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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] livingaboard:
So I am sitting in my chair at home and my phone slipped from my hand or something and I reached to grab it. Of course this just results in my hitting my phone and making it speed up as it falls against the plastic edge of my sliding glass door. It fell face first but the face wasn't hit. I had my Otterbox Defender case on it and the hard plastic edge of the Otterbox had two small dings in it.

Afterwards I noticed the touch screen sensitivity was not working properly. The screen is not cracked but something underneath it certainly it. It is not noticeable until the screen is off and even then it would be impossible to take a picture of it and post it for anybody to see here.

I do have insurance on it but I will have to wipe it and put the stock ROM back on it. I will also have to do something with the flash counter I guess.

There is no way this should have broken given what happened.

I will have to also place some blame on the Otterbox case. It has both a hard plastic guard on the screen and a softer one. There is absolutely no cushioning effect if the screen is hit. It just smacks the plastic case into the screen.

Maybe I could do the same thing a hundred times and it would never happen again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Furioustylez:
Dam that sucks. I have the Otter box case too and I dropped my phone multiple times but everything was ok. Maybe something came loose from the glass digitizer like a flat wire.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] LittleRedDot:
I hate to hear that, but I agree it shouldn't have broke on you. This phone is turning out to be pathetically weak.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] michaelatrix:
Congratulations.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] livingaboard:
original poster here....I had my wife take a picture of it. You can't see the cracks but I did notice that something is causing a 'bleeding' under the glass. I used my onscreen flashlight app and selected a color in order for the bleeding area to be more visible. This didn't happen until about 20 minutes or so after I dropped it.

The screen appears normal otherwise with the exception of the large smudge on the right and the lighter colored smudge on the left.

I will post a pic via tiny pic..lets see if it works

http://i49.tinypic.com/2v0hfrn.jpg
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Mac11700:
I would say that you are just very unlucky. .not that the phone is pathetic in any way.

The bigger the screen the bigger the chance of it breaking.

There are just as many folks like myself who have had their phone fall from much higher heights without incident. ..and consider ourselves lucky.

There are never any guarantees on this regardless of what case you have it in.

It's not bullet proof kevlar....it's glass and plastic.

Take it back and get a new one or something diffetent if your of the mind to if you feel the phone is too fragil for your liking.

Mac
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] BarryH_GEG:
It sucks that your phone took a hit but it's luck of the draw. It all depends on how it lands, what the impact point is, and how the impact is distributed. If the N2 had mass durability issues we'd have known by now as millions have been sold.

This one did just fine from 5'...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] BlackPhantomX:
My phone's taken worse falls. Black ice and pavement at least 3ft off the ground. Worst it's ever gotten was a pinhole ding near the edge of the screen. Phone works fine otherwise. I don't use an Otterbox either, just those aluminum edge bumpers.

Considering that my iPhones (before I moved to Android) each had Otterboxes, I think the blame is mostly on Otterbox. My iPhones all had their screen/digitizer give out, crack or fall apart from the same type of falls when in the case, but oddly survive when they were naked. Don't get me wrong. Otterbox was awesome when it came to blunt force impact, such as getting run over, (Yes, I've accidentally run over an iPhone before...) but they just don't do so well from regular falls for some reason.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] R1K05@N:
Sorry man... I'm just laughing my a$$ off right now... not because your phone is broken (that does definitely suck) but the fact that you had to come on here and lay blame on everything but yourself (the durability of the phone, how it absolutely should not have happened especially when you stated that you sped the phone's velocity after you dropped your very expensive device in the first place, and the Otterbox that supposed protect your phone). You made a mistake, you have the insurance, all good, right? Try stopping to smell the flowers instead of pissing all over them because you stubbed your own toe on the way over.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] andrawer:
Bummer.:crying:

In the fall I was using my Note as a GPS device on my motorcycle...it actually fell off the handlebar mount but dangled by the powercord on the pavement for about 100 ft. at 20 mph. I was in SHOCK but it didn't get ANY marks...unbelievable.

