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So I've had my phone for 3 months now and its awesome. There's just one bloody problem...it creaks at the bottom near the soft keys and USB charger slot.
Has anyone had this problem? I'm not sure how to fix it.
The problem has been there since the beginning but it was confined near the usb charging slot and I only noticed it when I held the phone with one hand. So I put a case on it which minimized it but its progressively getting worse. It now creaks through the case as well. Without the case it is really sqeeky.
I dont feel like returning it for this...not sure if they will even indulge me. But its only been 3 months and its getting worse. It might be quite bad in a year's time. It does not affect any function but annoys the hell out of me everytime i pick it up.
I thought I would ask here if anyone can give me any advice. What would you do?
No squeek on mine and I've had it since launch. Sorry, I have no advice. But that would bother me too.
I remember this happening on an old PSP of mine back in the day. after a year of the annoying creaking i couldn't take it and opened it up and smothered the area of creaking with super glue. doubt you'd do that to your SR though..
Brick and get a new phone
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3 months I don't think they'd give you a new phone. 30 days you might have a chance. I returned mine within 3 days because right below the power button I could feel where the two halves met. It bugged the hell out of me. The sales guy looked at me like I was nuts, but after walking him around to compare mine to the floor models he agreed to exchange it.
Go back to wherever you got it and see what they are willing to do, or brick it.
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Brick and get a new phone
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don't!!!! If you send a bricked phone to Samsung for warranty from Rogers, especially after 3 month use, all it will do after 4 weeks they will send it back say there is water damage(there is always little water damage inside so you can't prove otherwise) so they don;t have to give you a new one and you will end up with a bricked phone, $400 quote to fix it, $30 charge if you decline fixing it and you have not used it for a month.
Just take it to local cellphone repair shop they will fix it for $20.
Yeah I kinda expect bricking is not the wisest move for Rogers. I didn't return it early on because the problem was virtually unnoticable. I also remember waiting for about a week or two for this phone to be delivered and it was such a long time for me because I couldn't wait , and I didn't want to go through that again.
Might check out a repairshop... or if anyone knows a really tight case, I might try that too. I'll try superglue experimentation on it when its old and worth much much less lol.
Just curious if anyone dropped or damaged a phone before. Is it possible that anyone never broke a phone? I hear people say they don't buy insurance because they're always careful. Are you one those mystical people?
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I have never broken a phone by dropping it. Somehow I have drove over 2 of my phones and wrecked them but past that I have been very fortunate I guess
Pin it to Win it.
Had to replace one as a result of dropping it. My newest replacement was due to a fail digitizer.
I ive dropped my SGS many times. So many people rip on samsung for using plastic build materials but it is really durable.
Deggy said:
Just curious if anyone dropped or damaged a phone before. Is it possible that anyone never broke a phone? I hear people say they don't buy insurance because they're always careful. Are you one those mystical people?
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Yeah,drop em all the time. Pick up,wipe off the dust and reboot. Haha. Insurance for a phone? Maybe theft.
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I was very happy with my jailbroken i-phone 3gs. I thought it was protected by the sleek looking CaseCrown surround. However, after dropping it while on the treadmill, stepping on it while on the treadmill, and seeing the result shoot backward and hit the wall, I realized that CaseCrown was no Otterbox. Broken case, broken on/off switch, and speaker that rattled. Anyway, my hands are not as steady as they once were, so I was unable to make the repair myself. I sent it off to a third-party vendor, and it was returned with a new case, but the volume controls did not work and neither did the antenna. After arguing back and forth, (the vendor insisted that my jailbreak was responsible even though it has worked just fine for two years) they tried to fix it again. In the meantime, I got fed up wit the wait and opted to move to the 'droid side. Now I have a shiny new Galaxy Note (i 717 AT&T with stock ICS). Never looking back -- I love the note! (not rooted yet -- I am still reading the various posts about it. I want to be sure I know what I am doing, and how to recover, before I mess with it.)
I dropped my old flip phone(s) repeatedly but it never really broke, just got some wear and tear.
