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Alright so, long story short. I went to go jetskiing today, on the Potomac River, and well, I thought I had taken my phone out of my pocket before helping my friend take off the jetskis off the tralior into the water, I waded out and felt my pocket get really heavy, and just so happened my phone was in my pocket. I freaked out and popped out the battery. ( i think thats what saved it. ) but so i just left it in the car, so it had time to dry. Came back about 4 hours later, and went home and put it in a bag of rice, I turned it on though, spiting I wanted to know if it worked. Phone worked, but only out the back speaker and volume was muffed and really low. Touch screen worked perfect! but none of the hard keys worked. I was pretty upset so I put it back in rice and popped off the back speaker cover and prayed that it would work. Just a bit ago, popped on the back cover and turned it on. EVERYTHING WORKS! I was so shocked, at first it was being tempermental. But a few soft resets and BAM worked like a charm
my little rant about how my phone survived a little swim with the fishes.
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Swimming - Phone
Hey,
It is a great thing that you had just added the "Bubble Cab"®.
The only authorized and working application that saves your device from
drowning. (as it surrounds all of the small and electrical connections, soldering points, and internal parts, and completely squeezes all impact of water and moisture from your baby (the phone).When _any_ water or fluid contact happens or occurs !
Also as a further precaution the rice trick*© probably did not hurt !
--- All jokin' aside ! Still kinda laffin' .....
I was really happy to see your phone didn't drown ! (VERY Sincerely)
Your quick thinking to take it apart (the battery, and all) and allow it just to dry. Probably did the trick.
Anyway was very happy to see your AOK !
And another little known fact the Bubble Cab® will in fact ! Resuscitate a drowned phone !
And can be purchased via tru Mr. Mbudden, his Program is currently out of Beta !
And Full Product BubbleCab 1.01 ® is a steal ! at $16.95 !
Thanks
david !
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Hey !
Also, let me know when the Beta is finished on :
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For Deep water/ Long Trips Scuba Edition®
Can't Wait ! for this
take care ..
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The Kaiser will, of course, complement any diving watch!!!
I had an 8525 which fell in the Atlantic and pretty much the exact same story. Pop battery out and rice it I learned a valuable lesson. Dont drink and fish in Ocean City...... lol
Patomic huh? I bet we have seen each other out on the water at some point ( although most of my boating now occurs on the Magothy and out near the Bay bridge these days lol )
Glad to hear your phone is well!!!
pyraxiate said:
I had an 8525 which fell in the Atlantic and pretty much the exact same story. Pop battery out and rice it I learned a valuable lesson. Dont drink and fish in Ocean City...... lol
Patomic huh? I bet we have seen each other out on the water at some point ( although most of my boating now occurs on the Magothy and out near the Bay bridge these days lol )
Glad to hear your phone is well!!!
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Um... Fell in the ocean and you just dried it, you didn't flush it out? Mmmmm, corrosion. How long ago was this?
To the OP (and everyone), I would suggest you not use the phone unless it's been drying with rice (or, get dessicant) for several DAYS. I think you got lucky it still worked after such a short drying period.
I think the phone would have recovered faster had you dropped it in the toilet right after Kumar visited White Castle. Potomac river water can make you lose your hearing! That water is nasty!
khaytsus said:
Um... Fell in the ocean and you just dried it, you didn't flush it out? Mmmmm, corrosion. How long ago was this?
To the OP (and everyone), I would suggest you not use the phone unless it's been drying with rice (or, get dessicant) for several DAYS. I think you got lucky it still worked after such a short drying period.
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This was well over 4 months ago. As far as I can tell it is still working as it should ( I havent used it in a while but I just juiced it up, put my sim in it , powered it on, and tested with a call )
I probably should take it apart again and clean it, but im not too worried about it.
I do have 2 tilts now afterall...... the 8525 was just around as my backup until i got my second one lol
telegraph0000 said:
I think the phone would have recovered faster had you dropped it in the toilet right after Kumar visited White Castle. Potomac river water can make you lose your hearing! That water is nasty!
