Hello, diy. I dropped my phone down this open vent on accident and it's at least 2 feet down. It's very narrow. I'd like to retrieve the phone as it has my Duo passwords for a lot of things.
Hello, diy. I dropped my phone down this open vent on accident and it's at least 2 feet down. It's very narrow.
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Why is your garloid in there op
I'd first try snaking a shop vac vacuum hose down there to see if I could stick it on the phone and pull it up.
It couldn't hurt for him to try, but I doubt it would work since that gap is narrower than the width of a phone.
If you can't reach down in there to grab it you're going to have to access it from underneath the floor.
Magnet on a string.
Will that work if I have a case on it?
Are most phones magnetic enough to stick to a magnet? Never tried it.
No they are not.
Magnet won't do shit unless it's something really strong like NdFeB, but then it'll try to catch every nearby nail and probably the vent.
not to mention frying the frick out of your phone
>not to mention frying the frick out of your phone
how does a moderately strong magnetic field fry a phone? Yeah, the magnet is powerful but magnetic fields fall off rapidly with distance. Once it gets into the phone it's not that strong. Hell, it probably wouldn't even hurt the vibrator, which is the only fairly large magnetic material in a phone.
It's a stupid idea, but not because of frying the phone, but rather because it won't work.
This will erase the phone hard drive.. Electronics and magnets DO NOT MIX.
some boomer knowledge here
magnets are fine on cell phones they literally sell magnets for car mounts and shit
phones don't have disk platters
It's hard to know everything. Display screens used to get fricked up from magnets too. According to google tho you're right, magnet shouldn't hurt phone. Just one more thing I have to carry around in my boomer brain.
I'd love to see a phone with a CRT display...
sir or madam this is mi6 you must send us your credit card information or we arrest you
It’s not the disk platter it’s the weak electromagnetical storage on the disks that caused magnets to ruin old style hard drives
Thanks, never knew the proper English word, we call them pulling springs
Couldn't a magnet mess up the sim card?
Because that's why I suggested a magnet.
No.
Maybe the magnetics in an MRI machine at full speed would make it vibrate.
>magnets are fine on cell phones
It'l magnetize the shadow-mask on the display and screw up the colors.
8/10 hearty chuckle
>phones don't have disk platters
Magnets dont affect hard disks either, have to have a serious magnet and try pretty hard.
They easily destroyed floppy disks which is where the trope came from.
phones use flash memory grandpa, no one is lugging around a phone with a spinning magnetic disk hard drive
lol it's not a computer from the 80's dude
>won’t work
>special magnet needed
>fry the phone
What are you guys talking about? Have you never seen an iPhone with MagSafe? Newer flagship phones all use magnets to attach accessories to the back or align the phone for wireless charging. Depends on the type of phone but there’s a good chance a magnet would work great.
think about where the magnetism is directed
A magnet won't work, the phone won't stick to it. That's why most magnetic phone mounts have a magnet that you have to stick to the back of the phone.
I'm quite neurotic about the problem and I squeezed one of these things down it and dropped it due to my sweatiness. Am I able to grab this up if it's covering my phone?
Well... I guess your only option at this point is to dump a bunch of termites down the hole and wait it out.
Attack treble hook to fishing line
Drop and yank, drop and yank until you hook it
Like snagging spoonbill
if you dropped your phone how are you taking pics and phone posting?
also what is under there, crawl space?
if you stick your head in the hole can you see your phone down the gap?
Look like the return air duct. It's behind the walls. Not so simple to get without taking walls down. Try your best with whats been suggested here and other than that, good job.
I know a guy in a similar situation, dropped is phone into a small opening between two beams in a building.
He was insured and the insurance sent a guy over that would try and retrieve it. He came with a weight that had a blob of some kind of extremely sticky glue on it. The weight went on some kind of cable (between a tent pole and a steel wire in terms of stiffness) and he easily fished up the phone without getting the glue thing stuck. Dentists use the same kind of glue blobs to retrieve pieces of drill from a tooth cavity, but a lot smaller.
If you have visual you could try that kind of thing, nano tape should work pretty well
>The weight went on some kind of cable (between a tent pole and a steel wire in terms of stiffness) and he easily fished up the phone without getting the glue thing stuck.
This pole is called a fish tape btw
Crawl under the dump, cut a hole and get your 29 dollar tracfone doosh
This. Use aluminum duct tape to reseal hole you made.
>on accident
Call a professional, you'll only frick it up
why do you have a hole that goes two feet down in your vent
Sorry anon, its a time capsule now
All these stupid answers when you could simply ask a small child to fish their hand in and grab it.
Theres only one way youre going to get down there far enough to reach it anon.
saddam is down there, bro.
>OP gets nutty putty'd trying to dig out a phone
Make a loose ball of duct tape with the sticky side out, stick it on the end of a stick and press it down on the phone.
Low tech solutions are the best.
children have thinner arms, might be a simple task for a child.
Dip the knob of your moms bbc dildo and slide it down there
Dip the knob of your moms bbc dildo in honey and slide it down there
Shop vac hose may fit in there and suck it up OP.
Can you see the phone? Or know roughly where it is? A little trick I’ve used before fishing tools and parts out of industrial machinery:
>get some string
>attach something heavyish that’ll help you land the string on the dropped object. Something like a smooth rock, but you want a decent amount of surface area and secure attachment to the string
>slather the rock or whatever up with silicone. Obviously don’t be moronic and use liquid nail or a super strong adhesive, just regular bathroom silicone
>lower the object into the dropped item
>if needed, stand there and hold the string so the rock doesn’t slide off the phone and lay on the ground, shouldn’t take too long to tack up enough that it’ll stay in place
>let silicone cure
>pull it up and out
>pull off silicone
I know it sounds dumb but this has worked for me in a wide variety of tight spots. The trick is to not be a complete moron and put some thought into the size/shape of the “rock” or whatever object.
>inb4 it’ll ruin the phone
No it won’t, the only problem would be if you got a bunch of silicone in the port, and even that can be cleared
>inb4 it’ll just stick to the walls on the way down
No it won’t, you just gotta put some thought into silicone placement, like not being moronic and covering the sides of the rock
>it won’t have enough strength
Again, I’ve done this before with objects alot heavier than a cellphone, as long as you’re careful and it’s not gonna get stuck it’ll pull out, worst case you’ll have to wait for it to cure completely.
Cool idea.
That episode gave me fricking nightmares for days.
you're going to think about it for 2 seconds and actually brain a solution instead of running to the internet and whining? frick that man, you'll never get any upboats.
Is it possible to ducktape a cup or a box to the end of one stick, and then use a broomstick to sweep the phone into the box at the end of the stick?
It's been 2 weeks.
The phone is gone.
It's part of the house now.
Call Tooms.
Try a preteen gangbang.
put a python in the hole to scare it out