Dropped my first Android a few times, but my case saved it.
So for now, I've been really careful with my phones.
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My old vibrant took a 7 ft face first fall onto a concrete warehouse floor. Not a scratch, thanks to otterbox. My GS2 has been dropped one or twice, but also no harm done. I'm confident that without proper cases, that vibrant would be broken, instead of being used by my son.
I use electronic devices carefully specially mobile phones, i dropped my Nokia 5800 once and its case cracked.
Rickh123456 said:
I was very happy with my jailbroken i-phone 3gs. I thought it was protected by the sleek looking CaseCrown surround. However, after dropping it while on the treadmill, stepping on it while on the treadmill, and seeing the result shoot backward and hit the wall, I realized that CaseCrown was no Otterbox. Broken case, broken on/off switch, and speaker that rattled. Anyway, my hands are not as steady as they once were, so I was unable to make the repair myself. I sent it off to a third-party vendor, and it was returned with a new case, but the volume controls did not work and neither did the antenna. After arguing back and forth, (the vendor insisted that my jailbreak was responsible even though it has worked just fine for two years) they tried to fix it again. In the meantime, I got fed up wit the wait and opted to move to the 'droid side. Now I have a shiny new Galaxy Note (i 717 AT&T with stock ICS). Never looking back -- I love the note! (not rooted yet -- I am still reading the various posts about it. I want to be sure I know what I am doing, and how to recover, before I mess with it.)
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The moment I read glass in the iPhone description it was a dealbreaker.
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I don't usually drop my phone, but I have a good friend who quite regularly drops her galaxy s2 xD i think both cameras are dying now.
my first phone was a lg 4400 (it didnt even have a camera),which my daughter dropped in the toilet. thankfully the water was clean! i took it apart to let it dry for a few days, put it back together and my wife used it for 6 months before it died. been very lucky/carefull with all my other phones.
my phone is BB 8700, and I don't care about that
Dropped a phone, I often do this. Many times battery even get out of my phone when dropped.
I have had Motorola phones for the past 2 years, I dropped my old Droid 2 from a 10 foot ladder, and all it got was a slight scratch on the raised bezel bottom left of the screen. made a switch to the nexus a while back have dropped it a few times with only a screen protector on and it hasn't acquired any noticeable damage cept for a small scratch on the battery cover.
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i got pushed in a swiming pool with my iphone 4. i was so mad
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Ouch
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Always dropped my bb8520 and the call quality was the worst
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Wow the iphone being pushed into a swimming pool is really ****ed up the one while running is just funny mine sgs has been dropped kicked drowned in a toilet broken glass in upper right corner i can see the inside there.. and every time battery and back cover fly there own ways yeahhhh samsung is hardcore im running cm10 jellybean from pawitp with the newest semaphore jb kernel and some other visual tweaks and big mem. it has never been so smooth so both Samsung and XDA thank you.
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Just picked this one up. Battery came out and flew in the opposite direction when it dropped.
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Naturally, just as we start getting some real dev work on this phone, my wifes SK$G got swimming lessons. Now just in case any one is wondering, SK4G's do not swim well. In fact the poor guy drown!
So here's to hoping you guys get great development! Maybe I will see you deving for her new Galaxy S Relay 4G!
Sorry to hear it!
wolfepakt said:
Naturally, just as we start getting some real dev work on this phone, my wifes SK$G got swimming lessons. Now just in case any one is wondering, SK4G's do not swim well. In fact the poor guy drown!
So here's to hoping you guys get great development! Maybe I will see you deving for her new Galaxy S Relay 4G!
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Good luck. Hey, maybe it's for the best? All good things must come to an end, or all bad things. However you view the SK4G. I'm just glad I'm in a predicament where I'm able use a newer phone, but still be able to work with the SK4G, had it still been my primary driver, we wouldn't have an excellent developer working on it.
