Mobile phone repair

[Fredxx]

Your link looks like a spam URL, where it says "There is no article with this exact name"

While I might agree that silica gel might a lot better, please tell us the harm it causes.

[GB]

Not easily in this case.

[John Rumm]

The URL looks fine here. Are you copying the ... at the end (you need to)

Because it will likely prevent the owner of the water damaged device from tacking prompt action that might actually help.

If you have a wet device that is still powered up, the clock is ticking. Too much delay will make recovery increasingly unlikely. Faffing about with rice does nothing to address the actual problem. It only works in cases where doing nothing would also have also worked.

[Andy Burns]

thunderbird (and maybe other newsreaders) has a habit of thinking that punctuation marks the end of a URL, delimiters help convince it otherwise

[Fredxx]

I think I've been lucky with my phones!

I thought I better take a look at how to remove my current phone battery and it doesn't look quite as bad as the Sony Experia in your clip, but still a similar style of construction:

[Fredxx]

Thanks, Thunderbird was leaving out the dots at the end.

[wasbit]

Apparently the rice trick is not an urban myth but pure alcohol is better -

[GB]

Just to say that I am really quite impressed.

First of all, DW, when pressed, found where she had written down her Google password.

Second, Google restored her contacts, phone history, and apps on the new phone. Automatically, pretty much.

Of course, DW left me entirely on my own to buy a new phone, and now she's saying that it's too big, and she doesn't like the colour.

[Andy Burns]

They're all too big, I rummaged and found my first smartphone today,

3.7" display and I haven't been keen to have larger ones at each replacement, but I have, and it seems I will again, come Autumn.

Black is the only colour for phones

[John Rumm]

While their is a grain of truth (see what I did there?), it's still missing the point, so basically bollocks.

Yes rice will absorb some water on the outside of a phone, but so would a towel, or some tissue. It does not disconnect the battery and stop electrolytic corrosion going on inside the phone.

[mm0fmf]

It's recoverable. with effort. I have recovered a Google account in the past when the password was not known. It asked for a variety of passwords that may have been used. One of them was an old password and as the device ID matched with an old password, it was recoverable.

But you need to know an old password and have the device working.

[mm0fmf]

Keep the phone and get a new wife.

[Dave W]

The underline in your link does not extend to the third dot, so if you click the link it doesn't work, but if you copy and paste the whole thing to a browser, it does.

[Andy Burns]

Seems like Agent suffers the same problem when "guessing" where a URL finishes that Thunderbird does. There is a way to help by enclosing in angle brackets, as in my reply above, I think that can also go wrong at times, depending on wrapping.

[Max Demian]

It would *help* if the link didn't have dots at the end.

[John Rumm]

The underline is just something conjured up by you email program, and not something included in the message text in anyway. You just need be aware of the limitations of the automatic highlighting in your software and deal with it appropriately. This is not something under the direct control of the poster of the message.

(sometimes adding angle brackets will help delineate the start and end of the link, but this is an odd "corner case" due to the link having the three dots at the end, which is "unusual")