I had a simple TPU case that extends just a bit above the screen.

I have no complaints about durability in my situation.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] SeraldoBabalu:
Its luck of the draw really. I bet there are hundreds of people out there who've dropped their note2 in far worse positions and nothing has happened.

Happened to me with my iphone 3gs. I dropped it probably over 10 times. It always fell out of one jacket I had. It fell on the corners, sides, face down and back down on concrete, tile, asphalt...etc. the one time it breaks ... it fell on my wood deck and cracked the screen.

Sent from my Motorola StarTac handheld cellular telephone device.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] computermilk:
The OP is right though... in terms of build quality.. this is a beyond cheap plastic gumball machine device...

I love my note 2, and i'm still keeping it.. the insides are just amazing.. but the outside? just embarrassing really..

Around the screen part at the top i'm already noticing a GAP/Crack forming i can stick my fingernail in and even make wider... it's frustrating as hell.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] R1K05@N:
Yeah unfortunately, it's what Samsung had to do to make the device marketable. I knew what I was getting into which is why I have insurance on my Note 2. If Samsung made this device more durable, I'm sure the price would've shot up more than the standard $299 upgrade price which a lot of people think is quite a lot in the first place (like you said, the insides are awesome which is what the selling point really is). All Samsung products are flimsy from their TVs to their counter tops. They are functional, sleek looking, and for their electronics, fast.... But you have to be careful with them (check out how easily you can warp a Samsung LCD/LED TV just by holding it wrong causing light leak... But man, does it look great when it isn't busted) .

---------- Post added at 09:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:52 PM ----------

http://m.gizmodo.com/5975985/the-best-phone-background-image-ever-requires-a-shattered-screen

In case you don't have insurance and a hefty bank account to replace your device
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] livingaboard:
Yes, I do have insurance. I went to the Assurion site and filed a claim. Towards the end the site gave me a bunch of sh it about filling out and uploading a signed affidavit, providing a copy of my phone bill, a copy of my id, and a picture of the back of the phone under the battery (or a sales receipt or upc code from the box). The site says that takes up to 48 hours, then it takes 1-2 days to ship out, and then another day or two to arrive at my house. I had dealt enough with AT@T replacing my warranty phone and taking a ridiculous amount of time. I ended up just going down and paying like $709 for a new one AND had the AT&T store do the insurance paperwork for the phone. I might get the phone Friday; who knows.

All I know is that I will have two Note 2 phones. I might take the one back that I just bought and pay the restocking fee. Or, it might be nice to have an extra just to screw around with different ROMS and not have to worry about staying up till late at night getting my phone functioning properly for the next day. I have a lot of learning to do with the Android platform. I don't like having my phone on me and not having it fully functioning without all my adjustments set and apps working properly. I am like OCD when it comes to that and it causes me anxiety for some reason.

I wonder if all these developers have a buttload of extra phones that they use in addition to their everyday carry phone. It seems odd that they would be doing all this experimenting on their everyday phones.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] tmb993:
I'm shocked your phone broke like that, especially with a defender on it. Just recently my phone fell out of my waistband while I was running and bounced down the pavement without a case on it. Picked it up off the ground screen first and there wasnt a single mark on my screen. Got some nice gouges on the back and sides but my screen is still flawless. Made a thread about it with pics. I'm surprised people are getting worse results WITH hefty cases on them.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ultwill:
I read they had to have lawyers help them design it to make sure it didn't infringe on crapple
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] LittleRedDot:
I dropped my naked phone onto my wood deck and it fell 4 stories onto grass....not a scratch.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] BlackPhantomX:
Other than the obvious fact that those of us who have dropped our devices are responsible, I still think it's the case. Otterbox may need to consider gel cushions at certain points of the case to have greater absorption of the shock of impact. The edges seems to be the most susceptible since there's no cushion at all. Just a snug, form-fitting hard plastic with a gel/rubber layer on top. That sudden impact still causes the phone to push against the hard plastic.

