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Title: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: ignom on May 05, 2005, 09:00:56 PM
I don't know the eff why, but it started running through the list of my ring tone volumes, then clicked the number three and shut itself off. Then it restarted, ran through the list of ring tone volumes, clicked the number three, and shut itself off, over and over.

I even took the battery out and out it back in, and it kept doing it afterward.

It quit now, I guess it wore itself out.

I'm afraid to restart it.
Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: eo000 on May 05, 2005, 09:01:41 PM
i think it's haunted.
Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: ignom on May 05, 2005, 09:02:15 PM
I restarted it, and it's doing it again.
Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: dc on May 05, 2005, 09:03:19 PM
That'll teach you to buy the one endorsed by Linda Blair.
Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: eo000 on May 05, 2005, 09:03:51 PM
did you try throwing a quarter at it.



sorry, i had to.
Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: ignom on May 05, 2005, 09:15:02 PM
If somebody can host it, I recorded a moment of it on my camera, but my batteries are going dead, so i didn't get a lot of it.
Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: dc on May 05, 2005, 09:18:13 PM
Quote from: ignom on May 05, 2005, 09:15:02 PM
If somebody can host it, I recorded a moment of it on my camera, but my batteries are going dead, so i didn't get a lot of it.

Send it to me and we'll host it here.
Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: ignom on May 05, 2005, 09:30:23 PM
It's too big to gmail. I got my mac back, so I'm looking for an ftp client, but i need to know where to send it.
Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: Infobahn on May 05, 2005, 09:30:46 PM
Pay your bill.
Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: ignom on May 05, 2005, 09:32:12 PM
It finally let me gmail it to myself, so i forwarded it to you, dc.
Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: dc on May 05, 2005, 09:41:41 PM
Quote from: ignom on May 05, 2005, 09:32:12 PM
It finally let me gmail it to myself, so i forwarded it to you, dc.

Just got it.  I'll upload it now.
Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: dc on May 05, 2005, 09:51:48 PM
The haunted cell phone video is here:

http://www.juntoonline.com/DSCN0252.MOV

It's a 10 Meg file, so dial-up users beware!
Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: ignom on May 05, 2005, 09:59:00 PM
I recorded another version since then that shows it hit the 3 and all that, but it still looks ugly.

I guess the video on my camera won't zoom in or out and everything looks like crap.
Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: Grumpus on May 05, 2005, 10:11:48 PM
Your phone could have a virus.  Most virus' are hidden in phone porn.  Any idea how you it got it?
Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: ignom on May 05, 2005, 10:20:44 PM
My phone is three years old, it doesn't even ring anymore, i doubt it can store porn.
Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: Grumpus on May 05, 2005, 10:25:44 PM
Then it must be possessed.
Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: ignom on May 05, 2005, 10:31:39 PM
Now it's typing 333333, adjusting the volume, a few more 3s, volume again, ring level,  turning itself off.  Repeat.
Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: Grumpus on May 05, 2005, 10:48:30 PM
There is one outside chance for a cure. I think of it as shock treatment - as I said, it's a very outside chance... Have you ever heard of exorcism?

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Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: Gamplayerx on May 06, 2005, 06:10:58 AM
Could it be that you have forgotten to remit your monthly protection contribution to the electronics thugs?  I hear they exact a steep penalty.
Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: cnamon on May 06, 2005, 08:20:30 AM
Sometimes ringtones downloaded from sites that aren't trusted have viruses and aren't compatible with your phone.  It happened to my old phone, but I never took care of it.  It only did it when I used certain tones.  I would try to delete all the tones and restore factory defaults.  If it still happens, we will need an old priest and a young priest.  STAT.
Title: Re: My cell phone is possessed.
Post by: ignom on May 06, 2005, 08:24:39 AM
The only ringtone I ever downloaded was the Indiana Jones theme, and that was three years ago. My phone can't play these newfangled ringtones that actually sound like real music.

I got a newer phone last year, but I busted it. I don't have $40+ to buy another phone.