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2 weeks ago it was raining so much that the whole parking was under water.
I jumped to my car and went home. Halfway I discovered that my phone was missing, so I went back and found it on the parking, laying under water for half an hour, 10 cm deep.
When I picked it up, even it was still under water the lock screen went on.
At home, after disassembly the phone, only under the battery cover where a few drops of water, futher the phone was dry. Even the headphone and micro-usb are no leaking path.
I use it now again for 2 weeks and it still works fine, without any trouble.
Bravo for HTC to make a phone, more than spashproof
brotsje said:
2 weeks ago it was raining so much that the whole parking was under water.
I jumped to my car and went home. Halfway I discovered that my phone was missing, so I went back and found it on the parking, laying under water for half an hour, 10 cm deep.
When I picked it up, even it was still under water the lock screen went on.
At home, after disassembly the phone, only under the battery cover where a few drops of water, futher the phone was dry. Even the headphone and micro-usb are no leaking path.
I use it now again for 2 weeks and it still works fine, without any trouble.
Bravo for HTC to make a phone, more than spashproof
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Yes, htc is the shizz! I just brought mine back to life and everything works after dropping it on the deep side of my pool. On cases like mine, taking it apart right away and putting it on a bowl of uncooked rice for a week(just to be sure) and it will dry it completely!
Alas mine wasn't so lucky, fell in a puddle as I got into the car, grabbed it out, turned it off and removed battery, sim and SD, wiped as much water off as I could with tissues.
Left it for 2 days to dry, nada. Might be that the impact with the ground (wasn't that deep a puddle) killed it.
Embarassingly and luckily I'd only taken insurance out on it that lunchtime!
Wow, that's pretty impressive for a phone. Touchscreen phones are usually prone to most types of damage, but it's good to see being fully submerged in water didn't completely disable the phone.
You lucky guy
Hmmmmmm
I'm a little dubious... I spilled a really small amount of water from a glass on the bedside table onto my HD2. Even though I immediately jumped out of bed, cursed and wiped it dry, the water seeped into it. I could see the water in the LCD (it looked like a shadow that spread across the screen slowly over days). Two weeks later, the digitizer stopped responding to my touch even though the LCD itself still seems to work. I've hard reset the handset and that hasn't helped. I also tried heating up the unit a bit (without the battery) to try to have the water evaporate from it, but that hasn't helped either.
I took the phone into O2 who had their people look at it. Ultimately they said it was out of warranty because of water damage and that I could purchase a replacement (since I don't have insurance on it).
I'm considering trying to replace the digitizer, but it sounds like a lot of fuss and ultimately the phone won't be under warranty.
Annoying... I miss my HD2. I'm stuck with a Motorola Razr at the moment.
You can drop the phone in anything... aslong as the water does not have minerals that are conductive or prone to errosion it will be fine
[OP] just happen to have some clean water falling from the sky
I had a Blackberry Storm that once got submergered in baby oil.. It stopped working and I left it alone for A month or so...One day i picked it up and it started working... The LCD was messed up with Oil in it but other then that it worked...I opened it up and there was baby oil everywhere.... Got some distalled water and let it sit for a day or so to get it clean then replaced the LCD and it worked like new.
Distalled Water is H20 with notthing in it... As clean as water can get... Sine it has no conductive minerals you can drop a phone or PSP and it will work just fine.
Really?
I thought water itself was corrosive to metal? I can't imagine that the rainwater mentioned in the first post would be as clean as distilled water...
Anyway, I was wondering do you guys have have any suggestions? I have this lovely phone that boots up and I can't do anything with.
Should I just wait it out and see if it starts working again.
raduaz said:
I thought water itself was corrosive to metal? I can't imagine that the rainwater mentioned in the first post would be as clean as distilled water...
Anyway, I was wondering do you guys have have any suggestions? I have this lovely phone that boots up and I can't do anything with.
Should I just wait it out and see if it starts working again.
