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easy screen scratching?

I moved from the iPhone 4 nd had zero screen scratches in the 2years I had it. I already got one on my s3 just wondering if anyone else noticed your screen scratched?

Nope...and should have a few by now glass seems legit so far
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ive been trying to scratch mine but it doesnt work. so i bought a matte screen protector bcuz i like the feel n called it a day

No problems here. My wife has a 4s and it has scratched easily. I guess YMMV....
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none yet but my screen does make a clicking noise at the top if you tap it

Found super fine scratches after two weeks and went with screen protector. First time in the last 4 phones.
Gorilla glass 2 isn't all its cracked up to be.

Nothing here. I cleaned up the screen for the first time after a month and it's just perfect... probably because i usually leave it in hit case while i don't use it.
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I had a iPhone 4s and my screen was scratched and how that happened I had no idea as I am always very careful. I got a galaxy s3 and had no screen scratch however my buddy got his s3 also and has a screen scratch so it depends If it has glass it can get scratched bottom line doesn't matter what phone it is or what type of glass. I would just get a screen protector to be safe like I did.
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fleurdelisxliv said:
none yet but my screen does make a clicking noise at the top if you tap it
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I have a similar issue, from time to time I feel like the top layer of the phone is detached somehow when it doesn't look like it and oddly enough when I randomly touch the top near the call speaker, you feel that little push to the phone, clicking it back into place

HOX is perfect while SG3 has a scratch
I've had my HTC One X longer then I have had my GS3 and for some reason the GS3 has a small scratch in the screen, while my One X screen is perfect. I thought both of these phones had gorilla 2 on them?

Intercrew said:
I have a similar issue, from time to time I feel like the top layer of the phone is detached somehow when it doesn't look like it and oddly enough when I randomly touch the top near the call speaker, you feel that little push to the phone, clicking it back into place
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Yea mine dont do that it just makes a sound! Took my case off and cant find any defects so i guess i can live with it. I did see where alot of ppl had the same issue if its an issue at all
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AllTheWay said:
I've had my HTC One X longer then I have had my GS3 and for some reason the GS3 has a small scratch in the screen, while my One X screen is perfect. I thought both of these phones had gorilla 2 on them?
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Same thing I've noticed comparing Galaxy Nexus to HTC Sensation and now GS3 with OneX. It seems Samsung puts a oleophobic coating on their phones which helps resist smudges, make them easier to clean. I believe this coating is what you see those fine scratches in. The glass itself is not getting scratched just this coating. I've only seen it on Samsung phones. My Nexus has these fine scratches that can only be seen in direct sunlight and can't be felt or affect the display in anyway. Same thing happened with my GS3 until I swapped it out for some other issue - this replacement GS3 I stuck a screen cover on it so I don't have to be bothered with the fine coating scratches.

mgawelek said:
I moved from the iPhone 4 nd had zero screen scratches in the 2years I had it. I already got one on my s3 just wondering if anyone else noticed your screen scratched?
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Yes, got scratch on a screen after less then a month of owning this. Owned original Galaxy S and Galaxy S2 and neither had any scratches in several years I had them.

