How To Save Your Cell Phone From Water Damage

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It may sometime happen that your cell phone accidentally dropped in a sink or even in toilet. Your phone may be struck to a water damage when its left in your pocket and run in cycle of wash machine. Such type of problem is quite often faced in rainy seasons when you get beaten by rain.

Unfortunately there is a procedure by which could save your phone when it gets beaten by water damage. Wet cell phone means you’ve to replace it, but not always. If you are active, you might be able to save your phone.

Follow The Steps To Save Your Phone from Water Damage:

1. Immediately taking out phone from water:-

The headphone inserting hole, very small hole for Microphone, charger inserting hole, or gaps between body and cover of phone even it was very tightly Packed, from all of that a water enter inside the phone in a second, as it was drop into the water. Suddenly Take out phone from water, switch it off, if the phone is switch on could lead to short circuit in phone.

2. Chance to save phone from water even it was in water for some time:-

It may be possible to save phone even it was immerse in water for a time, for example phone is in pocket of pant or shirt and the cloth was put in washing machine, so before considering phone was almost gone because of  such type of case, Try Some Tips To Save Phone:

a). If phone was in charging mode and accidentally drop in washing machine, so firstly take advise from expertise to take it out, to be safe from electric shock, rather than put your hand in washing machine cycle suddenly.

b). All the process is immediate, and then it may result to save the phone.

3. Removing battery from phone:-

After quickly taking out phone from water, dry it by rubbing with soft cloth

and then quickly remove back cover and battery from phone. This is very important step to save phone and to rectify the chances of short circuit in phone chips.

4. Removing SIM card:-

Many of the people store their important data or contact into the sim memory, if sim card get wet with phone, it may cause loss of all important data stored in sim memory, so taking immediate action of removing out the sim from phone may save the important data saved in sim memory.

5. Removing of all type of accessary attached with phone:-

The immediate action of removing all accessories (ear plug, SD card, USB cable) if connected with the phone, while the phone was accidentally dropped into the Water, may result to become free space of the slots and help to water comes out from inside the phone, and also help to enter air inside the phone to dry the water.

6.  Gently apply soft cloth or towel to dry your phone:-

After removing all the accessories, the phone was properly get dry by rubbing with light hand, on the as well as inside the surface of phone or by  putting a cloth inside the phone from small slots if possible, because a single drop of water present inside the phone may corrode the chips of phone or may cause short circuit in phone chips.

NOTE:- While doing such process be carefully, that the phone does not shake or move so much or very hardly.

7. Removing water from phone by means of vacuum cleaner:-

By making use of vacuum cleaner, the water as well as moisture also remove out from phone, moving vacuum cleaner about 20 minute over very affected area, result to dry the phone very well. This is the very simple, less time consuming, effective and very fast technique which was completely drain out the water from phone and give positive result with in a few minutes.

Note:- Be careful not to hold the vacuum of vacuum cleaner too close to the phone, because vacuum can create static electricity inside the phone, which is badly effective for the phone more than water. Also do not use hair dryer, it may burn the chip or it’s component’s.

8. Hair dryer not to be used for dry out a phone:-

It is recommended that you should Not use a hair dryer (not even on the “cold” mode). Using a hair dryer may force moisture to get inside the phone. if the hair dryer air is in warm mode, it result to melt the small parts or the body.

Note :- If moisture is move very deep inside the phone, corrosion and oxidation may result and cause component failure inside the phone.

9. Use a substance which results for drawing out moisture effectively.

An Easy and Cheapest option is to place the phone in a bowl or bag of uncooked rice for whole night. The rice will absorb any remaining moisture. You can also try place the cell phone inside a plastic bag that can be sealed or a plastic container (airtight). Add a desiccant packet, such as silica gel basically comes with new shoes, purses, etc. in with the cell phone.

Note:- Rotate the phone to a different position every hour .This will allow any water left inside to drain out from the space of porting.

10. The phone was placed on water or moisture absorbing towels or paper:-

After removing the phone from the rice or desiccant, place the phone on an absorbing material. Remember that the goal is to remove all of the moisture and humidity from the device.

Note:- Check the absorbent material every hour for 4 to 6 hours. If moisture is remain in phone, repeat the Vacuuming step and desiccant steps.

11. Test your phone:-

After doing all these process, check and see that every area of your cell phone is clean and looks dry. Check all the ports, and in between tiny gapes for any moisture or dirt. Remove away any dust and dirt from the device and covers and insert the battery into the phone. Now attempt to power on the device.

Note:  Power on the phone at least after 24 hours. 

More Hopes:

a). If your phone is completely dried out, but still does not work, try plug in the phone into its charger without inserting battery into the phone. If this works, it means your battery get damage due to action of water.

b). If plug in the phone into the charger doesn’t work, so give cell phone to a mobile service centers.

12. If you are trained and skilled in phone repairing check out some more tip:-

If you switch on the phone but it doesn’t work properly after you’ve dried it, then it’s mean that you’ve missed some liquid inside it. Remove all type of accessories again (card, battery, sim), and rub it gently with a dry brushes like paint or toothbrush.