Water damaged devices and how to handle them
The world suddenly freezes when you see your phone falling straight into the water. Whether it’s a pool or a toilet, you just know nothing good will come out of the next few seconds. After all, that’s a high tech device that’s likely worth multiple hundred dollars, and chances are very high that it will be deemed unusable. That is, unless you have one of those awesome waterproof smartphones, like the LG G6 or Samsung Galaxy S8. If this has ever happened to you or just happened to you right now, below are some things you can do or need to know to Prevent further damage to your device.
- You know the rather mythical idea of putting your wet phone into rice to fix it?
This trick ends up only drying the already wet phone, and may also ends up fixing it, but after it dries up, you’d have to properly fix it one way or the other. Your electronics can not function properly if it is wet, you would have to make sure it’s properly dry and hope it doesn’t cause corrosion in its components, putting it into rice to dry ends up achieving the feared eventuality of corroding cell phones electrical components. This will eventually make your phone stops working, the best possible fix is to open up the phone and properly clean the water with an alcohol solution, this will properly clean the phones electrical components and ensure it doesn’t develop fault any time soon or in the future.
- Immediately remove your phone’s battery
it is advisable to remove your battery immediately your phone enter water, if you have a removable battery the better, allowing electricity to pass through your wet phone, can cause a short circuit hence making sure phones turn to a dummy, practically useless! Take out your battery and bringing for repair is advised, this is the best possibly fix to successfully repair and restore your Water damaged phone to a good condition. Don’t plug or charge your phones when it’s wet, this could cause a short circuit on the phone and hence cause dreadful damage to it.
- Fixing a water damaged phone can take time
There is no doubt about the effect of water on a phone, water damage has various effects on a phone, and hence there is no given time frame on when and how it can be fixed since water effects differ. Normally, we do a 72-hour diagnosis on every water damaged phone to ascertain the extent of the damage and draw out a plan for it to be fixed, our tech guys normally fix water damaged phone cases during their free time, so patience is needed in this cases.
- Cost of cleaning water damaged phones
It will cost $40 to properly clean a water damaged phone. If we fix your phone by just doing a regular clean after diagnosis (not changing any parts) it’s cost would be $75, The price of any components We remove and replace with a new one is added on the $ 75, if need be. A typical scenario where your iPhone enter water and the battery needs to be replaced, we charge $75 + $45(cost of battery). If we can’t fix it, then you only pay the cleaning fee of $40.
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