Phone found

MarkB_MI · Dec 29, 2012

I have two cell phones, one for my personal business and a fairly expensive smart phone that belongs to my employer. Yesterday I realized that I hadn't seen the smartphone since around Christmas. I figured it was most likely outside in the snow, but it could just as easily be anywhere in the county. Trying to find it outside by following the ring wasn't going to work since it was set to vibrate and probably buried in snow.

This morning it dawned on my to try coupling my Bluetooth headset to the missing phone. I turned on the headset and it instantly connected! I determined the phone had to be outside, most likely under a big pile of snow I'd shoveled off the deck. Sure enough, after five minutes of digging I recovered the phone. I also discovered the dog's buried Christmas waffle, much to his chagrin!

Anonymous-0 · Dec 29, 2012

Too bad you can't reprogram it to ring from a terminal or another phone using a special password code. The phone can do everything else why not remote programing via a secure passworded link.

Now I wonder why keyrings aren't available with a special ring locator. That would be nice.

MSD · Dec 29, 2012

I found out after the fact that I had dropped my phone by a trench one day. I could hear it ring for awhile and then the bat. went dead before I could find it. I could hear it ring up next to the house so I dug around there but it wasn't. A couple days later we moved some dirt from the ridge of the trench and it was laying 4 feet from where I was hearing it ring.

Sid · Dec 29, 2012

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this what you have in mind?

John T · Dec 29, 2012

With allllllllll the things them dern Blueberry Crackberry or Smart or whatever theyre called phones can already do, surely theres an APP for that lol

The architect daughter was home from Austin for Christmas and was showin off her I Phone 5, blew my mind.

I asked her about text so she picks up her phone and TALKS says send old dad a text and recites the message and low n behold it sends me what she said and she didnt type in anything whatsoever. Then she talks into it and says call dad, it asks her in its voice talk, Home or Mobile??? Then we were driving somewhere goin to church so she tells her phone (talk no text) find so and so church in Bloomington, Indiana and low n behold it talks back to her with all the churches and addreses and asks her do you want on screen and verbal driving directions there?

I heard something about if you lost your car key fob but your old lady has hers if you call her and she puts her fob to the phone with yours near the door it can unlock???? Old wives tale or Urban Legend????

So surelyyyyyyyyy it can dig its own way out of a snow bank lol

God Bless you and all here, Hope you had a Merry CHRISTmas, and Happy New Yearrrrrrrrrrr

Ol John T and all,,,, Still Lost in the fifties with no Blueberry phone lol

Stephen Newell · Dec 29, 2012

I'm surprised it still works. I've killed two phones by setting them on a drop of water on the counter.

MarkB_MI · Dec 29, 2012

Hey John, I don't think there's any truth to that key fob thing. Keyless entry systems work on RF, you're not likely to be able to repeat that through your cell phone.

John T · Dec 29, 2012

Figured it was an old wives tale, Im a good hand at electrical power distribution and tractor DC, but I forgot electronics over 40 years ago grrrrrrrrr

John T

Ken Macfarlane · Dec 29, 2012

You're lucky, my buddy sent his through his snowblower.

Ellis Kinney · Dec 29, 2012

I think all tools should come with a ring indicator. When working in the barn and you lay a tool down you won't spend an hour looking for it. Ellis

Billy Shafer · Dec 29, 2012

I found mine in the tire track. After I backed over it.

James Williams · Dec 29, 2012

Mine is in the botton of a sewage plant,It was pretty cool watching it drown

jimmy

fixerupper · Dec 29, 2012

My son put on his bluetooth headset and hit the send button by acccident. The woman's synthesized voice came on and said "please say a command". Son was in a bad mood so he said "shut up bi--ch"! Woman's voice came back on and said "did you say call Mitch"? He does have a Mitch in one of his voice commands. The humor that came out of it did lighten his day. Jim

fixerupper · Dec 29, 2012

I've heard the most common cause of cell phone drowning is falling in the toilet.

I've killed at least a couple of them in the water. One time that I can remember, I fell in the lake fishing off the shore. No, no beer! The shore dropped off about four feet like a sheer cliff so a lot of me went under. Fish were biting like crazy so I hid behind the pickup door, stripped down, wrung out my clothes and went back to fishing. Couldn't wring out the cell phone. Another time I was laying on my belly reaching down into a pit that had watery, oily sludge in the bottom. Cell phone somehow found it's way out of the holster on my belt and ended up in the sludge. It did work somewhat but I still had to get a new one. Lessee, then there was the time I was working on top of a combine and it fell out of my pocket, never to be found again. Then there was the cell phone that I had to hammer on with my pliers in order to answer it. A crew member who was in plain sight of me would call me just to watch me beat on my phone.LOL Jim

Dan in Ohio · Dec 29, 2012

Wife and I have iPhones that each have "find my phone app"s". We have helped each other out on more than one occasion.

Mike (WA) · Dec 29, 2012

Found a phone when I got out to get the mail- it had been run over, was in three pieces- Was amused that someone's phone had bit it until I realized that it was mine. . .

730 virgil · Dec 29, 2012

i think mrs 730 can kill a cell phone by just looking at it she seems to go thru them fast enough.
i once had a cell phone i didn't think anything could hurt.
i was cleaning some moss out of cow water tank phone in pocket i bent over plop right to bottom of tank i reached in wiped it off on my jeans worked great. amother time i kept dropping phone out of shirt pocket i laid it on back tractor tire forgot phone drove off ran over phone.another time i dropped somewhere went in house told mrs 730 start calling my phone i dropped somewhere. i went back out heard it ringing bull was standing on it. a friend wanted to know if bull was trying to send me a text.
what killed it was falling off of kitchen counter into cats water dish less than 1/2" water that was it.

Brad Buchanan · Dec 29, 2012

I dropped mine in a glass of Mountain Dew. I took out the battery, stuck it in a bowl of uncooked rice and it was okay in a day or do.

Screen was hinkey for a week or so.

Brad

Roger Tomfohrde · Dec 29, 2012

That reminds me of dropping a brand new Crescent wrench on the slat floor of our hog pit and then watching it slide in, no one wanted to go in after it LOL.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 29, 2012

Thanks Sid. One of those will do.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 29, 2012

I dropped mine in a bowl of milk after breakfast, it screwed it up pretty good

Straw Boss · Dec 30, 2012

Hired kid dropped his cell phone in the pit at the local grain elevator. Figured it was gone forever. Maybe on a rail car headed for the great lakes or Mexico depending which way the train was heading. Two days later one of the crew was cleaning the screener at the top of the grain leg and saw a blue light blinking. Got his phone back.

bobs old iron · Dec 30, 2012

here is the newest phone,,lol

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