The Unintended Experiment: A Deep Dive into the Moto G's Water Resistance

As I sat down to write this article, I couldn't help but feel a sense of humiliation. My intention was not to create a video showcasing the water resistance of my new Moto G phone, but it seemed that fate had other plans. The experiment, which I will detail below, was not meant to be a thorough test of the phone's water-resistance capabilities, but it turned out to be just that.

The Phone's Anatomy

As I carefully disassembled the Moto G to examine its internal components, I was struck by the simplicity and elegance of its design. The phone's body is comprised of a few key parts: the 5 megapixel camera, which is protected by a small foam ring; the proximity sensor and ambient light sensor; and the microphone, which is strategically placed to capture sound with precision. But what really surprised me was that everything else in the phone - including the display - seemed to be held together by adhesive alone.

I tried to put my phone in water, but it didn't seem to take much to repel the liquid. I was able to submerge the phone in water for a half hour without any of the water seeping into the internal components. But when I shook the phone violently back and forth, I noticed that only a small amount of water had entered the device.

The Mystery Solved

So how did my phone manage to withstand the initial dip in water, but not the subsequent shaking? As it turns out, the property of the Nano coating on the internal components is what saved the day. The Nano coating not only protects the electrical components from corrosion and damage, but also allows liquid to bead up and drip off. This makes it difficult for water to penetrate the device.

However, as I further examined the phone's internal components, I realized that there may be some limitations to its water resistance. For example, the 5 megapixel camera is still susceptible to water damage, despite the protective foam ring. I couldn't help but wonder what would happen if the phone were fully submerged in water for an extended period of time.

A Lesson Learned

As I looked at my Moto G phone, now back together and functioning normally, I realized that there are indeed some limitations to its water resistance. While it may be able to withstand a few drops or brief submersion in water, it is not designed to handle prolonged exposure to liquid.

My experience serves as a valuable lesson: when it comes to water resistance, it's always better to err on the side of caution. If you're planning to take your phone for a swim or expose it to excessive moisture, consider taking precautions such as using a waterproof case or protective covering.

A New Era in Water Resistance

I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation as I wrapped up my experiment. The technology behind the Nano coating is still in its infancy, and I believe that we can expect to see significant advancements in water resistance in the near future.

Companies like P2i, which have developed this innovative coating, are pushing the boundaries of what is possible when it comes to protecting electronic devices from water damage. Their fully submersible products, which claim to protect against even the most extreme conditions, are sure to be met with interest and enthusiasm from consumers and manufacturers alike.

Conclusion

As I reflect on my experience with the Moto G phone's water resistance, I am reminded of the importance of experimentation and exploration in the pursuit of knowledge. While my experiment did not yield the results I had hoped for, it has provided valuable insights into the complexities of water resistance and the limitations of current technology.

