Lost phone..

DeltaRed · Feb 27, 2014

Yesterday I lost my cell phone.I think it's in a neighbors 'farmyard'.Thing is,It has RAINED here all day.Lots of mud/soup.Think it will survive,should I find it? Or should I just replace it?It's 3-4 years old,a cheap flip phone.Big thing is the 150 numbers in the directory...

VicS · Feb 27, 2014

I would at least go over there and call it. Do you have the phone before it? Maybe you can charge it up and get them from it. I would hate to lose my directory. I have almost 500 numbers. Keep my old phone on the charger with the numbers in it also. Took me a week working till my hands started shaking to get them in my new phone. I need to get a kid to put them in this computer. I think it can be done wireless.

Mark - IN. · Feb 27, 2014

Never know how these things must turn out. That thing might survive the rain, and might not.

Yesterday i was talking with a guy I work with, and he was complaining about just getting smacked with a $400+ family cell phone bill. Said his 8 year-old son does a lot of application downloading, so he told his son one more time of that, his cell phone is gone. I asked him why his 8 year-old son has a cell phone. He replied that he can ping his son, daughters through GPS and know where they are, and with the cost of the cell phones, if they even call them that anymore, cost big $$$, and if they lose one, leave it laying, he can ping it through GPS and go pick it up. Me? Plain Jane cell phone that I just bought a month or so ago, and the only reason I don't have my old two year-old cell phone, is that my old carrier U.S. Cellular sold off their midwest area to Sprint, that cell phone didn't work with the Sprint network, so I went Verizon and it didn't work with the Verizon network either. I bought the cheapest do as little as possible flip phone they had for $50 up front, a $50 rebate that I lost and didn't mail in, and they are making it up on me through my 2 year contract.

Good luck.

Mark

DeltaRed · Feb 27, 2014

Cant call as the battery was dead.Thats how i lost it.I laid it on the seat of the pickup when and found it dead.It fell out somewhere where I stoped the pickup.Should have put it back in its holster....I will go back and retrace the stops when it dries out.

GregCO · Feb 27, 2014

Hard to tell. It may live through it. I lost a company supplied phone once. I called it until it went dead and it was going to voice mail. Found it a year later out in the pasture. Battery was junk, but it would still work if I plugged it in.

Greg

Dr. Walt · Feb 28, 2014

DeltaRed:

"I laid it on the seat of the pickup . . . ."

First place I would check is IN the seat, between the seat & the back of the seat. Next I would check the floor & UNDER & BEHIND the seat. If it's not in the truck, I hope you know somebody in your area that has a metal detector. GOOD LUCK !

Doc

spacecadet9 · Feb 28, 2014

(quoted from post at 23:26:10 02/27/14) Big thing is the 150 numbers in the directory...

Is it GMS (ATT & TMobile)? If so it will have a SIM card which is removable and have your phonebook. You can put that SIM in another phone and there is a good chance it will still work.

Either way, the fact that the battery was dead may be your saving grace. When/if you find it pull out the battery, dry it off, then put it in a bowl of dry uncooked rice for at least 12 hours, or buy a "Dry-All Smartphone Recovery kit".

Bret4207 · Feb 28, 2014

(quoted from post at 21:42:20 02/27/14) Never know how these things must turn out. That thing might survive the rain, and might not.

Yesterday i was talking with a guy I work with, and he was complaining about just getting smacked with a $400+ family cell phone bill. Said his 8 year-old son does a lot of application downloading, so he told his son one more time of that, his cell phone is gone. [b:60431b5752]I asked him why his 8 year-old son has a cell phone. He replied that he can ping his son[/b:60431b5752], daughters through GPS and know where they are, and with the cost of the cell phones, if they even call them that anymore, cost big $$$, and if they lose one, leave it laying, he can ping it through GPS and go pick it up. Me? Plain Jane cell phone that I just bought a month or so ago, and the only reason I don't have my old two year-old cell phone, is that my old carrier U.S. Cellular sold off their midwest area to Sprint, that cell phone didn't work with the Sprint network, so I went Verizon and it didn't work with the Verizon network either. I bought the cheapest do as little as possible flip phone they had for $50 up front, a $50 rebate that I lost and didn't mail in, and they are making it up on me through my 2 year contract.

Good luck.

Mark

If a man doesn't know where his 8 year old is, there is a lot bigger issue in play than his cell phone bill!

Geo-TH,In · Feb 28, 2014

If you are verizon you can sign up to have your numbers saved and downloaded to new phone. I was once verizon contract and switched to verizon pre-paid. I have 300 contacts. This won't do you any good now, but may help in the future.

