How to fix water damage

– Turn the device off IMMEDIATELY & leave it off.

If there’s no power running through your circuit board, theres no power for the water to carry and send to the wrong places therefore it cannot do any damage. It is only that your phone is ON that the water causes damage.

– Don’t try to turn it on, leave it off till its been treated properly.

Remember if theres no power, theres no damage. The second you turn that phone on while there’s water inside it, your exposing it to risk of damage. There is every chance theres water sitting over the top of your CPU (basically the brain of the phone that controls almost everything). If you cause damage to that CPU chances are your data is gone forever. So don’t risk it! Leave it off until you can have the phone inspected and cleaned out properly.

– You need to have it treated within 3-4 hours if you want the best chance at fixing it before corrosion starts. Whenever you have copper, oxygen and water together, your going to get corrosion very quickly. The time before corrosion begins varies a lot between different liquids. Salt water can begin to cause corrosion inside your phone within about 20-30 minutes. Where-as tap water can take about 3-4 hours.

– Don’t try to charge it.

Again, if you charge it, your adding power to the phone which will only cause damage. NO GOOD CAN COME FROM CHARGING A WATER DAMAGED DEVICE.

– Do not dry the phone out, do not put it in rice, do not heat it up, do not put it in the sun. These are all stupid internet myths and do not do anything but speed up the corrosion process. As well as the fact that your not even putting the rice inside the device so its not going to do anything. Your charge port and head phone jacks are not hallow gateways into your phone.