That sucks. Did you try taking the battery out and letting it sit in a bowl of rice? The battery may be toast but there is some hope for the phone. You might try a new battery before you call it dead.
bhundven said:
That sucks. Did you try taking the battery out and letting it sit in a bowl of rice? The battery may be toast but there is some hope for the phone. You might try a new battery before you call it dead.
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You gotta do a lot more than just let it sit in rice for awhile. You need to take the entire phone apart and flush it with clean water, then place the pieces somewhere warm to dry for a few hours. Ideally you use compressed air to blow the water off first.
Even then, a full immersion probably means you'd need a new screen. Screens are made up of a bunch of layers of delicate diffusers that are easily damaged simply by touching them. I wouldn't try to repair a water damaged LCD.
Still you could probably revive the mainboard, permitting it to be used to fix a hard bricked phone, or allowing you to get any important data off of it.
She made the mistake of trying to turn it on before it had time to dry properly.
Fortunately we had a full upgrade! She so far likes the relay. Only things she misses is the keyboard and the screen angle.
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Only things she misses is the keyboard and the screen angle.
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Screen angle was the main reason why I got this phone. Used HTC Touch Pro 2 before that, and it's angle was even better. Why there are so few phones with tiltable screen?..
I really have no idea how the hell it got inside...left it in my bedroom came back and saw it crawling. i assumed it was on the outside of my screen, but it was really inside :\ how the hell did it get in there? Its so disturbing...
I hope for your sake he manages to crawl out again and doesn't die there.
Speaker grille maybe?
he's already dead...sigh
yo blud7...im a Trini too! noticed your bmobile avatar
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I really have no idea how the hell it got inside...left it in my bedroom came back and saw it crawling. i assumed it was on the outside of my screen, but it was really inside :\ how the hell did it get in there? Its so disturbing...
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That's messed up... you should try low pressure blower.... btw this is mbetty.. have been that happen before and that solution worked a few times... different devices tho
Wow that's very disturbing. Hope you find a solution and now I have to stop leaving my note on the floor and onto a table or something.
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There must be a hole between lcd screen which let an ant to go under it. Im sure that hole will cause some dirt to go inside as well which later can create something like a dust cloud inside. Those are common issue with htc device. Htc sensation exactly..but i never heard its happen to sammy product before..keep crossing finger..this is something to worry about
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Lol sorry it's kind of funny, but I do empathise for you. Had read a thread in the past with the exact same issue on a tablet. I wonder if warranty will cover ants
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Buggy tablet
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Buggy tablet
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It's a feature, not a bug.
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Warranty covered
Have you been to the store to see if it is under warranty? And what they told you?
Supposedly the screen should be sealed. I think! Or not!
Just contact Samsung and ask them what you should do. Obviously this should not be possible.
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I'll attempt blowing some can air into the speaker grill. If that fails ill contact Samsung cuz I bought this from amazon.
if it's still eligible to return, send it back to amazon and just say that it wasn't working properly and you'll get a replacement in a day or so.
ask me how i know....lol.
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Have you been to the store to see if it is under warranty? And what they told you?
Supposedly the screen should be sealed. I think! Or not!
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Could have got in the micro sd slot and crawled around. I worked in the field years ago for a cable company, a lady called in and said her cable box LED display was cutting off numbers so 8's looked like 3's and so on. I went to here house and noticed about 20 roaches inside her box!
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Could have got in the micro sd slot and crawled around. I worked in the field years ago for a cable company, a lady called in and said her cable box LED display was cutting off numbers so 8's looked like 3's and so on. I went to here house and noticed about 20 roaches inside her box!
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Wow that's bad. I would not want to touch anything in that house. Would have to disinfect like the biochemist do.
Hold a vacuum cleaner hose up to wherever you think he got in and maybe it will suck him out?
the memory card slot has always been covered...and i honestly cant see him crawling in through the speaker grill. its way too tiny
Maybe the charging port? Either way tablets are not air tight, and the ant got in.
Pretty sure Amazon can work with you as well, I have always had good customer service experiences with them.
