I've had a laptop that ended up submerged in water. Removed the battery and left it drying outside for a week and it came back to life! Not only that, but I'm using it right now, 4 years later :-)
Well, people who didn't get nervous and saw the video first got their devices up & running ❗not like a pal I know, who cleaned it and has been trying to turn it on for 2 hours💥
It for all intents and purposes, it is water proof. I've taken m mine to my kid's swim lessons for the past two summers and springs, and I've taken underwater shots at every one of them. Plus at the beach and all the other times at the pool and everyday TH-cam while taking a shower.
its not that hard to get rid of water in devices i dropped my ipod touch 4s a few years ago in a cup of water and my dad told me to put it under a heat lamp and let it dry for a day and it still works today with no issues and also i dropped my original fat nintendo ds console in water too i was a bit droppie a few years ago but the same concept still works with that system as well
Wash with steam distilled water before alcohol. Water is a much better solvant of polarized molocules than alcohol. Then displace with alcohol. Its not the water that does the damage, it is the minerals in the water that does the damage. Shorting is not the only concern. Minerals in tap water, as well as other beverages, can also be caustic to the traces on the PCB if they are allowed to remain on the board.
In addition, AFAIK you don't want to go too high on the air speed as well. Something like a powerful hair dryer on full blast can drive tiny water droplets into crevices and contact points you don't want them to touch. Air movement should be aiding evaporation, not pushing water around on the board.
I do electronic repair for a living and what he says in this video is sooo good. Let me add that you should ALWAYS back up any important information because none of this is a guarantee to fix. Also, the salt in salt water can completely corrode the internals of a phone in just a matter of hours unless it is completely cleaned out with alcohol.
i work with electronics since the last 8 years, and moisture damage is the most common problem, i use alcohol and brush it with a thootbrush and then i dry it with a heat goun at low heat. works like a charm 90% of the time
Hi, hoping you see my message. My MX ERGO from Logitech got wet and after a superficial cleaning i tried yo turned it on but it doesnt work. Will it work if I open it al clean it with alcohol?
I noticed this video a few days ago. I didn't click on it because I thought I didn't need to spend the time watching it. It's now a few days later and I just spilled some water on my gaming mouse. I think I got all the water out but I'll take the advice of waiting at least 24 hours before I plug it in again. This video is the best you've done in recent memory. Thanks for making it, Linus.
I spilled a cup of coffee with cream/sugar on my laptop and power went out and wouldn't start back up. I did what our IT folks did when I did this at work. I disconnecte power, wiped it dry on outside as much as possible, then placed it under a fan overnight - and prayed. Worked the next day. I learned that you must ensure that it is completely dry before trying to restart or components could be damaged.
Dropped a cup of water on my laptop a year ago and left it on like an idiot which lead it to shorting out. I then took out the motherboard and all the other pcb's, left it in rice for a week then I submerged the laptop in a basin of Isopropyl Alchohol for an hour, let it evaporate (3 hours) and my laptop was as good as new, although good do with an upgrade now :) So top notch advice Linus.
Eassa Ahmed please can you help me I do not have isopropyl alcohol and my psps buttons do not function properly what can I do without opening it up to make the buttons work
@@questionme9327 I strongly suggest you buy the isopropyl alcohol and submerge the motherboard in it. Otherwise you can try putting the motherboard in the rice but I can't say it will work for sure
I have an analogy for exactly this. Roughly one and a half years ago, I spilled water on my laptop. I was stupid and decided to try turning it on after wiping the outside. It worked... For a bit. Then I saw it BSOD. I thought it was done for and let it stay for nearly a year. Then a year later, I decided to try it again. It works without complaints nowadays. Patience is key.
@@tikemyson8541 I recently threw it out. Not because it didn't work, but because it simply wasn't powerful enough these days. It was low end when I bought it. It *might* work. It might not. I think I was lucky and that it was juuust about to short, but didn't manage to completely fry things
I spilled maruchan soup (instant noodles) on my keyboard once. I immediately plugged it off, took all the keys out and submerged them on an isopropyl alcohol bath. Would've done the same with the keyboard itself but I didn't have the appropriate screwdriver to open it, so I just poured the same alcohol on every tiny hole it had. After drying the keys and the outside of the keyboard, I poured a whole 1Kg of rice on my keyboard and left it there for almost 2 days. After that, I put the keys in place, plugged it in and it worked, I'm still using it.
My Dad and Brother both are in the Industrial Automation sector. I've actually had to physically wash pc boards with sunlight dishwashing soap and/or Handy Andy. Though some components on the boards I have to wash carefully and not soak. Also you have to be careful as some white markings on some boards if soaked too long actually come off when you then use a paint brush or tooth brush when scrubing. Then wash off good and proper with clean water. Then once drip dried, I stick them into a normal oven and put it on till the light comes on and the heat is just hot enough that it is a bit hot to touch the board and components, but not too hot to melt anything. Then leaving it in the oven for a minimum of at least 3 hours. If you have thermerfan in the oven even better. Then the boards are usually reassembled into their boxes or taken to be placed back in the machines on the factory floor. It may sound a bit nuts. But it works and in some cases it is the only way we can save some of the boards or drives. Industrial things can get quite messy. When you have to use a screwdriver to dig out the fans to get them to work. You know things are bad. I've done my fair share of digging things out.
oh and before someone says what about using the alcohol. It doesn't work so well when things are oily or greasy or well and truly packed on grime. Though we do use it a lot for light or general cleaning.
