How Can I Fix My Cell Phone, It Got Wet

by Ben Harbour

So you just dropped your phone in some liquid? Well done good effort, but don't worry there is a way you can try and fix it :)

So pay attention 007...

Step 1. Remove phone from liquid.

Step 2. Take out the battery with fast, the longer you leave it in there the more damage could be done.

Step 3. Take out the SIM card.

Step 4. Dry off the SIM card and battery with a paper towel to remove as much of the water as possible.

Step 5. Put the phone is a warm dry place, like the airing cupboard, (I had a friend once that just did it under light bulb that he left on all night close to the phone) if you can put it in a warm room with a dehumidifier then even better the purpose of this step is to try and make all the water inside the phone evaporate before morning.

Step 6. The next day (or a few days later depending on how important your phone is to you) put the SIM card and battery back into the phone. And switch on if there is any water left in the phone this will fry the circuit and you will need a new one if not there is a good chance providing its initial batch did not finish it off that it will work as normal. Good luck....

What Is A Short Circuit

A short circuit (sometimes abbreviated to short or s/c) in an electrical circuit is one that allows a current to travel along a different path from the one originally intended. The electrical opposite of a short circuit is an "open circuit", which is an infinite resistance between two nodes. It is common to misuse "short circuit" to describe any electrical malfunction, regardless of the actual problem.

A short circuit is an abnormal low-resistance connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit that are meant to be at different voltages. This results in an excessive electric current (overcurrent) limited only by the Thevenin equivalent resistance of the rest of the network and potentially causes circuit damage, overheating, fire or explosion. Although usually the result of a fault, there are cases where short circuits are caused intentionally, for example, for the purpose of voltage-sensing crowbar circuit protectors.

In circuit analysis, the term short circuit is used by analogy to designate a zero-impedance connection between two nodes. This forces the two nodes to be at the same voltage. In an ideal short circuit, this means there is no resistance and no voltage drop across the short. In simple circuit analysis, wires are considered to be shorts. In real circuits, the result is a connection of nearly zero impedance, and almost no resistance. In such a case, the current drawn is limited by the rest of the circuit.