To all my viewers out there, I hope that this article will serve as a cautionary tale and a reminder to approach experiments with a critical and nuanced perspective. And to my sponsors at Audible.com, thank you for your support - your generosity has made it possible for me to pursue my passions and share them with the world.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everybody this is Erica the technology nerd likes to film stuff and today is not such a fun video day for Erica I've had a chance to distance myself for a few days from this event but basically my Moto G has meant a very sad demise and I want to talk about it with you all today because a lot of you have seen my video where I put the Moto G underwater for 30 minutes and it survived unscathed just fine and that's something that really impressed me and has made this device one of my favorite little devices so far but the one thing that I don't want people to do is to go out and to get a Moto G and to think that they can just abuse it just throw it in any liquid that they want to because I got into a little bit of Mischief this past week with the Moto G and decided to see what else it could with stand besides water so I put it into a bowl of soup yeah that's right you heard me a bowl of soup and I was actually fairly confident because what I know about the Moto G is it has a liquid repellent or water repellent Nano coating that protects all the components inside the device from being damaged by any liquid so basically the process goes like this you have Motorola they make the device it's already made assembled and looks just like this they hand it over to a company that's called p2i and p2i takes the Moto G's and they put them inside of a vacuum chamber all of the air is sucked down out it's at room temperature and then they introduce a vapor that's also ionized now this ionized Vapor goes inside of the device and covers all of the components with a calent bond so not only is this layer very very very thin about a thousandth of the width of a human hair you also can't see it you can't feel it and it's very very durable at the same time so it's not going to wear off easily so in their videos I see how coffee is being spilled on it I see people bringing their devices out in the rain and they talk about various other liquids that should not be able to interact with any of the electrical components causing any short circuiting so of course seeing that I was very very curious and I had to test the limitations of this now I tell you this thing here cannot survive aable soup don't do it in theory it should be able to but these devices are not perfect I'm going to do a take aart video as I promised you all to show you how the Moto G ticks you can see some of the electrical components so let's go and check out all those happenings shall we so here we've got the Moto G inside a glass of water and now we're going to see what else it can withstand okay so go ahead so it does just fine 30 minutes in water right so let's see if it can actually withstand other things such as a hot bowl of but oh my God all right SM me thanks for that oh yeah give give it a nice stir that works thanks Dad see he's the one that encourages me to do such things ew that's a carrot oh okay so I guess we're going to take the phone out oh my gosh should I just put my hand in it is it hot no it's all right oh gross oh there's chicken on it yummy e okay is it okay s those s in water yeah this one not usual soup with the accent water was it pass the water test so we moved on the soup yeah we have attracted interest sticking this uh Moto G and and water we're going to have to take the back cover off uh I'm going to cut it for a second I'll show you guys the results this is what my crazy family does for fun okay so as you can see it's off yeah the screen turns on that's a plus you can see that the battery is at 0% well let's give it a minute and uh we'll have it turn back on look at this it's turning on now powering up and you can see there you are wow the screen's really greasy see you can't even make contact yeah your finger is better than hers oh that's interesting too greasy it's really really greasy on this display let's give let's give it a second and see if it'll come back okay so the touchcreen stopped working on the phone I can show you so we're going to see if we can repair this with 70% R shouldn't it be 99% isopropyl we don't know what impurities are in that whatever let's just see if we can uh try to get whatever is on the touch screen cable oh that's going to smell it's good thing we're ventilated outside we're just going to leave that in there for a few minutes see if we can uh recover that touchcreen the thing is in that soup there were a bunch of impurities salt is the main thing that's going to cause a problem here in shorting out our touchcreen so let's see what we can do here now isopropyl alcohol isn't going to hurt it if anything it's going to help remove the impurities so now we've got some distilled water which also doesn't have any impurities in it so we're going to do a second wash we're going to do one more wash here see the phone's on right now I couldn't get it to turn off because the touch screen's off and holding it down and turning it off just restarts the phone unfortunately all right still no touchcreen no touchcreen H we're going to let it dry out a bit and see what the result is hang tight so here we are several days later after doing some Diagnostics and seeing that the touch screen is not working anymore the digitizer or the touch sensitive layer is just no longer being recognized so that was something that I was able to confirm that is a big bummer I'm just going to have it restart right now you can see what it looks like you can see that there's a bunch of water underneath the