So,
Just for fun I thought I would share my story, of how I broke my first evo. I set my evo on the bumper of my car. Rearranged something in the the bed, and forgot my evo on the bumper. 20 minuets later I'm driving and looking for my phone. Well to make a long story short, the evo stayed on my bumper until I hit a speed bump in the parking lot of my apt. I drive all the way back home, and see it right next to the speed bump face down, screen shattered. The good news I have a tough case, and even though it was run over by a car, it still works! I would love to hear any other stories about evo destruction!
Dang. That's crazy that it still works even after being ran over, ha-ha.
I've only just dropped like crazy onto concrete, floors, etc, and it only has one tiny little crack by the search button and some dings.
jkinnison90 said:
Dang. That's crazy that it still works even after being ran over, ha-ha.
I've only just dropped like crazy onto concrete, floors, etc, and it only has one tiny little crack by the search button and some dings.
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Personally I'm pretty impressed with the durability of the phone. Extreme damage no phone can withstand, but I dropped it before out of the case and it holds up well to some of the older phones that I have dropped.
I dropped it by accident face first straight flat fall ON the face on my hardwood floor and not one single thing was damaged.
Edit: it was about a 4 foot drop.
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I lost mine over the weekend while I was out of town. I didn't even know Sprint offered insurance.
Anyone know if they'll let me buy a replacement at the subsidized cost?
xp3nd4bl3 said:
I lost mine over the weekend while I was out of town. I didn't even know Sprint offered insurance.
Anyone know if they'll let me buy a replacement at the subsidized cost?
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They are so strict on that, they wont do it, why sell you one for 200 when they can get 500 from you. I'm surprised they didn't tell you about insurance, it's a huge money maker for them. They want you to have insurance. It sucks losing a phone
xp3nd4bl3 said:
I lost mine over the weekend while I was out of town. I didn't even know Sprint offered insurance.
Anyone know if they'll let me buy a replacement at the subsidized cost?
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Mobile defense (when re-released) and lookout are your new friends..
Evo 1 had burning in screen.
Evo 2 shattered screen
Evo 3 stolen
Evo 4 dead pixels
Waiting on evo 5
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Evo 1 had burning in screen.
Evo 2 shattered screen
Evo 3 stolen
Evo 4 dead pixels
Waiting on evo 5
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Im assuming you only use the new phone for 1 day, because the wait times to receive a new phone is crazy. I waited a week and a half for my 2nd evo...and now this one has a crack on the back camera lens.
Your car has a bed!
Mine has held up really well. 5 months with no case or screen protector. My G1 did go through the laundry once, it still worked for a few days after too.
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Your car has a bed!
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The Bed Of My Truck! But I suppose I could put a bed in it.
First one lasted five weeks, then went to sprint store. Second one lasted a month or so.. Next one took a week, and was stolen before I got home.. Damn fedex.. And a week later this evo, my eta from asurion is monday for lucky number five lol.
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I'm on number 2. First one had the speaker stop working and the kickstand spring broke so the kick stand would flip in and it would fall over all of the time. I wasn't about to be responsible for it falling over and flying off the table so it was replaced.
This second one has been like two weeks and the kickstand spring is on the way to dying again. The kickstand squeaks - it slowly gets worse till the spring gives out. I'm sure the speaker will stop working on this one too.
With the luck I had with the first Touch Pro (12 of them in 10 months) I'm sure I'll be seeing the same crap here. I'm gentle to them, they just all fail terribly. I'm beginning to wonder why I bought another HTC phone after the Touch Pro and TP2 were so bad.
Asurion said 5-7 days for my replacement, and I got an email today saying it's been shipped and I'll have it tomorrow. Amazing...... What can I expect, a refurb piece of crap?
EVO #2 here, First one was fine except it had a cracked camera lens, Then i put it in my back pocket, almost sat down in the car and realized it was there. Pulled it out LCD was broken , Glass intact.