You’re going to have to explain how adding a desiccant would concentrate the dissolved solids, forming a short. I’m fairly certain the same thing would happen with air drying. But I do believe that rice dust in your device is something to be avoiding.
I've spilled coffee on an old keyboard. After drying it normally, it was fine until some keys started to stick after several weeks probably because of the sugar in the coffee. So I opened it and took a cotton swab and isopropyl alcohol and cleaned it completly (the plastic parts, not the circuit board). And now it doesn't work at all. Cleaned up an old keyboard that was functioning perfectly the same way and now it doesn't work anymore either. I now doubt that isopropyl alcohol is a good idea.
A flawless way to recover electronics that have gotten wet is to quickly submerge them in a bath of distilled ice water (-35 degrees F minimum), then to either use a heat gun or a can of propellant and lighter to quickly dry them. works every time!
Just watching this ‘cause I like Linus content. This happened to me a while ago with my laptop. I just turned it off and left it upside down and it still works great, I would know since I’m using it right now
The usual story I hear from liquid damaged devices is "It worked for a while but now it won't turn on." If it's too expensive to lose, have a phone repair professional open your device and dehydrate it (or possibly clean it). Open it yourself if you think you can. Careful or you'll make it worse.
how much is a while? mine happened almost 24 hours ago, it was very minor tea spill and most of it was not on top of the keyboard itself just some few keys. cleaned it off with paper towel and turned it of. after few hours turned it back on, and ever since it is working fine, the keyboard works, pc is fully functional. So am i safe and lucky or i should be worried and seek proffesional help?
@@doxis2 For a keyboard you are probably fine. Phones are closed systems often made to keep water out. But when water gets in it has a harder time leaving. A keyboard has rubber membranes that can trap water but it's openly exposed to the air. Turning off the device immediately is the first step (good work). After a couple of hours if you don't have noticable problems you probably won't later. Phones will appear to work normally for up to 3 days. If you own a MacBook, get it checked! They are too expensive to mess around.
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I have cleaned several PC's with the soap and water method. Sometimes letting it dry for 2 days and then when I turn them back on the work like brand new. I have done this with motherboards, video cards, audio cards, Ethernet cards, and other PC components.
Working in a device repair shop made me learn very quickly that water damage really isn't that hard to deal with. Clean with water, use ultrasonic cleaner, clean with alcohol, dry and wam bam thank you maam you have a working device again.
had a water-soaked psu once, due to filling a not fully checked loop. but i was lucky, i forced it dry with the not recommended hairdryer. blowing away all the liquid that not evaporated by the heat. had it back up and running the same day, and a few years from then on.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 that i accidentally left in my swim trunks while i was in my pool for >30 mins and once I noticed I had it in my pocket i completely dismembered it (easy for me since I have done many repairs on that model) and dunked everything in Isopropyl alcohol for a good while and used soft toothbrush to hopefully get rid of the chlorine deposits on anything and let everything dry for 24hrs. Needless to say it didn't so I got a brand new Galaxy S7 just few days after it came out about a month rolls by, I had kept the assembled phone in a bag tucked away, I just randomly thought to see if it would work AND IT DID and it worked perfectly not a single thing was wrong. #GodBlessSamsung
I have a camera that went through the wash. When we found it after the load, we basically just set it aside and forgot about it for a bit thinking it was dead, but after a day or 2 when we found the sd card and battery in folds the washer and charged it, lo and behold it worked. This happened 4-6 years ago and I still have the camera to this day. The quality isn’t great, but probably because it is an older compact camera (roughly the size of a credit card and 1/4 inch thick). But boy oh boy, it is tough. I have taken it camping and gotten dirt in it, and it still works fine. I’ve taken it apart quite a few times (I got zapped my the capacitor once [DON’T EVER TRY THAT], but I was more cautious the future attempts and wore nonconductive gloves). But it is one tough camera, and I still use it to this day...
Missed opportunity for a very good transition to ad part in the video. Linus should've said, "...after following our guide, If your device still fails to turn on...then buy a new one...but if it did turn on, then try out SQUARE-SPACE!!..."
Spilled Mountain Dew on my Mac keyboard, the wired chuckle key thing, so I immediately rinsed it with hot tap water and then let it dry in a sunny place in front of a fan. Still works!
Advice from a chemistry student: After disassembly, *multiple* washings with distilled water can be a good idea to clean of water-soluble junk, without introducing anymore impurities. Once that is done *one* washing with isopropanol is recommended, since it will evaporate very quickly, but as it messes with adhesives it should be done quickly and only with a small amount (50mL or so for a phone). Acetone would do the same job, but is a little more aggressive than isoprop and you usually don't get very pure acetone as a normal person (idk about the US; and no - nailpolish remover isn't a good idea).
I use the isopropyl alcohol sonic bath and silicate combined with warm heat and air flow in my shop for nearly all board related wet repairs... And in my 30 years in the industry have only had a few items not recoverable (referring to the non-idiots that take out the batteries; don't plug them in, or otherwise didn't find them at the bottom of a pool or lake, left by someone else weeks, months or years before).
It rained on my console collection (left the skylight open), I disassembled everything and dunked all the boards in isopropanol, it displaces water and acts as a desiccant. I use the same method to dry custom PCBs after an ultrasonic bath. Isopropanol is dirt cheap and extremely useful.
