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Removing Cincinnati Bell logo

Has anyone managed to remove the ugly Cincinnati Bell decal logo off their vibrants? If so, how did you go about doing this?

LOL, I've seen that logo and its substantially more obnoxious than any other logo I've seen. I can't remember exactly but I think its up at the top alot like the T-Mobile logo is just ALOT BIGGER(a pic might help maybe?). If it is then I know the Otter Box case covers up that whole section. It will still be there but at least you won't have to look at it anymore. Good luck!

Hi very likely I will be getting Samsung vibrant what do you think of it
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what are your choices? i like it but it could be better

Here you go
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Ouch. That was one rough design.
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fishercs said:
Here you go
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lol, Yup thats what I was thinking. I saw one in person once and that was the first thing I noticed, the gawd awful logo!
- have your tried some sort of paint thinner? maybe goo-gone? be careful tho
- seriously google "samsung vibrant otterbox" images, its a great case and it will cover that area completely.

I removed my CB logo with a razor blade and bit of patience.
John

Meh. It's harmless, and I've barely noticed it was there since I got my phone a couple months ago.
Why risk possibly damaging the phone or the gorilla glass?

kaintfm said:
Meh. It's harmless, and I've barely noticed it was there since I got my phone a couple months ago.
Why risk possibly damaging the phone or the gorilla glass?
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Two reasons - the screen protector bubbles around it and two; everyone and their cousin asks you why there's a sticker on the front of your phone.
A co-worker removed his with his fingernail and a CreditCard.
John

Comes right off
... if you just use a little bit of isopropanol and a kimwipe (or if you don't have that, try using a non-scratch dish sponge)
Guess what it says underneath?!? T-mobile LOL

If it's just a decal, heat it up a little (leave it on your dash) and see if you can't get it off then. Several years ago I owned a small graphics company and we used this stuff called "Vinyl Up" to remove anything with an adhesive. It's very gentle and doesn't eat paint. That said, it's a little expensive in this context.
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Dropped my note while cycling...

...and it survived like a boss. Only a small scratch on the back cover.
My iPhone had a much less drastic fall and was destroyed.

Also dropped my Note while cycling. The silicone case took all the shock so my Note is still in a perfect state.
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garethwi said:
...and it survived like a boss.
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LooooL!
Love it!

Holy s**t!! I dont want that to happen to me. Will take good care of my Note. Never fall yet
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you are lucky, i dropped my gn and the silver rim are also scratches...... my fault that i was not using any protective cover then.....
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haha, btw, i also like your survive like boss analogy!. but certainly my note is more lovely!!

my note fell twice already. once from a normal table down on the hard ceramic floor and once from the bed down on the wooden floor. not a scratch. having previously owned the HD2 i've come to expect that kind of endurance from a smartphone, and the note didn't dissapoint.

U guys r lucky. I dropped my note once and the top has a small chip. Heavy phone = larger impact
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I also wiped out skiing last week with it it my inside jacket pocket. It broke two of my ribs and still was not damaged
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Lucky people! I dropped mine from about 30cm and it hit the floor on the corner left of the menu button and the screen shattered!!
Still using it because the display and touch is still working. I live on a farm, so to get to town is a day trip to get it to a repair shop.
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I was even more lucky. I was at a small rock koncert yesterday. And ive been jumping around as is custom for that kind of music. But sudden i get a feeling that im stepping on something. I look down and my foot is on my phone :S luckily not a single scratch. I have no idea how it survived this treatment :O
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garethwi said:
I also wiped out skiing last week with it it my inside jacket pocket. It broke two of my ribs and still was not damaged
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ohhhh...im glad you note is ok!!!! LOL

TxDLoaD said:
I was even more lucky. I was at a small rock koncert yesterday. And ive been jumping around as is custom for that kind of music. But sudden i get a feeling that im stepping on something. I look down and my foot is on my phone :S luckily not a single scratch. I have no idea how it survived this treatment :O
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Its funny at the same time i feel sorry for your Note!..not you..haha
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zs6wdl said:
Lucky people! I dropped mine from about 30cm and it hit the floor on the corner left of the menu button and the screen shattered!!
Still using it because the display and touch is still working. I live on a farm, so to get to town is a day trip to get it to a repair shop.
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Why do you have a smartphone? Living in a farm and all... I don't get it
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I've bought a plastic case from DX, only 2.50$, my phone is in good health '-'
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razorhanny said:
Why do you have a smartphone? Living in a farm and all... I don't get it
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Are you practically saying that any person living in a farm should not have a smart phone??
Answer to your first question "why do you have a smart phone?" is " what's it to you ??? and you said " i don't get it " and answer to that is " he doesn't need you to understand why he bought his galaxy note" as that is none of your frickin business.... HOPE YOU GET IT NOW....

take care it pal
i love my note!

I gave it a lot love afterwards
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Sang I'm glad it survived. I can only amagine the terror ....
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TxDLoaD said:
I was even more lucky. I was at a small rock koncert yesterday. And ive been jumping around as is custom for that kind of music. But sudden i get a feeling that im stepping on something. I look down and my foot is on my phone :S luckily not a single scratch. I have no idea how it survived this treatment :O
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Dude, that's....
On one side extremely funny since I know full well how rock concerts can be and on the other really useful information about an extreme test I doubt ANY manufacturer ever makes.
Really cool that it lasted like that mate!

