When you wear it on the poolside and suddenly your headphones drop in the water, or you are drinking water and the glass drops from your hand and the water spilled on the headphone. If you are facing these issues, don’t take tension about that, just follow these steps that I am gonna tell you. Then surely you will fix your headphone and don’t need to purchase a brand new headphone.
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First of all, you have to remove the silicone tips of your earphone. From this time, they should be fully wet.
It’s necessary to remove the tip when you are starting. Keep them on a dry tissue or a towel to let the water soak out.
You can’t do anything if you don’t take out the inner components of your earphones.
Pick a screwdriver and apply the slightest pressure on the joint. And when the seal is broken the internal parts release.
If the setting gets out with iron in water, it can damage your earphones. So, it’s necessary to maintain the space clean to use.
A good to go option by using distilled waters. Because they ionize in nature and can’t harm your earphones totally.
Once you have done cleaning the inner parts. You won’t be able to use a dryer, so the first target is to remove the large water droplets.
Start to shake the earphones right to left to take it out. At least shake the earphones for 2-3 minutes.
Don’t keep them to direct sunlight for dry. You have to apply a balanced quantity of air. You can also keep them under your home fans and waiting to dry. Always use a towel to wipe away the water molecules. You should repeat this action until your earphones fully dry. Then wait for almost 4 hours for getting it to the original place.
Obviously, if your headphones go wet, in such cases you can fix them easily. There are also conditions in which the headphones will be irreparable; this condition depends on the expanse of damage created by the water. If your headphones work while becoming wet, there is a great chance that they can be irreparable from damage to the circuits.
Firstly, don’t waste much time. When you find your earphones being wet or washed inside the washing machine, don’t take tension, fastly take an instant action to decrease the chance of losing the earphone.
So what things do you have to do if the earphones are wet? What actions should you take?
Here the answer is simply follow these steps and it will help you save the water-damaged earphones.
Instantly, remove all the joined parts of the earphones like foam or silicone tips from earphones, then keep them on a soft withered towel for making them dry.
The main focus has to be on the significant part of the earphones like the drivers, and these are the significant parts that are damaged simply if you don’t begin to the next steps.
You have to disassemble your earphone to release internal parts of it.
Ensure to open both earbuds drivers, by using the air of your mouth, blow up the extra caps and then keep them on a soft dry towel for making it dry.
Take a full glass of distilled water, also said deionized water, and keep the device on it. I know you become amazed at why you use distilled water on the wet earphone. But don’t take tension because distilled water won’t create any damage. Deionized water is secure for electronics.
Shake the device to reduce as much water as you can.
Clasp both earbuds with your hand and blow the air of your mouth many times. You can also utilize an air blower device but you have to keep a large distance between the earbuds and if the blowing device or machine becomes very close to it, this procedure can damage your earphones because of increased air. So be careful while doing this step.
Believe me this step is necessary as compared to step 3 that can be left. This step helps to reduce as much water as you can out of your earbuds since the important aim is to reduce water from your wet earphones.
Always use a dry soft towel to hold the inner parts of the earphone and that’s why step 2 is necessary(disassembling) and softly hold the additional wet and the drops of distilled water. Do this procedure to all areas and all sides of the driver.
This step is very necessary and much compulsory or a process as compared to all steps I’ve described. A grain mainly a bag of rice, and uncooked (raw) rice that can easily do this magic.
Open a bag of rice and put the earphone including other parts inside the rice. Uncooked(raw) rice is a drying agent, while you insert the wet earphone into a little bag of uncooked rice granules, seal the bag and keep in the sunshine (not directly and avoid that can make it too hot).
Open the bag after and every some hours to reduce increasing moisture and then replace the rice
Put your earbuds in the rice bag for almost 48 hours. And make sure this bag is securely kept and ensure no one takes this for cooking. Once fully dry, you are ready to use your earphone.
Don’t try to use your earphone before the steps are completed over the 48 hours keep them in the rice bag.
If you use it before completing all steps and it isn’t useful for you, it means you lost your headphones forever and then you have to buy a new one so be careful and fully follow these steps.
To get rid of these things in future, here i provide some tips to follow.
Overall, the first and important thing to do is to secure and save your headphones from water damage. Because if you save your headphones from water then you don’t need to apply these steps and don’t need to do a lot of research.
But, when the headphone drops accidentally in water and don’t work perfectly then you have to follow those steps that I mentioned above, and I confidently sure you will repair your headphone and get them into the real shape.
So, if this article is helpful for you and if you have another issue regarding this, make a comment below and I will resolve your issue as soon as possible.