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Indestructable Phone? (or more likely, just luck!)

Wow.... just Wow.
10 minutes ago i was on the balcony of my building here looking at my phone checking an email, when a friend who was talking to me got rather physical with his talking and accidently swung his hand into mine, causing my lovely Hermes to fly over the balcony and land approx 20ft below onto cold hard concrete (all this happened in slow motion obviously)..
the battery and back flew of in opposite directions and we both stood there looking over the balcony with our mouths open.
well i went down and put it back together (just the battery, stylus and battery cover came off)
as i came into the building again i thought i might as well try turning it on but there wouldn't be a chance in hell it would work..
but
it
DID
it turned on... and the screen wasn't cracked or even marked. i thought, well maybe the touch sensitivity is dead.... again, no it was fine. ok maybe I'll try the phone... :O whoa.. it ALL seems to be ok.
considering me and a few of my mates have accidently killed thier Wizards merely by farting near them (ok slight exageration but you get my drift) i must say i'm very impressed with the robustness of the Hermes.
i'm also bloody glad its working cos i cancelled the insurance pack on it the other day too!

Care to give more details on.. the cover (any means of protection) you had on it, and point of impact (e.g. the part which your phone first touch the ground - look for the area that is messed up the most).
From what it seems, it is likely to be luck. Dont try it again And put up a sign, 'Kids, dont try this at home' at your post above.

yeah i know its just luck. but its a good advert for the hermes robustness
no protection. other than a crappy screen protector which would have made no difference.
point of impact was pretty much exactly the little round hole bit on the bottom right on the back.
no need for a dont try this at home. if anyones dumb enough to copy then they deserve all they got coming to them!

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I see boobies!! LOL

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I see boobies!! LOL
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Yes... well.... It's lunch hour, but when we finish that bit of light entertainment we will deal with "thefunkygibbon"
Then we'll see the goodies (in-joke )
Mike

Hermes are amazingly durable, but I think dropping them off a building and them still working is luck.
You should be seperated from your Hermes, since you obviously have a complete disregard for it.. Blasphemy...

my hermes has dropped 4 times from about 1m to 1m vertical+60cm in horizontal.., three times into the the original case..
- The first time the left keyboard slide doesn't "click" when opened for 3 days.. now it's ok o), 1 corner damaged. (with cover)
- Second time, this time without case, the keyboard, opened, is swell at the center.. just fix the lateral keyb joints.
- 3rd and 4th time, with the case, the second and third corners goes out (scratches) and, maybe for the use, the pen is easy to pull out (the first 15 days was VERY HARD to remove)
Maybe at the end of the year, or i change the cover, or buy a new pda

SkizZO said:
my hermes has dropped 4 times from about 1m to 1m vertical+60cm in horizontal.., three times into the the original case..
- The first time the left keyboard slide doesn't "click" when opened for 3 days.. now it's ok o), 1 corner damaged. (with cover)
- Second time, this time without case, the keyboard, opened, is swell at the center.. just fix the lateral keyb joints.
- 3rd and 4th time, with the case, the second and third corners goes out (scratches) and, maybe for the use, the pen is easy to pull out (the first 15 days was VERY HARD to remove)
Maybe at the end of the year, or i change the cover, or buy a new pda
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You are even worse than thefunkygibbon. Please consider yourself lined up for a session as shown above.
Mike

congrats on... your unkillable phone. You should donate it to the developers for a scientific study.

now i know what to throw at that damn guy who's stalking my girl.. ahhaha!

I must say they are suprisingly robust. I droped mine from mike 1-1.5 meter hight around 8 times in the pub before I replaced it (camera broke). At worst the keyboard pops up so you have to press it back in. No major scratches or anything. Then one day the camera just broke so I now have a new one which I havent dropped yet... It still has the same **** issues as my first which I thought first was caused by me dropping it but apparently not.

I am proud to say I have never, ever, dropped any of my cell phones, and especially not my Hermes. I would probably take a dive to land underneath my Hermes if I did end up dropping it!

