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Screen cleaning tip

Hey,
This probably sounds a little dumb but for anyone who likes to keep their screen really clean if you use a dried out baby wipe it works just as good as a micro fibre cloth. Just thought I would share as I did it last night and it saved me buying a cloth.

That does work very well indeed!
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How does this compare to licking the screen and wiping on shirt/pants (user preference)?
On a scale of 1 to 10 please.
LTE EX Galaxy Nexus - AOSP KANG
Asus Transformer - 3.2.1 OC/UV

Personally, I prefer 80 grit.
Sent from my Nexus in Texas.

Good to know, as I have a few of those lying around from time to time... (1 year old likes to pull wipes out of bag and let them dry )

i just use my shirt and my breath haha

I'd like to know the most effective way of cleaning in the crack between the outside housing of the phone and the screen. I have a little bit of stuff in there and that damn gap is so small.

spencer88 said:
I'd like to know the most effective way of cleaning in the crack between the outside housing of the phone and the screen. I have a little bit of stuff in there and that damn gap is so small.
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what i do is use compressed air.
if it is in there tight i just use the corner of a piece of paper and run it out.

predation said:
what i do is use compressed air.
if it is in there tight i just use the corner of a piece of paper and run it out.
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Thanks for this.

spencer88 said:
I'd like to know the most effective way of cleaning in the crack between the outside housing of the phone and the screen. I have a little bit of stuff in there and that damn gap is so small.
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I just tear the corner of a magazine cover off. Gets deeper than compressed air. Accidentally put my phone in the same pocket as my cigarettes and had pieces of tobacco lining the phone. Magazine cover worked perfectly
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That mini heart attack when you drop your beloved galaxy nexus

Holding your brand new gnex between your ear and shoulder while cooking = bad idea. Especially if you wince when you get boiling oil drops on your face/hands..
it slipped and fell straight on the stonehard floor.
Dropped the phone from ear-height straight on the kitchen tile-floor.. back cover opened, battery fell out. my life didn't flash before my eyes since ICS browser currently does not support flash but I had something like a mini heart attack.
..however, (almost) no damage whatsoever. no scratches, no cracks, neither screen, nor anywhere else except a tiny little crack-ish thing in the top left corner of the device. probably 3 milimeters long, in the middle of the corner. Not sure how the phone landed though. My guess is it hit the floor with the top left corner.
phew! lesson learned.
Any similar experiences folks? Anyone been less fortunate?

That "crack" dead center on the corner isn't a crack. We all have that. It's a seam from manufacturing.
Good thing it didn't fall into boiling oil of death, huh?

Dropped mine a good few times but never any damage so all good. Who needs cases lol
As for flash, personally, my ICS browsers life flashes before it's eyes, as flash works fine in my stock 4.0.2 ICS browser...

Yadao said:
That "crack" dead center on the corner isn't a crack. We all have that. It's a seam from manufacturing.
Good thing it didn't fall into boiling oil of death, huh?
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ah, didn't think about that. good to know!
yes, good thing I didn't test water and heat resistance of gnex

^^ he must be talking about chrome

The day after I got the phone I was walking home and had to hop a 6ft wall. As I was going over the wall the phone slipped out of my pocket and landed on the asphalt. A little ding in the corner. No scratches, no cracks.
LIKE A BOSS

You hopped a 6 foot wall to get home? You must live in the Mushroom Kingdom. Tell Mario "hi" for me.

Smokeey said:
The day after I got the phone I was walking home and had to hop a 6ft wall.
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you mean you were parkouring home

Yadao said:
You hopped a 6 foot wall to get home? You must live in the Mushroom Kingdom. Tell Mario "hi" for me.
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It's a little shortcut I like to take behind my neighborhood. My neighborhood ends in a col-de-sac with a wall blocking us off from the roads.
fridykker said:
you mean you were parkouring home
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Why yes, It's taken me years to perfect jumping it, it is a brick wall after all.