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I agree......... dont eat any fish you catch........ they are more than likely contaminated
Wow I didnt realize so many people from the east coast are here
OMG, this was the first thing i said.
suddenly my X1 fell into the toilet straight into the pipes!
but before it goes into the water, a good thing happend! the battery popped out . this might be a good sign
lucky me, i recovered my phone, but will it work?
i don't know, it's out of warranty anyway so let's open it, clean it and see what's inside.
steps done so far (started @ 10:00 am GMT+3)
1) washed the phone, with every single cleaning liquid i ever found
2) started opening the phone and cleaning it from the inside (yes, puring it with water and some cleaning/anti germs stuff) and yes including the bords.
3) finished cleaning it from the inside, now drying part (current status)
4) dryubg is over, connected everything together (without the body of the device, only boards) and YEPPPPPPPPPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII, it's working.
a) Touch screen is fine, LCD have some problem (seems it still have some water in) i will dissamble the LCD completely.
b) no other problems to the main hardware (as PDA, i didn't test the speaker or anything else!)
5) OS Is not booting now, LCD is missing the RED Color, getting stucked on the SE Logo!
6) got really tired, i think this will need time, went to the shop, bought an HTC Touch HD
7) i will continue working on X1 untill it's fixed.
i will update this as i progress.
wish me luck
[12-5-2009]
Finally got some time to check why the phone is stucked SE Logo.
- first tried a hard reset
it didn't solve it, i thought maybe flashing a new ROM will help.
- Flashed a new ROM (HSPL already there before),
Still the same issue, the LCD is missing the Blue Color Sometimes, its a carbon connector for sure and can be fixed, but why not booting?!
[28-5-2009]
- got more time to work on it
- flashed nX1i_v1_04_WWE, still, stuck on se logo!
- Check attached Images
Edit : i replaced the LCD, the phone is booting now but it's taking around 4 to 5 minutes to boot, it get's stucked at the SE logo then it continues.
i'm able to flash new ROMs.
BT and Wifi are not working.
BT is turining on and off but i cannot use it, my X1 cannot be found using any other BT device when it's on visible mode. and cannot send files from my X1!
Wifi : Not turining on at all!
anyone with ideas? i really suspect the flexcable due to any accedental push i made when opening the device but it's expensive to replace and honestly, a new X1 would cost a bit higher!
dang thats unlucky - as long as the battery fell out it wouldnt have short circuited anything then i guess - just dont turn it on till its SUPER dry
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dang thats unlucky - as long as the battery fell out it wouldnt have short circuited anything then i guess - just dont turn it on till its SUPER dry
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do you think it's possible to use the elictric hands dryer? or it will do some problems?
don't think a hairdryer should cause problems
about warranty then think all phones today have
indicators which show if they have been wet because
dropping it in water is not covered
surprisingly many people seem to drop phones in toilet
read it was the most common way for them to die
Are you shure that you aren't just in a bad nightmare?
My aunt throw already three mobiles into toilets, don't ask my why
Everything I can say is, that none of the phones could be reanimated
I have too admit my Xperia fell in once, after a few days all was okay, exept dpad wasnt functioning, and i couldnt hard reset or enter bootloader ( weird problem ) with the keys. Ended up replacing it, and forget asap.
Hey,
sh*t happens. Anyway. Here is a link with a thread called: my phone got wet - what should I do!
Even I never had such an accident before I found the solutions quite useful.
Have a look:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=448106
Greets
I haven't read that thread posted above yet, but never use a hairdryer/hand dryer. The can be quite hot coming out of the nozzle, if you're not careful you can melt plastic with them (I work in a helpdesk, I've seen laptops come in after a tiny spillage but with melted keyboards after being attacked by a hairdryer).
Best bet is to take all the covers you can off, dry with a towel/kitchen paper (toilet paper breaks up and leaves lots of little bits) and leave to dry *slowly* resting on a towel, folded several times over, on top of a radiator. Leave it there for 24 hours, more if it looks like there's still water in there.
I'd expect to see tide marks on the screen afterwards though, especially if you live in a hard water area. If you live in a soft water area you might be luckier and have very little residue.
