8 Simple Tips How to Fix Smartphones Dropped in Water

How to fix smartphones dropped in water

Water is the mortal enemy of electronic devices and one of them is a smartphone. Every possibility could happen. Smartphone exposed to water then totally dead. All types of electronic devices most likely damaged if exposed to water. If your smartphone exposed to water, and the water goes into a series of components that exist in the smartphone you have can lead to serious damage.

We can anticipate so the water is not affected fatal damage to the smartphone. If your smartphone exposed to water, what shall we do?

Some steps to prevent and repair to avoid fatal damage to smartphone:

1. First Aid you should do, if your smartphone still alive, immediately turn off your smartphone. If your smartphone instantly die when submerged or exposed to water you do not immediately turn on. This is to avoid surge of short-circuit at the smartphone. If you turn on, you can damage the IC and other components on your favorite smartphone.

2. The next step is remove the battery, sim card and memory card from your smartphone. Drain the battery, SIM card and the memory. Wipe with a cloth until completely dry.

3. Dry your smartphone, it is advisable to use a vacuum cleaner to suck up the water in your mobile device but it is advisable not to get too close to the device. This advice to minimize damage to components from static electricity from the vacuum cleaner. Besides it, you can also using clean washcloth until completely dry. Do not ever use a hair dryer to dry. It will make the water is pushed into your phone.

4. When your smartphone is completely dry, charge the battery with the desktop charger to the brim and reattach the battery, sim, and memory card into your mobile device and try to turn on.

5. If your smartphone are still not a flame, you can try to soak the rice. Rice is a natural ingredient that effectively absorb water. You can do with your smartphone put into the rice, let stand for 1 day, the longer day be better.

6. After that try to charge your smartphone. Highly recommended to turn off smartphone while in charging because usually some cases smartphone flame back when after charge.
Above steps, we’ve done but smartphone also can not be a flame, then the next step as follows:

7. Put Smartphone into the box, then stuffed with rice if necessary, back off the PCB Smartphone then closes the jar and let stand for about 2 days. The temperature of the rice in the jar is able to absorb the moisture present in Smartphone PCB.

8. The last step if your smartphone is still not a flame may you need to go to service center or buy a new smartphone device. 😀

Those are some tips on fixing smartphone is exposed to water, may be a solution to overcome your smartphone problem after dropped into water. Good luck !!

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