phone in the water!
 

My friend just called me and I was charging my phone in the kitchen and I dropped it into the sink which was soaking dinner dishes.

Now I can't do anything. I think she can hear me but I can't hear anything but a ringing noise. I can't be sure of that though. I told her to gmail me. And my texts back come out jibberish, though I can read hers.

I immediately used the hair dryer on it, to no avail.

Do you think it will dry out and correct itself? No biggie, just a big "you dumbass" to myself.

ps She did gmail me so apparently it isn't an emergency. Thank gawd. :o

I have been told to put the phone in a bowl of rice.

Thanks! That is so funny because that is what she emailed me to do. And this is the girl I have been coaching non-stop on how to use the interwebs. I have a tupperware container of white rice so I'm trying it.

You rock, fargon. :)

the rice thing works pretty well.

:)

lol, I hope so. If not, it's just a phone.

My mom would have said "Way to go, grace." And grinned. I've always been clutzy. :D

Not sure what kind you have, but if you can take the battery out, that's good too.

Normally rice (or other store solutions) would have fixed that in a few day. However once a key has been pressed, then water may have been drawn into sealed regions that may take weeks to dry out.

the only thing about the rice (maybe for next time) is to make sure it's free of fine powder. last time I needed a wet electronics rescue, I used the rice we use to weigh down the pastry when we blind bake pie crusts (so very, very dry because it's been baked many times, and no powder) and it worked a treat.

glatt: Can't take the battery out. It's like sealed in on the phone I have. Would negate the extra I pay for stupidity insurance.

tw: Of course I hit keys. I think the phone is the phucked.

monster: As far as I know, my white rice has no powdery substance. It was just rice I sealed up in some good tupperware.

I'm leaving it in the rice overnight. If it doesn't work tomorrow I'll get a replacement. I don't have a house phone, so it's pretty important I get this done.

But still, it's sort of funny. Darn phones and cars. ;)

It took over 3 days for Spencers to come back to life. Don't plug a charger in if it's still wet. Id leave it in the rice for a week to be sure.

Yeah, I was gonna say "And for God's sake, stop using it!".

:lol2:

yeah, a week. no touchie.

cue Deep Purple!
Dun dun dunnnn, dun dun dun-dunnnn
Phooooooone in the waaater --
It's drying in the riiiice!
Phooooooooooone in the waaaaa--terrr!
Dun dun dunnnn, dun dun dun-dunnnn
Dun dun dunnnn, dun dunnnn!!!

:lol:

I have successfully done everything you are NOT supposed to do. I looked up some steps online and it tells you what to do IMMEDIATELY and what not to do ever. Heh. Of course I should've read the article BEFORE I dropped my phone in the water. :facepalm:

And I took it out of the rice this morning and plugged in the charger because I didn't know if it was working because the battery was way low. And I could get texts but not send them.

Today I was helping sis-in-law with the setup for the rehearsal dinner (it's gonna be beautiful!) and let it sit in the sun all day.

Now the text screen is just jibberish. And it says it's in 'safe mode' and that won't go away.

BUT my friend called as I was going home and I asked if she could hear me and she could! I could actually talk to her.

I'll give it more time but it's my only phone, not having a landline, so I worry that someone will need to get in touch with me. So waiting to see if it gets better and then waiting for a replacement to be sent to me is a bit of an aggravation. They don't like you at the Verizon stores if you take your phone in and you bought it through Verizonwireless online.

It's still kind of funny. Thanks for all the helpful comments and the funnies. :)

And monster, you were right about rice dust. I don't cook much, so...who knew? ;)

it's nasty stuff.

If you were a(n organized) hoarder, of course, you'd have all the little desicant packs that ever came with things you bought and you could have sealed it in a tub with those.

:devil:

Great minds, and all that.

Meanwhile...

"Talking? You're soaking in it!"

What?!! Madge!!!

Welcome back orthodoc. You've been missed.

So my phone receives calls and I can converse. I still have only limited characters available on my keyboard, so I can text things like tooooooon and that's about it.

I tried to command it to attention and make it work properly and responsibly like any self-respecting phone should but I must not have the right skills.

May be time to get a new phone anyway.

New phone! New phone! New phone!

Keyboard never came back. I was due for an upgrade anyway so went with the Samsung Galaxy S5. Initial cost not too prohibitive and with verizon's new plans I'll be saving beaucoup doleros a month.

We'll see...good reviews all around but I've been a motorola baby since my early nokia days (the green screen one with the snake game.)

:yesnod:

Welcome to the S5 club, it's a great phone.

And WATERPROOF!

snake

the link's more useful when accessed from your new phone

Keyboard will come back. Pressing a key drew water inside contacts. Water inside the key can take weeks.

It could be resptore immediately by removing a 'rubber' keyboard, drying it with a towel, and reasssembling it.

Or buy a new phone.

;)

I can't wait weeks. I'm tired of only being able to text aaaanooo!

New phone arriving today, between the hours of now and later. I should have it figured out by 2015.

My new phone is here! My new phone is here!

It's so pretty. The box it came in is pretty!