Maybe u should let the x1 go where all the good phones go, phone heaven.
bit of advice dont answer your phone as u take a leak, friend done that in a nightclub and then had to reach in and get it out. even my beloved x1 would have stayed there (take it as a lose lol).
ps. i hope u get it working bud
I read in an iphone forum that you should bury the phone in rice since the rice absorbs all the moisture.
rogatsby said:
I read in an iphone forum that you should bury the phone in rice since the rice absorbs all the moisture.
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But don't eat the rice afterwards, its been in the toilet!
Go and buy some Isopropanol, now open your phone and disassemble everything.
Fill some Isopropanol in an cup or something an lie the board inside. (IMPORTANT: The microphone and speaker and camera shouldn't get wet so get it off the board or if you can't you must seal them)
Now let the board lie in the cup for 1 night or so. the isopropanol should evaporate. the clue ist that the isoprop. is binding the water and the salts etc. in it and evaporates with them.
With this method i rescued several phone which was gone swimming
Sorry for my bad english
Bin4ry
Bin4ry said:
Go and buy some Isopropanol, now open your phone and disassemble everything.
Fill some Isopropanol in an cup or something an lie the board inside. (IMPORTANT: The microphone and speaker and camera shouldn't get wet so get it off the board or if you can't you must seal them)
Now let the board lie in the cup for 1 night or so. the isopropanol should evaporate. the clue ist that the isoprop. is binding the water and the salts etc. in it and evaporates with them.
With this method i rescued several phone which was gone swimming
Sorry for my bad english
Bin4ry
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yeh that's not a bad idea, but alas it didn't work for my old ipod when it fell into the canal.
to the OP you have my sympathy, my x1 was grabbed by my toddler son this morning. I caught him just as he was opening the bathroom door.
fards said:
yeh that's not a bad idea, but alas it didn't work for my old ipod when it fell into the canal.
to the OP you have my sympathy, my x1 was grabbed by my toddler son this morning. I caught him just as he was opening the bathroom door.
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Mine went flying the other day, got my gf's nephew to take a photo, he came running over to show the picture, my x1 went flying luckily no cracks or marks, it almost went into a waterfall
I also had this problem on my old nokia 6600 the phone did ring when i was taken a leak and it feel down to the toilete but i was quick to take it up..throw off the battery and open it to dry it i used compressor on it to dry it then let it rest in the sun for 4 days and it worked fine and still those as i have it as a reserve phone atleast that survived...but my nokia n95 was not that lucky o was stupid enough to answer a messages right before i was at sea to take a bath and i putted it back in my pocket that was my bath shorts and did take the bath gladely i was quick up of the bath and first thing i did was take of the battery opened it dry it let it rest in sun for some days..it started and worked for 3 months then i died:/
Hahhahaah ....in the toilet.....AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sorry about that dude , but i had to do it.
The taking apart and using hairdryer ahs worked for me in the past, but be careful not to overheat it.
orelsi said:
Hahhahaah ....in the toilet.....AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sorry about that dude , but i had to do it.
The taking apart and using hairdryer ahs worked for me in the past, but be careful not to overheat it.
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me my self was laughing harder when they were extracting it
UPDATED FIRST POST, GOT HTC HD and will conitnue repairing my X1
anaadoul said:
me my self was laughing harder when they were extracting it
UPDATED FIRST POST, GOT HTC HD and will conitnue repairing my X1
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At first I as gonna reply with laughing my a$$ off but then on second though I was like "your $ just fell down the toilet" dang...
Kids...be sympathetic...
Anyway, also happened to me a while back, but with a PDA.
I dismantled it, washed it part by part and it worked like a charm after that.
The only thing was, the LCD was permanently stained or smth. One of the light diffusers into the lcd (which was paper btw) was damaged by the water.
But it was functional and I could still use it ok...until I fell on it...
And this happened (check attached file - if you look closely you can see the right part of the LCD is kinda missing)
I'm pretty curious to see your display after you manage to get it working...
Can you get some pics online?
I once accidentally dropped a Sony Ericsson device in a large glass of water - it completely recovered. Hope you have the same luck
Hi guys..
