You can always get your smartphone repaired at an electronic repair shop or you can try to do it yourself. How you can do it on your own we will tell you here.
Water damage in the Smartphone - now What?
Water is a poison for modern electronic devices, and short-circuits usually entail irreparable damage.
- The most important thing is: don't think to long, or press and try, but immediately the battery from the phone to remove. Clear: No battery – no power – no short circuit.
- Depending on your phone make and model, is now more or less complicated. You try the phone open, free place, if possible on the Board. See if you can disconnect the Display and the loudspeaker from the actual Board. Usually the speaker is connected by cable with the Board.
- If you have all of that done, set the Board to the best for a day in isopropyl alcohol (inexpensive, available in the pharmacy) – this is an alcohol that is soluble in water and no residue, evaporates.
- You turn the Board a few times so that the alcohol goes everywhere, where the water was. You take them out of the bath, let them drain them thoroughly and renew the Isopropanol bath to the Board to put in a further day. You can avoid it, to bathe body parts in alcohol. It is possible that this etch the surfaces. Thus, the housing can be unsightly, and the Display for the blind.
The next steps for phone repair
- After this second Alkoholbad remove the Board and let dry in a warm place. The Isopropanol and the dissolved water free to evaporate the residue.
- Make sure that the phone is too hot: do not Put it directly on the heating as it reaches sometimes 50 degrees and more. You have to wait a full day.
- You screw the device in the reverse order, insert the battery and press the power button. Your phone should work again, you're in luck.
The Smartphone-warranty in case of water attack damage?
The warranty is by the way to all the cases gone. In almost any current cell phone moisture indicators are distributed, the ads relentlessly, if water has entered the device.
- Also if your cell phone accident didn't come all the indicators are in contact with water – Isopropanol results in the same coloring as the water. The Service departments of the manufacturer to corroded solder joints and moisture indicators a water is absolutely damage free.
- A small tip to the tip: As you take anyway just your cell phone apart, you can remove a few crumbs rosin (cheap at most electronics stores) in Isopropanol, before bathing the cell phone circuit Board therein. This acts as a corrosion protection for the future.
On the iPhone you can't remove the battery so easily. What you in the event of water damage to the Apple-Smartphone should note, we explain them here.
