How To Fix Wiko Water Damaged Smartphone [Quick Guide]

Today, every flagship smartphones are water resistant while some of the mid-range phones may not have the official IP rating but still keep water out of contact in favorable conditions. But there’s still a lot of smartphones that aren’t water-resistant and any contact with water that affects its internal assembly can render the phone useless. Water is a deterrent that can cause water damaged smartphone useless and thus, it must be avoided but since you can’t control every aspect of your life, suppose that you were clicking pictures poolside or beachside or just reading the news or going through your Instagram while relieving yourself if the urinal and suddenly the phone slips. What do you do? The phone has come in contact with water and now it could get damaged unless you do something to prevent it and here’s what you must do.

How to fix Wiko water damaged smartphone?

It is a tragedy if you accidentally drop or slip the phone in water or say spill tea or any other liquid on it and thus, there is a specific set of “do’s” and “don’t” that you must follow in order to minimize the impact and try to get the phone start working again. Before we can look into the procedure on what should be done, here’s what you should avoid.

First of all, you should panic even if you have accidentally/deliberated/negligently dropped the phone in water because the fact is, water act as a damaging agent for phones and the more it stays in the water, the more damage it makes and panicking can elongate that duration. Thus, no panicking. Next is not to try and switch off or press any buttons or dab or even press on the screen because it will push the water drops into the internal assembly where it can create havoc.

Just when you realize that the phone has come in contact with water, the only thing you can do is to take it out and don’t shake it much for starters. So, don’t move or shake or wobble the phone trying to squeeze out the excess water out of the phone because it ain’t gonna happen and in fact, it will damage the phone if it was without any protection at the first place. Then, don’t plug the phone to a charger and don’t use air blower or vacuum cleaner just yet as you need to follow the procedure mentioned below to ensure that the water damaged smartphone could be retrieved but again, there is no guaranteed since the said procedure is widely followed but works only a handful of times.