2023-07-15 12:00:00
In summer, more than at any other time of the year, vigilance is necessary to preserve your phone from all external aggressions such as heat, sand or water.
“Because of leisure, we break more phones during the summer. We observe more repairs”, confirms Karima Ouidir, workshop manager at WeFix, a French company specializing in the repair of connected devices.
Recommended basic use
One of the most important risks is heat, because “a laptop is made to operate normally only up to 35°C”, indicates the technician. It causes many problems of overheating which damages the batteries, most often. One of the most frequent: “Phones in GPS mode placed on the windshield and charging at the same time”, she specifies.
To solve it, “just hang your smartphone on the air vents so that it is cooled by the air conditioning”, advises Romain Vitt, editor-in-chief of the news site specializing in technologies Lemon Squeezer.
It is full of enthusiasm that the journalist gives his best advice to avoid overheating cell phones. “The easiest way is to leave them at home or somewhere in the shade. In the sun, use power-hungry apps like games, camera and GPS as little as possible.”
No refrigerator
And when the battery is flat, “using a wireless charger can be a good idea”, because “charging is slower and makes the smartphone heat up less”, recommends Romain Vitt.
But sometimes the laptop overheats so much due to the sun that it becomes scorching hot in the hands of the users. “We often hear the testimony of people who put their smartphone in a refrigerator. Avoid. This causes a very dangerous thermal shock for the device”, warns Romain Vitt. His solution? “Put it in the shade and wait”.
The south impacted by the waters
Wait, this word also comes up following a cell phone has taken a dip in the water. Although some mobiles are IP68*, liquids are still dangerous, especially when they are salty like sea water.
“In the South especially, we have a lot of repairs of oxidized appliances. Salt water causes corrosion which attacks everything under the hull”, reveals Karima Ouidir.
To avoid the death of his device, the specialized journalist recommends “to rinse it with fresh water, to wait to dry it a little, then to put it in rice and to wait once more” and “above all not to do not use a hair dryer”. In some cases, “unfortunately there is nothing to do”.
scratch and fall
This despair also applies when you scratch your phone because of the sand on the beach. “You can put a protective glass, place it in an airtight pouch or simply put it in a bag, but that’s it,” says Mr. Vitt.
In other circumstances, “the sand becomes embedded inside the smartphone and can degrade components” such as the motherboard, circuits or battery.
Finally, if the phone has withstood the heat wave, water and sand, a risk is always present: the fall. “Summer is the time when you’re in shorts, when you run and when the mobile slips and falls”. The easiest way is to have a closed pocket or not to take it with you. Finally, it is perhaps better to live like 20 or 30 years ago and not have a cell to enjoy the summer.
* IP68 is a standard of some phones. It means that the device is completely sealed once morest dust and sealed once morest fresh water for 1 hour at a depth of more than 1 meter.
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