Yesterday, in an action that I cannot yet explain, I dropped off my cell phone in a glass with water. I guess the only explanation is that I thought it was empty, and I had no open “places” to hold it in while driving, so it “made sense”… needless to say the poor thing started to fade away, as a hologram loosing power would and the screen would not respond, etc.
I dropped by a Sprint store to discover that the warranty that the phone had (go figure!) obviously didn’t include cases like the one I had experienced (when do they?) so I was basically in a position where I had to talk it out with Customer Service and get back to them (them being the folks that send you a brand new phone when things go wrong with yours).
I was reading what other people have done in cases like this, and I did most of what they say: I shook the unit vigorously as soon as it happened and pulled out the battery after a while (I didn’t do it immediately). The result: this morning, a miracle occurred and it was working again. I am going to keep it quiet so as to not jinx it, though.
I promise: I will never put my cell phone in a glass of water again! 
