We get so much anti-Apple talk on this forum that I figured I'd do my part to even some of that coverage out.
I have an iPhone 6. I got it the day it came out. It's the 128GB guy so it was really expensive. A little more about me: I hate phone cases. I have friends that have really cool phones with otter boxes and they totally ruin the phone. What's the point of having a nice looking phone if it's going to be an inch thick and weigh 9 lbs after you put the case on it? So I've pretty much sold myself on the fact that I'm not going to have a case on my phones. I'll take my chances.
So May of this last year I'm cleaning after cooking and I drop the phone in the sink. I watch it hit the bottom, display on and reach down as fast as I can to grab it. It spent a solid 5 seconds under water though.
As I grab it I watch the screen go white and then turn off. Fuck. I don't have the Apple screw driver to pop it open so I do what I can. I shake it to try to get the water out, stick it by a hair dryer on low heat for 30 minutes, remove the sim card, etc.
About 2 hours later it turns on. The screen has bunch of lines through it, it won't make a call, won't pick up our network, the speakers don't work, the volume button thinks it's being pushed up, the rear camera has visual condensation in it and the touch screen is dead... but it's on. So I race to back it up so I don't lose my info.
Over the course of the next 24 hours the speakers return to life though are clearly damaged from the water. You can barely hear the earpiece and the speaker for the speakerphone is distorted. The volume button starts working, the lines in the display slowly fade away, it starts making calls and parts of the touch screen start coming back. A few days later everything is working again but a small vertical area of the touch screen about 3mm wide. Enough to make typing impossible. I need to turn the phone side ways to type.
And I live with it for months until...
I break it again
I'm getting out of my car and I drop it on our cement floor. It hits on a corner, bends the back of the phone ever so slightly and shatters the front glass. And so I do what any reasonable person would do... I bend the phone back flat with my hand. I stick it on a table and beat it with a rubber mallet until it's flat. Then I order a new display and a few replacement parts like the speakers that should have been replaced.
When I pop it open I clean the contacts for the touchscreen thinking some water dried in there. I pop the new glass on it, put the new speakers in and turn it on. It fires right up and I have a fully working touch screen.
I used to repair water damaged phones for a living and they pretty much all had recurring issues after being dropped in water. For this to be fully submerged, then dropped, hammered back flat and come out of all that unscathed was pretty impressive to me.
It doesn't even look bad now. Condition wise the phone is probably an 8 out of 10 despite it's previous injuries.
I have an iPhone 6. I got it the day it came out. It's the 128GB guy so it was really expensive. A little more about me: I hate phone cases. I have friends that have really cool phones with otter boxes and they totally ruin the phone. What's the point of having a nice looking phone if it's going to be an inch thick and weigh 9 lbs after you put the case on it? So I've pretty much sold myself on the fact that I'm not going to have a case on my phones. I'll take my chances.
So May of this last year I'm cleaning after cooking and I drop the phone in the sink. I watch it hit the bottom, display on and reach down as fast as I can to grab it. It spent a solid 5 seconds under water though.
As I grab it I watch the screen go white and then turn off. Fuck. I don't have the Apple screw driver to pop it open so I do what I can. I shake it to try to get the water out, stick it by a hair dryer on low heat for 30 minutes, remove the sim card, etc.
About 2 hours later it turns on. The screen has bunch of lines through it, it won't make a call, won't pick up our network, the speakers don't work, the volume button thinks it's being pushed up, the rear camera has visual condensation in it and the touch screen is dead... but it's on. So I race to back it up so I don't lose my info.
Over the course of the next 24 hours the speakers return to life though are clearly damaged from the water. You can barely hear the earpiece and the speaker for the speakerphone is distorted. The volume button starts working, the lines in the display slowly fade away, it starts making calls and parts of the touch screen start coming back. A few days later everything is working again but a small vertical area of the touch screen about 3mm wide. Enough to make typing impossible. I need to turn the phone side ways to type.
And I live with it for months until...
I break it again
I'm getting out of my car and I drop it on our cement floor. It hits on a corner, bends the back of the phone ever so slightly and shatters the front glass. And so I do what any reasonable person would do... I bend the phone back flat with my hand. I stick it on a table and beat it with a rubber mallet until it's flat. Then I order a new display and a few replacement parts like the speakers that should have been replaced.
When I pop it open I clean the contacts for the touchscreen thinking some water dried in there. I pop the new glass on it, put the new speakers in and turn it on. It fires right up and I have a fully working touch screen.
I used to repair water damaged phones for a living and they pretty much all had recurring issues after being dropped in water. For this to be fully submerged, then dropped, hammered back flat and come out of all that unscathed was pretty impressive to me.
It doesn't even look bad now. Condition wise the phone is probably an 8 out of 10 despite it's previous injuries.
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