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My phone made contact with water at amusement park so I had to wait for 5 hours to put it in rice at home is it all good
Rice does nothing other than tempt you to put electricity through a board with dried salt on it.
The reason why people continue to perpetuate the rice myth is because sometimes water never really hits the logic board at all—so the phone air dries (whether in rice or not it makes no difference) and then it turns right back on.
You can get achieve the same thing much faster by opening your phone and drying it out with a paper towel—that is level one. You can level up and take the board out and dry the board, screen, battery etc on your counter for a few hours. Want to go to level 3? Take the board out and scrub it with toothbrush and alcohol, then dry and reassemble. Level 4—desolder the soldered on shields, ultrasonic clean first. Level 5—same as above, but use your hot air rework station and microscope to windshield wipe the chestnut chip (image/touch power chip) area that sits right under the “water entry holes” on the back of the iPhone 5s logic board—when water does hit the 5s board, this is where it always goes. Level 6—keep working at the logic board until there is zero sign that water ever hit it at all, test and replace cameras, charge port, battery, loudspeaker and button flexes as necessary. Then you’ve beaten the boss and the phone will truly have no lingering effects from the water.
So to answer your question “will my phone be ‘all good’ after skipping those steps and dropping it in a bag of rice for a few hours.”
The answer is “No, but you may think it is if you’ve in the lucky group where water just rolled around on top of the battery and never hit the board”
