The back cover... bottom by the search button on the battery cover, it squeeks, everytime I pick it up, most annoying thing with this phone, out of all of them.
I think the build quality is terrible, coming from a hd2 which was solid, this phone is certainly shoddy in that regard. Mine is always making noises
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Mine doesn't squeek, but the bottom half of the touch screen, where the keyboard pops up, makes a clicking sound where the top section (screen) taps the bottom section (game pad). When its a bit noisy u can't hear it, but when ur in bed and it quite its the loudest thing in the world, lol.
Adam3Sixty said:
Mine doesn't squeek, but the bottom half of the touch screen, where the keyboard pops up, makes a clicking sound where the top section (screen) taps the bottom section (game pad). When its a bit noisy u can't hear it, but when ur in bed and it quite its the loudest thing in the world, lol.
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Snap, the bottomed left hand corner, I found it really annoying at first
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Geez, I have been fighting with getting the back cover fully attached for an hour. Is there some secret to this?????? There is always 1 clip that will not lock in. Usually the bottom left OR right.
Never had a problem with any other Samsung Plastic backs on 3 other devices!
Bah humbug!
the bottom 4 (2left and 2right) you have to slide in first. if you look at the 2nd ones up from the bottom they're shaped like hooks. so you have you slide them in the press down and the others will click on
it really is more of a hassle than it should be , but working bottom to top on both sides at the same time seems to work for me...
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I must have messed up one of those cheezy plastic hooks ... just can't get it to lock in. Argggghhh ..... wtf do you expect for $729 anyway! The bottom left side (right at the curve) just won't snap in. UFB!
It gets easier once you get a feel for it. The first two side ones are a pain, but if you push down and inward, it flexes the cover upward a bit and they pop right in.
I can forsee now the need eventually for a new cover when the tabs wear down
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This might sound weird.
But I actually like how you have to click it back it. Its fun for me and I keep doing it even though its unnecessary lol
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It gets easier once you get a feel for it. The first two side ones are a pain, but if you push down and inward, it flexes the cover upward a bit and they pop right in.
I can forsee now the need eventually for a new cover when the tabs wear down
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When it eventually looks like it is in and I snap the TOP ones in that bottom LEFT corner pops up and won't lock down. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Ready to throw it through the window.
bluemoon1221 said:
This might sound weird.
But I actually like how you have to click it back it. Its fun for me and I keep doing it even though its unnecessary lol
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Yes, sounds weird!
Its defiantly more difficult than the SII was, I found that the first pin on the right is the hardest. I stick the bottom two in then work my way from right to left, and it works ok for my device. It was funny as hell watching the guy in the Bell store struggle with it after putting the battery in, took him almost 5 minutes .
No issues here...
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I must have damaged 1 of the bottom clips. F'in ridiculous. Whoever designed this needs to be shot. I have had the phone for 5 hours and have spent the last 2 1/2 trying to get the f'in cover on. I give up. Getting a Diztronic case for it anyway. Had that on my GS2 and really liked it. This is totally absurd.
Just one corner won't go. It looks like it is OK until I snap in the TOP then the bottom left corner at the curve pops up.
GOT IT! That bottom left corner piece of **** tiny clip was bent up. I carefully bent it down and it went in.Unbelievable design. Steve Jobs would turn over in his grave.
So this is just an observation I've noticed.
I had a used Xperia play and also a new one
The heavily used one had a scratch / wear mark near the select button.
Looks like a chisel or knife has repeatably scratched it to the point of ripping the coating / plastic away.
The new one I have is also starting to show the same symptom but it is very much less noticable
If you look under good light conditions you can see the silver color is fading in the exact same spot.
Have any of you guys seen this on your old / used Xperias?
If you have let me know.
I'm wondering if the slide mechanism causes it.
im experiencing the same. lately, i havent been able to play games and i slid the my xplay today, i noticed it the scratch.
Same thing after opening repeatedly. It's happened to two of mine.
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Same here and the home button is scratched too.
hogwarts what happend about making cola rom for gsm ?
my play have this same scratch right above the touch pads and around them kinda look like something keeps rubbing there hence its fades and the word select some of the letters are gone
and i hardly use the game pad, i just slide it up at time to clean it cuz i dont have the xplay pouch yet
Over all I'm happy with the build quality of my GSM GNex, but it has one minor flaw.
The plastic edge around the screen. Top, Bottom and Right side are perfect and rounded smooth (just like my SGS2), but the left edge i kinda rough and not rounded and smooth like the others. It has a rough feel with a slight sharp feel if you slide your finger over it and makes a "small" rough sound.
Do any of you recognize this? Or is your GNex perfectly smooth like the SGS2?
mine feels uniformly smooth on all sides. one thing i don't like though is dust being trapped in between the said edges and screen. other than that it's flawless
I'm very happy with the build quality on my verizon version.
My only gripe about my GN physically is the rear cover. Just below the camera if you put a small amount of pressure on the cover and then release it, you can hear a slight clicking noise as the cover pops back out.
Other than that, flawless.
My problem .... frigging power button on side of the phone!!! I have to be so careful not to do a screen shoot its just unbelievable ...only other way of switching screen on or off is to hold the phone form top instead resting it on your palm
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My Gnex is perfectly solid despite having dropped it on tile twice. Yeah, I'm a klutz. There aren't any creaks in it, no popped-up glass, buttons are smooth, no loose or rough joins anywhere.
As I mentioned in another thread, the "flimsy" back cover of the Gnex has an advantage in that it doesn't fly off and let the battery go as well when the phone is dropped. Every smartphone I've ever owned would, when dropped, fly in three different directions when it hit the ground- phone in one direction, back cover in another, battery in another. The Gnex stays in one piece.