I've gone into depression! My cell phone fell in water and it probably stayed there for 10-15 mins. As soon i saw that I removed the battery and left it for drying for 3 days and I haven't done anything else to it like charging or trying to switch on in between. After 3 complete days I switched it on - what happened was that the display looked clean it showed the SE logo and then the logo remained there and after a while the cell restarts itself and shows the logo again and thats it - it keeps doing it until i remove the battery!
I thought the OS is gone crap so I checked if it still recognises my OS - i pressed the vol down button and started and it properly showed my OS.
I tried formatting the cell (Hard reset) - it successfully formatted itself and when it restarted - the problem persisted!!
I would've easily gone to claim my warranty but I have Hard_SPL installed in my cell and I believe they will take it as a tampered phone and not rectify it.
I simply love this phone can anyone PLEASE help me solve this out?
Anyone? I need you guys' help!
Darn No one replied here or what! Anyways I got it done myself!
All I can say is warranty wont help for water damaged phones (they can check) and perhaps looks at youtube videos for removing water and perhaps flash a different rom. Never happened to me though.
If you have insurance, claim.
Otherwise - thats it
Hmmm...if it drowned, it's probably dead.
Did you give it mouth to mouth resuscitation asap?
poetryrocksalot said:
Hmmm...if it drowned, it's probably dead.
Did you give it mouth to mouth resuscitation asap?
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lol
I\ll summarize what I did.
The moment I saw i removed the battery, sim card and kept the cell for drying. The last day, 4th day, I kept it in an air tight container and kept that silica thing which comes with every electronic packing to absorb moisture. Put everything back and switched it on - Not a trace of what happened - it worked as it did b4!
Just to add my friend's cell phone - Nokia E72 hardly a week old was also with mine. He switched it on after 20 hrs and it worked fine!!!
Hmm. It may be a bit late, but try throwing it in a bowl of rice for a little, sucks out all the moisture, (whenever i wet my electronics, this trick always works) usually about a days worth of time. Other then that, Try flashing a new rom, you really can't hurt it any worse, and since its loading the boot thingy, you may still have a chance...
Hey guys as I mentioned before. my xperia is working fine now It worked after I dried it for 4 days.
Irfanulla said:
lol
I\ll summarize what I did.
The moment I saw i removed the battery, sim card and kept the cell for drying. The last day, 4th day, I kept it in an air tight container and kept that silica thing which comes with every electronic packing to absorb moisture. Put everything back and switched it on - Not a trace of what happened - it worked as it did b4!
Just to add my friend's cell phone - Nokia E72 hardly a week old was also with mine. He switched it on after 20 hrs and it worked fine!!!
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One thing you missed is to soak it in distilled water before drying. That'll make sure you don't have a thin film of salts/dirt/gunk on your board, especially if the water it fell in was dirty
yeah you are right but i came to know about it only after 3 days between which I had no access to the Internet. After 3 days I dint have the guts to do it and I was pretty sure the water was clean.
I fell in the water with both my x1 and ipod touch and both of them died
but put them both in a tuber-ware with rice on the radiator for 24hours and both came back from the grave as good as new
Irfanulla said:
lol
I\ll summarize what I did.
The moment I saw i removed the battery, sim card and kept the cell for drying. The last day, 4th day, I kept it in an air tight container and kept that silica thing which comes with every electronic packing to absorb moisture. Put everything back and switched it on - Not a trace of what happened - it worked as it did b4!
Just to add my friend's cell phone - Nokia E72 hardly a week old was also with mine. He switched it on after 20 hrs and it worked fine!!!
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how does you friend like about the e72?
and how did your phones get wet?
poetryrocksalot said:
how does you friend like about the e72?
and how did your phones get wet?
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My friend regrets buying E72. Not because he doesn't like it but because when buying he didn't think of any other phone. He was taken to a mobile shop and he was told (by the one who gifted this cell to him) to buy any cell phone he likes. When he told me about this I shouted at him for doing this blunder of not getting an iPhone or something. He said he dint realise it
I personally think E72 is a bad choice.
