River vs. Droid

Paul Strombeck

Paul Strombeck

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Fishing has been very good the past couple of weeks so I went out after work again tonight. I caught some nice bass but once again proved I am an idiot. I normally leave the phone in the boat dry box but not tonight. As I was pulling the boat out my Droid Razr droped into the water. Since I was standing in the water I just kicked up onto the concrete boat ramp - it was submerged about 3 seconds. BTW that is phone #3 plus one walkie talkie I have dropped in the river over the years.
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I turned off the phone and took it apart and was suprised at how little water was actually in the phone. Once I got home I stuck the phone in a glove and plopped it on top of a boot dryer. After two hours I tried the phone and to my suprise it seems to work - screen looks funny in the corners though. I'll let it dry out for a day or so and try it again.
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Hard to take a decent pic when you're alone
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It's really suprising how many of these bass appear to have been caught before. Looks like C & R is working on Pool #4
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Have a nice week end
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If you start having problems with the phone, there is a great place in the cities that can fix them for pretty cheap. Look up Gopher Mods and give them a holler.

My kid dropped his week old smartphone in the drink. We sent it in and Gooher Mods tried bringing it back to life. They spent quite a bit of time on it but no luck. When we went to pick it up there was no charge since they couldn't breathe new life into it

I have sent many others to this place when something has happened to their phone and all have been quite pleased with the results

What is gong on down in pool 4?

Mark W
 
Try a bowl of instant rice and burry the phone in the rice let it sit in the rice over night. The rice will draw and absorb the moisture out of the phone. It worked for two of my phones
 
I was recovery a submerged SUV from a retention pond. The other night having slipped on the bank my Verzion Barage phone flew out of my pocket and landed in the retention pond. Next morning I returned with a rake and standing in thigh deep water proceed to pull the mud and debris of the bottom. After a half hour of this I found my phone it had spent 12 hours in 6 feet of water. When I flipped it open it displayed low battery. Verzion advised me to clean it with denatured achocol and charge it up. Removed battery cleaned all contacts, recharged and phone has been 100% functional, got to love those military grade phones.
 
Update - went from the boot dryer to the rice bowl. Phone does work but it does have a couple of light stripes on the screen. ...... Thanks
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I had more than my share of dunked phones and cameras. The important thing is to get the battery out ASAP and under water if you can. Fully immersed, the power isn't too critical, but when it gets out, droplets will short out the mother board. I put mine in the dash of the car for several days. Start planning though...because the water inside will leave salts and start eroding the fine circuitry. A year max is average. I went and got a military spec phone for work and it has been dunked many times with no issues. I have an iPhone that I put in a Lifetouch case...never any issues there and can shoot photos and video under the surface with it.
 
My RAZR slipped off my lap while driving right into my big mug of ice water. It was completely submerged for about the same amount of time and its still kickin 1 1/2 years later!
 
Sounds like you guys had happier endings than my Nextel vs Toilet and Nextel vs Toilet II...both were horror stories that ended in death.
 
Don't start with the toilet stories. Many years ago I got out of bed after real bender the night before. As I was standing over the toilet taking a leak I noted my eyeglasses were in the toilet. No recollection as to how they got there.
 
nuther vote for white rice...

Paul, in a hotel, knocked the hair dryer into the bowl...never knew it. used the pot SEVERAL times during the night...never knew when it went in...next morning (or should I say afternoon) when I went to use the pot again, I found it....I left a tip for housekeeping.. HEHEHE
 
Me, McCullough, and Special K went to Manitoba in 2010 and we were barely in Illinois when I (hungover) threw my phone in the gas station trash can with the other trash from the front of the truck. Dip spit, Mountain Dew, and God knows what else bathed my phone. We tried the rice trick to no avail. Kristan has pics of me digging through the trash. What a bone head!!!

On our honeymoon, my wife asked me to hold her sunglasses at Starbucks on St. Armand's Circle. I tucked one of the arms in my polo shirt buttons and went into the bathroom for some recycling. As I leaned over to flush the toilet, the glasses slipped out of my shirt and fell in the toilet as the flush was gearing up. On the island, the toilets are high suction. Man, those things were gone in a flash. Nice prescription ones too. What a bone head.
 
I have a Razr also, it is sold as water resistant, and mine has been dunked numerous times in puddles, it gets wet when raining, and works fine. It is one of the reasons that I went with that model. The Razr does not have a removable battery, it is a sealed phone, so that is not an option. You can do a soft reset by holding the power and volume buttons at the same time, if you haven't done that already, you should do that and see if your stripes disappear.
 
Don't start with the toilet stories. Many years ago I got out of bed after real bender the night before. As I was standing over the toilet taking a leak I noted my eyeglasses were in the toilet. No recollection as to how they got there.
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Now this is a thread that should be started "drunken nights I barely remember". I've got one or two

There is a new service out there where you send in your phone and they coat it ( the electronics) with something and it makes you phone waterproof. Pretty cool

Mark W
 
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