Lucky Brilliance
By AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16676)
Boston, Massachusetts
December 14, 2015 6:31am CST
I have been a slacker on myLot for several days. And I wish I could say that I accomplished great things in my time away from the computer. Sadly, I haven't done much.
But I did manage to fix the button on my tablet. The power button was not working, not turning the screen off and and on the only way I had to retrieve the on screen and get into the tablet was to keep plugging in the charger to make it appear.
But the other day, my tablet slipped off the chair and I grabbed it by the corner to keep it from falling. The same corner at which the button resides. And I heard a click. I pressed the button and it worked. Then it didn't, not again. But it gave me an idea.
I simply squeezed the top right corner of the tablet over and over with my fingers, pressing the front and back together several times. And the button started working again.
My working theory is that the tablet got dropped and something loosened, but I was able to re-establish the connection somehow. And I now touch the button very gingerly, because I don't know how much pressure might undo the magic.
Did you ever fix something by mistake, accident or luck and still feel brilliant and special?
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23 responses
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
14 Dec 15
I am more of a 'break it' person than a fix it person!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
14 Dec 15
@Rollo1 I love the new colored duct tape
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@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Dec 15
@Rollo1 Good old duct tape. Where would we be without it? @AbbyGreenhill I didn't know you could get it in colours. That's pretty cool.
@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Dec 15
@Dragonairy1 I mentioned somewhere else that what folks like you need is a false keyboard for the cat so you can both type away.
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@Juliaacv (56195)
• Canada
14 Dec 15
Its a great thing that you realized that grabbing it in that location was the 'fix". I have had things go wonky like that and had fixes for them that I didn't realize. The screen on my laptop is starting to go, but nothing significant has happened to bring this on, just age I think.
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
14 Dec 15
I am sure that I have at some point even tough it escapes me at the moment. I am so glad that it is working at least for the moment.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
15 Dec 15
I feel thrilled when I can fix something.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
14 Dec 15
yep! you get this, yes I am awesome! feeling, lol
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@Marilynda1225 (91013)
• United States
14 Dec 15
Hope your fix is a permanent one and that your button continues to work
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@Poppylicious (11134)
• United Kingdom
14 Dec 15
I think you're just like a wizard. You should have gone to Hogwart's.
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@paigea (36143)
• Canada
15 Dec 15
Something like that happened this morning with the Christmas lights. We gave up tightening bulbs and took the whole unlit string of lights off the tree. Then I plugged them in once more and they worked. Went through this with two sets. bleah! One set is on the tree and lit up now, but who knows why?
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@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
14 Dec 15
I think that is what happened. It wasn't broken, just not making the connection. Now I touch it quite gingerly and I still won't turn the tablet off. I just have to keep recharging it more often. But it works fine in all other ways. I may look for a rubber casing for it. The book cover type cases don't work well for me.
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@stringer321 (5682)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
15 Dec 15
I was trying to set up a new television converter (a box that uses a connection to cables, and can bring new channels to the TV, using a special smart card). The TV was old and used an antenna. I had a lucky guess to connect the antenna instead of the HDMI connection. I had almost lost hope before I thought about it
@troyburns (1405)
• New Zealand
15 Dec 15
Serendipity is a wonderful thing. Fleming discovers penicillin, you discover how to turn your tablet back on...no wonder it's said that it is better to be lucky than smart. And it's better still to be both.
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
15 Dec 15
Isn't it wonderful when you can do this. I love trying to figure out why something doesn't work or it's broken. I guess I have a lot of luck on this one because this is what I do for a living. Congrats on your wonderful discovery and how you got it to work again.