Picked a PC up off the side of the road. Was totally water logged. Dried it out for a few months... Fired up no worries and ran for a year or more. Some PCI slots were sketchy. But it ran!
I get extremely anxious when something I care about is stored on only one drive/raid array. All those people who have all their important pictures on their phones... not backed up... I just don't understand how those people sleep at night.
I hope this works. My parents opened the windows at my room because of the heat. But later that night it stormed and rained. A couple hours later i went t o bed and saw that my leptop was very very wet. I screamed as a little girl MOM DAD COME NOW. Firstly i wanted to set it on rice. Meanwhile my dad was looking at it i found this video and we opened evry screw and blow with the hairdryer on cool mode. Now i am letting it rest for the night. Plz pray for me.
The short circuiting most times does not cause permanent damage. What does however is the corrosion that happens as a result of the traces being exposed to ionized water. If it was fresh water, a rinse/scrub with isopropyl alcohol and then a few minutes with airflow to evaporate should be fine. If it was coffee/juice/etc, rinse with distilled water first and then do it with alcohol and air dry. The quicker this can be done, the better. Also heat isn’t a good idea as it speeds up the chemical reaction that causes corrosion. Also keep alcohol away from speakers/microphones, they don’t like it too much.
Also if the device was exposed to salt water, rinsing it with fresh water or better yet distilled water ASAP can help too until you are able to disassemble it for cleaning. Salt water will start corroding it pretty much instantly.
Depending on the parts that got wet, I've used WD40 to displace the water (it's in the product name). The oil left behind isn't conductive but you may run into problems (oil collects dirt, oil dribbles out and greases up your fingers, etc). I haven't had it damage any plastic yet. Doesn't work on some things (you really can't saturate the platters on a hard drive and still expect it to work, and the heat seal on an LCD panel will probably de-glue itself) but doesn't seem to hurt electro-mechanial switches.
You forgot to mention removing all power sources including power cords/batteries. Where water damage is concerned we recommend our customers hard reset the device after power has been removed to drain all capacitors of power before commencing in any cleanup / dry out measures. Additionally if it still has water in it when it gets to our shop we disassemble it immediately and use an air compressor to blow out as much of the water droplets as possible to prevent corrosion and oxidization on the PCB.
Since you're asking us to not check your history, I can only assume that you're too young and there's nothing to find in your history so it's someone else's semen?
One day I spilled a water bottle directly on the keyboard of my gigabyte sabre 15 laptop. I thought everything was lost. I shutdowned it as fast as possible, it rebooted (I mistyped the power button), I shutdowned it again, turned it over, removed the battery and made it dry for 1 day surrounded by rice grain. Two days after, it rebooted without any problem, still working more than 1 year after. I think they conceived the keyboard so that water has a very hard time reaching the motherboard.
Smoin How many people watching this in hope of fixing their wet electronics know what LCD stands for? Us regular viewers are tech savvy, yes, but thousands of regular Joes watching this? Nope
@@tyronbasista2729 i spilt it on my laptop while having dinner 15 mins ago. i panicked and started drying it straight away, sucking water out with a straw, and turning it upside-down.
I once spilled ketchup on my laptop, I'm glad it didn't have a chiclet keyboard because I just waited for it to dry then I crunched out the dried ketchup.
Spilled chocolate milk on my Corsair K70 once. Instantly turned off my PC and disconnected the keyboard, then wiped down as much as I could. Then shook off any other bits then put above a radiator that was warm enough but not boiling hot. Within 24-36 hours it was operational again. Granted the RGB lights to it were glitching our but over the span of a month or so, they fixed by themselves oddly enough (likely because I turned off the rgb lights since it was annoying) and it now works as if nothing happened.
It really depends on a few factors like for example how much water but also how much dissolved ionic minerals are present which affects how conductive it is. This varies considerably depending on the water source perhaps you might have heard of municipal water supplies being classified as hard or soft, well it's similar to that though the hard and soft classification normally only counts certain impurities like those that contribute heavily to water scaling like Calcium etc. For electrical conductivity there are more impurities to consider but some water sources have really low concentrations of these and are fairly unlikely to do damage unless the quantity is large (like knocking a whole glass over on the laptop etc.
Thanks to this video I was able to save my laptop. unfortunately the keyboard got damaged so I am not able to use it. fortunately I had a keyboard laying around so I am able to use that. Thank you.
I recently had a fire at my apartment, and now most of electronics smell like smoke. Do you have any tips how to remove smells / smoke smells from electrical components.
I spilled a cup of coffee with cream/sugar on my laptop and power went out and wouldn't start back up. I did what our IT folks did when I did this at work. I disconnecte power, wiped it dry on outside as much as possible, then placed it under a fan overnight - and prayed. Worked the next day. I learned that you must ensure that it is completely dry before trying to restart or components could be damaged.
A laptop mainboard for my model costs 60-70 bucks on ebay. Computer repair shops on my country charges 120-150 bucks plus for replacement of the mainboard.
only about a year ago i spilt coffee onto my Corsair CS550M PSU, which in turn tripped the RCD for the entire house. having unplugged the psu from the mains and reset the fusebox (consumer unit in americaland) i proceded to wipe up any residue liquid left in the PSU. having cleared what i could see, i reconnected it into my pc and flicked the switch on the PSU, and what do you know, the darn RCD tripped again!!! this time i took it apart and left it out to dry over night, woke up put it all together and the pc booted up without tripping the RCD. Thankfully the motherboard also tripped its surge protection and protected my pc from any damage. and even today right now its still going strong and not had a problem
Not as many people stay for outros; he's trying to grow the channel. Also, your life is not so important that you cannot afford to wait a few seconds or press the right arrow key to save 5 seconds of your precious time.
