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Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

#41
On iOS there are these Shortcuts you can install in the integrated automation app:

"Water Eject is a simple, yet powerful Siri Shortcut built for iOS and designed to protect your premium Apple devices after being in accidental contact with water by generating an ultra low 165Hz frequency sound wave that propels moisture out from the speaker cavity system."

https://routinehub.co/shortcut/571/

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

#42

> So you've dropped your phone in the toilet, Would you guys pick it up? I am not sure what I would do. Edit: of course, I would not let it clog the drain. I mean would you use it afterward.

I mean, it’s a $1400 iPhone that’s some level of water resistant so it’ll work fine when I get it out. (Like, I watch YouTube videos in the shower and occasionally wash it under a tap with soap.)

So yeah, gonna pull it out and wash it and keep using it.

But I’ll never forget.

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

#43
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> dry the outside of the phone with paper and put the phone in an open box with a lot of rice iFixIt claims this is just psychological comfort and offers this advice: > The real secret to water damage? You don't want to dry it! > What you want to do is first displace the water—or more specifically, all the conductive stuff in the water. You can do this best by using 90%+ isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol and a toothbrush.…

That link is broken because the real link has 3 dots at the end.

Thanks for that. It seems like they get stripped out by HN, and I don't know a workaround

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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> So you've dropped your phone in the toilet, Would you guys pick it up? I am not sure what I would do. Edit: of course, I would not let it clog the drain. I mean would you use it afterward.

Kids orient you to poop in a whole new way. I wouldn’t even think about it. Grab it, wash hands, wash phone, wash hands again.

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

#45

NSFH warning! Take the title literally. I interpreted the title as "Webapp that creates natural water sound using your phone", so I clicked the play button without realizing this is NOT a water sound. This is a tone that is played which expels water that got into the phone from the speaker, using the outward pressure created by the tone. Really cool idea.

Likely inspired by the Apple Watch feature. I’m surprised Apple didn’t build this into their phones as well. Good job!

If you're wondering how effective this is, the Slow Mo Guys has filmed it working in slow motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIEwy8rPik4

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That link is broken because the real link has 3 dots at the end.

Thanks for that. It seems like they get stripped out by HN, and I don't know a workaround

> a workaround

https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Don't_Put_Your_Device_in_Rice._H...

http://enwp.org/URI_encoding

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

#47

What’s the frequency Kenneth! I’d love to know more about why this tone and not another. Is a resonance thing? Max energy possible thing? Anything special about the shape of the wave?

Website plays https://fixmyspeakers.com/static/tone.mp3 Spectrogram shows high energy at many frequencies. Waveform shows saturated curve, no surprise. Might have been just recorded from some analog circuit.

Or a metal album recorded in the last 10 years.

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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The italian regulators sure think it is: https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/30/apple-fined-12m-for-unfair-cl...

Clearly Apple isn't concerned, since they published this three days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCQpOaR3sVo

It looks like they skirt pretty closely around "submerging" the device. At no point in the commercial is it actually submerged in a body of water.

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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You're technically not supposed to submerge your iPhone; it voids their warranty. (It drives me mad that they do this in their advertisements, but I guess showing people doing things that would void their device's warranty is not false advertising…)

Seriously? Wow that’s all kinds of messed up to advertise and then tell people not to do. As a society, we’re in a pretty bad place when it comes to how much we simply expect false-ish advertising.

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Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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Perhaps tangential but I wanted to mention that if anyone else is looking to take photos under water at shallowish depths (about 10m at most), I found a cheap and reliable waterproof case with camera trigger button that I’ve been happy with. The camera trigger button of the case works by mechanically pushing the volume button on your phone, which when the built-in photo app of your phone is open works to take photos.…

> dry the outside of the phone with paper and put the phone in an open box with a lot of rice iFixIt claims this is just psychological comfort and offers this advice: > The real secret to water damage? You don't want to dry it! > What you want to do is first displace the water—or more specifically, all the conductive stuff in the water. You can do this best by using 90%+ isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol and a toothbrush.…

iPhones are all locked up, so ifixit's advice is worse than useless... it just serves to frustrate. What use is telling people to open up an iPhone when regular people don't have the tools to do so?
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