I went to a river just for fun with my friends. I'd kept my cell and this guy's cell in my bag and went swimming, the bag slipped into a stream of water... ;( I had three cell phones in this bag. X1 and Nokia 6630 which are mine and my friend's E72. 6630 had a narrow escape! But luck wasn't all that good for the other two
Is it just me, or has anyone else had to put their hand down a toilet?
Or after a night out partying, phone an ex, only to have the phone violently meet with the ground and disintegrate into tiny pieces (sim card to be found the next day, haha)
Tell your story (funny now, but not at the time) of your past phones deaths...
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MJ-12
Wtf what r u saying ... U smashed ur phone to ground?
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Damn i smashed my previous Nokia 5800 but nothing happened to it
Phone flew outta my coat pocket last winter when I started running, smashed all over the road but was still good. Then a few months later was drunk wrestling with my dog and it fell outta my pocket again, my dog found it and chewed on it, plus it rained... Had to search most of the next morning for it, recharged it still worked fine but super chewed... Then the last main thing, I was getting out of a car and it was on my lap, it landed face down with extended batt. on cement and the digitizer finally blew... I've since replaced every part on the phone except the LCD and mobo... I still love this phone and the devs that keep it more updated then then the newest phones out there... Thank God I haven't had to fish in the toilet yet:-o
Bikinis off, evo...
Once i was so drunk i thought it would be a good idea to throw my 2 week old Nokia (this was when Nokia were the top dogs lol) in the air pretending i was scoring a goal and kick it nearly breaking my foot in the process and my phone smashes to pieces
jonny68 said:
Once i was so drunk i thought it would be a good idea to throw my 2 week old Nokia (this was when Nokia were the top dogs lol) in the air pretending i was scoring a goal and kick it nearly breaking my foot in the process and my phone smashes to pieces
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LOL, did you score?
MJ-12 said:
LOL, did you score?
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woke up the next day with a bruised foot, nasty hangover and no phone
[i highly doubt ill be doing anything remotely like that with my GS2)
jonny68 said:
woke up the next day with a bruised foot, nasty hangover and no phone
[i highly doubt ill be doing anything remotely like that with my GS2)
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hahahahaha! Outstanding, made me laugh lol....
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MJ-12 said:
Is it just me, or has anyone else had to put their hand down a toilet?
MJ-12
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I actually killed a phone in a toilet I was out partying and I was really drunk. I had to pee and while peeing I had my thing in the left hand and was trying to text with my right hand (which is extremely difficult when the letters on the keyboard are moving around ;-) ) Suddenly I drop it straight down the toilet and I was just like "whoops" and I picked it up. It was dead
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Me and a friend used to send the occasional poop pic back and forth. After a morning of too much coffee I released an extra frothy concoction into the toilet and decided it was pic worthy for our chain letter. I dropped the phone into the toilet, quickly grabbed it out and rinsed it in the bathtub. It worked for about two weeks after that but slowly gave in. it was a crappy pantech flip phone. Good riddance. On the plus side nobody would ask to use my phone after that.
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Me and a friend used to send the occasional poop pic back and forth. After a morning of too much coffee I released an extra frothy concoction into the toilet and decided it was pic worthy for our chain letter. I dropped the phone into the toilet, quickly grabbed it out and rinsed it in the bathtub. It worked for about two weeks after that but slowly gave in. it was a crappy pantech flip phone. Good riddance. On the plus side nobody would ask to use my phone after that.
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Lol now that is random, not sure what is worse the what happened to the phone or the story behind what happened looooool.
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I was walking through a McDonalds drive-thru/car park area with my wife and we were having an argument. Out of exasperation, she flung her bag around, and her Sony Ericsson k750i flew out and hit the tarmac, a group of guys were watching not far away.
As I skipped over the get the phone, a car came out of the drive-thru, and despite protests to stop, drove straight over it wheel first. As the crunch happened, the group of guys all went 'ohhhhhhh' at the same time. It was complete dead, shattered screen, and a few mm thinner lol. Didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but glad I had insurance for a next day swap!
i had a sony ericcsson w580i that had a good little run around the insides of my washing machine (by accident of course - forgot to check my pockets beforehand)
the phone still worked fine, but the washing machine went on strike at that point (something about unauthorised foreign objects..)
i never tried 'cleaning' a phone again!!