I don't think they should. If a simple 5 second 'reminder' to subscribe is earning them a greater following, then who are we to stop them?* *Obviously there are certain boundaries, but this doesn't even come close to crossing it.
There's a techquickie question for you that you guys might be able to do a quick techquickie episode on why did it matter back in the day what logo was on your credit card vs nowadays it doesn't matter what logos really on your credit card such as like Visa Mastercard Discover or whatever
Lots of stuff on the PC side has non-removable batteries as well. It's a movement that I don't like, but it looks like it's unavoidable at this point because as people get bigger, they demand that their devices get smaller.
if data on drives are underwater and the data is important, don't take it out of the water and bring it to a specialist with water included (ah nvm Linus said it alrdy) (4:40)
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1 disconnect all power
2 bath in demineralised water
3 let dry fully
4 pray
Haha
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hahaha pray
I did taht it did not work in dommed
5 pray again
How to dry out wet electronics?
Step 1. Drop to your knees and scream and curse at the top of your lungs
Step 2. Repeat step 1.
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
Lol
Step 3 repeat steps
I did that
Sounds like any media person out there
I've had a laptop that ended up submerged in water. Removed the battery and left it drying outside for a week and it came back to life! Not only that, but I'm using it right now, 4 years later :-)
bro i spilled water on my laptop 12 hours it went out but still working
@@THEGRANDTOUR-kt3jh what did you do after water spilled over the laptop??
@@srishtisikdar6079 basically I let it dry for 12 hours tried to get rid of as much water as possible
@@THEGRANDTOUR-kt3jh did you put it in tent position for 12hours?
Did you leave drying it in tent position??
This isn’t helpful because almost everyone watching this is watching it after something like that happened..
Well, people who didn't get nervous and saw the video first got their devices up & running ❗not like a pal I know, who cleaned it and has been trying to turn it on for 2 hours💥
I spilt my milkshake all over it and my dad screamed at me 😭😭
Yup-
@@Jubrook23 same what do i do
I cleaned mine using surface wipes because it was dirty, the foam got into the keyboard
Got a waterproof s8 so ha! *sips coffee and spills it on laptop*
Umbra the s8 isn’t waterproof
Random Dude I guess you're technically right but it is water resistant.
It for all intents and purposes, it is water proof. I've taken m mine to my kid's swim lessons for the past two summers and springs, and I've taken underwater shots at every one of them. Plus at the beach and all the other times at the pool and everyday TH-cam while taking a shower.
Bryant's Sunday Brunch only depending on the rating. The pressure alone down there would destroy the phone
its not that hard to get rid of water in devices i dropped my ipod touch 4s a few years ago in a cup of water and my dad told me to put it under a heat lamp and let it dry for a day and it still works today with no issues and also i dropped my original fat nintendo ds console in water too i was a bit droppie a few years ago but the same concept still works with that system as well
Put it in a bowl of rice at night, go to bed, and during the night, Asians will be drawn by the rice and will repair you device...
Denuris Turgryn lol man fuck this world
hi ro i fix u phone vary cheep
That rhymes wtf
lool XD
Dude is it free and does it work if I am an Asian?
Wash with steam distilled water before alcohol. Water is a much better solvant of polarized molocules than alcohol. Then displace with alcohol. Its not the water that does the damage, it is the minerals in the water that does the damage. Shorting is not the only concern. Minerals in tap water, as well as other beverages, can also be caustic to the traces on the PCB if they are allowed to remain on the board.
This needs to be at the top
Tim Harig
yea especially if you spilled soda with sugar in it
Linus, please pin this comment. If you would be so kind... Thank you in advance.
In addition, AFAIK you don't want to go too high on the air speed as well. Something like a powerful hair dryer on full blast can drive tiny water droplets into crevices and contact points you don't want them to touch.
Air movement should be aiding evaporation, not pushing water around on the board.
A food dehydrator on low works wonders for all kinds of drying, and or adhesive removal
i couldn't hear a thing from this video bc my laptop's volume isn't working bc of water damage... smh
LMAOOOO
Did it eventually work or nahh?
@@marcopot6448 Not really, had to get it professionally cleaned.
I’m watching this video on a different device lol
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I do electronic repair for a living and what he says in this video is sooo good. Let me add that you should ALWAYS back up any important information because none of this is a guarantee to fix. Also, the salt in salt water can completely corrode the internals of a phone in just a matter of hours unless it is completely cleaned out with alcohol.
i work with electronics since the last 8 years, and moisture damage is the most common problem, i use alcohol and brush it with a thootbrush and then i dry it with a heat goun at low heat. works like a charm 90% of the time
Hi, hoping you see my message. My MX ERGO from Logitech got wet and after a superficial cleaning i tried yo turned it on but it doesnt work. Will it work if I open it al clean it with alcohol?
That is so helpful but we do not have a heat dryer😢
Gun
6:24 that ad transition was hilarious! =D
This guy looks a lot like the guy from Linus Tech Tips🤔
Ayush Jani your joking right
or even channel super fun
Earthbadger Are you dumb? He's joking.