If your old phone starts working again, see if you can get any cash for it. It may be that nobody wants to buy it, or you might get enough to treat yourself to a pizza and 6 pack of beer.

We have one of those EcoATMs at Kroger. I'll check it out.

Charge it up! It doesn't take long with the white USB 3 cable and it eats the battery less than your old phone. Promise.

It's already at 65%. Good to hear about the battery. I was constantly charging my old phone. I've often wondered how the pioneers got so much hard work done, hunting and gathering and building and whatnot, what with all the time it takes to charge phones and laptops and tablets, etc.

omg it's been at 99 percent forever! Hurry up hurry up hurry up!

Or donate it to the Hopelink program at verizon. They scrub the phone, and set it up with 3000 minutes for survivors of domestic abuse.

www.verizonwireless.com/aboutus/hopeline/

That's a great idea, BigV!

OK, I don't have many bars and used wifi to set up and I only got a very small portion of my contacts. And it's downloading all my old apps. Then I turned wifi off to see if I could get my contacts. Yes, I have no idea what I'm doing. Is it better to always use wifi when available? I always had unlimited data before Verizon changed it up.

Oh lord. Advice needed. Gonna leave the house and see if I can get some bars. No, not 'hit some bars'. LOL

Yes, WiFi whenever possible. They have WiFi calling, too... But if you are using it, and lose wifi, you lose the call. Happened enough times to me that I disabled that feature

I'm at a restaurant. Logged into their WiFi and can't access anything that way. Turned off WiFi and now can get internet.
Where are the rest of my contacts? Why did my games start from the very beginning?

I'm too stupid to have a new phone. :(

I'm back home. Tried turning phone off and back on. Went to verizon online to 'activate' phone (which it already said it was doing) and it won't let me. Called customer service and it sounded like I was in a cement mixer.

I may send it back, get a freaking pay as you go flip phone, and be done with it.

The last time I upgraded my phone I had all kinds of trouble. Getting 1G, whatever that is, no bars. Called them, did what they said, took it into the store and was snubbed by the bitches working there...finally I accidentally threw my phone into the wall and got a new one with my coverage I pay 8bucks/mo for. Then it worked.

Seriously, it shouldn't be so freaking difficult. Then again, why should I ever expect anything I am involved with to work, ever?

So I joked to my waitress that I'm too stupid to have a new phone and she goes on to tell me how I'm just like her mom and she tells her mom to quit upgrading and how her mom calls to ask her how to get to facebook. Thanks. Yes, I'm also old but I'm not quite as stupid as your mom...if the phone worked I could get to freaking facebook.

fml

~ settle down now ~

If you are making calls and accessing the internets without WiFi, the phone is activated.

Different contacts can migrate differently. Facebook contacts go automatically, Android contacts depend on different stuff.

A single poor quality call may result from a lot of different things, some of which will not change with a different phone.

does verizon still use that myverizon thing? I had it way back when. I was able to download them from their cloud into an excel tab delimited file, then upload them into my blackberry. that was several phones ago. now, google seems to do it automatically.

have you set up you google account on the new phone?

Thanks.

I messed around some more and it seems to be working. Got all my
contacts back.

Sorry, i get frustrated easily. I wish I could turn off being me for short periods of time.

Yeah, got my google plus working.

I think I'm ok now. Will make a test call.

I called my brother and he was like 'what's up' and I said i was testing my new phone and he was like 'are you there? I can't hear you' and was making crackly sounds. Very funny &*@#! Took me a minute to realize he was kidding.

But, sounds clear as a bell now and I like it so far.

My Droid 4 looks like something from the stone ages next to it.

You could always be Captain Planet!

UT, you were so right about the battery power. I'm quite pleased. I really like this phone.

foot, does a couple beers with friends followed by some vodka and diet cokes count for Cap'n Planet? I have never ended up in that position, which I suppose bodes sort of well for me. :lol:

A couple of beers and vodka diet cokes is somewhere between Chief Warrant Officer 5 and Second Lieutenant Planet.

Well, besides, with my knee, I am Cap'n Crunch!

Now where are my new hints for "Who is This"?

ps...my nephew is a Marine, right? A first Louie. Doing Copter training. He almost did jet stuff but with copters he gets to pick a copter to go along with what missions he wants to do.

So my brother tells his friend, a Vietnam vet Marine, about this. This guy writes to my brother and tells him how respected copter pilots are, because when you heard a copter you knew help was coming.

Sort of a tangent. I've said I'm so proud of my nieces and nephews. But it's my thread and I'll be proud if I want to , proud if I want to, proud if I want to...

Hey UT...what is up with this 'touchwiz' thing that suddenly appeared on my phone? I can't even hit the home button without it asking me if I want to use touchwiz always or just this once. I've been picking just this once until I know what it means.

Google says a bunch of tech stuff I'm in no mood to peruse right now. Thought maybe you could help a girl out. TIA!

I help out either gender!

Touchwiz is Samsung's interface on top of Android. It's OK, and just as much trouble to switch to a different menu system.

You will be just as happy with this look. So just say always, and it will not ask you again.

Thanks Tony!

Her therapist told her not to say Always and Never.