Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Let's play...Dunk the Cellphone!

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I always liked my Sanyo phones. They weren't the most feature packed 
phones but they could take some solid abuse and the battery life and 
signal strength was very good. I have a N-Gage QD now and it isn't bad. 
Built like a brick.
> I had a Sanyo 4700 that went thru a similar experience while we were 
> camping. It got left in my chair during a massive downpour, so it 
> wasn't actually immersed, but this was one of those 3 inches in a hour 
> type of rains. I let it dry out and viola, even the speakerphone still 
> worked.
>
> Rick
>
> Nathan Odle wrote:
> > Well, I took the boys swimming yesterday and absent-mindedly 
> > clambered into the pool with my Samsung A900 in the pocket of my 
> > trunks.  It was a good 20 minutes later that I realized what I'd done 
> > and was quite disappointed at my discovery.  Nevertheless I pulled 
> > the battery (in the hopes of avoiding some corrosion) and tossed the 
> > phone up on the patio with the hope that once we were done swimming 
> > it could be revived.  I wasn't too hopeful, seeing as how it was 
> > chlorinated pool water I was dealing with of course...
> >
> > As of last night it still hadn't regained any real function, so this 
> > morning I pulled the back of the main housing off and put it up on 
> > the dashboard of my truck in the hope that any remaining water would 
> > evaporate.  I was surprised at how little water was in there, the 
> > A900's metal body is sealed pretty tightly apparently.
> >
> > This afternoon, I went out and reclaimed the phone, plugged it in, 
> > and wouldn't you know it the A900 is back in business.  No screen 
> > problems, no keypad issues, the thing works perfectly.  I am 
> > extraordinarily impressed with this phone, more so than any other 
> > I've had - a significant portion of its case is metal and as a result 
> > it's extremely durable.  Lots of geeky features too like Bluetooth 
> > and EVDO...
> >
> > This isn't the first time water has met one of my cellphones; I had 
> > an LG PM325 that got dropped into a sink above which there was 
> > running watter...no submersion but the water still managed to claim 
> > that phone.  It eventually came back and would work somewhat but I 
> > lost a whole keypad row despite much effort to fix it.  The leads had 
> > completely corroded together; shows what a little hard water and 
> > electric current can do.
> >
> > So...has anyone else revived any soaked electronics?
> >
> > -N


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