LIQUID DAMAGED iPHONES
Here are some “do’s and don’ts” when handling a Device dropped in water or other liquid:
Turn your phone off immediately and don’t turn it on, not even to, “check on it.”Your phone is an electric device, one that is powered by a battery. As you probably know water and electricity don’t mix well. Getting any electrical device wet can cause it to short out. So if your phone didn’t turn itself off, turn it off and leave it off. Submerged phones are often wet inside for up to 48 hours so don’t turn it back on. If you do, you’re diminishing the chances that your phone will survive because being on with water inside can cause permanent and unrepairable damage.
Don’t put your phone in rice!: Water can kill your phone but more often it’s actually corrosion that is the bigger danger. That’s why putting your phone in rice is not the answer. We wish this myth would go away because we see so many phones that we could have saved but because it was put in rice for a few days where it sat there, corroding away, the phone cannot be saved from the permanent damage the corrosion caused. Sure, rice can help dry out a phone and the phone could work for a few days, a few weeks or maybe even a few months but in the end the corrosion will catch up with it and by the time it stops working from corrosion that has been eating away at your phone for days, weeks or months, it’s probably too late. We see this over and over and over again. Maybe you’re thinking to yourself, well maybe I’ll try rice and maybe I’ll just get lucky and if it doesn’t work I’ll do something else. Sure that happens but it’s rare and it usually means there was a ton of water softener in the water the phone was exposed to. All liquids have some minerals in it and those minerals are going to eat away at the phone’s circuit board. Meanwhile, you’ve waited a few days allowing the corrosion to eat away at your phone and decrease the chances that it will work again.
Time is of essence, don’t wait to deal with water damage: The sooner we get the phone after the liquid exposure the better. If we get the phone while it’s still wet, within a couple of hours from the liquid exposure, the chances are excellent that we can get your phone working. The longer you wait, the chances that your phone will survive are diminished. Corrosion often starts immediately especially with very mineral rich water such as the ocean, lakes, rivers or swimming pools (and spas) that use bromine. It doesn’t matter how long the phone was submerged Just a quick note because we hear this all the time, “My phone was only in the toilet for two seconds!” These devices are not air or water tight. It doesn’t matter how long the device was submerged, as soon as it’s submerged or as soon as something significant is spilled on it, it immediately gets wet inside.
Don’t use a blow dryer: This can force water into cracks and crevices in the circuit board and that doesn’t help.
What you should do after water damagePower it down (as mentioned above) and get your phone to our shop for service. The sooner we get it (see above) the better. If you choose to go to a different shop make sure that the service they provide is similar to what we describe below. We’ve seen many water damaged phones serviced by other shops where the phone was opened and dried out but not cleaned.
*Please Note: Even if all the above proper steps have been taken and a thorough Liquid Damage Repair has been made, not all repairs of this kind are successful. Sometimes there is permanent damage to the phone's Logic Board.
While we do our best, we simply cannot guarantee success every time.
-iPhone Repair Hospital
Don’t put your phone in rice!: Water can kill your phone but more often it’s actually corrosion that is the bigger danger. That’s why putting your phone in rice is not the answer. We wish this myth would go away because we see so many phones that we could have saved but because it was put in rice for a few days where it sat there, corroding away, the phone cannot be saved from the permanent damage the corrosion caused. Sure, rice can help dry out a phone and the phone could work for a few days, a few weeks or maybe even a few months but in the end the corrosion will catch up with it and by the time it stops working from corrosion that has been eating away at your phone for days, weeks or months, it’s probably too late. We see this over and over and over again. Maybe you’re thinking to yourself, well maybe I’ll try rice and maybe I’ll just get lucky and if it doesn’t work I’ll do something else. Sure that happens but it’s rare and it usually means there was a ton of water softener in the water the phone was exposed to. All liquids have some minerals in it and those minerals are going to eat away at the phone’s circuit board. Meanwhile, you’ve waited a few days allowing the corrosion to eat away at your phone and decrease the chances that it will work again.
Time is of essence, don’t wait to deal with water damage: The sooner we get the phone after the liquid exposure the better. If we get the phone while it’s still wet, within a couple of hours from the liquid exposure, the chances are excellent that we can get your phone working. The longer you wait, the chances that your phone will survive are diminished. Corrosion often starts immediately especially with very mineral rich water such as the ocean, lakes, rivers or swimming pools (and spas) that use bromine. It doesn’t matter how long the phone was submerged Just a quick note because we hear this all the time, “My phone was only in the toilet for two seconds!” These devices are not air or water tight. It doesn’t matter how long the device was submerged, as soon as it’s submerged or as soon as something significant is spilled on it, it immediately gets wet inside.
Don’t use a blow dryer: This can force water into cracks and crevices in the circuit board and that doesn’t help.
What you should do after water damagePower it down (as mentioned above) and get your phone to our shop for service. The sooner we get it (see above) the better. If you choose to go to a different shop make sure that the service they provide is similar to what we describe below. We’ve seen many water damaged phones serviced by other shops where the phone was opened and dried out but not cleaned.
*Please Note: Even if all the above proper steps have been taken and a thorough Liquid Damage Repair has been made, not all repairs of this kind are successful. Sometimes there is permanent damage to the phone's Logic Board.
While we do our best, we simply cannot guarantee success every time.
-iPhone Repair Hospital