Second EVO - Perfect except for crack on power button. Not replacing it for that. And hopefully its my last one.
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I'm on number 2. First one had the speaker stop working and the kickstand spring broke so the kick stand would flip in and it would fall over all of the time. I wasn't about to be responsible for it falling over and flying off the table so it was replaced.
This second one has been like two weeks and the kickstand spring is on the way to dying again. The kickstand squeaks - it slowly gets worse till the spring gives out. I'm sure the speaker will stop working on this one too.
With the luck I had with the first Touch Pro (12 of them in 10 months) I'm sure I'll be seeing the same crap here. I'm gentle to them, they just all fail terribly. I'm beginning to wonder why I bought another HTC phone after the Touch Pro and TP2 were so bad.
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12 in 10 months, I would think sprint would just cancel you. I replaced my diamond once and never had a problem with the refurbished one I got. Getting them to replace it took a couple trips to the sprint store though, 2nd trip they ordered my new one. They must know you by name there, probably keep a phone for you in a drawer.
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They must know you by name there, probably keep a phone for you in a drawer.k
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LOLLOL
On my second one, it should arrive today. The assurion backorder thing is a joke. They said it would take 3-5 days, that was yesterday when i sent them the info. And fedex overnight is so damn fast. They must have a driver dedicated just to me.
In all honesty, the first one i got a big scratch on the glass, so i decided to buff it out with a whole bunch of different grits of sand paper and polish. Well i did a good job (i have done auto paint multiple times, it isn't much different) but the scratch was so deep i would have had to remove way too much glass to make it go away. So i bought a new digitizer off of ebay. Put it on, was very happy about everything and that very day I didn't have my jelly case on it because I had it off to put the new digitizer on and i dropped the SoB on the floor at work and the LCD went out. Digitizer didn't crack or anything though.
I told assurion I lost it in the trash compactor at work so that I could sell the digitizer and other parts to recoup some of the cost of the deductible and new digitizer though.
I will never remove my baby from it's case again.
My 1st evo the headphone port broke.
My 2nd evo was accidentally hit with a baseball bat.
3rd Evo is great.
DeMiNe0 said:
My 1st evo the headphone port broke.
My 2nd evo was accidentally hit with a baseball bat.
3rd Evo is great.
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So uh, did the 2nd one get hit with a baseball bat while in your pocket or something? Mouthing off to the wrong people?
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Hey everyone,
This is my first post here. Figured you might enjoy seeing how my dad's new Evo stood up after falling out of his front pocket on the interstate on the way to work. He did have a hard outer case covering the back and the sides. You can see from the pictures where it landed on the one corner and shattered the screen. It does function fully and you would never know that it had been dropped at 70mph and run over by a car if the screen weren't shattered. If you ask me, it held up pretty good.
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wow.... how did it fall out again???
cant wait to see the pics
My dad was riding his motorcycle to work and it fell out of his pocket when he hit one of our city's famous bumps in the middle of the highway and it threw the back end of his bike up in the air. He was doing an unintentional endo in the middle of the highway at 70mph.
damn!!! sorry... that is one big bump to force a big phone out of his pocket!..
i hope he has insurance on the phone!
That's the ultimate drop test!
ah, i see it ... dayum! O_O
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I cried
Pics
I'll try to attach them...
That's awesome though! Not the drop, but that it still works!
Awe man that sux, but I can relate! I had that happen to me once with my Sprint Diamond. On a Vmax and pulling away from an R1 in a red-light to red-light drag, I'm looking in my mirror at the guy on the R1 and notice my phone sliding on the road along side him. The hardest part was to forfeit the race and then turn around to go get it. Glad I did though. The phone suffered only a rash to it's backside. The screen was still perfect.
This Evo is going in an Otter case, as soon as they are released.
