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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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.

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.

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).

Maybe the words are the actual triggers. “G0dD@mMuthaFugg1n” -ding!, “password accepted”.

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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.

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

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!

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.

How old? If it doesn't have a Solid State drive, it seems that the hard drive is failing. Does it need an update?

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]

I never really liked the movie but i will never forget that scene...especially after working with electronics for so long.

What movie is it?