Phone wont charge after water damage. How do I recover photos?
Hi,
My wife dropped her iphone 6s in the ocean last week. We dropped into a bag of rice for 24 hours. It started right back up and charged fine for a bit while we tried to transfer photos of our newborn. The only other symptom was that the back camera wouldnt work.
Then after about 15-30 minutes, the phone stopped charging and the cables wouldnt charge it. We tried multiple cables but no success. We even tried the Apple Store but they couldnt get it to work.
So now we are stuck with an iphone with precious photos but no way to charge it. There's got to be a way to recover the photos in a DIY manner right? Since its a work phone we cannot leave it with anyone else.
Now, this is a work phone so we can easily get a replacement but what we cant replace are those newborn photos that arent backed up in icloud unfortunately.
Thanks!
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I also had this problem, but all I had to do was spray some compressed air into the charging port and all was fixed! You can use canned air or a compressor. Hope this helps!
- de Mikayla Jane
Hi
I fix these quite a lot and generally if the phone has not been opened but has had water damage recently , there is likely still water inside that is evaporating and then condensing over and over and water is likely getting into the contacts and battery terminals.
It really needs opening to let the air on the dry it out but I have found that often the battery controller at the end of the battery gets shorted out and the battery does not function as intended and tends to not charge.
A charge port might be required to get charging again if the metal contacts are corroded and also a new battery may be needed if after the phone has been dried out it will still not charge.
Beyond this it would then need to have the board cleaned by a trained tech who can remove the magnetic shielding off the board and then carefully go over the board and test and check component level parts .
Water damage can be a phone killer and is the worst thing to get into an electrical device .
- de neilwardle2002
After dropping my phone in water, I put it in a bag of rice for 48 hours. That seemed to do the trick and the phone worked fine - until I realized it wouldn't charge. Using the advice above, I used compressed air to blow into and across the charging port. Immediately a tiny chunck of something flew out & it my face. It was hard. A few more sweeps yielded 2 more specs flying out. Now the phone is charging as normal. I'm guessing some rice dust or chaff got into the charging port.
- de Judith Robar
I sent an iphone SE (1st gen) through a washing machine. It was off, and completely out of batteries when it went in. I opened it up, and popped off most of the cables, and dried it out for a couple of days. After reassembling and plugging in, it showed the low battery sign, and then the apple sign started flashing on and off. Doesn't seem to be charging though. Not sure what to try now.
- de Jamie Orfald-Clarke
My iPhone 6 was being wet in water after coming to my home unfortunately I put my iPhone on Charging since from that my iPhone is not getting on and not getting Charged
- de Mohammad Zeeshan
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