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Dropping your phone in water is the worst. One second you're sat potting the brown, trying to make something of Tinder - the next, your hands turn to Lurpak and it's bye-bye to Mr Phone.
If you're rich, you can probably flush the toilet and then buy a better phone. But for the rest of us it's not that easy. We have to flap our hands about and retrieve the fucking thing.
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What next? We've been brought up to instinctively know wet phones, if not wet electronics in general, bode well when buried in rice and left for a few hours.
Apparently, though, that's not the only option.
Lads, it's goodbye to Uncle Ben's and a massive hello to cat litter! 'Cause cat litter's lit when it comes to resuscitating drenched phones.
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Phone company Gazelle even ran some tests to prove the method was more effective than using rice.
It recommend shaking all of the water out, air-drying it and then sticking it in a bag of cat litter for as long as possible. It can take days, apparently.
If your phone is still playing up after two days then, sorry lads, but it means it's time to pull the proverbial plug. So then not only have you got a broken phone, but a broken phone covered in kitty litter.
Maybe it really is better being rich.
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Words Josh Teal
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