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[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] GTASouthPark:
i actually dropped mine for the first time today... i was about to sit down and i was putting it back into its case, and it fell (maybe 2 feet)... but the case cushened the blow. good thing
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Juicy J:
Wow

Man i drop my today UNPROTECTED.. :( man i cant believe.. it was soo clean and now it is.. Im soo mad also
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] jwzg:
Several times.... :shock:

no major malfunctions yet, but lots of chipped paint.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Magor:
I dropped mine in the street getting out of a car because I had it in my hooded sweater pocket like a big dummy. It sounded like it broke in half or something (found out later it was the stylus ejecting), but nothing really happened to it besides a few corner scratches that aren't noticeable.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Tref:
Sorry to hear about your drops and losses!

Does the Activecase for the 8125 have a flip cover for the screen?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Huyhuy:
Yeah the activecase covers both the back and the front so you can slide it out without altering the case. It uses hinges to cling on but I figured if I used the hinges it would loosen the front from the back so I cut off the hinges and used double sided tape to stick it to my phone. :lol:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] openloop:
Droped 2 time by my baby. . . she really likes my wizard. but my baby is more important than my wizard hehe.. rather have a lot of scratch on my wizard than a tiny one on my baby girl :lol:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Tref:
I don't use the keyboard much on my 8125, so that part of the case that allows for keyboard use would not influence my decision to purchase or not.

What I'm really after is to know if there is a flip lid that covers the screen, and whether or not it can be opened without disengaging the entire front portion of the case from the front half of the phone.

Thanks again!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Juicy J:
Oop

i used the carrying case that came with it but i might stich some cousion stuff where the case leaves the edges exposed
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] magnamar:
had my 8125 for about 2 weeks then when i was getting out my 66 bronco i forgot i had it in my lap and it took a dive for the pavement luckly no major defects from it just a few chips outa the keyboard side.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Juicy J:
man im sorry to hear that.. ugh i hate that i droped my phone but i kinda gotten over it
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] le_cactus:
While closing the door it slipped and landed right on the topleft corner. Result was a crack in the screen topfleft to right bottom.

Of course this wasn't covered by warrenty and it cost me about 150 euros to get it fixed.

So when you drop it, try to drop it so it fall flat on it back :D

/Cacti
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Juicy J:
OUCH!

wow that is expenisve.. i tho i dont kno how much that is in US dollers i know that expensive.. i dont even think i could pay for that just to be replaced
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] casemon:
Not only did i drop it, but kicked it just after... i freakin' drop-kicked it!

Was walking under a busy Moscow street and had my hands full when I received a call. I tried to answer the call while still walking and in true dork form, fumbled, dropping it as my foot came forward at the same moment and ended up kicking it another few meters.

upper corners were a little scratched, and the 2GB SD fell out, but I picked them both up, wiped it off, inserted the SD back in and it works great.

guess i lucked out!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] sk0t:
Dropped mine multiple times. Stock case was useless. The alum case I have from BoxWave is equally useless. Damn thing flies open way too easy. And, my 8125 has therefore taken several spills.

So far, my personal best was when I essentially threw it about 7 or 8 feet from a height of about 3 1/2 feet onto concrete. It "shattered" in that the stylus came out, battery, sim, and all that came out. A couple of more dents and scratches in the case, but the display itself is fine. I do have a screen protector on it, and I quesiton whether or not that's the only reason the screen has been saved.

Other than that, mostly about 1 1/2 feet drops, generally falling out of the aluminum case while getting out of the chair at my office.

Rugged little device, that's for sure..
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] 100:
I would just like to say ...

I dropped my xda atom onto a bathroom floor (tiled, stone, verry hard)... and it was a drop about 150cm/5ft ... and it survived completely!!! it was dropped onto its bottom right corner... and when it hit the ground it did bounce about 10cm into the air and onto my shoe. man I am happy it is still alive!