TxDLoaD said:
I gave it a lot love afterwards
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Hahahaa that made me laugh...
Well I dropped once on a ceramic floor while forgot that my headphone cable was still attached as was pulling it and it literally flew off lol and second time on wooden floor ..My note is like as new hehe Though using a hybrid case..

New xperia z water damaged...

So i bought my xperia z on friday, (well thursday night as i working in the phone industry) and decided to test the hype....
So i had my phone im and out of bowls of water (about 15 times) bounced off walls, dropped from above my head several times onto wooden /tiles/concrete etc.
And to my surprise the phone with stood all of the attempts to break/water damage it.
But i noticed the phone needed to be charged so i unplugged the rubber seal to charge it and once finished decided to show off again to my friends( forgot to mention that i was at a birthday party drinking heavily) dunked the phone back into the water and it went crazy.
I FORGOT TO PUT THE SEAL BACK IN.....
. So my phone was water damaged..
As i was able to do an insurance.
So all in all, i have never attempted this with any other phone in my life (this was a first) but i was highly impressed with the resilience of this flagship from sony the xperia z....
There wasent even a mark on the anti shatter film that is on front and back of the handset.
So bottom line is that if you are prone to accidents or just not good with phones in general. THIS IS THE PHONE FOR YOU AS TESTED TO THE MAX BY ME...
Just to note that the camera was perfect the whole time leading up to the forgetting to put the seal in...
I also got a few cool photos from under water...
So thats my story.......
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Moral of that story - get a charging dock

jambotech said:
So i bought my xperia z on friday, (well thursday night as i working in the phone industry) and decided to test the hype....
So i had my phone im and out of bowls of water (about 15 times) bounced off walls, dropped from above my head several times onto wooden /tiles/concrete etc.
And to my surprise the phone with stood all of the attempts to break/water damage it.
But i noticed the phone needed to be charged so i unplugged the rubber seal to charge it and once finished decided to show off again to my friends( forgot to mention that i was at a birthday party drinking heavily) dunked the phone back into the water and it went crazy.
I FORGOT TO PUT THE SEAL BACK IN.....
. So my phone was water damaged..
As i work in the industry i was able to change it with another... (if i couldnt i had insurance anyway)
So all in all, i have never attempted this with any other phone in my life (this was a first) but i was highly impressed with the resilience of this flagship from sony the xperia z....
There wasent even a mark on the anti shatter film that is on front and back of the handset.
So bottom line is that if you are prone to accidents or just not good with phones in general. THIS IS THE PHONE FOR YOU AS TESTED TO THE MAX BY ME...
Just to note that the camera was perfect the whole time leading up to the forgetting to put the seal in...
I also got a few cool photos from under water...
So thats my story.......
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Thanks for sharing
Did it die inmidiatly when you put in the water with out the port closed?

Wish if I could c ur face after the failure brank?
Anyway nice story
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That possibly could have helped. Haha.
Funny enough it didn't die.
I was still able to turn it on and bluetooth my photos that i had taken from the party to the new phone..
It did restart a few times and had like water marks on the underside of the screen near the charge port..
So presently suprise it still worked.
But i wont be doing this in a hurry again.
But good to know that if i spill a drink/use it in the bath and drop it down the toilet it would be fine.
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jambotech said:
That possibly could have helped. Haha.
Funny enough it didn't die.
I was still able to turn it on and bluetooth my photos that i had taken from the party to the new phone..
It did restart a few times and had like water marks on the underside of the screen near the charge port..
So presently suprise it still worked.
But i wont be doing this in a hurry again.
But good to know that if i spill a drink/use it in the bath and drop it down the toilet it would be fine.
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Thanks, I was hoping this would be the case but that is not something you willingly try

There was the happy shot before water gate...
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There was the aftershot when i found out it was wrecked...
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Hahahaha! This made me laugh! Just the time when you're trying to brag it on your friends. That's a true epic fail! Hehehe thanks! You made my day!

hahaha!!

"As I work in the industry I was able to change it with another. "? So what about the poor [email protected]*rd that gets the one you f#cked up? I call bs.
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thefunkmiester said:
"As I work in the industry I was able to change it with another. "? So what about the poor [email protected]*rd that gets the one you f#cked up? I call bs.
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Maybe i didnt make it clear enough,
Hope this clears that up for ya...
Or do we have a troll on our hands here.
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jambotech said:
Maybe i didnt make it clear enough, i did a faulty exchange on the old handset (sent back to head office as faulty) making it impossible to resell to the general public!
Hope this clears that up for ya...
Or do we have a troll on our hands here.
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Trolls?
Here??
Never!!

