Ok you geniuses...tell me wtf happened.

[aunt betty]

Monday I was charging up stuff. Two-cycle generator, 12 volt charger on the boat, phone charger on phone, and wader dryer running. Drying out my boots and gloves. The generator was basically idling. Not much load.

So I looked at my phone and it's not charging? WTF!?!?!
Guys I was 350 miles from home and in arkansas where they have trouble telling you directions.
The phone repair shop is where the Pizza Hut used to be. LOL Got told that by 4 people before I gave up and did a door to door search.

So I find "A RAbs". Yeah that's what these arkansas people told me. "Go to A Rabs". They meant "Sam's Cell Phone Repair Shop" and guys I had to hire Columbo to get that info.

Ok so I walk into Habibs errr Sam's shop.
He sells three things.
1. Candy
2. Blunt wraps
3. Cell phone accessories

lol

So he pulls my battery and says "no good". Puts new one in and hooks his charger to the phone and then declares that the charging port is bad and the phone needs to go to "computer repair shop".
Guys I was thinking about confronting the camel boy and saying "it says on your sign that you repair phones".
So I decided I drive back to the land of obama where they have a hundred of cell phone shops with people in them that speak English as their first language. Computer repair shops too. It's computer central here. Champaign. Duh.

So I get 310 miles from Blytheville and my phone suddenly makes that noise that means "I'm charging now".
WTF?!?!?! Drove home to see if my phone works?!?!?!

Anyone have any idea of what is going on? Clueless and all I can come up with are two theories.
1) moisture from living outdoors
2) verizon is playing games. (they CAN make your phone go dead)

Drove 350 miles to charge up a cell phone...so disappointed. The ducks are safe today.
It also sucks that I went from sunny and 57 degrees into the gloomy central-Illinois ice box.
This is the second time I've drove home to replace a phone and it "self-repaired" on the way.

[orphanedcowboy]

Bad cable?

[Deltaman]

AB, be sure you are using the brand name charging cable that comes with the phone, and not a knock off. I've been told on several occasions that it makes a difference, and it will be one less possible problem to deal with. Sucks that it caused you to have to take a break from your adventure, but glad you are addressing. Looking forward to your AR camping/hunting reports!

[aunt betty]

AB, be sure you are using the brand name charging cable that comes with the phone, and not a knock off. I've been told on several occasions that it makes a difference, and it will be one less possible problem to deal with. Sucks that it caused you to have to take a break from your adventure, but glad you are addressing. Looking forward to your AR camping/hunting reports!

Thanks. I'm using the car charger that came with the phone and the ac charger as well.
Run the ac on my pos generator. The phone was on the boat in the bright sun. Other than that nothing to note other than I must've been meant to come home. Been turning it on n off, opening it up and letting it dry on the vent a while to make dang sure it's not water.

While here I took the time to flock and paint my decoys all bright. Plus ordered a mojo jerk-a-spreader. Being able to have an entire spread that moves seems nice now that no motorized decoys are allowed on wma's. I already have the jerk rig but was only using 4 decoys. Now I can put a dozen plus a couple extras on there. I rig the extras and the spreaders with them trot-line clips. Makes it easy as hell to simply clip em onto the line. Using a piece of conduit with the bungee connected way down low for a stake. Them trot line reels you get at walmart are nice to have too. Using that green trotline they sell. The reel floats but the line don't. Works really well on the cheap.

I'll be heading back on the front of the next front this weekend.

[Botiz630]

Chemtrails.

[aunt betty]

Chemtrails.

Yeah. There's a walmart tunnel right under my camp.

[aunt betty]

Here's a clue:
Have been resisting the upgrades. Am paranoid and think they're adding new spy features.

This battery event forced me to ...sigh....upgrade which meant making space by deleting pics etc. (yawn)
So I get the download done and the phone declares that's there's a newer upgrade. Aw fuck.
How many upgrades behind do you have to get before the dang phone explodes?
Upgrade to upgrade and somehow I'm betting there's a third or fourth tier of upgrades.
Tune in later for more AB ranting on the cell phone.

[Bad17]

Here's a clue:
Have been resisting the upgrades. Am paranoid and think they're adding new spy features.

This battery event forced me to ...sigh....upgrade which meant making space by deleting pics etc. (yawn)
So I get the download done and the phone declares that's there's a newer upgrade. Aw fuck.
How many upgrades behind do you have to get before the dang phone explodes?
Upgrade to upgrade and somehow I'm betting there's a third or fourth tier of upgrades.
Tune in later for more AB ranting on the cell phone.

Once you complete all your upgrades go ahead and get in line for your micro chip and tattoo.


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[aunt betty]

Here's a clue:
Have been resisting the upgrades. Am paranoid and think they're adding new spy features.

This battery event forced me to ...sigh....upgrade which meant making space by deleting pics etc. (yawn)
So I get the download done and the phone declares that's there's a newer upgrade. Aw fuck.
How many upgrades behind do you have to get before the dang phone explodes?
Upgrade to upgrade and somehow I'm betting there's a third or fourth tier of upgrades.
Tune in later for more AB ranting on the cell phone.

Once you complete all your upgrades go ahead and get in line for your micro chip and tattoo.


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Already there I think. Was abducted at age 4 or 5. (or maybe it was just a bad dream triggered by watching too much Lost in Space).

[outboardman]

Here's a clue:
Have been resisting the upgrades. Am paranoid and think they're adding new spy features.

This battery event forced me to ...sigh....upgrade which meant making space by deleting pics etc. (yawn)
So I get the download done and the phone declares that's there's a newer upgrade. Aw ****.
How many upgrades behind do you have to get before the dang phone explodes?
Upgrade to upgrade and somehow I'm betting there's a third or fourth tier of upgrades.
Tune in later for more AB ranting on the cell phone.

Once you complete all your upgrades go ahead and get in line for your micro chip and tattoo.


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Everyone is already carrying a chip, IT"S ON YOUR CREDIT CARD.

[aunt betty]

The bar code on your Wells Fargo card and an rfid implant are not exactly the same thing. Not at all.

[FlintRiverFowler]

Why not carry a spare ? Not hard to swap service to a different phone if one breaks. I carry my iPhone 5s as a spare in my truck with me in case I dunk mine in water or break it


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