Dropped 8525 Stories
I had my 2 day old unprotected Cingular 8525 in my golf cart cup holder. It was about 25 degrees out and we were traveling full speed on a concrete pathway when we hit a speed bump. In slow motion, of course, my 8525 rose out of the cup holder and slammed into the concrete pathway, from about three feet in the air, and slid about 10 to 15 feet screen down. The battery cover flew off and the battery came out.
Low and behold, there was not a scratch or any damage to the phone. Everything still works great to this day (7 months later). I have had several minor drops tot he ground since then as well.
What a great phone!!!

how hard was to put a couple of magnets to the phone? get in and look at my idea...

So I was asking to myself.... how hard could have been? I also thought... is common sense the the phone needed some kind of mechanism to lock the phone when closed and opened, right?
Well, then after thinking I came to a conclusion that well we, users could get creative and do something about it, so I went into a quest looking for the smallest and thinness magnet I could find and I came across magnets that are only 1/32" thick.... now... I thought if I could find a way to cleanly attach them to the phone in places that I already have thought of ( will show tomorrow when I get to my computer ) and would be the least visible.
What do you guys think? Any ideas about attaching the magnets?

Juan I have been looking for magnets, and finding the ideal location....there was a thread a while back regarding tape on the inside between the ribbon and the "z" leg.....I like this idea, but my concern is over GPS use. I'm sure one ca calibrate the bearings, but not sure how it would affect GPS signal....
Please post pics and experiences...really interested in doing this myself, as TMO will no stand by the defective hinge...sorry "design feature"!

juanshop said:
So I was asking to myself.... how hard could have been? I also thought... is common sense the the phone needed some kind of mechanism to lock the phone when closed and opened, right?
Well, then after thinking I came to a conclusion that well we, users could get creative and do something about it, so I went into a quest looking for the smallest and thinness magnet I could find and I came across magnets that are only 1/32" thick.... now... I thought if I could find a way to cleanly attach them to the phone in places that I already have thought of ( will show tomorrow when I get to my computer ) and would be the least visible.
What do you guys think? Any ideas about attaching the magnets?
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I posted a pretty detailed post in the accessories forum. You might want to look at the "hinge fix" thread over there.

Magnets might interfere with the compass

Look into how the magnets might effect your signal a well.
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That's why I'm going to buy the magnets and do tests and see how much will interfere with the phone. So if anyone of you guys is interested, I will keep y'all posted.
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juanshop said:
That's why I'm going to buy the magnets and do tests and see how much will interfere with the phone. So if anyone of you guys is interested, I will keep y'all posted.
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I could swear I saw what looked like magnets on the display g2's at the tmobile stores I went to this week. They all looked like they had a small strip of magnets on each side by the hinge (on the under side of the screen and the body).
Maybe it was just a display model thing, but the phones were active demos.

this is exactly what i was thinking about doing but there seems to be to many problems with compass gps and possibly mememory loss if only there was a way to magetize the ones already in there

I personally think I see an easier way.
I'm going to try to attach a tiny piece of felt to the side of the Z hinge so it wedges a little more securely inside the recessed area on the top of the screen.
Open your keyboard, and you'll see where the hinge arms sit inside the recessed areas with small 1mm or so gaps on either side.
I think it'll work...

we need velcro
Keep us updated with your progress

I just picked up a package of (2) 5x8 inch magnetic sheets (self adhesive). The cost was under $2.
It is super thin (looking for my digital calipers, but I would guess 1/32 or thinner. Im going to give this a try and post some pics if it works well. If it works, this should be enough magnetic sheet to fix every G2 produced by HTC this year.
Well, I have found no ill effects of the magnetic material and it WORKS... I can now hold the phone upside down, sideways, backwards, etc. Of course if you shake it, it will open. But it will not open or close during natural use.
Took about 2 minutes to do, cost under $2 and I could do another 100 phones with the material I have.
Here are the pics:
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How the F do magnets work, anyway?