jambotech said:
Maybe i didnt make it clear enough, i did a faulty exchange on the old handset (sent back to head office as faulty) making it impossible to resell to the general public!
Hope this clears that up for ya...
Or do we have a troll on our hands here.
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I understand you might work in the industry, so do I, you must be a manger at a store with authority or something similar, as I know for a fact if I tried to exchange mine on the same basis as you did my manager would not allow me too....mainly because as soon as head office received it, they would charge the store the full cost of the handset for returning the phone which was BER. This charge would come out of the store's bonus profit meaning every consultant would be effected....pretty harsh for them when they had no involvement!
But cool story anyway bro! :good:

Not trolling dude, just a but far fetched for me...
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abd_alazeez2002 said:
Wish if I could c ur face after the failure brank?
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It would've been priceless LOL
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jambotech said:
Maybe i didnt make it clear enough, i did a faulty exchange on the old handset (sent back to head office as faulty) making it impossible to resell to the general public!
Hope this clears that up for ya...
Or do we have a troll on our hands here.
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It wasn't faulty though, you just damaged it lol... Big difference

kalo88 said:
It wasn't faulty though, you just damaged it lol... Big difference
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Agreed. OP being a knob just because he can.
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*hehe* :laugh:
great thread :good:

kalo88 said:
It wasn't faulty though, you just damaged it lol... Big difference
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Yeah... And while it's built to be a bit more shock-resistant than most phones, it is NOT built for wall-throwing and such.
It's quite impressive it survived that... But this is pretty much warranty fraud if you sent it back as faulty.

Why are all these new phones coming out without a lanyard hole???

The S2 has it, but both the S3 and the S4 do not... don;t they realize that a lanyard will actualy save the phone from being dropped? Why did they remove it from the design of the new phones?

If I could report this I would. But since I'm using tapatalk. I can't.

Phones used to be fairly small, so attaching a lanyard to it and hanging it off your neck was convenient. With the size of smart phones nowadays, the amount of people willing to "hang" their phone from their neck is quite low. It is simply impractical to the majority of consumers.
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MrGriffdude said:
If I could report this I would. But since I'm using tapatalk. I can't.
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Done.

msavic6 said:
Phones used to be fairly small, so attaching a lanyard to it and hanging it off your neck was convenient. With the size of smart phones nowadays, the amount of people willing to "hang" their phone from their neck is quite low. It is simply impractical to the majority of consumers.
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Truth
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MrGriffdude said:
If I could report this I would. But since I'm using tapatalk. I can't.
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Yom said:
The S2 has it, but both the S3 and the S4 do not... don;t they realize that a lanyard will actualy save the phone from being dropped? Why did they remove it from the design of the new phones?
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Because too many people were using it for Hello Kitty keychains.
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I don't dig the Flava Flav look...

Personally, I think I would slap anyone I saw wearing a GS3 or GS4 around their neck :\

xchr1583x said:
Personally, I think I would slap anyone I saw wearing a GS3 or GS4 around their neck :\
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LOL.. i dont think I would want to put my shiny GS4 on my neck especially nowadays when mobile phone thefts are on the rise, it's like saying "Hello! I have a brand new GS4..and look it's hanging on my neck!!!!"
Just wrong IMO

Because I grew up and left childish ways behind. Why would anybody want to do this unless your in grammar school is beyond me.

sabre31 said:
Because I grew up and left childish ways behind. Why would anybody want to do this unless your in grammar school is beyond me.
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sfb14 said:
LOL.. i dont think I would want to put my shiny GS4 on my neck especially nowadays when mobile phone thefts are on the rise, it's like saying "Hello! I have a brand new GS4..and look it's hanging on my neck!!!!"
Just wrong IMO
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xchr1583x said:
Personally, I think I would slap anyone I saw wearing a GS3 or GS4 around their neck :\
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I don't dig the Flava Flav look...
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Well, I don't mean a necklace lanyard, just a short hand strap. Those have saved more than one phone from being dropped.
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Warning? Scratches

I got a couple of small scratches on my screen from the metal logo from the back. Not sure how common this is, but let this be a warning for those without case.
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Azeazezar said:
I got a couple of small scratches on my screen from the metal logo from the back. Not sure how common this is, but let this be a warning for those without case.
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lol my whole logo is away from the case, i have the note since 14 months

wear and tear, your phone has lived and seen things lol.
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my phone also saw rocks

ReNeH99 said:
my phone also saw rocks
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I think he is not only seeing rocks but also sleeping with them.
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baz77 said:
I think he is not only seeing rocks but also sleeping with them.
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it fell out of my car..

ReNeH99 said:
it fell out of my car..
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so sad bro, that must have hurt.
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yes, it really was.. i almost cried, i just looked on my phone for the rest of the day lol, i still cant believe it. but hey, i have my note 3 soon. my n7000 had a hadt live. emmc bricks, dead batteries and ****

ReNeH99 said:
yes, it really was.. i almost cried, i just looked on my phone for the rest of the day lol, i still cant believe it. but hey, i have my note 3 soon. my n7000 had a hadt live. emmc bricks, dead batteries and ****
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yeah it lived, its the first to go beyond what everyone was saying, brought the passion to a whole new level of fun. It was and still is great.
He maybe someone who needs a motherboard can use it, you can always sell that.
The Note3 is very nice, a powerhouse, awesome. I want it but I will likely go for the Oppo N1. If I can afford either lol