Makes me feel better I paid for the best buy replacement plan
So my LG V10 slipped out of my lap and fell two feet to my carpeted floor and you can see the cracks. So much for their 26 drops on to concrete with no damage. I tried to let them know that this happened so they could look into the fact that this phone cracked so easily but they don't seem to care. I mean, if you tested a phone to drop 4 feet onto concrete 26 times with no damage and someone drops one 2 feet onto carpet and the screen cracks, you should be worried.
So, no help from LG. I couldn't even get to a supervisor and I tried off and on for 12 hours today. I was put on hold for 20 - 40 minutes with no supervisor ever getting to me. They have horrible customer service - not because they won't replace it but because I couldn't even get ahold of a supervisor within 12 hours.
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Not saying you're full of crap, but 2 foot drop into carpet? you really think we believe this? Best bet is to claim insurance. Not sure why you would think this is LGs fault.
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Not saying you're full of crap, but 2 foot drop into carpet? you really think we believe this? Best bet is to claim insurance. Not sure why you would think this is LGs fault.
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1. This WAS a 2 ft drop on to berber carpet with no padding under it. Believe what you want because I was shocked when it happened. When it fell, I looked at my wife and sarcastically said, "My phone fell....I'm sooooo worried," and then I picked it up and saw this. This is why I think there is something wrong with the phone.
2. LG did not drop my phone but they do have THIS on their website: 1. The LG V10 passed a military standard test for shock (MIL-STD-810G Method 516.6, Procedure IV – "Transit Drop"") that consists of 4-foot drops onto 2" of plywood over concrete. The test includes impacts on every face, edge and corner of the device. Further, the device passed an enhanced version of the Transit Drop test consisting of 26 drops from 4 feet onto a concrete surface. ----------SO, Why would a 2 ft drop onto carpet crack the screen? Makes no sense. If I ran LG, I would be concerned about build quality at this point.
Had to be defective...ive dropped phones on concrete, kicked trying to save it with no case and had less damage
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Not saying you're full of crap, but 2 foot drop into carpet? you really think we believe this? Best bet is to claim insurance. Not sure why you would think this is LGs fault.
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By the way "Not saying you're full of crap" then saying "you really think we believe this?" is basically saying "I'm trying not to be rude but you are full of crap."
You weren't here and you don't know but why would I come on here and make this up? I'm just trying to make sure people know that you cannot trust the durability of this phone and that if you considered carrying this phone with no case, think again. My apologies for trying to warn people.
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Had to be defective...ive dropped phones on concrete, kicked trying to save it with no case and had less damage
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Exactly....dropped my G4 multiple times with no case and NO damage.
look, I really mean no offense, but why do you act like LG should be held responsible for you dropping your phone? also, in another thread you said phone dropped while on edge of sofa. now it's off your lap?
Dropping an egg onto carpet from 2 feet might not even crack it. BS
radioraheem2 said:
look, I really mean no offense, but why do you act like LG should be held responsible for you dropping your phone? also, in another thread you said phone dropped while on edge of sofa. now it's off your lap?
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1. If you buy a phone that it touted as being able to "take it" when it comes to "drops" then it falls 2 feet to carpet, there is obviously a defect in the phone. But that's not even the point of this post. I just wanted to talk to someone at LG to let them know because if it was me, I would be concerned that this phone should be more durable.
2. The other post said the edge of the sofa because that's what I remembered but when I spoke with my wife this morning, she said, "No, it was on your lap." I wasn't really focused on the exact position of the phone last night but I knew it was in that general vicinity. Pardon my A.D.D.
So can we get back to the focus of this post? It's not to say "LG is to blame" and it's not to call me a liar because I know what happened. I just want people to think twice about cases and protection on the V10 because it's not as durable as they advertise. That's all.
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Dropping an egg onto carpet from 2 feet might not even crack it. BS
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Send me your V10 and I'll record me dropping it in the same exact spot? Are you that confident?