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I cried when mine meet the floor the very first day, imagine how i felt when i saw this pictures!!
the real sad part....
some noob will get this as a refurb... and complain that the EVO quality sucks!!!
look wat happened to mine
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=700590
Yeah, mine cracked like that at work. Using my good ole hero right now waiting for one to be shipped to me from assurion. 100 dollar deductible but oh well.
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and broke the damn lcd.... BOOOOOOOOO
If the insurance place really is on 5-7 day backorder, i'm gonna kill something. Stay outta my way something, stay outta my way.
And here i was going to be playing angry birds all day at work.... not anymore.
Don't worry, angry birds doesn't work properly on our evos.
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Don't worry, angry birds doesn't work properly on our evos.
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It does for me.
Rydah805 said:
Don't worry, angry birds doesn't work properly on our evos.
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Works fine for me I beat the beta in like 20min the day it came out and I have let some friends play since then and I haven't had any problems.
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and broke the damn lcd.... BOOOOOOOOO
If the insurance place really is on 5-7 day backorder, i'm gonna kill something. Stay outta my way something, stay outta my way.
And here i was going to be playing angry birds all day at work.... not anymore.
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Works for me. Also, they sell the screens and housings on eBay. Not sure what they cost but might be quicker.
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Works for me. Also, they sell the screens and housings on eBay. Not sure what they cost but might be quicker.
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too much for me, 75 bucks for that, or 100 for a brand new phone through asurion. I also had a light spot on the lcd, and the light leakage, so i am due a new phone lol.
I had just paid 60 for a new digitizer damn it. Didn't even get to use the ****in thing long. I had a scratch on my screen and i buffed it out about 8 different grits of sandpaper then jeweler's rouge and plastic polish, then the next day after a week of sanding and buffing I scratched it again, so i bought the new digitizer.
On a side note, the digitizer is still in perfect condition and is for sale on fleabay for cheaper than anyone's if you guys want to snag one for cheap. I wont link it or anything because i know that is against the rules. Battery door is on there too, and the front camera is going on there. maybe other things. I decided that I would put on there that it got dropped into a trash compactor in case asurion tries to hunt me down and wants the broken phone. I need the broken phone parts to be sold so i can pay for the deductible damn it lol.
If me saying those are for sale offends you, just let me know, i'll delete this post
It wasn't a far drop though, maybe 3 feet onto tile/concrete. Just so everyone knows. The one frickin day i didn't have my jelly case on. I have done this multiple times with the jelly on it and that LITTLE bit of cushioning is all it takes to cause ZERO damage to the phone. INSANE
Oh yeah, and the angry birds was working for me yesterday as well
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and broke the damn lcd.... BOOOOOOOOO
If the insurance place really is on 5-7 day backorder, i'm gonna kill something. Stay outta my way something, stay outta my way.
And here i was going to be playing angry birds all day at work.... not anymore.
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Man I feel ya. I dropped my phone while running, I used my phone for mp3 and my tracks (great app! btw) while running and now my camera lens cover is cracked and tons of scratches all over but nothing like your, so sorry dude. Only protection I have for my Evo (stupid me waiting for Otterbox defender) is a bodyglove belt clip cover and a screen protector. At that moment I felt like I'm about to cry, my baby is all messed up. After all that abused this phone is still going strong with other than the cosmetic issue. Point said I know exactly how you feel and feel really really sorry for you guy. Good luck and hope you somehow get your phone back whether through replacement or another way.
Rydah805 said:
Don't worry, angry birds doesn't work properly on our evos.
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works perfect on my EVO
Rydah805 said:
Don't worry, angry birds doesn't work properly on our evos.
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Sucks for you, we've been playing it non-stop in my household.
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One word "Cyanogen"!!!.
one word "evo"
it works on all the roms i have tried with out problems
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One word "Cyanogen"!!!.
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One word "Fanboy"!!!.
All the Roms work fine, yours is not special other then it works perfect FOR YOU.
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Kind of works for me, if I touch the screen during loading it will work sometimes, once the game starts I don't want to leave because it's a pain to restart it usually.
pictures please!
