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.
Two different “up” questions come up here, and getting the first one wrong halves your results.
For a complete overview, see our full guide: Diagnosing what is actually wrong.
The diaphragm's airflow alternates — it pushes out, then pulls in — so over a full cycle those roughly cancel. What produces net outward movement is gravity. Held with the grille facing up, every droplet you free has to travel uphill against its own weight, and most of it settles straight back.
Grille facing straight down, device tilted about 45 degrees, means the outward stroke is assisted and the inward stroke opposed. Liquid then runs off the casing rather than pooling beside the opening. This single detail changes results more than any setting.
70 to 80 percent, not maximum. Past roughly 80 percent the amplifier clips — the waveform peaks flatten and the diaphragm holds at full extension rather than travelling smoothly. The motion becomes a buzz rather than a pump, so effectiveness falls even as loudness rises. The voice coil also heats, raising resistance and reducing output further.
Start the tone playing, then adjust. Phones keep separate levels for media, ringer, calls and alarms, and pressing the rocker before audio plays usually moves the ringer.
Clothing absorbs expelled water and can wick it straight back into the grille. Hold the device out over a surface rather than against yourself.
Case off, grille facing straight down, tilted roughly 45 degrees, held away from clothing, volume 70–80 percent, dry cloth ready for wiping between cycles.
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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