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...it's still working!
I think it's the luckiest HD in the world.
It was in it's stock pouch and was scooped out within seconds. The battery quickly taken off and with the back off, card out, etc put straight into the airing cupboard (the little cupboard where the hot water tank is). This all happened at about 8am this morning. Got a call from the girlfriend at about 4pm this afternoon telling me she'd put it back together and it was cool. Wasn't too happy she'd done that, was gonna give it at least 48 hours but it's working. Seems to have dried out perfectly. Nothing under the screen, everything work fine.
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!
I think it was the pouch that saved it, probably soaked up the water before it got to the device.
Thanks for sharing this. I use mine every morning in there too but it's not happened to me yet. I will be extra careful from now on maybe take the pouch with me
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Thanks for sharing this. I use mine every morning in there too but it's not happened to me yet. I will be extra careful from now on maybe take the pouch with me
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It was actually the process of puting my HD back in the pouch that made me drop it but thank god it made it back in just in time. I know what you mean though, every morning while dropping a bomb i'm checking my mail and seeing what the M1 is like before deciding on my route to work!
no kidding...you are luckier than sh#t!
If it plays up, wash it in distilled water and then dry it for 48 hours.
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If it plays up, wash it in distilled water and then dry it for 48 hours.
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Yeah, I really think the pouch saved it though. I'll never stop using it now...
...and never use while on the john again!
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It was actually the process of puting my HD back in the pouch that made me drop it but thank god it made it back in just in time. I know what you mean though, every morning while dropping a bomb i'm checking my mail and seeing what the M1 is like before deciding on my route to work!
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Lol thanks for the warning, I'm gonna take my laptop in instead now, like to see me fit that one down the toilet!
joey7415963 said:
Lol thanks for the warning, I'm gonna take my laptop in instead now, like to see me fit that one down the toilet!
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LMAO! Did this a couple of weeks back with my sons iphone, spent 2 hours blowing all the water out via the headphone socket lol. That works better now than before, he reckons it cleaned the crap from out the speakers and now is louder than ever lol. Maybe we should start a new section on the weirdest things you've managed to do with you're phone
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Maybe we should start a new section on the weirdest things you've managed to do with you're phone
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I like it! Need some more comedy on here lately
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I think it's the luckiest HD in the world.
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not entirely convinced that yours is lucky...
I consider my HD lucky that it hasn't yet had the pleasure of meeting last nights curry.
fwaaaar!! ur must have been pooing ur pants! i dropped mine on concrete as i got out of my car a few days a go.. my heart jumped out of my mouth but i wasnt too worried about that.. i was scared about what happenned to my phone! picked it up screen was fine.. few marked on the corners which im pissed about and i seem to check them every now and again to see if they've healed.. i know they wont.. but i have hope lol..
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few marked on the corners which im pissed about and i seem to check them every now and again to see if they've healed.. i know they wont.. but i have hope lol..
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Lol, the I have hope comment is a classic
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Yeah, I really think the pouch saved it though. I'll never stop using it now...
...and never use while on the john again!
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You might want get a new pouch though, I mean its been down the bog. lol
joey7415963 said:
Lol thanks for the warning, I'm gonna take my laptop in instead now, like to see me fit that one down the toilet!
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Take care a close friend of mine dropped the EEPC in the toilet. He was smoking, some ash fall down on the legs, he opened them to avoid burn and the little toy from asus made a dive. All this happened before flushing the toilet, so before he got it to the service center he had also to clean it and parfume it.
A way to avoid this happening would be not to play with "toys" in the bathroom!!
From the last few posts i can say : none of the WM devices stink, even those which have been in toilet!!!!!!!
and gues im not looking for a new pouch -- keeping the original one!!!!
Boy oh boy that is damn funny, my old man did it many yrs ago when the first StarTac came out.
He came around the hallway swearing, googley eyed looking left and right and stated, "that was the most expensive s..t I ever had!"
He had stood up and flushed and at the exact same time the phone had popped off his belt and disappeared.
Incidentally he did get it back, it stuck to tree roots further down the drain, mind you it never worked again. heh heh.
unwired4 said:
If it plays up, wash it in distilled water and then dry it for 48 hours.
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Personally, I find dehydrated water is kinder and produces more consistent results.
widu13 said:
Personally, I find dehydrated water is kinder and produces more consistent results.
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LMAO, sorry, but when you say "personally" & "produces more consistent results", does this mean that this happens to you a lot?
Here is a torture test by CNETTV, they do this for a lot of phones and see what the phone can take.