Just think of it this way; In an accident, head-on collision or being hit from behind, your head is pushed hard against your headrest. The headrest is cushioned with foam, but that foam will feel like hard plastic against the back of your head from the sudden force of movement. But the interior layer of the best Otterbox is hard plastic, so imagine what that must feel like during impact.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bigjim1488:
I never liked the defender cases due to the hard plastic inside. It would always leave wear marks on my phones somewhere. I switched over to the commuter which is a soft rubber with a hard outter shell. That's the way to go in my eyes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Gfrt94yn:
Don't quote me on it, but doesn't otterbox come with a warranty?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] LittleRedDot:
I don't find it anywhere in root browser or es file explorer. But when I connect to my laptop I can access it. When I open the storage app I can see that it's mounted and I can see how much data has been stored. I prefer to save roms and backups there but I need to be able to get in there to delete stuff.

Rooted on clean rom 3.5

Any ideas?

Solved....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ImYourMacDaddy:
For some reason ES File Explorer sets the home directory as the internal SD card. You have to change it to the root directory like in the screenshots below. Another option is to use ASTRO File Manager.

Go to Settings and change the Home Directory to "/"

View attachment 1646123

Once you're in the home directory go here:

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Then here:

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Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] LittleRedDot:
Yup, I'm in there now... Thanks mate!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ImYourMacDaddy:
Good deal, you're welcome!

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowwhite007:
Guys can anyone give me a download link to the Tar file please every download I've tried has been Zip :good: thanks in advance guys
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Isn't CMW Recovery Mode flashable (zip file)?
[HTC One V] kirbo719:
Hi,

Virgin Mobile HTC One V, rooted but stock ROM, curious if there's a way to display a scrolling LIST of apps instead of page after page of app icons.

This is easily accomplished on, for example, EVO V 4g and Wildfire S, but I haven't found a method to achieve an apps list in the One V.

Best!

Bob in Colorado
[HTC One V] mihirengg19:
If u mean vertical scrolling,try nova or apex launcher.
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevek28:
How can you sideload apps on a stock hd plus?
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dbh369:
THe process is the same for all versions. The first thing is get ADB set up on your machine and seeing your Nook. See Leapinlar's Tips thread in general for ideas and process for that. Once that's done, make sure you have PATH set up to your adb folders, go the location where your apk file is located on your PC and open a command window. Type ADB Devices to make sure you device is seen (should see a device number). Then type ADB Install name.apk -- Done!

No rooting or other mod is necessary.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pssrycceho:
When i power off my phone and plug it in to charge it starts automaticlly, the phone turns on itself

Can some one help me?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n0p3zz:
What rom are you using?

Sent from Ace on CM 10.1
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herrJones:
Can you power it off again or will it reboot and reboot over and over again?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBlackWolf:
But why charging while switching off...?? :confused:

Does normal charging works??
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pssrycceho:
I had CM9 when i first realized that it wont power off and charge now i'm using CM10 rom

I can power it off but when i put it on charge or data cable it turns on itself

You asked me while turn it off, i have another problem that's why i want it to turn off, it says that the phone is 100% when i plugged it off the charger and i just open something on the phone it says 93% after on second,i have tried for that many thing charged it 100% delete batterystats but it's the same.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBlackWolf:
Thats the problem of jumping battery, experienced by all ace users unfortunately.

You can blindly charge for 2and half hours nonstop. (though phone says its charged)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pssrycceho:
Ok, but there is still the problem of phone when turned off and plugged in it turns itself on :) :) :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBlackWolf:
R u experienced problem in one specific rom or all roms??
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pssrycceho:
I first saw that problem on 9.1 cm now on every rom it,s the same :(
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBlackWolf:
Just have a start from beginning.

Flash stock.

Root and install CWM recovery

And again install a custom rom.

This will be a last try.

