Don’t Wash Your Bluetooth Headset With Your Laundry

admin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:38:17 +0000

Sunday my phone needed a charge. When this happens I plug my iPhone into the computer and put on my headset so I can walk around my house and still talk. The headset was bugging me that day so I put it in my shirt pocket. I proceeded to eat lunch and naturally spilled on my shirt. Since Sunday is a laundry day in my house, I dropped the shirt into the washing machine with the next load.

Fifty-nine minutes into the 60 minute cycle I realized that I forgot to take the headset out of my pocket. Panicking I race to the washing machine only to have to wait until the cycle finishes to unlock the machine. To no surprise upon finding the tiny device inside the pile of laundry, it is dripping wet. I set it to dry in a well ventilated part of my house for several hours.

After about three hours I tried plugging it into the charge. No fire erupted (I wasn’t sure if it would or not) and the little LED indicating it was charging came on, then went out. I left it on overnight. The next morning I took the headset of the charger and tried to turn it on…. Success! It turned on and connected to my phone with no problems. Ten minutes later it let me know they battery was dead and promptly turned off.

Last night I put it on the charger again, this time the LED stayed on until an hour later which is the standard time it takes to charge. Trying the headset this morning it not only turned on, but stayed on, and made calls that sounded fine. Either I got extremely lucky or LG build quality devices. Whichever it is I don’t recommend washing your Bluetooth headset with your laundry.

Gregory Tarnoff » Laundry

Don’t Wash Your Bluetooth Headset With Your Laundry