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Friday, July 11th, 2008 | Uncategorized

So for the good news, the new Iphone is out. now onto the bad.
So my new supervisor’s wife dropped her Iphone in a pool. now electronics, believe it or not can handle water better than we give them credit for. However, there are some steps you must take for them to continue working.
According to Time magazine, these steps are called, “Water damage electronic recovery.”
Step one;
Turn off the device and remove battery. the quicker the better.
Step two;
place said electronic device in a zip lock bag with either packets of desecate or rice. both are designed either by scientists or god to absorb water.
step three;
wait.
I’d recommend a week or so.
so back to the Iphone. Well it fell in the pool Nate (my supervisor) wasn’t there to tell her what to do, so she decided to turn it off and back on again. realizing that the screen flickering and turning off was a bad sign she decided to charge it.

What you can see here is the communications board. It’s function is to communicate power to and from the battery along with the device. This also the device that communicates with the antenna.

This is the Logic board. it has the micro processor on it, and as you can see has the Sim card bay on it aswell.
basically what happens when electronics get wet, the water (which conducts electricity) re-routs the traces and by passes resistors, once the resistors are bypassed, excess electricity is forced into components such as caps, trasnsistors, and because it’s a phone, the transducers. caps, when over charged, explode, that’s the white stuff.
bassically, this phone is dead.