Many years ago when I was on my way to work.I was talking on phone with my client. Some dude bum on me really hard accidently and my phone flew over to the road and a car ran over it.
the phone were disembowelled and I pick it up, the call still connects and I finished the call with the client with that naked disembowelled phone.
It was an old school Nokia 3310 lol.
It's not dead technically but since the chassis and keypad and screen were all broken .so
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@jpxdude, and darkinners.
Would love to have seen these incidents, the shock on faces as the phone gets trashed... lol
Priceless
As said, am sure it was far from funny at the time, but hey it is now.
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Wtf what r u saying ... U smashed ur phone to ground?
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ahh, basically, yes
More of a fail on my part lol. Had a Samsung u900 and pulled it apart because the keypad was being funny. All went well until I realised I couldn't put it back together. I don't know if a clip broke or what but the internal components never sat right afterwards haha.
Back in high school during my stupid and naive days, my Sony Ericsson k610i's paint was peeling pretty badly. So I idiotically painted it black and went to school. Answered a call and the black paint transfered to my face without my knowledge. I took some serious ridicule that day haha. So I got rid of phone and used a spare for 6 months til contract ended lol
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Haha I accidentally poured Ice-cream on my Old Nokia once and the thing just fried Poor phone
LOL I had my hand in a toilet to recover my blackberry and my old iPhone 4. Took them out of my pocket before a shower, and slipped right from my hand into the toilet. Both times
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LOL I had my hand in a toilet to recover my blackberry and my old iPhone 4. Took them out of my pocket before a shower, and slipped right from my hand into the toilet. Both times
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both of them? seriously man, be careful. others have old school phones, you have high end phones.
After reading many threads & posts about people's Nexus's breaking so easily, I thought I would make this thread. So share your near death experience(s) here.
I've dropped mine from 5 ft, twice on a solid floor, and the only damage is a little scuff on the chrome bezel on the corner.
Yesterday my nexus was dropped into a bin (by my coworker, not me!), so a 3/4ft drop onto hard plastics & stone, and then solid plaster was dropped on top. The only protection my Nexus had was one of those waterproof bags (like when you buy grapes).
That's all. I've skid her a few times along laminate flooring, and she goes through rapid temperature changes (hot hand to freezing stainless steel bench) without shattering.
She works fine & only has a small scuff. So I guess these phones aren't as fragile as people say they are! Cheers.
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My nearest-to-death experience was dropping her from 2-3 feet from my lap to the ground, which had carpet. That was more than enough of a scare for me. I do baby my electronics, though. I think I'm going to stop living in fear of breaking my Nexus 4 and start enjoying it. I just took off my screen protector last week and am enjoying the feel of the sloped glass in front. I figure if I continue to be extra cautious, I'll be good. And if I get a scratch, well, I'll just live with it.
I had a nightmare that the back was broken, woke up and I was glad it was just a dream.
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The wife and were sitting on the top step of the front porch having a smoke. I thought I had a good grip on it but somehow it came out of my hand and I bobbled it about 5 times as my heart skipped a beat. I finally snagged it out of the air and it went back into my pocket. I've never actually dropped it but I know it would have been finished had it hit and toppled down concrete steps!
We took my three year old son to get his passport photos done. For whatever reason he would not sit calmly in the chair. We gave him my phone to calm him down, which helped. He was playing with it, then the photographer came and my boy got pissed off again. He threw the phone on the ground from about 5 feet up (he was sitting on a stool).
I was ready for it. Picked it up, and not a scratch. The poetic bumper and presumably dbrand skin helped a lot.
I dropped mine once off my bed, onto wood floor. Landed on the back. Didn't damage it, all it had was the stock bumper. Yesterday... I dropped it in the kitchen, between where the floor changes from wood to tile, it landed on the riser that covers that section. Bumper flew off, screen is now shattered and the digitizer no longer works. Just ordered a replacement.. Not happy about it, but that's life. First device I've ever broken. Had it since Nov. 16th of last year. Very sad...
