Great end to a suspenseful ordeal!

When a phone gets submerged or very wet the best thing to do is
* immediately remove the battery, SD card
* leave battery cover off slide out the keyboard if applicable.
* put it on a heater register or fan or warm (not hot) surface.

There are little paper things inside the phone and on the battery that change color (from stripes to solid color?) when the phone is exposed to water so they know if it had a mishap.

 

Take out battery and SD card
Slide out keyboard
Put in a bowl of uncooked rice

 

Exactly ... nothing will pull the moisture out of it faster than plain old uncooked rice. My son took his iPod outside with him in the rain and got it wet ... I did this and after a day or so the iPod worked again.

 

The rice does work OK & it's definitely cheap & easy. But it's sometimes dusty and can harbor bacteria, so I'd prefer not to immerse my electronics in it unless it's the only option. A more effective method is to seal the device in a ziploc bag with as many desiccant packs as you can find. It keeps any moisture in the air from preventing the drying process, and the silica material is the fastest way to remove moisture without using damaging heat. The larger desiccant capsules from medicine bottles work very well, so I always save them for future use. I'm a scuba diver and watch collector, so it's always just a matter of time before I have a flooded device of some sort that needs a quick dry.