I'm 1.5/3. I've washed three phones now--I don't check pockets, they know this. The first one was dead, no help. Second one works perfectly. The third one, the battery is shot but the phone works (second battery). The phone will not charge the battery though. We have to pull it out and put it in the separate charger. All with the rice. We left them for days and did our best to resist the urge to just "check and see."
Good luck.
One other thing, we're with Sprint. After I washed the first phone, I found when I went online that there were some phones you could get for free. Refurbs. I don't know how this would impact our upgrade status, but if it doesn't work after the rice, you might be able to get a decent phone for little to no money. (This specifically stated online only, not available in stores.) We also had an older phone sitting here and he was able to just transfer back to it with no problem.