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So yesterday I went out to dinner, grabbed my trusty TP2 and put it in my pocket (uncracked), reached out location and pulled it out (cracked). I know there was no impact between the two locations as I simply sat in a car the whole way.
Anyone else have something similar? Glad I have insurance, that's for sure.
Is it possible you had the screen facing out in your pocket? What I mean by that is when I keep mine in my pocket I make sure the screen is against my leg and not facing forward.. Either way, good thing indeed that you have insurance..
it is, but its a coat pocket. I Just couldn't believe it happened as I've had a touch screen phone for the last...3 or 4 years without issue.
if you have made fun of someone that has a case on there hip that is why it happend to you if not then its bad luck.
do you really believe that crack could appear after no physical impact?
I've seen crazier things happen. My one thought was that its quite cold here right now. Either way, I definitely didn't have any impact that I felt, which shouldn't be enough to crack a screen like this did. I just expect more out of HTC I guess.
A screen protector like invisible shield would help i have it on mine...only thing i hear is that when used in ur pocket it can pick up a lot of lint but so far mine hasn't had that problem. any little bit of dust i see on it i just rub it off
I've got ghost armor, when they get back in stock and i claim my insurance i'm going to start using a slip in case.
football0552 said:
So yesterday I went out to dinner, grabbed my trusty TP2 and put it in my pocket (uncracked), reached out location and pulled it out (cracked). I know there was no impact between the two locations as I simply sat in a car the whole way.
Anyone else have something similar? Glad I have insurance, that's for sure.
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Yep. A couple of days ago I got into a car, the TP2 in my pocket (which was hanging...unzipped jacket) closed the door and crack! Lovely cracks spread across the screen of my beloved and not even 30-day-old TP2.
I should have known better, The same thing happened to one of my Moguls earlier this year. The weird thing is, the TP2 still works perfectly. I tried to get a return authorization, but Sprint referred me Assurion, which means $100 deductible. The only good thing about it is that the TP2 is so new, they don't have any refurbs to send out, so I'm getting a new one, with one year warranty. From now on, cases only... no pockets!
Not sure what happened in your case,
A: My assurion deductable was $39... I could have sworn it was $89.
B: I need to find a good stiff slide in vertical case that I can just slide the phone into and out of in my pocket.
C: Assurion says they'll get my phone to me Tuesday (i.e. out Monday).... either they're full of cow chips or they purchased a stock just in case since Verizon is apparently trickling in shipments.
what was the temperature outside ?
if it was decently cold, and your phone was cold as well, cold things always crack easier, especially with a screen this big. smaller the screen, harder it is to break.
haha, well it was cold for this time of year. nothing terrible. about 20 degrees F. I know the size matters, I just couldn't believe it cracked so easily so I was really just fishing to see if its a possible problem. My replacement will be here today and i've been trying to find a good STIFF slide in vertical case I can just keep in my pocket.
I live in Canada and on occasion it gets down to -25 degress c here (-13F)
and I have left many cellphones out in the cold, with no ill effects (although screen response can slow down dramatically while it's cold)
the only thing that would crack it is a dramatic change in temp. over a short period of time, like 80 to -5 and I don't even know about that.
a screen skin is NOT going to prevent cracking, only scratches, the LCD glass is on the inside of the device and a think film doesn't add anything to stability.
my guess is it got flexed are banged in the wrong spot. possibly a few days earlier which weakened it and then lightly banged again when you put it in your pocket...
of course a defect in the internal glass is possible, when you get in to mass production of a product there are bound to be some defects.
mine on the other hand has traveled 10 feet across from say 4 feet up and hit pavement with no more than a 1mmx3mm indent on a corner.
it's in general a well build device (but boy was I sick when that first happened)
My advice, if your insurance costs money.. bring it in with a little story.
"I was sitting at a table and typing away I closed the keyboard, and I couldn't believe it a crack appeared across the screen"
As long as it is a solid crack across the screen with no obvious point of impact, I am pretty sure you will get away with it.. even with out insurance.
Football, Telus here in Canada has a thin hard plastic case for 15 canadian.
it will even prevent your screen from getting scratched. and makes that annoyingly placed "power"/screen blank button harder to push. I am pretty sure all the cdma devices are the same, but I don't know 100% I ordered a verison screen protector, and it fits. but the tolerances aren't as high for that
I had the same thing happen to me just a week ago. Slid it into my pocket and not even three minutes later, pulled it out to use the phone and had fresh cracks spreading across the screen. The phone did not come into contact with anything... Still a mystery to me as to how it happened!!
