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!

  • @yokonzoOP
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    32 months ago

    Making a few assumptions here,

    1. 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.

    2. I said “noted” corrosion, not that I went ahead and removed it

    • @Eheran
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      32 months ago

      So the Qtip part did not happen? Ok.

      • @yokonzoOP
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        32 months ago

        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

        • @Eheran
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          22 months ago

          Perfect.