im worried about putting magnets near a hard drive or radio.
What about rubber bands of some sort, such that when screen is fully out they lock, but otherwise snap back?

carlsbad0331 said:
I just picked up a package of (2) 5x8 inch magnetic sheets (self adhesive). The cost was under $2.
It is super thin (looking for my digital calipers, but I would guess 1/32 or thinner. Im going to give this a try and post some pics if it works well. If it works, this should be enough magnetic sheet to fix every G2 produced by HTC this year.
Well, I have found no ill effects of the magnetic material and it WORKS... I can now hold the phone upside down, sideways, backwards, etc. Of course if you shake it, it will open. But it will not open or close during natural use.
Took about 2 minutes to do, cost under $2 and I could do another 100 phones with the material I have.
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exellent! exellent!!!! just what i had in mind! that was exactly my plan, now, here, the same can be applied here ( i dont see on the pics but did you applied for when the phone is open or closed? or both? if is only when the phone is closed, well look at my picture, is paint quality LOL but i think it can be understood, with the magnets aldeady on the back of the screen, a couple of other magnets can be placed on the red area of the picture, thats a perfect area because there's an indentation there, and a little piece there would not affect the keyboard at all.
pd: info on where you got that material would be awesome, thanks!
pd2: i will do my own too and try different things and test the phone for at least a couple of weeks and see whats happens, also i will let you guys know the end results, i have insurance on my phone so if something happens i can get a new one on the way
pd3: i read for the phone to be affected by magnetic fields, it has to be a really powerful magnet, just look at other phones with magnets in the market... they seem perfectly fine.

I only did this for when the phone is open. Ive never had the phone open from the closed position.
I picked up the package of magnetic sheet at Target. It was in the craft section in a purple plastic envelope. It is made by Horizon Group USA and the SKU number is 765940168059.

going there right now!

Just an FYI, all 3 of my old Sidekicks had magnets so they won't interfere with cell or GPS signal. I am unsure about the compass however. I was considering a similar idea as well only with a couple tiny round silver magnets on the bottom section tops corners and screen section middle sides.

Sorry for this off topic but, why is your phone so shiny? like a polished metalic grey. Looks actually very nice. Polished? full skin?

Most likely took picture using a flash so we could see the magnets
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App

And like always my local target doesn't have any gonna try Walmart.
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My semi-homemade car mount

Next wee, my g/f and I will take a little car drive vacation. We'll be visiting landmarks from Chicago to Kentucky to Virginia to DC and back. So, earlier today, I got a brilliant idea for a car mount that will enable me to use a 10 inch gps. Well, as soon as I got out, I went straight to a hardware store and got the parts. I use the top part of the following car mount and incorporated it into my set up.
http://www.buyincoins.com/details/n...r-cradle-mount-for-ipad-gps-product-2492.html
Here are some pictures. I test already test drove around. Absolutely no obstruction of view whatsoever. Also does not obstruct my radio and other stuff there.
Total cost for parts = $11.
Edit.
The previous pics were old. Here is a new one that I did right before my DC trip few weeks ago.
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goodintentions said:
Next wee, my g/f and I will take a little car drive vacation. We'll be visiting landmarks from Chicago to Kentucky to Virginia to DC and back. So, earlier today, I got a brilliant idea for a car mount that will enable me to use a 10 inch gps. Well, as soon as I got out, I went straight to a hardware store and got the parts. I use the top part of the following car mount and incorporated it into my set up.
http://www.buyincoins.com/details/n...r-cradle-mount-for-ipad-gps-product-2492.html
Here are some pictures. I test already test drove around. Absolutely no obstruction of view whatsoever. Also does not obstruct my radio and other stuff there.
Total cost for parts = $11.
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pretty cool, looks great it works Awesome

I purposely put it there at the exact height where it won't obstruct my view but if I want I can record everything in front of my car like the police car. I wanna record some videos of our trip as we drive towards some landmarks.
You'll see them on youtube.

