How to Fix A Phone With An Unresponsive Screen Due To Water

How to Fix A Phone With An Unresponsive Screen:

If you’ve ever gotten your phone wet in the rain, dropped it in water or spilt liquid over it, you’re not alone.

Liquid penetrating a smartphone can affect the device in several ways. It could lead to:

• blurry photos, if moisture gets trapped in the camera lens
• ruffled audio, or no audio
• liquid droplets under the screen
• an inability to charge
• the rusting of internal parts, or
• a total end to all functionality.

While new phones are advertised as “water resistant”

While new phones are advertised as “water resistant”, this doesn’t mean they are waterproof, or totally immune to water. Water resistance just implies the device can handle some exposure to water before substantial damage occurs.

An “ingress protection” code, commonly referred to as an IP rating, is used to rate a phone’s water resistance. The IP rating of an electrical item simply indicates how well it resists liquid and solid invasions.

There are two numbers in the rating. While the second shows resistance to liquids, particularly water, the first shows protection against solids like dust.

A phone with an IP68 rating is fully protected against dust, dirt, and sand with a solid object protection rating of 6, and it is protected from submersion in water up to one meter deep with a liquid protection rating of 8. 

How to Fix A Phone With An Unresponsive Screen ?

1. Remove the SIM card, memory cards, peripherals and battery if it is a removable battery. While it’s less common, problems with SIM cards, memory cards, and peripherals (such as USB devices) can sometimes cause touch screen problems in mobile and Windows devices.
2. Dry off your smartphone. Touch screens can also stop working, become unresponsive, or work erratically when it gets wet. In that case, drying the phone out thoroughly sometimes fixes the problem.
3. Wipe off the water droplets on the screen using a soft cloth or a tissue to absorb the water on your phone. This method is a simple answer to a complex problem as sometimes we have the solutions in front of us but we usually skip it.
4. Use a compressed aerosol air duster to blow the water out if you have one. Avoid using a hot blow dryer as the heat can wreck the rubber seals and damage the screen.
5. Leave your phone in an airtight container full of silica gel packets (those small packets you get inside new shoes and bags), or another drying agent. These help absorb the moisture.

Do not charge the phone until you are certain it’s dry. Charging a device with liquid still inside it, or in the ports, can cause further damage. It is suggests waiting at least five hours once a phone appears dry before charging it (or until the alert disappears).