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Mobile Fone Phirst Aid
Friday, April 13th, 2007 06:11 pmStage one of our experiment has commenced.
Furtle's phone is currently not well. It is hors de combat as it were, being a casualty of alcohol-related shenanigans last night. Tut tut, dear me.
I did my best to clean it last night and it spent all night and most of today reduced to as many separate parts as I can manage without voiding the warranty in the hope that it dries out properly. The battery is fully charged and when assembled it can be turned on and used to answer phone calls with the flip. Anything more proactive seems to be beyond it right now and any pressure on the keypad causes it to switch itself back off. We cannot get at the two text messages we know are there.
I am hoping that this is a function of remaining moisture trapped under the keypad shorting it out when we try to use it. To this end, the phone is disassembled again and the bits are residing in a sealed plastic bag along with two silica gel packs. It will stay there until tomorrow morning when I hope that it will all work spiffingly again. I am encouraged along these lines by the fact that handset functionality has increasingly, if erratically improved all day.
The damned thing being on Orange means that we cannot put the sim into any of my redundant handsets as they would need specially unlocking. Ah well, we'll see.
Furtle's phone is currently not well. It is hors de combat as it were, being a casualty of alcohol-related shenanigans last night. Tut tut, dear me.
I did my best to clean it last night and it spent all night and most of today reduced to as many separate parts as I can manage without voiding the warranty in the hope that it dries out properly. The battery is fully charged and when assembled it can be turned on and used to answer phone calls with the flip. Anything more proactive seems to be beyond it right now and any pressure on the keypad causes it to switch itself back off. We cannot get at the two text messages we know are there.
I am hoping that this is a function of remaining moisture trapped under the keypad shorting it out when we try to use it. To this end, the phone is disassembled again and the bits are residing in a sealed plastic bag along with two silica gel packs. It will stay there until tomorrow morning when I hope that it will all work spiffingly again. I am encouraged along these lines by the fact that handset functionality has increasingly, if erratically improved all day.
The damned thing being on Orange means that we cannot put the sim into any of my redundant handsets as they would need specially unlocking. Ah well, we'll see.
