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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.
It may not be an industrial-grade desiccant, but the major advantage of rice is that people tend to have it at home...
I have a mason jar full of the desiccant packets that come with the random crap I order. I hang on to them in case my phone decides to go swimming. I recommend it to people, but I don't think I've made many converts lol
Just remember that dessicant (including rice) should be dried out in the oven if you're going to expect it to drop humidity below normal ambient humidity. Obviously not baked, but a few hours at ~180F to ~220F will dry out most dessicants. Some are really hydrophillic, though, and might take even higher temps.
Usually the kinds that dry out at lower temps are labeled as reusable or similar terminology. (unless it's a disposable packet, then it's what ever the hell they decided to throw in there).
I didn't know that, thanks!