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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sackboy11:
The scariest thing that happened to my GNex is when I screwed up the 4.1 update and the phone got stuck on the boot screen.

The boot animation was distorted, EVEN WHEN I UNPLUGGED MY BATTERY. The screen was literally on when the battery is out. Then everything started to flash for about 5 seconds before it finally turned itself off.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] negrobembon:
I felt the same way... till i realized it was the screen protector
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Alex1123:
Scariest thing happened yesterday I was walking and had my phone in my hand and it slipped out my hand and few up about 4ft and fell face first on the a road. Because it landed face first and it being curved glass I expected it shattered but only the housing got a few scuffs haha I was so lucky but the fall did manage to make my battery and back cover come off and the back cover did get some scratch. And this was also the day I decided not to use my otter box defender
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] eman3316@optonline.net:
Well it did not fall because you had bad luck today and decided not to use the otter box defender on this day. It fell because you decided not to use the otter box defender and the GNEX is a super slippery device when you have no case on the thing.

I cannot imagine using this device without a case on it. It would probably slip out of my hand all day long. I do not know what is wrong with Samsung and their slippery materials. Same thing with my Epic 4G Touch I had. Without a case you could not hold onto that thing.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bhawks23:
I was golfing and using my nexus to play music. Just had it sitting on the golf cart seat. A few holes and a lot of beers later I realized there was no music playing and my phone was gone and it was almost dusk out.

Me and my buddy turned back and searched all over for it. I thought it was a goner till we heard Bruce Springsteen playing in the distance and my friend miraculously found it in the grass.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] itsDefying:
Undervolting it, and it froze up, made a loud pop (what I thought was the CPU, was actually from the speaker) and the screen got insanely bright and shut off.

That scared me.

And it wouldn't boot afterwards.

My GNex still works fine though, my ROM didn't want to boot anymore. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] coldrazor:
I dropped my gnex on the sand in the beach, @#€€#%& sand scratch my screen a little near notif led sand is a phone killer.

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Ryjabo:
I bought mine on launch day (Sprint, paid full retail price) and didn't buy a case for it because I liked the feel of the phone and "I never drop my phones anyway"....

...I dropped it on concrete and shattered the screen not even two weeks after I bought it. Had to pay $100 insurance deductible to get it replaced. Immediately bought an Otterbox Commuter case when I got the replacement.

On the plus side, the brand new replacement they sent me had a better screen... no purple tint and I don't notice any grainyness.

*Swyped from a Jelly Bean

*XDA Premium
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] painter_:
I let my wife use it for a day while I tested her phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] resynx:
Dropped it on the tiled kitchen floor at my cousin's house while pulling it out of my pocket. Lucky I have a Trident Kraken case on it ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leppo:
My worst moment with it was the day I received it, and didn't yet figure out how to root it... I was aware of the toolkit, but couldn't get drivers to work with it. Eventually the PdaNet drivers did work.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kevinjgray88:
My nexus was walking home alone one night and got jumped by a gang of iphones. It's never been the same since:)

Jellin' like a felon
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] eksasol:
Left it in the same pocket as my keys while working. The keys scratch through the screen protector, luckily the screen is mint. Otherwise I drop it a few times, but the TPU case takes the brunt.

I don't have the same confidence for the SIII which seems much more fragile. I don't carrry my phones around without screen protector and case.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ddemlong:
Flashed AOKP... :silly: J/K

No, I dropped it face down on tile from about 4 1/2 feet up. Luckily it broke its fall on my foot. Another time I was on my motorcycle and when I stopped I went to get my phone only to find it hanging half way out of my pocket. That would have been a bad day.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dragn4rce:
1. Ran across the house texting(WTH was I thinking???) And it flew 15 feet on hard wood floor and slide till it hit the wall hard. Luckily left without a trace of damage.

