No. Rice is a poor desiccant — open moving air dries a device faster — and its starch dust migrates into the charging port, microphone holes and speaker grille, which can create a second problem on top of the first.
Tap the button below. It plays a low‑frequency sound that vibrates the speaker and pushes trapped water and dust out of the grille. Turn your volume up to about 80%.
💡 Point the speaker downward so gravity helps the water escape. Repeat 2–3 times if needed.
Select your issue and run the appropriate fix cycle to restore your speaker audio in about a minute.
Dry the outside of your phone first.
Let gravity help pull the water out.
Ensure audio plays through the phone's internal speakers.
Never use earbuds. Turn volume up, but 100% isn't required.
Our tool is designed to target the three most common speaker issues using precise acoustic frequencies. Whether your phone took a dive or just sounds muffled from pocket lint, here is how we fix it.
Clear trapped water from your phone in about 60 seconds. The steady 165 Hz vibration physically pushes trapped liquid out of the speaker mesh.
A steady 165 Hz tone — the sweet spot for maximum diaphragm travel — physically pushes trapped water out.
Use our deep clean mode to act as a dust remover. Sweeping low frequencies shake loose stubborn dirt, sand, and lint.
Sweeps across low frequencies (120–400 Hz) to shake loose lint, dust and stubborn droplets the single tone misses.
Act as a volume booster for muffled speakers. Clear out blockages to restore heavy sound, loud bass, and crisp audio.
A clean 440 Hz reference tone so you can hear whether your speaker sounds clear again after cleaning.
Perfectly safe. These are ordinary frequencies your speaker already plays during music. The tool never exceeds normal listening levels — it just concentrates the energy at the frequency that moves water best.
200 Hz is a genuinely usable cleaning frequency — one of the few specific numbers circulating that sits inside the range where the mechanism actually works.
For a complete overview, see our full guide: Diagnosing what is actually wrong.
The useful window for speaker ejection runs from roughly 120 to 400 Hz, where a small driver produces enough diaphragm travel to pump air meaningfully. 200 Hz sits comfortably inside it, which makes it a legitimate choice rather than a marketing number.
165 Hz is the more commonly quoted figure, chosen because it sits low in the band where excursion is largest while remaining reproducible by small drivers. 200 Hz gives slightly less travel per cycle but is comfortably within range for almost every phone speaker, including smaller ones that struggle at the lower end.
In practice the difference between them is smaller than the difference orientation makes. Neither is worth agonising over.
On very small drivers — budget phones, older handsets, some earbuds — output at 165 Hz can be weak because the driver is near its low-frequency limit. If a 165 Hz tone sounds faint on your device, moving up toward 200–250 Hz often produces noticeably more audible output and therefore more actual movement.
The reverse applies to Bluetooth speakers and laptops. Bigger diaphragms and heavier moving mass mean lower resonance, often below 100 Hz. On those, 200 Hz sits above the optimum and a downward sweep works better.
Resonant frequency varies between devices. A sweep across 120–400 Hz passes through whatever yours actually is, rather than betting on an average.
No. Rice is a poor desiccant — open moving air dries a device faster — and its starch dust migrates into the charging port, microphone holes and speaker grille, which can create a second problem on top of the first.
Stop. If three cycles produce no improvement at all, the cause is not blockage. Check the symptoms on our guide to when a sound tool will not help, and have the device inspected rather than continuing to run cycles.
No. The frequencies used sit inside the range your speaker already reproduces whenever you play music, and the tool runs at moderate volume rather than maximum. The one genuine caution is earbuds: never run ejection tones into in-ear devices while you are wearing them.
Thirty to sixty seconds per cycle, repeated two or three times with short pauses. Running it continuously for many minutes adds nothing once the accessible liquid is out, and only heats the voice coil.
No. Around 70 to 80 percent is the practical sweet spot. Maximum volume on a restricted diaphragm produces distortion rather than more displacement, and adds avoidable stress to the driver.
Our tool is great for water and dust, but it cannot fix physically blown speakers or electrical damage.
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