Why You Should Keep Your Cell Phone or iPad Away from the Water

Any kind of liquid is not a friend of electronic devices ever since those were invented. Some liquids do not harm electronics a lot while others extremely do. So valuable device like a smartphone or an iPad should always kept away from such harmful liquids. Unfortunately though, there are always mobile devices, even iPads which get damaged by liquids every now and then. Specially in summer, the number of damages caused by liquids (water) goes high as people tend to spend more time around by water. However, most of the liquid damage incidents could be avoided by being careful. For an example consider common ways that a mobile can be damaged by liquids. It can be a coffee spill on the mobile that casually left on the table, tried to keep the cell phone cradled between ear and shoulder while using washroom - but failed, kept the mobile at the edge of a pond, lake, swimming pool or of the sink – a small mistaken punch would cause the mess, too excited to dive or jump to the water while enjoying with friends – therefore forgot that the mobile is in pocket and also mobiles can get damaged from water when walking under the rain. Not surprisingly some incidents may sound funny, but it is not funny when it is found that water had leaked into an expensive mobile device and it is not working.

If the water-logged mobile is already on, switch off it immediately. After doing so, do not try to switch on the mobile again and again to check whether it is working. Remove the battery immediately and if possible, remove the case and keep on a dry place till you visit a cell phone repair center. Do not try fancy things like putting it in a microwave or try drying the water-logged mobile with a hair dryer as these things can increase the damage from water more.

Water-logged mobiles should be recovered carefully and quickly, in order to save it from being permanently damaged. So, visit cell phone repairing company or send/post/ship the mobile to them as soon as possible. Cell phone repair companies know what to do on these situations and they got all the required resources to recover a water-logged mobile. They will disassemble the parts and recover the water damaged mobile quickly.