I have ONE Cruzerlite case for the LG OG that I'm giving away free to anyone in the Continental US. I accidentally ordered two when I bought mine. It's the Purple one with our pal Andy Android on the back.
Here's how I'm going to do it.
Tell me your OMG I broke my phone by dropping it story.
I'll put the names of all the people who posted a story in this thread in a hat and draw a name out.
The drawing will be one week from today, And if I can get over my camera shyness I'll announce the winner on video.
Save yourself a few bucks, get a cool case, entertain me with your story.
Simple huh?
Now get to it.
I put my phones on the dining room table since my kids can't get up there. Well one day my 1 year old somehow learned to climb up the chair and on the table. She started pretend making calls like daddy does and yelled to show me. As I ran to get her off the table she dropped the phone onto it and it bounced onto the kitchen tile. Shattered screen and all on a caseless phone. Sad day .
I have never actually broken a phone by dropping it. I did brake a phone because I left a frozen water bottle on the desk next to my phone and as it melted the condensation made a puddle right under my phone. That sucked.
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Back when I was 14 I was rocking an lg flip phone. First cell phone ever because I wasn't as fortunate as 7 year olds are today. So as usual I was getting yelled at to clean my room, so I started with laundry. During the spin cycle I was feeling a little depressed because it seemed like no one was texting me back. I reached for my back pocket to get my phone... Sweatpants. I ran to the washer and opened the lid to search for the jeans I had absentmindedly taken off to wash, and there was my phone, still all snug in my back pocket. :c irresponsibility at its finest!
(Purple is my favorite color so its the only reason I'm sharing this story that I've barely told anyone.)
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So, I haven't really broken my phone before. However, I was reading on XDA that someone was giving away a purple case to someone with a good story of how they broke their phone. Since I didn't have a story, I decided to grab my phone and proceed to smash it against the wall. Even with a case on, it shattered into several pieces. Weird thing is, I looked down and my phone still looked perfect, but my co-worker was really confused why I picked up her phone and threw it at the wall...oops!
NOTE: No phones were harmed in this excuse for a "joke"--I just thought I'd fit in better if I had a good story. To top it off, I don't even want the case (purple isn't for me ).
CapnPez said:
So, I haven't really broken my phone before. However, I was reading on XDA that someone was giving away a purple case to someone with a good story of how they broke their phone. Since I didn't have a story, I decided to grab my phone and proceed to smash it against the wall. Even with a case on, it shattered into several pieces. Weird thing is, I looked down and my phone still looked perfect, but my co-worker was really confused why I picked up her phone and threw it at the wall...oops!
NOTE: No phones were harmed in this excuse for a "joke"--I just thought I'd fit in better if I had a good story. To top it off, I don't even want the case (purple isn't for me ).
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Ell oh friggin ell.
HTC Inspire had a rough time living at the fraternity house last year. Got drunk and decided to play basketball with it. Threw it a lot of times without a case and all was fine. Decided if I was gonna keep doing it, it'd be smart to put my Otter box Defender on. Well the first time I threw it with the case, the screen cracked lol. Few months went by and we had a slip and slide down a hill with a hot tub at the bottom. Once again, I was drunk and went down it 3 times with it in my pocket and it survived. The fourth time finally killed it. Everyone told me to put it in rice, but I was so drunk, I thought they said ice. So I put it in my freezer and passed out. My roommate came in and he was like wtf. But that's the death story of my inspire. Don't need the case but I thought I'd share and that's really cool of you to give it away.
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HTC Inspire had a rough time living at the fraternity house last year. Got drunk and decided to play basketball with it. Threw it a lot of times without a case and all was fine. Decided if I was gonna keep doing it, it'd be smart to put my Otter box Defender on. Well the first time I threw it with the case, the screen cracked lol. Few months went by and we had a slip and slide down a hill with a hot tub at the bottom. Once again, I was drunk and went down it 3 times with it in my pocket and it survived. The fourth time finally killed it. Everyone told me to put it in rice, but I was so drunk, I thought they said ice. So I put it in my freezer and passed out. My roommate came in and he was like wtf. But that's the death story of my inspire. Don't need the case but I thought I'd share and that's really cool of you to give it away.
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This is hilarious, thank you for sharing.