2. Friend accidentally made me drop it on the track field. Whole pogo side got scratched.

3. Flashed alpha state and didn't create a back up on the computer and data couldnt be read anymore. Thought my progress was gone forever. Managed to transfer back up to drop box since computer couldn't read any files.

Use wug's to do a quick unroot and reroot. Saved the device and restored from drop box.

4. Left my phone at the pool for 3 hours and it was still there (thanks god).

5. Flashed first ROM and thought it was bricked already after being rooted for only 5 hours. Manage to figure out I can enter CWMR(first time and confused) and I just hit wipe data.

It turned on and I was like. \^_^/

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dragn4rce:
Why three hours???

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pupilov:
Hmmz... Scariest thing you say.

I must say that I litteraly shat my pants a few weeks ago, after flashing the new JB. After setting the entire phone, the little prick freezed on me. No big deal I said... I'll just do a battery pull I said. And that I did. The phone went bananas :). I realised that no matter what I did, flasing, wiping, the phone would boot loop. Than I started messing with Odin. Once again, the phone would freeze, just about when flashing the bootloader. After every Odin attempt, the little Nexy was kinda 'bricked'. It wouldn't even start, or make a sound. Of course, there is no such thing as a Nexus brick, and the Omap flash script would bring my phone back to live whenever I'd run it.

Eh, long story short, I had to send it back to Samsung. It would appear I had a serious MMC fault, so they replaced the motherboard. All is perfect now, but that day was pretty scary. :mad:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Emama:
My phone does not have any media sound (youtube, music....) after running under the rain..

But I can still hear the ringtones in the sound setting....

Seems like the water get into the headphone hold and make the phone think it is plugged........
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nosit1:
I was running and it slipped from my Camelback and took a year feet tumble going about 8MPH then a roll roll skiiiiiiid stop.

But I knew nothing major would happen - Incipio case was amazing just plastic gone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] magicriggs:
Letting other ppl use my phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] UnusualSuspect:
Worst thing? Well ... ummmm ... one time my battery ran pretty low. Oh, the horror! ;-/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] negrobembon:
Some times i lend my phone to people to make a call and they leave some earwax/greasy stuff on the screen thats very hard to remove unless i use water

Its like im the only one that cleans his ears while in the shower
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kevinjgray88:
I wonder if that would be a geeks biggest fantasy. lol, with Google now and siri talking back and forth while on top of other

Jellin' like a felon
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MS.:
I left phone in other room to charge while we were "preparing" for night club, that's why it took about three hours.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] t.saddington:
The most horrific thing:

The most horrific and terrorfying thing to happen to my GNex would have to be when I got it out of my pocket one day and I saw this bit of dust on it and I was like :crying: But then I wiped it off and I was like :cyclops: I was so scarred
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kbrian:
Mine would be, my service stopped working so I rebooted it and it went into a boot loop so I restored a backup then it couldn't get past splash screen.. all happened on vacation where xda wasn't around): but I fixed it.. somehow

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] M3drvr:
I had it sitting on the dash of my car, had both windows open, and when i went around a corner it slid across the dash and out the window. Circled around the block to find it resting against the curb perfectly fine. No cracks on screen and still turned on and working fine. Just a gash on the plastic casing. To this day it works fine. All this without a case or screen protector.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] subvertz:
Working on an offshore oil rig some oily atmosphere made it slippery. A hand's height drop to the deckplate smooshed a corner plastic in, luckily screen was OK.

I scratched my prized DoCoMo back cover though :(

Maybe we need a battle scars thread?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Coflropter:
I set my phone down on my nightstand when I went to bed. When I woke up, there was a single hairline crack running from the speaker bezel to middle of the screen. It got bigger and bigger and I had to use my insurance.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dragn4rce:
Survival Scar would be better.

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dragn4rce:
You know what's funny??? 80% of us would have a shattered iPhone.

