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This morning on GDay Philadelphia we featured some basic and some crazy ways to save a wet cellphone. A new survey from ENGLAND estimates that 880,000 cell phones there are destroyed annually when they are accidentally tossed into a toliet.  Some of the suggestions for salvaging a 'cellie' are putting it into a bag of dry rice ( the rice apparently absorbs the water) or placing the phone on your dashboard of our car.  Apparently the dash gives off a low amount of heat and dries it out safely.

We will give you an update on which of the tricks worked tommorrow.  I have been hearing from some of you... and here are a couple of the emails.   Thanks for watching!! I'm looking forward to hearing more from our viewers.

FROM AMANDA:      3 years ago I was bathing my daughter in the tub (shhh don't tell her I told you) and my cell phone was in my front pocket. When I leaned over the tub out it fell. Oops. Well this was not the first time this happened and I laughed when I saw your news cast saying to put it in the fridge...only it's not the fridge...it's actually the freezer. I have since dropped 2 other cell phones in water since and all three times it worked like a charm!

FROM CHARLES:   Please stop giving people false hope.. As a wireless employee i know for a fact that all the little tricks that are posted on certain websites are not true.  The customers phone may work for a while, but eventually the phone will start to have problems, keypad not working, screen goes in and out.  The is the start of the corrision process; our techs actually open up the phones to check for corrision on the motherboard and charging ports.  So even if the customer tries to protect the white sticker on the inside of the phone, techs will still know that the phone has been hit with some type of liquid.