The inspire was built like a freaking tank
I was at work one day. I had this cheap phone on metro PCs. I forgot the name of it. I went to the bathroom to take a ****. I checked all my messages did some Facebook etc etc. I put the phone back in my pants pocket. Wipe my ass. Stood up n flushed the toilet at the same time. My phone feel out my pocket into the toilet n actually got flushed down the toilet to the point of no return.
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Just got my phone two days ago and kept admiring the beautiful carbon fiber back. I've been super careful especially at work to keep it perfect.
Today I'm getting ready for work and get everything together, throw my phone in my shirt pocket. As I'm heading out, my cat meows at me to say goodbye (like he always does). So of course I reach down to pick him up and say goodbye. And almost in slow motion, I see my phone slide out. Damn you sexy, slippery phone!!
I had a choice, drop the cat and save the phone, or keep my cat happy and bite the bullet.
Obviously I wouldn't throw my cat, besides I don't think I could have saved the phone in time.
So now, I still admire the carbon fiber back along with a big crack in the middle.
Later I'm at work and my phone is on my toolbox and my boss calls. I pick the phone up and what do you know, damn you sexy, slippery phone... slides through my fingers. :banghead: Luckily I catch it between my toolbox and thigh. I think to myself, whew close one!
After getting off the phone with my boss, I examine the back, and the crack splintered.
At least my cat will still love me when I get home today.
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Nola to cali
Nice, thanks for the post
tdnick said:
HTC Inspire had a rough time living at the fraternity house last year. Got drunk and decided to play basketball with it. Threw it a lot of times without a case and all was fine. Decided if I was gonna keep doing it, it'd be smart to put my Otter box Defender on. Well the first time I threw it with the case, the screen cracked lol. Few months went by and we had a slip and slide down a hill with a hot tub at the bottom. Once again, I was drunk and went down it 3 times with it in my pocket and it survived. The fourth time finally killed it. Everyone told me to put it in rice, but I was so drunk, I thought they said ice. So I put it in my freezer and passed out. My roommate came in and he was like wtf. But that's the death story of my inspire. Don't need the case but I thought I'd share and that's really cool of you to give it away.
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Forgot to also add how I fried the headphone jack. Never have your phone charging and plug it up to a 15" sub/party speaker with a 1600W amp on the back hooked up to 7.1 surround sound. It will shock you and screw up your phone lol
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My Atrix 4G fell off the couch arm and shattered my friend's evo charging on the carpet. There's some sort of message in there somewhere im sure. Also not interested in case, got a diztronic, just wanted to share a funny story.
Fun fact, that friend also just bought a sprint LGOG, so that's cool.
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Just got my phone two days ago and kept admiring the beautiful carbon fiber back. I've been super careful especially at work to keep it perfect.
Today I'm getting ready for work and get everything together, throw my phone in my shirt pocket. As I'm heading out, my cat meows at me to say goodbye (like he always does). So of course I reach down to pick him up and say goodbye. And almost in slow motion, I see my phone slide out. Damn you sexy, slippery phone!!
I had a choice, drop the cat and save the phone, or keep my cat happy and bite the bullet.
Obviously I wouldn't throw my cat, besides I don't think I could have saved the phone in time.
So now, I still admire the carbon fiber back along with a big crack in the middle.
Later I'm at work and my phone is on my toolbox and my boss calls. I pick the phone up and what do you know, damn you sexy, slippery phone... slides through my fingers. :banghead: Luckily I catch it between my toolbox and thigh. I think to myself, whew close one!
After getting off the phone with my boss, I examine the back, and the crack splintered.
At least my cat will still love me when I get home today.
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Forget the cat, save the OG! Don't they always land on their feet anyway or worst case scenario, saving an OG is well worth one of his nine lives.
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Haha. True. If only I had thought of that quicker!! Damn..
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Copy/paste from the thread i made the other day:
So i was in the shower with the phone on the sink counter and my alarm started going off, I heard it going off for maybe a straight minute and then all I heard was bam bam PLUNK. the damn thing vibrated itself off the counter bounced off the toilet paper roll straight into the toilet... Completely emerge the phone was still on, alarm was still going, and everything still works!! (after taking it apart and letting a fan blow on it for a bit)
Also, i ordered this case in turquoise and it never came. I called them and they never called me back.. Id rock purple though lol
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Why does it NOT surprise me that you have a purple case?
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I saw a girl named Nikki...
My import Galaxy Nexus (fresh out of the UK) jumped out of my hand while getting my bag out of my trunk. SLAP! Glass front right on the pavement.
