Smartphone with water damage what now?

Posted by Jagdish Prajapat on June 7th, 2019

It is everyone's nightmare, Your Smartphone in the washing machine or toilet bowl. Your Smartphone is a very complicated electrical device that is often not or not completely watertight, so if your device comes into contact with water, a short circuit may occur. The short circuit in the device is in principle not the worst thing that can happen, especially the corrosion of water left behind in the device often causes more misery than is necessary.

What can you do best if your Smartphone comes into contact with water?

  • If possible, switch off your device immediately.
  • Disconnect the battery
  • Make your device as dry as possible with a towel or paper.
  • Have the device treated as soon as possible for water damage .
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What should you absolutely not do?

  • Never place the charger in a Smartphone that can still contain water or moisture.
  • Never try to switch on your device.
  • Never wait too long to have the device checked

Is it useful to put your Smartphone in the Rice?

It is completely useless to put your device in a bag of rice for a few days. You have certainly heard success stories from people who have put their wet Smartphone in a bag of rice and that the device worked wonderfully again! There is a good chance that the same device would have started working even if you had just put it in the spotlight or in a drawer, luck comes around here. We at Gsm-Paradise have to deal with several devices with moisture damage on a daily basis and the majority have put their device in the rice, often with the result that we receive the device later so that the water in the device can nestle comfortably in and around important chips and soon the corrosion occurs that makes the device almost irreparable. 

The biggest mistake made by people who have put their device in the rice is then plug in the charger to test whether the rice has done its job and then expose the device with a closure to a large amount of current coming through the closure in places where he should not have come with all the consequences that entail.

Treatment method of Gadset.in

As soon as we receive your Smartphone, it is opened as quickly as possible and the device receives an initial inspection. Photos are taken of the printed circuit board and the moisture accumulations are removed and the print is ultrasonically cleaned. As soon as all traces of moisture have disappeared, we will measure a number of vital points of the printed circuit board. from these measurements we can determine whether there are still large short circuits in the device. (This is important because we, too, are not going to put electricity in a device before we are sure that it is safe). If possible, the printed circuit board is then tested with clean parts (because the old parts have also been in contact with moisture).

If the device still appears to function after a thorough cleaning, all functions are tested and any parts that need to be replaced are replaced.

If it appears that the device is not fully functional, we have the option to dive deeper into the device.

Based on our experience, we can then scale the repair into 2 options.

  • Full or partial recovery
  • Data recovery


Full recovery

If, after our findings, we think that the device is still recoverable, we will do our best for it. If it succeeds, it is perfect and you can fully use your device again and the data stored on the device will be retained.

Data Recovery

Sometimes it happens that the device is in such a bad state that it gives no sign of life and there is corrosion underneath the large chips and therefore has a short circuit underneath. Often it is then no longer worthwhile to remove all those chips to clean the device and replace the chips.
In that case we can still go for Data Recovery. We then remove the chips from the printed circuit board that are not needed to start the device, this increases the chance that the short circuit will be found and the device will switch on again.

If it comes on and the touch screen works, we have the option to make a backup copy that can then be written on a new device.

If you are looking mobile repairing and data recovery service then we suggest you to connect with Gadset - https://www.gadset.in/

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