*Yet another google image to show my feelings*
Ok, so by the title of this entry, you should be able to conclude that I got my “Christmas/Kwanzaa/Hanukkah/New Years/MLK Day/Ground Hog's Day/Valentine's Day/President's Day/Black History Month/St. Patrick's Day/Easter miracle.” If you haven’t already, please excuse yourself and read the original post here to get the full story. I'll wait.... Great you're back, are we on the same page now? Good.
So after following the advice of many people who endured similar tragedies with their smartphones on various websites, I sped home on my lunch break to put my blackberry in a bowl of rice (plain white rice) after blow drying my phone and damn near burning my hand, but it was THAT serious. I grabbed my backup phone, put my SIM and memory card in it and went back to work.
Now there were mixed reviews on the success of the rice method, for some people it didn’t work at all, for others their phone was partially functional, but had issues with certain keys being inoperable, screen damage, or certain features wouldn’t work anymore, and others phones worked just like new.
My phone fell into the last group THANKFULLY! That evening, I transferred the phone from a bowl of rice into a sealed sandwich bag full of rice (after doing more research at work) and left it in there for TWO days!! Two WHOLE days! For two days I was not to touch the phone to test it out to see if the rice was working it’s magic, because to do so could short circuit the phone and battery (or something like that...I forget, but I know it was serious). Two days of using my previous phone which worked fine, except it kept freezing because of the low memory that I used to the max. Two days of torture! So finally, the day before I was to fly to Baltimore, I took a deep breath and put the battery in the phone...and the red indicator light flashed. Good sign! And I saw the progress bar appear and as much as I wanted to be excited, I had to make sure that the phone powered up completely and was FULLY functional.
I tried out every key, plugged in headphones, made a call using the headset and speakerphone, texted people, turned on wifi, turned on Bluetooth and used my bluetooth headset to make a call and listen to music, 3G was working properly (or as well as it could for T-Mobile in this area smh), music player worked, and the battery was able to be charged. It looked like I was one of the lucky people whose phone survived the impossible (minus the water damage indicators on the phone and battery showing up as red) due to the magic of the rice... and I guess the Otterbox cover (I guess it deserves SOME credit)! I was so excited, but still skeptical, so I also took my backup phone to Baltimore just in case the miracle effects were temporary, so if the phone crapped out, I wouldn't be SOL. That was over a week ago. Me and my berry are doing fine now, but I still am wary of any signs to indicate damage.
So the moral of the story is...FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS GO TO THE BATHROOM WITH PHONES (can’t say the same for enemies though...just saying). If you see them about to commit this act, grab them by the shoulders and shake them furiously to warn them of the consequences and if they are stubborn (read: stupid) and disregard your warning and they drop the phone in the toilet, after you say “I told you so,” be a good friend and mention the rice trick (though they should have listened to you anyway...). :D
Miss V signing off
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