Its a good video if you want to see what the phone can withstand, especially with the amount of people cracking their screens now, makes you wonder if their story is totally true as I dont think the screen actually smashes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zioNvhFpx8c
(Ive changed the video as they had one without the tablet section)
Well that's kind of ridiculous, why not do the water test last, this way we can see if the phone still turns on after the drop and heat test...
Will.1 said:
Well that's kind of ridiculous, why not do the water test last, this way we can see if the phone still turns on after the drop and heat test...
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You didn't watch the full video. In the end she turns the phone on.
Will.1 said:
Well that's kind of ridiculous, why not do the water test last, this way we can see if the phone still turns on after the drop and heat test...
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Ive changed the link, so you dont need to skip to the end, its just one video about the One
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You didn't watch the full video. In the end she turns the phone on.
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I stand corrected then ! good to know.
And yea, the top and bottom speaker grills seem to be the weakspots
Wow, some incredible stupid tests, but hard ones. Two tosses from a big moving bus, dived on a huge cup of soda while turned on, and grilled (wtf). Still no cracked screens, and it worked fine after a time.
Impressed.
Post if you have done the same.
Disclaimer: Not for faint heart. Do not try this..
It hurts bruh!!
If you are thinking of doing this, wait for the killer at the end...glad to know I will have a nice looking paperweight if I drop it 3 times
But nice find.
But I'm really impressed with the vertical drop, where the speakers landed first. I expected the chassis to be filled with dents and holes from the rough surface. But damn our phones are sturdy man!
"Post if you have done the same"
Seriously, who in their right mind would do this on purpose to this piece of beauty
I'm actually surprised it holds so well (well, except for not working afterwards anymore hehe).
Could be a fake video,as you can see the video has been edited
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gm007 said:
Could be a fake video,as you can see the video has been edited
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Explain please. Am i missing something?
Hunteres said:
Explain please. Am i missing something?
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There is no one shot that show how the phone fall,i mean from hands to the ground.
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gm007 said:
There is no one shot that show how the phone fall,i mean from hands to the ground.
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Lol. suspicious much?
Of course the video has been edited, shots from different angles have been put into one video... not all footage is equally interesting. But edited does not mean fake... I at least don't see any reason to believe this would be fake.
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Lol. suspicious much?
Of course the video has been edited, shots from different angles have been put into one video... not all footage is equally interesting. But edited does not mean fake... I at least don't see any reason to believe this would be fake.
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I hope you didn't believe that all actors in titanic's movie died
Anyway he could show us in a wide angle how the phone fall from his hands and how the phone hit the ground then turn it on.
I think it's a bad review and misleading peoples.
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I don't like that video. As have been told, they didn't record it straight without video cutting also they didn't show if it works between falls, they didn't try to call if problem is only with display. If I want to guess what is wrong with that device I would rather say that only ribbon cable don't have good connection than device is broken.
You should understand guys that these people are sponsored. They might be getting so much from apple or sammy or lg, or even nokia. They need to make the competition look bad so that people would look the other way around. Sometimes they use these kinds of diversion "Oh I'm really surprised that the phone is holding up so well. The screen might be broken, chassis is junk, back plate/plastic/glass is also broken, but on the lighter side the phone still works flawlessly." ORR "This phone works quite well, but I just can't accept the fact that the loudspeaker isn't good enough."
About the loudspeaker diversion, they're just looking for something negative for their closing remarks. Because that's what usually sticks to people, the closing remarks.
Well, and one should always remember that one instance is no guarantee for other instances...
In these drop tests it can matter quite a bit if the angle in which the phone hits the pavement is just that bit off, or whatever other random influence. It is just AN indication, some ppl drop their phone once and it's immediately shattered. Others drop the same phone 10 times wth only minor dents as a result.
But my response was mainly because people shout "FAKE" or "PHOTOSHOPPED" at just about every video or picture posted on the internet, it was nothing personal @gm007
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ouch I cringed when watching this video. Up until the end I was pretty happy that the screen or back didn't crack but it sucks how it doesn't turn on properly anymore
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Don't burst into tears. Just take look at the top comment of the video:
thats the security shutoff...just press the reset button at the simcard slot and it should work again...happened to me yesterday dropped my z1 and just reset it
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So don't worry, that phone is much better that one can think. Still I'm totally buying this phone to replace my Motocrap Atrix, and hope it lasts with me many years.
It always hurts watching these videos..
