Dropped your cell phone in your wash basin, toilet, or got wet in rain? Well don’t worry; if you are fast you can save your phone. Just follow the below steps carefully:
Get it out of water:
First of all get it out of water as soon as possible. Well, if you are too late then it’s useless so you should be quick enough to remove it out.
Cut of the power supply:
The next thing is to switch off your phone. Cutting power to your phone is a crucial step in saving it. If there’s no power supply then many circuits inside will still be fine even though they are wet. If you go for switching it off by pressing the switch off button it will take time. So the best thing is to remove the battery so that it shuts down immediately.
Remove SIM and memory card:
Once the battery is removed, remove your SIM card, memory card. Well, SIM cards do survive water damage but to stay on the safer side it’s better to remove them immediately.
The drying process:
Now you can take your time to dry your phone. To start with you can shake it as much as possible so that the water comes off. Once you feel that you’re done, you can use a towel or paper towel to gently remove as much of the remaining water as possible.
Even after doing the above steps the cell phone isn’t dried up yet! Now you can use a vacuum cleaner to dry off the moisture. You can do this over affected areas for about 20-30 minutes. Make sure you avoid close contact of the phone with the vacuum. The main aim is to remove moisture from the phone and halt any oxidation from occurring deep inside, as it can result in functional issues later on.
After you’re done with the above, you can keep your phone in a bowl of uncooked rice over night. Bowl of rice? Well, don’t get surprised. Rice will absorb any remaining moisture in the phone.
Now use a tissue or a paper towel to check if there’s any moisture remaining in the phone. If you find that there’s some more moisture remaining then repeat the above process again.
Start the phone:
Once you’re sure that your phone is dry, connect the battery, SIM card and your memory card and start the phone. If it doesn’t start then remove the battery and connect it back again. If it still doesn’t work then there are chances that your battery is spoilt or some internal parts are damaged.
As you would know I’m the owner, webmaster and everything of www.thinktechno.com. Most of my free time goes to optimizing the website and other things. Optimizing in a sense I try to fix the problems associated with fastening, code cleaning, and checking the website with multiple website.
Problem is that almost all the versions of Firefox have no problems rendering my website, even opera does exceptionally well. But Internet explorer always gives me headaches. A minor stylesheet changes drops columns, sidebars, and do all sorts of crazy things. Add to that windows won’t allow installing multiple versions of IE.
What if I can? Multiple IE is a great recent find. It allows me to run multiple versions of IE without any problems. I can now check the alignment issues or page rendering of my website with multiple versions.
Download the installer and start it. You’ll that the installer contains IE3 IE4.01 IE5 IE5.5 and IE6. IE7 is a miss but I’m sure most of windows XP users have upgraded to IE7. Currently this software is not supported on Vista.
After starting the program, you can decide on which version of IE to install. The older browsers can be called up from the start menu after set up. The installer contains IE3 IE4.01 IE5 IE5.5 and IE6. All you need is to have a system which has XP and IE7. Currently this software is not supported on Vista.
Sometimes we need to know that which files were opened recently on our system. Here is a cool utility which can do it for you. It’s called RecentFilesView. It can show you all the files which were recently opened on your system. The good part of it is that you don’t have to install it. Just run the application and it will automatically show you the list of recently opened files.
What it shows:
It will show you the path of the file that was accessed, the modified date and time of the file, the creation time of the file and the execution time also (on what time that particular file
was opened or executed). It also shows you from where did it get that information. That means if RecentFilesView accesses the recent file information from the registry, it will show it as registry or if it has fetched the information from the recent folder (where Windows stores recently accessed files shortcuts).
If you want to copy the selected item, you can simply do it by pressing Ctrl - C or by going to Edit –> Copy selected item.
Reports:
If you want to save all the information which RecentFilesView is showing, you can do easily by going to View –> HTML report (You can choose from two options, either save the information of all the files or only you have selected)
You can also save the given information by pressing Ctrl - A which will select all the items. And then go to File –> Save Selected Items. You can save the information as simple text or in some other formats including HTML.
Running from Command-line:
You can also run this application from your command prompt. The list of options available for command line execution is given below:
/stext <Filename>
Save the files list into a regular text file.
/stab <Filename>
Save the files list into a tab-delimited text file.
/stabular <Filename>
Save the files list into a tabular text file.
/shtml <Filename>
Save the files list into HTML file (Horizontal).
/sverhtml <Filename>
Save the files list into HTML file (Vertical).
/sxml <Filename>
Save the files list to XML file.
For example, if you want to save the list into a single text file, you can do it by the following command:
X:\RecentFilesView.exe /stext saveList.txt
Where X:\ is the path to RecentFilesView and saveList.txt is the file name where all this information will be saved. This file will be saved in the same folder as RecentFilesView.
File Information And Download:
Version: 1.05
Size: 35 KB
Compatibility: This software runs in all the Windows from Windows 98 through Windows Vista.
Download RecentFilesView from here.
