Dropped phone in salt water non removable battery

With the monsoon almost here, keeping your expensive gadgets away from water is first priority. You would spend a little extra to get a watertight cover or a plastic bag for your phone.

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First, Try to Find It
Turn It Off, Dry Phone as Much as You Can
If Possible, Take the Phone Apart
Otherwise, Take it to a Professional
An Ounce of Prevention
What do you do when your phone with a non removable battery falls into water?
Can salt water destroy a phone?
How do you get salt out of charging port?
Can an Iphone be repaired after salt water damage?

Well, preventing it from water is the best one can do to save it from water. However, during heavy showers, there are chances when your phone could be exposed to rain water. On the other hand, there are possibilities when you accidentally drop your phone in puddle or similar incidences at home.

What would you do in cases when you have water entering into your phone? If you have insurance, you could replace it. Phones under warranty are rejected by the service center for water damage. In any case, you will lose your data completely as they would not entertain data recovery.

Here are a few tips, using which, you can try to rescue your phone.

When you witness water damage (drop a phone or gadget in water), the first thing you should do is immediately take the phone out of the water, open the rear panel and remove the battery, SIM and memory card from inside. If you phone has a non-removable battery, switch off the phone immediately and open all the ports it has and drain out any water would have entered. Keeping the phone on during this time could permanently damage the internal circuitry due to a short-circuit.

Wipe the entire phone with a dry towel or cotton cloth. Ensure you get as much as the water out of the phone, wherever inside and completely outside.
Jerk the phone a few times to help remove any water that could have settled in any of the insides and corners. Jerk it as many times as you can. If you have a screw driver, you can also try to open up the panels as far as you can manage it. This will increase your chances of reviving the phone. If you are a techie, you could also dismantle the entire phone—display, motherboard and other components for a higher chance.
Wipe again with a dry towel.
If you have a powerful blower (a compressed air can or a vacuum cleaner), preferably with a nozzle, try to blow out any possible water droplets from inside the phone. Be careful here since you could also blow water deeper inside the phone if your phone has a non-removable battery. You may skip this step too.

You have taken almost all steps to try to revive your wet phone or gadget. However, this will take time, plenty of time. Now that the phone is dunked in rice, we advise you to keep the phone in the container for at least a few days—a week is best. This will ensure that the moisture is completely absorbed by the rice.

If you are a techie, you should try this method, which worked well with me when I had almost lost my Samsung Galaxy S3 to water damage.

I opened up the phone completely—took apart all the components, which include the motherboard, display, speakers, and whatever I could take apart. Next I took a tray filled it with isopropyl alcohol and dunked the battery, motherboard and all components of the phone (except the display unit) for a few minutes, in the liquid. Then I removed the components and set them aside to dry for a few hours. After assembling the phone back again, I successfully managed to revive the phone entirely.

If you have any other techniques to rescue a wet phone, or you have your version of how you rescued your phone, why don’t you share it with us in the comments below?

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You’re having a great day at the beach or on the ocean, but your fingers slip, and splash! Down goes your smartphone into the briny deep—or hopefully, just into a few inches of salt water. Either scenario can be devastating, so here’s what you should do.

First, Try to Find It

Unless you’re in a situation where it would be dangerous to retrieve the phone, you should try to locate your phone and get it out of the water as quickly as possible. Here’s a few ideas: If you can’t see the phone, try to feel the phone underwater with your feet, or grab a fishing net and scoop up the sand until you find it.

If you can’t find the phone, you’ll probably need to consider it a total loss. Contact your mobile phone carrier and tell them what happened, and ask them to assign your old phone number to a new device. Using remote management tools like “Find My” in the Apple ecosystem, you can report your device as lost or stolen, deactivate it remotely, or remove it from your account. If you have local or cloud backups (for Android or iPhone), you can use them to restore your data on a new device later.

Tip: If you have AppleCare+ with Theft and Loss, you can file a claim for a lost iPhone—as long as you had “Find My” enabled on it.