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too much for me, 75 bucks for that, or 100 for a brand new phone through asurion. I also had a light spot on the lcd, and the light leakage, so i am due a new phone lol.
I had just paid 60 for a new digitizer damn it. Didn't even get to use the ****in thing long. I had a scratch on my screen and i buffed it out about 8 different grits of sandpaper then jeweler's rouge and plastic polish, then the next day after a week of sanding and buffing I scratched it again, so i bought the new digitizer.
On a side note, the digitizer is still in perfect condition and is for sale on fleabay for cheaper than anyone's if you guys want to snag one for cheap. I wont link it or anything because i know that is against the rules. Battery door is on there too, and the front camera is going on there. maybe other things. I decided that I would put on there that it got dropped into a trash compactor in case asurion tries to hunt me down and wants the broken phone. I need the broken phone parts to be sold so i can pay for the deductible damn it lol.
If me saying those are for sale offends you, just let me know, i'll delete this post
It wasn't a far drop though, maybe 3 feet onto tile/concrete. Just so everyone knows. The one frickin day i didn't have my jelly case on. I have done this multiple times with the jelly on it and that LITTLE bit of cushioning is all it takes to cause ZERO damage to the phone. INSANE
Oh yeah, and the angry birds was working for me yesterday as well
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The lens/glass front of my camera is cracked. Is there any way to fix that or can that be salvaged from your phone and somehow put onto my phone, or is all one piece tied to the main board?
I haven't even tried hard to figure it out, I've just lived with a camera that takes pictures with a line down the middle...lol.
If I can get that off your camera and put on mine somehow, I'll buy it.
Anyone know???
Thanks
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The lens/glass front of my camera is cracked. Is there any way to fix that or can that be salvaged from your phone and somehow put onto my phone, or is all one piece tied to the main board?
I haven't even tried hard to figure it out, I've just lived with a camera that takes pictures with a line down the middle...lol.
If I can get that off your camera and put on mine somehow, I'll buy it.
Anyone know???
Thanks
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Front or back camera?
I just my back chassis on ebay, so i dont have one for you, but i could help you locate one.
If it is the front camera you would need a whole new digitizer/glass
So in the midst of some distractings, I looked up suddenly and my 21th month year old had my shift in my bathroom sink with water running over it.
I quickly began to dry it off when I noticed it, and used canned air for the next 15min to blow out any water. The phone was still running. Turned it off, took out battery and blew more air.
Anyways to make a long story short, speakers still seem to work, both making calls and listening to music. Havnt tried the headphone jack yet. MY Camera though doesnt work. Goes to a black screen and it's clearly fogged up.
What is the advice at this point? I'm sure the warranty is voided. Should I try to take it apart myself to have a look or take it into sprint and cough up the bucks?
God I'm pissed
U shoulda put it in rice as soon as that happened ..u could still try now and leave it in uncooked rice for awhile. That works
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U shoulda put it in rice as soon as that happened ..u could still try now and leave it in uncooked rice for awhile. That works
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Ya its in rice now...didnt realize until my friend told me. I put it in rice after 30 min from when it happened, so it's not that late... I wonder if camera is fried or what?
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Ya its in rice now...didnt realize until my friend told me. I put it in rice after 30 min from when it happened, so it's not that late... I wonder if camera is fried or what?
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If you let it chill over night I'm sure it'll be fine in the morning bro
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Rice can definitely work. Worked on my Blackberry that went swimming and my girls phone, that oddly enough she spilled soy sauce all over.
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So in the midst of some distractings, I looked up suddenly and my 21th month year old had my shift in my bathroom sink with water running over it.
I quickly began to dry it off when I noticed it, and used canned air for the next 15min to blow out any water. The phone was still running. Turned it off, took out battery and blew more air.
Anyways to make a long story short, speakers still seem to work, both making calls and listening to music. Havnt tried the headphone jack yet. MY Camera though doesnt work. Goes to a black screen and it's clearly fogged up.
