For some reason, one of my chargers for my phone died last night, so it didn’t get charged up overnight, and ended up completely draining the battery, because I usually leave it playing music or podcasts while I fall asleep, and I was tired last night and forgot to set the timer to automatically stop playing and turn it off after 30-45 minutes like I usually do.
The scary part was then when I woke up and realized what had happened I tried plugging it in to a different USB cable charger that I had and it didn’t light up and start charging. I also tried the one in my car, and it didn’t seem to take the charge either. So, I was thinking I was stuck with a dead battery at best, and a dead phone at worst.
It ended up being OK, though, because once I got to work, I plugged it in to the regular cable charger I usually use, and it took a while, but it did get it back charging up again. After doing some searching, it turns out that when the battery gets completely drained, you sometimes have to charge with the official charger, since other models of chargers don’t give exactly the same voltage, etc. and aren’t enough to kick start it into full charging mode if you’re starting from a completely drained state.
Anyway, all that to say that during the period of time before I knew that it would be OK, I was mentally preparing myself for having to buy a new phone and took a few minutes to browse around and see what’s out there today. The way I look at it, if I have to get a new one, I might as well upgrade. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised that 7 months later, there are still no phones I’d rather have than the one I’ve got right now.
Then getting it charged back up again was icing on the cake; I don’t need a new phone and I don’t want one either.
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It was at this point that Madame Bluberry had a revolutionary thought: “I - I don’t need a toaster oven!”
(Veggie Tales, Madame Bluberry)