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I did a stupid thing just an hour ago...cleaning the pool with my phone (a newer LG) tucked loosely in a hoodie pocket, doing some deep knee bends to get exercise from a boring chore, when 'bloop!'. Luckily it was the shallow end. It took about a second for it to hit the bottom, a second to register wte just happened, and around 2 seconds to jump in jeans, shoes, hoodie and all and go dunking, hoping for a miracle...maybe it's not hosed! 
Anyhow, I managed to get it out pretty quickly and it seems just fine. It was needing a charge before it went swimming, but I'm holding off plugging anything into it for awhile. Currently it's sitting ports down over the top of a server exhaust fan.
The weird thing is that I actually saw this event take place before it happened but thought, 'nah, it won't fall out...you're crazy'.
I've used the 'bowl of rice' trick on a previous phone which had suffered the fate of being secured in a hoodie worn by an idiot working on a pressurized hot water tank. Maybe hoodies and cell phones are just a bad idea! That said, I'm still not sold on the back pocket as a safe place for a phone either. It's probably just a matter of time before the whole thing (phone, communicator, whatever) is a wearable, waterproof chip or for those more adventurous types an implant. 
After a half-hour I finally plugged it in and it is taking juice. I just got really lucky.
Oh, and to keep the comedy going, I slogged my way through the house to the master bathroom to get out of the soaking wet clothes. At that very time, the dog started going crazy as the maid crew made their way in. The wife is away attending to a brand new grandson and forgot to tell me they were coming. Well at least I've given them a head start on mopping the floors!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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I very rarely keep my phone on my person these days. deliberate. intentional.
kmoorevs wrote: I just got really lucky.
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I think most phones have been vetted via the toilet test (from what I hear).
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: I think most phones have been vetted Wetted via the toilet test (from what I hear).
FIFY
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kmoorevs wrote: At that very time, the dog started going crazy as the maid crew made their way in.
You have a maid?
kmoorevs wrote: The wife is away
And a wife?
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I also have both a maid and a wife. That makes two of us!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I have the same phone and can confirm that it indeed is waterproof.
But I would still keep it away from the pool, next time you might be at the deep end, and that would be the end of it.
It can take submersion, but not any pressure. The gaskets around the buttons would quickly give in, and I wouldn't trust the ports either.
kmoorevs wrote: but I'm holding off plugging anything into it for awhile
That's a good idea, the phone will check for contact and current creepage and refuse to charge until dry, cannot say if the charger is equally smart though.
kmoorevs wrote: Maybe hoodies and cell phones are just a bad idea!
Yes.
kmoorevs wrote: That said, I'm still not sold on the back pocket as a safe place for a phone either.
I'm using the back pocket since forever without any problems, but I also have a high friction case for the phone.
Without a case the phone would fall out immediately as soon as you crouch or sit down.
Glass and aluminium is really low friction, as well as brittle.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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At the place where my daughter-in-law works, they have these toilets in the ladies' restroom that flush automatically when you get off the seat. And it is a mighty powerful flush. So, one day as she got off the seat, her cell phone fell into the flushing stream, never to be seen again.
I am not wrong. I am just different!
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Who'd have guessed?
A plumbing fixture designed with humanitarian interests at heart!
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"Well at least I've given them a head start on mopping the floors!"
And now we understand why your wife hires a maid.
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Right, it's the antithesis.
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Would you like my "No on everything" Word document? To print up some stickers?
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Thanks for the offer, but I think I can manage creating stickers on my own!
I am not wrong. I am just different!
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Must not be in Nevada. There's actually a None of the Above on their Presidential ballot.
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It's absolutely ok to talk to your cat. Those who laugh about that just have not met the right cat yet[^].
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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The cat chooses the host organism.
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Well, Dij thinks he's a 17 foot long tiger, so ...
But I still wouldn't argue with that one!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Pet me or I'll bite your face off.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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My wife is unbelievably superstitious and hates cats on general principals. Particularly black cats with green eyes.
One crossed her path while she was driving to work the other day and now she blames everything that doesn't go her way (hurricanes, spilled milk, etc.), on that.
I grew up with a cat who would sit in the kitchen window, looking out, and ignore us. One day my sister went to pet him, and he was stone cold dead. She had hysterics, and we never got another cat.
wishy washy on cats...
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Greetings,
Remember:
Dogs have owners
Cats have support staff
Regards,
Cegarman
document code? If it's not intuitive, you're in the wrong field 
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When you're writing code and you're like, we'll I'll just try this... 
Write a bunch of code, add a function, etc. Ok, let's try it out...
...then it works!!! What!?!
This is why I'll always enjoy software development. Because, every once in a while, I get something to work. 
It's just enough that it keeps leading me on to keep on going.
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Of course, it's usually the opposite, at least for me.
This'll fix it.
[runs test]
 WTF!!
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