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...threw my EVO against the floor, the EVO survived it like a champ. Won't go into details why, but we were both at fault...still my EVO =(
Anywho, the dropdown bar doesn't work anymore. I still her notifications and everything reads fine, I just can't seem to make it drop anymore. Is this software issue or was it the damage from the throw?
Hmmm, have you tried rebooting the phone? Did the phone land on top where the notification bar is usually at?
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yeah I rebooted the phone. It was laggy but now it's fine. Everything working great except for the notificaiton bar.
I don't know where it landed, since it was really fast...
Hmmm, that's odd. Are you using the stock evo or is it rooted?
Best bet is to re-flash the phone or factory reset it to see if the notification bar will respond. If the phone is functioning fine, I can't see how the notification bar would be solely affected by the drop.
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Look for any real small cracks that could have damage the small wires attached to it, I had that happen to a ipod touch and it would not work along the bottom anymore right at the point that the wires were damaged.
Dang I didn't think about that. The guy says it looks perfectly fine though. Heck I don't know.
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maybe if you shake it hard enough, the notification bar will get loose. Maybe its stuck to something from the fall...........................................................................................
...and get a new girlfriend!
Yeah I am fully rooted.
About to reflash freaks rom and see what changes.
I shook it and nothing happened xD
And no cracks or anything visible..
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Hopefully that works
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Yeah I am fully rooted.
About to reflash freaks rom and see what changes.
I shook it and nothing happened xD
And no cracks or anything visible..
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Holy crap. Its midnight...i am at work. And almost peed myself laughing when you said you shook it.
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Do you have 180° auto rotation? Its an option on cyanogens rom. Enable it and hold the phone upside-down so it rotates and try pulling the bar down that way. Then you know if your screen is damaged or its a software issue. Sounds like some connections are broken but good luck and sorry about your situation.
It sounds like it's getting jammed up by karma. Take her phone and beat it with a rock, then try your notification bar. If that doesn't work, pull the battery and light her laptop on fire.
I'm speaking as an experienced technician here. You can trust me.
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It sounds like it's getting jammed up by karma. Take her phone and beat it with a rock, then try your notification bar. If that doesn't work, pull the battery and light her laptop on fire.
I'm speaking as an experienced technician here. You can trust me.
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I second this.
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It sounds like it's getting jammed up by karma. Take her phone and beat it with a rock, then try your notification bar. If that doesn't work, pull the battery and light her laptop on fire.
I'm speaking as an experienced technician here. You can trust me.
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I third this. But before you beat it with a rock, batch text her friends: "H8 u so mch nvr talk 2 me evr agin"
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Do you have 180° auto rotation? Its an option on cyanogens rom. Enable it and hold the phone upside-down so it rotates and try pulling the bar down that way. Then you know if your screen is damaged or its a software issue. Sounds like some connections are broken but good luck and sorry about your situation.
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Try this if the rock option doesn't pan out. Or hit it with a pan instead. I love this thread.
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out of all seriousness, call sprint, tell them you want insurance before you take a road trip or something like that, then a couple days later say you lost it, and you can strip your old evo for parts, sell then on ebay our something...oh not to mention you lose $ 100 in the deductible, but you'll probably make that back with the money that you make on ebay!
And **** with your ex's pc, give it a virus or something, text (and prank call without *67) people from her phone, even go as far as ****ing with her alarm clock, idk man but get back at her somehow for making you go through all this ****
I just woke up. I had finals yesterday so i was beat xD well
I tried the 90 degree rotation and yeah, something is broken, since the notification bar works wonderfully sideways. I am thinking of calling the insurance and telling them it bricked while updating to froyo and see if they buy that. If they do, then I'll brick it trying to update xD
oh and I already got her back. (she has weird mood swings) so after she got angry she got happy and I sexed her up twice....something she regrets but I dont =P
also thinking of doing something to her precious car but unsure yet...
Thanks everyone for the replies xD Totally made my morning =D
If your phone doesn't show any outward signs of damage, take it to the store and act completely confused. This really sounds like something that could "just happen" with normal use. There is a period where you can get a free replacement for factory defects.
The thing is I bought my phone through a 3rd party supllier. Sprint supplies them and they sell it off. So I don't think that Sprint would replace it...but I'll call nonetheless
Just yesterday night I found out that I can't get any sound from my phone. Not even notifications sound work, or those ticky sounds what are heard when you turn ringtone volume up or down to hear the level. I have no idea how they are missing now... I dropped my HTC Desire Z in the water weeks ago and some say there can occur problems a long time after water damage, is this true?
I don't remember dropping my phone lately, but I may have dropped it yesterday by accident, but it was not a big drop. There could be a slight possibility tha the speaker died?
When I plug my earphones in, I get sound normally. This indicates to speaker damage indeed. What do you think? Does warranty cover this? I have no idea what causes this. Task killer maybe?
