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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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motodude said:
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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alanthemanofchicago said:
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.
I got it today....its small and only noticeable when in light...I just got this phone yesterday...anything I can do to fix?
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No. All the products that say they will "fix" scratches are basically abrasives that wear the entire screen down to the scratches level. This is like throwing water on an oil fire. Seems like a good idea but the results aren't the intended ones.
There are only two options that actually work:
1. New device/screen.
2. Screen protector to diminish the appearance of the scratches.
Take a knife and stab your screen like your crazy. Then, call the company and tell them they shipped you a jacked up phone.
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A screen protector might cover it up if it's really small.
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Ask it to go away. Nicely
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You're going to need to throw the phone on a concrete tile, face-down. You should not be able to see the scratch anymore. If needed, repeat the procedure.
Unfortunately, no. Like other posters have said, slap a screen protector on it to diminish the scratch. Anti-reflective protectors do a good job, IMO, of hiding small blemishes, but not everyone likes how they make the screen look.
race55 said:
You're going to need to throw the phone on a concrete tile, face-down. You should not be able to see the scratch anymore. If needed, repeat the procedure.
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The irony.. you kept getting mad at trolls in ot
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1922186 and now youre one of them?
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Apply some white toothpaste. It won't patch deep scratches but it's worth trying.
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Tezlastorme said:
The irony.. you kept getting mad at trolls in ot
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1922186 and now youre one of them?
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Lol they teached me how to behave here....
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I'm shocked that deathnotice01 changed his nick back to this one.
On topic: Agree with screen protector. My wife threw a fork and scratched my phone the night I got it (Christmas eve!), I never notice it now, though it took weeks to make myself stop looking for it.
jRi0T68 said:
I'm shocked that deathnotice01 changed his nick back to this one.
On topic: Agree with screen protector. My wife threw a fork and scratched my phone the night I got it (Christmas eve!), I never notice it now, though it took weeks to make myself stop looking for it.
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I suggest you stop pissing your wife off.......
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Babydoll25 said:
I suggest you stop pissing your wife off.......
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Lol! She's a severe clinical insomniac (on 15+ prescriptions from the same doctor, multiple diagnoses). She has to take some of her pills with food, and occasionally falls asleep (spontaneously passes out) while eating. So, when she wakes up sometimes, there are dishes on her nightstand. We she was handing me her dishes as I was going to the kitchen, tossed the fork, didn't realize I'd be fondling my new phone and wasn't looking.
Edit: However, she is Irish, and pissing her off is NOT a good idea, so your advice is still good.
jRi0T68 said:
Lol! She's a severe clinical insomniac (on 15+ prescriptions from the same doctor, multiple diagnoses). She has to take some of her pills with food, and occasionally falls asleep (spontaneously passes out) while eating. So, when she wakes up sometimes, there are dishes on her nightstand. We she was handing me her dishes as I was going to the kitchen, tossed the fork, didn't realize I'd be fondling my new phone and wasn't looking.
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Sure.....that's what happened. :what:
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Fine! The truth! I snore and sleep with my phone. Her preferred method of stopping my snoring is to hurl the entire dish drawer at my head. I'd ask her to stop, but it's in the prenup.
jRi0T68 said:
Fine! The truth! I snore and sleep with my phone. He preferred method of stopping my snoring is to hurl the entire dish drawer at my head. I'd ask her to stop, but it's in the prenup.
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Now that I believe.
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There was a bit of chat went on here about the same thing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1185606
Most suggestions involve using various abrasive substances, my reply included. As it says, if you do cut too far through the protective layer, it could render the touch screen unserviceable.
Phone would not turn on and was getting the flashing red led....Then this happened:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/113432564234680420222/albums/5842983421756825761
No tub of rice for 24 hours?
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No tub of rice for 24 hours?
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Yea I submerged it right into the bag of rice, for about 40 hours, but still wouldn't turn on. that's when I opened it up and rubbed it down with alcohol. Put it back together and voila
Impressive skills. Did you follow a guide or do you do this for a living?
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Impressive skills. Did you follow a guide or do you do this for a living?
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Thanks, I don't do this for a living nor did I follow a guide but it looks a lot more complicated than it is. I actually didn't know about the rubbing alcohol being a solution to water damage, my cousin told me, then i just bought the necessary tools to open it up made sure all excess water was dried, rubbed it down, blow dried it for a few minutes and put it back together.