BTW... If you were looking at the phone in the upright position, the screen cracking started from the left middle of the screen and made it's way across to the bottom right corner. Just wondering if anyone else has had the same pattern.
twasnow said:
I live in Canada and on occasion it gets down to -25 degress c here (-13F)
and I have left many cellphones out in the cold, with no ill effects (although screen response can slow down dramatically while it's cold)
the only thing that would crack it is a dramatic change in temp. over a short period of time, like 80 to -5 and I don't even know about that.
a screen skin is NOT going to prevent cracking, only scratches, the LCD glass is on the inside of the device and a think film doesn't add anything to stability.
my guess is it got flexed are banged in the wrong spot. possibly a few days earlier which weakened it and then lightly banged again when you put it in your pocket...
of course a defect in the internal glass is possible, when you get in to mass production of a product there are bound to be some defects.
mine on the other hand has traveled 10 feet across from say 4 feet up and hit pavement with no more than a 1mmx3mm indent on a corner.
it's in general a well build device (but boy was I sick when that first happened)
My advice, if your insurance costs money.. bring it in with a little story.
"I was sitting at a table and typing away I closed the keyboard, and I couldn't believe it a crack appeared across the screen"
As long as it is a solid crack across the screen with no obvious point of impact, I am pretty sure you will get away with it.. even with out insurance.
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To keep it short, I know, I know, I know, and I know. lol. (Just for an interesting note, being in South Dakota for College I've had it around that cold without a windchill... walking to class and having your eyelashes freeze in a block sucks.)
I was more or less just trying to come up with the most plausible excuse even though I was sure (99.999%) it wasn't the cold. It just completely blew me away that I pulled it out and there was cracks across the screen because at the point I hadn't even dropped the phone and as previously mentioned I wasn't leaning or really touching anything while riding in the car.
Also, generally its not actually glass that's on resistive touchscreen's as far as I know. I wasn't trying to insinuate that the screen skin would help stability at all (actually stiffness... don't get my started about this I've been dealing with stiffness matrices WAY to much lately in class).
I agree in general it seems quite well built, and agree if my case is isolated but I was wanting to make sure it was. A point of note is that the crack originated on the far right side and propogated in a couple of lines across the screen. Really my guess is that the method they use to connect the "glass" (a plastic..?) produces some residual stresses around the edges of the material.
Finally, where do you get the case you have? I really just want a slip case as I mentioned that is pretty stiff so that anything that may possible break the screen gets spread out over the area of the case. I am trying to stay away from a snap on hard case as I find them bulky, get your device dirty, and really don't protect what I want to protect.
Thanks for your input.
wbchristmas said:
I had the same thing happen to me just a week ago. Slid it into my pocket and not even three minutes later, pulled it out to use the phone and had fresh cracks spreading across the screen. The phone did not come into contact with anything... Still a mystery to me as to how it happened!!
BTW... If you were looking at the phone in the upright position, the screen cracking started from the left middle of the screen and made it's way across to the bottom right corner. Just wondering if anyone else has had the same pattern.
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mine cracked middle right and propagated in a crack more or less horizontally across the device and another at about a 45 degree angle towards the bottom of the screen. The instances sound similar just reversed.
The reason your screen cracked was most likely it pressed up against the seatbelt buckle. I have had this happen a couple of times. When driving now I ALWAYS take my phone out of my pocket or remove the case from my belt. As I said, a couple times I left it there and when I buckled up, the buckle of the seatbelt was pressed against my right hip. A little bit of pressure, like from stopping the car, is enough to crack the glass.
So word to the wise, do NOT leave your phone in your pocket or on your belt when you get into a car. Or if you do, put it on the side of your body that is facing away from the seat belt buckle.
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The reason your screen cracked was most likely it pressed up against the seatbelt buckle. I have had this happen a couple of times. When driving now I ALWAYS take my phone out of my pocket or remove the case from my belt. As I said, a couple times I left it there and when I buckled up, the buckle of the seatbelt was pressed against my right hip. A little bit of pressure, like from stopping the car, is enough to crack the glass.
So word to the wise, do NOT leave your phone in your pocket or on your belt when you get into a car. Or if you do, put it on the side of your body that is facing away from the seat belt buckle.
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Haha, I already do this. Actually, I was in the passenger seat and the phone was in the right pocket of my fleece jacket. I'm just the jacked it what damned me because normally when I put it in my pants I have the screen facing my leg.
