1. Technique-Killer: Wrong Power Supply
That you can't charge a Laptop or Smartphone with any power supply, you should know. But even if the plug fits, you should leave it alone:
- Even if the plug looks identical, can have the power supply with a different voltage.
- At a high voltage of the battery and, later, the Laptop is usually already after a short time, over.
- Pay attention therefore it is imperative that when buying a power supply from a third party that it is for your Laptop model is suitable and the correct voltage.
Laptop: Wrong Power Supply?
2. Moisture kills the phone
Smartphone in the toilet like that? Clearly, there is not save a great deal. It is even small amounts of water but often, the sensitive technology off:
- The daily risk is called "condensation": The collects in the Winter under the Display.
- The reason is the abrupt change in temperature is, for example, if you come in from the cold into a warm house.
- The manufacturer's warranty does not cover such damage, unfortunately.
- Although many manufacturers boast waterproof smartphone (IP68), but nevertheless, condensation can cause damage. Because the water does not last forever - sooner or later, condensation may form. Also warned first manufacturer prior to the ingress of water in their supposedly waterproof Smartphones.
Technique-Killer: Moisture
3. Static charge kills the Computer
- Once at the door handle in focus, you will get a shock. The Computer is not different, if you touch him, instead of the doorknob.
- While the doorknob is the relatively no matter, you can cause the electrostatic charge damage to the motherboard and CPU.
- Our tip: a grounding wrist strap.
Bracelet against technique-Killer
4. Art-Horror: Clean up for the Defect
He who loves his Smartphone to wipe it. But be careful: Here, much can go wrong...
- Even if the Displays are quite robust and usually made of glass, do not use cleaning agents from the budget. Glass cleaner and other chemicals are off-limits - this also applies for all-purpose cleaner.
- How to do it properly with micro fiber cloth and screen cleaner , we show in a separate article.
Smartphone clean
5. Bad move: the Computer with compressed air clean
- Inside your computer, you can eliminate the dust with a compressed air cleaner.
- That's true, but also here you need to watch out for: Fast you can blow the dust into a small gap and out to get him very hard. This can damage the contacts or even the motherboard unusable.
6. Heavy scratches due to "transportation damage"
- In the pocket the phone is kept right, because it is soft and not scratched. But other things end up in the pocket: coins, keys...
- This can damage the screen and cause permanent damage. A cell phone case and much caution are therefore mandatory.
- Also Laptops, you should move as little as possible. Because by Shaking or jarring the plug-in connections and small parts.
Transport damage to the PC
7. Technique-Killer: Magnetic Fields
The manufacturer of Laptops and Smartphones use more and more technology into smaller and smaller spaces. Therefore, disks are often not fully shielded. This is necessary because the data will be magnetic are written to the hard disk. Therefore, the following applies:
- Keep away from magnetic fields, for example, of loudspeakers or micro-waves. The can delete the data.
- Something else is, of course, for SSDs and other flash memory. Although you should not overdo it here, too, the hard drives are much more robust.
Magnetic field by boxes
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