And the screen wasn't trashed. That's good. Maybe that fused digitizer/LCD combo is a good thing after all
Did you see where the water sensor is?
Yea there are two of them basically within an inch of each other. One to the right of the rear camera in the center of the upper frame and the other just above the battery.
I used bleach and qtips on both stickers and they looked brand new in under a minute. Although if you look carefully you could see wrinkles. Wouldn't be noticeable with lighter water damage .
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Yea there are two of them basically within an inch of each other. One to the right of the rear camera in the center of the upper frame and the other just above the battery.
I used bleach and qtips on both stickers and they looked brand new in under a minute. Although if you look carefully you could see wrinkles. Wouldn't be noticeable with lighter water damage .
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thanks
Congrats on the resurrection. Hopefully there are no intermittent issues in the future. Best of luck.
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Thanks ..lucky for me it was an RMA unit that I was supposed to send back but never got around to. I sold the repaired unit for 300 and am keeping the new one. As far as I could tell everything was working perfectly except that the mic didn't work while on speaker ...disclosed that in the sale and the buyer was fine with it so w.e ....stress off my chest
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respect
Nice :thumbup:
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Nice work bro fistbump*
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Click it I dare you?
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trilogee said:
Thanks ..lucky for me it was an RMA unit that I was supposed to send back but never got around to. I sold the repaired unit for 300 and am keeping the new one. As far as I could tell everything was working perfectly except that the mic didn't work while on speaker ...disclosed that in the sale and the buyer was fine with it so w.e ....stress off my chest
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Wonder how things will go down when your buyer realizes something is wrong, comes to xda looking for a solution, and sees this thread lol
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Lol...can't even take the time to read my full post ...that hurts
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trilogee said:
Lol...can't even take the time to read my full post ...that hurts
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impressive, it looks like nowadays phones and circuits inside them survive better than the old small brick nokia phones in the past.
My sister washed her samsung corby in the washing machine, put it in rice and turned it back on it still works. Same I did with my Sony point and shoot camera.
For the OP this may be a sign. you should consider buying xperia Z
The rice trick is a common one. Works well.
Ashan85 said:
impressive, it looks like nowadays phones and circuits inside them survive better than the old small brick nokia phones in the past.
My sister washed her samsung corby in the washing machine, put it in rice and turned it back on it still works. Same I did with my Sony point and shoot camera.
For the OP this may be a sign. you should consider buying xperia Z
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Oh, don't you start with nokia phones. You could throw one on concrete from 5th floor, then dump it into a glass of water, dry it out, put back together and it still works. Except for power button. But still!
Background: I owned the Nexus S, and Galaxy Nexus as daily drivers.
This is my first glass backed phone - but not until I finally removed the plastic film from it recently, did I realise how problematic it is.
In short:
DON'T LEAVE THIS PHONE ON ANY SURFACE NOT PERFECTLY LEVEL.
I mean, the slightest incline and your phone will slowly make it's way to jumping off the edge.
I had never dropped my phone in the few months since release, and the week I take off the plastic, it has hit the floor 3 times.
Once it did it over the course of a few hours in the middle of the night, from the flat night table next to the bed.
The other day, off a counter ledge in the bathroom.
Just now, from atop the microwave in the kitchen.
Each time, nothing was moving or near the phone, and it fell off seconds or minutes after putting it down. No vibration or anything occured either, which would surely expedite the falling.
If you put this phone down on a not-level surface (ie, anything that would cause a ball to roll) you can watch it ever so gradually slide and move around. I can't even put it on a short stack of 6 pieces of paper on my desk without it slipping off before long. I'm telling you these are surfaces that you wouldn't know weren't level if not for this phone treating it like an ice skating rink. Nothing has ever fallen off of them, previously.
I hate it. I wouldn't change the phone to another, but still. Frictionless glass backing SUCKS.
Oh, and luckily no cracks or damage. So far. But I've learned my lesson and now have to wall it in with other objects it can't move past.
Now i know
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I'm sorry but... IBL.
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Get a screen protector for the back or a nice case
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EnIXmA said:
Get a screen protector for the back or a nice case
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Whilst I recommend a case for pretty much everyone else I know, I'm careful enough to go "naked" and appreciate the phone as designed. It's just an adjustment in this case, and I don't anticipate it falling ever again.
A stupid adjustment I shouldn't have to make, but there you go.
