Oh the Doctor?'s SOOOO clever.

I went to put my phone on the shelf behind me. Felt the edge of the shelf, pushed the phone up a bit and released. SPLOOSH! The shelf, was in fact 2 inches higher that my paw had been, and the "shelf" I'd set the phone on was a fresh pint of pepsi.

Cue frantic salvage operation, during which I almost tipped the pint over the laptop, and DID empty a fair portion of a bag of ready salted into the poor sod, hence my typing is more bollox than usual today.

Of course it couldn't have fallen in water, oh fuck no, it had to fall in dilute phosphoric acid and sugar.

Ripped the battery out and flung the lot under the tap. Dried it out, powered up fine, screen cleared perfectly after some juice ran through it. BUT, no microwave transceiver, ie, no phone functionality, just a small, crap mp3 player/camera.

So I flushed it totally with servisol (this MAY be retarded, I know it's circuit safe, but is it everything in a mobile-safe), then totally flushed it with plenty of fresh water. It's now drying again.

Moron.

In general most electronics can survive water very well as long as they are powered down. Trouble is, pepsi IS an acid, and could have done all sorts before being washed out. Also, and most worryingly, it lit up wehn it hit the liquid, suggesting a fairly serious short circuit. If any real damage has been done, it will be during this initial contact, or during one of my tests.

And of course, maybe the servisol's eaten it.

Couldn't have happened a month ago when there was still time to ask Santa for one could it. I rather like this phone (moto L6) too :(

1, 2, 3, awe the shame....

What the good Doc is hoping all the NOOLers club together for, for him, for crimbo...

All donations care of the bank of MIMX...

You think I'd accept anything electrical from this bunch?

It will live or it will be replaced. Besides, it's somehow incompatible with the latest version of the bluetooth software....in both windows AND linux....go figure...downgrade either to a version of same age as phone and yer off and running.

I'll just grab the first t-mobile one that can make New Order come out the speaker when someone phones, shove me simm in it and be happy.

Reminds me of a conversation I had with the IT department a few years ago.

I'd poured a cup of coffee into my keyboard and it had turned into a random letter generator.

Me: I've poured coffee into my keyboard. IT: Oh we'll sort that out for you, do you take sugar? Me: I want another keyboard, not another coffee! IT: (Steve, you can finish this off better than me, I'm sure...)

Daangerous ground there Biggie, don't you read the BOFH ;)

I dunno what's worse, explaining the obvious to idiots, or explaining it to those who have always exhibited the outward signs of cluefulness.

Coulda been worse, coulda been beer. Dead, stone dead, even if it doesn't look it for a while, nothing survives beer, or wine, never mind spirits, FFS you may as well hit the device with a hatchet.

Doctor? wrote: Daangerous ground there Biggie, don't you read the BOFH ;)

I do, what the hell does PYE stand for? been bugging me for years

The Haçienda must be (re)Built wrote:

Doctor? wrote: Daangerous ground there Biggie, don't you read the BOFH ;)

I do, what the hell does PYE stand for? been bugging me for years

PFY you mean?

if you read the very early stories (not sure where Simon's original site's gone though), is mentioned about twice.

"Pimply Faced Youth", the architypical untergeek.

Doctor? wrote: Daangerous ground there Biggie, don't you read the BOFH ;)

Err...

I know this one...

Is it...

No?

(Do I win £40?)

BIGINOIL wrote: Reminds me of a conversation I had with the IT department a few years ago.

I'd poured a cup of coffee into my keyboard and it had turned into a random letter generator.

Me: I've poured coffee into my keyboard. IT: Oh we'll sort that out for you, do you take sugar? Me: I want another keyboard, not another coffee! IT: (Steve, you can finish this off better than me, I'm sure...)

You forgot to add an Indian accent to the IT guy...

Fcuk me...i am away for a few days and the entire NOOL is FALLING apart!

Considering Compaq, in one year, had 100K+ calls to techsupp asking "which is the "any" key", and that people have rung up because they'd broken their cup holder (CDROM) and footpedal (mouse), you can hardly blame them for asking stupid stuff can you. It only bugs me when they keep asking things like "is it plugged in" when you are phoning cos it melted.

My bro phoned the ISP one day, and the chap was talking all this winluser bullshit about check this wizzard and run that control panel. After a long time, he finally convinced the guy that we do not use toy operating systems, the guy, obviously baffled, calls over to his boss......"there's a fella on the line using something called LIE NUCKS, what do I do", the boss called back "whatever he tells you to" we stayed with them for many a year after that.

My internet provider gets all screwy cause I have my own cable modem... it baffles them. About once a year service will randomly stop. I know the problem and call them to reregister my modem on thier network and tell them SPECIFICALLY that I already tried the rebooting process (even going as far to explain the process to them)... they will answer, "I see, well let's try to reboot the system"

When I tell them I already did and just to reregister the modem, they'll try to get to me reboot again, and act very confused when they notice that my modem is not in their network