Wow !!
You actually drill holes into your dash/glove compartment for those bolts ??
I own the SpiderPodiumTablet from Breffo and it does the job well .... very versatile as you can bend it into any configuration to make it adapt to your surrounding/Car type...etc
check it out here:
http://www.breffo.com/aboutspt.html

I've actually checked those out before. I just couldn't find anything on the market that would (1) not obstruct my view of the road, (2) not block any of my essentials in the car like my cd player and ipod plug in, and (3) be sturdy enough to not wobble when I drive.
And I see nothing wrong with drilling holes in the glove compartment. I actually had nuts behind all of that to keep everything in place.

I like it.
We're taking a trip to the in-laws today, and I have half a mind to let the wife drive so I can fiddle with the GPS.
A serious mount solution is going to come up when I get my Jeep, so seeing stuff like this is another resource for ideas.
Thanks for taking the time to take and post pics.

Most mounts for something like this either suction to glass or comes up from floor with a gooseneck. Neither is ideal. Thats whY I made this. I used to work as a cop before I switched career. This setup kinda reminds me of the old job.

goodintentions said:
Most mounts for something like this either suction to glass or comes up from floor with a gooseneck. Neither is ideal. Thats whY I made this. I used to work as a cop before I switched career. This setup kinda reminds me of the old job.
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I used to build "specialized police vehicles" a few years back.
You totally flashed me back to all those grimy Toshiba Satellites on floor mounts.

Get some large electrical shrink wrap put around that heat it up and would look very professional and clean.
It comes in several colors.
Ohhh nice car.but I will hold on to my venture mini van

erica_renee said:
Get some large electrical shrink wrap put around that heat it up and would look very professional and clean.
It comes in several colors.
Ohhh nice car.but I will hold on to my venture mini van
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OMG, why the hell didn't I think of that? Will do it as soon as I have time tomorrow. Will post updated pictures after. Thanks.

Congrats. You just ****ed up your car. You are so winning right now.

failmatic said:
Congrats. You just ****ed up your car. You are so winning right now.
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Haha, yes I am an idiot. Stupid idiot actually. I simply don't view my car like most people. For me, its just another thing for me to modify based on my needs.
Is it your car that I ****ed up?

Dude, props!
I do stuff with my car that people find weird but ut makes total sense to me. This may be the (future) engineer in me, but your airbags are not in anyway near the mount, are they?
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Nicely done! Looks good and I like the placement. I did something similar with a very similar mount I picked up, only I ****ed my '97 Odyssey up even worse by drilling a big hole right in the upper dash. But when you drive a beat up old mini-van, looks are not your top priority.

cd85233 said:
Dude, props!
I do stuff with my car that people find weird but ut makes total sense to me. This may be the (future) engineer in me, but your airbags are not in anyway near the mount, are they?
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I also had that in mind. It's no where near the passenger air bag.

perhaps I should explain something. I came from a long line of engineers. And one of the first things i learned in life was to not be afraid to be adventurous. Case in point. My neice's clarinet's thumb rest broke. Her teacher sent it to a repair shop for an estimate. The estimate was 125.00. I went ahead and bought a $4 thumb rest and screwed it in for her. There was someone who said to me that I was ruining her clarinet by putting in the thumb rest myself.
The point is if youre not willing to take a chance then there will always be people who wants to take advantage of you.
The past 48 hrs I've replaced 2 bathroom sinks and 3 focits (sp?), polished up 2 bath tubs, put in 4 new pairs of break pads, replaced 2 rotaries, and polished up the homemade mount to make it look much nicer. I'll post some pics in the morning. Been trying to finish everything before our road trip. Gotta the clean the car and get our supplies ready for the road trip tomorrow as well as rotate tires.
I do all of that myself and I'm suppose to worry about a couple of holes in the dash board that can very easily be covered up if need be?

"Normals" will never understand modding, don't bother to try to explain it to them.
Hardware hacking isn't for the faint of heart or those who bow and scrape before such petty little things as "the warranty".

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Congrats. You just ****ed up your car. You are so winning right now.
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First post ever and they put themselves on the map with flame douchery.
Wonderful start there.

