I will probably need a new cell phone

Damn, my Samsung SGH-X480 has been with me for like three years now, and I thought it would last forever. Seems like time has come now though. Warning, warning, malfunction, malfunction. So, how did this happen? Was it a "natural death" (whatever now that is)..? Not exactly. I guess I fucked it up. I just sat here, wondering about them greater questions in life, when I suddenly thought to myself "Damn, my phone has been in all sorts of dirty places, it must be thousands of bacteria floating around on it's plastic surface. I should clean it." And right after.. "But hey, wet is known to cause short circuits in electronics, so I'd better not.."

"But then again, the phone's been in in my pants during heavy cloudbursts, being like soaking wet, still without malfunctioning. Hmmm, I guess some superficial, real cautious cleaning wouldn't do much harm, now would it?"

So I went to the kitchen, a couple of water drops mixed with washing-up liquid(!!) on a piece of paper, and I started scrubbing the phone real gently. Nothing strange. Then just to be sure I left it unflipped on the window-ledge. About half an hour later I considered it had to be dry, so I went to get it. "Hmm, strange, it's turned off.. wtf?!" So, I restarted it, no problems this far. Just a couple of hours later. I noticed that the keypad wasn't connecting, or something like that. I pressed the buttons and nothing happened. I removed/reinserted the battery pack, and it worked again. However, from this moment this issue started occuring every now and then. And today, a simple hard reset wasn't enough. Damn!

Anyways, I turned on my face as a authorised electrician, and "popped the hood" for the first time. So, assuming that the dishing-up liquid was the crook in the game, I thought that window-cleaning liquid perhaps could bring balance to the circuits, or something. So, I cleaned the interior circuit real carefully, and remounted the whole package. Keypad still malfunctioning. DAMN!



Now I've left the phone unmounted in the window-ledge, hoping for the sun to do the trick. Till I find out, I'm stuck with an old SonyEricsson T100 (close to being considered antique). The only cool thing is that the default ring signal is the same as Timbuktu has sampled in the intro of one of his songs. Funny, I was actually listening to Timbuktu, when my fiancé called, I thought "It's just that part of the song", then realizing "..hey, that sample isn't supposed to be there.. could it be..??", and then saw that it was my own phone that was ringing, heheheh. Damn, I really hope I will be able to bring back the life in my Samsung.