Holi is just around the corner and everyone is excited about this time of the year. Holi is a fun-filled festival where people play with colours, water, and indulge in celebrations. However, the festival can take a toll on your smartphones if you are not careful. When this festival of color comes closer, everyone gets anxious about roaming around with their smartphones. It’s a time when one gets drenched by water balloons and covered in colour powders, and everyone enjoys being messed up in colours. However, besides just taking care of our skin and hair, we tend to forget that most of our mobiles are not waterproof. Holi increases the changes of having a water damage phone.
The colours are easy to clean whereas, everyone gets scared of water damage in their phones. As we know, it is difficult to recover a phone from water damage during Holi. Moreover, the repair costs can leave your pockets a lot emptier. Water damage is a common problem during Holi, and it can cause severe damage to your phone. Fortunately, we bring you some simple and handy tips that can help your phone survive this Holi.
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How to prevent water damage to your smartphone during Holi
The easiest preventative measure to protect your phone is to put it inside a ziplock bag or something similar. You can buy an inexpensive pouch from Amazon, which should do the trick. This prevents water damage to the phone and also lets you use the touch screen without any problems.
A second, even cheaper method is to use a transparent, good-quality balloon and stretch and insert your phone into that. Since it’s Holi, you’ll have water balloons all around. Get your phone inside one of them and tie a knot below. You’ll be able to still use the phone. However, there’s a risk of the balloon tearing.
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You can also try to add extra security by putting tape on all the open ends of the phone like sim tray, charging jack, and headphone jack. This step is easy to do, just make sure the holes in the phones have coverage.
If your phone gets water damage during Holi this is what you can do to save it:
- Dry Your Phone Immediately: Now, it’s important to dry it immediately. Remove the cover and the battery if possible and use a dry cloth to wipe off any water.
- But one should NOT use a hairdryer at all to dry their smartphones. If you use one, you will likely burn out the phone’s components in the process. So do not use it.
- Rice Method: If it does end up getting wet, do not panic. Take your mobile and put it in a ziplock or plastic container filled with dry uncooked rice to absorb all the liquid inside your phone overnight. It’s better to change the phone’s position at intervals until you go to sleep. This will help any water left inside your phone to run down.
- Leave the phone in the rice for at least 24 hours. This will give the rice enough time to absorb all the moisture from the phone.
- On the other hand, silica bags can also come in use instead of rice because they are also good absorber.
- After 24 hours, take the phone out of the rice or silica and try turning it on. If it doesn’t turn on, plug it into a charger and try turning it on again. If it still doesn’t turn on, you may need to take it to a repair shop.
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It’s important to note that these steps may not work for all cases of water damage, and there may be more serious damage that requires professional repair. It’s always best to take your phone to a professional repair shop if you’re unsure about what to do.
However, if it still does not work out, do not worry – we are here for you! Whatever the damage is to your phone during Holi, come to us. Bring your smartphone to us at our Cashify Store – we will sort out your phone problems on spot. We take care of everything from display to battery and so much more. We will try our very best to sort out your issues. Furthermore, what’s interesting is that we will do all of this at your home too.
If you want to sell your old phone or recycle your old phone, Cashify can help you complete both the processes at the comfort of your doorstep!
Sushmita Choubey
Marketer to the core, a writer from the soul. Engineer and an MBA turned budding tech writer - dabbling her hands in all genres of writing from tech to fiction. If not writing, you will always find me reading anything and everything. Otherwise, you will find me learning new languages.