Is this something that asurion will cover?
Hi all i would just like to share my experience with this case..Last week i had the unfortunate accident of dropping my Samsung galaxy s phone in the toilet at home...
The phone fell out of my pocket and straight in too the pan and finally landed in the u-bend.
The phone was in total water submersion for not more that 3-5 seconds..my heart fell to the floor...
I quickly grabbed the phone from the toilet..turned phone off and removed the battery..water was all inside the phone.
I shook the phone and lots of water came out..my thoughts at this time was phone was well and truly buggered.
I proceeded to dry the phone on my radiator at home..sim-card,sd-card,battery and back plate all removed to aide drying.
Left the phone to dry for a full 24 hrs...before attempting to turn phone back on.
There was condensation inside the phone which all dispersed after 24 hrs. of drying out the phone.
And the big moment arrived of putting the phone back together to see if it would ever work again....
My heart was pounding at this time hoping and willing the phone back to life..pressed the power on button and the phone came to life.
Apart from having to do a reset on the phone and re-installing all my apps there has been no problem with the phone working 100%.
Phone has been working for well over a week now with no problems.
How lucky was I??...Im not saying that the Casemate Toughcase is the be all and end all in cases but im sure it went some way in helping reduce the damage that would have been caused by water ingress in to the phone.
happy case hunting...
Ewwww That Dirty Samsung Galaxy S
Lol..must add the water in toilet was clean...
The tough case was not the parameter influencing the luck in this case. As long as the rear speaker hole is not sealed, the water will always have a way inside the phone, no matter how many shock protection layers you have o the phone.
And generally speaking, tap water is not dangerous for the electrical parts of low voltage powered devices (like watches, phones and so on). The main issue with phones dropped in water is that the water will infiltrate in the optical dispersers of the LCD screen and on the screen connectors, generating blurry pictures or no picture at all.
I've learned something from your experience ... the water will not go in between the OLED screen and the digitizer .. which is a GOOD thing.
Great! I'm glad your SGS survived!
just take more care of it, ok? and don't drop it on Sea Water!
any waterproof supplies for galaxy s?
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any waterproof supplies for galaxy s?
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Zip-lock bag?
I've almost fell from my seat reading the end of your story. I am glad to read that everything went Ok. But does the phone smell .... hmmm different?
Truly lucky.
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There are better ways to change the colour of the phone
Update phone still working a OK two and a bit weeks on...
I have toughcase as well. Not the prettiest case, the phone loses it's "luxury" feeling, but you can certainly throw around the phone no problem.
I dropped my Galaxy S (with Tough Case) today, it fell directly on my hard tiles floor at a height around 70cm. I was really freaked out! I picked it up and it was still there like nothing happened (no crash, no slow, no reboot, no nothing) really happy that I chose this case!
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I dropped my Arrive onto a tile floor. As it slipped out of my hand a quick thought shot through my mind - should have bought the insurance. As pieces went everywhere I reached down to asses the damage.
The pieces were just the battery cover and batter. Since the keyboard was not out during the drop, I was surprised to see the battery cover come off, since I thought it impossible without extending the keyboard.
After putting everything back together and turning on the phone, all was well. Not a scratch or scuff to be found.
Whew!
That's one tough little bugger
tiny17 said:
I dropped my Arrive onto a tile floor. As it slipped out of my hand a quick thought shot through my mind - should have bought the insurance. As pieces went everywhere I reached down to asses the damage.
The pieces were just the battery cover and batter. Since the keyboard was not out during the drop, I was surprised to see the battery cover come off, since I thought it impossible without extending the keyboard.
After putting everything back together and turning on the phone, all was well. Not a scratch or scuff to be found.
Whew!
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Yeah I've dropped mine twice now (!) which are the only two times I've dropped any of my phones in the last 10 years. I think the aluminum battery cover makes the phone very slippery to hold relative to other phones, and opening the keyboard requires enough force that sometimes the little bugger just gets away from me. I'm contemplating a skinomi carbon-fiber body skin to give it more grip, but I hate doing things like that. My only concession has been a screen protector (which I also never use). I think I just need to be more careful.
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That's how I saw my battery for the first time. Dropped it the second day I had it. Decided not to get a screen protector because the screen looked too nice. Face down and not a nick or scratch. Agree, this is one tough phone.
Dont know how you guys avoid scratches on your screens. My screen protector is covered in them! But then again... its probably is more sensitive than the screen.
