holy shit i almost fried my sim card with the hot-swapping i did

Submitted by nitori in technology

i thought it would be safe if i disabled the sim (as well as wifi calling) and turned on airplane mode before i popped out the sim tray

well i'm not really trying to switch to another sim, more like inserting and removing a microsd card from my android... so yeah whoever thought it's a good idea to put the microsd slot in the same place as a sim tray, i hope you get gapped to gensokyo as youkai food or something

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emma wrote

how do you figure it was almost fried? did it yell at you?

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nitori OP wrote

My phone didn't detect the SIM card through multiple reboots (not the restart option itself but full power off and power on), and no matter which slot I used (the phone is a dual SIM)... Managed to avoid disaster somehow by putting rubbing alcohol on the SIM's contacts though. But I did notice that the electrical contacts look duller than usual

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emma wrote

i would have guessed it was more of a statue of liberty problem, where the copper corrodes in contact with open air. but apparently the contacts are supposed to be gold-plated, so that surely wouldn't be the case.

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