display there was wasn't water underneath the display initially this is actually because I took the phone apart and used isopropyl again and distilled water again to try to see if I could get any impurities away and still no it's not working so indeed as I had seen the touchcreen is just not being recognized anymore so my only option would be to replace this entire touchscreen assembly I'm going to take this apart so you can see just what I'm talking about so now we're going to have some fun taking it apart I've become an expert at this already as I tried my best is to revive this little phone I feel so horrible so we've got a Torx screwdriver here you can see that it looks like a star so this is not just any normal screwdriver so I'm going to have to just undo all of these screws all of them are exactly the same size and shape and length so I'm just going to finish that up now I've gotten all these screws off and before before I take it apart I do want to mention that I did pop a Sim in it just now and sorry the display is dim because there's water underneath it but you can see that it's definitely getting a 3G signal no problem I'm still able to get Wi-Fi reception I did do a full restore because I ended up not only unlocking the bootloader but rooting it and really doing some Diagnostics to see what looked like it had failed and to me the only thing that looks like it really had failed is the touchcreen all the buttons are still working properly I was still hearing notifications through the speaker nice and loud and I've also been able to charge the device without any problem whatsoever so it really sucks that the touchscreen had to be the thing that failed so opening it on up it's only held together by a couple of Clips it's very easy to take apart I don't even need a pry tool of any sort just easily go around the phone and it pops right up now you just need to be careful for these buttons that we have here as they're easy to lose looking underneath the back cover here we have the main speaker we've also got some contacts right here for the headphone jack this is the single LED flash and we've got some contacts here that make contact with the main board that's what powers this we've got a little microphone gasket right here this is for the microphone on the top so that's really all we're seeing underneath the back cover here and here we have everything else you can see that the batter is just sitting here it's only held in by a double-sided adhesive tape and here's our connector on the board so here's the microphone that the gasket was covering you can see the contacts on the board here for the headphone jack we've got our 5 megapixel camera we've got the vibrating module we've got the 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera this is very easy to remove flick upward and we can just easily lift it out pull the ribbon cable out and there you are now you can see at the bottom is the micro USB port we're going to go ahead and unconnect this connector could just easily do it with my nail and there's a tab right here underneath to pull to pull the battery upward but for me it was just easy to take a pry tool and go underneath to break the adhesive wedging it inward but it's not very difficult to remove it all that's that's really all it is so while I don't call this battery user replaceable if you have a little bit of knowledge about what you're doing you're not going to cause any problem whatsoever this is very easy to replace this phone doesn't have very many structural components you know screws and the like there seems to be a bit of tape and some rubber pieces you can see that this is covering the ribbon cables we have one for the LCD and this is the touchscreen controller we've got this little chip here and this right here underneath this connector I think this is where the problem had lied I think this is what eventually short circuited and I think that this was a weak point here we have a bit of capton tape and this Capon tape was simply just sitting on top of this connector like so there was no capton tape for the ribbon cable for the LCD though curiously I'm not sure why and there was a bit of capton tape for the camera and we've also got a little bit of Capon tape right here on the board now Capon tape is used to insulate certain components just say that you are soldering another piece onto the board and you don't want to have any interference or you don't want something to Short Circuit capton tape is really great for that so clearly they wanted to protect this connector for some reason as well as this one and whatever this is as well but I have to wonder though if it ended up causing some trouble because connectors are generally a weak point when they put this inside of the chamber and it had this cap on tape piece right there on top of it I have to wonder if it prevented the vapor from protecting this fully so when I put it into a bowl of soup the salts that were in the soup were able to interfere with this connector and make it short circuit that would be my best guess as immediately as I turned the phone on as soon as I took it out of the soup the touchcreen was not working it wasn't just something that failed sporadically afterwards it was immediate so as soon as I had a charge going into this phone I turned on the phone boom bye-bye touchcreen so those salts obviously somehow interfered with this connector here now p2i is working on a project to have Coatings that are fully submersible maybe they're able to solve the problem with the connectors being a weak point so I'll be really curious to see that so this is rided for Splash proof and they say that if anything gets into the phone it should be protected as well but for full submersion I can clearly see that it's really able to go in and wreak some Havoc but anyway