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Cycler · 12-11-2003, 04:30 PM

Well I guess funny story starts while I was in college. Just got a cell phone and my favorite place to keep was in the front pocket of my sweatshirts. Well I guess while in a hurry to do laundry one day I shucked the sweatshirt directly into the washing machine without checking the pockets. Transfer wet clothes into drier. Walk away. Go back later because I hear a rather alarming rhythmic thudding. It was my cell phone, washed, dried, and dead. I pressed the power button it uttered a short squak and passed into oblivion. Bought a new one and that little lesson cost me about 250.00. I kept that second phone until just about a month ago.<p>Well I posted to the how much do you value your cell phone enough to go into the toliet thread and stated I valued it as much as my new one cost 226.00 and wouldn't go into the toliet but stated that yeah I had in fact washed one once.<p>Well fast forward to last night. I was washing jeans..<p>Surely you think not again.<p>..my new favorite place to keep the phone is in the pants pocket of my jeans. Yup wash the jeans unload and there sitting at the bottom is my new cell phone freshly cleaned. "Oh Shit!" Press the power button no response. I perform emergency surgery taking it completely apart in an attempt to save my new baby. Hour 1 I clean and dry every component, nothing. Let it sit to dry out fingers crossed. Hour 2 clean and dry every component again.... put it back together praying (I know God is laughin at this point)... nothing, damn. I plug it in again after taking it apart for a third time. See nothing for a second and then the battery charging bar flips on. IT LIVES!!! Worked fine all day today. I think the drying really does them in. Nokia 8260 one damn tough phone. Good for stupid owners.

12-11-2003, 04:30 PM	#6 (permalink)
Cycler Float on.... Alright Location: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plains, i.e. Oklahoma	Well I guess funny story starts while I was in college. Just got a cell phone and my favorite place to keep was in the front pocket of my sweatshirts. Well I guess while in a hurry to do laundry one day I shucked the sweatshirt directly into the washing machine without checking the pockets. Transfer wet clothes into drier. Walk away. Go back later because I hear a rather alarming rhythmic thudding. It was my cell phone, washed, dried, and dead. I pressed the power button it uttered a short squak and passed into oblivion. Bought a new one and that little lesson cost me about 250.00. I kept that second phone until just about a month ago.<p>Well I posted to the how much do you value your cell phone enough to go into the toliet thread and stated I valued it as much as my new one cost 226.00 and wouldn't go into the toliet but stated that yeah I had in fact washed one once.<p>Well fast forward to last night. I was washing jeans..<p>Surely you think not again.<p>..my new favorite place to keep the phone is in the pants pocket of my jeans. Yup wash the jeans unload and there sitting at the bottom is my new cell phone freshly cleaned. "Oh Shit!" Press the power button no response. I perform emergency surgery taking it completely apart in an attempt to save my new baby. Hour 1 I clean and dry every component, nothing. Let it sit to dry out fingers crossed. Hour 2 clean and dry every component again.... put it back together praying (I know God is laughin at this point)... nothing, damn. I plug it in again after taking it apart for a third time. See nothing for a second and then the battery charging bar flips on. IT LIVES!!! Worked fine all day today. I think the drying really does them in. Nokia 8260 one damn tough phone. Good for stupid owners. __________________ "I'm not even supposed to be here today." "I assure you we're open." Last edited by Cycler; 12-11-2003 at 04:32 PM..