What is the advice at this point? I'm sure the warranty is voided. Should I try to take it apart myself to have a look or take it into sprint and cough up the bucks?
God I'm pissed
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If the HTC EVO Shift 4G was left where your 21 month year old child was able to reach, please reach out to someone to come over to your house and flog the living crap of you on your bare back with a whip of 3 feet of rusty wires until well bloody and then have the person pour molten wax on you and have to bath in a tub of rubbing alcohol for your lack of protection to the HTC EVO Shift 4G. Your poor device probably screamed as it was drowning thinking it was get the CIA water board treatment.
Now with that having been said, the rice immersion method described may or may not work and even if your HTC EVO Shift 4G does manage to come back to life, just know liquid damage is like A.I.D.S/HSV II. Sprint corporate S&R retail stores will not be able to assist you repairing or replacing it as they will be able to tell the device was liquid damaged and just refer you over to TEP if you're not eligible for any equipment discounts or do not wish to fork out $349.99 full SRP for another one.
if it doesn't work and you have insurance just call sprint and tell them you lost it or it got stolen. will have to pay 100 deductible but its better then having to pay full price for a new one or buying a used one. Then you can sell the old phone as an esn locked phone and I'm sure someone else can use it for parts or something. The screen would still be fine I'm sure and people break those all the time.
Something simular happened to me with my g1 and there was a lot of things messed up on it until It completely dried after about 2 days or so. Then everything started working fine again. Just a tip
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if it doesn't work and you have insurance just call sprint and tell them you lost it or it got stolen. will have to pay 100 deductible but its better then having to pay full price for a new one or buying a used one. Then you can sell the old phone as an esn locked phone and I'm sure someone else can use it for parts or something. The screen would still be fine I'm sure and people break those all the time.
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So commit fraud to pay for your mistake.....lol
Thanks guys. I know its my fault...life gets in the way, and I was bathing my dog not realizing my phone was on the counter while he was playing with the sink water. Whateve, it happens.
I'll try it today (soon) see what happens, mabe take it apart. I don't have insurance, so full retail price for me...or ebay. Or go without camera if it never comes back to life.
So sprint won't try to repair it even if I pay a repair cost? (no insurance)
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Thanks guys. I know its my fault...life gets in the way, and I was bathing my dog not realizing my phone was on the counter while he was playing with the sink water. Whateve, it happens.
I'll try it today (soon) see what happens, mabe take it apart. I don't have insurance, so full retail price for me...or ebay. Or go without camera if it never comes back to life.
So sprint won't try to repair it even if I pay a repair cost? (no insurance)
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Having worked in a Sprint corporate S&R retail store, I can assure you the technicians don't have a means nor way to service and repair liquid damaged devices as liquid damage usually if not always goes down to the component level on the devices' motherboard. Before paying full SRP or heading over to eBay, you may wish to check out Swappa where people buy/sell/trade already rooted Android devices for pretty much all the US wireless carriers. TEP is something you definitely will want to add to your wireless number the next time you purchase a handset. $100 is sure better than $350 or more!
Update: After sitting overnite in rice, shut off...I powered it on after 8 hours. Booted up great, and camera is no longer foggy. Camera works! Everything seems ok... gonna try headphone jack and music, etc one last time.
So relieved....
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Update: After sitting overnite in rice, shut off...I powered it on after 8 hours. Booted up great, and camera is no longer foggy. Camera works! Everything seems ok... gonna try headphone jack and music, etc one last time.
So relieved....
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That's awesome news! Everyone should definitely be aware of the rice trick, seems like it has saved so many phones from otherwise crippling accidents.
my dad used to turn the oven on for a second to dry the air out then he would turn it off and leave the device in the oven over night.
This worked a few times until my mom washed my ipod shuffle and then put it in the oven. After a while she preheated the oven to make cookies then she opened it to find a white puddle of plastic with a chip in the middle.
