Most people that hear the phrase flood restoration will associate it with the process of clearing excess water from a flooded property. However, the phrase can be related to the process of restoring many items following them being subjected to excess water, with mobile phones being just one example. Mobile phones that are subjected to water can be flooded just like properties are, with the flood restoration being aimed at getting the phone working again. Read on to learn five hints that may help you get your mobile phone fully operational again following water damage.

Take the battery out

Your first step should always be to remove the battery from the phone. Do not try to turn the phone on as any charge running through it whilst wet could damage to circuit board. If you do damage the circuit board then you have pretty much ruined your phone as they often cost almost as much to replace as buying a new phone would.

Let the components air dry

Now let all of the components air-dry naturally for some time. This can be done by removing items such as the SIM cards, memory cards, case and fascias. If you have an airing cupboard or a boiler room then it can be a good idea to place the phone in there as the extra heat will speed up the drying process. Another option is to position the phone near to a radiator, but not too close as it could cause overheating.

Pressurised air

Most people will not feel comfortable taking the phone to pieces by removing screws; which can mean that it is difficult to remove all of the water, complicating the flood restoration process. A good way of solving this problem is to use a pressurised can of air, which you can spray down the nooks and crannies and that will force out excess water. You could also use a hairdryer at this point to get some air flowing through the inside of the phone – but remember to keep the dryer on a cool setting to avoid overheating the phone.

The bag of rice trick

If you are still having problems getting the phone to work then it may be time to reach for the rice. Take a bag of uncooked rice and place the mobile phone inside it, then seal it back up, before leaving for a day or two. This can frequently work, with the rice drawing out and soaking up any water that remains in your phone.

Be patient

You must always try to remain patient when undertaking flood restoration on your phone. You will almost always be able to get your phone to work eventually, but sometimes it can take weeks before it will work again. A good idea can be to borrow an old phone from a friend or family member and use that whilst you wait to get your own fan back up and running.

Some friends and I recently visited the Muskoka region of Ontario, where an old college friend (Jerod) recently purchased a second-hand motorboat from a retiring Quebecois couple. He’d promised a few us a great weekend at the lake, on the agreement that we help get this secondhand watercraft seaworthy.

This was, regrettably, a bit of challenging. Most of the paint on the hull was rusting, the motor was in urgent need of a tune-up, and the pontoon seats were flaky and frayed. It wasn’t quite the weekend of enjoyment we’d been planning to, but it was an exciting (or at a minimum interesting) one nevertheless.

It began with a half-dozen stops at nearby hardware, boating and home decoration stores, haphazardly collecting the materials we required to get the “Rose of Conakry” (as Jerod had named her) shipshape again. To my surprise, the pontoon boat seats proved to be the hardest to spruce up.

While the majority of the mechanical problems could be remedied using either some oil or a reluctantly-purchased replacement part, the pontoon seats were strongly fused into the boat itself, rendering it impossible to replace with removing a significant part of the furnishings.

Our early efforts to fix them together with transparent tape and adhesive yielded unsuccessful – we made the pontoon boat seat equivalent of Frankenstein’s monster. Rather, we ended up just ripping out most of the fabric, and substituting it using some off-white material we’d chemically treated for water damage.

Unfortunately, the “Rose of Conakry” will never possess the fresh-off-the-line appeal it must’ve had years ago, but I surely prefer it this way, it feels robust, lived in. Around Sunday evening we lastly managed to take the “Rose” out onto the river, where we enjoyed a few hours of kicking back beers and waiting for the fish.

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It’s been a tough few hours for Apple. First their iPhone XXX 4G HD ]I[ gets stoled and then they get sued for those little dots inside iPhones that turn red when exposed to water. Inside the headphone jack and under the iPhone cable port are two little dots. If you go into an Apple Store to have your phone repaired and they see those things are red, you're sunk. The Genius will shake his head, slowly, tut-tutting through thin lips at your foolishness.

Well, some folks are angry at Apple for refusing to service their potentially bewetted iPhones. However, those customers are claiming their iPhones never got wet.

The complaint says that Gallion brought an iPhone in to an Apple store for repair and was denied warranty coverage because the Apple representative determined the device had been damaged by liquid.

Gallion insisted that her iPhone had not been damaged by exposure to liquid, but had no way to challenge the determination of water damage made by Apple's representative. She was allowed to purchase a new iPhone at a discount, provided that she paid the tax on the full price and traded in her non-functional iPhone.

Six months later, her new iPhone stopped working. Again, an Apple store representative denied her warranty coverage because the liquid contact indicators showed that the phone had sustained water damage.

A number of people are now working on a Class Action lawsuit, claiming that "As a result of Apple's improper application of the Liquid-Damage Exclusion, Apple sells [devices] with the intent to exclude them from the warranty coverage Apple promises consumers it will provide — even when consumers pay extra for Extended Warranty coverage — simply because their Liquid Submersion Indicator has been triggered, without any attempt by Apple to verify whether the Class Devices actually have been damaged as a result of submersion or immersion in liquid.”

In the end, there has to be a better way to do this. My wife’s iPhone was refused service because of these things and my buddy bought a wet iPod Touch on eBay and put Wite-Out on his sensor and returned it for a new one (or you can use bleach). In short, Apple shouldn’t use a hammer when a scalpel is needed.