Broken GN
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I was vacuum cleaning and my girlfriend comes near me with a panic face. She says:" your phone went off the window!"
Well, we live in a second floor and I started sweating. Looked down and started to think that wouldn't be covered by warranty and that it isn't fully payed yet and that the next one I wanted to buy a top of the line. The phone was without the cover and the battery was next to it.
Started to imagine the cracked screen, twisted chassis. It's dead!
My girlfriend went to get it.
Not a single scratch all parts still fit together all system and hardware all fully functional!
Our phone rocks!!!
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I was vacuum cleaning and my girlfriend comes near me with a panic face. She says:" your phone went off the window!"
Well, we live in a second floor and I started sweating. Looked down and started to think that wouldn't be covered by warranty and that it isn't fully payed yet and that the next one I wanted to buy a top of the line. The phone was without the cover and the battery was next to it.
Started to imagine the cracked screen, twisted chassis. It's dead!
My girlfriend went to get it.
Not a single scratch all parts still fit together all system and hardware all fully functional!
Our phone rocks!!!
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Your lucky, i got a little scratch on the left rubber near the screen.
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Our phone ROCK.
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Haha u got lucky mate!!
even the phone is of a good build quality
be carefull next time
the thread name says it all
Yep, youre really lucky. I on the other hand, dropped the phone while I was getting out of my ride, kicked it accidentally as it bounced off the pavement and anded on a puddle of water and mud. You've guessed it, it still works(not without some scratches though). So yes, OUR PHONE ROCKS!!!!!
I was in school and my friend pushed me while I was using my phone. It dropped onto the hard cement floor but no scratches.
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Joel Chan said:
I was in school and my friend pushed me while I was using my phone. It dropped onto the hard cement floor but no scratches.
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my brother took my cell and started using my facebook .... i tried to take cell from him... but at dat tym it fell twice on d marble floring ..... still nothing happened ..OUR PHONE ROX
i got scratchs all over i keep on dropping it....my bad
Dropped mine once, concrete, got a ding which i had to file off in order for the back to sit flush
i just wanted to share my experience that happened right now, im relaxing after a tragical fact.
It has nothing to do with my P500 BUT another electronic device had some trouble.
i was drinking beer playing along with some friends League of legends.... on my laptop.
The beer was freezing freezing cold, on the glass, so it had some moisture on it...
Took the glass, had some, and right when i was passing it over my laptop to leave it on desk, it slipped, crashed on the keyboard, and poured ALL OF IT [3/4glass].
TOOK my laptop on the floor, flipping it immediately. I shut it down hard way, removing battery, cleaned it, opened it cleaned it inside too.
ok... after the game ended i got a leave mark
after 30minutes i was ready to turn it on again...
Everytime i was in windows mode, it was crashing.... random time!
Total 3 reboots/crashes.... this is the 4th one, im relaxing now, being a lot anxious about how things go on...
My laptop is a HP Envy [17"]. Pretty expensive, i have warranty for 1 more year, but what the hell, if i didnt open it to clean it, it could be dead by now!
so......... KAISER + LAPTOP = DANGER
im off to bed, bad week, bad weekend, Friday 13th came at Sunday i guess!
hahaha
Maybe a weird query but I'd like to know this
Mine is 5 weeks old and miraculously I haven't dropped it yet and in last 5 years this is the only phone which I haven't dropped. But the scaring part is, how will it manage if I really do drop it? So if anyone of you has this experience please share with us.
Regards.
lols. in the last 5 years, this is the ONLY phone i've managed to drop! And i've dropped it TWICE!!! OMG i was/am pissed about it.
But luckily, my friend wants to buy it off me, and now I can pick up a brand new one. HAHAHA.
Hopefully, I will not ever drop the new one.
Once. It was in it's case......
three times. perfectly working, one of them it was a crash with my moto. I get injuried but my phone is perfect
I never drop my phone's. Maybe I dropped my last HTC Desire once in a year.. but it was not serious or anything. People need to be carefull with their stuff
so... so many time. At least 15, 10 onto pavment/gravel. The screen was almost flawless throughout all this but a few weeks ago I was drunk and put the phone in my key pocket. Few deep scratches now. Body has some marks but not bad for how many times its fallen, I think its weight helps.
No case/protector.
Very happy. All my phones get beat up, this seems to last better than most.