WHY WOULD I MAKE THIS UP? I've been on XDA for years. I have no reason whatsoever for making this up. My apologies for trying to make people aware of a potential issue with this phone. If I ever have a phone that explodes I'll just make sure I don't share that either. Why try to help people? Yeah...that's stupid...warning people of a problem. Why did I think that was a good idea? (sense the sarcasm?)
I droped my V10 last night from 2.5 foot locker to WC ceramic floor, face down and not a single scratch , hmm, hmm
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I droped my V10 last night from 2.5 foot locker to WC ceramic floor, face down and not a single scratch , hmm, hmm
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Right...EXACTLY why I think mine was defective. No way it should have cracked. But mine may not be the only defective one. Hmmm.....
Look guys, part of the reason I bought this phone was the durability. I even saw the drop test video that didn't even crack the screen until they threw the phone into the air. What do you think I did: threw it in the air for the fun of it? Threw it out a window? I'm just trying to share what happened. If this community is to the point where members call other members liars because they find something hard to believe then screw it. I had a bad experience and I'm trying to share it but people assume I am lying instead of realizing I have been a member for over 5 years and have absolutely no reason to lie about this but I am posting it to potentially help others who buy the phone. If that's not welcome any more then this community isn't worth my time. Heaven forbid we try to help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02bwjypBwj4
It did great in this drop test.
jamor414 said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02bwjypBwj4
It did great in this drop test.
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Yes. I know. I saw that before I bought it and that's one of the reasons I bought it. I referenced this in a previous post.
Wrightperspective said:
1. If you buy a phone that it touted as being able to "take it" when it comes to "drops" then it falls 2 feet to carpet, there is obviously a defect in the phone. But that's not even the point of this post. I just wanted to talk to someone at LG to let them know because if it was me, I would be concerned that this phone should be more durable.
2. The other post said the edge of the sofa because that's what I remembered but when I spoke with my wife this morning, she said, "No, it was on your lap." I wasn't really focused on the exact position of the phone last night but I knew it was in that general vicinity. Pardon my A.D.D.
So can we get back to the focus of this post? It's not to say "LG is to blame" and it's not to call me a liar because I know what happened. I just want people to think twice about cases and protection on the V10 because it's not as durable as they advertise. That's all.
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I'm sorry for your misfortune. but I think you got a defective device or it was a very fluke freak accident, because I'm pretty sure the rest of us could drop phone on carpet from two feet 10 times each and have no crack. I've dropped my v10 on train floor from 4 feet. I've dropped g3 from 5 feet onto concrete, both phones look the same.
I'm not defending LG, I'm sure it's entirely possible to crack v10 if any of us were to, say, drop it on a curb while we're running or something. but two feet on carpet? has to be a fluke.
Chop it up to **** luck. It's life. It happens
Thank you for posting this. I'm sure we're all hoping this is some kind of fluke.
It's definitely beyond disturbing to think that a drop like that could be so devastating especially for those of us who don't have a case yet!
I hope you can get something figured out for a replacement.
So terrible!
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I think it's bad luck. My kid grabbed mine from the arm of the couch and then tossed it to me in the kitchen on a tile floor. I was afraid to flip the phone over but it's fine. Not a mark on it or my cheap screen protector. You could probably drop your phone like you did 100 times without reproducing that shatter.
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Look guys, part of the reason I bought this phone was the durability. I even saw the drop test video that didn't even crack the screen until they threw the phone into the air. What do you think I did: threw it in the air for the fun of it? Threw it out a window? I'm just trying to share what happened. If this community is to the point where members call other members liars because they find something hard to believe then screw it. I had a bad experience and I'm trying to share it but people assume I am lying instead of realizing I have been a member for over 5 years and have absolutely no reason to lie about this but I am posting it to potentially help others who buy the phone. If that's not welcome any more then this community isn't worth my time. Heaven forbid we try to help.
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I am a bit taken back by the community as well. It seems to be a big fluke on what happen to your phone. When mine dropped today from my bed the first thing that came to mind is your post....was ready to crap myself lol. I do think you have a defect though but I know lg will never admit tot hat