Turn It Off, Dry Phone as Much as You Can

Once your phone is out of the water, power it off completely. Use a clean towel to dry the phone off as much as possible. If possible, remove the SIM card tray, any memory card trays, and the battery if it is not built into the phone. If it’s in a case that is not waterproof, remove the case as well.

If your smartphone is already in a waterproof case or features water resistance and wasn’t in the water for very long, turn the phone off and rinse the phone (in the waterproof case, if it has one) under clean fresh water (not salt water.) Dry it off with a towel, then let it sit for several hours to dry off before attempting to use it again. If all works well, then you should be good to go.

If your phone isn’t water resistant, you may have heard that placing your smartphone in rice will help dry it out, but that’s just a myth. Rice will do nothing, and leaving it sitting there will give the saltwater stuck inside the phone body extra time to corrode the electronics. If you ever want to use the phone again, you’re in a race against time to disassemble the phone and clean it out before corrosion permanently damages the internal circuitry.

If Possible, Take the Phone Apart

If you feel qualified and capable to disassemble your phone, use the proper tools to open it up as quickly as possible. iFixit publishes free guides that include detailed steps on how to disassemble many popular smartphone models.

Once the phone is open, rinse out the inside thoroughly with distilled water, gently brush away any corrosion with a soft brush, then let the phone sit in a bath of 90% rubbing alcohol for an hour, swishing it around a bit to displace any trapped water. After that, let all the parts air dry for at least 24 hours, then re-assemble them and see if the device works. If it works, you’re probably all set. Back up the device while it is still working in case there is a failure again from uncorrected water damage.

RELATED: How to Back Up Your iPhone With iTunes (and When You Should)

Otherwise, Take it to a Professional

Obviously, the disassembly steps above require a certain level of technical know-how and also the tools and parts to safely open a modern smartphone without damage. So if you’re not comfortable with taking your phone apart, take it as soon as possible to a qualified smartphone repair shop. Tell them you dropped your phone in salt water, and they should know what to do. The phone will need immediate disassembly and deep cleaning inside and out if you want to save it.

If they aren’t willing to work on it right away and the phone is very important, take the phone somewhere else. If you have an iPhone, you could consider getting an appointment at an Apple store, for example.

An Ounce of Prevention

Supposedly, Benjamin Franklin once said, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” That means if you take small steps to prevent trouble before it happens, you can save yourself from a much bigger crisis later.

In this case, your ounce of prevention might be leaving your smartphone on dry land when you’re near the water. But barring that, you could also place your smartphone in a waterproof case or dry bag before going anywhere near the ocean.

For example, this JOTO Universal Waterproof Phone Pouch is inexpensive insurance against accidental water exposure for your smartphone. Pair that with a floating strap, and even if you accidentally drop your smartphone in the water, you’ll be able to scoop it up without it sinking to the bottom of Davy Jones’s locker. Good luck, and stay safe out there!

What do you do when your phone with a non removable battery falls into water?

Turn it off immediately or sooner. Shake out what water you can then open it as much as possible, remove the battery and shake out more water. Shake hard in all directions to sling it out. If you have some compressed air from a hose or can use that to blow it out.

Can salt water destroy a phone?

Salt water is another thing entirely, say experts. The salts in ocean water are strongly corrosive to electronics and can much more quickly damage a phone. If it's impossible to get a phone dried out under vacuum within several days, there's one last-ditch trick Naumann has to offer.

How do you get salt out of charging port?

In short, the best way to get water out of a charging port is to dry the exterior of your phone and gently shake the device to remove any large water drops, and simply place it down it to air out in a well ventilated area, to let any other moisture evaporate.

Can an Iphone be repaired after salt water damage?

Nothing you can do without insurance on the device. It must be replaced. Accidental damage and water damage are not covered by the standard warranty. Any electronics that has been wet with salt water will eventually start corroding.