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Originally Posted by dchky View Post
It's always unfortunate when people recommend putting electronics in rice, rice is dusty and makes for a rather poor desiccating agent. It wont dry out your N900 any quicker than if you just put it on your kitchen table.

Wet N900? Remove the battery, strip it down to pieces, dry each part as best you can, then hit each part with a hair dryer or put it all in your oven at a temperature of not more than about 50 degrees C until you are convinced that it is utterly dry.

Once you are convinced, don't be. You've probably still got moisture underneath the surface mounted IC's. Pull off all the metal covers and hair dry it for another half hour or so. Then leave it all for half a day or so and let nature do what you might not have.

After this, if your N900 works, it works, if not, it probably never will.

Don't use rice, you would get far more benefit just sticking your N900 on a sunny windowsill than you ever will by submerging it in rice.
True. Rice is just a moderate drying agent and it is dusty.

Buying a bag of silicon gel (see attachment) and immerse your phone in them in a air-tight container. Silicon gel is a pretty strong drying agent which would turn from blue to white pretty quickly if it's exposed to normal atmosphere. So becareful.

You can easily find silicon gel in any professional camera shop. Do not confuse it with 'silicone gel', which is used to enlarge breasts.
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