I know this is the wizard forum, but I just wanted to say what I had to say.

Gabe
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Juicy J:
No problem

i am surprised it survived such a great fall on such a hard surface.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] gtdRR:
First drop:

Get this my friend, was texting my sister with my phone and he went to answer the door. He wouldn't let my other friend through. My other friend forced the door open and the phone went flying from about 5ft to the marble floor!! Not a scratch on it. WOO HOO!

Second drop:

I was at Dodger stadium and had a Dodger dog and my napkin fell from my lap and when I reached down to grab the napkin my phone fell from my lap :evil:. It was in the original case so just one corner got scratches from the concrete :(
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] shamus:
hello all who demaged their expensive toys (I'm one of :-( ), is there anyone willig to sell broken lcd? I need it for backlight replacement.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Jaidnoire:
mytego.com

As I was running down the subway stairs to catch my train last Wed morning, the :twisted: was very busy. He opened up the latch on my case and flung my poor MDA down the entire staircase. It tumbled and slid....

Thank god it still works and didn't slide right off the platform! This was the 1st time I'd ever dropped it tho.

It has multiple scuffs and scratches on the front and back. There's a nice scratch across the camera lens and one large, ugly, chunky gouge taken out of the silver corner above the "e" button.

I know better than to ask about replacing the casing (ahh, I almost miss my old sony ericsson and nokia changeable faceplate phones)...

I'd posted on HoFo for suggestions and was told about mytego.com. You can customize vinyl skins for many devices, including the Wizard, using their library of images or by uploading your own.

My design (front and back pieces) came a week after ordering it....

Sorry for the blurry pics !

I like the skin - it'd defininatly protect against scratches on the front, back and sort of the sides and totally covers what I've already done to it. It's no protection against some of the harder drops some of yall have experienced tho...

Tip - I downloaded the pic mytego used to make the skin and edited it to make the wallpaper you see there. It makes for an interesting effect. (I cold have done an even better job with it, but I don't have Photoshop @ work..)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] the_flames:
Ive dropded my wizzard twice ..

First time ... it was cliped onto my belt wheil it was in it aluminum case ... it fell out of teh case :O and down the stairs ...

dammage = the battry cover poped off, but it went back on fine

Second time ... driped it in it's case again ... the case poped open ... the phone then bounsed out and landed 2 foot away.

dammage = 2 scratces on the back (were i dont see due to the case), and 4 dints on the bottom edge

hate to think of the dammage if i dint have the case tho :O
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] nikegeo:
dropped mine twice as well, first time chasing the bus and it fell out of the clip, got a few scratches and it worked fine.

second time i was slightly intoxicated, dropped it, cracked the lcd screen, lost the stylus and my 1gb minisd card...touch screen still works but the top left corner of my screen is white :cry:

anyone know where to find a cheap lcd replacement? been looking on ebay and internet but they are not that cheap - close to $200, thinking of just buying a used mda from craigslist for $250 or less
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] gtdRR:
That skin is not a bad idea.

I tend to put my hand over the phone when it is on my belt and I am forced to run. It's a good habit! 8)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] iansmith:
I have not dropped my Wizard yet, but the reason I got it is my previous PDA was in a loose jacket pocket I was wearing and when I got into my car I slammed the door closed on it! Totally crushed.

I do wish they made the plastic part that houses the camera lens easily replacable. Being on the bottom it is already scuffed up after a few weeks.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Juicy J:
I wish

would you guys think that metal casing would be better or the same plastic
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] mattucd:
I thought this thread was going to be about that song with the phatty beats, "Drop it like it's hot," by none other than Snoop Dogg featuring the talented Pharrell Williams.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] yellowdragon:
My 8125 took a dive a few weeks ago... Nothing broke, only the top right corner ened up with a small scratch :(

