Comments on: Give Your Phone a Bath http://maleesha.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/give-your-phone-a-bath/ Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:50:52 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: David http://maleesha.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/give-your-phone-a-bath/#comment-2810 David Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:36:47 +0000 http://maleesha.wordpress.com/?p=1091#comment-2810 Sounds like you're on course to become Murphy's Lawyer! Yay maleesha! My niece was getting a pedicure prior to being in my daughter's wedding and the goofy guy at the salon was taking their picture and dropped her camera into the foot bath. It was a new camera and my niece was rather upset. She gave it to me to try to fix. I told her it was a goner. I removed the battery and flash card and hung the camera in front of a dehumidifier for a few days. I wasn't really expecting it to come back to life, but it did. No secrets there. But speaking of working on computers and MTAE's comment reminded me of a time I was working on someone's PowerBook. It had a problem on the main board, I'd worked out by elimination. Not covered by warranty, but there was a sort of extended warranty coverage for this common problem of the AC adapter port breaking off the main board. It wasn't the problem with the computer I was working on, but it would get a new board for free from Apple if it DID have that problem ... long story short (is too late for that?) I was able to <i>give</i> it that problem without too much trouble. In conclusion, all my pets are neutered. But I'm not. Sounds like you’re on course to become Murphy’s Lawyer! Yay maleesha!

My niece was getting a pedicure prior to being in my daughter’s wedding and the goofy guy at the salon was taking their picture and dropped her camera into the foot bath. It was a new camera and my niece was rather upset. She gave it to me to try to fix. I told her it was a goner. I removed the battery and flash card and hung the camera in front of a dehumidifier for a few days. I wasn’t really expecting it to come back to life, but it did.

No secrets there. But speaking of working on computers and MTAE’s comment reminded me of a time I was working on someone’s PowerBook. It had a problem on the main board, I’d worked out by elimination. Not covered by warranty, but there was a sort of extended warranty coverage for this common problem of the AC adapter port breaking off the main board. It wasn’t the problem with the computer I was working on, but it would get a new board for free from Apple if it DID have that problem … long story short (is too late for that?) I was able to give it that problem without too much trouble.

In conclusion, all my pets are neutered. But I’m not.

]]> By: smalltownsmalltimes http://maleesha.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/give-your-phone-a-bath/#comment-2805 smalltownsmalltimes Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:54:26 +0000 http://maleesha.wordpress.com/?p=1091#comment-2805 I dropped my phone in a kiddie pool. No wait, my kid dropped my phone in a kiddie pool. Verizon did take it back because I had insurance, but I had to get all crazy and loud before they agreed. Had I had this advice, I could have spared the Verizon salesperson a teeny weeny bit of semi-sorta-borderline verbal abuse. I dropped my phone in a kiddie pool. No wait, my kid dropped my phone in a kiddie pool. Verizon did take it back because I had insurance, but I had to get all crazy and loud before they agreed. Had I had this advice, I could have spared the Verizon salesperson a teeny weeny bit of semi-sorta-borderline verbal abuse.

]]> By: morethananelectrician http://maleesha.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/give-your-phone-a-bath/#comment-2804 morethananelectrician Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:21:49 +0000 http://maleesha.wordpress.com/?p=1091#comment-2804 There is also another secret. Cell phone companies don't warranty phones that have been in the water. Most batteries have a moisture sensor on them that changes color when they get wet. If you ever change batteries in your old phone, keep the bad one to use like a "throw away gun" in case you ever drop the phone in the water and it doesn't work. Just swap out the batteries before you return it...or try to... I know it kind of hovers on "cheating the system" but the phone company would do it to you. There is also another secret. Cell phone companies don’t warranty phones that have been in the water. Most batteries have a moisture sensor on them that changes color when they get wet.

If you ever change batteries in your old phone, keep the bad one to use like a “throw away gun” in case you ever drop the phone in the water and it doesn’t work.

Just swap out the batteries before you return it…or try to…

I know it kind of hovers on “cheating the system” but the phone company would do it to you.

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