Your physics concepts are fu**ed up,if there is no friction,the phone would be slipping away from your hands every seconds already,go back to school to study man. In your situation,it is called lesser friction.
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In other news, walking on gravel without shoes hurts and standing outside when it's snowing will make you cold.
Yes, it's got a shiny back and yes, funnily this makes it more likely to slide off things.
If it bothers you, get a bumper. I did and it doesn't slide around now. I also bought shoes for the snow and that fixed my feet too.
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davidang said:
Your physics concepts are fu**ed up,if there is no friction,the phone would be slipping away from your hands every seconds already,go back to school to study man. In your situation,it is called lesser friction.
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Hahaha yeah my physics are just so CRAZY. It couldn't merely be my writing, you know: using a word that conveys the relative amount of friction, rather than scientifically correct terminology. Get over yourself.
And whilst we're at it, unless you were somehow holding the phone only by its "frictionless" back, it wouldn't slip out of your hands, now would it? Oh, the irony of your terrible post.
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I'm sorry but... IBL.
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New moderator?
We had plenty of rant threads, no need to open another one.
So yes, thread locked.
Just caught a TV commercial with Samsung announcing its Next Big Thing (really, they really said that in their commercial). It's a washing machine that can also be used as a sink! Why would anyone want to use their washing machine as a sink? Will there be an app for custom water? Will it be able to be rooted? Will it run Android or Tizen? Too funny Samsung. Maybe next they can make a matching dryer. Perhaps you'll be able to use it to also dry your hair. SMH
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I think they misunderstood "logic".
Actually I really like Samsung appliances, and MUCH more than their phones (which I don't really like anymore)...
Someone has clearly never done his own laundry...
The sink is there to manually wash out stubborn stains without having to run to the kitchen or bathroom all the time. The sink has a wall texture like an old-fashioned washing board for scrubbing.
Not to mention, some fabrics and clothes can't be done in a washingmachine without ruining them or the print. It's so much more convenient when you don't have to walk down three floors just to do one t-shirt, and then back up three floors again to hang it to dry with the rest. And no, not everyone can build a sink wherever they like. Some people rent.
The idea behind the washer-sink is convenience. It's not stupid, it's brilliant.
If they do make a dryer to go with it, one with a flip up clothing rack for the items that can't go in the dryer for obvious reason would be incredibly helpful.
ShadowLea said:
Someone has clearly never done his own laundry...
The sink is there to manually wash out stubborn stains without having to run to the kitchen or bathroom all the time. The sink has a wall texture like an old-fashioned washing board for scrubbing.
Not to mention, some fabrics and clothes can't be done in a washingmachine without ruining them or the print. It's so much more convenient when you don't have to walk down three floors just to do one t-shirt, and then back up three floors again to hang it to dry with the rest. And no, not everyone can build a sink wherever they like. Some people rent.
The idea behind the washer-sink is convenience. It's not stupid, it's brilliant.
If they do make a dryer to go with it, one with a flip up clothing rack for the items that can't go in the dryer for obvious reason would be incredibly helpful.
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You're absolutely correct ShadowLea, not even once. Isn't that one of the reasons we get married? So we don't have to cook, clean and do laundry? Lol
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KB2VYZ said:
You're absolutely correct ShadowLea, not even once. Isn't that one of the reasons we get married? So we don't have to cook, clean and do laundry? Lol
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Comedy at its finest...
I wouldn't quit my day job
orangekid said:
Comedy at its finest...
I wouldn't quit my day job
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Lol, don't worry orangekid, I won't. And not to worry, my wife and I both do the cooking, cleaning and laundry. Which is why I've remained HAPPILY MARRIED for the last 30 years.
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KB2VYZ said:
Lol, don't worry orangekid, I won't. And not to worry, my wife and I both do the cooking, cleaning and laundry. Which is why I've remained HAPPILY MARRIED for the last 30 years.
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Wow 30 years, that's pretty amazing! and happily at that, that's quite a feat my man!
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orangekid said:
Wow 30 years, that's pretty amazing! and happily at that, that's quite a feat my man!
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Thank you orangekid. I truly met my soul mate and wouldn't trade her for any woman in the world. In all of our years together, we've had just one argument.
I was just reading an article recently about how short marriages are these days, and I forget whether it's 10 or 15 years, which isn't bad, but still sad that people that claimed to love one another would rather divorce than try to work things out.
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