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if it has clorine in the water then yea... most citys add a small amount of clorine in their water system......
the phone boots but its unresponsive?
we love stories
I dont want to THINK mine under water not to be under water NEVER
hello,
my defy screen is broken (completely shattered) and i'd like to know if there's a website i can buy a new one from, and get it delivered in France
thanks a lot in advance
http://www.acceport.com/motorola-accessory_motorola-gadgets.html --> Try here
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were you showing off how tough your phone is?
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At my display there is just one line of pixels broken since 1 day.
Ok, broken's the wrong word - they don't align with the others.
Could that be a software issue, fixed with flashing again? I mean, if it'd be the display, wouldn't the pixels just stay black?
I've acidentaly dropped my phone today on the parking lot(it fell from the height of around 1m-heght of my pants poket) and the glass on the screen is totally shaterd. It hit the ground with the upper left side(not the screen but the edge of the phone), and screen got shaterd, so I need to order a new one and get it to Serbia. If anyone can help, thank you. I guess this phone is not as hard as they claim, or I had bad luck. :/
jovus said:
I've acidentaly dropped my phone today on the parking lot(it fell from the height of around 1m-heght of my pants poket) and the glass on the screen is totally shaterd. It hit the ground with the upper left side(not the screen but the edge of the phone), and screen got shaterd, so I need to order a new one and get it to Serbia. If anyone can help, thank you. I guess this phone is not as hard as they claim, or I had bad luck. :/
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Dropped my phone for the second time last night, onto a cement floor. No damage -- first time was on a travertine floor, and no damage. In fact it bounced. Maybe I'm, lucky or maybe (as I suspect from other posts) all Gorilla Glass is not made the same.
Same here. The phone bounced like a ball when I accidentally dropped it. Thankfully everything is ok.
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Dropped mine 10 foot off a scissor lift and it hit a job box and flew sideways another 10 feet into a wall without a scratch. But then I had a simple 3 foot drop on gravel rock that scratched the glass. I think my otterbox case helps prevent more damage. Ive dropped this phone a dozen times now without problems except the seemingly least likely one to cause damage is the only one that did any. I dropped it into a floor drain with 140 degree fahrenheit running water where it laid for about 2 minutes while I found a glove to get it out with and it didnt do any damage. My old iPhone cant touch the DEFY in my line of work. Thats what I needed, a tough phone for a tough job.
the angle at which your phone is falling seriously matters! At some angles the shock while touching the ground transfers to the glass directly, then it will break, but some times the shock gets neutralized or transfered to some other parts, etc etc!
Angle matters..
the angle of collision sometimes will damage it....but i think the probability of shattering is like limit tending to almost zero...
Hi all!
A couple of weeks ago, my phone slipped from my laps. I was sitting in a couch and tried to reach the table with the phone resting outside my pants and the inclination of the body made it slip to the floor, hitting it on the side (left side if I remember well) and a bit inclined like this: /_ (the / is the phone and the _ is the floor ). The fall heigth was very low, like 40 cms.
The external glass break in a single line and the touch sensor doesn't work higher than that line
The weird thing is that the glass didn't broke directly when hitting the ground, it broke less than one minute later while using it (checking if it worked correctly). I sensed it in the hand while using the screen, so it seems that the glass got weakened and broke after a ver small amount of pressure.
In the store where I took it to be repaired they told me that Sony tends to put the touch sensor very close to the glass to improve the sensivity, making it very typical to break when the glass breaks like this.
I'm writing this to encourage you all to buy a case, because altough I don't like cases, I was planning to buy it just after the new year because the phone is too slippy, and it broke before that
I'm attaching a picture of the phone.
P.S: Remember that if the touch sensor breaks, you can always plug a USB mouse using a USB OTG adapter and reboot the phone, and at least you will be able to save everything
So pretty fragile it seems..
I can't remember how many times I dropped my sg note 4, and after every drop I was sure I'll buy a case (well I did) but the point is, now I realize how durable was this device...
My z5p is with front/back glass protectors + ugly tpu alum like case.. (Seems Sony and all case manufacturers can't find out how badly this device needs a pretty nexus 4 like boarder bumper)
Sorry to hear that, but as you say, your cautionary tale proves the benefits of having Tempered Glass screen protectors and a case. Not sure if the Tempered Glass would be good in that situation since your phone impacted at a sideways angle but always good to have fitted, just in case.
