Motorola bluetooth earpiece
 

I just dropped this thing into a glass of milk. It won't power on now.

Is there anything I can do?

http://www.calcellular.com/mot-wh-hs820.html

Would've been nice to buy things like new curtains, a couple area rugs, crap like that instead of a new earpiece, damnit.

Take out the battery. Shake out what milk you can. Let it dry for a week, shake on occasion to see if more milk comes out. Then pop in the battery and try it out.

I know its tramatic, but you will just have to hold the phone to you head in the mean time. :p

I can't figure out how to get out the battery. Plus, I don't think you can get the battery out.

I just found the manual online.....

And it is traumatic, right now anyway. I'm moving LOL

Skim?

Cuz you could drink whole.....

replace it with a jabra bt150. You can find 'em for like $45 online.

The most useful thing I've ever done with my Moto BT was thow it against the wall when I got pissed. Can't hear anything with that thing.

Still works, kind of. You can have it.

rjp

Replace it.

That's probably what's going to have to happen.

If you want to TRY to save it, remove the battery, if you can even get to it... then rinse it out with water, and give it 24-48 hours to dry before putting the battery back in.

If that doesn't work, re-read the first line of this post ;)

Could be worse - I dropped my cell phone into a urinal once. Not the one I have now...

Not going to be borrowing your cell phone anytime soon... :)

Rinse with garden hose. For faster, more effective cleaning, use a fire hose.

I hate those things. Way too "borg" looking.

Next time I have someone talking to me not actively on a call, I swear I'm going to smack it off their head. YOu're not all Secret Service agents poeple. Anyon that gets called so much that they need to wear it all the time should never leave their desk.

I saw a woman with one in church last week.

IMO, technology sucks. :p

sez a guy who designed a Bluetooth PHY six years ago.

Who cares how they look? I'm not entering a fashion show. LOL

I get better reception because my phone doesn't work well in Chicago. It can remain stationary. Plus, I hate talking on the phone anyway, and it makes that bearable.....

Does not belong in church.

Yeah, our church dosent allow women either.....;)

Rinse it in Distilled water and let it dry out. To open up the headset, pull off the ear loop, then pry up the little plastic gromet that it hid. Remove the phillips screw and pry the headset apart.

Then go buy a new one. I have found that my Treo headet, while it doesn't look as cool, has a much louder ear piece.

Buy another on ebay - I really doubt it'll ever work again. These things are very cheap now.

If you can't get it working, try Amazon's marketplace sellers -

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/offering/list/-/B0009VZB6I/all/ref=dp_olp_2/002-4957134-5080868?%5Fencoding=UTF8

This headset is usually around $80 retail and $99 if you go into a cell provider store. The prices are great and the products are identical.

I'll put my money on it's delicate electronics beind shorted out. I just bought a H500 and it was under $50.
Definitely beats a wired earpiece in the car. I do hate the Bluetooth standard though.

Wouldn't help in my church since you wouldn't be able to hear over the noise anyway. My "church" is the local sports bar during football season. Gets pretty rowdy.

These things have their place but the people that wear them all the time must have some sort of need to have other people realize they have a hands-free kit. Bling, of a different type...

I usually don't. That's how it fell in the milk...I was grabbing it when the phone rang.

:(

A pet peeve of mine. I think people should be able to be without their phone, what did they do before cell phones. I keep my Bluetooth headset in the the car for talking in the car and very rarely use it outside. The reason I went to a Bluetooth headset is so that I don't have the wired headset restricting me from checking my blindspot.

84Porche, I don't know about others, but for me, it's my sole phone. I have no house phone.


Edit: but it's a good idea for driving. Here, legally it's the only way you can talk while driving).

When I was in HS and out playing some gigs, our bass played would keep a soda on one of the amp. He spilt it once on to the front of the amp and the soda went into the dials. The lead vocals went to the bar and got some Everclear. How she got it is another story but she proceeded to pour it into the dials and I guess the ethanol is a good enough solvent that it took the soda and then cleanly evaporated it out. We finshed the set and the lead vocal finished the bartender...

Cool - moral to the story, If you score some Everclear you don't have to blow the bartender...

And of course, we wouldn't want you doing anything illegal or immoral...;)

Oddly enough I bought one of those because I do a lot of biz in Chi-town and as noted, it's illegal to drive while holding a phone to your ear. It's really disconcerting to walk around downtown and see all of these otherwise normal looking people apparently talking to themselves.

Oh-dry it out. Try later.