Egalus
08-10-2004, 01:03 PM
This is a small story about my clie adventures ;)
Yesterday I went into the bathroom to take a bath and, as I normally do, I took my NX-73 with me (I have NX-70 / 73 for about 1,5 years and read ebooks on them all the time while bathing, it's really relaxing).
The book entertained me for almost an hour until I noticed that I would be late for my date if I would not leave the bath soon.
So I switched off the Clie, removed the wrist wrap (is this the right english word for this?) from my wrist (I always have this attached and around my wrist if I use the clie in the bath as I don't want to accidentally slip it into the water) and wanted to put the clie onto the toilet (which is directly next to the bathtub) when something went wrong:
The clie jumped out of my fingers and took a deep dive into the still full bathtub and submerged faster than any stone could have done.
"clong", it hit the bottom of the bathtub cause it was really clever and evaded my legs.
Abruptly my former relaxing bath changed into a stressy - rapid movement - no time to dry myself - hectic.
I grabbed the clie, which was quite difficult, cause the casing is really slippery when wet and hastily took it out of the water.
To my amazement (at that moment, lateron, after a bit of thinking, it was clear that something like this would happen) the clie switched itself on while water was still dripping from every opening of the casing.
First the screen showed the normal "I have shortly been resetted" contents but soon the screen switched to bright white and it stayed that way.
At that moment I thought I had lost my so loved clie and thoughts about switching to Palm or even to PPC ran through my mind, but other thoughts took over and I sprinted - still totally wet - to get a screwdriver to unscrew the batterycompartment and remove the battery.
After that I swirled the clie around to get the water out of it, but soon I recognized that this alone would not work out.
Next thought: Take it apart and drie it as fast as possible.
Next thought: ****, who invented these 5-ended-star screws
Next thought: Lets try every screwdriver you have, maybe one can open the screws
Great 4 of the 5 screws went easily, but the damn 5th screw seems like glued to it's place.
I am almost at the point of throwing the whole thing through the window when finally the fifth screw gets loose.
Next thought: f... again, I need to remove 2 more screws on this f...ing, never loved retractable CF-Slot
Next thought: jippie, both screws dont loosen at all
So I had to remove the bottom of the device without removing the CF-Slot, which means to bend the plastic (I waited for the crack sound of braking plastic casing, but it did not come).
Now the casing was open (and for those now asking for pictures of it - I DID NOT MAKE ANY, I WAS IN PANIK AND WITHOUT ANY TIME ;) ) and it seemed like it was made to carry water ;(
So I took half the components out of the device and left the to dry over the night - nice whish.
Today I reassambled everything - after checking if anything looked still wet - and put the battery in again.
Yes, the familiar bi-pip-di-pip sony turn on sound which directly braught back hope again .... until I looked at the screen ;(
The contents where right, but the backlight was totally uneven with no clear pattern about where it is brighter and where subnormal.
F... looks like I still need a new device as it looks like somehow water entered the lcd part of the screen ;(
To check that I opened up the screen part (again those annoying 5-star-screws) and tried to disasemble the parts, but soon I gave up, I found no way to disconnect the wirings and with them on I had no free movement to take the screen apart.
So I started looking for a new or used clie NX on ebay when one last thought came up. Maybe it's just water between the backlight and the glass that distrubs the backlight?
But no, why would there be 2 different disturbance layers than?
It was clearly visible that there were 2 disturbance layers when I slightly rotated the clie.
But still, before I throw the clie away or look for a replacement screen I thought I could try to heat up the display a bit to maybe get the water out (if it was water).
But how do I do that without doing harm to the display?
I decided to try the "warm me up with a lamp" and positioned a lamp directly above the display (which was still opened and not in it's frame).
After 2 hours I checked again, the display was handwarm but nothing had changed ;(
So I chose to be hard and moved the lamp nearer to the display, after 5 minutes the display was really warm (I estimate around 50-60°C) but still nothing changed.
After 3 more hours I checked again ....
and couldn't believe my eyes, the screen looked as good as new, no distrubances whatsoever anymore (except some fingerprints ;) ).
While being totally optimistic and happy I screwed everything in place again and powerd the device up.
- Stylus Input works
- keyboardinput works
- speaker works
- headphonejack works
- ms port works (at least with the bathed 512mb mspro ;) )
- CF-Port works (at least with the WL-100 )
- movieplayer works flawless too
- flashenable gave me back flashaccess and all seems to still be there
- msbackup braught me back most of my data
- camera still works
- no idea about bt, as I dont have any bt devices
- scrollwheel works
- back button works
- mic still works
- didnt test IR yet
And now I am not sure what to do next time when I need a bath as I am quite sure my clie won't entertain me in there again ;(
Yesterday I went into the bathroom to take a bath and, as I normally do, I took my NX-73 with me (I have NX-70 / 73 for about 1,5 years and read ebooks on them all the time while bathing, it's really relaxing).