Just once. Yesterday. I lost my breath. Until I found out nothing was damaged
Haha. Dropped it twice 3 days ago. My heart skipped a beat or two when I heard it smash to the floor. Must've hurt the poor thing so bad haha.
I seriously had a dream where my phone fell apart. One of those dream you don't realise its a dream you know..
the first time i dropped it scuffed the plastic on the corner a bit, the second - two light scratches on the screen. pretty annoying after having had 3 iphones and managing to never damage them!
I've never dropped a mobile in 14 years and I'm not planning on starting with that one
I don't bother with screen protectors and the likes either, haven't managed to scratch a screen yet.
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Knocked mine off a shelf onto a wooden floor yesterday. Dropped about 4 feet. Back popped off but...
After turning it over very slowly i was relieved to see the screen in tact.
Phew. No case either. May have to buy carpets for my house to protect the sii from further incidents! (or just be more careful)
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I droped mine maybe 1x from ( Inside Car => fallen down to the ground ) nothing happen... ^^
Ok i have also a Zenus Withe Cover
Galaxy S1 also droped few time but same nothing happen...
Cheers
I dropped mine once when i was drunk and somehow the back cover and battery went flying of. Put it back together and turned back on all good.
But have no idea how that back cover came off? I have trouble taking it off my self.
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I dropped the phone out of my pocket while running and the phone slid on the floor, back cover popped off and battery came out. No damage to the phone and it was working fine. I had the phone in my pocket next to my keys another day and figured it was alright since the screen is supposed to be protected by Gorilla glass. When I took my phone back out I had a few noticeable scratches in the glass. I thought that was impossible with the Gorilla glass and haven't put the phone back in the same pocket with my keys ever since.
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I dropped the phone out of my pocket while running and the phone slid on the floor, back cover popped off and battery came out. No damage to the phone and it was working fine. I had the phone in my pocket next to my keys another day and figured it was alright since the screen is supposed to be protected by Gorilla glass. When I took my phone back out I had a few noticeable scratches in the glass. I thought that was impossible with the Gorilla glass and haven't put the phone back in the same pocket with my keys ever since.
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Gorilla Glass is Scratch Resistant not Scratch Proof. So using it without a screen protector is a bad idea.
Anyway, I have feeling relieved now, after seeing so may of you had already dropped it but nothing happened. So I guess the build quality is good, reliable, that's another very good side of this beauty.
Regards.
PS- Keep them coming.
Dropped it twice, both times during exams. It helped quite a lot passing 'em tho
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Only have it a few days and im ultra careful with it i nearly always keep it in my pocket when im out and about and when im at home i make sure to keep it out of the way from my 2 year old son who picks up anything and everything
so i just joined the team...
i dropped it just now,,,its been 5 mins(the late is due to my paralyzed condition when i dropped it) .... Its totally fine,,,working just perfect,,,looking as awesome as it was,,,
just when u look very closely at the screen(light coming from right direction),u ll notice a 2 mm long scratch on the screen which is like thinner than the thinnest hair,,,,it nothing ....but i am just too angry at myself
I've dropped it a few times with cases on and no scratches on anything, a few weeks ago I was in the basement at work and was using the flashlight, this time without a case and somehow slipped out of my hands and got a 1mm scratch to the plastic bezel on the side was extremely angry at myself!! But it's not bad you can't really notice it unless you look very closely.
I got out of my car ,phone on lap forgot it was there(n00b mistake) boom on concrete longest 5 seconds of my life lol and I pick it up just a chip no case or anything I was really impressed it fell on the corner no other damage
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Yea I was super careful the first couple of months with the rezound(no drops). Now its been dropped a few times maybe only once on concrete. It's a pretty durable phone when it's in a CASE. I've had a case since day one. I know u might not like the feel but you'll get used to it
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I dropped my getting out of the car. It landed on a corner and cracked across the screen in 2 places.
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I dropped my getting out of the car. It landed on a corner and cracked across the screen in 2 places.
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Ouch I just ordered a case 5 mins after the drop
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A coworker of mine bought a brand new iphone.
It was a nasty rainy day when he picked it up. On the way back to work, he received a call (he had had the phone maybe 10 minutes).
He answered the call & layed the phone in his lap. When he pulled into work, he totally forgot the phone was in his lap & got out. The phone fell into a large puddle & he stepped on it smashing the screen all in one motion.
