Crazy_J

I know most of us treat our new toy like gold, but let's face it accidents happen. I wanted to start this thread to see what other people have gone through.

I'll tell my horror story first. This morning as I was getting ready for work I started Pandora radio and placed my phone on a shelf above my toilet. I've done it plenty of times. I walked away to start the shower and I heard a crash/splash, my heart dropped to my feet. I could still hear music playing as I turned around, I looked down into the toilet. There was my bionic under water screen still lit and playing music... naturally I grabbed my phone and ripped the battery out. I then rapidly went to my kitchen grabbed a large bowl and a box of minute rice. I wiped all the water I could see of the phone battery sd and sim cards. I placed my drowned phone and there items into the bowl then filled it with the rice. I left it in the rice for about two hours, then used a can of compressed air to further push water out. Knowing just because you don't see anymore water doesn't mean things are dry, I used my wife's hair on low heat for about an hour from different angles. I am using my drown bionic to type this! All is well.

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dave1812

Be advised that failures from water infiltration can occur many days later. Good luck!!

Crazy_J

I know its possible for things to go wrong at a later date. I'm hoping nothing goes wrong... here's to crosses fingers.

Reverence

It could have been worse.....the toilet could have had some other items in it also.

bigbabys

A couple of people have posted saying they dropped theirs already, but I have been pretty careful with mine. The most abuse mine has taken is being used non-stop

dave1812

You mean like the time one of my young cousins dropped one of my Dinky Toys into the crapper??

sx4dude2013

dropped mine today. Otterbox save it :}

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YankeeDudeL

I've posted it elsewhere, but I'll share it here, too. Just over a week after I get it, I'm on the first day of my vacation. I decided I didn't need to use the navigation because I was following a friend down who was using his Garmin (the way back proved that Google Maps is better, btw). I didn't want to use my holster yet as I didn't need anything poking me on the long drive. So he calls me to tell me that we're just about there, that we're turning off. I hang up, put the phone in my lap, and don't think anything of it.

We arrive at the hotel after the long drive. I'm just looking forward to stretching my legs at this point. So I slide out of the car, and I hear the unmistakeable sound of my phone hitting the asphalt. My heart sank as I didn't even need to look down, I just knew. I go to grab it, see it's face down, and wince as I turn it over. Cracked both the upper corners of the phone (including over the front facing camera), and one going down the middle of the entire screen.

The fall doesn't seem to have impacted the phones function one bit, just the aesthetic quality. Still, I'm left wondering. I've done the very same to my OG Droid a hundred times with no ill effects. It wasn't until I started driving a truck, with my OG falling from about a 4ft drop onto concrete before the screen cracked. All it took was a 2ft drop onto asphalt to do in the Bionic.

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bigbabys

I've ready your story more than once now, and a part of me dies every time I read it I'm sorry man, Have you thought about a cell repair shop? Might be able to get it fixed.

breadnatty08

I'm telling you Yank that OG was built like a tank. I dropped mine so many times and it never had a scratch. We drop our 10.1 once on wood flooring and the screen shatters. Guess it's all luck of the draw!

BigRedGonzo

A lady I work with at church was out of town with a group from the church last week. They left on Thursday and were coming back on Saturday. On their way to their destination they stopped at Cracker Barrel to eat lunch. She went to the rest room before their food came. After eating, she reached into her back pocket to get her phone (a Sprint Epic) and it was gone. She went to the church van to look for it and it wasn't there. She retraced her steps and couldn't find it anywhere. Some of the other ladies joined in on the search and finally one of them came and got her and said they had found her phone. They took her back to the restroom and opened the stall door to see her phone tucked nicely into the drain hole in the bottom of the toilet she had used. As she was reaching into the toilet to get it, she got an incoming call. One of the other ladies got wise and said lets call her phone an see if we can locate it. She opted not to answer the call. She took the phone to the sink and rinsed it off. I guess that was the right thing to do?? She rinsed it, pulled the battery, dried everything with a paper towel, put the battery back in and cranked it back up. When she got home on Saturday (two days later,) she told her husband about it and he panicked and made her disassemble it and put it in a bowl of rice. She took it out two hours later. Its still going!! I guess one never knows.

BigRedGonzo

bigbabys

It's luck of the draw with any phone. And the Bionic actually has a stronger screen than the OG. My wife dropped her OG from about 4 feet onto concrete and the screen shattered.

YankeeDudeL

I'm glad that there are people who truly feel my pain. That's pretty much what I'm thinking I'm going to do. There's a jewelry shop here that replaces screens. My OG would have cost me $85. I imagine it would cost more for the larger screen. But if it's $130 or less, it's still cheaper than insurance. Waiting for my boss to come back from vacation, hoping he might could pull some strings. My phone is very much a display piece for us, it's my only real hope.

Yeah it was. I put that thing through hell. And toward the end when it wasn't working up to snuff, I have to admit throwing it on more than one occasion. That thing was most certainly a tank.

That's what finally did in my OG. Dropped it getting out of my truck, 4ft drop onto concrete. It's why I can't believe the Bionic cracked after a 2ft drop.

Dubbin1

Another reason not to leave the toilet lid up...