A very clean cellphone

Well, last night I did laundry. And I was wandering around my apartment looking for my cellphone. Couldn't find the damned thing. After about a half hour of this exercise, I went to the washing machine to throw my stuff in the dryer. After about 25 more minutes, I started wondering what the heck was making so much noise in the dryer.

It was my cellphone.

So not only have I had to spend US$320 on a new cellphone, but my entire phone book that was stored in the device has been lost. I'm holding out faint hope that it can be resurrected some day this week after I dry out the phone and take it in to see if they can somehow fix it, but I'm going under the assumption that it's gone.



So if I'm supposed to have your phone number, would you mind PMing it to me? And your first and last name?

kthxbye

My friend did this once. He is a Graphic Designer and at the time he was working freelance and had all his contacts on that phone. He spent days freaking out about it until someone reminded him the phone he had allowed him to download all its memory onto his computer. Suddenly a huge smile came on his face as he remembered he had actually done that 6 months earlier. It didn't have all the numbers but it had most of them, so he was saved somewhat.

Its a pain in the Butt when things like that happen. I hope it doesn't take you too long to enter all the data back into your new phone!

I once dropped my phone down a toilet (thankfully before I used it!!)

Being the sort of person that I am, naturally, I took it apart, left it on a radiator for a few days to dry out, and it worked ok (ish). After a few months I took it apart again and gave it a clean with a toothbrush and some WD40, since then it has worked for a little over 4 years with no problems at all!! You never know, you might be lucky with it!

Lightning... wnat you need to do is make sure the phone is off (it bloody well should be after that ordeal) and let it dry out completely.

and let it dry naturally.

I went out int he rain once and got soaked...well..I was out and it started raining really, but you catch my drift.

I let it dry out and it works again now.

are your phone numbers stored on the memory card or on the phone do you know? because am pretty sure the phone folks would be able to retrieve the data off of that pretty easily, i don't think they can get wiped through washing. but yeah, would be worth waiting to see if it dries out

The phone is good and dry. I left it on top of the dryer today...then placed it about 40 cm from the stove and left the burner on. It's dead. It turns on over and over again when you plug it in. If you unplug it and try to power it on, nothing happens except the little red light blinks. The phone is dead. Good riddance. Never liked it much, anyway.

Which is fine. I replaced it today. And like this phone MUCH better.

But the phone book...

There is no memory card because this isn't one of those civilized cellphone-using countries like they have in Europe where the memory chip is easily removable. The phone book is gone.

I wish I could conviniently do that to my cell phone... I have managed to crash my phone while it's shutting down.

i've gone through a few cell phones...

cell phone #1: At a party there was:
me + intoxication + jacuzzi
...you can imagine how that went

cell phone #2: a similar situation to yours.... it went through the washer AND dryer and was in several pieces when i recovered it from a pocket in the dryer after hearing loud banging sounds coming from it

cell phone #3: set it on the handrail of the balcony at a friend's apartment, forgot about it, went inside, found it the next morning on the ground below... works like sh*t now but i don't plan on buying a new one. It's rockin that whole randomly shuts off about three times a day but i'm living with it...

I thought I'd be all flash and get a tiny little one that I got only because it looked like a Star Trek communicator (original series).

I lost it for a few weeks down the lining of my jacket then glued the screen shut with gum.

Ew.

funny you should that actually, my mum retrived my sister phone was the washing machine this morning, cept hers is ok. Its one of them brick nokias which you can lob underneath a steam roller and it would till be ok.

*sees is she can Mike laugh*

True story (not the c@ntus kind of true, either)

When I read the title I thought it said "cellophane". And I was reading your little adventure with a washing machine and your "cellophane" and I was thinking " what is he on about!?"
It wasn't until you mentioned that you have to spend $320 buying a new "cellophane" that I realised you were talking about your mobile phone

*takes bow*

Lightnning, do you not have a sim card?

surely that cant just be a UK thing.

i found my phone submerged in a puddle in my tent at a festival this summer. we experienced the tail-end of a hurricane on the last day and my tent leaked left right and centre.

i took the phone home and set the hairdryer on it for about half an hour.

the phone's working fine again, all except the volume, which is non-existant. the phone lights up when i've an incoming call, and sometimes vibrates. it vibrates when i get a text, and it also lights up, and sometimes makes a teeny weenie little peeping sound, like it's trying it's best to communicate with me.

i now miss most of my calls, but i've got used to having a silent phone, i like it this way

I sympathise as this has happened to me too. I gave up and stopped getting new ones. You don't need em anyway. Freedom is, not having a cell phone!

i was at a folk festival on my way to dance with some people and my brother suggested it would be a good idea to put an (open) carton of orange juice in my bag to save money on buying drinks....


very VERY bad idea.

UCOF, SIM cards are just starting to be put in phones here. The brand-new phone I bought yesterday doesn't have one, either.

Like I said, this is not a civilized country like the UK.

I think that had it just been the washing machine, I might be able to resurrect the phone. I think it's the half hour it spent in the dryer on high heat that did it in.

oh well.... things could have been worse.... you could have accidently lost it when performing surgery on a patient....

Reminds me of a great get-well card I once saw.

"Great news! The doctors say your operation went well!"
(and on in the inside)
"Oh, and don't worry. That missing pager will show up somewhere."

well i hope some of the above work as my oldest son went through the brook with his phone in his poket.... as of yet we can not get it working but i may just take it apart and see whats going on with it

My kid, whoes phone is his whole life, fell in the river and wrecked one. We tried drying it and everything but it was no good.
Another time he dropped it in his beer, he thought he'd done it again, but it was ok that time.

Personally I won't have one, I hate phones, they scare me.

yes we have sim cards in austria, germany and russia as well
i lost my last phone by being drunk and on a paddleboat, u imagine the rest....

But Konsti, I thought your phone was a waterproof brick?

OH WHY DONT THEWY MAKE PHONES THAT FLOAT???

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

they would be burnt as witches UCoF
that is why

*nods sagely*

i dropped my phone in a glass of water, dried it out and it gradually started working again...

only now, it plays all the ringtones double speed and ever so slightly out of tune...

hmm... i think some phones are pretty sturdy already... i saw some kids playing... well.... basketball... with their phones, as much as that's possible (they don't bounce incredibly well) but there were no bits and pieces flying off, and i can only presume that they continued working