I bought this phone to replace an Audiovox SMT5600 which ended with a broken screen after falling *INSIDE* its protective case. The 5600 was stored with the screen facing the magnetic button, I think that was the problem. So now I store the 8125 with its screen facing away from the button.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] the_flames:
Re: I wish

I woudl say the metal case is better, you just have to be aware that the metal may bend and not hold the phone as well. I usally rebend the clip every few weeks to make sure it's clampted shut so it cannot open if it droped... I started doing this after the second time ive dropted it :O
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] datawrhsdoc:
Re: mytego.com

Wow! That's seriously cool!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Janis:
I ran over mine with my car

I was strapping my daughter into the car seat in the back of the car, and it must not have been securely in my purse, so it fell out, probably bounced off the running board and onto the blacktop. I realized it was gone in just a few minutes, called the restaurant from my home phone and was SO relieved that thay had it. They left out one detail. It no longer powers up (the case was no help). I hope to use it as my guinea pig unit....

so I can fix the replacement unit I bought at full price and dropped THE NEXT DAY (OK, I didn't, but I apparently positioned it poorly so my Ex couldn't avoid the topple. Yeah, right.). At least all I have to do is replace the LCD.

Did I mention I have a tremendous retail wage? This is pretty much my only personal indulgence for the year. I'd be crazy to put any more cash into this endeavor, even with a normal job. I'm close to giving up. My Ipaq was substantially sturdier than this.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] insanenyc:
everytime i go out and get drunk i drop my 8125 so i have learned a lesson . if i am going out drinking i put my sim in my samsung d357.

dropped my phone seven times the first time i was really pissed off

the other day it tumbl;ed down like 10 steps so far just the housing is getting all scratched like in the corners cause the leather case it comes with sucks and dosent cover the corners

but it still works
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Cardcaptor_RLH85:
Well I've had a number of minor drops with this phone. Normally I'm able to catch it in the air because of this odd juggling thing we had to do way back in Middle School (don't ask). Anyway, I only had two major mishaps with dropping this phone, once it was hooked up to the computer via USB and I knocked it off of my desk. Just my luck it lander right on the mini-USB connector and snapped it right off inside of the phone. Fortuneately this was the day after I got a miniSD card for the phone so I used my brothers Wizard to create a miniSD backup of Cingular's shipping OS and got warranty service on it for about half of retail price.

The second drop was about 2 or 3 months after it was serviced. I was chasing a friend of mine around a parking lot and my phone fell off my waist (about 2-2.5 feet) in the manufacturer case bounced about 3 inches up from the pavement then came to a rest. Unfortuneately my final stylus was lost at that point but at least I have one of those multi-function pencil, pen, highlighter, stylus things ^_^
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] yaboc:
i just got my 2nd one. 1st one got stolen :(. anyways had the phone in my hand and was running towards a car and it just fell out of my hand and dropped on the hard pavement. now my brand new 8125 has scratches and few corners have paint chipped off and although it doesnt affect its performance it just bothers me that it's not the same as before :), meaning scratch-blemish-less. when i got it i was considering getting one of these skins so it would save my phone from from drops like that, now its too late but im still gonna get one. i was wondering if warranty cover the cosmetic damages?p rolly not .
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] markbloke:
Guess you could always run it over with your car, then the warranty would cover it.......

The custom skins mentioned by Jaidenoire in this thread from mytego.com are really beautiful for the price, wish I'd seen them before I'd ordered my regular one from eBay.

I originally ordered a leather PDAir flip but before it arrived I dropped it. From the posts here it seems to be the case that the Wizard "skids" and knocks out a chip above one of the top buttons. I'm guessing the design happens to protect the screen at the expense of the fascia which is as much as we ham-fisted types can hope for. The Wizard is way slippery!

Anyway, I've since ordered a cheap faceplate (search "mda faceplate" on eBay) for about £6 stirling to slim down the bulge in my pocket. Should protect it until I can be bothered with a custom job. Cheapest replacement housing seems to be about £50 on eBay - think I'll give that a miss for now.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] LordPhong:
Although I have similar rules like using a spare Motorola i720 (don't laugh. it does it's job) when going out, I still managed to drop mine.

