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HTC HD2 more than splashproof.

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

[Q] replace broken defy screen

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...

Dropped your Moto G?

Have you ever seen a Moto G broken? My mom threw mine on the concrete on purpose and NOTHING (not even a scratch, wow) happened to it.
Have you ever seen a S3 NOT broken? Neither have I.
What are your stories on fallen Moto G's compared to other devices?

vlt96 said:
Have you ever seen a Moto G broken? My mom threw mine on the concrete on purpose and NOTHING (not even a scratch, wow) happened to it.
Have you ever seen a S3 NOT broken? Neither have I.
What are your stories on fallen Moto G's compared to other devices?
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In the two week of getting my Moto G, I dropped it, on concrete as I was getting outta the car at the gas station (it fell out of my pants pocket,), the worst I got was some dents on the side but nothing else.

Well, mine's been thrown about a fair bit too. Dropped it twice in 20 seconds during college lectures, dropped it while gaming, but nothing except a broken screenguard.

Dropped it once onto a tile floor , no scratches or dents. Touch wood.

my fate
usertag said:
Dropped it once onto a tile floor , no scratches or dents. Touch wood.
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i have bad fate, i droped my moto g thrice in a month.. and the 3rd tym i dropped it, the display cracked frm inside, the crack was just a centimetre long... screen became red.. had to get it repaired and was charged 4080 by moto care

dixan43 said:
i have bad fate, i droped my moto g thrice in a month.. and the 3rd tym i dropped it, the display cracked frm inside, the crack was just a centimetre long... screen became red.. had to get it repaired and was charged 4080 by moto care
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If you are accident prone , I would suggest you get a case.

Dropped my Moto G from 4 meter high (double storey bed) and bump nothing happens except a little bit broken back case.and I dropped it about twice to the concrete floor, neither dink nor scratch

The phone feels and weighs like a tank. But every screen will break if a phone hits the floor with one of its corners first. The weakest link of Gorilla glass that is.
Verstuurd vanaf mijn Nexus 7 (2013), iPad Mini Retina of Moto G Lte

Dropped it a couple of times:
- from knee height on a stone floor with coarse texture: small dent on the left bottom corner.
- from jeans pocket height on a plastic floor: nothing.
- from sofa height on a wooden floor (multiple times): nothing.

I've never broken a phone before, but I had the worst luck with my first Moto G. I had just bought it and an hour later it fell out of my pocket as I got in my car, and I shut the door on it as it was falling. Bent the phone, got white smudges on the LCD, but there were no cracks. The phone still worked, however.

Pawls to the Wall said:
I've never broken a phone before, but I had the worst luck with my first Moto G. I had just bought it and an hour later it fell out of my pocket as I got in my car, and I shut the door on it as it was falling. Bent the phone, got white smudges on the LCD, but there were no cracks. The phone still worked, however.
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Wait, what? Any pictures? Sounds interesting...

vlt96 said:
Have you ever seen a Moto G broken? My mom threw mine on the concrete on purpose and NOTHING (not even a scratch, wow) happened to it.
Have you ever seen a S3 NOT broken? Neither have I.
What are your stories on fallen Moto G's compared to other devices?
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I have dropped mine 6 times in the last two weeks and all from the bed about 2 feet on to a wood floor and no marks at all

After reading above posts it Seems to me that I am holding most safest phone on this planet Long live our moto g
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dropped mine like twice, 1st time got a few dents on the side rims. other time also the same had to change the screen guard nothing happened to the screen, luckily i got a replacement to the phone.

jules4477 said:
I have dropped mine 6 times in the last two weeks and all from the bed about 2 feet on to a wood floor and no marks at all
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Usually hard, but semi-elastic surfaces like most tiles, or wood, do not break a phone, what really breaks them is concrete, or something solid enough to make you bleed when punching hard.
I am pretty confident you can drop any phone on wood from at least a meter without any issues, or on something softer like soil from more than 2 meters, but drop your phone on concrete from a feet (switching to imperial) can break it, depending on the dropping point.

vlt96 said:
Have you ever seen a Moto G broken? My mom threw mine on the concrete on purpose and NOTHING (not even a scratch, wow) happened to it.
Have you ever seen a S3 NOT broken? Neither have I.
What are your stories on fallen Moto G's compared to other devices?
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Funny you say the part about the S3's. That's the only phone I've ever broken (so far) a single 3 foot drop on a wood floor, toast.

You should put iScream on it It'll make screaming noises when you drop your phone.

Unfortunately, I dropped mine on concrete with the result that it shattered the screen.

Haven't dropped phone since 2012. ?

Left my Moto G on top of my car when i was fuelling car at petrol station. Drove off without realising. Came home and thought I lost the phone, but used Android Device Manager to locate it back to service station. Found it lying on the exit driveway curb of petrol station. A 4WD (Toyota Prado I believe) drove over it as i ran over to get it. Both front and back wheels went over it.
Had a cover so everything was okay. The screen was perfect, no scratches or break. However the LCD on the inside was cracked (probably due to pressure).
Replaced screen in 10 minutes for 40 bucks (from Ebay) and now my girlfriend uses it. Bought a Moto G LTE in meantime.
A solid phone, easy to repair, and minimal bloat at a budget price. Best phone I've owned.

