

Certain he or she did not state they were attempting to charge the phone just that the rice got stuck.

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ChibiChibi_fml 27

"now frozen into the power port, and I can't get the charger in" How is it frozen there if the ice is gone? It could be stuck in there but not frozen. If they had just said the "now frozen" part it wouldn't imply that. The "and I can't get the charger in" , however, implies that it was still wet and they were trying to put the charger in.

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glabberfasted 16

Something doesn't have to have water on it to be frozen. Nearly everything has it's own freezing temperature. You're all assuming rice has to be below 32 Fahrenheit because that's common for water. It doesn't have to be that low.

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jujuthefroggy_fml 16

But if something is already solid, it can't freeze... in fact, when food freezes, it is actually the water in it that is freezing. However, i assume that the rice is not really frozen, but just stuck there because it inflated while absorbing the humidity.

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joopjoop 19

you're supposed to take the battery out and leave it all in the rice overnight... there should be no frozen parts after that

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Kataclysm97 32

But of course! How could I possibly have overlooked the giraffes? For shame! D=

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TopHatNinja68 6

No its so the rice will attract Asains will fix it and I'm just saying it I don't mean it

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