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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..

Comeplete Shattered/Cracked Galaxy S2 AMOLED (Screen) >PICTURES ATTACHED<

isn't this terrible right? ive made my departure with this beloved phone and will be reunited when its back from repair (£100 to replace! WTF!!).. i would like to hear on your opinions at how you think i did it.

Looks like somebody sat on it!

looks like a car or a truck went over it

your not far off my friend..

nope.. no vehicles where used. or any other kind of heavy machinery.

A big fat dude step on it..
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Blueshadow91 said:
nope.. no vehicles where used. or any other kind of heavy machinery.
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okay then let me venture to the rumor mills.
you've got the all new top secret sgs3 from samsung so you decide to break your old one

Tried to use face unlock?
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Nope.. nothing far fetched as that i slipped on some mud on a pavement and the phone was in my back pocket.. so just imagine clamping an apple in a Vice/G Clamp, squashed! that's what happen to the LCD screen in between the Gorilla Glass and Battery. the Man in the Three store was amazing to see it so badly damaged and he his colleague and my brother had one too.. i felt so guilty!
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me_ashman said:
Tried to use face unlock?
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Boy he must be so ugly. Ha Ha.

me_ashman said:
Tried to use face unlock?
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Loool......
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Wait, so the glass didn't break, just the LCD?

me_ashman said:
Tried to use face unlock?
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In Soviet Russia, face unlocks YOU!
So, in a nutshell, you have to facepalm with your phone onto your face to use faceunlock?

Oh my. Ogre hands?
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Is it hard to change only the glass, not all the screen?

lol u think that's bad?
check this out...

lol, lets have a competition on who own the most badly damaged SGS2.
luckily im not in,
yet

yes just the LCD broke.. and xpresside, was your phone done like an in an accident? i believe it wasnt

Did you step on it?

Blueshadow91 said:
yes just the LCD broke.. and xpresside, was your phone done like an in an accident? i believe it wasnt
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yes, it got like that in a motorcycle accident

My phone is darker as compared to my friend's

Both white s3, different batch like one week apart. And everything even the battery is darker.
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Turn the brightness up, unless you have both set manually to the same brightness then you can't compare.

I think he's talking about the phone being physically darker in terms of cosmetics

U have unique version ;D no reason to panic. sell it for 1000usd in e-bay ;D
Seriously tho... if it bothers u so much u still can return it? If i was in ur shoes i'd b proud
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Sounds serious. I'd return it.

eXecuter.bin said:
I think he's talking about the phone being physically darker in terms of cosmetics
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*cough*
I knew that, was just testing you...

woshiahboi said:
Both white s3, different batch like one week apart. And everything even the battery is darker.
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We need evidence.
Take some pictures of your device if possible.

Tachikoma_kun said:
*cough*
I knew that, was just testing you...
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Sometimes things aren't what they seem! :laugh:
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Tachikoma_kun said:
*cough*
I knew that, was just testing you...
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More like backpeddling

this sounds like a troll post
how do you state something like that without posting any pictures

3 words: Sweaty acidic palms

Put it up on ebay, I'm sure you'll fetch some good dollar due to the rarity of having a one-off white color!

Maybe your friends is too light.
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the grass is always greener on the other side. same with phones now i guess.

I compared my pebble blue s3 to a store dummy phone and my battery cover was a completely different color. The dummy was lighter and didn't have the blue "chrome" look that my phone has. I have no idea if its because it was a dummy phone or if there are variations in different batches. Maybe the dummy had one of the defective battery covers, who knows.

who cares?
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I want the 1 minute of my life back after reading this thread....

The Ultimate Drop TEST!!!

So i just bought the note 2 a few weeks ago and desided to give me brand new never scratched mind condition S3 to my girlfriend.In 5 days she dropped it between the elevetor crack and fell down 9 floors !!!
When we finally found the phone (thanks to the elevetor guy) i checked the phone several times in detail and found that the only thing that was broken was the glass in front of the screen the screen worked perfectly (i could still use the phone btw touch worked) .
Samsung i love you..
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ae1cwm6z6ugx4j/20121024_153106.jpg heres a pic of the phone (cant upload to xda for some reason..)

So she dropped her phone through the 1inch gap between the floor and the elevator....really??
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Wow lol long drop
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That is crazy dude!
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Cool, a Skrillex test: one hell of a drop! :silly:
(Apologies to XKCD)

I dropped mine to a hard ground from normal standing height and I thought it was bad enough until I saw yours.
Anyway mine just got some unnoticeable scratch and works perfectly.
That kind of robustness could only be found in older Nokia phones. :good:

We wannt see pics.... We want pics.....with the elevator crack and the screen !!!

Hmmmm sorry I don't seem to believe your story, I smell troll
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Impossible. The Elevator crack is too small..and i dont think that the phone drops exactly into it -.-

Such pessimists, I've seen old school elevators where there are couple inch gaps and you can see all the way down. I believe the guy, and if it's fake, with a mind like that, he should be writing literature
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I think I believe him!
Well, kudos to Samsung, I suppose. The only weak spot on our phone is made my Corning. (>_>)

I love Samsung and I believe S3 is pretty resistant. Depends on how is dropped. But she should had very bad luck and dropped the phone on the bezel in order to fit that space between elevator... that's why I want to see the elevator.
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dropped mine on the treadmill @ 10km/h...shot out pretty quick...thank God for screen protectors lol...

