[sheila]

Roxy,sorry but I really had to laugh when I read your post. I thought these sort of things only happened to me!  I hope you will see the funny side once you get over the trauma.I am a firm believer in the one door closes and another opens theory so something good could be just around the corner.

[doganjo]

My phone holds all my life! It is dead, due to water ingress into my wax jacket pocket on Sunday walking the dogs!  My daughter has just been over with her old one but it only reads some of my sim so all my appointments are gone apart from my contacts.  Have just ordered a sim and mini card reader so if anything happens to anyone else's phone near me, call and borrow the reader.  Unfortunately some info was on the phone memory so that's completely lost(unless I get another Nokia in which case syncing with my PC might get it back), but at least I'll have what's on the memory card and the sim ..  I have to get the same phone or better as it is also my digital camera - 6 mp (Nokia N95)  The strange thing is exactly the same has happened to my pal in Sweden with the same make and model of phone - hers died after being watered in her Garden Centre - she was a bit free with the hosepipe when watering her plants at the end of Sunday!

I'd be desperate if it had gone up in flames, so i hope you manage without yours, Roxy.  It's just been one thing after another for you this year, hasn't it? 

[RUSTYME]

if you haven't tried already Annie , you could put the phone above a radiator . Near enough to supply heat but not close enough to melt . I have saved at least 2 mobile phones that way , and god knows how many times I have dried out digital watches that way . Even the watch I wear now is an analogue battery operated one , and it can get totally misted up and stop working . I just take the back off and leave it above a convector heater .. does the job every time.
Worth a go anyway...

cheers

Russ

[doganjo]

Thanks, Russ, but I made a mistake right away - plugged it into the car charger on the way home because I knew it was running low on battery - so I fried it as well as soaking it.  Will make sure my pocket flaps are outside not inside from now on!   It has sat in a bowl of rice for the last two days anyway, and still very deaded!

[Hellybee]

Oh nooooo!!!

I left purse in a phone box in the middle of town today, boy is was lucky that it was still there when i went scooting up the road to get it !!!  Phew !!

[Anke]

Oh well it's not just me... I managed to put my phone recently through the wash (in the trouser pocket!), but fortunately the sim was still working. Phone itself was actually bent (it was one of the cheap MOTO ones, that you cannot get anymore except in dodgy shops...). But managed to get another cheap one on PAYG, as I actually very rarely use it, its more for when I break down in the car or suchlike...

[Sandy]

I felt really guily when an elderly gentleman 85 came to stay with his daughter in our B&B, they had seperate rooms and he was recalling all his memories as he lived in a demolished property almost next door and also had a building firm so built lots of houses around here. I remember cleaning his bedroom and seeing 2 disposible cameras, I am sure they were in the bin but as there was nothing else in there I left them...I remember thinking all the money they had why had they not got a digital one!!! Anyway, next day there was no rubbish in t he bin and they had eaten some sandwiches etc so I expected rubbish but empty bin. After they left the daughter rang asking me to look around to see if it was in t he house, I never found it but still wonder if they were in the bin and the dad had throw them away somewhere..poor thing, his memories of all the places he visited gone!!!

[CameronS]

You need a Samsung for to survive water damage,My sisters old phone (not the one digested by a horse) survived two hour long 90degree washed, dropped down the toilet and being dunked in the sea, and it still works to this day, even though it is in retirement.

[doganjo]

I think mine was not just drowned but fried too.  Just bought a replacement on Ebay and my son is going to have a look at the dead one at teh weekend to see if he can do anything with it then if not put it on Ebay too as water damaged - apparently they do sell as someone will try to mend it. So I may recoup some of the price.

[Sandy]

I washed my daughters friends very cheap whatch many moons ago but it came out of a hot wash still working!!! amazing!!! I have washed many phones and they never seem to work properly after, I ended up with 2 phones that were similar, one of them 2 numbers would not work so you cuold recieve calls or ring existing saved numbers and the other phone's screen was broken!!!

[WinslowPorker]

When i first got with what was to become my eventual wife, we decided to take the kids down to Camber Sands beach for teh day, anyway had a lovely day and were going home and she said had i seen her phone? nope was my reply but i think you put it on the roof of the car back at the beach.................... you got it, around we turned and got right by the beach turn and there was her mobile phone in about 10 pieces up the road. Surprisingly the main body was ok and we got all the details off it!

2 years later we are going on holiday to Cornwall and when we arrive, she asks 'Have you seen my phone?' i said no the last time i saw it was on the roof of the car, dont tell me you have done it again??' quick call to mum to have a look and ..................................... yes she had left it on the roof of the car which i then drove over with the car and the caravan for good measure!!!

No guesses what my final question is before we leave for holiday now!

[little blue]

not just me then....   

[Wizard]

Not really to do with this directly but.In they come throw the keys down and put on the kettle Natter natter natter Well I suppose we had better head for sunnier climes Market Rasen way. Where's the Disco keys Muther. EVERY TIME The keys are about 2lbs weight and contain all sorts of junk but they never know where they have left them.I am surprised the lock holds them

[RUSTYME]

  ..... I can hear the banging of nails , in the background , of the gallows being put together George .... don't leave any long bits of rope about mate .....  ...
 

cheers

Russ

[Wizard]

Ev tode em and tode em will they wissen will the ducks.Hey great fun Russ how do you start a Laguna that doesn't have an ignition key It has one of those card pass through things.I will tell you .Drag it onto a Ifor and transport it to the main dealers in Lincoln. -££££££s