The book entertained me for almost an hour until I noticed that I would be late for my date if I would not leave the bath soon.
So I switched off the Clie, removed the wrist wrap (is this the right english word for this?) from my wrist (I always have this attached and around my wrist if I use the clie in the bath as I don't want to accidentally slip it into the water) and wanted to put the clie onto the toilet (which is directly next to the bathtub) when something went wrong:
The clie jumped out of my fingers and took a deep dive into the still full bathtub and submerged faster than any stone could have done.
"clong", it hit the bottom of the bathtub cause it was really clever and evaded my legs.
Abruptly my former relaxing bath changed into a stressy - rapid movement - no time to dry myself - hectic.
I grabbed the clie, which was quite difficult, cause the casing is really slippery when wet and hastily took it out of the water.
To my amazement (at that moment, lateron, after a bit of thinking, it was clear that something like this would happen) the clie switched itself on while water was still dripping from every opening of the casing.
First the screen showed the normal "I have shortly been resetted" contents but soon the screen switched to bright white and it stayed that way.
At that moment I thought I had lost my so loved clie and thoughts about switching to Palm or even to PPC ran through my mind, but other thoughts took over and I sprinted - still totally wet - to get a screwdriver to unscrew the batterycompartment and remove the battery.
After that I swirled the clie around to get the water out of it, but soon I recognized that this alone would not work out.
Next thought: Take it apart and drie it as fast as possible.
Next thought: ****, who invented these 5-ended-star screws
Next thought: Lets try every screwdriver you have, maybe one can open the screws
Great 4 of the 5 screws went easily, but the damn 5th screw seems like glued to it's place.
I am almost at the point of throwing the whole thing through the window when finally the fifth screw gets loose.
Next thought: f... again, I need to remove 2 more screws on this f...ing, never loved retractable CF-Slot
Next thought: jippie, both screws dont loosen at all
So I had to remove the bottom of the device without removing the CF-Slot, which means to bend the plastic (I waited for the crack sound of braking plastic casing, but it did not come).
Now the casing was open (and for those now asking for pictures of it - I DID NOT MAKE ANY, I WAS IN PANIK AND WITHOUT ANY TIME ;) ) and it seemed like it was made to carry water ;(
So I took half the components out of the device and left the to dry over the night - nice whish.
Today I reassambled everything - after checking if anything looked still wet - and put the battery in again.
Yes, the familiar bi-pip-di-pip sony turn on sound which directly braught back hope again .... until I looked at the screen ;(
The contents where right, but the backlight was totally uneven with no clear pattern about where it is brighter and where subnormal.
F... looks like I still need a new device as it looks like somehow water entered the lcd part of the screen ;(
To check that I opened up the screen part (again those annoying 5-star-screws) and tried to disasemble the parts, but soon I gave up, I found no way to disconnect the wirings and with them on I had no free movement to take the screen apart.
So I started looking for a new or used clie NX on ebay when one last thought came up. Maybe it's just water between the backlight and the glass that distrubs the backlight?
But no, why would there be 2 different disturbance layers than?
It was clearly visible that there were 2 disturbance layers when I slightly rotated the clie.
But still, before I throw the clie away or look for a replacement screen I thought I could try to heat up the display a bit to maybe get the water out (if it was water).
But how do I do that without doing harm to the display?
I decided to try the "warm me up with a lamp" and positioned a lamp directly above the display (which was still opened and not in it's frame).
After 2 hours I checked again, the display was handwarm but nothing had changed ;(
So I chose to be hard and moved the lamp nearer to the display, after 5 minutes the display was really warm (I estimate around 50-60°C) but still nothing changed.
After 3 more hours I checked again ....
and couldn't believe my eyes, the screen looked as good as new, no distrubances whatsoever anymore (except some fingerprints ;) ).
While being totally optimistic and happy I screwed everything in place again and powerd the device up.
- Stylus Input works
- keyboardinput works
- speaker works
- headphonejack works
- ms port works (at least with the bathed 512mb mspro ;) )
- CF-Port works (at least with the WL-100 )
- movieplayer works flawless too
- flashenable gave me back flashaccess and all seems to still be there
- msbackup braught me back most of my data
- camera still works
- no idea about bt, as I dont have any bt devices
- scrollwheel works
- back button works
- mic still works
- didnt test IR yet
And now I am not sure what to do next time when I need a bath as I am quite sure my clie won't entertain me in there again ;(