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If the HTC EVO Shift 4G was left where your 21 month year old child was able to reach, please reach out to someone to come over to your house and flog the living crap of you on your bare back with a whip of 3 feet of rusty wires until well bloody and then have the person pour molten wax on you and have to bath in a tub of rubbing alcohol.
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Do you know someone, because all the people near me want way more than I am willing to pay?
Sprint covers water dmg, these phoes are pretty much water resistant anyhow, friends phone sat on the porch in the rain drenched. Still was powered on and everything still worked.
My girlfriend became so frustrated at here evos problems that she gave a swim in the toilet and flushed it a few times. Took the SD card and battery out for quite a long time and well...imposting from it right now! It had water under the screen and was stuck vibrating.
The biggest issue this phone had was it was failing to write to the SD card properly so you couldn't take pictures. It would say it saved but then kick the SD card onto read only.
She has an Evo 3d. I have one too since my lcd broke....hboot 1.4 on mine but hers is 1.5
Anyone else have miraculous stories?
Are you a rancid fan?
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Wow she got really lucky on that evos are not meant to go swimming...it has killed many! but If you rice it out before you get any power into it there is a chance that it can be saved such as this one did!
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Are you a rancid fan?
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Haha Maxwell Murder. Nice.
Yep big rancid fan. And she just let it sit out. No rice or anything lmfao
The screen was on toi and sshe said it eventually shut tthe screen off but was stuck vibrating. Dunno how long it was swimming but it got water under the glass so it had to have been a while
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It can be easy to spot those people who paid for their phones and those who didn't.
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I was talking to my wife and we were both on our Evos. All of a sudden I could barely hear anything but weird faint sounds. She dropped hers in the dog water bowl.
Rescued it, removed batter and riced it.
Zero problems. Maybe some oxidation in the usb port that eventually went away.
My friend and I were snowboarding at Breck. He lost his phone in the woods. Two weeks later his mom called him. Someone had found his phone after a few warm days, turned it in to lost and found and Breck was able to power it up and get his mom's phone number. The phone had gone through temps of -2 F and 35 F for 14 days, buried in snow.
This is why I will buy another HTC.
Nice to see some rancid love here,...oh, and some HTC love
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IrideAgro said:
I was talking to my wife and we were both on our Evos. All of a sudden I could barely hear anything but weird faint sounds. She dropped hers in the dog water bowl.
Rescued it, removed batter and riced it.
Zero problems. Maybe some oxidation in the usb port that eventually went away.
My friend and I were snowboarding at Breck. He lost his phone in the woods. Two weeks later his mom called him. Someone had found his phone after a few warm days, turned it in to lost and found and Breck was able to power it up and get his mom's phone number. The phone had gone through temps of -2 F and 35 F for 14 days, buried in snow.
This is why I will buy another HTC.
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Wow, people are really honest on the mountain, my friend lost his expensive android phone while there and it was returned to lost and found, and his mom was called also.
This was a week or so ago.
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It can be easy to spot those people who paid for their phones and those who didn't.
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Lmao has nothing to do with paying for it. Mine broke as an honest accident but hers was having so many issues I was close to smashing it myself. The USB port was garbage then the issue with the SD card was just the final straw for me. She just happened to kill it before I claimed it as lost to give her an evo3d. I would have given her another evo but for 100 I felt like I would've been ripping myself off when I can get the 3d
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After having this phone for 3 weeks (Today literally made it 3 weeks), the phone took a fall from my computer desk and the "gorilla glass" completely cracked. So now all that is displayed is a single green pixel and a line of about 10 white pixels.
I was really happy with this device up until this point, but a fall like that breaking the screen is unacceptable. Guess it's time to find another new phone.
Must have been a real unlucky hit. Mine has fallen from shopping cart height 3 times without even a scratch. Back went one, battery another...put it all back together and all was good.
