Category Data Recovery

How to Recover Data from a Water-Logged Phone

Cartoon image of a happy smartphone swimming underwater surrounded by colorful fish and a sunken ship, representing a phone submerged in water.

Has this ever happened to you? You’re walking along the channel in Round Lake Beach talking excitedly on your smart-phone with your girlfriend, when suddenly, plons! Your phone spontaneously decides today's a great day for a swim, leaps out of your hand and into the water? Stupid phone! Doesn't it know it can't swim?! So what do you do? You hire a professional scuba-diver, at $250/hour, to go down there, and get your errant phone! Even though it’s obviously going through some sort of identity crisis, thinking it’s a submersible rather than a phone. Maybe trying to make these things smarter wasn’t such a good idea…