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A coworker of mine bought a brand new iphone.
It was a nasty rainy day when he picked it up. On the way back to work, he received a call (he had had the phone maybe 10 minutes).
He answered the call & layed the phone in his lap. When he pulled into work, he totally forgot the phone was in his lap & got out. The phone fell into a large puddle & he stepped on it smashing the screen all in one motion.
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proof that even God hates apple
jmorton10 said:
A coworker of mine bought a brand new iphone.
It was a nasty rainy day when he picked it up. On the way back to work, he received a call (he had had the phone maybe 10 minutes).
He answered the call & layed the phone in his lap. When he pulled into work, he totally forgot the phone was in his lap & got out. The phone fell into a large puddle & he stepped on it smashing the screen all in one motion.
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I would cry ..I was Mad at myself when I just got a small chip on it
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I also dropped it out of my lap when getting.out of my car. This must be very common. Mine has a small chip in on corner, about 2mm. Oh well, I refuse to use a case.
Rezound, rooted, loving it.
Don't your cars have cup-holders? I keep my phone there at all times.
What I have a bad habit of doing, is at night when I'm chillin on the couch I'll have my phone sitting on my lap on top of the blanket that is covering me. Then when get up to go to bed I'll forget about it and yank the blanket off. Usually the phone just falls on to the carpet, no big deal. On my old Incredible, I did this and it flew up in the air and flipped a bunch of times and landed flat on it's back on my padded ottoman/coffee table. My CM7 lockscreen came on when it landed. My wife looked at me and said "That was pretty good, now do it again". Lol
first day i had my rezound, i dropped it off the counter at my store..so like a 4 foot drop lol..landed on hardwood floor..but was fine. i was so mad at myself i just screamed the F bomb as it fell hahaha
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A coworker of mine bought a brand new iphone.
It was a nasty rainy day when he picked it up. On the way back to work, he received a call (he had had the phone maybe 10 minutes).
He answered the call & layed the phone in his lap. When he pulled into work, he totally forgot the phone was in his lap & got out. The phone fell into a large puddle & he stepped on it smashing the screen all in one motion.
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This exact same story happened to me before too! You just need to replace the word "phone" with "pipe", and then replace "received a call" with "smoked bowl". =P
LOL
this thread has inspired me to get a case. my inc2 was cheap enough to just buy another in the off chance that something terrible happened, but not this puppy. besides, it's already massive. what's another couple millimeters on each side, right?
a.mcdear said:
This exact same story happened to me before too! You just need to replace the word "phone" with "pipe", and then replace "received a call" with "smoked bowl". =P
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this reminds me..
as I spark a J
potheads,
potheads everywhere!
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I strongly recommend the OtterBox case for whatever phone you have. I have one for this, my fascinate, the droid 2 i gave my mother-in-law. Besides the extended battery for long trips and when I wanna use the **** outta my phone, the defender was the best thing I got for it. Two days after I got the case I dropped my phone on concrete and kicked it while at work and watched it bounce across the room, woulda been dead without the case.
If it falls out of my truck, it's easily a 4' drop. I'm careful with my phones, never had a major drop with my Incredible, but Otterbox Commuter arriving tomorrow just to be on the safe side.
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I strongly recommend the OtterBox case for whatever phone you have. I have one for this, my fascinate, the droid 2 i gave my mother-in-law. Besides the extended battery for long trips and when I wanna use the **** outta my phone, the defender was the best thing I got for it. Two days after I got the case I dropped my phone on concrete and kicked it while at work and watched it bounce across the room, woulda been dead without the case.
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I'm sorry. As a matter of principle, I dont use cases
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I dropped my phone on the concrete sidewalk. While walking/listening to some music my hand caught the headphone wire and pulled my phone out of my jacket side pocket dropping it onto the ground Luckily I had an Incipio case and it fell on a corner. The case corner cracked and saved my phone
I hated cases too but after that incident I will always get a case for my phone.
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I'm sorry. As a matter of principle, I dont use cases
HP Touch pad cm9 and cornerstone
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No need to be sorry to me, just make sure your phone is as safe as your penis then... I'm not the one who'd have to buy a new phone if **** happened to it.
I dropped my phone today....
The feeling of fear and helplessness as it slipped out of my hands and fell towards the concrete below was just dreadful...