Sorry for the double post, but just bumping and reporting about this issue. Just tested calling from other phone, and the speaker mode won't work. I hear voice normally from internal speaker. I use Automatic Task Killer and there was "Music" -app in kill list, but it adding it to the white list did not affect in anything... besides plus music nothing else with sound works, without plugging in the headphones of course.
I really don't use ringtones that much, but I would like to show some youtube videos to friend with sound sometimes, or speak with speaker on if my hands are not available... this really sucks. ANY thoughts? What should I do?
The unexpected happened!
Haha, this is unbelievable! My 2 year old daughter got my phone for some reason and as soon as I noticed of course I told her "no! give it back" and as soon as she noticed I noticed she's having the phone, she threw it to the wall! (she was standing on the bed and the phone fell down quite a long way). The back cover fell off and I thought the phone is broken for good... since I had already dropped it to the water couple of months ago as you may know.
Well, shouted at my daughter for what she did. Then picked up the phone and put back the back cover. And guess what? The sounds work! Nothing wrong with them, or the phone! Tested out and everything works like charm! Haha I'm laughing my ass of, miracles sure happen!
If YOU have sound problems, don't start to bash your phone please
can u gimme the winning lottery numbers
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Today I went to swimming and dropped while changing to swimwear dropped my pants down while my phone was in the pocket. At home I noticed the sounds are not working again! So I recalled what happened and dropped my pants again in the same way, and the sounds were back again..
So I guess my phone can't stand any more knocks or drop downs... so I try to be really careful in the future. Thank god there is no touch-problems like in bad earbuds when the wire go bad and the sound comes only from the other one, like that I should always keep the phone in right position sounds to work... that would be nightmare.
Just reporting if you out there possibly have similar problems. It can all be symptomps from dislocated speaker like in my case.
Sound is back ...I'm a hard head
I too had lost sound after dropping ...After reading the warning about no trying to bang it back .............well what can I say , I put on the media with music and tapped it on the counter , NO Luck . Being hard headed I then started to slap it into the palm of my hand with a good snap ...Presto magic sound is back . Do not try this at home kids .
Umm my dumba** frnd was playing around because i didnt wana give him his phone he grabed mine and threatened to get it wet so he got the bottom nd i have a really think vase nd well the area of the home button and the microphone where on the water but a lil bit of water got into the home buttom but its workin normal no issues or anything lik that but the microphone seems to be dead.. but if i put it on speaker the other person can hear me perfectly so could it be the microphone or the rom im using?? I know that the answer is obvious but you never know and if it was the water.. could it work again or im going to have to send it back to get it fixed???
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You can try turning off noise reduction. Open dialer, in call settings > additional settings.
Noise reduction uses two mics so maybe if one is still good you can use it that way.
If not then i just hope you had the protection plan for it.
Good luck!
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That is one of the longest sentences I've seen and you and your friend are retarded.
I'd throw it in some rice overnight to get any moisture out. This one time I got water in my ear and had to shake my head for three days before it all came out and my hearing was normal.
well not mine actually, but check the link. this is the first im hearing of anything like this...discuss
This is my first time posting so cut me some slack! Also not sure if this is the best place to post this.
Last night at about 3:15am EST (about 1 hour after i plugged it in and went to sleep) I was awoken by a loud noise and a weird squeaking sound. (I charge my phone while I'm sleeping on my bed right next to me)
So, I woke up, and saw a ton of smoke coming out of my phone -- it also smelled REALLY bad. Half asleep, I jumped out of bed and turned the light on, only to see that my phone was just beginning to go on fire. I dumped a glass of water I had in the room on it to stop it from burning...then woke up my brother to come help. The smoke smelled so bad and wafted through the entire second floor of my house. I had a foam mattress pillow top that had a hole burned through it too--which we later threw out because it was still burning throughout. Also, some of the plastic on my phone was melting and kind of shooting out of it, and some landed on my pinky finger and burned some skin off (very small burn though).
Does anyone have any suggestions what I should do? Call Verizon? Samsung? Have a lawyer call them? I'd also like to get some type of replacement phone in the meantime...
Here are the pictures
EDIT: People keep requesting pictures of the battery. Here they are
ALSO: To answer many questions: EVERYTHING was stock/Samsung that I had received when I purchased my phone. Stock battery, charger, etc. Additionally, my phone was NOT rooted.
Edit 2: Thanks so much for all of your comments and insight. The real big question here is -- Do you think I have an actual legal case? As in, a product liability case. Or, do you think I'm better off taking what the PR team will give me? (Perhaps, a new phone, new mattress, etc)? I did not suffer any TRULY substantial damages to myself or personal property. I am really tossed up on this...Any advice would be appreciated.