Should fix all problems.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pssrycceho:
I will try that later today and will post tnx :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n0p3zz:
U cant charge on cm 9 and cm 10,10.1 while turned off,there is no option for that.

Sent from Ace on CM 10.1
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Venomous Viper 119:
No option ? Lol :p Connecting your charger plug doesn't need one. It's just a bug in the cm9.1/10 that turns on the phone after connecting the charger with the phone off.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pssrycceho:
U

Hvala ti Pancevcu :) Thanks everybody
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] calatemaze:
I have the same problem, when I conect my phone on the charger it says that it has 100% battery, but once I disconect it the battery starts to drop incredibly fast. Than it gets to a point that the phone shuts down than restart, multiple times.

I'm using miui expression 1.3 but it also happens on cm 7.2.
[HTC Amaze 4G] rachelm920:
I am going to be switching to straight talk within the next few weeks, so today I performed the S-OFF on my Amaze, then I went and Sim Unlocked it. I had done this previously on my other Amaze that I swapped in to tmobile due to a power button issue, and had no problems. However, now when I load my phone it keeps saying "checking SD Card for errors" and when I try to mount my SD Card to my PC it doesn't show up. :( I backed up all my data, so it's not a data loss issue, I just don't have another 8GB Micro SD Card laying around to pop in my phone. Has anyone else had this problem after performing an S-Off? I know data loss is a warning, but it never said it'd bork my SD Card completely!!
[HTC Amaze 4G] humzaahmed155:
Get into recovery and see if you can format the SD Card, if you can, let it format and copy the files you backed up.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Ninjistix:
yes, corrupting the sd card is a minor side affect of doing the s-off via wire trick.. thats why they warn you and say to use a extra sd card that you don't need because it might happen... luckily for me nothing happened to mines when i tried it.. but one of my friends that did it broke a 2gb card..
[HTC Amaze 4G] rachelm920:
Really strange, about a hour after I wrote this I looked at my phone and the "scanning sd card" message was gone. I connected it to my PC and it detected it but said there were errors. So I let it do the error check, and now my SD Card is working!! I am going to format it just in case. There was probably a lot of junk on there I didn't want anyways.
[Galaxy S II General] wrighty1973:
OK, so I admit it. I screwed up.

I bought a second hand SGS2 and immediately went about rooting and flashing. However, I was not aware of the bug so never bothered to check the sanity of my chip.

Oh dear. My phone died and it was all my fault. 100% eMMC brick bug. No doubt about it.

Anyway, sent my phone away to an official Samsung Service Centre, played dumb, told them it died overnight whilst charging and waited for a root cause analysis. I was pre-warned that Samsung would not repair the phone if the damage was caused by water or by dropping it.

Got a call today to say that my phone would not be repaired under warranty due to "water damage" and photos were sent. On a PCB near to the camera there was a microscopic dot which could possibly have been caused by water (a sort of drizzly rain on a Tuesday night in Stoke).

In any case, it was most definitely NOT the cause of the phone failure and I pointed this out. The answer was a monotic, robotic chant:

"Under the Samsung policy, we are not allowed to repair any water damaged handsets".

But the water damage is not the root cause.

"Under the Samsung policy, we are not allowed to repair any water damaged handsets".

So what is the real root cause of the phone failure?

"Under the Samsung policy, we are not allowed to repair any water damaged handsets".

Fine. I'll take the phone somewhere else. Which components need to be replaced to repair the phone?

"Under the Samsung policy, we are not allowed to repair any water damaged handsets".

Look, I KNOW what the issue is. I KNOW how the phone broke, Would you like to hear it?

"Under the Samsung policy, we are not allowed to repair any water damaged handsets".

Did you even look at the phone or do any investigation to help Samsung improve their products?

"Under the Samsung policy, we are not allowed to repair any water damaged handsets".

So, even if the phone exploded due to a faulty battery and there was also some water damage present, you would reject it?

"Under the Samsung policy, we are not allowed to repair any water damaged handsets".

