Out geocaching (hiking) in the middle of the woods, three miles from civilization. Had my breadcrumb trail on the geocaching app. Made it out alive after (mostly) correctly guessing which trails I took to get there.
It was 9 degrees out.
Good times.
Halloween about five years ago. Drained the battery playing a game on the bus coming home. Stopped at the supermarket to pick up dinner and was sharing the aisles with two ridiculously attractive near naked women dressed as …I don’t know. Fairy strippers?
Ugh. So my wife and I had a wedding in south eastern PA and we’re staying in a hotel. It was about an hour from Delaware taking a bunch of windy roads… well DE has no sales tax and I needed a new Laptop, so it made total sense to make the trip (seriously, you save like $200). I was using a tablet for my GPS that was tethered to my phone for internet.
I got to the Apple Store fine and about half way back to the hotel in the middle of nowhere 200 miles from home, my phone died (probably had something with me accidentally dropping it in a cup of water. I don’t know…). Since the tablet had a GPS, just no network, a long as I didn’t make a wrong turn where it would need to recalculate, I would be fine. But if I did, I would be lost in the middle of nowhere with no maps, no phone, and no one knowing I was lost. I might have even had to stop and ask for directions ::shudder::. That was the most careful I ever drove in my life.
…and the next day I went back to the Apple Store to get my phone replaced. Yay for AppleCare.
@TheCO2
Well, yeah. Doesn’t your phone have regular conversations with you? Don’t you feed your phone? Do you at least tuck it in at night and sing a lullaby?!
Today. Because I set the display to not lock last night because was listening to a podcast on the phone, and my headphones were on the charger, as was the phone, so easier to control the podcast with not having to wake the phone. Then today I forget to set the display back to sanity mode. Phone died.
Shortly after 9/11 at St Louis airport; I was waiting at the gate for my evening return flight when they had a ‘security event’ and pulled us all back out to go through security again. They didn’t bother to bring back enough people to run all the checkpoints so it took 3-4 hours to get back through, in time to wait 5-6 more hours for another flight since mine and the remaining chicago bound ones for the night were long gone.
No outlets available due to the many hundreds of others who got through ahead of me, no battery (this was 2001, with a Samsung flip-phone, and no ubiquitous charging points). I did manage to get about 15 minutes of charge before finally boarding the plane home then had to give it some more at O’Hare in order to call a cab. Not fun.
@DVDBZN IPhone 3G, IPhone 4S, IPhone 6s. Even with fairly heavy usage I have never run out again, but I have frequently carried a USB battery when I know I’ll be away from a charger for a while. So its not just the phone, its the preparation.
I’m not sure because I carry a portable charger and I have a charger at work. My phone is over four years old and the battery is toast… Or all the apps are battery hogs now. Not sure. Don’t really want to do a factory reset. Eventually I’ll replace my phone.
My SO’s phone turns out to have at least two full days of battery life (never actually drained the battery yet, so maybe more). I was very impressed and at the same time, sad that this is considered impressive now.
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Out geocaching (hiking) in the middle of the woods, three miles from civilization. Had my breadcrumb trail on the geocaching app. Made it out alive after (mostly) correctly guessing which trails I took to get there.
It was 9 degrees out.
Good times.
@hems79 Glad you made it.
@hems79 this was not a funny story.
Halloween about five years ago. Drained the battery playing a game on the bus coming home. Stopped at the supermarket to pick up dinner and was sharing the aisles with two ridiculously attractive near naked women dressed as …I don’t know. Fairy strippers?
I have a Nexus 6p… That should be 'nuff said.
But, it hasn’t died since I replaced the battery.
It dies all the time because idgaf.
Ugh. So my wife and I had a wedding in south eastern PA and we’re staying in a hotel. It was about an hour from Delaware taking a bunch of windy roads… well DE has no sales tax and I needed a new Laptop, so it made total sense to make the trip (seriously, you save like $200). I was using a tablet for my GPS that was tethered to my phone for internet.
I got to the Apple Store fine and about half way back to the hotel in the middle of nowhere 200 miles from home, my phone died (probably had something with me accidentally dropping it in a cup of water. I don’t know…). Since the tablet had a GPS, just no network, a long as I didn’t make a wrong turn where it would need to recalculate, I would be fine. But if I did, I would be lost in the middle of nowhere with no maps, no phone, and no one knowing I was lost. I might have even had to stop and ask for directions ::shudder::. That was the most careful I ever drove in my life.
…and the next day I went back to the Apple Store to get my phone replaced. Yay for AppleCare.
Doesn’t something have to be alive, in order for it to die? Saying your phone died means it was alive, at one time.
@TheCO2
Well, yeah. Doesn’t your phone have regular conversations with you? Don’t you feed your phone? Do you at least tuck it in at night and sing a lullaby?!
@DVDBZN Yeah, I guess that does happen. It’s a good thing I can resuscitate it by feeding it.
I will never admit to singing to my phone, though.
@TheCO2 I sing along with my phone but never to it.
@moondrake Call it what you will.
Today. Because I set the display to not lock last night because was listening to a podcast on the phone, and my headphones were on the charger, as was the phone, so easier to control the podcast with not having to wake the phone. Then today I forget to set the display back to sanity mode. Phone died.
Too bad so sad. But I had a charger handy.
@f00l If you’ve got/had an android phone, then “Developer Options” > “Keep Awake While Charging” is your friend.
@KMakato
My podcasts are on an ios device. Perhaps it has a similar setting. Must check this out. Thx.
Shortly after 9/11 at St Louis airport; I was waiting at the gate for my evening return flight when they had a ‘security event’ and pulled us all back out to go through security again. They didn’t bother to bring back enough people to run all the checkpoints so it took 3-4 hours to get back through, in time to wait 5-6 more hours for another flight since mine and the remaining chicago bound ones for the night were long gone.
No outlets available due to the many hundreds of others who got through ahead of me, no battery (this was 2001, with a Samsung flip-phone, and no ubiquitous charging points). I did manage to get about 15 minutes of charge before finally boarding the plane home then had to give it some more at O’Hare in order to call a cab. Not fun.
@duodec
If that was the last time your phone died, I need to know what model you have that has such a great battery.
@DVDBZN IPhone 3G, IPhone 4S, IPhone 6s. Even with fairly heavy usage I have never run out again, but I have frequently carried a USB battery when I know I’ll be away from a charger for a while. So its not just the phone, its the preparation.
@duodec
Which reminds me: I need to go charge my battery pack.
Pretty much daily now (4 year old iPhone 5). Luckily, I have just purchased a new phone, so I won’t have to suffer this much longer.
I’m not sure because I carry a portable charger and I have a charger at work. My phone is over four years old and the battery is toast… Or all the apps are battery hogs now. Not sure. Don’t really want to do a factory reset. Eventually I’ll replace my phone.
My SO’s phone turns out to have at least two full days of battery life (never actually drained the battery yet, so maybe more). I was very impressed and at the same time, sad that this is considered impressive now.