When Her Cellphone Takes a Dive

[rickjump1 0]

It went through the washing machine, and I suggested using her hair dryer, but all the moisture just accumulated behind the screen. Then, a friend suggested she put here phone in a bag of rice for a minimum of three days. It worked; all the moisture disappeared and the phone was back to normal with one exception: the little white dots above right and below left of the battery were now pink. Now any tech knows it was once wet. This probably would have more risky in salt water, but she never washes in salt water.

Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

[oldwomanc6 52]

I tried the rice trick on my Macbook Air. I didn't wash it, but Sangria spilled is a bitch. Didn't work. The fact it was only 3 weeks old didn't help my mood.

Glad it worked for you!

lisa
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[riddler 0]

I pay my ex a lot of money every month, and she's chosen to work less and less, so that my child support payments are now the majority of her monthly income. Yet, she was determined to have a new iPhone. She can barely afford groceries and is not paying her bills. Of course, I felt a $600 was too much, but I said nothing, other than positive things when she showed me her new prize. Inside, though, I felt it was abuse of her money, and the money that I gave her for our children.

Yesterday, in our 5-minute exchange of the children, she dropped the iPhone onto grass, and cracked the glass. No insurance. I took a little bit of pleasure, but it was also a shame. She will likely spend more of the money that I give her for child support on a new one.

Even though I don't really believe in Karma, I have to wonder. What is the likelihood of her breaking this thing in the few minutes out of a week that I'm actually there to witness it? Karma.

Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

[FlyingRhenquest 1]

I run a GPS tracker on my phone and find it to be rather inaccurate. I'm pretty sure it's the hardware, but I'm very tempted to enter a bug report on MyTracks, just so I can enter the steps to reproduce the problem: 1) Enable tracking software 2) Jump out of airplane.

I'm also kind of looking forward to the day I tell my cell company I was taking a picture out the door of a plane at 5000 feet and dropped the phone.

I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

[FlyingRhenquest 1]

Sounds like "one of those" exes. She probably bought it just to piss you off, and probably dropped it for exactly the same reason.

I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

[riddler 0]

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She probably bought it just to piss you off, and probably dropped it for exactly the same reason.

I think she just got used to having nice things when she was with me (I had previously bought an iPhone for her when they were new and when we were together). The iPhone is a nice phone. And watching her drop it, there is no way is was not an accidental drop.

I've never seen such a bad crack, though - at least 80% of the screen is shattered. This is why I always have insurance.

Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

[riddler 0]

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I run a GPS tracker on my phone and find it to be rather inaccurate.

You probably already know this, so I hope I don't offend you. Most of the cell phones use AGPS as their base measure of location. It's quite a bit faster to acquire location (time-to-first-fix), but also based on triangulation from two or more cell phone towers. And that means it's just not accurate compared to autonomous GPS, which uses very fast time measurements from triangulating satellites, and is considerably more accurate. For running/walking/biking or skydiving, I wouldn't use a phone. Some phones also have standard GPS, but only use them as a backup when they can't get an AGPS signal, and those systems are very slow and have poor success acquiring a signal. (correct me if I'm wrong, maybe the latest and greatest smartphones are much better at this).

Bottom line, cell-phones as GPS are good for some things (automobile mapping), but autonomous GPS always seems to work better for me for specific tasks (running, skydiving, etc).

Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

[rickjump1 0]

This was no I Phone. It came free with the service, but I feel your pain anyway.

Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

[FlyingRhenquest 1]

Yah, I'm going to pick up a flysight sooner or later. The phone was fine as a proof of concept though. I've already run the code I've written against flysight data, and it's much, much better.

I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

[phreeloader 0]

rickjump1

This probably would have more risky in salt water, but she never washes in salt water.

I dropped one in the ocean a couple of years ago... once it dried out it was squirrely .. kept thinking i was pushing buttons, or plugging in headphones. Seemed to be worse when the humidity was high... Since i figured this was due to the salt I removed the battery and put the whole phone is baggie full of distilled water and left it to soak for a while to dissolve the salt... squeezed the bag to agitate it & force as much water thru the phone as i possible could (i know that sounds crazy... but i didn't have much to lose at this point)

After a few hours i took the phone out of the bag of water and put it on the dash of my car to dry in the sun for the day, and that night threw it in a baggie of rice and left it there for 3 or 4 days

When it was all dried out i popped the battery back in and it was as good as new!

[wmw999 2,446]

I got mine thoroughly wet in the rain a few years ago, with the same results. However, when it died (about 2 years later), all of the phone numbers I had stored in it were irretrievable, it was too dead. Because of the pink dots, the tech said there was no way at all.

So do have her back it up somehow, even if it's to make sure the paper address book is up-to-date.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[theonlyski 8]

Water in itself isn't bad for your phone. It's the impurities in the water that fuck up electronics.

Salt water would probably short circuit the thing, even drying it out would leave salt deposits on the hardware and make it unreliable at best.

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[BIGUN 1,311]

wmw999

I got mine thoroughly wet in the rain a few years ago, with the same results. However, when it died (about 2 years later), all of the phone numbers I had stored in it were irretrievable, it was too dead. Because of the pink dots, the tech said there was no way at all.

So do have her back it up somehow, even if it's to make sure the paper address book is up-to-date.

Wendy P.

I have Verizon with the backup service enabled.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[Rick 67]

Years ago I had the Motorola "contractors" phone the yellow heavy duty things that Nextel sold. I dropped it in a bucket of concrete I was carrying up a ladder. I rinsed it off with a hose then opened it up and let it dry on the tailgate of a pickup truck. Worked fine after a few hours in the Florida sun.

Same phone I dropped from a ladder about 12' onto a concrete floor and it still worked.

I swear those things were indestructible

You can't be drunk all day if you don't start early!

[amstalder 0]

riddler

I've never seen such a bad crack, though - at least 80% of the screen is shattered. This is why I always have insurance.

Unfortunately, the insurance company Verizon uses will only replace your phone twice in a year... And I had to have mine replaced twice last month

[rickjump1 0]

Her phone went dead. We changed batteries and tried the rice trick again, but it's DRT (dead right there).

Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.