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update on dropping my phone in the creek #pixel2

I wrote a post about dropping my phone in the creek here

I go down to the creek daily many times a day to spend time with a platypus and the birds.

Anyway I dropped my phone in the creek a Pixel … its a Pixel 2XL (I know I know, its old) but I love the phone for its camera and reliability - I don't use it for email or fb or anything other than phone, camera, sound recorder, a chat program, the weather bureau, maps/gps to get me somewhere and very occasional checking of fb posts. I was looking to get another phone this past six months and have settled on the Pixel7pro but let me tell you the story ….

I dropped the pixel2 in the creek while standing on the bridge; it has a black rubber backing and fell face down and sank to the bottom - the creek is very clear but where it went in is dark so I couldn’t see it at all. I went down to the creek often at different times of day for a couple of days and saw it exactly where it had fallen - straight down - I could just see a hard edge of black. So my partner and I - like 2 older persons helped each other down a 3 metre high bank to a concrete plinth under the bridge - with a rake, a long pole and a long handled spade. One hanging onto the other spread eagled across the divide to poke the phone - the creek is running and as the pole pushed the phone it flipped over and moved a little further away … BUT IT LIT UP !!! Fully underwater.

We felt like the dear thing was calling out (so to speak) … so we were newly determined to get it out. Ok, so we did - 1.5 hours it took with both of us having one or other sore part of a body - knee, shoulder - you get the point.

When retrieved it was ON and had 15% left in battery … NOW HERE IS THE DEAL - it had been submerged for FORTY-FIVE hours (it went in 4pm on a Friday and we retrieved it 1pm on the Sunday.

Now not only that … I took its rubber back off and there was some water (not a lot) between the rubber and the back of the phone. I held it up and some (not a lot) of water came out of the charging port - I hung it up and left it for a night and a day … I then tried to charge it as it was now down to 5% … it would not charge ! It just didnt connect. So we left it to air dry inside some more for a day and night. The charge still would not grab - we vacuumed the charge port and used a hair dryer a distance from it.

The charge would still not work - and the phone now would not come on at all being in need of a charge. My partner said just leave it for a few more days and let’s see - but leave it with the charge in the port. Next morning I got up and it was at 100% !!!! The sound the charge makes does not happen when I put it in the phone … but it charged overnight. This is how it is at present, the charge doesnt chime that it is connected but when its wiggled a message shows its charging.

I am so pleased … so happy …and we are both amazed. Looks like it will still be a while before I get a Pixel Pro upgrade.

Musing at the spot I dropped my phone and talking about how we managed to retrieve it.



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