Dissecting the Phone for Resurrection

Of all the things that geeks really like tinkering with, it’s their machines. Some geeks are into putting together stuff, others are into taking apart stuff. I belong to the “taking apart” department. Whenever I have stuff that are ready to disintegrate, I am ready to take screwdrivers, pliers, whatever it would take, to pry my stuff open.

Last night, I thought my phone was about to die on me. But something told me that there was just some moisture inside. Though I had a good mind to put it under the sun, I decided to do something riskier: open it up, as is wont of my habits when things go awry with any of my machines.

True enough, when I opened it up, some gross scum-like... Stuff, was clinging to the borders of the metal clamping down its LCD display. It’s a good thing I got to it this early, because I would have had a truly dead phone by now.

To cut to the chase, I cleaned the border of the LCD, put the case back together, and I now have a functioning phone once more. From a dying phone, I had been able to resurrect it with a little bit of insight and some daring to just go ahead and fix it!

Yay.

My father’s former IBM laptop was not so lucky in my hands, however. When I put my screwdriver and my inquisitive fingers to it in 2001... It was then rendered a museum ornament of Humpty Dumpty proportions.

Guess my “tech magic” does not work virtually everywhere. :p


Update on my phone:

It works pretty well today (4/19/08). :p