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WARNING!!! Blackberries should NOT swim in water troughs!!!

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  • #41
    Very timely thread.........my phone went into the toilet last week. Too bad it was being flushed at the same time!! LOL Somewhere, some river has a lovely LG Shine floating down it!
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    • #42
      Friend had a phone fall into the porta potty at a horse show. She just walked away....

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      • #43
        My phone is hiding in the shavings bin.

        I too get hubby's reject phones. He managed to damage his when he fell off a horse he was starting. Dislocated shoulder and phone that although worked the screen was wrecked. So he takes my phone and asks me to put in my pocket. Unfortunately we were unloading shavings and it's hiding in a huge pile 14x16x4 of shavings. CRAP. Probably won't find that until the end of summer. So a friend gives him a phone and he lets it take a bath. Everything works except the mic. After 7 months finally got it back from repair.

        Hubby has new phone and I have repaired one. Have used the blow dryer on high - didn't know we shouldn't but it works now.

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        • #44
          I think my Blackberry is suicidal.

          Last year, on one glorious FL sunny afternoon, I had the windows down and let the Blackberry ride on the front dash so it could enjoy the nice weather. Darn thing apparently thought I was just too much to handle and life wasn't worth living b/c as soon as I made a turn, it scooted right out the open window onto the pavement.

          Shockingly it survived, though there was a piece missing from the side of it.

          Then it took an unplanned nose dive off my belt and hit a jump standard when it somehow managed to unclip itself from it's safe keeping holder thingy.

          It finally pulled a Virginia Wolf and met it's end in a water trough last year.

          Do you think my one-finger typing was to blame? Maybe my tendency to answer emails while driving made it feel insecure? We will never know, it didn't leave a suicide note on it's screen or anything.

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            #45
            Try to resist the urge to 'just check' if the phone works by powering it up. That fries most phones that have taken a dunk. Be sure it is dried out completely, and then wait longer and try the rice. And then turn it on. the process of powering up the device will fry the circuits if is even the slightest bit still wet. Resist the urge!!! your chances will be better.
            Well - I screwed up on ALL counts apparently ...

            - I tried turning that damned thing off and on LOTS of times. Too many to count to be honest ...

            - I blew it dry - lots - with the hair dryer on high

            - I didnt stick it in rice

            - I took the battery in and out and in and out some more and kept sticking it back in there to see if MAYBE, just MAYBE, this time it would work ...

            I guess in the end I have to count my blessings that it was a nice clean water trough that I had to fish it out of instead of a Port A Potty. If it was the aforementioned P-A-P believe me - it would still be gurgling in those putrid and odiferous depths and I would have paid my respects and said my good byes before I left the cubicle ...
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            • #46
              Originally posted by skyy View Post
              Friend had a phone fall into the porta potty at a horse show. She just walked away....
              I really feel sorry for the person using the porta potty when it started to ring below them.

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              • #47
                I think that blackberries and cell phones are just suicidal by nature. Sort of like our horses! You have to watch them constantly, keep them in the bubble wrap they were originally born in, and if you have to take them out, they should always be restrained behind you, because if you give them the least bit of freedeom, they will jump free and become hopelessly lost, or drown themselves!
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                • #48
                  You guys laugh about the bale of hay with a phone in it, but I did open a bag of feed once and was scooping away, mixing dinner, when I hit something in the feed that went "thunk."

                  Boy, you don't normally hear that in a bag of new grain! Dug down a bit and sure enough, a cell phone.

                  A little crushed, a LOT worse for wear at having been through the heat processing at the plant.

                  The feed store contacted the mill and shared the story -- at least someone who worked there got the satisfaction of knowing where their phone finally ended up!

                  I've dunked 'em in dog water bowls, horse feed buckets, my own drink - only once in a while do they live.

                  I think it is a plot to get us to upgrade, usually for full price!
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                    #49
                    Ive had so many requests for permission to post this on other sites and blogs which is just great ...

                    There are some truly funny stories on here and why should we get to have all the fun?!

                    On the Breeding Forum a month or so ago, one of the members posted that they dropped their cell phone into amniotic fluid and it didnt want to work too well after that either ...

                    So far this one one seems to be behaving but I wonder if it is trying to lull me into a false sense of security and is just waiting for the moment it can join its brethren in the woods or the hay fields ...
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                    • #50
                      Try putting it in rice to suck the moisture out, that's what my students at school do to their ipods when they go through the laundry or whatever, supposedly a lot of them will work after that. Good luck.
                      "Those who know the least often know it the loudest."

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                      • #51
                        my blackberry flip likes to freeze(design glitch?) and somehow manages to jump out of my pockets alot oncee on cement....


                        i think it may be suicidal

                        no water issues yet but i only have had it since december
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                        • #52
                          Maybe overwork is what is sending so many of them 'over the edge'.
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