I dropped almost my Z1. Cant watch the Video tooo terrible :crying:
I was wearing shorts that had a shallow pocket and the unthinkable happened today. The Z1 dropped several times out of my pocket and hit the ground. Surprisingly no marks or dents. Thank God! lol
HoOnZ said:
I was wearing shorts that had a shallow pocket and the unthinkable happened today. The Z1 dropped several times out of my pocket and hit the ground. Surprisingly no marks or dents. Thank God! lol
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HoOnZ said:
The Z1 dropped several times out of my pocket and hit the ground. Surprisingly no marks or dents. Thank God! lol
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HoOnZ said:
several times out of my pocket and hit the groundl
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HoOnZ said:
several times
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SEVERAL TIMES? Dude, no offense, but are you retarded? after the first time, did you not think to yourself "maybe this isnt the best place to put the phone"?
And for the people saying about being fake? what? why would it be? a) the unit was probably free from sony anyway.. if not then b) the views they get on youtube for that video most likely pays for the cost of the phone. and c) they do this drop test with most of the phones they review. so remind me again why this could be fake?
The reason they didn't show the phone working after each drop, is probably coz it broke after the first drop, which meant that there was no point in carrying on with the drop test. And they wanted to carry on with the drop tests. That's all!! Stop with the bribing nonsense.
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hi !
i have a problem with my front camera.
from what i can tell, there is some sort of a plastic ring around the lens, witch has moved out of place and it covers the top part of the camera. the result is seen in pictures displaying a dark area around the top right side of the picture.
anyone has any idea how this might have happen? or what do i need to do to fix it?
any help is apreciated
sorry for the bad quality of the pictures
Did you drop your phone?
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thahim said:
Did you drop your phone?
Sent from Galaxy Note 3 SM-N9005
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nope. at least not in the past month or so.
but i noticed that the ring around the camera was a was a little out of place starting a few months ago (i did drop it somewhere about that time) but the pictures where ok, so i didnt bothered.
but it moved even more apparently , because until yesterday the pics and videos where ok.
i am not extremly gentle with my phone (most of the time i use a case when i go outdoor or at work) but i dont abuse it.
I have managed to fix the problem.
i'll leave a link with the tutorial for doing that, just in case someone else encounters this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkLR4-Fykuc
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great idea.. just doesn't look very nice =/ samsung should send out a pen revision
blewis540 said:
great idea.. just doesn't look very nice =/ samsung should send out a pen revision
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Agreed! It doesn't look nearly as beautiful, however, since these S-Pens are only $20 or so, the converted/cut one can be used for more practical use while you can still keep a normal S-Pen to have as well.
Where can you buy a [Note 5] Samsung S-Pen for $20?
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Where can you buy a [Note 5] Samsung S-Pen for $20?
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Ebay currently has them for that price. 'Note 5 S Pen' search returns these results.
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How about you just pay attention, or if your letting a kid play your $800 phone which is stupid, take the s pen out and put it somewhere else. When anyone mentions kids it sounds like parents that don't know how to parent
ryanalan82 said:
How about you just pay attention, or if your letting a kid play your $800 phone which is stupid, take the s pen out and put it somewhere else. When anyone mentions kids it sounds like parents that don't know how to parent
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We agree that this should be common sense, however, we know that some things are inevitable. Phone laying on the table, kid comes up and plays with it for 2 seconds is all it takes, no matter how good of a parent you are.
Being the ballsy "DGAF" person I am, i shoved my pen in backwards like 20 minutes ago after a friend mentioned people complaining it was getting stuck. My first thought was "HA. Idiots... How do you jam it in so bad it gets stuck? And why?" So, I slipped mine in and and thought well, it wont go further, maybe its breaking when they try to force it? So I gave up and tried pulling it out. got like 1.5 inches out and....stuck. Like 45 seconds later, unstuck. All I did was turn the phone screen down and it slid right out
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Being the ballsy "DGAF" person I am, i shoved my pen in backwards like 20 minutes ago after a friend mentioned people complaining it was getting stuck. My first thought was "HA. Idiots... How do you jam it in so bad it gets stuck? And why?" So, I slipped mine in and and thought well, it wont go further, maybe its breaking when they try to force it? So I gave up and tried pulling it out. got like 1.5 inches out and....stuck. Like 45 seconds later, unstuck. All I did was turn the phone screen down and it slid right out
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Sorry to say, it sounds like the black lever that it would get caught on may be 'broken'. It's a spring lever so it shouldn't move based off of the phone's orientation.
interesting way to "fix" the issue. Cosmetically it doesn't look as good at the bottom, but then again, who really looks there.