Sebeki 2...ok just jump to the conclusion that I'm dumb good job
i dont think he is linux.
missed opportunity for an iFixIt sponsor
KobyTheHedgehog yea
yea
@@chmtctu yea
Watching this on the water socked electronic 👌
I noticed this video a few days ago. I didn't click on it because I thought I didn't need to spend the time watching it. It's now a few days later and I just spilled some water on my gaming mouse. I think I got all the water out but I'll take the advice of waiting at least 24 hours before I plug it in again.
This video is the best you've done in recent memory. Thanks for making it, Linus.
I spilled a cup of coffee with cream/sugar on my laptop and power went out and wouldn't start back up. I did what our IT folks did when I did this at work. I disconnecte power, wiped it dry on outside as much as possible, then placed it under a fan overnight - and prayed. Worked the next day. I learned that you must ensure that it is completely dry before trying to restart or components could be damaged.
Dropped a cup of water on my laptop a year ago and left it on like an idiot which lead it to shorting out. I then took out the motherboard and all the other pcb's, left it in rice for a week then I submerged the laptop in a basin of Isopropyl Alchohol for an hour, let it evaporate (3 hours) and my laptop was as good as new, although good do with an upgrade now :)
So top notch advice Linus.
Eassa Ahmed please can you help me I do not have isopropyl alcohol and my psps buttons do not function properly what can I do without opening it up to make the buttons work
Omg i should've dont this instead of throwing it at the wall and causing a massive hole!
Someone help me. What if i dont have the alcohol your talking about. My dads gonna kill Me cause its his laptop.
@@questionme9327 I strongly suggest you buy the isopropyl alcohol and submerge the motherboard in it. Otherwise you can try putting the motherboard in the rice but I can't say it will work for sure
@@Eassa189 But what if buying the alchol is imposible. Is there any other way cause ama die if my dad finds out 😭
I have an analogy for exactly this.
Roughly one and a half years ago, I spilled water on my laptop. I was stupid and decided to try turning it on after wiping the outside. It worked... For a bit. Then I saw it BSOD. I thought it was done for and let it stay for nearly a year. Then a year later, I decided to try it again. It works without complaints nowadays. Patience is key.
Wow really? If I wait for ages it could work again? Did yours short?
@@tikemyson8541 I recently threw it out. Not because it didn't work, but because it simply wasn't powerful enough these days. It was low end when I bought it.
It *might* work. It might not. I think I was lucky and that it was juuust about to short, but didn't manage to completely fry things
linus my laundry now smells like underage drinking and that feeling you get when you forget the person youre talking tos name
I spilled maruchan soup (instant noodles) on my keyboard once. I immediately plugged it off, took all the keys out and submerged them on an isopropyl alcohol bath. Would've done the same with the keyboard itself but I didn't have the appropriate screwdriver to open it, so I just poured the same alcohol on every tiny hole it had. After drying the keys and the outside of the keyboard, I poured a whole 1Kg of rice on my keyboard and left it there for almost 2 days. After that, I put the keys in place, plugged it in and it worked, I'm still using it.
My Dad and Brother both are in the Industrial Automation sector. I've actually had to physically wash pc boards with sunlight dishwashing soap and/or Handy Andy.
Though some components on the boards I have to wash carefully and not soak. Also you have to be careful as some white markings on some boards if soaked too long actually come off when you then use a paint brush or tooth brush when scrubing. Then wash off good and proper with clean water.
Then once drip dried, I stick them into a normal oven and put it on till the light comes on and the heat is just hot enough that it is a bit hot to touch the board and components, but not too hot to melt anything. Then leaving it in the oven for a minimum of at least 3 hours. If you have thermerfan in the oven even better. Then the boards are usually reassembled into their boxes or taken to be placed back in the machines on the factory floor.
It may sound a bit nuts. But it works and in some cases it is the only way we can save some of the boards or drives. Industrial things can get quite messy. When you have to use a screwdriver to dig out the fans to get them to work. You know things are bad. I've done my fair share of digging things out.
oh and before someone says what about using the alcohol. It doesn't work so well when things are oily or greasy or well and truly packed on grime. Though we do use it a lot for light or general cleaning.
I've heard that rubbing alcohol looks quite fine to remove other liquids and also evaporates very quickly.
Any sugestions on that?
I'm suprised you didn't mention rust building up in the electronics. Many devices survive the initial soaking only to die a month later.
There was a scientific paper in 2016 that showed the best substance to dry electronics was kitty litter... rice was entirely ineffective.
You’re going to have to explain how adding a desiccant would concentrate the dissolved solids, forming a short. I’m fairly certain the same thing would happen with air drying.
But I do believe that rice dust in your device is something to be avoiding.
I bought a dehydrator from Walmart for like $30... doesn’t get too hot and works great.
Professional shops use dehydrators. Best thing you can do for sure!
Unplug it and throw it out the window.
That's just a waste of having a laptop as laptops are very costly they aren't cheap
@@stephensnell1379 eat the laptop
@@Jay-fv6xo you idiot they aren't edible
@@stephensnell1379 drink the laptop
I've spilled coffee on an old keyboard. After drying it normally, it was fine until some keys started to stick after several weeks probably because of the sugar in the coffee. So I opened it and took a cotton swab and isopropyl alcohol and cleaned it completly (the plastic parts, not the circuit board). And now it doesn't work at all. Cleaned up an old keyboard that was functioning perfectly the same way and now it doesn't work anymore either. I now doubt that isopropyl alcohol is a good idea.
