Originally published at: Watch: deep-cleaning of a disgustingly filthy iPhone | Boing Boing
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This is like the iPhone equivalent of those pimple popping videos.
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I’m adding another layer of dirt to my iPhone right now.
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The crud on my iPhone is more protective than the otterbox!
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Incidentally I, and a number of my friends, refer to this build up as “spoo”. I’m interested to know how widespread this term is.
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I always feel like such a clean person when watching one of these videos.
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depends what you can find in your preferred pocket
I’ve been using wireless charging more and more, which means the pocket lint in the USB C charger on my phone builds up, I’ve had to use a toothpick to pull out “felt” plugs that have built up in the port when I couldn’t figure out why my USB C cable wasn’t working with my phone. Now I’m wondering if they have USB C silicon plugs for phones to avoid all of that. I know they had ones for headphones plugs on the old phones.
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Wow… my ancient MacBook Pro’s USB plugs had an unaccountably large amount of lint.
This might explain, and remedy, chronic flaky USB connection issues I’ve been having.
(I had thought that USB connectors just “wore out” after a while.)
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Yep, I lost the ability to charge an old iPhone until I unplugged the gung from the charging port with a sowing neddle.
Then went to work on the air induction ports on my MacBook Pro and now runs so much cooler!!!
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You live dangerously! I’m paranoid about putting metal into a port, esp if I had had some static charge accidentally built up. I used a wooden chopstick (spliced, so that it was a narrow but sturdy dowel).
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