Dropped mine from a pub roof, survived with minor chips off the corner,
As for the elevator, did your phone grow wings on the way down and did you or the other half take any funny looking tablets before this all happened?
I think u have had way too little sleep
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spoxone said:
Impossible. The Elevator crack is too small..and i dont think that the phone drops exactly into it -.-
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It is possible! Just shot this picture @ my work
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LollieLaurie said:
It is possible! Just shot this picture @ my work
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Just imagine how unlucky you would have been if you had dropped your phone down there whilst trying to take that picture!
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alias_neo said:
Just imagine how unlucky you would have been if you had dropped your phone down there whilst trying to take that picture!
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Owwwh the horror
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9 floors? really? is someone willing to perform a Myth Buster? i surely wont because due to physics, there would be more damaged..unless it had on an iron man suit.
my friend dropped his while walking and the phone bounced and flipped many times, the battery cover popped off and the bezel was effed. messed up part about it, it happened right after he purchased it from the phone store.
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spoxone said:
Impossible. The Elevator crack is too small..and i dont think that the phone drops exactly into it -.-
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Wow, you know all elevators are not the same right? :angel:
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alias_neo said:
Just imagine how unlucky you would have been if you had dropped your phone down there whilst trying to take that picture!
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Haha, not funny, well it is but that would be awful! You have a sick mind for thinking of it!
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swift2fly said:
9 floors? really? is someone willing to perform a Myth Buster? i surely wont because due to physics, there would be more damaged..unless it had on an iron man suit.
my friend dropped his while walking and the phone bounced and flipped many times, the battery cover popped off and the bezel was effed. messed up part about it, it happened right after he purchased it from the phone store.
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There is often a lot of crap at the bottom so it would have had a softer landing than say outside where rubbish has not accumulated.

I still smell bull****, but the troll is getting what he wants and that's replies lol
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Phone fell 3 and half floors onto solid concrete

Its almost completely fine, there is a tiny scuff on one corner (amazingly) anyway I was just asking in case there's anything I should worry about. The phone appears to be OK and has been used since then and is typing this, but I'm worried about any damage happening inside the phone or any damage to the battery. Will my phone be OK? Thanks
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1Chef said:
Its almost completely fine, there is a tiny scuff on one corner (amazingly) anyway I was just asking in case there's anything I should worry about. The phone appears to be OK and has been used since then and is typing this, but I'm worried about any damage happening inside the phone or any damage to the battery. Will my phone be OK? Thanks
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It's pure luck that your phone survived such fall. I think you should bring it to store and check.

fuzzyAI said:
It's pure luck that your phone survived such fall. I think you should bring it to store and check.
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Pure luck and a case. What store do you mean? I have bought the phone from Google play and am not in any form of contract.
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1Chef said:
Pure luck and a case. What store do you mean? I have bought the phone from Google play and am not in any form of contract.
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Any local store that has the expertise.
I live in a country with lots of local store that can fix, replace broken phones so that might not apply to your case sadly

fuzzyAI said:
Any local store that has the expertise.
I live in a country with lots of local store that can fix, replace broken phones so that might not apply to your case sadly
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I'm currently a uni student in aber wales. Its a very small town with not much here plus I have very little spare money. I think I'll have to wait till I go home where there are as you say lots of phone fixing stores.
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1Chef said:
Pure luck and a case.
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What case are you using?

hp420 said:
What case are you using?
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The ringke fusion case. I have no idea how it managed to save the phone as it isn't particularly big or bulky, but it did .
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To save it from scuffs just get a case for it.
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1Chef said:
The ringke fusion case. I have no idea how it managed to save the phone as it isn't particularly big or bulky, but it did .
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Same here. I mistakenly dropped my phone couple times but surprising it survived. Best case I ever purchase.
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badboy47 said:
To save it from scuffs just get a case for it.
Same here. I mistakenly dropped my phone a couple times but surprisingly it survived. Best case I ever purchased.
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Well there's saving it from scuffs...and what i did to it.
Anyway I think the phone is completely fine, I fully charged it last night and have had the great battery life I normally get today. Everything working fine .
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1Chef said:
Well there's saving it from scuffs...and what i did to it.
Anyway I think the phone is completely fine, I fully charged it last night and have had the great battery life I normally get today. Everything working fine .
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Reminds me of the time I was out on my mountain biking and got cold hands so pulled my gloves out , at the same time my phone also came out.
Hit the concrete did at least 30 flips and slid across the floor 10 to 20 feet.
I walked over to it expecting the worst. There wasn't a single scratch on it . The case had stood up proudly.( cheap one )
Then I read on this forum that folks have smashed the back glass just by putting it in there jeans pocket.
Seems like some devices maybe have a better build quality then others.
We must be the lucky ones.
Also from the U.K maybe they ship better phones here . Ha ha
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