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Nandi at the phone store wants to try resetting the phone to factory defaults to try to clear up my problems with the v400 being confused about its open vs closed state, despite my very convincing arguments that the problem was hardware related. He did enter a trouble ticket in Cingular’s system, so if it continues to exhibit those irritating behaviors, the warranty people will have some history of complaints on the issue so they won’t think I’m just trying to get a new phone out of it.

The ipod has also been resurrected, though I didn’t do anything except leave it plugged in to AC power for a few hours. Should look in to replacing the battery?

My mom tells me Mercury is in retrograde whenever my gadgets fail me. Mercury must be in retrograde all the time! Either that, or I need to replace my mobile phone. It’s a Motorola V400, and seemed a nice upgrade from my older Samsung. The camera feature is absolutely useless, but the phone itself seemed pretty decent at first.

Now the latch sensor is broken, so half the time it can’t tell whether it’s open or closed, and when I try to answer a call, it will frequently hang up on me, so I have to go to the trouble of calling the person back, or waiting for them to leave a voicemail. Yuck!

Our 1st-generation ipod, now about 3 years old I think, has started to flake out on me as well. The headphones take a lot of fiddling to get both ears working; I probably crimped the cable pulling them in and out of the little case I use when I’m traveling. This morning when I tried to plug it in to the stereo, the buttons wouldn’t respond either on battery or plugged in to the AC adaptor. I tried it on the firewire port of Pismo right afterwards and no luck there either. I left it on the AC while I was out today, so maybe it will have caught its second wind by the time I get home. If not, it’s going under the putty knife tomorrow to see whether it’s the battery or the firewire port, both of which should be treatable illnesses.