The. Water. Damage. Is. Not. The Root. Cause.

"Under the Samsung policy, we are not allowed to repair any water damaged handsets".

So the Samsung policy is: Do NOT look for the root cause. Search for water damage and, if you find anything, even if this is not the root cause, reject the phone.

I'm sure this is a daily rant on XDA but I just wanted to share my story.

Thanks for reading.
[Galaxy S II General] bobdoblo:
This is their default response.

There was another thread where they rejected peoples phones due to "water damage"

The little bit of red you see is just from everyday use and is basically impossible not to expose it to some condensation/moisture and they know this and use it as their way of not honouring the warranty.:mad:

*NeatROM*
[Galaxy S II General] wrighty1973:
Neat little trick.

My suspicions were aroused by the pre-warning. Even though I said that I was 100% sure it was not water damaged, they repeated the warning a second time, which I thought was odd.

I suppose I could send it to a non-Samsung repair centre but I expect a 150-200 GBP repair cost so not really worth it.

You live and learn.
[Galaxy S II General] bartoloandre98:
Wrighty im sorry for you ,yea nice excuse from them,next time say that it died from an update using kies software,they know that it borks

________________________________

I threw cm 10.1 off a rock and the rock broke.

Solid
[Galaxy S II General] wrighty1973:
Nice tip but would that make a difference?

As fas as I can tell, their "repair work" consists of searching diligently for any signs of water damage then rejecting the phone and refusing to consider any other plausible root cause.

Like I say, it's probably a 150 quid repair job so not worth the bother now. RIP my little (water damaged) friend.
[Galaxy S II General] NaLogo:
Wow, I've never heard about anything like that and it really angers me that they would do such a thing. I mean, I'm used to bad customer support from some "cheapist" companies (Take the fourth and twenty-fourth letter of the alphabet ;) ) but I would've never expected Samsung to do these things.

I mean, it would be reasonable (imho) to deny support when they see that the phone has been rooted etc., but this...no. This is ridiculous.

I hope you have better luck with your new phone, whatever it may be! (And I hope my S2 lasts a few years longer.)
[Galaxy S II General] wrighty1973:
That's what I thought too. I knew the motherboard was screwed and the chances that they would find any evidence of rooting was slim to none.

I just didn't expect their first action to be a thorough search of the phone to find any minute traces of water damage to use as an excuse. It must have taken them more time to do that and make microscopic photos that it would have done to fix the phone.

I mean, how does that help anyone? My phone is not repaired and Samsung don't learn anything new. All it does is increase someone's water damage detection skills.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android General] kennethboadi:
I'm having problem when running haret.exe on my htc touch pro 2. when i try to run it a dialog box appears saying cannot open script /Storage card/default.txt please help me how to run it.:confused:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android General] wizardknight:
Do you have the startup txt file in the right place?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android General] arrrghhh:
This.

Also, perhaps you should explain what build you're trying, what you've tried to fix it, etc. You've given 0 info for us to go on, other than HaRET.exe doesn't run Android.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crazynewfie:
I have only owned an android since Sept coming from an I phone and I have learned so much from this site. Thanks to everyone who helped me and all the developers. Now running custom mods and kernels. I love it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] thutchinson85:
Am I able to dirty flash CM10 Nghtlys over CM10 Stable?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jpcdeux:
Yes. Just wipe cache partition.
[HTC One V] bsh94:
Hello everyone:D

Please help:confused:

My problem that I've tried Custom ROM to my device (HTC one v) then became bootloder (unlocked)

I did not like, then returned for (stock ROM) then became boot loder (relocked) and underneath it the word (Security Warning), But went after you install (RUU)

Now we come to the crux of the problem is not to refer to the case of (unlocked) to work Root.

Please help and thank you for all:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying: .
[HTC One V] sohamssd:
Could you rephrase that?:confused::confused:
[HTC One V] cybervibin:
What do u mean?