Having a broken cell phone is bad enough. Discovering your phone is toast just as you’re about to attend an important meeting, leave on an urgent trip, or call a client or colleague with critical information, can be anything from bothersome to disastrous.

Since most law schools still fail to offer courses in portable electronics repair and maintenance, and because many lawyers continue to believe Ohm’s Law is some type of real estate statute, it can be very useful to know what to do when a phone stops working.