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Phone fried I can't trun it on

I jumped in the pool with my phone it will not turn on

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Hey there,

Sorry that happened to you. You can check out the Electronics Water Damage Wiki. Your best bet is to disassemble your Motorola Moto G, and clean the internals using 90% isopropyl alcohol.

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@kaden27295 I like to go more in detail with this.

First you want to stop continuing to try to charge, sync or otherwise use your phone. This potentially can make a bad situation worse.This may further damage your phone.

The next thing to do is to clean it. Disassemble your phone using (same link as in previous answer by @jmehnert )this video. You must remove all EMI shields from your main circuit board as well as others. Motorola has a few on their phones. If you do not remove those, you might as well not do anything. After you removed those, clean the whole main board, connectors and all with +90% isopropyl alcohol. Also clean the sub board the same way. Follow this guide, and even so it was written for an Apple iPhone 3G, all the points are still pertinent to your phone. While you clean your board, check for any obvious damage, like burned or missing components etc. When it is properly cleaned, replace the battery. Best thing to do would be to clean it with an ultrasonic cleaner, but if you do not have access to one, this will at least help. All these steps are to avoid delayed failure caused by corrosion. Once all this is done, reassemble your phone and reevaluate. Until it is cleaned, everything will only be a guess. Even with all this, water damage has only a small chance to be fully repaired, but at least you can give it a try.

While you work on your phone, take lots of pictures. Once you are done with it, take those pictures and create a guide for iFixit. That will help the next person that has the same problem as you do. It's easy and fun to create these guides. https://ifixit.com/Guide/new The iFixit community will appreciate this.

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