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Cell phone went swimming- question...
My Razr went swimming. It appears to be toast.
Moved my SIM card to a new phone and now all of my numbers and messages are gone? What happened? |
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10-10-2007, 01:02 PM
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Are you sure the numbers were on the sim card and not stored to the phone?
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10-10-2007, 01:04 PM
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Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
No. I'll have to read the manual to make sure I don't do this again. Thanks, |
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10-10-2007, 01:08 PM
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I know a few people who have gone swimming with their cell phones. Pretty much all were toast. One actually baked it at a low temp in the oven (<200F) for a few hours and it seems to drive off the water and the phone came back to life. It didn't last.
One of the very few things I actually get the extended warrnty on.
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10-10-2007, 01:11 PM
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mine was dunked in a pool a few weeks ago. I pulled the battery, left it all to sit on the window sill in the sun. After a week of drying out, it worked fine.
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10-10-2007, 01:28 PM
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10-10-2007, 01:38 PM
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I drop many phones in pools, bottom of holes filled with water, toilets. I can usually get them back working after drying out a few days. try not to turn on the phone while it's still wet. take it apart as much as possible. you may get lucky. then again, I've probably got 4-5 phones on my desk and have turned in that many or more. can't get insurance for a year after so many phones ruined
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10-10-2007, 01:53 PM
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My wife washed her phone. Then mine. Both still work fine after a good drying out, though her battery kicked the bucket and had to be replaced. She also dropped the baby monitor in the dog's water dish. Same thing - dried out, works fine! (she's really not that much of a klutz, though, esp. compared to me - it was just a bad streak, I think!)
Open it up to expose as much of the guts to the air as possible and give it a few days.
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10-10-2007, 01:56 PM
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Cat peed on my cell once. Dried it out and it worked. Got my info off and tossed it. Very few things more rank than cat pee held next to your face.
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10-10-2007, 02:04 PM
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Thanks guys. I fired it up too soon I think. There was a flicker, then darkness. I put a new battery in today (3 days later) and it will flicker but never come around.
It was my work phone so I already have another, just a pain to start all over with phone numbers... |
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10-10-2007, 05:06 PM
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Go to the cell company and ask for a list of phone numbers. At least you will have a recap of the numbers but it will be a PITA to reload. I do know that T-Mobile allows you to load names and numbers from their web-site so you might want to check with your carrier.
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 But it did work. For the SIM upload thing to work, you put in the name and the number. If you have multiple numbers for a particular person, like cell, home, and office, then I wasn't able put them all in under the same name, I had to use something like "Bob home", "Bob cell" and "Bob work". If you want to put them all under his name once they are in the phone then you'll just have to do it manually. Maybe it was a limitation of my old SIM or my phone, I'm not sure.What I'd really like is a little memory card or a USB port that you can load your phone book on to move it from phone to phone, but I've got a cheap old nokia. It's not that spiffy, but it works great as a phone and can handle being dropped without a hiccup. I forgot to say, log in to t-mobile's website. It's from somewhere in the account section that you can upload multiple numbers.
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10-10-2007, 06:36 PM
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Mine got a light splash on a ride at Disneyland and it was toast. I was shocked.
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10-10-2007, 09:07 PM
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Speed dial makes life so easy until you need to call someone from a different phone. WTF is that number again?
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10-10-2007, 09:12 PM
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I have a Verizon LG phone. I accidentially put it through the wash and thought it was toast. About 4 days later, it started working fine again.
My recommendation would be to open it up as much as possible and keep all the parts in low heat.
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