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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

Dust underneath Front Camera?

I was just cleaning off my screen and I noticed theres some dust under the screen in the front camera hole. There's dust, and some stuff that looks like ice crystals or salt. It's been in my pocket all day and I think it's really weird. I'm not going to RMA or anything, because I will probably never use the front facing camera anyway. I always use the back

I too have dust in my front facing camera. Not a big deal but really LG? The build quality may look good on this phone but it's actually pretty bad. This is my fourth phone. I'm not rma-ing again.

You can easily take out the back cover and remove it.
You just need a #5(?) torque screw and a prying tool to open the back cover.
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I don't understand why OEM's cant manufacture a phone with a proper dust seal gasket. It drives me absolutely nuts when there is dust under my screen. My old HTC Desire HD had dust under the screen within a week of purchase, and i took it back to telus. Unacceptable.

ScumDroid said:
I don't understand why OEM's cant manufacture a phone with a proper dust seal gasket. It drives me absolutely nuts when there is dust under my screen. My old HTC Desire HD had dust under the screen within a week of purchase, and i took it back to telus. Unacceptable.
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Accidents happen.
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scream4cheese said:
You can easily take out the back cover and remove it.
You just need a #5(?) torque screw and a prying tool to open the back cover.
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I shouldn't have to do this. I would rather rma it than possibly damage the phone and void the warranty.

Krunk83 said:
I shouldn't have to do this. I would rather rma it than possibly damage the phone and void the warranty.
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Okay.
It's relatively easy. Here's the video that I used.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=AZDAIgwbXk4
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scream4cheese said:
Okay.
It's relatively easy. Here's the video that I used.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=AZDAIgwbXk4
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Nothing about removing the front camera to clean it.

Get it RMAd.
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Girn said:
Get it RMAd.
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Ugh, that is such a pain in the rear.

Krunk83 said:
Ugh, that is such a pain in the rear.
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Many of you won't agree with this but this is the reason I bought my phone through tmobile I did get it for 49.99 though.
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jonapunk said:
Many of you won't agree with this but this is the reason I bought my phone through tmobile I did get it for 49.99 though.
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It's not the rma that is a pain, it's setting my phone up again that is.

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.

After I took off my case I found a mysterious dent...

I have the otterbox commuter, it's always on. Tonight I took it off to clean it and found this. Is anyone else getting this, I was thinking maybe a random heat spike. I honestly don't recall any blunt force throuought the day. I have NO idea how this could have happened
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Thats pretty nasty
Bottom line: do not use cases for beautiful HTC one
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InobleI said:
I have the otterbox commuter, it's always on. Tonight I took it off to clean it and found this. Is anyone else getting this, I was thinking maybe a random heat spike. I honestly don't recall any blunt force throuought the day. I have NO idea how this could have happened
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ouch man, that super strange.

You would think a dent that severe would have some mark on the case.

The metal is pretty strong. Definitely had to be some pretty significant force to cause that.

InobleI said:
I have the otterbox commuter, it's always on. Tonight I took it off to clean it and found this. Is anyone else getting this, I was thinking maybe a random heat spike. I honestly don't recall any blunt force throuought the day. I have NO idea how this could have happened
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I think you had a visit from the dent fairy, she seems to be busy these days, visited a few people around here.
"It wasn't me".

Ive felt this device in my hand. No way that would happen without some force.
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Ouch! Looks like lots of pressure was applied...possibly during a fit of rage....
Have you pi$$3d off anyone at work recently after showing off your phone? Or have u been regularly using your phone in bed with your partner present?
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Your lucky it didnt hit your camera lens like a dozen other people on here.... lol @ all this talk of damage and nobody did it themselves... heat caused all of them... heat caused the aluminum to warp.
Dude engines are made out of aluminum.. I doubt your phone got hotter than a car engine and warped.
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Looks like you hit it with a hammer

Haven't been pissed or pissed anyone off. Just had it in my pocket all day, no marks on the case. Heat was just an idea because nothing else made sense
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TPU and double flip case FTW

You May have hit an edge of an table with Your leg with the Phone between
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Wow I really can't believe this. Even the video where the guy shot the HTC One with a rifle split it in half but didn't even dent.
Seriously I know metals expand in heat but up to that point? Never and I am good with physics and chemistry I know that an aluminum 1 meter width at max could only expand by 2mm if heated @100 degrees celsius but this?

Post a picture of the otter box case.

nookcoloruser said:
Post a picture of the otter box case.
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What he said..
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I find that rally strange. I put my phone in an otterbox commuter and I dropped it a few times on concrete(I work in a wireles kiosk at Costco)
The phone itself is really hard especially the back. I don't get how that could magically appear.
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Sashtheflash said:
You May have hit an edge of an table with Your leg with the Phone between
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^^^this.
vegetaleb said:
Looks like you hit it with a hammer
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^^^or this
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I think this is another case of samsung employees **** posting on the internet
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c900712 said:
I think this is another case of samsung employees **** posting on the internet
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Get over it!!! Really yeah I'm sure this guy is a Samsung employee sent here and paid to RUIN HTC!!! HAHAHA Really how stupid do you think Samsung is??? You act as if they were some small time stupid company which they are not.

Xperia Z1s Flash Photography washing out (T-Mobile)

Hello All,
I just wanted to make everyone aware of something on my Z1s (Tmobile) that has been bothering me. When taking flash photography I was getting a wash out on the right of the pictures. At first I thought it was the camera but I experimented and realized that this would only happen when using my case (Tech-21 Impact Tactical Shell) purchased from T-mobile. Upon closer inspection by using the flashlight feature of the phone, I realized that the tiny edge of the case around the flash is causing the reflection. You would figure that a black case would not reflect light but it does. I rubbed the small little area with a lead pencil and it improved. So I will try to coat it with some other Flat Black paint and see what works better.
I guess since the flash is so close to the lens this can happen with other cases as well depending how big the hole around the flash is. Hopefully this will help others out.
Peace !
Walt

Happens with almost every case with a cutout for the camera. I've tried almost all of them on my Z1, haha. Expensive is no guarantee. I've had €45 cases that do this (noreve, roxfit, krusel, zenus) and all the way down. Best I found was a £2.99 thin plastic one.
If it ever comes, I have an aluminium bumper frame on order from China.
I know you have a z1s, but check the Z1 accessories forum, case discussions in there.
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I have the black tech21 case too, can I just cut the camera hole a little bigger?
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I thought about using a rotary tool to enlarge the cut out in a roxfit case, but the noreve has a huge cutout and it still happens
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HarpingOn said:
I thought about using a rotary tool to enlarge the cut out in a roxfit case, but the noreve has a huge cutout and it still happens
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Can you recommend a good case?
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I'm using a Love Mei aluminium bumper at the moment. Check out the cases thread in the accessories forum, I've posted my good and bad results in there.
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HarpingOn said:
I'm using a Love Mei aluminium bumper at the moment. Check out the cases thread in the accessories forum, I've posted my good and bad results in there.
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For the z1s? Can't find the link to that, can you post it?
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jmwils3 said:
For the z1s? Can't find the link to that, can you post it?
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Sorry it was the Z1,
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Sorry it was the Z1,
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Oh, ok. Got me all excited for a nice bumper for the z1s. No one seems to make them yet, or any really nice case for the z1s aside from the nilikin frosted one I have, and it's a bit lightweight for my taste.
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