SebSenseGreen alcohol is non conductive, u probably spoilt the key registrator on the keyboard while removing them
A flawless way to recover electronics that have gotten wet is to quickly submerge them in a bath of distilled ice water (-35 degrees F minimum), then to either use a heat gun or a can of propellant and lighter to quickly dry them. works every time!
Just watching this ‘cause I like Linus content. This happened to me a while ago with my laptop. I just turned it off and left it upside down and it still works great, I would know since I’m using it right now
Same
Last time this happened, I removed my battery and threw my device inside a dehydrator. Worked out pretty well, no obvious permanent damage.
All hope is lost.
My pc is bad
My keyboard is bad
The usual story I hear from liquid damaged devices is "It worked for a while but now it won't turn on."
If it's too expensive to lose, have a phone repair professional open your device and dehydrate it (or possibly clean it). Open it yourself if you think you can. Careful or you'll make it worse.
how much is a while? mine happened almost 24 hours ago, it was very minor tea spill and most of it was not on top of the keyboard itself just some few keys. cleaned it off with paper towel and turned it of. after few hours turned it back on, and ever since it is working fine, the keyboard works, pc is fully functional. So am i safe and lucky or i should be worried and seek proffesional help?
@@doxis2 For a keyboard you are probably fine. Phones are closed systems often made to keep water out. But when water gets in it has a harder time leaving. A keyboard has rubber membranes that can trap water but it's openly exposed to the air. Turning off the device immediately is the first step (good work). After a couple of hours if you don't have noticable problems you probably won't later.
Phones will appear to work normally for up to 3 days. If you own a MacBook, get it checked! They are too expensive to mess around.
I have cleaned several PC's with the soap and water method. Sometimes letting it dry for 2 days and then when I turn them back on the work like brand new. I have done this with motherboards, video cards, audio cards, Ethernet cards, and other PC components.
Working in a device repair shop made me learn very quickly that water damage really isn't that hard to deal with. Clean with water, use ultrasonic cleaner, clean with alcohol, dry and wam bam thank you maam you have a working device again.
had a water-soaked psu once, due to filling a not fully checked loop. but i was lucky, i forced it dry with the not recommended hairdryer. blowing away all the liquid that not evaporated by the heat. had it back up and running the same day, and a few years from then on.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 that i accidentally left in my swim trunks while i was in my pool for >30 mins and once I noticed I had it in my pocket i completely dismembered it (easy for me since I have done many repairs on that model) and dunked everything in Isopropyl alcohol for a good while and used soft toothbrush to hopefully get rid of the chlorine deposits on anything and let everything dry for 24hrs. Needless to say it didn't so I got a brand new Galaxy S7 just few days after it came out about a month rolls by, I had kept the assembled phone in a bag tucked away, I just randomly thought to see if it would work AND IT DID and it worked perfectly not a single thing was wrong.
#GodBlessSamsung
Austin C how did you not notice it was in your pocket?
The stupid things men do when they are lost in the love of a woman lol. I was with at the time my GF and just get distracted having fun lol
I have a camera that went through the wash. When we found it after the load, we basically just set it aside and forgot about it for a bit thinking it was dead, but after a day or 2 when we found the sd card and battery in folds the washer and charged it, lo and behold it worked. This happened 4-6 years ago and I still have the camera to this day. The quality isn’t great, but probably because it is an older compact camera (roughly the size of a credit card and 1/4 inch thick). But boy oh boy, it is tough. I have taken it camping and gotten dirt in it, and it still works fine. I’ve taken it apart quite a few times (I got zapped my the capacitor once [DON’T EVER TRY THAT], but I was more cautious the future attempts and wore nonconductive gloves). But it is one tough camera, and I still use it to this day...
Missed opportunity for a very good transition to ad part in the video.
Linus should've said, "...after following our guide, If your device still fails to turn on...then buy a new one...but if it did turn on, then try out SQUARE-SPACE!!..."
Great video. True. One month of drying is my method. Always work
i’m watching this in my bathtub
Spilled Mountain Dew on my Mac keyboard, the wired chuckle key thing, so I immediately rinsed it with hot tap water and then let it dry in a sunny place in front of a fan. Still works!
Your repair advice videos are the best, very enjoyable.
Advice from a chemistry student: After disassembly, *multiple* washings with distilled water can be a good idea to clean of water-soluble junk, without introducing anymore impurities. Once that is done *one* washing with isopropanol is recommended, since it will evaporate very quickly, but as it messes with adhesives it should be done quickly and only with a small amount (50mL or so for a phone). Acetone would do the same job, but is a little more aggressive than isoprop and you usually don't get very pure acetone as a normal person (idk about the US; and no - nailpolish remover isn't a good idea).
4:16 Accidentally spills coffee or limonade on laptop:
*Takes out KARCHER pressure washer to wash out that residue* :D
I use the isopropyl alcohol sonic bath and silicate combined with warm heat and air flow in my shop for nearly all board related wet repairs... And in my 30 years in the industry have only had a few items not recoverable (referring to the non-idiots that take out the batteries; don't plug them in, or otherwise didn't find them at the bottom of a pool or lake, left by someone else weeks, months or years before).
I see... Coffee Lake!
It rained on my console collection (left the skylight open), I disassembled everything and dunked all the boards in isopropanol, it displaces water and acts as a desiccant. I use the same method to dry custom PCBs after an ultrasonic bath. Isopropanol is dirt cheap and extremely useful.