My gf has a German Shephard and I hate it when she runs in the bedroom jumping all over the bed. So, one day when I saw her creaping in through the small screen door that I put in the doorway as a blockage, I quickly put my mda on the table not realizing that I put it on a slanted surface towards the floor. When I went over to scare Bee (the dog) my phone slammed on the hard tile covered concrete floor. My heart was just pounding but the only thing that broke was the upper left tab of the battery cover.

there was another time where I was such a dunce. I was at the post office mailing out a package that I sold on ebay. So, I took out my MDA to get the address for the package. When I was done writing the address down, I stood on line to mail it out. Next thing you know, some guy asked if anyone lost their phone. thank God there are honest ppl. Apparently I forgot to put the phone back in my pocket after I was done with the address.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] v3patel:
Do u want to sell battery back door?

I lost battery back door I do not how.

Any one care or want to sell battery back door? then PM me with price
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] elathan:
dropped mine for the first time to day, i was at work getting changed and as i was pulling my top over my head it fell out the pocket, but by dumb luck it landed right in some ones trainer!!! no damage at all, not even the the stylus came out. i always have my mini in the case but after reading the posts on this thread im searching ebay for a better solution.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Toodeep:
My girlfriend set her brand new 8125 on top of the car and drove off from our house. and it did a barrel roll at the end of our street.

went looking for it 10min later and it was gone. so we called it and no one would answer it.

Then a Very nice mexican guy called us from a home phone. Instead of anwsering the phone. Guess he couldnt figure out how to answer it. lucky day for my gf. phone had 2 small rock dents in the case.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Junner2003:
You can find it for a few bucks on eBay!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] nightfox11:
Updated my GS5 this morning to G900TUVU1ANE5 with Odin, so far the phone feels faster ( opening camera/Gallery) no UI changes except for the new Wi-Fi Calling toggle on the notification bar.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] vegabyson:
Just receive the update OTA and my phone is much more responsive. Opening apps, camera, etc
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] hisself:
Where did you get the update file?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] em0ney14:
Nice, when was this released?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] BeansTown106:
Awesome will have odex and deodex bases up by this afternoon
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] ramzy101:
Can you just flash the update philz recovery or do you need stock recovery? And is it okay if I have a custom kernel on my stock rom or do I need stock kernel as well
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] chastity:
Use ODIN. Not recovery
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] BeansTown106:
is it sad i already have stock tar uploading, firmware tar made, odex made(finalizing).. and starting work on deodex? i def did this update with the quickness LOL thanks [MENTION=5799969]em0ney14[/MENTION] for pm'ing me this morning and letting me know and thanks op as well!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] ramzy101:
How do you flash it on Odin?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] Towle:
Use the xda search tool. There are guides everywhere on how to do this.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] slimc84:
You're on it Beans! Do you plan on rebasing Alliance on the new OTA?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] cdjaney:
I hope this isn't a dumb question, but. ... can we assume that the update is "safe" to take OTA? What I mean is, are we pretty sure tmobile is not going to lock the bootloader in an update?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] slimc84:
http://www.androidcentral.com/t-mobiles-galaxy-s5-gets-smsmms-fix
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] penpower:
Could someone make the modem available? Thx
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] cjk2010:
Is that all this update is, an SMS/MMS fix? Whats the size of the update if anyone knows.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] slimc84:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...or-bug-fix-ota-software-update-g900tuvu1ane5/

looks like its 131mb
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] nightfox11:
Sammobile.com
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] casonswag:
I can never find the download link on sammobile where is it?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] nightfox11:
here you go bro http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=29848 :good:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] casonswag:
Yea i got that page but wheres the download link i only see the odin link?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] cjk2010:
It would be in the BRIGHT BLUE with white lettering horizontal bar at the top of the page that says "Confirm Download" LOL ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] casonswag:
Okk i see it had to put my phone in landscape to see it though do i have to fill all this to download it?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] nightfox11:
just hit the download bottom besides the picture that's the odin file. you have to be register to see it tho
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] casonswag:
Yea im not registered so im gonna have to fill that out
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] TheArtiszan:
So far I haven't pulled the trigger and rooted my phone yet.