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http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1f5hoq/my_samsung_galaxy_s3_exploded_last_night_while_i/
The comments people are leaving are hilarious lol, doesn't surprise me too much with how hot I've felt some devices getting. He probably installed a fart app or something lol. Sucks but Samsung should pay for everything the guy states like mattress and phone and such.
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He should sue the hell out of them because they can afford it, the burn to his hand alone will easily net him a 4 figure cheque.
Kinda makes me hope my phone catches on fire now lol
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He should sue the hell out of them because they can afford it, the burn to his hand alone will easily net him a 4 figure cheque.
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If there's even a case. Sounds like he just wants to be reimbursed for the phone and damage done to his bed. It also sounds like he doesn't even care about the burn to his finger.
If he does file a lawsuit, I sure hope his phone was stock (I have no idea how they would check now) and that he was using the stock battery. I'm sure samsung is going to bring up the wall charger and micro usb cable as well.
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Im sorry, but in my opinion, things like this shouldnt always warrant a lawsuit. Does anybody really think that Samsung is guilty of wrongdoing here? Yeah it sucks and is scary that it happened, but just file an insurance claim to replace the bed and phone and move on with life.
How many GS3s have been sold now, plus all the extra batteries and only one has done this? Pretty good if you ask me.
Sounds like it was probably just a faulty battery or something like that.
Anyway, like I said its just my opinion and thought id share it.
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I couldn't even tell that was still the battery since it had warped and expanded so much due to the explosion....now I'm not going to charge my S3 right next to my head when I sleep.
Reimbursement I vote in the least, I mean what's a "600$" phone gonna be for them lol, I assume it was a faulty battery I've read that before about it melting a case
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I'm scared of my phone now.. Won't be charging it on my bed anymore...
reminds me of that story i heard about an iPod Touch exploding in someone's pocket during class...ouch
saranhai said:
reminds me of that story i heard about an iPod Touch exploding in someone's pocket during class...ouch
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Seems like in both cases of exploding iPod Touches, a lawsuit against Apple followed:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic/apple-sued-after-ipod-touch-exploded-in-boys-trousers-49301555/
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2013/02/apple-sued-for-exploding-ipod-touch.html
This actually happened to me also so I know what he is going through. I set my phone down to charge. I woke up about an hour later to a plastic burning smell. I grabbed my phone and it was literally melting. Not on fire, just extremely hot and I ended up burning my fingers. I immediately pulled the battery out. Let it cool off (the smell didn't go away) and then it powered back on and has been charging normally ever since. It's kinda scary to think what would happen if I didn't wake up and notice my phone almost blowing up.
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This actually happened to me also so I know what he is going through. I set my phone down to charge. I woke up about an hour later to a plastic burning smell. I grabbed my phone and it was literally melting. Not on fire, just extremely hot and I ended up burning my fingers. I immediately pulled the battery out. Let it cool off (the smell didn't go away) and then it powered back on and has been charging normally ever since. It's kinda scary to think what would happen if I didn't wake up and notice my phone almost blowing up.
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What firmware and ROM are you running?
I don't think he has an S3. All of his other posts are for the Note2.
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Aerowinder said:
What firmware and ROM are you running?
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It was stock everything, not even rooted.
DocHoliday77 said:
I don't think he has an S3. All of his other posts are for the Note2.
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And I do have an s3... My sister uses it.
ok thx for clarifying.
What build is it on?
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Just stock 4.1.2 from AT&T
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Just stock 4.1.2 from AT&T
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Wasn't aware they got the 4.1.2 update. That's a bmer though on all accounts. I live in Phoenix AZ and we see nothing but triple digits from may til august and I've never felt burnt by my phone, I'm lucky to have resistant skin I guess.
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Oh yes they got it months ago. But this happened while charging, in the air conditioning. So there was no reason for it to be that hot. When I turned it on there was no program in the battery list which was eating up the battery so it is very strange.
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mt3g said:
I live in Phoenix AZ and we see nothing but triple digits from may til august and I've never felt burnt by my phone, I'm lucky to have resistant skin I guess.
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mt3g targaryen
Hello,
i just recently bought my google nexus 7 and i have one thing to worry about.
When i run some high demanding app like some 3d game or something, i can hear buzzing coming from back of the tablet, its not loud and actually if there is not complete silence you cant even hear it or u have to put your ear very close to the device.
Im just wondering if this is common with nexus 7 or if i should worry and put it to reclamation?
Thanks in advance for any tips and answers
Just addition
the buzzing comes from the top side and it kinda sounds like broken ventilator, but i guess there is no ventilator inside the tablet right?
what is at that place, graphic card?
I get thus from time to time when I charge my tablet. I wouldn't be worried
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well, its not while charging, first i thought that too coz i first noticed it while charging, but it really always starts when i run some game
and also, i dont know if its only me, but i think its getting worse...