Liveblogging: iPhone resurrection (hopefully)
Nov 28, 2008 | Tags: Daily, iPhone, technology
Three days ago, I stupidly spilled tea on my iPhone and it stopped working. Click here to see what I did to try to fix the iPhone. Now, with anticipation, I’m about to see if my experiment worked!
1:40pm: Took the iPhone out of it’s peaceful coffin and blew off all the rice dust. Put in the SIM card, turned on iPhone. Apple logo came up!!! I feel hopeful!
Uh oh, the Apple logo is STILL on….*losing hope.*
1:41: iPhone home page came up!!! At this point my body can feel every ounce of excitement.
1:42: Oh boy, a lot of text messages poured in. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and so on. Many more due to Thanksgiving greetings. Oh they keep coming!!! Note to self: never break your iPhone during a holiday.
1:45: Clicked on Mail to see if email works. Email loaded and it was a SUCCESS!
Now the question is, can I click the home button and will it work?! It did not work when it was wet. I’ll click it now. OMG it works! (Yes, I’m a dork, April.)
1:45: Opened safari web browser. LOADED! Keyed in www.google.com. LOADED!
1:46: Stared at the iPhone in amazement. Then, grabbed the rice coffin and kissed it all over.
1:47: Clicked on iPod. Clicked on shuffle. Sounded good!
But, I am hard of hearing, so I’ll ask a hearing person tonight if the speakers don’t sound like there’s water sloshing around in the background!
1:48: Clicked on Facebook application. Looks good. I see someone’s status saying all hail the iPhone. Amen.
Checked other bazillion applications. All good!
Uh oh! A song on the ipod just skipped. Probably just that song.
2:00: About to make a phone call to see if it works.
2:20: Phone call worked just fine! My voice and the other party voice had no water sloshing sounds!
2:27: Clicked on photos, all my photos are still there!
DUDES AND DUDETTES – RICE COFFIN REALLY WORKED! RESURRECTION SUCCESSFUL.
So far, that is.
2:53: Oh boy. Battery life possibly compromised. So far it’s depleted more than 1/4 of it’s life. This isn’t normal, according to my memory of how long the iPhone battery life lasts based on usage.
NOVEMBER 29, 2008
7:45am (yes early, because it’s hard to sleep in!): Battery life did look like it was depleting fast yesterday afternoon, but it was a fluke. Somehow, the battery life icon bar suddenly went back to full. Now, I just checked the iPhone and it’s got a little more than 1/4 of life left, and I didn’t even charge it overnight. FABULOUS!
RICE IS MAGIC!
NOVEMBER 30, 2008
10:37am: iPhone still works just fine. I consider this a case closed, and consider it a lesson learned. No more tea, water, iPhone, and pen party. I shall move my water and tea elsewhere because that spot is MY iPHONE SPOT WHERE SIGNAL IS LOVINGLY RECEIVED.
Case closed! Experiment successful! Get rice if your iPhone falls into the ocean, falls into a bubble bath, or if you just plain silly spilled your drink all over it.
It doesn’t make much sense that getting a splash would reduce your battery life, more likely it just didn’t get a good charge before you tried it out and thus the battery meter headed south faster than usual. Test it out again after a good overnight charge.
Are you sure the iPhone didn’t turn into an iVampire after emerging from its coffin? You don’t want to wake up one night to your iPhone gnawing at your neck…
I’d laugh so hard if all your voice calls ended up sounding like sloshing and gurgling.
*ring* *ring*
“Hello?”
“slosh slosh gurgle”
“Oh, hi Sarah, what’s up?”
“gurgle slosh gurgle gurgle slosh gurgle”
“What are you trying to say?”
“gurgle slosh slosh slosh gurgle gurgle”
“I don’t understand what you’re saying.”
“slosh slosh gurgle gurgle!”
“Huh? What?”
“slosh gurgle gurgle slosh gurgle slosh gurgle burble!!!!”
“Look, Sarah, you don’t have to get all uppity with me here.”
“SLOSH GURGLE!!!!!!!”
This in unbelievable. The rice REALLY does work. This morning I dropped my Iphone into my coffee. After reading all the blogs and crying all morning I decided to try the “RICE”. Sure enough, 3 hours later, phone is working again. I love rice.
I dropped my iPhone into water tonight, screamed in horror for a moment, and then ran to the Interwebz to tell me what to do. I shoved it into a bag of jasmine rice, then ran to the store for extra rice, and am now reading rice success stories for encouragement. Thank you, I’m feeling a little hope now!
Okay, so I lost my last iphone during a drunken New years Eve event, did not want to pay full price (instead of opening contract price for a new one) so I opened a new account under my fathers name and everything was all good. I was really enjoying my iphone’s company for many months when I got pulled over, searched by police and somehow my phone came up missing. I thought Paterson, New Jersey’s finest had decieded they wanted an iphone. By the way, I got a loitering to buy marijuana charge during the whole event, and i had gotten searched there another time and they stole a very nice zippo from me. Well it turns out that my iphone had ended up on the ground during the confusion and a friendly, (sorry to say) drug addicted pedestrian had called me 2 days later and I went and got it. A few days later I go to a party and again i get good and drunk but this time I forgot my trusty iphone at home. Upon getting home I was so happy to see my iphone again, especially after thinking it lost for a couple days and not having it for the night that I decieded we should catch up. Regretfully that catching up would be done on the shitter and my iphone must have thought i was neglecting it because it decided to go for a suicide swim. PLEASE WORK RICE, PLEASE