Dropped iPhone in water and it shut off on its own? I feel terrible

I accidentally dropped my iPhone 4 into a bucket with 5 inch deep water. It slipped from my hand. I took it out immediately and pressed the 'slide to unlock' option and the screen was fine. I did not touch any other option. Then I pressed the volume buttons and found out that they were not working. Then I started shaking it hard to let some water out. The screen started blinking and then went blank, but the vibration was fine as i changed it from silent to normal mode. Then I dried it with a hair dryer for a minute. After that, I pressed the mode button again but it didn't vibrate. Looked like it shut off on its own(I'm not sure). Then I googled and found out that I should not turn it on and keep it in a bag full of rice for a few days. I did the same. Has this trick ever worked for anyone else? Do you think there's a chance that my iPhone will work after I turn it on after a few days? Please help me. I love my iPhone. The incident happened yesterday night and I was not able to sleep peacefully after that. I keep cursing myself for being a jerk for taking it to the bathroom. There were many memorable photos in it along with contacts, some important documents and apps. I have exams in a week and I'm unable to concentrate on my studies or anything else. :'

Why is text green on the iPhone?

My boyfriend and i have the iPhone 4.sometimes our texts comes out blue which is totally fine BUT sometimes for a couple hours when i text him "the texts" comes out green. So i was wondering if they come out green cause he doesn't have signal or cause he turn off the phone.

Stolen Iphone, what should I do?

Someone at school stole my iphone, I went to the office and told the school officer. They looked on the cameras and didn't see anything, but he filed a report that its missing with the school. My friend used her phone to track it, and we found the location; on the side of the highway. We gave it a try and went to the location and looked the best we could, but since it was dark out we had no luck. We were planning on going back tomorrow but she refreshed the "Find my iphone" app and as it refreshed it went to a house and said that's where it was but then quickly went back to the spot on the highway. I have the address of the house and i'm wondering what I should do next? Should I just call the police in the morning and give it to them? Or would they not do anything. It's in a sketchy neighborhood so they may be up to something suspicious and have a cellphone scrambler because when i tried putting a pin on it to get the address it gave me a complete random address but when i tried a few houses down it gave me the right one.

IPhone picture editing apps

I want a FREE pic editing app, that has a lot of effects, and his fairly easy to use! I take a lot of pictures, of people, I wanna be a photographer so I just practice on my iPhone till Christmas when I get a camera. So Apps that would make the pics look really nice!
- I alredy have that PE-foltor app.
-it needs to be FREE!

Dropped iPhone in water and it shut off on its own? I feel terrible:? - 1

I accidentally dropped my iPhone 4 into a bucket with 5 inch deep water. I took it out immediately and pressed the 'slide to unlock' option and the screen was fine. I did not touch any other option. Then I pressed the volume buttons and found out that they were not working. Then I started shaking it hard to let some water out. The screen started blinking and then went blank, but the vibration was fine as i changed it from silent to normal mode. Then I dried it with a hair dryer for a minute. After that, I pressed the mode button again but it didn't vibrate. Looked like it shut off on its own(I'm not sure). Then I googled and found out that I should not turn it on and keep it in a bag full of rice for a few days. I did the same. Has this trick ever worked for anyone else? Do you think there's a chance that my iPhone will work after I turn it on after a few days? Please help me. I love my iPhone. The incident happened yesterday night and I was not able to sleep peacefully after that. I keep cursing myself for being a jerk for taking it to the bathroom. There were many memorable photos in it along with contacts, some important documents and apps. I have exams in a week and I'm unable to concentrate on my studies or anything else. :'(

Added (1). The phone slipped from my hand