By no means have I ever been afraid to mod. It's what engineers do...or at least the ones that do it for other things other than money haha.
As long as no one dies modding that is.

Here's a sample video taken from my iconia mounted to my car.
Before I bolted the mount into my car, I checked to make sure it was empty behind there. It's also out of the way of the passenger airbag.
During our driving trip to DC and our visits of the monuments and museums, my iconia served as a gps, video camera, and entertainment device. The battery life on this thing is amazing.

Drop / Shock Tests

Friends, Will be updating this thread with drop and shock tests of the HTC ONE.
Here is one of the good ones I found, and if you come across more, please do mention them and I will add them into the OP for sure

damn that bloody glued speaker cover
most stupid idea ever
at least provide a way to clip it back in!
the One X in this test would have only lost its screen...
but yea this video confirms the back cover + frame are unibody....
they dented together bent together and never seperated

Oh man, I can see that speaker grille getting super annoying in future carelessness. Not looking forward to that!

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here we can see the unibody back + plastic frame, they sustained the damage together and only in the extreme point of impact do we see slight seperation
the ground it fell on is really rough
still the front glued covers are absurdly stupid!
MAD at Speaker Covers
My One X and Desire HD surived very simliar falls without ever a flying part, not even the Desire HD plastic patches did ever fly (they snap in and not glued)!
but when i saw Jonas phone i was really worried this would happen and yup it does!
stupid glues should be banned from phone assmebly!

Is there a blog that would do the drop tests in at least a little bit scientific way? Because you can drop a phone 10 times on its back and nothing will happen but you need just one drop on the face to shatter the screen...

Screen looked fine but the dents were pretty bad.
At least on first drop the screen never cracked like the iPhone.
Deffo getting a cover! lol

nothing wrong with breaking or dents the ground its falling on is really rough
the one and only problem is the flying speaker covers

ERE! One thing I can't get my head around is how Nokia managed to construct the Lumia 920 to somehow withstand being launched about 20 meters through the air without breaking (and yes I know it's more of a lump) but how has no other manufacturer managed to emulate such tank like design?? Surely it can't simply be packing I mean the weight difference between the 920 (185g) and the One (143g) is really not that great a difference.....it's about the same as one of those little boxes of raisins.....And I can't see that being a defining difference between being damaged from hip height to being damaged from a throw.....Anyone think of how/why this is?

hamdir said:
the one and only problem is the flying speaker covers
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Nothing that a drop of superglue won't fix, so it's bad but not critically bad I'd say.

llothar said:
Is there a blog that would do the drop tests in at least a little bit scientific way? Because you can drop a phone 10 times on its back and nothing will happen but you need just one drop on the face to shatter the screen...
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I assume you're looking for how many times a phone will land on its face out of the number of times dropped? A scientific test would require repetition, which I don't think any blog has the resources to do. Plus, when it comes down to it, you can't control how you drop your phone. I think it's enough to know that a full-on frontal drop will result in a cracked screen.

Soooo my concern is this.
Do you think even if we don't drop, this adhesive can go off in time? I mean can it fall by itself in time?

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ERE! One thing I can't get my head around is how Nokia managed to construct the Lumia 920 to somehow withstand being launched about 20 meters through the air without breaking (and yes I know it's more of a lump) but how has no other manufacturer managed to emulate such tank like design?? Surely it can't simply be packing I mean the weight difference between the 920 (185g) and the One (143g) is really not that great a difference.....it's about the same as one of those little boxes of raisins.....And I can't see that being a defining difference between being damaged from hip height to being damaged from a throw.....Anyone think of how/why this is?
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the One X and Desire HD are tank like as well, in case of the One X there are no covers, its full unibody as well, screen protected by metal frame

Note to self: Do not drop it. EVER.