Picked a PC up off the side of the road. Was totally water logged.
Dried it out for a few months...
Fired up no worries and ran for a year or more.
Some PCI slots were sketchy. But it ran!
Spilled coffee on my mechanical keyboard about 3 years ago, gave it an isopropanol bath and it works like a charm to this day
And that is why you make backups... 6:13
Backups are expensive so I live like I had nothing to loose
I get extremely anxious when something I care about is stored on only one drive/raid array. All those people who have all their important pictures on their phones... not backed up... I just don't understand how those people sleep at night.
Best first aid is to get a vacuum cleaner an vacuum all the holes. Or even using vacuum storage bags
I hope this works. My parents opened the windows at my room because of the heat. But later that night it stormed and rained. A couple hours later i went t o bed and saw that my leptop was very very wet. I screamed as a little girl MOM DAD COME NOW. Firstly i wanted to set it on rice. Meanwhile my dad was looking at it i found this video and we opened evry screw and blow with the hairdryer on cool mode. Now i am letting it rest for the night. Plz pray for me.
Did it work?😭
The short circuiting most times does not cause permanent damage. What does however is the corrosion that happens as a result of the traces being exposed to ionized water. If it was fresh water, a rinse/scrub with isopropyl alcohol and then a few minutes with airflow to evaporate should be fine. If it was coffee/juice/etc, rinse with distilled water first and then do it with alcohol and air dry. The quicker this can be done, the better. Also heat isn’t a good idea as it speeds up the chemical reaction that causes corrosion. Also keep alcohol away from speakers/microphones, they don’t like it too much.
Also if the device was exposed to salt water, rinsing it with fresh water or better yet distilled water ASAP can help too until you are able to disassemble it for cleaning. Salt water will start corroding it pretty much instantly.
Depending on the parts that got wet, I've used WD40 to displace the water (it's in the product name). The oil left behind isn't conductive but you may run into problems (oil collects dirt, oil dribbles out and greases up your fingers, etc). I haven't had it damage any plastic yet. Doesn't work on some things (you really can't saturate the platters on a hard drive and still expect it to work, and the heat seal on an LCD panel will probably de-glue itself) but doesn't seem to hurt electro-mechanial switches.
I've dropped my phone in the toilet some time back. After a while of drying everything works but the speaker was odd. Now it's fully functional.
What would Louis Rossmann said about this?
You forgot to mention removing all power sources including power cords/batteries. Where water damage is concerned we recommend our customers hard reset the device after power has been removed to drain all capacitors of power before commencing in any cleanup / dry out measures. Additionally if it still has water in it when it gets to our shop we disassemble it immediately and use an air compressor to blow out as much of the water droplets as possible to prevent corrosion and oxidization on the PCB.
how to remove semen off of my laptop's keyboard? (dont check my history)
Since you're asking us to not check your history, I can only assume that you're too young and there's nothing to find in your history so it's someone else's semen?
Wear a condom next time
piss
There's nothing to find in the history because i use incognito mode
Fart Garfunkel fucking hell. Minecraft// porn skin
One day I spilled a water bottle directly on the keyboard of my gigabyte sabre 15 laptop. I thought everything was lost. I shutdowned it as fast as possible, it rebooted (I mistyped the power button), I shutdowned it again, turned it over, removed the battery and made it dry for 1 day surrounded by rice grain.
Two days after, it rebooted without any problem, still working more than 1 year after. I think they conceived the keyboard so that water has a very hard time reaching the motherboard.
"LCD Displays"....
He technically said display twice
I didn't even notice. Good catch
RIP in peace Linus.
Smoin How many people watching this in hope of fixing their wet electronics know what LCD stands for?
Us regular viewers are tech savvy, yes, but thousands of regular Joes watching this? Nope
Smoin RPG game.
6:25 That moment when Linus proves that he is, in fact, Canadian.
I dropped milk on mine :( still works
lmao
Still works? I dropped on mine 2 days ago and haven't opened it soon
i spilt juice on mine and somehow by just cleaning it with kitchen paper its fine lol
@@zannaxz When did you spill juice?
@@tyronbasista2729 i spilt it on my laptop while having dinner 15 mins ago. i panicked and started drying it straight away, sucking water out with a straw, and turning it upside-down.
@@zannaxz please update on your laptop in 2 days.
I once spilled ketchup on my laptop, I'm glad it didn't have a chiclet keyboard because I just waited for it to dry then I crunched out the dried ketchup.
Time to start equalizing the audio, eh Linus?
Spilled chocolate milk on my Corsair K70 once. Instantly turned off my PC and disconnected the keyboard, then wiped down as much as I could. Then shook off any other bits then put above a radiator that was warm enough but not boiling hot. Within 24-36 hours it was operational again. Granted the RGB lights to it were glitching our but over the span of a month or so, they fixed by themselves oddly enough (likely because I turned off the rgb lights since it was annoying) and it now works as if nothing happened.
Who else trynna fix the school computer during Corona
YGN Swiper brooooooooii
@@kaylamorris5948 its broke😭
I drop my Apple juice on my SCHOOL CHROMEBOOK..!!!
Err, when I spill water on my laptop, a key just gets sticky for a while with no other ill effects.
