Cracked screen- does otterbox help or hurt - Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers

Never cracked a phone, and I buy and sell them all year long. Dropped this from 30inches and then...crack.
To be fair, I was using imitation otterbox. Does anyone feel like these cases actually provide more weight to add to the fall?
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By the looks of the crack, the case had nothing to do with it, the screen most surely crashed with a rock, against a corner, etc, something that concentrated the blunt of the impact, bad luck, that's it. Sorry man…

winol said:
By the looks of the crack, the case had nothing to do with it, the screen most surely crashed with a rock, against a corner, etc, something that concentrated the blunt of the impact, bad luck, that's it. Sorry man…
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Yeah. It looks like that it did hit a rock or a protruding object.

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Has anyone tried this on their phone?
I'm going to order enough to test and was wondering if anyone one had success stories or tips.
http://www.carbonfiberfilm.com/blog/diy-guide-carbon-fiber-vinyl-for-the-htc-evo-4g/
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You can buy precut ones at phantomskinz. It comes with 2 screen protectors as well. Those are quite nice, no orange peel effect and not tacky at all
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you know, that's not a bad idea...I've got access to a CNC router and mill here at work, and a place I can buy some sweet looking carbon fiber from (http://www.dragonplate.com/default.asp). It'd be worth it to make a back for my phone. Wouldn't take me that long either, but I'd have to get time to do it, and that's not likely to happen any time soon.
With any luck, I'll convince the boss to paint more android phones, because our products are seriously sweet, albeit extremely expensive. I'd love to have my Shift painted a custom color, or do some corporate testing with it...doubt it'll happen though

Sanded back cover

So, I completely sanded my back cover so it's matte plastic. It doesn't look as bad as I would have imagined. Strangely it feels thinner, lighter and better built. Anyone else try this out?
Post some pics?
Sent from the other side of town.
Pics or it didn't happen.
excited to see pics yes
keep in mind, I was planning to spray paint it white
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keep in mind, I was planning to spray paint it white
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Seems like it needs a bit more work around the edges. A finer sand paper coupled with a wet sanding session could land you with a perfectly, scratchless matte look.

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Looks pretty damn good to me.

Zizo Case

So believe it or not this came up on my FB Sponsored Ad. Figured it was interesting enough to check out.
Anyone have any experience with this case or any of it's kind? What do you think of it?
https://www.zizowireless.com/collec...ry-grade-drop-tested-case?variant=19326897859
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The site claims that it's Mil-Std-810G drop test certified.
Feel welcomed to check out what that means for yourself here but based on what I've read was that it withstands 26 drops in total, from 4 feet high, on its face, edges, and corners with no damage to the device. Now that doesn't sound like much but I've cracked a screen on my S4 by letting it smack pavement jelly side down from just two feet. I currently have three cases but I'm strongly considering this to being a fourth!
I saw this too on my Facebook feed. Not so sure about having a lanyard loop on my case
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Looks cool man
cool looking case, not digging the lanyard either tho. I got this one with the holster included for $15, not the same i know, but a pretty nice case:
http://www.amazon.com/i-Blason-Kick...&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00

Full trasparent tempered glass

Hello have you ever tried this screen protector?
https://goo.gl/aOAXsA
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I've tried one similar (if not that actual one). It was pretty awful. Felt like plastic, scratched immediately just wiping it after application.
Transparent ones will lift at the edges if they go all the way out and it'll look awful, just fyi
had the same, waste of money, looks awful, feels like compressed plastic bag. payed two months ago 9€.
at the edges you will become small breaks in it and it looks like your phone screen is broken at the edges.
if you want a gadget that makes your 450$ phone look like trash you should buy it.

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