165 Hz water eject tone
Play the 165 Hz water eject tone to push water out of your phone speaker. Free, in your browser, nothing to install.
Turn your volume all the way up, then press Start.
Which speaker plays?
How does each range sound?
Listen for rattling, crackling or a range that drops out. Many phones have a single loudspeaker, so left and right may both come from the same place.
Speed matters. The sooner you run it, the less time water has to settle into the mesh.
Dry the outside of the phone and run the tone within a few minutes of the splash, before droplets settle deeper.
Set device volume to 100% and switch off Silent mode. The tone needs full volume to move the speaker hard.
Hold the phone with the speaker grille facing the floor and let the 60 second cycle run. Droplets drop out as they loosen.
Wipe the grille with a dry cloth, play a song, and run two or three more cycles if it still sounds wet.
A speaker makes sound by moving a thin diaphragm back and forth. At 165 Hz it moves a long way, 165 times every second, and each stroke pumps air hard through the grille. Water clings to the mesh by surface tension; those pressure pulses break the droplets free and push them out.
The tone here plays in pulses: 0.8 seconds on, 0.2 seconds off. Every restart hits the diaphragm with a fresh push, which shakes droplets loose better than a steady hum.
It’s the same idea Apple Watch uses after a swim. Water Lock plays a short series of tones to clear its speaker. This page does the same thing with your browser’s audio engine, so it works on iPhone, Android, tablets and laptops.
Sound only reaches water sitting in or near the grille. If liquid got inside the phone’s body, or the phone was fully submerged and now misbehaves, power it off and have it checked. No tone can dry the inside of a device.
What you do in the first ten minutes decides how it ends.
A dry cloth on the case, ports and grilles stops more water working its way in.
Speaker facing down, full volume, one to three cycles.
Leave it somewhere dry with some airflow before charging.
Wait until the charging port is completely dry. Many phones block charging when they detect moisture.
Hair dryers can warp seals, and compressed air drives water deeper.
Rice doesn’t dry the inside faster, and its dust can end up in the ports.
One 60 second cycle clears most splashes. If the sound is still muffled, run two or three more with a short pause between them. If nothing changes after four or five cycles, the problem is probably not water in the grille.
It’s low enough to move a small phone diaphragm a long distance, but still within what tiny speakers can reproduce. Much lower and phone speakers barely respond; much higher and the movement gets smaller. The Deep clean mode on the main tool also rotates through 110 and 220 Hz.
Yes. It runs in Safari, Chrome, Samsung Internet, Firefox and Edge. On iPhone, switch off Silent mode first, because it mutes browser audio.
They use the same principle. A Shortcut has to be installed from a third party first; this page works straight away in any browser and also lets you change the cycle length, mode and volume.
A minute or two at full volume is similar to playing bass-heavy music loud. Avoid running it for many minutes nonstop, and stop if you hear harsh crackling.
Check that the phone isn’t muted, that headphones or Bluetooth speakers are disconnected and that the browser tab isn’t muted. Then press Start again.
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