Frogman
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I think this will be the year of the phone for me...
In mid January, the USB charging connector broke on my Nokia N900. I sent it in for repair couple of weeks ago. Still don't have it back.
I wasn't too concerned, I have other cell phones I could use, but the N900 was my "favorite" phone at the time.
So, I switch to an HTC HD2 that was my back-up phone. Phone performed flawlessly (but I still like the N900 better)... until tonight.
Tonight, I fired up one of the snow machines (snowmobiles for you city folk) and went out to one of the edges of my property to check on something.
I get there, check on the specific thing I wanted to, fixed it and headed back. I get to the house... no phone. WTF?
I looked around the shop, no phone. Jumped back onto the snow machine and backtracked my earlier trip.
Sure as hell, there's my HD2 half buried in the snow. I picked it up (of course, it's dead), got it home and took it apart. Dried it the best I could (I didn't have the patience to put it in rice), and fired it up.
The screen is cracked. We must have some hard snow here...that, or I ran it over when it fell out. I was leaning forward going up a steep incline at full throttle. The insides were all wet - obviously.
So, I dried it up put it back together and fired it up. It fired up!... Problem is, it gets stuck just past the bootloader, so I'm thinking the NAND memory is corrupted. Then... it died. I don't have a micro SD card reader, but I'm hoping the Micro SD card is fine. I have some pics on there I needed to transfer to the computer.
Now I have to jump on CL and see if I can find another HD2, then go get it tomorrow.
Thankfully though, my ever trusty grenade (long story) was patiently waiting for me, all fully charged up. So, I popped my SIM card into, booted it up and I have a phone again. Now I have to transfer 5 gigs worth of an Audio Book to it.
I tried to use the grenade as a card reader, but because of the partition scheme on the HD2 Micro SD card, it wouldn't see the card.
I'm not complaining, last year was the year of the laptop. I went through three of them.
In memory of, here is a picture of it's final struggle. It completely died a few seconds later. I knew it was inevitable...
The greasy stuff on the screen is what the screen protector film left behind. I guess the film didn't like the cold, as it peeled right off.
In mid January, the USB charging connector broke on my Nokia N900. I sent it in for repair couple of weeks ago. Still don't have it back.
I wasn't too concerned, I have other cell phones I could use, but the N900 was my "favorite" phone at the time.
So, I switch to an HTC HD2 that was my back-up phone. Phone performed flawlessly (but I still like the N900 better)... until tonight.
Tonight, I fired up one of the snow machines (snowmobiles for you city folk) and went out to one of the edges of my property to check on something.
I get there, check on the specific thing I wanted to, fixed it and headed back. I get to the house... no phone. WTF?
I looked around the shop, no phone. Jumped back onto the snow machine and backtracked my earlier trip.
Sure as hell, there's my HD2 half buried in the snow. I picked it up (of course, it's dead), got it home and took it apart. Dried it the best I could (I didn't have the patience to put it in rice), and fired it up.
The screen is cracked. We must have some hard snow here...that, or I ran it over when it fell out. I was leaning forward going up a steep incline at full throttle. The insides were all wet - obviously.
So, I dried it up put it back together and fired it up. It fired up!... Problem is, it gets stuck just past the bootloader, so I'm thinking the NAND memory is corrupted. Then... it died. I don't have a micro SD card reader, but I'm hoping the Micro SD card is fine. I have some pics on there I needed to transfer to the computer.
Now I have to jump on CL and see if I can find another HD2, then go get it tomorrow.
Thankfully though, my ever trusty grenade (long story) was patiently waiting for me, all fully charged up. So, I popped my SIM card into, booted it up and I have a phone again. Now I have to transfer 5 gigs worth of an Audio Book to it.
I tried to use the grenade as a card reader, but because of the partition scheme on the HD2 Micro SD card, it wouldn't see the card.
I'm not complaining, last year was the year of the laptop. I went through three of them.
In memory of, here is a picture of it's final struggle. It completely died a few seconds later. I knew it was inevitable...
The greasy stuff on the screen is what the screen protector film left behind. I guess the film didn't like the cold, as it peeled right off.