mgawelek said:
I moved from the iPhone 4 nd had zero screen scratches in the 2years I had it. I already got one on my s3 just wondering if anyone else noticed your screen scratched?
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My iPhone 4 scratched. Both phones have same glass.
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YES mine has scratched easily! And I'm fairly careful with my phones and screens. My S1 and S2 were amazing and practically unscratchable but this phone dud come with a DIFFERENT VARIATION OF NEWER GORILLA GLASS. Can't find the article but it is different. My scratches aren't major but definitely there and came within 3 days...as well this phone is easier to crack the glass so be careful. I know one friend who easily cracked his and Rogers has stated they have had several returns already too. So take 'er easy on this phone. I now have screen protector which I never needed in past
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pchemerys said:
YES mine has scratched easily! And I'm fairly careful with my phones and screens. My S1 and S2 were amazing and practically unscratchable but this phone dud come with a DIFFERENT VARIATION OF NEWER GORILLA GLASS. Can't find the article but it is different. My scratches aren't major but definitely there and came within 3 days...as well this phone is easier to crack the glass so be careful. I know one friend who easily cracked his and Rogers has stated they have had several returns already too. So take 'er easy on this phone. I now have screen protector which I never needed in past
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Yes it's second generation gorilla glass. Maybe not as good as they thought. I bought a screen protector from att the day I bought mine.
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JayRolla said:
Yes it's second generation gorilla glass. Maybe not as good as they thought. I bought a screen protector from att the day I bought mine.
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Good call and I recommend ALL to get a screen protector.
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pchemerys said:
Good call and I recommend ALL to get a screen protector.
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For me personally it's bad call. Why get this top of the line phone with excellent screen and then put something on top of it which would make screen duller? This was never an issue with previous Galaxy S phones and Samsung screwed it up somehow with this iteration.

artisticcheese said:
For me personally it's bad call. Why get this top of the line phone with excellent screen and then put something on top of it which would make screen duller? This was never an issue with previous Galaxy S phones and Samsung screwed it up somehow with this iteration.
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I felt the same way when I had iPhone 4. Too off protection and in a month had very faint scratches. From there on always put on protection. It's like a condom. Yes makes it duller but always worth the protection. Lol
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Mine has 2 micro scratches. Plus a few nicks from dropping it off my shorts since it slides so easy. Case recommended... Waiting over a month for mine...

remove hairline scratches

This may seem like a dumb question and i have seen mixed results and various methods. I just bought a used GNex and didn't look at the screen close enough (deal was at night). The scratches are very thin and can only be seen in direct light, you have to look for the scratch most of the scratches expect one. Not noticeable with the screen on, they are very very thin.
Since its very minor it not to bad, but wondering if there is a way to "fill" it in with something. I have heard of Displex, Brasso, toothpaste, Banana and Banana Skin etc all claim to work on touchscreens. But this is an AMOLED screen and is made of glass as we all know.
I know toothpaste can be used on cars, headlights and CD's and actually have used it in the past. But never on a glass touchscreen.
Do you think any method would work?
I'm inclined to try toothpaste, but i heard the screen has a protective coding that will be removed from the screen if toothpaste is used.
The other idea I had which seems dumb is to use Zagg's solution and see many it will fill it in?
PS Yes I know the screen protect will work, but don't want to hide the scratches but rather fix them.

just live with them, end of story

There is no way to "fix" a scratch. It's an actual piece of glass missing. All that could be done would be to wear the entire screen down to that level, which is what the so called repair kits do. For obvious reasons you don't want to wear down the GNex screen.

Yea,there's nothing to do to fix it.you can hide it,but not fix it. You can on non touch screen gadgets,but not on SAMOLED.toothpaste wouldnt work,banana would just make your screen mute,and you for shure cannot brush it out with sandpaper then polish it. Live with it,believe me,99% of us in the Gnex forum have them,i wanted to cry when i noticed it,but its just not worthy. You will forget about it in a few days.

Mine has a tiny one on the lower left hand side of the screen, and it rarely bugs me anymore. You can only see it from certain angles. And trust me, I'm a freak about this stuff.

I have some of these. Because you actually have to look for them to see them I don't mind at all. If I could see them with the screen on then I'd be *****ing.

I'm just mad i didn't check the phone enough when I bought it, trusted the guy when he said it has no scratches. Well I'm not going to be using it. Its for my momma, paid $200 CAD which was alright.
The scratches are noticeable with the screen off in regular light, but not with the screen on.