Somehow I've only managed to break two phones in my life despite my constant accidental drop testing. Neither of the broken phones was a Samsung (one was a SE X10 dropped into a sinkful of water, the other a BlackBerry dropped on pavement). Admittedly the Samsungs feel a little flimsy next to a lot of high-end phones, but the fact that they are lightweight and plastic actually makes them more durable, IME.
Mine is fine, outside of one extremely annoying issue. The vibrate motor on my unlocked GSM Nexus makes the phone rattle on the bottom right side (obviously where the motor is housed) if I'm not holding the phone on that side. I am normally a vibrate all the time guy...now I only have it vibrate for phone calls because it annoys me so much. I love how powerful and silent the motor is when I'm holding it...(at least compared to my Droid Incredible 2). My Verizon Nexus didn't do this at all before I returned it. Sad.
Lodion said:
My only gripe about my GN physically is the rear cover. Just below the camera if you put a small amount of pressure on the cover and then release it, you can hear a slight clicking noise as the cover pops back out.
Other than that, flawless.
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Argh, hadn't noticed that before. cannot unhear the clicking noise
put a layer or two of masking tape on the back of the cover until the space has been taken up. problem solved.
My software buttons are uneven. Vertically. Should I sand them down or beat with hammer?
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This shoud fix the battery cover problem http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Metal-ba...858658?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item2a1808d5e2
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My software buttons are uneven. Vertically.
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Mine too. I've exchanged 3 times and they all have the same problem. I think it is because of the curved glass.
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My software buttons are uneven. Vertically.
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I am curious. What are you talking about here? do you mean the virtual buttons on the bottom are not aligned? Could you do a screenshot to show what you mean if that is the case? I have never heard of that one before.
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My software buttons are uneven. Vertically. Should I sand them down or beat with hammer?
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Lol. I had to quote myself. Guess the joke was missed.
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Thanks for all the replies. I ended of returning my GNex as a DOA, so now I'm waiting for a new one.
I swear, every time I use the keyboard I mange to hit one of the capacitive buttons as I stretch my thumb to hit a far away letter. I'm sure a case with a lip will fix it but gee, couldn't they have put the buttons a little farther from the edge?
I seem to always hit the back button a lot with lower part of my hand when i am stretching to tap on something on the left part of the screen.
A lip would have ruined the aesthetics a bit as I love the flat body with rounded edges.
If you look at the phone, there isn't too much extra room to maneuver the buttons either.
Maybe our hands are just too small.
For that reason i prefer Sony xperia phone design with slim physical buttons.
It happens to me all the time but I quests I'm getting use to it now
Yeah, I'm always hitting it with the pad of my right thumb.
I usually don't but my daughter has a tendency to hit the menu button when watching YouTube videos
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i seem more likely to accidentally have part of my hand touching one part of the screen as i try to reach the other side with my thumb. Obvious by the unintentional zoom in/out.
I'm sure your not the only one. But I don't have that problem.
That doesn't really happen to me. Maybe its the way I hold the phone? Could be just my hand.
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I actually disabled the backlight for the capacitive buttons. Makes the phone look stealthy..
I've had issues with this when watching videos or playing games on landscape, for me what worked was I turned the phone so the usb port faces left side.
Does anybody know if this is normal. The camera if you touch or shake your phone that the camera rattles /shakes seems loose
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Yeah that's the auto focus most phones any kind do it
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My friend's Optimus G makes a rattling noise as well, but don't know if it's this way on all units. Maybe set up a poll
I remember seeing another thread about this somewhere. Some say its the camera, others say its the volume buttons. Yeah, mine rattles just a little bit.
Not too worried about it. (Calmer than you are)
-Walter
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I rattle too
every phone that I have had in the past 4 years had this noise. I think that its the camera
No rattles on/in mine Had to take it out of my case to see...then remembered how beautiful my little OG is...then promptly put it back in it's Commuter case lol.
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No rattles on/in mine Had to take it out of my case to see...then remembered how beautiful my little OG is...then promptly put it back in it's Commuter case lol.
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Just wondering, did you shake it or did you tap it around the camera?
With my friend's Optimus, it seems that it only makes the rattling noise if it's tapped. (that, or knocked against your knuckle) When it's shaken, there's pretty much no sound.
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Just wondering, did you shake it or did you tap it around the camera?
With my friend's Optimus, it seems that it only makes the rattling noise if it's tapped. (that, or knocked against your knuckle) When it's shaken, there's pretty much no sound.
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It sounds like it is coming from the earpiece area. However, this could be that it's merely the only passage for the sound to travel through. Either way, mine rattles with a shake, tap, and knock.
I guess I better open it up and see what's going on. Wish me luck. :fingers-crossed:
Edit: Confirmed, it is the camera. It is not seated firmly in the housing. Since it is connected via a ribbon, applying pressure will not fix it. Aside from applying adhesive underneath, I'm not sure there is really anything that can be done about it. However, it does not affect functionality, so the real question is whether anything SHOULD be done about it. It's just annoying.
I was wondering if I should return it or start a thread asking about it.
Ditto. If I tap the back of the phone by the camera, I hear the same thing.
chronostorm said:
Just wondering, did you shake it or did you tap it around the camera?
With my friend's Optimus, it seems that it only makes the rattling noise if it's tapped. (that, or knocked against your knuckle) When it's shaken, there's pretty much no sound.
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Actually I did both and all kinds of movement and it was tight...Update though now as of the 3rd of December I noticed I now too have the faint little rattle from the camera lens area. I noticed when I cleaned it with my cloth sometimes it goes away for a while like maybe something shifted but it still looks fine and it still seems to take good pics and focuses...I don't know just thought I would throw in an update.