The title is plain silly, isn't it? A favourite way to cook potatoes is by immersion in hot oil. Yet, today I'm referring to an electronic device that has ceased working. The other night my phone suddenly malfunctioned. When I rebooted, my old Nexus One couldn't read its microSD card. I know that occasionally, if one yanks out a USB memory device while a write or read function is occurring, then the file system can get buggered. I thought this was why my phone showed an error message. It wouldn't recognize nor reformat.
I didn't have one of those empty full-sized SD cards that can act an adapter for the microSD type. There was no way for me to check the old 4GB chip on any of the devices I own. So, after finishing class today, I stopped by ncix.ca to pick up a new one. A class-6, 8GB card was just $8.99 and it came with one of those adapters. Hum. I tried reading the old one shown in the photo on my notebook and it is shot! I don't know why this happened. My phone is getting up in age at over a year, but I am not sure why a memory card would suddenly go bad. (It is funny how computers can now last a half decade or more but phones quickly become outdated within months. I'm going to hold onto my Nexus One for at least another year though.)
I suppose I like looking on the bright side of things: the experience has given me a chance to decide which apps I am really using. Sometimes, it is so simple to download free Android apps that I end up with junk on my phone that is only wasting space. As everything important is in the cloud, I didn't lose any information.