I dropped my iPhone in my pond while cleaning the pump filter... fished
it out within 10 secs, it was still on, running fine, no obvious
intrusion of water... but just to be safe I powered it off... driving
into town minutes later, I noticed it had powered back up... so I
powered it down (again)... and it immediately powered/booted itself
*again*! Water shorting the power button? I went ahead and tried it's
phone function and the speaker was not working... but bluetooth did...
then I sent a text... then I powered it off again... and within seconds,
it was booting itself back up! Half an hour later it shut itself down
and hasn't been back up since. I put it in a bag of rice overnight
(conventional wisdom for drying things without an official dessicant)...
still dead.
Now I need a 5-lobe screwdriver to defeat Apple's insistence that I not
open the case without their lawyers present... I suppose they would
rather I sent it to them so they can say "!not under warranty, water
alert!" keep it for weeks and charge me an arm and a leg to clean any
fouled contacts, maybe replace the battery, and then maybe decide I need
a new logic board.
So anyone have a 5 lobe (tiny, tiny, miniscule, tiny) screwdriver for
this purpose that they can loan me?
How about a GSM android phone to borrow while I order up a screwdriver
and battery and a bucket of luck? Or advice on what (used) model to
pick up on Craigslist? Anyone have any experience with the "Cocoa"?
It is apparently a "dual SIM"...
Are GSM Androids unlocked by default (seems reasonable.. but... ?)...
is it an easy unlock?
I knew I needed an OtterBox!
- Steve
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