we're going to continue taking this apart so I'm just going to flip up this clasp here and we've also got that one for the synaptics touchcreen controller there this is only held in by some doublesided adhesive and you can see that once I pull this out that all of this here can't possibly have been protected by that Vapor so pulling this one out as well you're left pretty much unprotected around this so we're just going to lift that upward the main board comes out very easily again everything is held in by double-sided adhesive and very careful we have a clip that's right underneath here so you should pull it out from right to left you can see this clip resides right here we've also got a piece of foam so this is the entire touchscreen assembly that would need to be replaced behind this metal piece we've got the backlight then underneath that is the LCD and then the digitizer and then between that is the glass or the Gorilla Glass 3 so there's a lot going on in this one piece here we've also got the receiver we've got the contacts for the receiver that touched the board so this piece is going to be actually pretty expensive it sets you back about $90 if you get it on somewhere like errad supply.com but you have to make the choice between thinking that you will be able to repair the phone and pay about $100 and thinking that you won't be able to repair it and just paying the full 200 to get a brand new one as this is costing you half the price so setting that aside we've got a metal plate here it seems to have some contacts and you can see that these are what make contact between here and the board now I'm not sure what that's used for because without this still turns on just fine so that would be something else for me to look into but that's interesting they're really are not many structural components here so you've got the proximity sensor and the ambient light sensor you can see this is where the 5 megapixel camera is held in got the microphone right here but look at that everything else is just adhesive so this really is everything that this phone is comprised of and what really surprises me is that no water was really able to get into the device until it was being shaken violently back and forth I did notice only a tad bit of water in there but when I submerged it in water fully and had it sitting for a half hour no water had gotten underneath the display and now when I take this apart I really don't understand how that was possible also for that matter when looking at the 5 megapixel camera all we have right here is this little foam ring that's protecting water from getting into it and that's really not going to cut it so I'm wondering how water did not get into this part of the phone maybe that lies with the property of the Nano coating as well because not only does it protect components but it lets water beat up and drip off so it was being repelled well enough but as it's quite clear as liquid really did get all the way inside this phone obviously as it had a chance to Short Circuit I really don't understand how water did not completely penetrate into the display that first time around when I put it in water my advice to you would be don't take this to deep depths then and don't put it in water and shake it about because it seems that water is more easily able to find its way into the phone so if you end up getting water on it in the rain or if you were to drop it into a puddle or drop coffee on it it should be fine and still I feel quite comfortable submerging it underneath fresh water but as it stands now I would not put it in anything else fully submerged so do not fully submerge this in salt water do not fully submerge this in pool do not fully submerge this in a bowl of soup because as they say it does indeed protect the electrical components but once you fully submerge things everything may not be protected as I clearly was able to see so I'm really excited for p2i to release their fully submersible product that coating is supposed to protect everything when fully submerged I'm curious how that's going to work at this point I'm really not sure but I feel so sad this is such a sad day this is so sad I honestly wasn't going to even make this video this was so sad to me so now that you've seen my humiliation I want to take a chance to thank my sponsors over at audible.com if you don't know what audible is they are a leading online provider of audio books with over 150,000 downloadable titles from every genre that I can possibly think of one of which do become a very favorite is the self-help section and trust me this week I've 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really gave me the chance to not completely freak out so if you want to check out this book or any other book of your choice go to audible.com ER you can check it out for free so you're free to download a book of your choice and to try out audible service so go to audible.com Erica I think this book is really phenomenal and I am just genuinely saying this from my heart and if you don't like the book audible guarantees their book so you can easily just go and exchange it for another one so thank you audible bunches for the support this has been very helpful this week so thank you everybody for watching this has been Erica the technolog nerd who likes to film stuff please wrate comment and subscribe I did not not do this out of recklessness you must know that I just really thought that this would survive and now I can see that there are indeed some limitations so oh good nighthey everybody this is Erica the technology nerd likes to film stuff and today is not such a fun video day for Erica I've had a chance to distance myself for a few days from this event but basically my Moto G has meant a very sad demise and I want to talk about it with you all today