Long story short , my iPhone fell in the water , we put it in rice and under a blow dryer , when my technician tried to remove my sim , the phone suddenly started burning/smoking , he had blisters on his fingers. The phone was not plugged into the charger , how could this happen. I have a video from our cctv , not sure where I can upload it
iPhone 6, iOS 8.4
You got it wet. The liquid short circuited something in the phone that caused the battery to discharge rapidly, possibly catching fire.
This is exactly why I tell people NOT to use a phone that's been water damaged.
The heat could have been held in from using the hair dryer. I would never recommend using a hair dryer on any electrical device. If it was not an authorised Apple technician who attempted to pull it apart, then there is really nothing I can help you with.
Pete
I hear what you say , but the blow dryer was used like 3 or 4 hours before . We live in Africa - Namibia . not much apple support around 🙂 Here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xQT5qpt5Xs
As I say, if you used a hair dryer and it was opened by an unauthorised person, then they are the things which can injure people, and there for highly unrecommended, regardless of where you live. It should have been taken straight to an Apple Store to see if it could be rescued.
Sorry
Pete
The phone was never opened ! I work 12 years in the cellphone industry , I have my own shop for 5 years ,something like this has never ever happened . My point is , even if the phone fell in the water , it should still not start burning !
The fact that the phone sustained water damage COULD certainly cause the battery to explode, which i suspect has happened. If a Lithium battery is subjected to a short circuit for an extended period of time, as in a wet or corroded connection, it could very well explode or ignite.
stefanjacksch wrote:
The phone was never opened ! I work 12 years in the cellphone industry , I have my own shop for 5 years ,something like this has never ever happened . My point is , even if the phone fell in the water , it should still not start burning !
You put a hair dryer on it. Most likely the battery absorbed the heat and started burning. If you have had 12 years in the cell phone industry then you should have learned that in your first lesson.
Again, sorry, but the damage has been done.
Pete
Dried hundreds of phones with a blow dryer on very low heat , never had that problem.A phone lying in the sun will get ``hotter`` than what the blow dryer on low heat does and this happened a few hours later , simply does not make sense
As I am in this thread, I want my say too:
you said "The phone was never opened ! I work 12 years in the cellphone industry , I have my own shop for 5 years ,something like this has never ever happened . My point is , even if the phone fell in the water , it should still not start burning"
If that is your opinion, I am glad that we did never do business . You know quite well that when you create a short circuit, you can have explosions (batteries) and burning. Maybe not very often but the possibility is always there.
I am going to log out of this thread, you have made this remark already after all posts that explain why this can happen.
stefanjacksch wrote:
Dried hundreds of phones with a blow dryer on very low heat , never had that problem.
Then you've been extremely lucky. Hair dryers will push water deeper into the phone. They should never be used on a wet phone. In fact, I can't really think of any good reason to use a hair dryer on a phone. I might use canned air to clean out a charging port but that's about it.
You did not switch it OFF ???
Whatever you reckon, but you destroyed that one with heat.
Bye
Pete
iPhone 6 burnt- How is that possible
