Cell & Smart Phone Multitool?

[Outback in Idaho]

  Are there any one-piece or small multitools for cell & smart phones that could be carried on a keychain or phone lanyard?

  Our local telco went to Verizon; so the Motorola V/VE-20 was obsolete, and opted for a Samsung Convoy 2 since it was ruggedly built. Was either it or a thinner phone.

  This one has a slotted battery compartment door that coin would fit, or a (fat) screwdriver. It does come with a small plastic pick to turn the knob and open the hatch door. Then since do not have fingernails to amount to much, ended up having to use a small scrap shim of wood to press the micro-SD card in far enough for the mechanism inside to latch that into place.

  Guess I could of dug out my Climber and used that, but was wondering if there were any small tools that can be suspended from a phone lanyard or keychain? At the risk of one's employment with some facilities a knife may be frowned down upon - so a phone tool could be of benefit there too.

[xt60043f]

You may want to consider the Nokia 3330.  It can be used as:

phone calls
txt messages
hammer
drift (with another 3330 as a hammer)
door stop
axle stand
cudgel
etc.

[jekostas]

You may want to consider the Nokia 3330.  It can be used as:

phone calls
txt messages
hammer
drift (with another 3330 as a hammer)
door stop
axle stand
cudgel
etc.

You forgot putting it in your trunk as weight for winter driving.

[Outback in Idaho]

  Am so not a fan of this Samsung Convoy 2 that was one of two options offered when the local telco switched to Verizon.

  Says it will use a 32 GB MicroSD card, but anything past 10GB the data writing & access is quite slow. Take a photo, says saved, but have to wait up to ten minutes for the application to close out before it actually gets saved.

  Okay, so I threw in 11 GB of music, have 32 GB on my computer & iPod. Figured this would work in a pinch or on the mountain bike. Well, if the thing doesn't lock up it can take 6 to 10 minutes for songs to get loaded - every time.

  Did a defragment on the MicroSD card. Yeah, know you are not supposed to, but it was gawd awful slow. After defragmenting the MicroSD card it actually has been functioning lots better. Have a few GB of pictures, a few videos to try out.

  Seems to run better after moving the ringtones to phone memory, but ... I tell it to do a Twitter Whistle ringtone once on text messages. Most the time it repeats the ringtone indefinitely. Had tried changing the reminder option, and it has been more annoying than doing what it should - ring once and stop.

  Been using a SAK Manager screwdriver to open the back of this annoying cell phone to pull the battery out for a reset almost every two days. Was several times a day when I first got it. Was pulling out the MicroSD card and using an adapter on the computer, seemed much quicker to transfer data than via the MicroUSB cord to the phone.
  The flat nail driver works for the MicroSD card too, putting it in and taking it out.

[Nhoj]

Well that phone sure sounds like an unpleasant experience!
 

[Whoey]

here's a thought: backup all data on the SDcard on your PC. Put it in the phone and use it to format the card. Restore only important data to the card.

I know on some of my DSLRs this has made a bit of difference... I have no idea why, as the formatting should be the same...

[enki_ck]

You may want to consider the Nokia 3330.  It can be used as:

phone calls
txt messages
hammer
drift (with another 3330 as a hammer)
door stop
axle stand
cudgel
etc.

You forgot putting it in your trunk as weight for winter driving.

TOUGHEST PHONE EVER!!! (the whole 33xx series)

My father abused his 3310 for 10 years before it finally died after being dunked into the toilet twice in a month. Very reliable phones. And can also be used as bottle openers.

[xt60043f]

  Am so not a fan of this Samsung Convoy 2 that was one of two options offered when the local telco switched to Verizon.

  Says it will use a 32 GB MicroSD card, but anything past 10GB the data writing & access is quite slow. Take a photo, says saved, but have to wait up to ten minutes for the application to close out before it actually gets saved.

  Okay, so I threw in 11 GB of music, have 32 GB on my computer & iPod. Figured this would work in a pinch or on the mountain bike. Well, if the thing doesn't lock up it can take 6 to 10 minutes for songs to get loaded - every time.

  Did a defragment on the MicroSD card. Yeah, know you are not supposed to, but it was gawd awful slow. After defragmenting the MicroSD card it actually has been functioning lots better. Have a few GB of pictures, a few videos to try out.

  Seems to run better after moving the ringtones to phone memory, but ... I tell it to do a Twitter Whistle ringtone once on text messages. Most the time it repeats the ringtone indefinitely. Had tried changing the reminder option, and it has been more annoying than doing what it should - ring once and stop.

  Been using a SAK Manager screwdriver to open the back of this annoying cell phone to pull the battery out for a reset almost every two days. Was several times a day when I first got it. Was pulling out the MicroSD card and using an adapter on the computer, seemed much quicker to transfer data than via the MicroUSB cord to the phone.
  The flat nail driver works for the MicroSD card too, putting it in and taking it out.

It sounds like your card is totally fubar.

[jekostas]

Before you junk the card, try using the official SD Card formatting software from sdcard.org

Worked on a couple of wonky cards I've had.

[Outback in Idaho]

  Not junking the card, the card works. Is not even a month old and is 32GB.

  It is working fine after defragmenting it, through the phone. Seems putting anything on the card needs to be done through the USB connection on the phone.

  Ringtones were repeating when stored on the card. Moving them to phone memory they cycle once. Not a card issue, but a phone OS issue. When the phone reads a synchronization file, or any other file not inherent to the phone OS' capabilities the phone locks up. That's the phone OS issue. Remove those extraneous files and then there's not a problem.

  Smartphones probably don't have these issues, and tablet would give an error and continue on. Samsung's technical support leaves a lot to be desired, and for a $200 phone it is lacking a lot of functionality than previous Motorola phones I had owned. RAZR was probably the best cell phone I had even had the pleasure to own.

[jekostas]

Actually formatting the card in the phone is not always the greatest idea.