GALAXY NEXUS FTW

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jayare313:
That's scary!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neotekz:
putting a hot phone on the AC vent is a bad idea, those sudden changes in temp can crack the digitizer or glass. dont worry about your phone getting too hot it will turn off before it gets hot enough to damage stuff.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Cilraaz:
The rapid temperature change also tends to cause condensation, which is always bad for electronics.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kyokeun1234:
My phone motherboard broke......... At least replaced it for 150bucks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dislplin01:
I got really drunk and kept selling it I literally couldn't get it off the floor
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jayare313:
My scariest was when someone pulled out an iPhone in the same room as my GNex and the iPhone kept staring at my phone like it wanted to rob it.....wait it did ....IE Pulldown Notifications! Lol jk

Sent from a GNex via XDA HD
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Maui4x4:
Super tired from work, while loading my baby in her seat I put my phone on the roof and forgot about it till I asked my gf if she had seen my phone. We both thought I left it at home till a second later I had a flash back and said "just stop the car"! After 3 miles of twisty driving it was still the on roof edge where I put it thanks to a crappy $15 rubber case from the mall.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] poopoo152010:
I took my daughter to the park and grandma called and wanted to talk to her. My own stupidity decided it would be a good idea to go ahead and walk around while she talked and as she was following me I heard her start to cry. I turn around and realized that she had decided to break her fall in the rocks with the screen of my phone. Once retrieved my mother asked if my daughter was okay and I said her wounds would heal but my screen is scratched! (just for the record she was okay, I'm not totally heartless).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Garner:
Scariest moment was when i found my 2 young sons playing with my Gnex that id left in the room, i was quick to react though i karate chopped them both and saved my Gnex from certain destruction. I knew that my yellow belt karate would come in handy one day ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gtdriver0036:
Scariest thing that ever happened to my Gnex:

I was at Six Flags Great Adventure. I tried to buy some candy using google wallet and it didn't work.....

no wait.... that wasn't the scary part....

Oh yeah....

I then got on Superman Ultimate Flight with the phone in my left pocket.

[getting off ride] "OH CRAP WHERE'S MY PHONE?!?!"

Yeah It totally fell out of my pocket in one of the many loops and dives and rolls etc.

Phone sits out in sun during the peak of the east coast heat wave for the entire day........

11AM the next day [le desk phone ringing(le caller id shows my cell number)] "Hello?"

I got my phone back later that day..... not a single scratch or crack on the phone anywhere. screen perfect everything perfect. My friends that were with me (mostly iPhones) stunned that not even superman could break an android.

yeah that's gotta be the scariest thing that ever happened to my Gnex. phone is BEASTLY!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MattSkeet:
Was walking in to the lift (elevator) while holding phone in my hand ... all of the sudden lift doors closed on my while I was in between. Smacked me so hard that it knocked out my phone off my hand, phone fell on the floor and started to bounce around. Managed to catch it just inches before the gap between floor and the lift ... ohhh on top of that phone brand new without any protection lol
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 3bananas:
Fell out of my pocket while breaking ankles in basketball. It fell face first but the tiny lip around the screen protected it. Minor plastic scratches :)

Sent from my Gnex
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OmgitzFire:
When my friend who has an iphone used my Gnex to make a call since his battery was dead ..

Just thinking about that incident of letting him hold my baby with his grubby apple hands makes me shiver .
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jfriend33:
A 3 or 5 way nail file will help not cure this.

I will try to post pics of its effectiveness.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slickrickstyles:
Was pretty inebriated, texting, and going to the bathroom at the same time and wouldnt you know it I dropped it in the lemonade colored toilet...I literally started screaming and pulled it out, ripped the battery out, and wrapped it in my friends towel that was hanging there. I then ran out of the bathroom and the people outside the door at the party were looking at me like I was completely nuts...I nervously sit pounding beer for 2 hours, turned it back on, celebrated loudly, then proceeded to get *****ed at for using his towel while I drunkenly grinned from ear to ear
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matt08642:
Super drunk at my brothers wedding, I got in to a taxi and took out my phone. I sat in the taxi for a few minutes as the other people I was riding with were saying their goodbyes. I realized I'd forgotten to tell some people I was leaving, so I get out of the cab with my phone still on my lap (I didn't realize it at the time).