The damage not as bad as some of the other guys that have also dropped theirs, just scratch and bent the aluminum by the Mic hole on the bottom...
Just wanted to see if anyone else had any horror stories that will make me feel better about myself
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josuave83 said:
I dropped my phone today....
The feeling of fear and helplessness as it slipped out of my hands and fell towards the concrete below was just dreadful...
The damage not as bad as some of the other guys that have also dropped theirs, just scratch and bent the aluminum by the Mic hole on the bottom...
Just wanted to see if anyone else had any horror stories that will make me feel better about myself
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I haven't dropped my Evo LTE yet, well, because my preorder is in lala land.
But a month ago. I was canoeing at a lake, taking pictures with my OG Evo. I put the sucker in my lap! My fuggin lap! on a boat! Then while I got close to the dock, I stood up and all of sudden the world around me turned into the Matrix. The phone in slow motion went from my lap to about a three inch gap between the dock and boat. Helpless. Ofcourse it couldn't go into the boat or hit the dock. And it sunk like a dead hookers body.
Now I've had no (real) phone for a month, while I wait for my stupid preorder. Does that make you feel any better?
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I haven't dropped my Evo LTE yet, well, because my preorder is in lala land.
But a month ago. I was canoeing at a lake, taking pictures with my OG Evo. I put the sucker in my lap! My fuggin lap! on a boat! Then while I got close to the dock, I stood up and all of sudden the world around me turned into the Matrix. The phone in slow motion went from my lap to about a three inch gap between the dock and boat. Helpless. Ofcourse it couldn't go into the boat or hit the dock. And it sunk like a dead hookers body.
Now I've had no (real) phone for a month, while I wait for my stupid preorder. Does that make you feel any better?
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Ouch and to think I am sitting here frustrated until I get a new one since Google Wallet crapped out and I won't even use it that much. Guess I can't get too upset.
I dropped mine while I was doing a exchange at Best Buy for a dead pixel. I was inspecting it for flaws and it slipped out my hand Lucky I was sitting down and it landed on desk-counter and nothing happen to it
Not a drop so much as it flew out of my shirt pocket, skidded across a bar floor and smacked into a wall. Picked it up and not a single scratch at all. I was beyond shocked.
My OG EVO went off a 2nd story deck.... Luckily I had siedio case (seidioonline.com/htc-evo-4g-convert-extended-value-pack-black-p/bd5-hkr5hev4x.htm) and zagg screen protector.... No damage..... Still crazy though
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So which is worse?
1) Dropping your brand new EVO LTE.....or
2) Preordering your EVO LTE not knowing when you'll recieve it.
Better to have loved and dropped than never to have loved at all?
Señor Poo said:
So which is worse?
1) Dropping your brand new EVO LTE.....or
2) Preordering your EVO LTE not knowing when you'll recieve it.
Better to have loved and dropped than never to have loved at all?
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Tough decision.
Señor Poo said:
So which is worse?
1) Dropping your brand new EVO LTE.....or
2) Preordering your EVO LTE not knowing when you'll recieve it.
Better to have loved and dropped than never to have loved at all?
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I couldn't tell you. I got mine last week. Once its in your hands its all better. Sorry.
I dropped mine yesterday while getting out of the car. Thank God i put on that ugly case they sent. i nearly **** my pants. but with the silicone case it nothing appears to have happened to it. i miss having a lanyard. But this case will do for now.
WHY DID THEY STOP PUTTING LANYARD HOLES ON PHONES!!!?!?!?!?!
i dont care if most people in the states dont use them, i always did!!! everyone in asia still uses them!!!!!
during pre-order, sites had HTC LANYARDS in their accessory sections, i was so excited, but after i got the phone, NO LANYARD HOLES. JUST A BIG TEASE
Dropped mine when it was in the blue gel HTC case onto brick. No damage.
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I didn't get a gel case, I got a silver bodyglove vibe.... The phone hit the ground on its end, the only spot where the case doesn't cover
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I got that silver body glove case too, now I'm upset seeing others got better cases
The silver one is supposed to retail for 25
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I just dropped my phone outta 3 story window (Galaxy S II) basically the same height as my neighbors roof... I was playing on it while smoking a cigarette and it slipped out of my hand... I ran down the stairs FAST! and when I got outside it was still in tact I checked I have no marks at all just a few scuff marks that wiped right off it landed on the screen too! I have a d30 duo shock case, (which now I will. Have on every phone I buy!) and a zag screen protector! I'm amazed and soo happy
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You people are clumsy. I haven't dropped mine yet and won't.