AT&T use SIM cards. The rain shouldn't hurt the sim card.

Bryan inIowa · Feb 28, 2014

The rice will attract Asians who will fix the phone . or so I heard thats why that works

Al L. in Wisc. · Feb 28, 2014

DeltaRed; with that new a phone, your provider SHOULD be able to place your contacts on your replacement; there is a back-up system.

I lost my July 3, 2001 issued N-o-K-i-a (this site must think placing that name without - is naughty as it wouldn't post) 3585i phone for about three hours...found it in the bib-overall pliers pocket...when I pulled it out of the washing machine. Back in 2001 there was no such thing as 'back-up'. Did the rice trick, no revival. Corrosion has set in and my contacts went the way of some postings =POOF!
This was December; I found out that a soak in highly concentrated alcohol COULD bring it back enough to retrieve contacts; I'm gonna try it. A place in the Peoples Republic of Madison, Wisc. will do that for the low price of $75 w/no guarantees. I'm hoping you will get yours transplanted.

RLA · Feb 28, 2014

If I lost my phone would mean I lost my house
Never had a cell phone.....

I know I am behind the times when I can follow
a Amish kid on a 2 Wheel cart, in a snow storm
One hand holding his hat on, raines to the horse
in his arm pit & other hand talking on the
phone..... But I had Heat & a roof over my head.

DoubleR · Feb 28, 2014

Put it in rice, so they say. Maybe you will at least be able to get your contacts.

Dean Olson · Feb 28, 2014

My son lost his iPhone in the garden. It got plowed under that fall. A year later I plowed it up. It was in bad shaped but powered up.

It's possible it will work enough to recover your #'s.

I had an iPhone stolen. It has a "find my iPhone" feature that tracks it in real time via the cell towers on the internet. I watched it go right to a house in an ethnically diverse crime ridden area that I won't go into.

Cops said it was not a serious enough crime pursue.

I sent a text giving the address and that cops where on the way. It went dead immediately.

IowaJohn · Feb 28, 2014

I with you losing the numbers is the worst.I lost my flip phone somewhere between the house and the shop. Looked everywhere. We don't have enough snow on the ground to hide it. the wife and I still think it'll show up so she bought me a used $20 phone from a Verizon store that seems to work.

Nancy Howell · Feb 28, 2014

If you find it, don't turn it on. Place it in a container with uncooked rice, then place in a warm spot for a couple of days.

The warmth will help any moisture evaporate out of the phone and the rice will also absorb moisture out of your phone.

If you turn a wet cell phone on, it generally will fry itself.

Aaron Ford · Feb 28, 2014

If you find it, pull the battery immediately, wipe everything dry, and drop both in a jar of rice. Retrieve in a week or two (or three).

Hope ya find it.

Aaron

NEBeef · Feb 28, 2014

(quoted from post at 15:25:53 02/28/14) My son lost his iPhone in the garden. It got plowed under that fall. A year later I plowed it up. It was in bad shaped but powered up.

It's possible it will work enough to recover your #'s.

I had an iPhone stolen. It has a "find my iPhone" feature that tracks it in real time via the cell towers on the internet. I watched it go right to a house in an ethnically diverse crime ridden area that I won't go into.

Cops said it was not a serious enough crime pursue.

I sent a text giving the address and that cops where on the way. It went dead immediately.

If you have an iPhone, syncing it through iTunes will back up all your data, including your contacts. If you enable sync over wifi it will do it without plugging it in, your contacts will be backed up on iCloud and will be sync'd and will be available on any other device you sync to. There's no reason to lose a contact list or anything else if you have an iPhone.

Verizon also has ways you can back up contact lists for most other phones as well, they're just not as easy or always free.

casenut1 · Feb 28, 2014

Might be it slid down in the seat crack.

casenut1 · Feb 28, 2014

Delta, look in the crack of the seat. It might of slid in there.

GordoSD · Feb 28, 2014

Get the brightest flashlight you own and go through the truck with that. Funny how those little Scorpian lights will shine on lost objects. Also helps you focus your eyes on a spot. no just "gaze around"

donjr · Feb 28, 2014

I lost one when it worked it's way out of the pouch when I was cultipacking a field of orchardgrass. Tore the piece apart hunting for it and never did fins it. The G-son just went to get his replaced because he dropped it and cracked the screen. They told him there was a $200 deductible on the insurance. Mine was a $100 deductible. Needless to say, neither of us has 'insurance anymore. It was cheaper to just replace the phones and not pay the b@stards every month.....

wolfman · Feb 28, 2014

Hang around where you think you lost it and have the wife dial it's number. Listen for it.

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