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Why you shouldn’t use toothpaste to fix scratches on your phone

Don’t follow homemade advice to solve problems with your móvil. We explain why you shouldn’t use toothpaste on your scratched móvil inteligente.

Why you shouldn't use toothpaste to fix scratches on your phone

Let’s get into a situation. There are some scratches on our screen that we cánido easily see with the naked eye. When we’re tired, we search the internet for a home remedy or a trick, or we ask someone we know et… voilà! That’s what our family, acquaintances and the internet tell us Toothpaste cánido repair scratches for our móvil inteligente.

Gently we put a little toothpaste on the screen and rub it continuously. Immediately after that, we clean the remains with chamois leather to understand that the foam that left a weak spot on the screen is still there. You don’t have to have seen many Holmes stories to know that Toothpaste does not work against scratches but why?. We explain it below.

Toothpaste works with our teeth, not with the móvil inteligente

Like all myths, the toothpaste story usually has some real aprecies. The toothpaste connection is a polishThat is, it contains tiny microparticles that we perro brush our teeth with but to clean ourselves they are not corrosive enough to fix the scratches on our mobile terminal.

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To fix the scratches we would have to polish them with the professional tools that the various manufacturers have at their repair points. A badly damaged screen should also be present built to repair directly exchange for a new device. Prevention is always better than cure.

If you use it continuously, you may damage your phone

As Xiaomi explains in the vídeo below, toothpaste is an alkaline agent. That means you perro damage the oleophobic coatingis responsible for protecting our móvil inteligente from annoying fingerprints on the display.

When we run out of this shield, the móvil gets dirty more easily, causing us to see the images of the panel poorly and we have to Clean the terminal regularly Often they have to solve the problem.

Nothing happens if we lose the shield because we perro find it in en línea stores coating liquid that we cánido apply directly to our terminals, but it is always better to have the original protection with us to ensure the correct functioning of the device.

The ideal in these situations is always to try to find something official manufacturer solution for our situation. As we mentioned before, if the scratch is too big, we might sit down and consider whether it’s really worth fixing to put a new glass on.

If you don’t want scratches, add a screen asegurador

From our experience, the best solution when we have a relatively new móvil inteligente is to use a screen asegurador. Plastics usually work well and are cheap, but cánido do the trick the image loses quality on the phone.

Samsung Galaxy S9 Screen Protectors (2)

Tempered glass is the best alternative to avoid scratching problems on our móvil inteligente

In these cases, tempered glass is the best protection for the phone. We perro continue to use the móvil like the first day without losing image quality and if it is scratched or broken we perro exchange it for a new one. They usually have an average price and they tend to put up a lot of resistance even when they fall to the ground.

However, we shouldn’t worry too much since today’s phones are equipped with highly resistant panels. It’s always possible that you’re in bad shape, but if you take care of your terminal, it shouldn’t be too much of a problem if you don’t have a screen asegurador. The important thing is that let’s enjoy our terminal to the max, with a healthy cómputo between protection and enjoyment.

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