These pics and videos of the damaged One are breaking my heart
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hamdir said:
the One X and Desire HD are tank like as well, in case of the One X there are no covers, its full unibody as well, screen protected by metal frame
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Oh yes no doubting that the DHD is a tank, mine has been more then abused and laughed it off for the most part....Though not sure if you've seen the dop test of the Lumia 920. The bloke hits it across a car-park (or something) with a bit of wood and it doesn't brake. Some of the hits the phone takes would literally obliterate most others and he has to throw it full pelt, screen first in to a concrete pillar to break the screen lol.. I've literally not seen anything like it from a phone before. I'd love to know how they managed to make it quite so strong.....
(here's the link to show you if you've not seen it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3c8il_Q6SU .....and no I'm not bigging up the 920, I know it's a good phone but it has far more flaws than the One.....I'm just referring to it in regards to its construction)

actually i'm really pissed
and if this speaker cover bull**** is not improved in later batches, i might reconsider...first time ever i see on an HTC
and i meant One X, One S, One V, 8x, Explorer, Sensation, Evo 3D, Sensation XL, Desire HD, Desire, Nexus One, HD2
non of them had easily flying covers!

these drop tests were quite brutal , usually no one drops them like this and on concrete thrice.. but i think the phone is quite good still in terms of what really happened to it..
my heart was pumping when the one was being dropped, such a gorgeous device!

I instantly remembered Lumia920 drop test. They were unable to shatter the screen like that. Lumia is using Gorilla2 as well. Why the big difference?

hamdir said:
actually i'm really pissed
and if this speaker cover bull**** is not improved in later batches, i might reconsider...first time ever i see on an HTC
and i meant One X, One S, One V, 8x, Explorer, Sensation, Evo 3D, Sensation XL, Desire HD, Desire, Nexus One, HD2
non of them had easily flying covers!
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It wont be improved unless they got some amazing glue. An impact like that will cause it to bend and fly off. Waiting for later batches wont improve that.

Nekromantik said:
Screen looked fine but the dents were pretty bad.
At least on first drop the screen never cracked like the iPhone.
Deffo getting a cover! lol
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I never understood that.
People buying a phone because its aluminium and its oh so pretty and not plastic, and then put it in a (plastic) case which makes the whole thing look like a toy in a condom so it wont dent.

OnePlus One Is Waterproof - Discussion here

Hey everyone,
I was recently walking outside in the pouring rain with my OnePlus One. The crazy thing was that it was still functioning fine despite being practically hailed on. So I pulled out my M8 and decided to start recording. In this test I put the OnePlus One underwater multiple times and it came out fine each attempt. I didn't have any issues with the touch sensitivity, headphone jack, or even charging. It's pretty crazy quite honestly.

Thanks for providing this. I think you're a bit crazy considering people would kill for this phone, but it looks like it might have a nano coating like the moto G

Thanks for risking it.
Beyond that - how did you find the screen in the outdoors? Just respond instinctively (e.g. "rainbows directly into my eyes", "it was OK", "use only in caves - dark ones even for them")

a lot of modern phones can do this. the way they are built with low tolerances gives them some water resistance. but the oneplus is not waterproof, and it has no water resistance certification. so dont try this at home with your phone. you will probably mess something up and the phone can start to act weird days later. it is a testament to the build quality though.

@Nxxx,
getting interested about Speaker, is it working after such shower.?
what about earpiece.? OnePlus One detects earphones after this.?
etc. with such thing that are not visible at first glance or through video...(is it fully functional.? microphone.?)

i just wanted to add here. i got caught in a really bad thunderstorm last night while on my motorcycle with my opo in my jeans pocket. i rode for about 5 minutes in the worst thunderstorm i've ever ridden in, i was completely soaked and the opo got it as well. it was stil on and acting fine so i threw it under the seat and continued home and haven't shut the phone off yet and it's still fine.
i'd say the phone at least has a nano coating. i always worried about my nexus 5 because i knew this day would come at some point where i'd get stuck in a storm with my phone in my pocket and not be able to pull over. look slike the opo will do just fine.

