OK so I was in New Orleans last week and after a night of incredible drinking my first night there I accidently dropped my mt4g into a toilet bowl like an idiot smh. This was last Wednesday. Since then my phone has been of course acting up. Somehow it still works but the battery shows the signs of water damage and when I turn on my phone the flash flashes before turning on. On top of that my camera does not work at all and some apps have been buggy as well. Battery life has probably been cut in half as well. Any ideas or tips? I'm really hoping I can fix this without having to send in the phone or buying a new one.
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Have heard some people having success by pulling battery, etc. and boeing the phone in rice for at least 24hrs...worth a shot...
Warm rice. It will absorb excess humidity. If all that damage has already been done it's likely not goong to be undone.
A lot of people have been putting there phone in the toilet.
I'm afraid I may be next, as I do most of the XDA'ing while I'm on the pot.
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I2IEAILiiTY said:
A lot of people have been putting there phone in the toilet.
I'm afraid I may be next, as I do most of the XDA'ing while I'm on the pot.
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Hahaha! Me too, man. I sat down and wrote a downgrading/rooting/flashing tutorial that I PM'ed someone yesterday, all while dropping a fat load.
I2IEAILiiTY said:
A lot of people have been putting there phone in the toilet.
I'm afraid I may be next, as I do most of the XDA'ing while I'm on the pot.
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Hahaha! Me too, man. I sat down and wrote a downgrading/rooting/flashing tutorial that I PM'ed someone yesterday, all while dropping a fat load.
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You guys are really trolling hard, aren't you? lol
Not really. At least I'm not. I was being dead serious. That was a true story, and things like that lead to threads about water damage like this. Sounds relevant to me sucka
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You guys are really trolling hard, aren't you? lol
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Nope, it was still relevant to the subject.
Eat rice, take massive ****, place **** outside to dry, place phone in rice ****, reboot, Enjoy!
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Eat rice, take massive ****, place **** outside to dry, place phone in rice ****, reboot, Enjoy!
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That's the best thing I've ever heard.
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Rice usually always help absorb all of the water. But if it is too damage from water, then you gonna need a new phone.
If you soak it and it doesn't shut off you gotta pull the battery fast (search "how fast is electricity" xD). the only damage is caused by power being routed where it shouldn't, so for example if you go to check what the damage is and the phone isn't completely dry yet you will just cause more damage.
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Wahaha, it happens. My phone was under heavy rain for about 40 min with screen up. I did not work for a day. I dried it as much as I can with a hear dryer and left it for a day and a half. Everything works except the flash which really comes handy at times.
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I had an incident in which my phone was rained on as well, but I was told using a hair dryer only makes things worse. So I used the rice method and waited a day then my phone worked perfectly again.
seems this phone is a little heavy? lol~
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I felt I needed to share this with the NS Community. After jumping in a lake with my Nexus in my pocket and swimming for 10 min. I brought my nexus back from the dead by...
Immediatly getting out of the water and removing the battery and leaving it in the sun and drying it well and leaving it in a bag of rice for 24 hours. And don't attempt to turn it on, it'll only short it out. Maybe this'll help. Or it's useless. Either or
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N00bsploder101 said:
I felt I needed to share this with the NS Community. After jumping in a lake with my Nexus in my pocket and swimming for 10 min. I brought my nexus back from the dead by...
Immediatly getting out of the water and removing the battery and leaving it in the sun and drying it well and leaving it in a bag of rice for 24 hours. And don't attempt to turn it on, it'll only short it out. Maybe this'll help. Or it's useless. Either or
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I would not say swimming for 10 minutes is immediately getting out...
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I would not say swimming for 10 minutes is immediately getting out...
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Haha that's exactly what I thought when I was reading the thread!
Was it off when u went swimming?
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Protip: Do not get your phone wet.
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No
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I did when I noticed my nexus was in my pocket xD
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...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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...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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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
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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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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!
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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..
I jumped the gun and i tried to plug it in defn too soon to see if it was working. The LED flashed for a second then went off.
It was a bad plunge because it had no back cover at the time.
The battery could be trashed, but i am worried the phone could be dunzo now too.
It's been in a tupperware of brown rice for 2 full days now and no joy when i plug it in.
im sorry, no hope
you could try and replace motherboard if ifixit has them in stock, but even then,
ya i think your out of luck man
First and always take the battery out if it ever happens again and let both sit in rice for a couple of days before you attempt any kind of charge or turning it back on
Best of luck getting it fixed or getting a new one
i did take the battery out right away, but yeah i think somewhere i blew it out with plugging it in with no battery
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i did take the battery out right away, but yeah i think somewhere i blew it out with plugging it in with no battery
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Should have waited at least a couple of days just to be safe.
lessen learned...the hard way
You could try a few more days using silica (A LOT).