I guess I will chalk it up to bad luck and hope for better next time. Just ordered the Epic Touch, so we shall see how that goes (and this time I got a case with it, lol).
I wanted to go back to HTC, but something about these Samsug phones has drawn me in.
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After having this phone for 3 weeks (Today literally made it 3 weeks), the phone took a fall from my computer desk and the "gorilla glass" completely cracked. So now all that is displayed is a single green pixel and a line of about 10 white pixels.
I was really happy with this device up until this point, but a fall like that breaking the screen is unacceptable. Guess it's time to find another new phone.
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You could buy a bad esn epic, or a broken mother board epic and swap out the mobos, or screen if you feel like taking it all the way apart. Its really easy.
i have slipped on a wet floor but caught myself but unfortunately my phone was in my hand so when I through my hand up to catch my balance my phone went flying face down on concrete floor picked it up expecting the worst nope all was good.
tazfanatic said:
i have slipped on a wet floor but caught myself but unfortunately my phone was in my hand so when I through my hand up to catch my balance my phone went flying face down on concrete floor picked it up expecting the worst nope all was good.
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I actually just did this yesterday... except I threw the phone hoping to catch myself, the phone went flying and hit HARD on my hardwood floors... not even a scratch... chalk it up to bad luck op...
I had my phone sitting 5 feet up on a shelf, connected to a stereo through an audio cable. My manager accidentally caught the cord, whipping the phone down to the tile floor faster than gravity could have pulled it, and the battery didn't even pop out
Sorry to hear about your bad luck
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Well I ended up losing the Epic 4g Touch auction by like $3, so I went looking for a nice SIII but in the end grabbed up the HTC Evo 4G LTE. Will have it on Wednesday.
I will probably grab up a bad ESN Epic at some point though just so I can have a backup phone (better safe than sorry). I really did like this phone and I figure the SIII would also be amazing, but I could not justify paying almost $200 more for the SIII than the Evo LTE.
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I really did like this phone and I figure the SIII would also be amazing, but I could not justify paying almost $200 more for the SIII than the Evo LTE.
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Where are you buying from that the SIII is almost $200 more than the evo lte? You must be buying from ebay or some other auction site, cause the sprint website has them listed as the same price
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Yeah I got it on eBay, since I am not qualified for an upgrade until like March. Managed to grab the Evo LTE for $300 (after overnight shipping).
I've had this epic 3 years dropped at least 100 times not one crack love my gorilla glass
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My epic had slid on concrete floors at weird angles have never had a cracked screen it also been dropped over 1000 * and it still looking good as new I am very sorry for what happened to that mate but most of us have never had that happen to us must've been 1 real unlucky drop man
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I had my phone on my lap in the car and when I got out it dropped.. this happened to me about a 10 times.. one time after I got out of the car it fell face down and I stepped on it and slid it across the concrete while it was under my feet..
I just knew it was gonna be messed up..
But not a scratch on the screen.. at least not that I could see..
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Once upon a time, a long time ago, I was climbing the fire escape to get in my house, and my Samsung Moment slid out of my pocket as I was going in the window 3 stories above the ground. And it was perfectly fine. Also with my Moment, I went to put it in my pocket, but I missed and it fell on the asphalt screen first, and the glass cracked. Like what?
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If were talking about dropping phones during hurricane sandy. This was at night and the rain was over and the center of the storm was heading towards Philly so I went outside to record the storms force. While standing there a few seconds late a huge gust of wind blew pushed me and knock my phone right out my hand it fell smack down on its face on to the concrete I was like O_O I picked it up no crack in the screen just a dent in the plastic part around the phone. But now I'll never have warranty because somehow now my battery has half pink on it. If I had an iPhone 4S it would of been history for that phone. The epic records good night video by the way.
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Just luck of the draw then I guess. I still can't believe that it broke from one tiny drop onto a soft surface, but these things happen. I guess I won't fully write off Samsung, but for now I gotta stick with what I know has worked for me in the past.