because a lot of you have seen my video where I put the Moto G underwater for 30 minutes and it survived unscathed just fine and that's something that really impressed me and has made this device one of my favorite little devices so far but the one thing that I don't want people to do is to go out and to get a Moto G and to think that they can just abuse it just throw it in any liquid that they want to because I got into a little bit of Mischief this past week with the Moto G and decided to see what else it could with stand besides water so I put it into a bowl of soup yeah that's right you heard me a bowl of soup and I was actually fairly confident because what I know about the Moto G is it has a liquid repellent or water repellent Nano coating that protects all the components inside the device from being damaged by any liquid so basically the process goes like this you have Motorola they make the device it's already made assembled and looks just like this they hand it over to a company that's called p2i and p2i takes the Moto G's and they put them inside of a vacuum chamber all of the air is sucked down out it's at room temperature and then they introduce a vapor that's also ionized now this ionized Vapor goes inside of the device and covers all of the components with a calent bond so not only is this layer very very very thin about a thousandth of the width of a human hair you also can't see it you can't feel it and it's very very durable at the same time so it's not going to wear off easily so in their videos I see how coffee is being spilled on it I see people bringing their devices out in the rain and they talk about various other liquids that should not be able to interact with any of the electrical components causing any short circuiting so of course seeing that I was very very curious and I had to test the limitations of this now I tell you this thing here cannot survive aable soup don't do it in theory it should be able to but these devices are not perfect I'm going to do a take aart video as I promised you all to show you how the Moto G ticks you can see some of the electrical components so let's go and check out all those happenings shall we so here we've got the Moto G inside a glass of water and now we're going to see what else it can withstand okay so go ahead so it does just fine 30 minutes in water right so let's see if it can actually withstand other things such as a hot bowl of but oh my God all right SM me thanks for that oh yeah give give it a nice stir that works thanks Dad see he's the one that encourages me to do such things ew that's a carrot oh okay so I guess we're going to take the phone out oh my gosh should I just put my hand in it is it hot no it's all right oh gross oh there's chicken on it yummy e okay is it okay s those s in water yeah this one not usual soup with the accent water was it pass the water test so we moved on the soup yeah we have attracted interest sticking this uh Moto G and and water we're going to have to take the back cover off uh I'm going to cut it for a second I'll show you guys the results this is what my crazy family does for fun okay so as you can see it's off yeah the screen turns on that's a plus you can see that the battery is at 0% well let's give it a minute and uh we'll have it turn back on look at this it's turning on now powering up and you can see there you are wow the screen's really greasy see you can't even make contact yeah your finger is better than hers oh that's interesting too greasy it's really really greasy on this display let's give let's give it a second and see if it'll come back okay so the touchcreen stopped working on the phone I can show you so we're going to see if we can repair this with 70% R shouldn't it be 99% isopropyl we don't know what impurities are in that whatever let's just see if we can uh try to get whatever is on the touch screen cable oh that's going to smell it's good thing we're ventilated outside we're just going to leave that in there for a few minutes see if we can uh recover that touchcreen the thing is in that soup there were a bunch of impurities salt is the main thing that's going to cause a problem here in shorting out our touchcreen so let's see what we can do here now isopropyl alcohol isn't going to hurt it if anything it's going to help remove the impurities so now we've got some distilled water which also doesn't have any impurities in it so we're going to do a second wash we're going to do one more wash here see the phone's on right now I couldn't get it to turn off because the touch screen's off and holding it down and turning it off just restarts the phone unfortunately all right still no touchcreen no touchcreen H we're going to let it dry out a bit and see what the result is hang tight so here we are several days later after doing some Diagnostics and seeing that the touch screen is not working anymore the digitizer or the touch sensitive layer is just no longer being recognized so that was something that I was able to confirm that is a big bummer I'm just going to have it restart right now you can see what it looks like you can see that there's a bunch of water underneath the display there was wasn't water underneath the display initially this is actually because I took the phone apart and used isopropyl again and distilled water again to try to see if I could get any impurities away and still no it's not working so indeed as I had seen the touchcreen is just not being recognized anymore so my only option would be to replace this entire touchscreen assembly I'm going to take this apart so you can see just what I'm talking about so now we're going to have some fun taking it apart I've become an expert at this already as I tried my best is to revive this little phone I feel so horrible so we've got a Torx screwdriver here you can