When your cell phone stops working all you really want is a quick cell phone fix. Whatever the problem, you’d really like to be able to fix it yourself at home. While not all of the cell phone problems you encounter will be DIY fixes, there are several things that you can try to repair some of the more mundane problems that you will encounter.

Scratches on your screen
It is important to clean your cell phone screen with a microfiber cloth, just as you would your eyeglasses. If the screen is still pretty messy, you can use a small drop of alcohol on the cloth to clean the screen. Still have scratches? Apply a tiny dab of a polishing toothpaste to the screen and rub gently into the scratches themselves. Often the toothpaste will polish out the scratches and give you a much clearer screen.( toothpaste also works on CD and DVD scratches, at least maybe long enough for you to make a copy).

Discolored blotches
Do you have some spots on your cell phone screen? Sometimes pixels get stock and create blotches on your screen. Use your thumb or a smooth plastic device to roll the the blotches and dispersed the color that’s on the screen. Sometimes just a little applied pressure, done carefully of course, will cause discoloration to disseminate.

Freezing up
Most cell phones have a sequence of button pushing that will unfreeze your cell phone. Check your owner’s manual for your particular model for this information, or google it to find out which buttons to push. If the normal reset does not work, take the battery out. Leave it out for a count of 10 or 15 seconds, and put it back in. Wait another 10 or 15 seconds and turn the phone back on.

Information glitches
If your phone stops displaying information correctly( names, numbers) the problem may be your Sim card. Just as you took out the battery for power issues, remove the SIM card, leave it out a few seconds, and put it back in. If you don’t know where to find the SIM card, it is usually under the battery.

Wet phone
Okay, we’ve all done it.  I forgot that I had a soft drink sitting in the car console and set my cell phone down into the Coke Zero.  Yum.  So, how do you fix a wet phone?

Let it air dry

Take the phone part. Place all of the parts on hand towel on a countertop.  Leave them alone.  For a while.  Days.

Try a hair dryer.

Take the phone apart. Place all of the parts on hand towel on a countertop. Set the blow dryer on cool/low and gently blow the water away from the cell phone parts. Don’t get the dryer too close or too hot. You don’t want to melt the phone, just dry it.

Use a bag of rice.

That’s right. Fill a large Ziploc bag about halfway with rice. Uncooked rice. Dry rice. Take the cell phone apart. Put all of the components into the bag of rice. Make sure that each component is well covered with rice. Depending on how wet the phone is, leave the bag on the counter top overnight or for several nights. The rice will absorb all of the moisture in the phone and you will be able to put it back together and use it as if it is brand-new.

There will be times that the repair of your cell phone will be beyond you, but for a few of the everyday problems you may find a cell phone fix here that will work.

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