To access the battery, we need to slide out the keyboard so the part that holds the screen up, uncovers the notch to take the cover off. Obviously it doesnt actually hold the cover in place. Must be purely an aesthetics thing.
Nice to hear they can take a beating though
Just had my close call today a little while ago; it was a two foot drop from my hand in a chair to the tile ground with it landing right on its face. Still a bit paranoid but looks like everything is fine on the exterior, but the cover flew off too. Right now trying to do everything I can think of to make sure the internal components are still in working order, particularly the mic and speakers.
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Just had my close call today a little while ago; it was a two foot drop from my hand in a chair to the tile ground with it landing right on its face. Still a bit paranoid but looks like everything is fine on the exterior, but the cover flew off too. Right now trying to do everything I can think of to make sure the internal components are still in working order, particularly the mic and speakers.
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Frankly, the most fragile part (as far as impact damage goes) is the screen/casing. So if cosmetically it looks fine, it probably is fine.
Didnt you just see it going in slow motion the whole time? lol Glad you faired well.
I tossed mine off the desk (accidentally -- swept my arm while talking, caught the cord, phone came unplugged)
The slow-mo with the long too-deep-to-be me "nooooooooooooo" followed by the beautifully artsy smash into the wall. Battery cover and battery left their normal homes.
Reassembled, everything's fine. It's like the first scratch in a new car. Sucks, but it'll happen.
It's amazing this thing still works..... These htc phones are built like tanks. I mean it flies apart cover goes flying the batterry goes flying I must drop this thing from a height of no less than 3 feet bout 3-4 times a month and usually its in my lap and i stand up and it gets launched with a bit of velocity too. sheeesh
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It's amazing this thing still works..... These htc phones are built like tanks. I mean it flies apart cover goes flying the batterry goes flying I must drop this thing from a height of no less than 3 feet bout 3-4 times a month and usually its in my lap and i stand up and it gets launched with a bit of velocity too. sheeesh
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lol, I will refrain from making any sexual innuendos...
Let this be a big Finger to every review for this phone. Drop a sensation once, it's broken. Drop this 1000 times, and it'll still be good as new.
drop an iphone and the screen will crack before touching the ground
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lol, I will refrain from making any sexual innuendos...
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Yea , every time i see this thing bounce across the floor im like " awww man time for a new phone " now matter how hard it hits or how many times. noooooo problem
Says you guys. I used my phone with my face and got the backlighting dislodged from the LCD which was in turn dislodged from the digitizer. I haven't dropped my phone once, I just used it like a phone. ;_;
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Says you guys. I used my phone with my face and got the backlighting dislodged from the LCD which was in turn dislodged from the digitizer. I haven't dropped my phone once, I just used it like a phone. ;_;
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Well everyone makes a lemon once in a while ... I mean ive dropped this thing 30 times atleast since ive owned it . ATLEAST as i said from no less than 3 ft and it works perfect.
Maybe it's the rom? I am running bulletproof xD
I've had mine since August 6th of last year - in all that time and being in the legitimate top % of time actively being used, i've dropped it exactly 1 time, and that was because a bucket fell off of a scaffold onto me.
It was in the trident case when it happened, and it's okay - that ate the force of the fall.
You sound like you need to put it on a lighter leash man, or something like that
You need at minimum a trident case, and you should probably get some kind of padded pouch to keep it in. (well, that's what I do, and most don't - but it might be worth you looking into)
I lol'd at the bulletproof comment. Glad it's serving you well ( the phone, and the ROM)
I drop mine more than [your provider's name] drops calls in rural Ethiopia. I mean the thing is like it's slippery as Hell, but every time, it hits the ground, the back comes off flying, the battery slips out, the keyboard slings open. I was just as bad with my old G1 and it worked for 3 years. Then one more drop to the asphalt and the radio lost about half its signal in all bands. Couldn't keep calls or data for more than a few seconds at a time. Anyway, I have been impressed by HTC for the two phones I've had.
On an aside, my father in law has a G1 still. Bronze. Got it the same day I got mine. Mine looks like R. Lee Ermey (or maybe Gary Bussey on a good day); his still looks like a very young George Clooney.
I don't know what it is, but I think it's the fact I'm always trying not to smudge the screen so I pick it up by the edges like a CD. Come to think of it, I drop CDs a lot too.
OMG, I dropped my phone today
Sitting in lecture, slipped right out of my pocket and hit the rough plaster floor behind the chair. Battery cover came off and battery was out.