Haha i break out tge first aid kit when i drop my phone, and perform c.p.r. works everytime
sent from me.....obviously

Smokeey said:
It's a little shortcut I like to take behind my neighborhood. My neighborhood ends in a col-de-sac with a wall blocking us off from the roads.
Why yes, It's taken me years to perfect jumping it, it is a brick wall after all.
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brick wall is fair enough. careful not to brick your device though!

i think ICS browser does indeed support flash.
Scary though, havent dropped mine yet!

Aye, download Adobe Flash from the Market if you feel your stock browser isn't displaying flash.
Chrome Beta does not support it though, if that's what you mean. Anyways, glad your baby isn't hurt. My phone has fallen a few times in various situations and so far so good as well. *knocks on wood*

Well you are all lucky. I have an Otterbox commuter that I took off to clean, while the phone was in my hoodie pocket, i started shuffling (LOL). Fell out of my pocket (while the case was still off), 3ft to linoleum floor. Top left corner of the glass is cracked. From ear speaker to a bit above it, and down to the corner where the LCD starts. Luckily it doesn't affect the screen itself, but it bugs the hell out of me.

Yadao said:
That "crack" dead center on the corner isn't a crack. We all have that. It's a seam from manufacturing.
Good thing it didn't fall into boiling oil of death, huh?
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Oil? Nothing a little rice wouldn't fix..

dco717 said:
^^ he must be talking about chrome
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This is the first Android phone I've owned where I liked the stock browser more than any other - even Dolphin.
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holy crap...i just did this last night!! it was in my hoodie pocket and i was jumping and it fell smack dab right on my hardwood kitchen floor and i just stopped with a shocked feeling.....slowly went down and picked it up, and gave it a scan.....and nothing! no scratches, dents, dings, slits! u name it, it doesnt have it! so what were people saying about the "plasticky" Samsung products??? cuz if this was an HTC or Moto device, it would probably have died! lol! jk! but seriously....way to go Samsung!

Simer03 said:
holy crap...i just did this last night!! it was in my hoodie pocket and i was jumping and it fell smack dab right on my hardwood kitchen floor and i just stopped with a shocked feeling.....slowly went down and picked it up, and gave it a scan.....and nothing! no scratches, dents, dings, slits! u name it, it doesnt have it! so what were people saying about the "plasticky" Samsung products??? cuz if this was an HTC or Moto device, it would probably have died! lol! jk! but seriously....way to go Samsung!
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The only time I've done it the phone was nestled inside of its sock-home. I got out of the car, looked for my phone, saw it backside down on the asphalt (well I didn't know it was backside at the time). Otterbox + phone-sock = life saver.
Not going to lie though, I chainsmoked like a fiend after that.

I dropped mine too. Early morning my alarm started to ring. I grabbed the Nexi, but it was in wall charger, and jumped out of my hand (samsung cable is VERY short). Buttom line. It smashed into the radiator, and my heart stopped too. The screen actually cracked, but only at the bottom left corner of the front :/
I will have to live with that crack for the rest of my Gnexus days.
It reminds me of, the day I got the almighty iPhone. I was in the bathroom taking a dump, and somehow it slipped out of my hands, and fell maybe 2-3 feet. The screen was completely shattered. The day after, I thaded it for the band new original Galaxy S, and I was now in love with android.

dmmarck said:
The only time I've done it the phone was nestled inside of its sock-home. I got out of the car, looked for my phone, saw it backside down on the asphalt (well I didn't know it was backside at the time). Otterbox + phone-sock = life saver.
Not going to lie though, I chainsmoked like a fiend after that.
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Lol....mine is naked! No case or screen protector!
sent from my Nexus Prime

Dropped s4 on rug.. now experiencing suuuuuper lag and smearing!

