My phone-thing is back! I was mopping my apartment listening to the WNYC Radio Lab podcast, and I bent over and plop! I dropped it into the bucket of dirty water. I quickly grabbed it from the bucket, pulled the battery out, ran water over it, shook it out. Then I carefully warmed it in the toaster oven, and pulled out the card and opened it up as much as possible without unscrewing anything. Then I put it in a tupperware full of rice, and after a couple days it came back to life, with only some funky patterns in the screen backlight! All the pixels in the screen work, and everything so far too!
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April 3rd, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Oh nice, I’ve heard about the rice method. Glad to hear it worked.
May 24th, 2011 at 12:16 am
[...] calls with it. I not so long ago dropped my trusty N810 into a bucket of dirty mop water… if you check the archives, you’ll see that I revived it, and have been using it as my main device ever since. It made a [...]