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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 23 2012 @ 04:49 PM EDT |
When I dropped my phone or other electronic device in water I put it in a food
dehydrator for 24 hours. I has always worked for me.
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| Authored by: nsomos on Sunday, September 23 2012 @ 11:14 PM EDT |
For electronic devices that have been dropped in some
liquid (like water) removing the battery is the first
thing that should be done. The reason is that any portions
of the device that are getting voltage could be subject
to unintentional electroplating, causing lowered resistance
between sections of the circuit that are not meant to
have lowered resistance. Even if the phone is 'off',
most such devices have a 'soft switch' where some portion
of the circuit remains powered, and controls the flow
of power to the rest of the device.
There are circuits in many modern devices where the
impedances are rather high, and even small amounts of
unintentional leakage can adversely affect functioning.
Once the battery is removed, rinsing the device with
clean water may be helpful if the device got into either
salt-water or dirty water.
Water by itself is not generally harmful to any
non-powered electronics components or circuits.
In some cases, printed circuit boards are actually washed
in water after some soldering operations especially
if water-soluble solder fluxes were used.
Then thoroughly drying the device such that no water
remains anywhere in it (even hidden deep inside),
before even THINKING of putting the battery back.
With quick appropriate action, most electronic devices
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| Authored by: Tufty on Monday, September 24 2012 @ 09:30 PM EDT |
Well, given the summer heat and humidity here there is an abundance of atomic
necklines but I can assure you that the phones are very well secured with plenty
of, err, padding.
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