I had problems before that my device would stop working for weeks, and them came back to life.
I've gotten soap in my phone before. Watery soap too. Thought mine was done for but rice saved me. So hang in there.
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My iPhone 3GS went through a full wash cycle. After about 5 months I plugged it in just for sh*ts and giggles and it fired right up. Antenna is hosed though, which I could replace (probably corrosion). Sometimes the hardware comes back to life if left long enough.
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My iPhone 3GS went through a full wash cycle. After about 5 months I plugged it in just for sh*ts and giggles and it fired right up. Antenna is hosed though, which I could replace (probably corrosion). Sometimes the hardware comes back to life if left long enough.
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I got my wife a Nano couple years back and that night I put it through the wash. It survived but I've never felt so bad before.
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Sound crazy but place it in a bowl of uncooked rice completely submerged, the rice should absorb the moisture.
leave it for a day.
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Atrix_Owner said:
Should have waited at least a couple of days just to be safe.
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Captain Hindsight awaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy!
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Im looking for digitizer and screen parts for my atrix. Wilt thou be willing to part for a fee?
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Im looking for digitizer and screen parts for my atrix. Wilt thou be willing to part for a fee?
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Please send me your phone so I can sell it to this man for parts.
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Took a week in rice before mine started to work again (dropped in toilet too).
Resist the temptation to turn it on.
Patience is key!
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Took a week in rice before mine started to work again (dropped in toilet too).
Resist the temptation to turn it on.
Patience is key!
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What are you all doing that you drop your phones in your toilets?
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Y i had the same luck with a nano. never with a phone though. I had a 3gs that i jumped into ap ull with and as much as i tried i could not save that one.
Yeah no ****.
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Yeah no ****.
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Are you implying a clean toilet?
I got lucky. Mine slipped into the hot tub this weekend. Immediately grabbed it, powered off and yanked the battery. Let it sit for a couple days and powered it on...it works! I think my incipio case may have saved it.
Is anyone still here or developing for this phone?
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Jaggar345 said:
Is anyone still here or developing for this phone?
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I was trying learn while flashing different mods, but don't have too much time to actually learn enough to do much good.
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I will be until both mine brick
After dropping this phone in the toilet, it doesn't like to charge anymore; it's a pita every time to give it a quarter charge... Sooo... I might release the package i have right now, and go into semi-retirement xP
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After dropping this phone in the toilet, it doesn't like to charge anymore; it's a pita every time to give it a quarter charge... Sooo... I might release the package i have right now, and go into semi-retirement xP
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So what phone do you plan on using now?
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After dropping this phone in the toilet, it doesn't like to charge anymore; it's a pita every time to give it a quarter charge... Sooo... I might release the package i have right now, and go into semi-retirement xP
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If it doesn't like to charge anymore then its from the battery getting wet maybe. When my sons continy drowned in his backpack from a water bottle I dried it out for awhile in rice, battery too.
Amazon has cheap bats and extended bats and case for continuum.
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If it doesn't like to charge anymore then its from the battery getting wet maybe. When my sons continy drowned in his backpack from a water bottle I dried it out for awhile in rice, battery too.
Amazon has cheap bats and extended bats and case for continuum.
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Yeah, that might be the case in part, but there is also the issue of the phone registering that is is plugged in only after twisting and bending the cord around the phone in a certain manner... It isn't the cord, because I tried it with like four others--it is definitely the phone itself... I think i'll keep this phone though until the Sammy S IV is released (and unlockable by devs ) for Verizon off contract So I still have some time to fiddle around!
I bought an external battery charger for mine off ebay for 5, I saw some for a little more with a battery. Then it wouldn't have to charge via the phone and you would have an extra battery.
Having said all that, are you working on one last great master mod release. Your continuum magnum opus?
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I bought an external battery charger for mine off ebay for 5, I saw some for a little more with a battery. Then it wouldn't have to charge via the phone and you would have an extra battery.
Having said all that, are you working on one last great master mod release. Your continuum magnum opus?
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That's what I've got. The desk charger came with a "Y" usb cord so I can have one battery charging in the charger and still plug the phone in. It's great having that second battery, if the phone gets low just swap them out and go. And it is a factory Samsung battery, so no issues with it.
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I had an extended battery for mine when it was daily driver. Now mine is sitting in a draw so if you need anything testes I don't mine flashing it, I just need to flash to gb first since I went to froyo because the gb leak kept boot looping.
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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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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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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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"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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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!!
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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:
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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.