How to fix wet phone

Liquid damage in electronics is a bit like pancake batter on the counter: on Sunday morning, it's relatively easy to wipe off. Dried pancake batter on Sunday night—that's a different story. The same thing happens with water/liquid damage.

When we put a phone in rice, it is the same thing as doing nothing.

It just FEELS like we're actively trying something. Corrosion is instant when a phone hits water.

What to do if your phone gets wet but still works

Sometimes the corrosion hits important components, sometimes not. If we resist turning the phone on until it dries on the counter, in the rice bag, or anywhere else, sometimes we get lucky. If we had the phone in the rice bag, we think the rice saved the phone.

But it didn't! Even if the phone seems to be working, it will have oxidized solder joints that are weakened and brittle.

How long to keep phone in rice iphone

Corrosion will continue to spread inside the phone. We have done nothing but experienced temporary luck.

The real secret to water damage? You don't want to dry it!

What you want to do is first displace the water—or more specifically, all the

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