Waterproof your phone (maybe!)

Perhaps ‘proof’ is the wrong word, however…

Yesterday was a fairly dark day for me. I woke up with one of the worst hangovers I’d ever experienced and my head was about to explode, but I faced a bit of a dilemma. It was a big day of football (on the TV – I don’t play much these days) and I really didn’t want to miss out. The first match was about to kick off but I absolutely needed to take a bath. I should make it clear, I don’t have a television in the bathroom but that was no problem due to my mobile phone network offering a streaming sports package. The issue was that I would not trust myself to take my phone into the bath at the best of times, and this was most certainly not the best of times. Water is fairly good at destroying electronic equipment and I am fairly good at having accidents. This was not an option.

What to do?

Well, it turns out I’m a genius (I’m not actually, but I certainly felt like one). From somewhere, and I know not where, I realised that plastic is resistant to the wet stuff. This was a scientific process. At fist I considered placing my phone into a freezer bag, tying it up and calling it a job well done. I was, afterall, not feeling great and this was a quick solution but I wasn’t happy. I don’t like bodging, but this would have ben bodging a bodge. A step too far. The bags in my cupboard are a translucent blue and they’ve got writing all over them. It just wouldn’t do.

I needed something better, and it took only a moment for me to realise what to do. Fortunately for me, the cupboard with the freezer bags also holds the cling film (plastic wrap if you’re an American – I’m told). Cling film is actually quite a lot more useful than I had ever thought.

How to do it?

Now, this is really not a guide because it could certainly go wrong and I will take no responsibility for your broken phone, tablet or anything else for that matter. However, what I did was take a fairly large piece of the cling film and apply it to the screen of my Samsung Galaxy S II as I would a screen protector and wrap around twice more, having floded the ends around the back of the device to create an envelope creating a nice tight seal. That was it, nothing more. It really was that simple!