Discovering How To Fix A Phone With Water Damage | The Communication Blog

Monday, July 4, 2011

Discovering How To Fix A Phone With Water Damage

By Erica E. Reynolds


Electronics are a big part of everyone's life now, so it is no surprise when little accidents happen and we are faced with learning how to fix a phone with water damage. The accident may happen when you are about to use the toilet and the device slips out of your pocket and falls in the urinal. It might happen when you are fumbling in your handbag and the cellular falls in your drink, one never knows.

Once a cellular device comes in contact with water, there is a high chance that it will be destroyed, unless one acts quickly. It is expensive to get it repaired, so avoiding the chance of water destroying vital parts of the mechanism is the first step. If your device gets in contact with liquid, it is best to dry it off quickly and take it apart to dry off internal parts as well.

The easiest thing to get to is the battery, so remove the battery and your sim card immediately and start drying off the battery compartment of the cell. Take the device apart and fill a container up with alcohol and soak the cellular device in it (not the battery and the sim) so that the alcohol displaces any other liquid. The alcohol will remove liquids that can be corrosive to the phone parts.

There are situations when a person will drop their unit in coffee or juice, which is very sticky and thick. To prevent stickiness in the unit, it is best to soak the device in distilled water for a few minutes to get rid of the stickiness. Once this is gone, then the unit can be soaked in alcohol to displace the water and prevent corrosion.

Once the soaking is completed, the device should be placed in a dry area, preferably in a place with dry air and air conditioning, and dried upon a highly absorbent cloth. Earbuds can also be used to speed up the process to dry up external and reachable parts. Complete drying should take a little more than two hours. Shaking the unit will also assure you that all the liquids are dislodged.

Using a hair dryer at its cool setting will help you dry your cellular device faster. It is best to use a cool setting so that plastic parts inside the unit do not melt. Once you are sure the entire unit is dry, reinstall the battery and sim card and test the unit.

When your unit becomes waterlogged, this is one of the most tried and tested ways that have proven to be successful when learning how to fix a phone with water damage. But if this procedure is not successful, then you may have to bring it to a repair shop to be looked at by a professional technician.




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