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Thomas Davie

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Jan 20, 2004
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I had taken my AP2’s with me to dialysis every time, 3 days a week. Once I had out my case in my right breast pocket, closed the button and forgotten about it. Later that day, say 8 hours later, I did laundry. I ended up running the washer twice because I had forgotten to put some items in. Just before Iwas going to run the dryer I wanted to listen to some Iron Maiden. Couldn’t find em.

Used the findme app to locate them. They seemed to be in an alternate dimension until I tracked them down. The case was sopping wet; opened it and the AP2’s were….dampish.

Put them in, fired up Apple Music and staticy, tinny music. Was going to use Applecare, but just forgot (got LYME disease, life interfered, etc).

Periodically retested them, and the static was gone but the volume sounded sick, low end was almost non existent.

4 months later I retest them (now) and actually look at the settings. The noise cancellation was not set up the way I had previously done and the EQ was set to spoken work (I like flat).

Changed everything back and they have been resurrected. Spatial audio, head tracking, noise transparency, etc.

Tom
 
Spatial Audio, tracking, noise cancellation, transparency, loud esound suppression; all works. Haven’t found anything yet that doesn’t work. I upgraded to the latest firmware and am only lacking the hearing aid feature and that is because Health Canada has not yet certified or allowed this feature.

Tom
 
You are very fortunate. When anything electronic gets wet from all the advice I have read online you shouldn’t even try to switch them on until they have totally dried out.

You can still set them up as heairng aids if you have a device that is running an older IOS than 18.1. My wife's 2018 won't update beyond 17.7.1 and an old iPhone 12 will do it via Settings/Headphone Accommodations.
 
@rasg The day of the ‘accident‘ I placed everything in 3 separate mason jars with a new silica gel dessicant pack; 3 items/jars/dessicants. yup, I know I shouldn’t have tried them when rescuing them. But at least they remained in the jars until a few days ago.

I was looking at the jars daily to see if the humidity indicator changed colour (no, never did). The black friday deals started to be listed on Amazon and I was thinking about getting JBL tour pro 3’s - I wasn’t worried about trying them (Applecare expires ~January/2026)

Tried updating the software, found they had already updated to the most recent firmware - started playing aroumd with them and found I had good luck.

Tom
 
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