Careful guys. If these devices are that sensative thats insane. Dropped s4 on its bottom right corner onto rug.. no screen damage tho a 5mm piece of the plastic silver bezel lip pealed off. Really f*#!* up..
anyway.. now im getting smearing that makes me feel like im drunk. Stuttering in scrolling, jittering..
dont know what im gonna do but this should be a PSA on its sensitivity.

your saying it fell now its lagging ? kind of crazy...
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It fell 1 and a half feet on to a carpted floor.
Thats not cool no matter what...

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

criticalchild said:
Careful guys. If these devices are that sensative thats insane. Dropped s4 on its bottom right corner onto rug.. no screen damage tho a 5mm piece of the plastic silver bezel lip pealed off. Really f*#!* up..
anyway.. now im getting smearing that makes me feel like im drunk. Stuttering in scrolling, jittering..
dont know what im gonna do but this should be a PSA on its sensitivity.
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Something wrong with your digitizer man. I had a similar issue with my old s2.
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boqonx said:
Something wrong with your digitizer man. I had a similar issue with my old s2.
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I 2nd this. Since owning my S4 i have had it fall from my desk about 4 or 5 times onto a linoleum chair mat. About a 2 and a half foot drop each time. The chair mat should be a lot harder then a rug. Theres not a scratch on the thing and no problems at all. Think the OP got a bad unit that got through final inspection.

removesstains said:
I 2nd this. Since owning my S4 i have had it fall from my desk about 4 or 5 times onto a linoleum chair mat. About a 2 and a half foot drop each time. The chair mat should be a lot harder then a rug. Theres not a scratch on the thing and no problems at all. Think the OP got a bad unit that got through final inspection.
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Agreed, you should be able to drop an egg or a baby a foot and a half onto carpet with no ill effects. If that hadn't happened your phone probably would have gotten messed up at some point from you looking at it too hard or something.

Digitizer seams like a good thought. The screen has also got a yellowish tint now except in tge corner it was dropped on, which remains more vibrant and sharp.
im gonna try n get tmo to swap it out for me since theres no visual damage except lil silver sliver from bezel gone.. thanks for input, much appreciated.

criticalchild said:
Careful guys. If these devices are that sensative thats insane. Dropped s4 on its bottom right corner onto rug.. no screen damage tho a 5mm piece of the plastic silver bezel lip pealed off. Really f*#!* up..
anyway.. now im getting smearing that makes me feel like im drunk. Stuttering in scrolling, jittering..
dont know what im gonna do but this should be a PSA on its sensitivity.
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Have you simply done a battery pull? That would be the first thing to do.

Hoggles said:
Have you simply done a battery pull? That would be the first thing to do.
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My fiance has already dropped her S4 like 5-6 times from standing height down to the ground. She even dropped it on a bunch of rocks in our driveway...... :-\
However not only does she not have a single scratch... It works perfect still.

Get softer carpet

Get a case, if you're spending so much money on a phone at least spend a few bucks on a case, even a $5 tpu case from ebay can be the difference between a shattered screen
Sent from Flip's Galaxy S4

Did a battery pull yesterday. Didnt change.
Scrolling black text on white background almost looks like a little ghosting.
Lol @THICKer carpet. It was a bath room rug with strands of rolled cotton making it like 4inches of absorbent material.

My Note 2 got bent???

I know this might sound wired but ya the title says it all!!!
I woke up in the morning i felt that the note is slightly bent as in its raised on the left hand side of the phone!!
I have a bad habit of keeping the note 2 next to me while sleeping so i must've rolled on top of it last night!!
Is it possible for it to happen in the first place???
Or may be keeping in my pocket of tight pants and riding the bike can do that to my note 2??
I'm shocked!! Its been hardly 15 days since i bought it!!

