my niece accidentally spilled water onto my phone
and to my frustration
she wiped her lovely leg instead of my phone
I am not sure if there’s a causation link
within less than 30 minutes
my phone went cranky
can’t hear anything in a phone call
unless speaker was turned on
or headphone was plugged in
and when I was adjusting volume
it was shown that I was on headphone
in fact I wasn’t
so I found this thread with the above mentioned title
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4196806
it dated back to 2012
old trick is good trick
as long as it works
Q-tips a.k.a. cotton swab
did the trick well for me
without moving on to the paper-clips trick
stuffing a cotton swab into the headphone jack
to clean it
then sliced it off in a 45” angle
to form a sharper tip and
did another round of cleaning
some dirt was unearthed
and my phone is working again
without thinking that
I am on headphone in fact I wasn’t
small trick that saved the day
I thought of a few solutions
(1)
hearing through loud speakers all the time
is the quickest solution
I don’t get that many phone calls anyway
(2)
plugging in headphone all the time
is the 2nd solution
but isn’t that kinda troublesome
bringing a phone along is in fact already
quite a hassle to me
(3)
send in to fix it
Where? Who? For how long?
I would rather stay with (1) or (2) then
(4)
getting a new phone
which is not in my 2015 budget
(as if I have one…)
I would rather go for another travel
speaking of that
shouldn’t I start blogging about
my previous trip