It really depends on a few factors like for example how much water but also how much dissolved ionic minerals are present which affects how conductive it is. This varies considerably depending on the water source perhaps you might have heard of municipal water supplies being classified as hard or soft, well it's similar to that though the hard and soft classification normally only counts certain impurities like those that contribute heavily to water scaling like Calcium etc. For electrical conductivity there are more impurities to consider but some water sources have really low concentrations of these and are fairly unlikely to do damage unless the quantity is large (like knocking a whole glass over on the laptop etc.
Over time it could get worse
Thanks to this video I was able to save my laptop. unfortunately the keyboard got damaged so I am not able to use it. fortunately I had a keyboard laying around so I am able to use that. Thank you.
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Spicy Memez *Unrelated*
SomeGuy5 He's saying you should dry it in Rice...Gum
*HILARIOUS AND ORIGINAL*
RiceCum
Asian Jake paul.
5:04
"Ah I need a cigarette"
Rice
Safe way to make it worse.
oh my god your avi got me so fucking good
HA! Not falling for the hair trick this time!
i hate your photo made me think i had cat hair on my screen. smh lmao great prank tho
VoHiYo
I recently had a fire at my apartment, and now most of electronics smell like smoke. Do you have any tips how to remove smells / smoke smells from electrical components.
"depending on how deep the moisture has penetrated"
-Linus
I spilled a cup of coffee with cream/sugar on my laptop and power went out and wouldn't start back up. I did what our IT folks did when I did this at work. I disconnecte power, wiped it dry on outside as much as possible, then placed it under a fan overnight - and prayed. Worked the next day. I learned that you must ensure that it is completely dry before trying to restart or components could be damaged.
4:13 So rise is the best option you can use if you do that thing
Bad thumb nail
I dropped tea on my chromebook do you have any advice for that?
Put them near my girlfriend 😏
A laptop mainboard for my model costs 60-70 bucks on ebay. Computer repair shops on my country charges 120-150 bucks plus for replacement of the mainboard.
You can even leave you laptop in the rain overnight, and things can be fixed with a bag of rice, a few fans and a bit of patience.
dude that's exactly why i'm here. i left my laptop overnight in the rain. i'm really grateful to hear this. thanks
dude that's exactly why i'm here. i left my laptop overnight in the rain. i'm really grateful to hear this. thanks
only about a year ago i spilt coffee onto my Corsair CS550M PSU, which in turn tripped the RCD for the entire house. having unplugged the psu from the mains and reset the fusebox (consumer unit in americaland) i proceded to wipe up any residue liquid left in the PSU. having cleared what i could see, i reconnected it into my pc and flicked the switch on the PSU, and what do you know, the darn RCD tripped again!!!
this time i took it apart and left it out to dry over night, woke up put it all together and the pc booted up without tripping the RCD. Thankfully the motherboard also tripped its surge protection and protected my pc from any damage. and even today right now its still going strong and not had a problem
Change intro to outro.
Not as many people stay for outros; he's trying to grow the channel. Also, your life is not so important that you cannot afford to wait a few seconds or press the right arrow key to save 5 seconds of your precious time.
Let it go. They have already said they saw a rise in subscribers and aren't going to change it
Shut up
I don't think they should. If a simple 5 second 'reminder' to subscribe is earning them a greater following, then who are we to stop them?*
*Obviously there are certain boundaries, but this doesn't even come close to crossing it.
They should do it for LTT channel too.
There's a techquickie question for you that you guys might be able to do a quick techquickie episode on why did it matter back in the day what logo was on your credit card vs nowadays it doesn't matter what logos really on your credit card such as like Visa Mastercard Discover or whatever
Adam Dickinson suggest on forum
Yes
if you know conductive fragments have made its way into a powered down device, flushing it with distilled water can be very nifty.
You have not finished this video
NeenanTheNinja
Lol. You got me.
Lmao
I finished it up to the advert :)
I got to where I wanted . . . don't judge me!
My attention span is 3 sec. I need a extremely short and accurate answer
We normally just leave it in the sun for a day, works every time.
Rice 🍚 is your friend
Hmm how convenient for this to go up when some of use are flooding
This is why Apple products are a major fail! Non removable batteries in most devices and take out a single screw and void your warranty!
They can't legally void your warranty for that due to the lawsuit against them last year
Lots of stuff on the PC side has non-removable batteries as well. It's a movement that I don't like, but it looks like it's unavoidable at this point because as people get bigger, they demand that their devices get smaller.
Well liquid damage also voids the warranty so might as well try to disassemble it at that point lol
To be fair, many Android devices and even laptops don't have removable batteries these days. You'd have to take it to a repair shop.
You do know that's the case for virtually every phone on the market, right?
awesome integration at the end, didnt expect that sudden squarespace spot. :)
i commented more than once bc i want to get to the top for once, now, im just asking it, i cant even think of anything original
EmeraldGamez-Minecraft PvP Just use a shitty unfunny meme that’s not original
CptHuggyFace i just want to get to the top, but i hate those meme.
Thx so much I literally poured juice on laptop then poured water and dried it with constant heat and cold at the same
Time and it worked thx
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Nice plug transition.
please let this intro stop
Shut up man! It's cool!
Thought this was a HTB basic vid, I still love you Linus.
You won't pin me
TheJohnSquad Gaming of course he won't lol
You're just some 10 year old who pretends you know anything about computers and begs for likes
No, he won't.
Raging Ragina cool
You're right.
if data on drives are underwater and the data is important, don't take it out of the water and bring it to a specialist with water included (ah nvm Linus said it alrdy) (4:40)