It's A Miracle!

Surely it is. Before I took my Motorola RAZR cell phone in for an attempted repair, I was positive it was actually a lost cause.

About three weeks ago, I had dropped it from my workbench's work surface (about 3'6" from the ceramic tiled floor). When that happened, it still worked as a phone and as a camera - yes, it did both of those things routinely prior to my dropping it on the floor.

What it no longer was able to do after dropping it was to connect via USB cable to my laptop. So, even though it could still take pictures, there wasn't jack that I could do with them. And the same thing applied to entering new phone numbers or editing existing ones. I was faced with having to do it all manually. At least the SIM card still contained all the phone info.

I lived with the phone in that situation for a couple of weeks, fully intending to take the phone to Technicell, located at White Saphire, to see if there was any way possible to repair it. I didn't have high hopes of anything bringing it back to one-hundred percent.

That is, until I decided to take this particular phone for a swim (http://winjama.blogspot.com/search/label/Cell%20Phones). Well, after that, it was either take it into the shop or resign myself to not having the capability to take photos no matter where I was and whether I had remembered my camera or not.

I took it in to Technicell on the 18th (last Friday). I mentioned that I had taken it for a swim. I did forget to mention the problems stemming from dropping the danged thing. They told me to come in next Tuesday afternoon as it wouldn't be ready till then.

"Yeah right". All that will happen is I'll come in on Tuesday and they'll tell me the bad news - "I'm sorry Mr Dave, your phone is terminal. You might as well through it away."

Well, that was what I thought anyway. I forgot go in Tuesday to check on it (which may have influenced the outcome in some weird karmic sort of way). I did manage to get in to Technicell this morning as I also had to make a run to the airport to FedEx some papers up to the states.