Moto X : Durability Tests

So here is the first one from all the tests the new MotoX going to face in upcoming time :
And no prize for guessing that the Motorola impresses here.
http://www.androidauthority.com/moto-x-2014-htc-one-m8-iphone-6-others-take-bend-test-530024/

Jack Sparrow xda said:
So here is the first one from all the tests the new MotoX going to face in upcoming time :
And no prize for guessing that the Motorola impresses here.
http://www.androidauthority.com/moto-x-2014-htc-one-m8-iphone-6-others-take-bend-test-530024/
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The Moto X surprised me
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0.0 said:
The Moto X surprised me
Sent from my Nexus 4
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But not me, if it would have failed the test, then it would have been a surprise for me.
The one Motorola Atrix2 I bought 2.5 years back is refusing to get retired and not allowing me to upgrade, its still like 2-3 months old phone despite of many a times drops
I don't say every Motorola is built like a brick, but majority of them are solidly built.

Anyone doing drop tests yet?

Eggs are more durable then the Moto X
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Anyone doing drop tests yet?
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You need a case for this phone!! I broke the screen again!! A small drop from my pocket to the ground shattered the bottom left of my phone. I've put all my phones through a lot of rough falls. The Moto X 2014 cant hang

Chris93036 said:
You need a case for this phone!! I broke the screen again!! A small drop from my pocket to the ground shattered the bottom left of my phone. I've put all my phones through a lot of rough falls. The Moto X 2014 cant hang
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Again? Sounds to me like you need to learn to take better care of your phones. Glass is glass, and will crack if it gets dropped, regardless of the phone it's on. It all depends on where the phone hits when it falls. I've only ever dropped two phones without a case on, the Galaxy S4 Active and the Moto X. The X took a much harder fall and all that happened was a couple scratches on the metal. The S4 however, got a crack in the screen. The moral of this story? Stop dropping your phones and you wont have to worry about the screen cracking.

_MetalHead_ said:
Again? Sounds to me like you need to learn to take better care of your phones. Glass is glass, and will crack if it gets dropped, regardless of the phone it's on. It all depends on where the phone hits when it falls. I've only ever dropped two phones without a case on, the Galaxy S4 Active and the Moto X. The X took a much harder fall and all that happened was a couple scratches on the metal. The S4 however, got a crack in the screen. The moral of this story? Stop dropping your phones and you wont have to worry about the screen cracking.
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Glass is glass and will break, but this phone has the glass up front above the bezel and it will always take the brunt of the fall if it falls on the side, corner, front you are screwed. I dropped mine of the couch (about 18 inches) an smashed the whole screen. My M8 has taken that fall of the couch cushion dozens of times without a scratch. This phone is very delicate for falls! get motocare! or get a really good case (which defeats the whole point of a customized phone)

The thin bezel on the sides don't help. They look great but without a thicker bezel like most phones have, there is less material to absorb shock which can make the Moto X screen a bit more susceptible to cracking or even shattering. I have never dropped any cell phone I have owned but I still have a case on this guy. Oh....and don't get me wrong....I love the thin bezel on the sides of the screen.

Finally could manage to drop it from standing position and surprisingly the glass remained intact :good:
Though there are very very minute dents on the aluminium frame, two on right side corners and a very tinny one on the center edge. But they are visible only when observed closely. Thankfully not showing up from normal viewing distance.
I used to be very scared about the glass due to its exposed kind of design unlike other Motorola devices I have used where glass is usually tucked inside the framing. But the Moto X 2 also came out safely from the accident despite of 'risky' looking design.
Hope this remains same and never gets damaged till I keep it, though no intention of dropping it again.

I've dropped mine from decent heights many times and I haven't even seen a scratch. Quite surprised how good it has held up. I usually don't drop my phones but the wood back is sooo slippery.

Watch this crazy wreck test, though screen was already shattered:

Living with a Moto Razer for 6 months

So far, I have loved the device. However, I have had a couple of issues with the screen that Motorola immediately with the warranty. It is an excellent phone due to the way the screen folds compared to the Z Flip because the screen bends around an arch instead of an actual fold. I have not noticed any wear on the screen at all. The only other issue I have had is due to user error. I spilled a drink near the phone at some point, and I thought nothing got in due to my case. However, ever since, I have had pops whenever I open the device. I don't think I will be getting rid of my Razr for a while. If it decides to break after I pay off the phone, I will switch to the newest Razr, whether one has come out in that time or the Razr 5G.
TL: DR I love the size of this phone and have had minimal issues.

What kind of drink? Coke has phosphoric acid in it, a corrosion. All sugars hygroscopic and attract moisture.
It may be good idea to get cleaned out completely if it's anywhere it could work it's way inside the phone... use RO water if just on the exterior on a damp microfiber cloth. Don't get any inside the phone. If any signs of water contamination appear, immediately power it down and get it serviced asap.
I've used a wet/dry shop vac to coax out water when cleaning like this but extreme care and good judgement is needed otherwise there can be unintended consequences.
Otherwise a teardown is best.

I've been using the razr for a year or so and it's so great to be able to fold and put on my pocket. It fits so well. Can't imaging ever going back to a brick phone. And the hinge makes no noise. Great inner screen. Love it.