see that it looks like a star so this is not just any normal screwdriver so I'm going to have to just undo all of these screws all of them are exactly the same size and shape and length so I'm just going to finish that up now I've gotten all these screws off and before before I take it apart I do want to mention that I did pop a Sim in it just now and sorry the display is dim because there's water underneath it but you can see that it's definitely getting a 3G signal no problem I'm still able to get Wi-Fi reception I did do a full restore because I ended up not only unlocking the bootloader but rooting it and really doing some Diagnostics to see what looked like it had failed and to me the only thing that looks like it really had failed is the touchcreen all the buttons are still working properly I was still hearing notifications through the speaker nice and loud and I've also been able to charge the device without any problem whatsoever so it really sucks that the touchscreen had to be the thing that failed so opening it on up it's only held together by a couple of Clips it's very easy to take apart I don't even need a pry tool of any sort just easily go around the phone and it pops right up now you just need to be careful for these buttons that we have here as they're easy to lose looking underneath the back cover here we have the main speaker we've also got some contacts right here for the headphone jack this is the single LED flash and we've got some contacts here that make contact with the main board that's what powers this we've got a little microphone gasket right here this is for the microphone on the top so that's really all we're seeing underneath the back cover here and here we have everything else you can see that the batter is just sitting here it's only held in by a double-sided adhesive tape and here's our connector on the board so here's the microphone that the gasket was covering you can see the contacts on the board here for the headphone jack we've got our 5 megapixel camera we've got the vibrating module we've got the 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera this is very easy to remove flick upward and we can just easily lift it out pull the ribbon cable out and there you are now you can see at the bottom is the micro USB port we're going to go ahead and unconnect this connector could just easily do it with my nail and there's a tab right here underneath to pull to pull the battery upward but for me it was just easy to take a pry tool and go underneath to break the adhesive wedging it inward but it's not very difficult to remove it all that's that's really all it is so while I don't call this battery user replaceable if you have a little bit of knowledge about what you're doing you're not going to cause any problem whatsoever this is very easy to replace this phone doesn't have very many structural components you know screws and the like there seems to be a bit of tape and some rubber pieces you can see that this is covering the ribbon cables we have one for the LCD and this is the touchscreen controller we've got this little chip here and this right here underneath this connector I think this is where the problem had lied I think this is what eventually short circuited and I think that this was a weak point here we have a bit of capton tape and this Capon tape was simply just sitting on top of this connector like so there was no capton tape for the ribbon cable for the LCD though curiously I'm not sure why and there was a bit of capton tape for the camera and we've also got a little bit of Capon tape right here on the board now Capon tape is used to insulate certain components just say that you are soldering another piece onto the board and you don't want to have any interference or you don't want something to Short Circuit capton tape is really great for that so clearly they wanted to protect this connector for some reason as well as this one and whatever this is as well but I have to wonder though if it ended up causing some trouble because connectors are generally a weak point when they put this inside of the chamber and it had this cap on tape piece right there on top of it I have to wonder if it prevented the vapor from protecting this fully so when I put it into a bowl of soup the salts that were in the soup were able to interfere with this connector and make it short circuit that would be my best guess as immediately as I turned the phone on as soon as I took it out of the soup the touchcreen was not working it wasn't just something that failed sporadically afterwards it was immediate so as soon as I had a charge going into this phone I turned on the phone boom bye-bye touchcreen so those salts obviously somehow interfered with this connector here now p2i is working on a project to have Coatings that are fully submersible maybe they're able to solve the problem with the connectors being a weak point so I'll be really curious to see that so this is rided for Splash proof and they say that if anything gets into the phone it should be protected as well but for full submersion I can clearly see that it's really able to go in and wreak some Havoc but anyway we're going to continue taking this apart so I'm just going to flip up this clasp here and we've also got that one for the synaptics touchcreen controller there this is only held in by some doublesided adhesive and you can see that once I pull this out that all of this here can't possibly have been protected by that Vapor so pulling this one out as well you're left pretty much unprotected around this so we're just going to lift that upward the main board comes out very easily again everything is held in by double-sided adhesive and very careful we have a clip that's right underneath here so you should pull it out from right to left you can see this clip