In a previous thread, I mentioned how I was turning into Mr. Reboot since a repair tech taught me that my cracked refrigerator water filter could have been prevented by unplugging the refrigerator, waiting a few minutes, and then plugging it in to reset some circuit that had gotten stuck in the wrong state.
Here is the latest venture. Cellphone that I have used daily successfully for the past several days for automated phone calls using the keyboard only suddenly decides that it will transmit conversation from a human on the other end but not transmit my end of the conversation. I find out that the phone reps are very patient asking at least 3 times each (multiple reps) if they can help. One Schwab rep even offers to call me back to see if the reception is better that way....................it isn't.
Googling suggests that this problem is not uncommon but no obvious fixes.
The most common suggestions are to use the speaker phone mode (doesn't help here) or get a new phone. I had forgotten about the reboot but DW had done that w/ no success. Finally I run across a suggestion to remove the battery for 5 min,then reinstall. There is no followup response that suggests this will work but I am excited because I did that once for a non-working Mac laptop.
Long story short.........it worked! And even the morning after.
The other lesson is that Google is your friend. I couldn't find any screws to undo or panels to slide to access the battery. The front display seemed liked it wanted to move under some force but I discovered that it didn't want to come off but to slide, revealing a keyboard I never knew existed. You can laugh but in my defense this is DW's phone and I only get to use for normal use.
Google showed a picture of how to remove the back panel revealing a notch that I had not noticed in the not-so-bright night lights and so a thumbnail worked when I thought I might need a jeweler's screwdriver to remove a tight- fitting back panel. Very clever , these designers.
So a deeper level reboot, not accessible with an on/off switch and Google saved the day.............hopefully useful to someone someday ...perhaps even me.
Here is the latest venture. Cellphone that I have used daily successfully for the past several days for automated phone calls using the keyboard only suddenly decides that it will transmit conversation from a human on the other end but not transmit my end of the conversation. I find out that the phone reps are very patient asking at least 3 times each (multiple reps) if they can help. One Schwab rep even offers to call me back to see if the reception is better that way....................it isn't.
Googling suggests that this problem is not uncommon but no obvious fixes.
The most common suggestions are to use the speaker phone mode (doesn't help here) or get a new phone. I had forgotten about the reboot but DW had done that w/ no success. Finally I run across a suggestion to remove the battery for 5 min,then reinstall. There is no followup response that suggests this will work but I am excited because I did that once for a non-working Mac laptop.
Long story short.........it worked! And even the morning after.
The other lesson is that Google is your friend. I couldn't find any screws to undo or panels to slide to access the battery. The front display seemed liked it wanted to move under some force but I discovered that it didn't want to come off but to slide, revealing a keyboard I never knew existed. You can laugh but in my defense this is DW's phone and I only get to use for normal use.
Google showed a picture of how to remove the back panel revealing a notch that I had not noticed in the not-so-bright night lights and so a thumbnail worked when I thought I might need a jeweler's screwdriver to remove a tight- fitting back panel. Very clever , these designers.
So a deeper level reboot, not accessible with an on/off switch and Google saved the day.............hopefully useful to someone someday ...perhaps even me.
