Seven steps to save your phone if it gets wet

You're making the food, you will aclararte hands, you start calling, you try to take the phone with wet hands, slips, and it will fall just below the water flow. You are brushing your teeth as they begin to send messages by WhatsApp, you try to take the phone to answer only with his left hand, the only free, but the letter P is so far in an attempt to reach you miss the phone and just below water, wet. These things happen from time to time, and if not you, I'm sure a friend or family. Want to know what to do when the phone gets wet with water?

There are seven steps to follow when the phone gets wet, and help save the device if possible.

1. Remove the battery - not care about anything but this. You should not take the phone and see if the screen still works, or if water has leaked on the screen. The important thing is to remove the battery as fast as possible. A mobile electronic device and is therefore operated Mains socket. The electrical contacts of a mobile are pinpoint accuracy.
2. Water conducts electricity, and enter the mobile making is to connect all connections. As you know, this causes short circuit. Therefore, the best thing to do is remove the battery as fast as possible to cut electricity. Strangely enough, a mobile without battery can get into the washing machine, removed, dried and re-used as the first day. The problem is short.
3. Check sensor water damage - All mobile carry a sensor specifically designed for situations where the device is wet.If a user gets a mobile, throws it into the water, it breaks down, then dry it, and wants the guarantee covers him, the company could do nothing to demonstrate that it has fallen into water, except put a sensor.Este sensor is usually a white dot, or a white square that is in the back of the device, close to the battery. If the mobile has never been wet, you will find this target. However, if you find red, you know that the warranty does not cover and you have to seek for a way to fix the phone. If you still have wet, still blank, but does not work, do not doubt, that I solicitad Warrantable.
4. Shun the salt water - The next thing we are going to say is rare, but it is what it is. If the phone is dropped into seawater or salt water, then you have to rinse it with fresh water. You are very careful, obviously, but the salt can be dangerous inside the device, and would be the end of it trying to use it with salt in it. Therefore, it is necessary to take risks and rinse in fresh water.
5. Dry Mobile - This is usually the first step, and this is the fourth. The first thing people usually do is to dry the phone, when that is not the point. If the battery is out, whether before or después.En dried first with a cloth, cloth or paper towels, remove as much water as possible, trying not to move much or shake the device, as well esparciríamos water a place not easily accessible.
6. Trying to create a vacuum - What happens when a bottle and absorbéis Once you get all the air inside? That you absorbéis containing liquid and reducing its volume you go. Well, something similar happens here. The device is rigid, not a bottle, but the liquid comes out the same. This method can be very useful. You could put it in a vacuum bag and suck all the air. If you do not have nothing to do, then you have to skip this step.
7. Heat dryer - The sixth step is necessary to carry out carefully. It is taking a hairdryer, and try to dry your mobile. Be careful, because excessive heat could kill mobile, merging certain elements. Usually devices today are prepared to withstand high temperatures, but do not tempt fate. The most complex is the screen. If water enters the screen, to be mounted around so precisely and almost airtight, it will resort to heat to get there and evaporate the water, but we must try. If can be removed to dry the better, but that is the responsibility of each, and only if you know how to ride again.
8. Meter rice - it's one of those myths that are true. Put the phone in rice can save him. The rice absorbs moisture like sponges. Therefore, if the phone is wet, after following these steps and it has cooled a few minutes after the dryer, it is best to put it in a pot with rice for 24 hours.

After these seven steps, the mobile should be resurrected. If it does, it is that shorted before take off the battery. We must clarify that this process is generic, and that if the phone has received a lot of water, it may be good to extend the deadlines.We can even stop using it for a week, and leave a few minutes a day facing the sun, go for evaporating the residual water remaining inside.