Bunny2rock said:
I know this might sound wired but ya the title says it all!!!
I woke up in the morning i felt that the note is slightly bent as in its raised on the left hand side of the phone!!
I have a bad habit of keeping the note 2 next to me while sleeping so i must've rolled on top of it last night!!
Is it possible for it to happen in the first place???
Or may be keeping in my pocket of tight pants and riding the bike can do that to my note 2??
I'm shocked!! Its been hardly 15 days since i bought it!!
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well this seems impossible as though the phone make is plastic it cant bent if you have rolled on top as the mattress is soft enough to protect the impact or rather it could have broken due to body pressure and to the contrary i have been carrying the phone in my jeans riding my bike to for the last 3 months and no issues whatsoever.
can you post screen of the bent position

I'm calling shenanigans.
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lyall29 said:
I'm calling shenanigans.
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Im taking pic with different cams but that slight bent is not visible in those pics so thats why wasnt responding buddy!! anyways I ll try something in order to show my note

N2 is a big phone, I carry mine in my pocket too, but I try to keep it safe from bending. Its a fact that its easy to bend such a big and long phone but riding a bicycle and bending it is a bit weird, we are waiting for pictures and further posting from you. And if thats true, try to use your warranty and get a new one? You might get lucky!
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Is it really bent.... than thats one in a million production. Sounds weird thou...

I've seen videos of product testing for the GN2, and one test involved twisting the phone. It always returned to its original shape, and the twist was quite severe. You'd need a lot of force to bend this phone beyond the yield point and I'm not sure you can reach it by rolling over it on a bed. Check the battery, if you haven't already, maybe it's defective, bulging out and bending the phone in the process.
I've also carried my phone in different pockets on my bike since I got it, 1-2 months after it came out. I even fell on it once when my front wheel slipped on a patch of ice. There is a slight ripple in the glass now, only noticeable at a sharp angle, but I don't know if it's from my fall or just a manufacturing issue. Either way, I'm quite impressed with the phone's durability. If falling ass-first on it on the hard icy pavement didn't break it, I'm sure rolling over it in bed wouldn't either. I'd check it thoroughly to be certain that they couldn't blame me for damaging it and send it to warranty.

It doesn't make sense because the front panel which basically made of hardened glass shouldn't bend. If anything any stress beyond its limit will end up breaking it. Anyways, try getting a clear shot otherwise people will have a hard time believing you.
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bushako said:
It doesn't make sense because the front panel which basically made of hardened glass shouldn't bend. If anything any stress beyond its limit will end up breaking it. Anyways, try getting a clear shot otherwise people will have a hard time believing you.
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Exactly.
I would think that the only way to bend a glass panel would be to use an extreme amount of heat, like a torch. You would have to heat up the glass until glows red, and then bend the it. I just googled "how to bend glass" and here is a link for anyone interested, http://m.wikihow.com/Bend-Glass
You could possibly flex it, but it should snap right back into its original shape. Besides, the rest of the phone is a fairly flexible plastic.
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lyall29 said:
Exactly.
I would think that the only way to bend a glass panel would be to use an extreme amount of heat, like a torch. You would have to heat up the glass until glows red, and then bend the it. I just googled "how to bend glass" and here is a link for anyone interested, http://m.wikihow.com/Bend-Glass
You could possibly flex it, but it should snap right back into its original shape. Besides, the rest of the phone is a fairly flexible plastic.
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Well there you have it. Obviously he was riding his bike on the sun!
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adytum said:
Well there you have it. Obviously he was riding his bike on the sun!
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LOL!! ROFL!!!
I got my note 2 replaced!!! Lucky Me!!! The service center was arguing that its a slight bend so no problem sir!! I went mad and shouted at the tip of my voice spoke to the GM of my city!! Got a new Phone!!:laugh::laugh::laugh::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::angel:

Bunny2rock said:
LOL!! ROFL!!!
I got my note 2 replaced!!! Lucky Me!!! The service center was arguing that its a slight bend so no problem sir!! I went mad and shouted at the tip of my voice spoke to the GM of my city!! Got a new Phone!!:laugh::laugh::laugh::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::angel:
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Oh Yeah! So they agreed there's a slight bend.... u got a sharp eye yeah. That's good!

Lg OG strength.

