Comments on: The resurrection of (my) BlackBerry. http://ravenofminoc.com/2011/07/21/the-resurrection-of-my-blackberry/ Tales from Sosaria, and musings about reality. Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:57:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mark http://ravenofminoc.com/2011/07/21/the-resurrection-of-my-blackberry/#comment-22 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:10:57 +0000 http://ravenofminoc.wordpress.com/?p=278#comment-22 Thanks for the vacuuming tip. I’ll give that a shot. I do notice a high frequency whine/squeal sometimes when the alarm goes off so possible damage to the audio circuits. I’m suprised it works at all. I didn’t think you could partially damage circuits like that. Part of me says to just get a new phone, and part of me is curious to see if it still works. Of course, if I do keep it and it works I’d have a heck of a story to tell the “kids.”

]]> By: Nok http://ravenofminoc.com/2011/07/21/the-resurrection-of-my-blackberry/#comment-21 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:26:24 +0000 http://ravenofminoc.wordpress.com/?p=278#comment-21 Well we had thousands of laptops, so ones left on a stove we would pull the hard drive… if it worked, we would put it in another laptop. If it didn’t work, then recover what we could, pull an image profile off the server, rebuild a new image for another laptop, and then re-issue the new laptop to the salesperson.

Might not be whole kernels in your phone, but bits and powder. If they can get in, they can come out… try using a vacuum around the opening and ports. Could also be the phone lived, but components… like the speaker, etc. are damaged but not dead.

]]> By: Mark http://ravenofminoc.com/2011/07/21/the-resurrection-of-my-blackberry/#comment-20 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:39:12 +0000 http://ravenofminoc.wordpress.com/?p=278#comment-20 If laptop melted on the stove, couldn’t you just cover it in baking soda and set it in a tub of ice? I ran outta cash before making it to the phone store this week so it’ll be next payday before I can find out for sure if the BB is really back from the dead. The alarm goes off every day, but it’s got an little crackle to it. I think there is some rice still inside. Hopefully the store will loan me the little tool that I can use to open it up and shake the last rice bits out of it.

]]> By: Nok http://ravenofminoc.com/2011/07/21/the-resurrection-of-my-blackberry/#comment-18 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:25:33 +0000 http://ravenofminoc.wordpress.com/?p=278#comment-18 I used to be IT at US Foodservice (food wholesaler to restaurants, hotels, etc.). There was always a salesman bringing in a laptop that got dropped in a sink, left in a freezer, left on a stove and so on. We’d do the same… put it in a room with some fans, turn off the AC to that room, and let the warm air dry it out.

The rice trick was for when a device got really soaked… same room and fans but put the rice & laptop in a vegetable bag (the kind with the little micro holes all over)… so the rice draws the moisture (like you did), but the moisture can escape the bag through the micro holes (this is how vegetable bags keep veggies from spoiling too quick in the fridge).

The tough ones were the laptops that would melt on the stoves. :P

]]> By: Mark http://ravenofminoc.com/2011/07/21/the-resurrection-of-my-blackberry/#comment-16 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:20:38 +0000 http://ravenofminoc.wordpress.com/?p=278#comment-16 On my next day off I’m gonna trot down to the local AT&T store and activate the account. I won’t really know if the transmitter/receiver is working properly until then. I notice that the audio can be a little crackly but I think I might have some stray rice inside the unit. Thinking that it would help the drying process, I left the back off the phone when I put it in the bag of rice. Of course, rice worked its way inside. So if you ever find yourself needing to try that method, leave the back on. (You probably already figured that out).

]]> By: Nok http://ravenofminoc.com/2011/07/21/the-resurrection-of-my-blackberry/#comment-15 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:57:30 +0000 http://ravenofminoc.wordpress.com/?p=278#comment-15 At least it is sort of working.

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