You think chainfire autoroot will still work on this then?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] BeansTown106:
ya definetly

no if history repeats itself no ota will lock the bootloader only when a phone is initially releases the bootloader would be locked, aka all att phones before s4 are unlocked and still havent been locked by an ota. just new phones have been locked

ya will post shortly

this has all the other goodies that the international update had, finger scanner fix, camera fix, misc fixes. its also based off of 4.4.2 r2 not r1
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] casonswag:
Aahh! My download keeps failing hope someone makes a mirror
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] cjk2010:
Thanks for that info . @ Work and couldn't dig into it to look. Im def excited about the MMS&Camera fixes.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] bubblebuddyi:
Can't wait for the (de)odexed version :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] cjk2010:
? Ya mean the DeOdexed ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] bubblebuddyi:
Yep, I was in a rush when I typed it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] djricekcn:
how do I download this officially? I never got a notice for a rom update. I'm on a non-rooted phone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] jawmail:
You can get it via Kies, I just did.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] casonswag:
He probably mean a odex .zip we can flash even though thats on the sammobile website but i need a mirror
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] fzammetti:
This is my first attempt to update via Kies... any notion of how finicky it is in terms of root and whatnot? You can't even check for the OTA update (from the phone) when rooted, will Kies?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] darknatas:
My phone is stock rom but rooted. so how do i get this update on my phone with out wiping it out with odin?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] fzammetti:
Nobody grabbed the OTA from cache yet? Or did I just miss the post somewhere?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] eris_roote:
Updated with Kies just fine with root. You will lose root though
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] J3COMPUTERSERVICES:
Definitely better performance for me.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] M9x3mos:
I too would like to know.

If I take this update now, will I still be able to use this root method later?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] casonswag:
I cant get this update for nothing tried downloading 3 times from sammobile no go tried kies saying my model name not supported im using kies3 and i have tmo s5

Edit :gonna try bean town stock rom
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] mistical:
Kies won't care, it updates your phone just fine and I did so with Kies3 without any issues and then re-rooted just fine with Chainfire's.

You can use Kies3 to update it just fine without losing anything. But you should still backup any important data just in case, like always.

You can re-root again with CF Auto-Root just fine (or whatever else out there that may likely work).

Yup, same here. Everything is much more responsive and faster.

I updated via KIES then re-rooted using CF Auto-Root just fine. No problems what so ever.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] Towle:
CF Auto Root is a firmware file injected with root. So until it's updated, all you're doing is downgrading back to the old firmware. You can use mobile Odin pro to flash the new tar file and inject root into it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] bgmikejr:
Anyone needing a mirror to use for the stock tar as sammobile is giving me bad downloads for it so I found it here:

http://sammytoday.com/news/galaxy-s5-firmware-download.html

Here's a mirror as I uploaded it to mega:

https://mega.co.nz/#!QBZVACCB!zIJ3T4QDnzXcH9yQsP5Jy580vV8ssjxJ8zbgvWCaTso

I was rooted running stock and flashed the tar file via odin on my Windows 7 PC over top my stock rooted rom, you will lose root and have to re-run chainfires cf auto root tar to get root back which is what I did and I am running stock rooted once again with the official update and everything is working fine.

Hope this helps.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] tenxo:
So if you just flash the firmware from beans, you keep root does that change anything? It's only the stock tar that gets downgraded?

Sent from my SM-G900T using AllianceR(●)m
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] godcomplex37:
Have directions for mobile odin and wich file to use?