If you’ve ever dropped your phone in water, a common piece of advice you get is to leave it in a bag of rice. This supposedly absorbs all the water from your phone and fixes it from water damage.
While this is technically true, it isn’t really practical to do so. Leaving your phone in a bag of rice can cause issues like rice grains getting stuck in your charging port.
If you did follow this advice or somehow have rice stuck in your charging port, let’s see how you can get it out.
Step 1: Preparations
As the charging port is really small in size, you will need to have a few specific tools to be able to pry out the stuck rice. So, let’s see what you will need to get the rice out from your charging port.
Don’ts of Getting Rice Out of Charging Port
Step 2: Shutdown Your Device
Before working on getting the stuck rice out of your charging port, you should shut down your device first.
If yourphone has suffered water damageprior, and you can’t turn it on or off, you should visit a repair center instead.
Step 3: Getting the Rice Out
Now, let’s see how you’re able to get the stuck rice grain out from your charging port.
If you can’t get the stuck rice grain out yourself, or the charging port doesn’t work after getting the rice out, you can visit a repair center for professional help.