DualSportDad said:
i just wanted to add here. i got caught in a really bad thunderstorm last night while on my motorcycle with my opo in my jeans pocket. i rode for about 5 minutes in the worst thunderstorm i've ever ridden in, i was completely soaked and the opo got it as well. it was stil on and acting fine so i threw it under the seat and continued home and haven't shut the phone off yet and it's still fine.
i'd say the phone at least has a nano coating. i always worried about my nexus 5 because i knew this day would come at some point where i'd get stuck in a storm with my phone in my pocket and not be able to pull over. look slike the opo will do just fine.
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I once used my Nexus5 for almost an hour in pure rain. It got so extremely wet, you can't imagine. I already thought I'd had to buy a new one. Nope. It's still working.
(Yes I had to stay in the rain. I was at the army there.)

I was taking a shot REALLY next to the water when a wave hit a half of my phone and it was underwater (but still in my hands) for less than a second. Nothing happened. I don't think it's waterproof, but somehow it resist
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I think it is waterproof but they just dont verified it by the IP, because it would increase the costs

_Beni_ said:
I think it is waterproof but they just dont verified it by the IP, because it would increase the costs
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do you think it is possible for someone to check for IP for a specific device (like me to check my phone for IP##).?
maybe someone would like to push his device for testing

Don't get your hopes up too high people,
Friend of mine actually broke his OPO this way after 2 days (biking in a heavy rain storm).
The speakers were completely soaked and couldn't play anything till they dried. Everything seemed fine after the phone dried but it couldn't charge any more thus rendering the phone useless.
So anyway be careful out there! You never know if your device is just as water resistant as in this video, my friend already had bad luck so don't jinx it haha.

Nxxx said:
Hey everyone,
I was recently walking outside in the pouring rain with my OnePlus One. The crazy thing was that it was still functioning fine despite being practically hailed on. So I pulled out my M8 and decided to start recording. In this test I put the OnePlus One underwater multiple times and it came out fine each attempt. I didn't have any issues with the touch sensitivity, headphone jack, or even charging. It's pretty crazy quite honestly.
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In my opinion you are only fortune, try a second time you will see that the OPO will die.
but do you usually walk on the streets without the shoes?? where do you live??

Consider this: you can have unprotected sex with someone who has herpes and not get it, but would you chance it? Didn't think so. It's not waterproof because it's not waterproof, you just got lucky.
Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

robstunner said:
Consider this: you can have unprotected sex with someone who has herpes and not get it, but would you chance it? Didn't think so. It's not waterproof because it's not waterproof, you just got lucky.
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Should have used AIDS as a comparison... Since Herpes won't kill you Hah.

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I think it is waterproof but they just dont verified it by the IP, because it would increase the costs
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can't be, all waterproof devices has rubber plugs on ports: audio, microusb, this doesn't.
here is a teardown for the OnePlus, doesn't seem to have rubber and protections against water in any part:
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/OnePlus+One+Teardown/26484
notice that the microusb port give complete access to water to electronics inside, it is either luck for sometime (what happened an hour later? is the OPO still working?) or it was treated with waterproof material.
then compare it with the Galaxy S5, where you can easily see rubber protections around parts that reach to the outside, camera, back, etc:
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+S5+Teardown/24016

The correct term is water resistant, not proof. And I don't even believe it have water resistant nano coating until officially confirmed by OPO. And they would not neglect to advertise that feature if they spent money on it.

NO! this phone has no seals in it at all! you will kill your phone sooner or later. hell i had a s5 and still didnt put it under water. dont do it ppppppl

Hope your charging port doesn't corrode, especially since the opo doesn't have wireless charging... cool video though. Makes me feel like i dont have to baby my baby as much as i do!

I feel like the headline of this should be changed so that people who are just skimming the headlines won't get the wrong idea and drown their phones :/
Sent via quantum entanglement, focused through my OnePlus One.

I agree the title is misleading. The phone is not water proof, there's no gasket on the back cover, no nano coating, and no port covers. It's just glass fused to the midframe with a tightly fit back which makes somewhat resistant to water, but there's no ingress protection so no dunking your phone.