My X fell in the toilet today.

[LwnmwnMan2]

No, not my wife, not even an exwife if I had one.

I had my Droid X in my shirt pocket, went to do the duty, and when I went to flush the toilet, the phone fell in.

Needless to say, Droids are nice, until they're wet.

I have insurance on the phone, but it's an $89 deductible.

I called Asurion to file a claim, and they don't have any.

I guess my phone calls will have to wait a week - 10 days.

The biggest disappointment is I'd "3 starred" the first 30-40 levels of Angry Birds.

Not only that, but I don't have a radio to listen to for a while.

[DTro]

ah....that sucks

Did you try all the drying out tricks?

Take battery out. Put in a bag of rice for a couple of days, or a dehydrator.

[pureinsanity]

Try freezing it too but I think you have to wrap it in a paper towel and ziplock

[SledNeck]

I dropped my iphone4 in the lake and it was in 6 FOW for 10 minutes and was still on and working when I pulled it out. I opened it up and dryed it out anyways to be safe and it still works flawless to this day.

[CJH]

That sucks. Picked up a Droid X a week or two ago and am amazed how great it is and all the cool stuff you can do with it!!

[pureinsanity]

My office is actually looking at running google apps and syncing our business with android.

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

Talk about an oh_crap moment

[LwnmwnMan2]

I couldn't wait for all of the drying out tricks.

Firewood season is full bore right now so I had to cross my fingers and hope, and it worked for about 3 minutes, but then the screen went out.

I called Asurion, but an X is on backorder 7-10 days through them.

I had a phone line that was "upgradeable" and I've been thinking about getting a Droid capable phone for the wife so kids can use it when they're with her.

I stopped by Verizon and they took an extra $50 off of an incredible for me, so I upgraded the wife's phone to that, but left it on my line for now.

When I get my "X" from Asurion, I'll switch the Incredible to her line, and reactivate my X on mine.

But yeah, the phone took a c r a p today, this time literally.

[trailbreaker]

i have a holster i use for my nokia

[pureinsanity]

If it just a paper weight for you Ill take it off your hands, or the 16gig sd card

Just saying

[LwnmwnMan2]

I got my insurance replacement today.

App Brain is good, it reinstalled some paid apps that I'd forgotten about, plus of the free ones that I had.

Backup Assistant already has the contacts back in place as it was on the old phone.

Now if only there was an app or a backup program that would automatically set up all of your accounts again on the new phone so you didn't have to put the info for each one, then it'd be a piece of cake.

And no, the old one is not a paperweight, it's going back to Asurion.

I wonder if they'd ever check for that memory card?

[CAMAN]

No, take it out! If they do ask for it, it's 47cents postage to send it in. But I doubt they will ever look. But make sure you reformat it before you give it back, incase there is any personal information on it.

[zamboni]

I wish my X would fall in the toilet- but she's too fat

[CJH]

^^^

[upnorth]

With the day I am having I needed that

[LwnmwnMan2]

No, take it out! If they do ask for it, it's 47cents postage to send it in. But I doubt they will ever look. But make sure you reformat it before you give it back, incase there is any personal information on it.

There's personal info, but there's no way to power it up. At least I can't do it.

I've thought about accidently running over the envelope that the phone gets put into to be sent back.

BTW, I'm pretty sure I received a NEW replacement, not a refurb. I've gotten refurbs before and this X looks and feels brand new.

[upnorth]

Are those things magnetically sensitive?

[CAMAN]

There's personal info, but there's no way to power it up. At least I can't do it.

I've thought about accidently running over the envelope that the phone gets put into to be sent back.

BTW, I'm pretty sure I received a NEW replacement, not a refurb. I've gotten refurbs before and this X looks and feels brand new.

Oh, sorry, I meant personal information on THE CARD if you have to send it back. I realize the phone is toast.

[pureinsanity]

Lawnie if you have your new X, take the sd card out of your old and put that one in there. Maybe they didn't even ship an SD card in the replacement phone. Either way swapping the new one for your old one should be fine.

If you do not wanna do that you can still put your old SD card in your new X and format the SD card from the phone or plug your X into the computer and format the sd card that way!

[zamboni]

^^^

Only 1???? C'mon, that was funny!!!

[SkunkedAgain]

This is a good teaching moment. Cell phones in shirt pockets is a bad deal when your sitting on the throne. I always make sure to stuff it into a pant pocket. I dropped mine a few times on the floor in front of the toilet and that scared me enough.

[pike_buster]

I wonder if they'd ever check for that memory card?

I had to file a claim on my eris last fall. The lady i talked to in custumer support, to told me to keep the card, battery, and the charger. they only wanted the phone.

[spearchucker]

Are those things magnetically sensitive?

No, Flash memory is not. You could reformat it in a computer card reader or a digital camera that used that type of memory though.