Dropped my Phone in water-How did i recover it? Personal Experience

Hey friends,

Today we are going to discuss on a personal experience of mine; that is what happens when you drop a phone in water. Actually, I dropped my phone in the toilet. Opss…

 

So, if you drop your phone into water what you will do is to see whether it is working, let’s say your phone was working fine then what you will do is you wipe your phone and use it as usual.

What happened to me was that I dropped my phone into the toilet and I washed it till it was clean. Unusually my phone gets wet and since it is water resistant I did not care. I did put my phone into my pocket and went away to work.

So, what is the meaning of a phone being water resistive? Is it similar to what is being said as water proof?

If the phone is water proof that means that you can use it under water but the issue is if there is a small crack or some issue with the phone cover then you may say bye to the phone.

These days phone manufacturers use the IP rating which is the ingress protection rating to rate their phone, that is it specifies how well it performs under water.

Basically, IP rating is used for water resistive phones giving limitations to the way you use a phone in water.

I will be doing a detailed discussion on the IP rating in the near future.

So, the next question that arises is that if the phone is water resistive can I use it with water on it? the answer for that my friend is No, if the phone is water resistant then be sure to not apply water on it for too long because you are never sure.

For an example the iPhone X has an IP rating of IP67 that means that you may use the phone under water for 30mins in a depth of 1 to 1.5 meters, having said that are you going to do that, my answer to that is NO because these are test results done in labs for pure water.

So, what happened to my phone?

Actually, I was careless I did put my phone in my pocket and went to work. In the office I took out my phone since I wanted to take a call, the phone was off it was only 6 months old and I even had warranty, soon I released that there is no warranty component for water damaged phones.

So how can I overcome this?

I took a bowl of rice and put it in there, I was anxious and through numerous reading through websites I got to know that even though rice absorbs water the dust in there will create corrosion in my board.

It is not water that actually corrodes the board but it is the particles that are mixed in it.

If your phone is damaged through water please do not put it in a rice but start using a hair drier to dry it, I couldn’t find a hair dryer so I went to an alternative solution, I went for a phone service If you do not dry it properly corrosion will start doing its work.

After about a day I managed to start up the phone but it was under reboot, the service person told me that there was an issue with the board.

I did not want to give up on my phone since It was quite new.

What I did was I made it to dehydrate; that is by keeping it in shed or in sunlight till about 7 days.

Went to another phone repairer and told him to see how many IC’s have gone wrong.

One fine evening he told me that there was an issue with an IC and he replaced it and the phone is now working fine.

I did manage to recover my phone but lost all my memory.

So, I did this by going through tons of research.
Let me jot them done so that you may use it.

1.    If you drop your phone in water do not do anything just switch it off. Do not charge it or switch it on Yet

2.    Do not put it in rice, but try other ways to dry the phone for an example using a hair dryer.

3.    If you are good with phone, remove the phone to pieces and keep it in an AC room for and example a server room for about 3-4 days.

4.    If you do not have an AC room, wrap the components in a sealed bag and put it in the deep freezer for about a week.

5.    If you cannot do the work list above then immediately go to a phone repairer and ask him to service it immediately.

6.    Switch on the phone and it will work.

7.    If you switched it on or charged it when it was in contact with water, check for any IC damages after the drying process, replace them and it will work.

Have you dropped your phone on water? Have you recovered your phone? Tune in and join the discussion.