The first time I have dropped a phone in nearly two years
God is crying today
Bottom corner of steel rim has a small scuff now about the size of a pencil eraser :'(
Man, if you all seen my phone, you would swear I bought it at the scratch and dent special.
At least twice a week I leave it on my lap and hop out the car and there goes my phone, the outer green edge on my camera lens is chipped to hell and back, all 4 corners are destroyed now to the 3 falls it took just today and this thing still runs like it came from the box yesterday.
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This is a mortality report for my Captivate.
At 6:40, I got off the bus walking towards my destination, a meeting with some other students. Nothing of note happened. When I got to the second floor at 6:45, I checked the time, noting that I was early for the 7:00 meeting time. When I reached the room I was headed for, no one was there, so I turned on the lights and waited.
When the first other student arrived about 5 minutes later, I pulled my phone out to check the time, and it no longer displayed anything. In fact, the internal OLED had been cracked, and only a few scattered pixels sparkled behind the glass. The screen protector had a nick in it, like it had been stabbed by the corner of something, but it had been safely tucked away, screen facing my leg, since the last time I pulled it out. Upon removal of the screen protector, I found no scars on the screen itself.
I've absolutely babied this phone since I got it two years ago. It's only ever dropped 3 feet onto thick carpet a year ago, had a screen protector since the first week of ownership, cleaned compulsively and carried like a Ming vase. It sucks to see it destroyed so randomly and outside my control.
My only thought is that I may have bumped it against the rivet next to my pocket when putting it away last, but that hardly seems like something that could do this much damage. I would have had to have taken a pretty big swing to do this kind of damage. Likewise, how could the OLED crack without the screen above it also cracking?
Ultimately, I'm kind of glad this thing died. I'm upset that it didn't get to retire properly, but at the same time it has caused me nothing but problems. It's a wonderful phone for developers and modders, but the design was just crap from the start. The faulty GPS unit, the poor power management with a tiny battery, the CPU that could barely handle the default OS despite being the fastest phone of its time, OTA software updates that never came. It's certainly been a bumpy ride, thanks for making it a bit more bearable, XDA. I'll probably see you on the GS3 forum pretty soon, I hear they fixed all those problems and more!
Jergling said:
This is a mortality report for my Captivate.
At 6:40, I got off the bus walking towards my destination, a meeting with some other students. Nothing of note happened. When I got to the second floor at 6:45, I checked the time, noting that I was early for the 7:00 meeting time. When I reached the room I was headed for, no one was there, so I turned on the lights and waited.
When the first other student arrived about 5 minutes later, I pulled my phone out to check the time, and it no longer displayed anything. In fact, the internal OLED had been cracked, and only a few scattered pixels sparkled behind the glass. The screen protector had a nick in it, like it had been stabbed by the corner of something, but it had been safely tucked away, screen facing my leg, since the last time I pulled it out. Upon removal of the screen protector, I found no scars on the screen itself.
I've absolutely babied this phone since I got it two years ago. It's only ever dropped 3 feet onto thick carpet a year ago, had a screen protector since the first week of ownership, cleaned compulsively and carried like a Ming vase. It sucks to see it destroyed so randomly and outside my control.
My only thought is that I may have bumped it against the rivet next to my pocket when putting it away last, but that hardly seems like something that could do this much damage. I would have had to have taken a pretty big swing to do this kind of damage. Likewise, how could the OLED crack without the screen above it also cracking?
Ultimately, I'm kind of glad this thing died. I'm upset that it didn't get to retire properly, but at the same time it has caused me nothing but problems. It's a wonderful phone for developers and modders, but the design was just crap from the start. The faulty GPS unit, the poor power management with a tiny battery, the CPU that could barely handle the default OS despite being the fastest phone of its time, OTA software updates that never came. It's certainly been a bumpy ride, thanks for making it a bit more bearable, XDA. I'll probably see you on the GS3 forum pretty soon, I hear they fixed all those problems and more!
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My only guess is that you bumped into a table, chair, etc. to get such damage done. Perhaps without noticing it
2 years is still pretty good though and while it had it's bad sides, I surely enjoyed mine to the fullest. I dunno how patient you're but the S4 is coming out probably sometime in June so if you can handle a cheap phones till then, it could be something to look into. Otherwise, I'll see you on the S3 side
I really don't know how this happened as the last time me and the old lady got into a spat I punched my screen as hard as I could and only accomplished cutting my pinky and crushing my knuckle. These things have Gorilla Glass a.k.a Kick your ass glass.
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