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How to Save a Wet Mobile Phone

Wet Cell phone Restoration

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Type of Water:

First ascertain the type of water that has wet your phone, unfortunately if it is salt water you phone circuitry will quickly corrode leaving the phone useless. You may still attempt this procedure with salt water damage providing you place the wet phone in fresh water immediately. This will help dilute the salt content and minimize damage.

If your phone has been dropped in fresh water or soapy water there is a good chance that the wet phone can be saved.

Most important Steps

Step one: is to remove the battery Do Not Attempt To turn The Phone ON ( the battery will be shorted when it makes contact with water rendering it useless and if it hasn't shorted then water in the phone may cause the circuitry to short when the phone is turned on)

Step Two: Remove sim card and dry phone off with a clean towel

Step Three: Place phone in clip seal bag with a 40 gram Hydrosorbent Silica Gel Dehumidifier

(This is the secret to the process, the dehumidifier drinks up all the moister contained in the plastic bag, including the moisture in your mobile phone.)

Step four: Place sealed bag on windowsill and wait for nature to do its thing.

Note:

The typical restoration can take 4 Days, its best to leave it on the windowsill for at least this amount of time, when this time has past check unit for any signs of moisture, behind screens and in camera lenses, if and only if there is no moisture place new battery on power up.

While you are waiting for your phone to dry out, it is a good idea to source a new battery, as the wet one is almost certainly stuffed. You can get a battery shop to check it by putting it on a multimeter and reading the voltage. 0 voltage or low voltage will indicate that the battery has shorted which destroys the cells.

The Silica Gel Dehumidifier can be reused many times over, when it becomes fully saturated the indicator turns pink, the unit can the be reactivated in an oven to be used again and again. It is a handy little product to have around the house to dry out water logged devices.

When you first drop your phone in water the battery shorts turning the phone off, this is what usually saves the phone circuitry. Once you have dropped phone in water all is not lost we have been fixing wet phones with this method and have many satisfied customers.

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