An important service announcement concerning cell phones
I have learned an important lesson with regards to the amount of punishment that a Motorola Razr phone can endure. I was fixing the guts in my toliet the other day and, one thing leading to another, my phone plopped into the toliet. I was not even totally aware that it had happened and glanced down after hearing the sploosh sound. Panic and fear followed, and I screamed out a string of profanity that probably woke the dead in the next county. I reached quickly into the toliet (it was clean but filled with 2000 Flushes Blue which stained my hands) and tried to grab the phone. However, I couldn't immediately get it out, as the phone keep going further and further into the poop shoot (don't know the technical term). All told, it was probably submerged for about 20 to 30 seconds. When I pulled it out, it was almost like rescuing a drowning, dying man, because the phone briefly flashed a last gasp message of "Check SIM Card" and then died. I was crestfallen.
I have tried to bring my phone back to life, drying and coddling it. There were some brief glimmers of life earlier, but there seems to have been a major setback in the night. Any suggestions are welcome but we may be holding a death watch. These next few hours are critical...
3 comments:
If it's stopped dripping, take out the SIM card and battery, wrap it in a towel (or even paper towel),and leave it over a low-heat source (radiator, heat register) for a day or two. However, I don't know why you'd have the heat on in Tennessee in July. Probably won't work if you can see water sloshing behind transparent parts. Google will turn up more asinine, adventurous, and il-conceived ideas, usually involving alcohol (the don't-drink kind).
Something similar happened to me. I dropped my phone into a bank of ice and snow and didn't find it until the snow melted a week and a half later. It was not salvageable. Do you have Cingular/AT&T? If so, you might be able to get a refurbished phone for a reasonable price. (I got a duplicate of my dead phone for $65, as opposed to $250 for a new phone.) The people in the store will act like they don't know what you're talking about, but if you call customer service you might qualify for that. Another option is to buy a (probably stolen) phone off of Ebay or Craigslist.
Also, I thought 2000 Flushes was toxic??!!
friend of mine did the low heat source thing and it worked after 3 days
All the best
Pete
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