Nokia 6 met water worth trying to repair?

[Carde]

Well today not been great, put my nokia 6 in the wrong pocket and it fell into some water, took it out quickly and it seemed fine, but now the touchscreen is not responding and neither is the USB port (no charging no data). Everthing else still seems to work just fine, but I am not sure if it is worth it to invest into some tooling to try and repair it cause I never done so before and I hence have no idea to expect what kind of damage I could find (Until now I never dropped a phone more than 30cm sigh).

[Murasaki]

Considering its only IP52, thats not waterproof at all.

[Carde]

Just now, ModuleLFS said:

Considering its only IP52, thats not waterproof at all.

Yeah I think I spend about 2 max 3 seconds semi submerged on the bottom end.

[Sauron]

The best you can do is turn it off, remove the battery, let it dry for a couple of days and hope the circuitry isn't damaged. Liquid damage on a single board device is almost always a death sentence, corroded traces can't be easily repaired and the damage tends to get worse with time.

[Anghammarad]

2 minutes ago, Sauron said:

The best you can do is turn it off, remove the battery, let it dry for a couple of days and hope the circuitry isn't damaged. Liquid damage on a single board device is almost always a death sentence, corroded traces can't be easily repaired and the damage tends to get worse with time.

That's what I would do as well. Try to get it dry.

 

else to go for an old nokia meme... 

 

You dropped your nokia into water? be happy the water isn't broken... 

[Carde]

8 minutes ago, Sauron said:

The best you can do is turn it off, remove the battery, let it dry for a couple of days and hope the circuitry isn't damaged. Liquid damage on a single board device is almost always a death sentence, corroded traces can't be easily repaired and the damage tends to get worse with time.

That is the fun thing I cannot turn it off cause to do that you need to tap the screen, which does not respond to touch

 

But yeah I am planning to let it dry and see, perhaps if it does not work I just get the tools and see worst that can happen is that I get some practice.

[Sauron]

1 hour ago, Carde said:

That is the fun thing I cannot turn it off cause to do that you need to tap the screen, which does not respond to touch

 

But yeah I am planning to let it dry and see, perhaps if it does not work I just get the tools and see worst that can happen is that I get some practice.

If you yank the battery out it's going to turn off  the more you let it run the more likely it is the main board will get corroded.

[Carde]

1 minute ago, Sauron said:

If you yank the battery out it's going to turn off  the more you let it run the more likely it is the main board will get corroded.

Sadly Do not have the tools to open her up, not even a hair dryer to heat it up.

[Sauron]

Just now, Carde said:

Sadly Do not have the tools to open her up, not even a hair dryer to heat it up.

Then we can only hope. Curse Apple for making hard to remove batteries a fashion statement 

[Carde]

1 minute ago, Sauron said:

Then we can only hope. Curse Apple for making hard to remove batteries a fashion statement 

 

Well she is toasting over my PC fans, should reach a healthy 50C there.