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Topic: | How is this possible This thread has 15 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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Post 1 made on Thursday April 19, 2018 at 15:36 |
thecapnredfish Senior Member |
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A digital device such as a phone, tablet or similar. Seems locked up. Call won't go through. Web page lag. App won't open. By applying a smashtheshitoutofit force against objects such as back of work truck, against dash or wall of building and they device suddenly works every time. If it survives the destructive force. There is nothing mechanical so how does this work?
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Post 2 made on Thursday April 19, 2018 at 15:51 |
Mac Burks (39) Elite Member |
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Post 3 made on Thursday April 19, 2018 at 16:08 |
Rob Grabon Founding Member |
Joined: Posts: | November 2001 1,392 |
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You're scarring the @#$! out of the genie inside that actually makes those things work. Rubbing the back is just as effective, have to take any case off though, direct skin contact is import for the magic to happen.
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Post 4 made on Thursday April 19, 2018 at 17:40 |
Renoir Long Time Member |
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Sadly, we're just too far down the electronics food chain to be told the truth about this matter. I learned the secret from an engineer at IBM. It's called "Percussive maintenance." We've all know there's a spot on every piece of equipment that--if hit properly--would make it work. We just didn't know there was an actual process involved. In the spirit of how this secret was passed along to me, let's just keep it between us, O.K? Don't tell anyone else.
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Post 5 made on Thursday April 19, 2018 at 18:39 |
Ernie Gilman Yes, That Ernie! |
Joined: Posts: | December 2001 30,104 |
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If there is a socket anywhere inside this device, the connections can degrade over time. The CPU and memory in your desktop are clamped in place so their metal contacts push REAL HARD on the socket contacts and make an oxygen-free connection. A chip pushed down into a socket is subject to enough degradation of surface contacts that reseating it will often make it work again. You can reseat it by gently pushing on the chip. Since you can't reach the chip, you can transfer a gentle push by whacking the holy living crap out of the outer case. This is what you're going.
I recently got a year's worth of service out of a laptop where the SSD wouldn't start. My method was to be sure everything was off, then drop the front end about an inch and a half. Even that finally quit working (or broke the damn thing).
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A good answer is easier with a clear question giving the make and model of everything. "The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." -- G. “Bernie” Shaw |
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Post 6 made on Thursday April 19, 2018 at 18:40 |
Don Heany Senior Member |
Joined: Posts: | September 2008 1,178 |
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Maybe the words are the actual triggers. “G0dD@mMuthaFugg1n” -ding!, “password accepted”.
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Post 7 made on Thursday April 19, 2018 at 18:47 |
Zohan Super Member |
Joined: Posts: | September 2010 3,096 |
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Post 8 made on Thursday April 19, 2018 at 18:53 |
Dean Roddey Senior Member |
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My favorite story, maybe told here before, is back in the 90s, when men were men and had to be if they wanted to own a 21" monitor. This was the days of more dollars than sense, so I bought one. The box was about half the size of my apartment. I almost killed myself getting it out of the box and up on the desk. Hooked it all up and got it going, and was da man.
I went and got a cup of coffee, sat the cup down, which EVER so slightly tapped the side of the monitor and it went out, and wouldn't come back on. I had to get it back into the box and take it to a local Sony office to get it fixed, and then go back through the whole process again. I kept my coffee cup well away from it from then on.
They said a cable came loose. It's crazy that in all of that struggling and banging around and whatnot to get it unpacked on the desk that it didn't happen, but a tiny tap from a cup did it.
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Dean Roddey Chairman/CTO, Charmed Quark Systems www.charmedquark.com |
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Post 9 made on Thursday April 19, 2018 at 18:56 |
King of typos Loyal Member |
Joined: Posts: | June 2002 5,281 |
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To go along with Ernie, yup I said that. Hand held electronics, any actually, all have some kind of issues.
My latest issue was with an iPhone 6 Plus. Where the screen would started to have lines from top to bottom. For me the easy fix was to twist the phone. Or press the upper right of the screen. The issue wasn’t the screen itself, but the chip on the mother board that controlled the screen. Which of course was in the upper right part of the phone.
After getting tired of all the twisting and pressing. I finally took it apart and placed a layer or 2 of paper between that chip and the back case of the phone. That lasted about 2 weeks before I had to start twisting and pressing... Then VZW had an offer to buy back the phone to upgrade to the 7 plus. So I took that deal.
But as you know, the iPhone and most other phones today. Have no “moving parts” like the old phones did.
Fun fact, the iPhone X has a smart case now. Where it acts like the smart case for the iPad. Opening the case turns on the screen too.
KOT
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Post 10 made on Thursday April 19, 2018 at 22:20 |
3PedalMINI Loyal Member |
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On April 19, 2018 at 15:51, Mac Burks (39) said...
" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen> That used to be my favorite movie. Loved it, then I didn’t watch it until a year or so ago and holy crap is it bad!
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The Bitterness of Poor Quality is Remembered Long after the Sweetness of Price is Forgotten! - Benjamin Franklin |
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Post 11 made on Friday April 20, 2018 at 01:11 |
tomciara Loyal Member |
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Mitsubishi rear projection televisions would go terribly out of convergence until you soldered up or otherwise fixed the convergence board. I was at a client’s house with that issue showing itself, and he said a TV technician had been out a few months before and was supposed to have fixed it but it didn’t last. I opened the TV and found a broomstick handle that had been cut to a precise length so it could be wedged inside the TV and put pressure on the convergence board to make it work. He must’ve left his soldering iron back at the shop that day.
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Post 12 made on Friday April 20, 2018 at 09:31 |
highfigh Loyal Member |
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On April 19, 2018 at 15:36, thecapnredfish said...
A digital device such as a phone, tablet or similar. Seems locked up. Call won't go through. Web page lag. App won't open. By applying a smashtheshitoutofit force against objects such as back of work truck, against dash or wall of building and they device suddenly works every time. If it survives the destructive force. There is nothing mechanical so how does this work? How old? If it doesn't have a Solid State drive, it seems that the hard drive is failing. Does it need an update?
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My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder." |
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Post 13 made on Friday April 20, 2018 at 15:34 |
Ernie Gilman Yes, That Ernie! |
Joined: Posts: | December 2001 30,104 |
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It's nice to see that we're still questioning reality, unsure of what we're staring in the face, all these years later. I mean, here's a thread with nearly the same name as this one! See [Link: remotecentral.com]
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A good answer is easier with a clear question giving the make and model of everything. "The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." -- G. “Bernie” Shaw |
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Post 14 made on Friday April 20, 2018 at 15:41 |
Mac Burks (39) Elite Member |
Joined: Posts: | May 2007 17,518 |
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On April 19, 2018 at 22:20, 3PedalMINI said...
That used to be my favorite movie. Loved it, then I didn’t watch it until a year or so ago and holy crap is it bad! I never really liked the movie but i will never forget that scene...especially after working with electronics for so long.
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Post 15 made on Saturday April 21, 2018 at 12:42 |
Ernie Gilman Yes, That Ernie! |
Joined: Posts: | December 2001 30,104 |
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On April 19, 2018 at 22:20, 3PedalMINI said...
That used to be my favorite movie. Loved it, then I didn’t watch it until a year or so ago and holy crap is it bad! What movie is it?
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A good answer is easier with a clear question giving the make and model of everything. "The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." -- G. “Bernie” Shaw |
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