Anyway, the phone fall out of my lap on to some concrete with a massive SMACK sound. The scariest moment was right before I pressed the power button to see if my phone was fine, or if a ****ed up screen greeted me. Thankfully, my Otterbox defended the phone and not a scratch was on it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Roxy:
LOL. Oh boy.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Cilraaz:
I bet that phone smells great when it heats up.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] EP2008:
Random reboot issue that didn't go away with a system wipe. This was on a custom Rom and I had to flash the stock Google image to get it working again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jayare313:
Yesterday. A truly scary day...I woke up to a boot looping GNex. Reflashed ROM and gapps to no avail. Battery got to 30% plugged into charger (pop sound) nadda. Unrooted flashed stock, relocked boot loader. Still same symptoms. Had to get a replacement from Sprint. Culprit was a crappy aftermarket car charger that damaged the pins inside the micro USB port. Luckily fast boot still worked. But no adb. Now I'm back with a fresh Gnex and another $10 from Google wallet!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Torture12:
Dropped it while on a mountain and I don't have a case or screen protector. It bounced off a rock HARD, right on the screen too, and fell several feet. Thought I was screwed as I was climbing down to get it.

Screen was fine....only a couple small scratches on the plastic.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Rockjock007:
Had some poor sap ask me if it was a Wind phone, used the gnex to ***** slap them. That toothless sap will not be asking me stupid questions again. Just some drool to wipe off and it is as good as new.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slickrickstyles:
haha yeah I used to think about it when I held it up to my ear...Thankfully I have a new one
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] iulipepe:
Scratched the screen while in a beach bag with some keys next to it. Gorilla glass would have not let that happen.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tookah:
Touch screen stopped working... I thought I drop water on it .... but it was a ROM I installed that crashed the touch on the phone ...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] eksasol:
I turned it on and it was running iOS.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] b34st0:
It slipped out of my hand down about 10 steps on an escalator. It's still okay though.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus like a boss
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] grognaz:
was checking a msg when walking in the woods when a huge pinecone fell directly on the screen:eek:

it hit hard but did not do any damage:D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] stulzerl:
Scariest thing was when I left it next to my wife's iPhone and went to sleep. Now there is a crack in the middle of the phone and I didn't even drop it. Scary....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dragn4rce:
I hope u sanitized that thing for hours.

Gotta smell funky when Ur phone is on.

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MarkGbe:
Dropped it in the toilet at 3am, pre-pee.. Pulled it out and yanked battery lightning fast.... and then put it in a bag of rice until morning. fired it up and there was zero damage, water indicators didn't even detect water. PHEW!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ExoWraith:
Dropped it in the toilet.

water went into the bottom of the phone. kept the headset connected and overriding the speaker.

turned off, removed battery and dried it.

but still the headset was apparently connected, so disassembled the phone and dried the loudspeaker and headphone jack circuit board.

good as new.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] netbuzz:
I went to the bathroom at work and realized I left it on my desk. I run back and apologized. We're still friends.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DualDark:
When I was new with the phone, I get into a boot loop, and I don't know why but I forgot how to turn on in recovery mode. For any reason I kept trying with vol. down + power and the phone turns on in fastboot or something like that and I thought that it was semi bricked