resides right here we've also got a piece of foam so this is the entire touchscreen assembly that would need to be replaced behind this metal piece we've got the backlight then underneath that is the LCD and then the digitizer and then between that is the glass or the Gorilla Glass 3 so there's a lot going on in this one piece here we've also got the receiver we've got the contacts for the receiver that touched the board so this piece is going to be actually pretty expensive it sets you back about $90 if you get it on somewhere like errad supply.com but you have to make the choice between thinking that you will be able to repair the phone and pay about $100 and thinking that you won't be able to repair it and just paying the full 200 to get a brand new one as this is costing you half the price so setting that aside we've got a metal plate here it seems to have some contacts and you can see that these are what make contact between here and the board now I'm not sure what that's used for because without this still turns on just fine so that would be something else for me to look into but that's interesting they're really are not many structural components here so you've got the proximity sensor and the ambient light sensor you can see this is where the 5 megapixel camera is held in got the microphone right here but look at that everything else is just adhesive so this really is everything that this phone is comprised of and what really surprises me is that no water was really able to get into the device until it was being shaken violently back and forth I did notice only a tad bit of water in there but when I submerged it in water fully and had it sitting for a half hour no water had gotten underneath the display and now when I take this apart I really don't understand how that was possible also for that matter when looking at the 5 megapixel camera all we have right here is this little foam ring that's protecting water from getting into it and that's really not going to cut it so I'm wondering how water did not get into this part of the phone maybe that lies with the property of the Nano coating as well because not only does it protect components but it lets water beat up and drip off so it was being repelled well enough but as it's quite clear as liquid really did get all the way inside this phone obviously as it had a chance to Short Circuit I really don't understand how water did not completely penetrate into the display that first time around when I put it in water my advice to you would be don't take this to deep depths then and don't put it in water and shake it about because it seems that water is more easily able to find its way into the phone so if you end up getting water on it in the rain or if you were to drop it into a puddle or drop coffee on it it should be fine and still I feel quite comfortable submerging it underneath fresh water but as it stands now I would not put it in anything else fully submerged so do not fully submerge this in salt water do not fully submerge this in pool do not fully submerge this in a bowl of soup because as they say it does indeed protect the electrical components but once you fully submerge things everything may not be protected as I clearly was able to see so I'm really excited for p2i to release their fully submersible product that coating is supposed to protect everything when fully submerged I'm curious how that's going to work at this point I'm really not sure but I feel so sad this is such a sad day this is so sad I honestly wasn't going to even make this video this was so sad to me so now that you've seen my humiliation I want to take a chance to thank my sponsors over at audible.com if you don't know what audible is they are a leading online provider of audio books with over 150,000 downloadable titles from every genre that I can possibly think of one of which do become a very favorite is the self-help section and trust me this week I've needed a lot of self-help so the book book that I've been listening to on my new tablets what I've decided to test it out on it's called how to stop worrying and start living by Dale Carnegie and one of the major principles that's really helped me this week move on from what's happened is looking at an event for example my Moto G just becoming shredded and not working anymore in this case I was supposed to make a really cool video it was supposed to survive I was supposed to be able to show you it was supposed to be just awesomeness and it just completely failed so I had my little panic attack I was not going to show you this video at all I felt incredibly stupid but then I really needed to look at it and think of the absolute worst thing that could possibly happen was well I could just get the part to repair it I could get a whole new device and if I could not get the device working I could just come on camera and be honest with you about what happened so thanks to that technique it really gave me the chance to not completely freak out so if you want to check out this book or any other book of your choice go to audible.com ER you can check it out for free so you're free to download a book of your choice and to try out audible service so go to audible.com Erica I think this book is really phenomenal and I am just genuinely saying this from my heart and if you don't like the book audible guarantees their book so you can easily just go and exchange it for another one so thank you audible bunches for the support this has been very helpful this week so thank you everybody for watching this has been Erica the technolog nerd who likes to film stuff please wrate comment and subscribe I did not not do this out of recklessness you must know that I just really thought that this would survive and now I can see that there are indeed some limitations so oh good night\n"