Posted on 06/10/2019 6:43:59 AM PDT by Michael.SF.
Saturday afternoon, poolside. Traeger was smoking away. Family was in the pool.
I was manning the Traeger and got a phone call from my brother. We spoke and I automatically put the phone in my pocket.
My swimsuit pocket.
Yeah, you know what happened next. Decided to take a dip. I hit the water took a lap. That was when I realized the phone was still in my pocket.
Took it out, took it out of the case, dried it off and plunged it into a bag of rice. Wait 36 hours one website said.
Today: Phone works with no apparent issues. Even that stuck grain of rice in the charging port worked its way out with only minor assistance and gravity.
I think you should call Rush today. I am 100% positive he would be interested in talking with you about this very important issue.
Invest in memory lessons.
Good idea. I’m going to call Rush and tell him about the dump I took this morning.
I was going to do that last year, but forgot!
Count your blessings, but learn from this, pay attention and be more careful. You can’t always count on fate to save you from stupid actions.
the bag of rice belongs in the same urban myth file as “put your laptop battery in the freezer”.
someone is laughing their ass off.
-- Jim
When I know I might get wet, like going somewhere with water rides, I put my phone in a ziplock bag.
The IPhone god?
Rush was at your pool party?
If it was a newer iPhone its no big deal. They are good for a few feet under water. Glad it still works for you.
How old is your brother?
All the recent iPhones are waterproof to 1m at least. Also, the rice thing is a myth.
What “flavor” of pellets were running in the Traeger? Hickory, mesquite, peacan,etc.?
“All the recent iPhones are waterproof to 1m at least. Also, the rice thing is a myth.”
Yes, all iPhones from the 7 on.
In fact I upgraded to the 7 because of this.
Check your battery every once in awhile, if it is pink or turning pink you need a new one
I think the term they use is water resistant not waterproof. They can resist water for a certain period of time and depth but after that your luck may run out. For most accidental dunkings they are good however. Sometime in the future we’ll probably see one going down to the Marianas trench and surviving but not yet. Getting any signal bars down there still might be tricky though. :)
I have an old-fashioned quartz electric wrist-watch. One day I accidentally put my pants in the washer with the watch in the pocket. I didn’t discover this until I heard a weird clunk during the drying cycle. The watch was still running, keeping excellent time. Sometimes we get lucky.
the rice didn’t fix anything because the phone wasn’t water damaged in the first place. take it to the bank.
amazing. people get their phone wet, and cram it in a bag of rice. if the phone works two days later, they exult before the rice god. if it doesn’t, they commiserate that it must have been too far gone for the rice god to resurrect it.
but no one considers that possibility that the rice is a massive gaslight in the first place.
I had a similar thing happen on Marco Island a couple years ago. I was walking along the waterline of the beach (no intention of swimming) and had my iPhone in my shirt pocket. I was looking for some sand dollars and I saw a pristine one just a little bit out in the water, not even ankle deep. You can guess what happened next. As I bent over to pick up the sand dollar, the phone slid right out of my pocket and into the water. Even worse, a wave came through and it took me nearly 15 seconds to find it.
I pulled it out of the water, managed to switch it off and dried the outside of it with my shirt. Then I kept it in the sun and didn't turn it on the rest of the day. I figured it was ruined.
That evening, I switched it on and it fired up just fine, none the worse for wear other than the fact that the battery life was significantly less than it was before. Still, I managed to hang on to it for a few more months until it was ready to be upgraded.
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