Ok I have over no joke over 40 different phones over a ten year span. I use to work at a retail store that sells sprint and since the HTC touch I been a Htc fan. Only once have I dropped my phone into a bucket of mop water that was freaky. I also buy good cases and have insurance. It's the be safe then sorry feeling. Ever since the windows PDA that I recall buying for 500 bucks have I did the insurance. Since then these phones are fragile.
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Dropped mine yesterday.
I got out of the car and it slipped out of my hands onto the parking lot asphalt.
Just two small notches in the metal lining on the very left bottom corner of the phone is all the damage it took.
A friend said they bet my heart jumped. I said, "Nah, Its just a phone."
I'm lucky that there were no scratches on the back casings or glass.
I've had cell phones for a long time, and I stopped dropping them when I got my i860 Nextel. I've always had phones that are delicate, and I'm careful about my electronics. Unless they're marketed as such, THEY'RE NOT SHOCK RESISTANT, and they will break.
My philosophy, if you're a klutz in your day-to-day life, you should have a case.
I have an otterbox case and i hate it. So big and bulky. but it works until i find something slimmer.
It's not always about being clumsy, sometimes sh!t just happens. I live in NYC and at any moment someone can walk or run into my hand while im walking down the street and send my phone flying. Let us also not even bring up a crowded bar with drunken people who like to zig zag unpredictably.
Truth is, if my insurance was still $100 then i wouldnt even bother, but at a $200 deductible i feel forced to rock a case.
i bought the 10000mAh battery with case earlier this year and it's been great. i can abuse that battery like no other and it just won't die.
however, the real reason for this post is about the case.
i recently had a potato moment and left my phone on the roof of my friends car that i was working on. went for a test drive, out of my neighborhood, down teh main streeet at about 35 mph and suddenly i hear a weird little noise and look up in the mirror to see my phone bounce down the back window, off the trunk, onto the street and then into the ditch.
immediately my heart stopped and i ducked into the first turn off i got to., got out and walked along the side of the road, hoping to find my phone, expecting the worst...
Found it face down in the grass and immediately picked it up and turned it over... glass was intact! the plastic frame of the case had one crack in it that i was able to put back in place inside the rubber case. the rubber had some road rash but was overall intact as well. only thing wrong was my Spen was missing as it must have been ejected by the impact.
no big deal as i ordered a new one.
Main point though, this case works!
So close. My UAG had a similar experience. Ran over by a lorry due and as good as new!
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Phew! That was nerve racking lol
Luckily the truck behind me didn't run over it!
Awesome, one of the best things to happen to cell phones. Actually the deciding factor in me choosing the note 3 over nexus 5.
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19psi said:
look up in the mirror to see my phone bounce down the back window, off the trunk, onto the street and then into the ditch.
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At this point in your tale my heart stopped and I got sick to my stomach at the thought of my newly rooted N3 bouncing down the street. This could so easily happen to me. Great to hear it worked out okay!
Would you try that again if you're so confident that the case works? Personal experience does not equal fact.
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Would you try that again if you're so confident that the case works? Personal experience does not equal fact.
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jeez dude, relax. it worked for me the one time i needed it. that's all i need. i have no idea if it iwll work again because there's no way to guarantee it will hit the pavement at the exact same angle.
it worked better than no case and i'im pretty confident in saying it works better than some of the other cases i've had in the past that I know wouldn't hold up to the same situation.
did you have a bad experience with yours or are you just trying to stir up soemthing out of nothing?
i read alot of amazon reveiws and forums about this battery .plenty people have dropped there's off scaffolding and at heights ect and survived glad yours is held up but its the battery life i bought this for and its doing really well 19 hours on screen time and 3 days untill charge im really happy .it does feel vey sturdy though it dont have to be delicate with it anymore its like a tonka toy?
Can you upload pics of your damaged case ???
And here I was sure I was alone.
I've managed exactly sane scenario as above and my phone also lived to waste more of my time everyday >]. Thou in my case, ZL casing survived intact. And few years before broken whatitsname holder sent my galaxy tab clothed in otterbox defender through car window on particularly emotional curve. Again, there were survivors.
Those cases work and I can't consider "naked"device complete without one now. And ZL add really big battery to the mix..