Help me brick my phone - Page 3

jester2043 · #21 (**permalink**) 05-05-2009, 01:46 PM

I say do it...not only because we both have Jester in the SN, but also because I really want to know what happens. I hope it's nothing like putting a CD in the Microwave....If you get caught just say that you have a little kid and he must have done it...that you had no idea, you just went to turn it on and it wouldn't so you brought it in....

mad_jester · #22 (**permalink**) 05-05-2009, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by jester2043

I say do it...not only because we both have Jester in the SN, but also because I really want to know what happens. I hope it's nothing like putting a CD in the Microwave....If you get caught just say that you have a little kid and he must have done it...that you had no idea, you just went to turn it on and it wouldn't so you brought it in....

Sweet avatar, dude! I'll have to upload my Mad Jester for mine.

Well, microwaving it didn't work. It shorted out the phone circuits, but it still powers on. I'm now flashing the OEM ROM back onto it and then I'll try it again.

Don't worry. being a tech before, I know how the system works.

**guitardoc64** · #23 (**permalink**) 05-05-2009, 09:55 PM

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Ahh, yes, thank you! I probably would have nuked the battery too. You may have just saved my life.

Maybe. It would have rocked your microwave for sure. Li-ion batteries create hydrogen gas, especially when excited in the EM "bath" of a microwave. A pretty good bang and you probably would have had scraps of what used to be a phone.

mad_jester · #24 (**permalink**) 05-06-2009, 08:40 AM

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Maybe. It would have rocked your microwave for sure. Li-ion batteries create hydrogen gas, especially when excited in the EM "bath" of a microwave. A pretty good bang and you probably would have had scraps of what used to be a phone.

Dammit Jim, I'm a cell phone tech, not a chemist.

xPosTech · #25 (**permalink**) 05-06-2009, 10:00 AM

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Dammit Jim, I'm a cell phone tech, not a chemist.

Calm down Bones.

Ted

ebross67 · #26 (**permalink**) 05-06-2009, 11:34 AM

The reason I said to drop it in the toilet is because electricity, water, and circuit boards don't get a long. I had an older Verizon phone that I dropped in a swimming pool (okay, my college roommates threw me into a swimming pool), and it shorted out. The phone never turned back on. I'm not an engineer, so I don't know if they could tell if it was from water damage or not. All I know the phone was under warranty, and it was replaced for free. If I remember correctly, I took it to the Verizon store and the associate fiddled with it, and gave me a new replacement. I didn't tell the Verizon guy it got soaked. I told him it just stopped working.

jester2043 · #27 (**permalink**) 05-06-2009, 11:59 AM

Thanks...I found the avatar on Google and it was the 1st one I ever liked normally they are way cheezy.

Anyways this is seriously the funniest post I've read on here. The whole hydrogen thing had me lauging so hard at the office that people were looking at me funny....I could just picture it.

Wow.