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] TheRC51:
Today I almost dropped my Nexus on the floor when I didn't have the case one it. Nearly had a heart attack. Luckily I managed to grab it mid air. Of course this made me feel like a ninja. But I still put it back into it's case after my heart was beating regularly again :p And I guess the only other time that got me nervous was when I realized I had left my phone in the company truck and it was unlocked in the parking lot. I was speed walking to the parking lot as soon as I noticed. It was still in the truck and has not left my sights since :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jonnyg1097:
Mine isnt as extreme as some of these stories. The worst I've put my nexus through is when I thought I was putting it in my pocket and it missed my pocket and fell onto the asphalt. There were no marks on the housing and the screen has a screen protector on it but it scared me pretty good since it wasnt expected.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] albsat:
Byying a Nexus ..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] florelui001p:
My girlfriend was taking pictures of our cats in the backyard and was chasing our older cat. My nexus flew out of her hand and hit the concrete flipped, slid, etc. Surprisingly the screen did not crack and the only damage was a few scratches here and there on the body. A cheap dollar screen protector kept the screen safe. I'm quite pleased by the nexus build quality after this.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bmg1001:
My Power button stopped working after a wet screen protector mishap, long story short, and a bag of rice later, I saved my self.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Rotary Heart:
I'm with Claro (PR) and I didn't know that it was GSM so I flashed a custom ROM of Toro (since Claro was Verizon) and it did installed without any problem. But after a few weeks my baseband version changed to unknown. I try installind Verizon radios, but of course they didn't installed.

After a few hours I found that Claro is GSM so installed GSM radio and now its working. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] UnknownFearNG:
BRICKED!!!

For me, I just pushed a backup to my phone and, when I tried restoring it, it gave me an error saying it failed to restore /system and now, I can't boot my phone!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] atifsh:
Yesterday My 7 year dropped phone on marble floor straight face down flat. The sound was so loud that everyone in that room stopped for a while, everyone including me was... here goes the screen..... but I'm writing this on same phone tonight.:D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] netscorer:
Scariest thing to my GN was when my dog ran into me when I was standing at the edge of the pool holding phone in my hand. By the time I got out of the pool, realized that the phone was still in there, got back in the pool, dived for the phone, got out, chased my dog and thrown him in the pool (he thought it was a great game), I thought the phone was done for. Nevertheless, took the battery out, removed obvious water with paper towel and put the phone against hot air from hair drier for 15 minutes. Put battery back in and the phone started right away. Never had a problem since.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 95Z28:
I finished reassembling the front end of my car, got in started it up and just before my foot lifted from the brake remembered my nexus was still on my hood!

Week later I took my nexus out of its case to enjoy its sexiness, went to place on the counter and missed! Smacked the floor face down. Fortunately not so much as a scuff mark, still in perfect mint condition.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Shaquiel Harris:
At Magic Mountain and i lost my Galaxy Nexus on tatsu.. I hate magic mountain. Forced to upgrade to a galaxy s III from tmobile.. only reason why im ok with it because it was free.. Please guys get insurance.. 700$ down the drain and now i have an inferior device.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
For me, it was when my Gnex was in the hands of my 5-year-old cousin. Gnex is enormous, how could a 5-year-old hold it right without dropping it?? Luckily, she got bored shortly after (cuz I had no games on it) and gave my beloved phone back to me safely! :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] got556:
A week ago I was at my parents house visiting on my days off. They live in the sticks in the middle of nowhere. My razr got a strong 3G signal at all times anywhere in that area and inside their house. On the drive down I was getting spotty service at best and lots of 1X.

So I'd had a few beers and was starting to get pissed that my phone wasn't getting any data, so I put it in airplane mode and went to reboot. When the phone turned off I sat there waiting for it to turn back on. Nothing.

So I tried every combination of key pressing and battery removals and charging etc....nothing.

For two hours I fought with that thing w/ nothing but a black screen.

So I said what the hell...I'll deal with you in the morning. Plugged it into the charger hoping it would do something and went to bed.

Woke up the next morning, hit the power button and powered right up....and grabbed a data signal in about 10 seconds upon fully booting....:eek:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] l1k3m1k3:
I got electrocuted when I touched my GNex while still in charged and I was not wearing any sandals.

Luckily, I was sitting in a chair so when my GNex thrown up, it dropped on my thigh.

Sorry, I tried, bad English.