I typically always buy Glass screen protectors and wallet cases, the case serves a purpose and also adds some extra protection.
ifilgud said:
Hi all!
A couple of weeks ago, my phone slipped from my laps. I was sitting in a couch and tried to reach the table with the phone resting outside my pants and the inclination of the body made it slip to the floor, hitting it on the side (left side if I remember well) and a bit inclined like this: /_ (the / is the phone and the _ is the floor ). The fall heigth was very low, like 40 cms.
The external glass break in a single line and the touch sensor doesn't work higher than that line
The weird thing is that the glass didn't broke directly when hitting the ground, it broke less than one minute later while using it (checking if it worked correctly). I sensed it in the hand while using the screen, so it seems that the glass got weakened and broke after a ver small amount of pressure.
In the store where I took it to be repaired they told me that Sony tends to put the touch sensor very close to the glass to improve the sensivity, making it very typical to break when the glass breaks like this.
I'm writing this to encourage you all to buy a case, because altough I don't like cases, I was planning to buy it just after the new year because the phone is too slippy, and it broke before that
I'm attaching a picture of the phone.
P.S: Remember that if the touch sensor breaks, you can always plug a USB mouse using a USB OTG adapter and reboot the phone, and at least you will be able to save everything
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Today it happened to me as well unfortunately. The phone slipped from my grip as I entered in my car. Just like yours, a line appeared and it ****ed up the touch sensor. Have you changed your display after that? If so, did you use the Sony service or some random repair shop?
asilviug said:
Today it happened to me as well unfortunately. The phone slipped from my grip as I entered in my car. Just like yours, a line appeared and it ****ed up the touch sensor. Have you changed your display after that? If so, did you use the Sony service or some random repair shop?
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Hi!
Yesterday I forgot to answer, sorry.
I took it to the store where I bought it, which takes all the Z series directly to Sony official service because they do not have the ability to fix them.
It costs 200€ :s, but I wanted an official repair because it is still under warranty, and as it happened at Christmas and the phone was very new in the market, there were no other alternatives than taking it to the official service. The store didn't even have a pre-calculated price for this model, just up to Z3.
At least, as the accident happened in a friends house, his assurance company finally paid for the repair
I've had my U Ultra for about 3 months now and noticed today that the backglass on the left side of the device (the one without buttons) has a little gap between itself and the metal housing of the phone. I can even put my nail in the gap and could probably lift the glass. The backglass is probably held in place by some sort of glue/adhesive. I've never let the phone get too warm or hot so I don't think that heat could be the cause of this problem but that glue must've somehow stopped working. Since it's fairly new, I've still got warranty on it. Does any one of you know what I could expect from the store (Saturn)?
(Bought in Germany)
This really worries me as I fear that the glass might detach more and more.
I have a Xiaomi Mi 9T since December 2019 and had no issues with it in that time, have never left it in the sun or in any super hot areas, always in my pocket, couch, bed, table on my house, sometimes heats up while charging because quick charge.
But this morning I took the cover off and looked at my phone, noticed that the lower half of the back glass panel is stating to lift up, I could easily slice my fingernail inside (I could, but I didn't), I pressed it in and it went to normal but of course it started to lift up again in a few hours.
What should I do? Should I grab a heat gun and press it back? Or should I look into warranty and see what do they say?
I could put some heat and push it back but I worry if the battery might be swelling (It's not the first time it happens to me... Well would be first time it happens on a sealed glass phone), tho it's just the lower 1/3 that is lifting up.
warranty - if it's lifting it could be battery getting bulky or just adhesive in frame was not applied properly
Same thing happened to me on Mi9T. In my case the back cover broke because on the bump, so i removed the cover and the battery was swallen.
I didn't ask for warranty so i bought a new battery and the back cover and replaced by myself, i can't afford to be without the phone for weeks but you should ask for in warranty repair.