Had one bad one so far, came home from gym and had on track pants I guess you could call them, loose fitting with loose baggy pockets. Soon as I in the door I had to pee super bad so darted up the steps which are hardwood, about 8 steps up it slipped right out of my pocket and did a bounce and tumble all the way back down. Heart stopped lol, had the body glove bumper on it, I was so disgusted I went to the bathroom first anticipating when I got downstairs it would be broke, luckily when I picked it up only a funky little scuff of the case, nothing at all on the phone when I took it out. That was like a month ago and no issues ever since.
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Horrible!!
She was in my hands, waist-height. I dropped her when i was closing a door. The door's lower edge had metal on it. So anyway, she slipped outta my hands and I tried to cut the landing with my foot and ended up kicking her into the metal on the door. I did not want to flip her over. She was pristine though. Greatest scare ever...
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I had a nightmare that the back was broken, woke up and I was glad it was just a dream.
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Me too just last night!
Last week... I was trying to take some friends to a country house cause they're guest of mine at my wedding party, long story short after an hour trying to find that place call my next day wife to be helped but no way... So nervous I throw the phone out of my car... It is on a ringke fusion cover... No damage, nothing, no scratch ever... Ehmmm... Throw other 2 times that day but in my car cockpit... Still lucky!
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Tommebaas said:
I had a nightmare that the back was broken, woke up and I was glad it was just a dream.
Verstuurd van mijn Nexus 4 met Tapatalk
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So I am not the only one.
Envoyé depuis mon Nexus 4 avec Tapatalk
I have dropped mine a few times. It has a few dings on the chrome bezel and a tiny scratch on the back glass.
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I like to listen to music while im in the shower, so the day after I got the phone, I sat the phone on a piece of tissue (i hate sitting the bare glass directly on things) and put it on the toilet seat. After I get out, im drying off and I just see the phone slide off of the seat, it was like watching in slow motion lol. I picked it up and there was no damage, i was so happy lol
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I put my Nexus 4 on top of my clothes in my work locker. By the time my shift was over, I had completely forgotten about my phone. I then opened my locker and just yanked out my clothes which sent my nexus 4 flying about 7 feet from my locker which was 5 feet high. The phone landed face first and my heart dropped, I carefully lifted it and when I turned it, not a single scratch, mark, or imperfection. I am a lucky son of a *****.
I broke my ankle seriously and had surgery in January. In March, I was hopping around on one foot to the restroom when the N4 popped out of the pocket of my athletic shorts, hit the toilet seat, and luckily bounced to the ground and not inside the toilet.
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Flashing Nexus 7 kernel by accident
Someone once asked me if it was an iPhone...
I was at work (food processing plant) and I leaned against a sharp metal corner, right into the same pocket that had my N4. I thought I felt glass break, so I was pretty worried until I checked it at break. Phone was alright though (no damage)
AshtonTS said:
Someone once asked me if it was an iPhone...
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They should be posting here, because they risked their life with that blasphemous statement.
This was when Ubuntu Phone's preview came up. I was one of the first to grab a copy. Downloaded the files and flashed it through adb. Had never used adb in my life. After flashing, the phone is stuck on the Google logo. Waits for 5 mins, still same. Panic really hard. Started to browse all forums - xda, reddit, android authority blah blah for any help. 15 mins passed still stuck on Google logo. Trembling I pick up the Nexus and forcefully power it down. While pressing the power button, my heart beat is so loud that I could hear it. The screen turns off and then powers back on and what I see gives me a stroke.
RED LED OF DEATH.
I had read so many nightmare stories of it and now faced. Suddenly something weird comes. I few glitch like things and then Ubuntu shows. I play Ubuntu for a couple of minutes and then the phone blacks out. Power back up and again the RED LED. Plug the phone into the computer and restore android using mskip's util. NEVER GONNA FLASH UBUNTU.
Post Mortem
So it turns out that during the Google logo a massive battery drain took place. Thats why the red led showed up. Ubuntu didn't have any way to show the battery and that's why it blacked out without any pop-up.