an Android and a 5 lobe screwdriver?
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an Android and a 5 lobe screwdriver?
 
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I dropped my iPhone in my pond while cleaning the pump filter... fished
it out within 10 secs, it was still on, running fine, no obvious intrusion of water... but just to be safe I powered it off... driving into town minutes later, I noticed it had powered back up... so I powered it down (again)... and it immediately powered/booted itself *again*! Water shorting the power button? I went ahead and tried it's phone function and the speaker was not working... but bluetooth did... then I sent a text... then I powered it off again... and within seconds, it was booting itself back up! Half an hour later it shut itself down and hasn't been back up since. I put it in a bag of rice overnight (conventional wisdom for drying things without an official dessicant)... still dead. Now I need a 5-lobe screwdriver to defeat Apple's insistence that I not open the case without their lawyers present... I suppose they would rather I sent it to them so they can say "!not under warranty, water alert!" keep it for weeks and charge me an arm and a leg to clean any fouled contacts, maybe replace the battery, and then maybe decide I need a new logic board. So anyone have a 5 lobe (tiny, tiny, miniscule, tiny) screwdriver for this purpose that they can loan me? How about a GSM android phone to borrow while I order up a screwdriver and battery and a bucket of luck? Or advice on what (used) model to pick up on Craigslist? Anyone have any experience with the "Cocoa"? It is apparently a "dual SIM"... Are GSM Androids unlocked by default (seems reasonable.. but... ?)... is it an easy unlock? I knew I needed an OtterBox! - Steve ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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I have a nexus one you can borrow. Used to be registered on T-Mobile.
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Steve Smith <[hidden email]> wrote: I dropped my iPhone in my pond while cleaning the pump filter... fished it out within 10 secs, it was still on, running fine, no obvious intrusion of water... but just to be safe I powered it off... driving into town minutes later, I noticed it had powered back up... so I powered it down (again)... and it immediately powered/booted itself *again*! Water shorting the power button? I went ahead and tried it's phone function and the speaker was not working... but bluetooth did... then I sent a text... then I powered it off again... and within seconds, it was booting itself back up! Half an hour later it shut itself down and hasn't been back up since. I put it in a bag of rice overnight (conventional wisdom for drying things without an official dessicant)... still dead. --- -. . ..-. .. ... .... - .-- --- ..-. .. ... .... [hidden email] <[hidden email]> office: 505.995.0206 mobile: 505.577.5828 redfish.com | simtable.com | sfcomplex.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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I thought apples were *mostly* water. _snicker_ Sent from Android. On Jul 30, 2012 11:21 PM, "Steve Smith" <[hidden email]> wrote:
I dropped my iPhone in my pond while cleaning the pump filter... fished it out within 10 secs, it was still on, running fine, no obvious intrusion of water... but just to be safe I powered it off... driving into town minutes later, I noticed it had powered back up... so I powered it down (again)... and it immediately powered/booted itself *again*! Water shorting the power button? I went ahead and tried it's phone function and the speaker was not working... but bluetooth did... then I sent a text... then I powered it off again... and within seconds, it was booting itself back up! Half an hour later it shut itself down and hasn't been back up since. I put it in a bag of rice overnight (conventional wisdom for drying things without an official dessicant)... still dead. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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I have a nexus one you can borrow. Used to be registered on T-Mobile.Perfect... somehow I thought you might have a stash of those things! I'd call you tomorrow to rendezvous but all my phone numbers got wet! Oh wait! Right there in your signature line! Tx
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Steve, one thing you could try, absent the proprietary screwdriver, is to use your hair dryer on low setting to gently heat the phone and drive the water out. Ok, maybe you should use Suzane's hair dryer.
Or, you could put the phone in a bag of (uncooked) rice for three days, which will draw the water out. --Doug
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Steve Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:
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I've got the tools I used to fix my screen .. it has a pentalobe as I think they're called. Also the head magnifier etc.
-- Owen
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Steve Smith <[hidden email]> wrote: I dropped my iPhone in my pond while cleaning the pump filter... fished it out within 10 secs, it was still on, running fine, no obvious intrusion of water... but just to be safe I powered it off... driving into town minutes later, I noticed it had powered back up... so I powered it down (again)... and it immediately powered/booted itself *again*! Water shorting the power button? I went ahead and tried it's phone function and the speaker was not working... but bluetooth did... then I sent a text... then I powered it off again... and within seconds, it was booting itself back up! Half an hour later it shut itself down and hasn't been back up since. I put it in a bag of rice overnight (conventional wisdom for drying things without an official dessicant)... still dead. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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I've got the tools I used to fix my screen .. it has a pentalobe as I think they're called. Also the head magnifier etc. Thanks! Between you and Guerin I'm set.... All Doug offered me was a bag of rice and a hair dryer to cook it with! Do you know he roasts his own coffee beans in a popcorn popper!? Actually, to be fair to Doug (but why?)... I *did* try the bag-O-rice and the (gentle) heat treatment... I think it works best when the device was turned *off* (and stayed off!) immediately. I believe (like to believe?) the intimations of many on the net that operating while wet is as likely to cause corrosion/residue on the contacts from resistance-heating drying as it is to have caused some kind of dead-short. Crack case, disconnect cableage, clean contacts, reassemble, hold breath, look for stoopid tiny screws, push button, viola (or not)! Meanwhile, I'll be happy to be converted to the cult of Android perhaps... the recent news about Apple being 100% outsourced (manufacture) to China and my loyalty to the *design* genius that was Jobs (I read his Bio... not a pretty sight! I met the man several times and knew several who knew him well... not someone to look up to in many ways.) I don't expect Apple to go the way of Sun, Dec, SGI, etc... but I think their glory days are now permanently behind us. Google is still in some kind of ascendency, at least in business and technology if not spiritually. I'm still quite taken in by their ability to *not* focus, or to *focus on everything*! They are a true product of the new millenium for better or worse as is Amazon. I'm *still* creeped out by the (now) classic GoogleZon Epic 2014 spoof commercial/newsbite. It is amazing how well they predicted the GoogleGlut! If we make it past Dec 26 2012 (or whatever) will we make it past 2014? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPIC_2014- Steve
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Apple is the next Micro$oft; reason enough for me to stay with Linux, Android, Google. At least until Google turns into the next Micro$oft.
I like saying Micro$oft.
--Doug On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Steve Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:
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