Hey all, I recently dropped my LGOG on bathroom tiles from about chest height, without a cover.
And I am pleased to say that I have left with only a few scuffs on the chrome lining.
Now I know that it depends on luck and how it lands, but I must say I am impressed with the phones ability to withstand drops from that height.
I have also dropped it twice before on concrete.
Anybody else feel free to add your opinion.

Mine also felt on bathroom tiles,i was scarred to pick it up,but then i was surprised like you.
Nothing,not a single scratch
Im very pleased with my OG
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Dropped mine at work today with protector case. It landed from 1 meter down and rolled. It landed on LCD. When i look at it nothing. My case saved it.

Mine fell from a dressor thats over 4 feet high on to the hard wood floor. It happend twice and not a scratch on the phone. I didnt have a case or screen protector on the phone either. I'm sure the way the phone landed helped but regardless its a very solid built phone.

Mine also fell from my pocket and nothing happened. It really gives the vibe of a really solid and nice built phone. It's such a shame to have to put a case on it since it looks so slim and gorgeous without one haha
One thing I noticed is that without a case I find it too slippery...

On the way to my vacation i sat down next to the road. My LGOG fell 10 centimeters screen down. The screen shatteret. Touch does not work where it hit. So 50% of the touch is not working. :crying:
Well, good i also have my 2 years old LG Optimus 2X with me. That thing has more scratches and landings face down than i can count. :good:

Stop dropping
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Mine has managed to slip out of my pocket onto concrete and it was fine.
It has slid down the side of the couch a few times and that's when it got damaged. Got some scuffs in the right hand bottom corner and the chrome was bent, it fell down again last night and the bent bit of chrome came off. Tiny amount, hardly noticable but still, gutted =(
It is such a pretty phone I don't want to put a cover on it but I so need to
I kept some of the plastic strips on the sides that it came with to kind of help it lol

I also find it hard to put a cover onto as the back is simply stunning.
But seeing as it is new and it is on a 24 month plan I must make it last.
A few chips on the chrome sides I can live with.

I did manage to put full knee weight on the back of it, in a tent. I then heard a 'plop'.. The back shattered, but the cracks don't run over the camera - - there is this mini contour, like a millimeter high, that prevented that. All the other times I dropped it ( 3, 4 times) the kind of bookish cover saved the day, as it should. So the back is no more, but with the casing still the front is free of any scratches. The G is a resilient phone.. It just has some trouble with 180 pounds of pressure on a corner Still, pretty impressive, everything works!
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Luckily I haven't dropped my OG yet but I want to mention the "strength" of volume button since mine (volume -) generates scrubbing sound when being touched (a little ). It might not a problem for anyone here...?

thuanngotau said:
Luckily I haven't dropped my OG yet but I want to mention the "strength" of volume button since mine (volume -) generates scrubbing sound when being touched (a little ). It might not a problem for anyone here...?
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That doesn't happen to my volume rocker, but to my power button instead.
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lucky
you guys are some lucky s.o.bs man i dropped my phone during lunch (im a senior in highschool) and no cracks yay! but absoluteley no touchscreen no no no!!

The phone fell to the ground a couple of times, no issues at all. Also one time I took my guitar from the wall hanger, but it slipped and the headstock hit hard on the screen (what a noise it made!), not even a scratch. I'm surprised.

I have my E975 slip out of my hands while connected to charger when the cable snagged. It flipped around, and smashed onto my table's glass surface over a 6" drop. The entire front glass shattered. Had to replace it myself, the entire front assembly. It was an expensive lesson. I've since slipped on a ugly case

Just dropped my phone from a 4 feet high cabinet last night and there wasn't any crack, scratch or dings, I'm really impressed with the build of this phone

Dropped from 3 stories. Pretty much totaled. Anyone know a way to retrieve data off a phone with a nonfunctional screen?
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Use an adb shell to backup and store it on your computer
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3 stories woah. Nice one though im also very sorry for your loss..
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Don't forget,lg og is scratch proof,not drop)
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