No Phone This Weekend

[kevin_standlee]

Arriving at PDX, I turned on my phone to check for messages. To my annoyance, I found that I can't hear anything. From the messages on the display, it looks to me like the phone thinks that the headset is plugged in, and has thus disabled the handset. But I left the headset behind in California, so the phone is useless for the weekend. I can take it back to the Verizon store (again!) because it's covered by a warranty, but for the duration of this weekend, I am without a mobile phone, which is unfortunate, particularly this morning as I was expecting Lisa to call me -- or at least leave a message -- when she leaves Mehama to drive up to Portland.

Although I had to take an early-morning flight for cost reasons, there was no need to get her out of bed early to fight commute traffic. I'm sitting here at PDX having a relatively leisurely breakfast and don't expect her here until noon. But checking my voice-mail is going to be a lot more annoying (and expensive) today.

Comments

[kproche.livejournal.com]

You may be able to manually choose a different profile in the phone setup and get it out of headset mode.

Plus, you can always just try rebooting it again (off and then on).

Every so often my Razr gets an OS hiccup, but it usually self corrects after another power cycling.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

There doesn't seem to be any way to force it out of headset mode, and rebooting doesn't make a difference. What I think has happened is that the headset jack has shorted, so even when you reboot, it detects a headset there even though it isn't really there.

I was able to raise Lisa on a landline phone just before she left Mehama, so we should be okay, and I don't need the phone that much over the weekend. It won't kill me to be out of contact for 72 hours.

[howeird]

Ah. Sounds like a prime candidate for the Burnside Bridge Drop Test.

[howeird]

Can you hear me Now :-)

What [evil] Kevin said works for me too. Failing that, remove the battery for 10 minutes and try again.

[sethb.livejournal.com]

Try plugging in and removing a borrowed headset.

Or just buy one.