So I accidentally put an open water bottle in my bag while my tablet was in there, LCD was unfortunately flooded, but I ordered a replacement screen and it arrived today. Though opening up the tablet I found water droplets throughout, so I removed every part meticulously to put in rice or something and noted any current corrosion I had to remove with a q tip.
My question is this. As soon as I opened it up I noticed the water very quickly evaporating. I actually can’t see any more now. Anyone who does mobile device repairs, what do you think? Could I skip the deep-dry? I looked at all the components and none of them have any parts that could have trapped water that I missed and I don’t really look forward to cleaning the entire thing of starch ( though I do just have silica beads but let’s stay on topic)
Am I right to feel confident about the dryness of the components? Let me know!
You ordered a replacement screen and wait for it to arrive before even opening the device? Why?
Removing corrosion means it will be harder to see where the damage is.
Next time:
Making a few assumptions here,
I hadn’t thought about it, but the device worked and the screen clearly had liquid trapped between the layers. So once I saw that I turned it off, and ordered a new screen, because believe it or not, desiccant doesn’t do jack for a waterlogged LCD.
I said “noted” corrosion, not that I went ahead and removed it
So the Qtip part did not happen? Ok.
No that’s gonna be after drying, I also have this really fancy HD microscope I use for solder but I’ll be checking out each component I can looking for damages
Perfect.