If you want to use a screen protector, the wet apply ones fill in the scratch and make it harder to see.
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How did you guys scratch the screen? I don't have scratches at all...well after reading this thread I want to say I probably do and will find a few if I look closely enough...
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msavic6 said:
If you want to use a screen protector, the wet apply ones fill in the scratch and make it harder to see.
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Yeah thinking of getting a Zagg, hate the rubbery feel though. Any recommendations?

jebise101 said:
Yeah thinking of getting a Zagg, hate the rubbery feel though. Any recommendations?
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I've heard that GhostArmour is less rubbery and there's another brand called *exoskin*(not 100% sure of the name) I think which also makes a wet apply screen protector that's better then zagg.
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I recently purchased xoskin and it works quite well. Can't see the scratch on my screen at all. Watch their YouTube video.
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BrianKLV said:
I recently purchased xoskin and it works quite well. Can't see the scratch on my screen at all. Watch their YouTube video.
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Yeah generally the Wet screen protectors will "fill" in micro scratches. If im not mistaken xoskin gives a lifetime warranty as well right?

How hard is it to remove Sony installed screen protector?

I put screen protectors on any phone I own. I ordered the ZL but I am afraid that I will wreck the display taking off Sony's installed screen protector. Has anyone had any problems removing this or damaged their display? Any tips for easy removal?

giper54 said:
I put screen protectors on any phone I own. I ordered the ZL but I am afraid that I will wreck the display taking off Sony's installed screen protector. Has anyone had any problems removing this or damaged their display? Any tips for easy removal?
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If u do a little bit reading around u will see
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I saw a you tube video but it was by a cell phone reviewer who has more experience than the average person. I am looking for feed back from XDA users too

Hi.
I did it with a needle. Peel the first edge of was very hard, but if there is a little bubble, you can grab the plastic and pull. For me there is no damage at all.
Marco

Can i replace my tempered glass ?

Tommorow there coming after my phone for repair ( Upper speaker crackling noise ). Now i have a tempered glass, can i remove it. Place it's somewhere on a mirror and when i get my phone back replaced it ? Or is it better to let it on the screen ?
Please help is welcome, becase this cost 45 dollar.

I took mine off, washed with water and reapplied.
Worked well.

Shebee said:
I took mine off, washed with water and reapplied.
Worked well.
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Also the back where it hit with the display ? Maybe going to try that when my phone is back.

Yeah, I washed both sides with soap.
I got the nillkin one.
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Often wondered how these glass screen protectors get fitted and how they stay on.....only ever used the flexible plastic protectors....and I'm guessing you can't bend these glass ones during fitting like you can the plastic ones lol......
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keithross39 said:
Often wondered how these glass screen protectors get fitted and how they stay on.....only ever used the flexible plastic protectors....and I'm guessing you can't bend these glass ones during fitting like you can the plastic ones lol......
My wife says I'm a phone geek....She's probably right
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You can bend them a bit.
Basically you clean the screen, then just put it on, press once somewhere and it starts gluing itself on the screen, looks kinda cool.
You can take it off and apply again.
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Shebee said:
You can bend them a bit.
Basically you clean the screen, then just put it on, press once somewhere and it starts gluing itself on the screen, looks kinda cool.
You can take it off and apply again.
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Is there an issue with trapped air? I can't see how it'd be avoided.......
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keithross39 said:
Is there an issue with trapped air? I can't see how it'd be avoided.......
My wife says I'm a phone geek....She's probably right
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No issues at all, it is flexible, more like a hard thick plastic but still glass.
If you have something in between the glass and screen you will notice it though. So make sure there is no dust there.
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Is gorilla glass 5 a faulty product? Scratched phones!

I pretty much already started talking about it in a different thread but I figured I should start a new thread. The issue is a lot of the phones that I've seen are already scratched up in the back and some even on the front. Frankly I'm quite surprised that after one to two weeks these phones are not holding up. I suppose I can always get tempered glass on the front, it's some kind of clear shield on the back but wouldn't you expect with the way Gorilla Glass performed in the past that gorilla glass 5 would have been better? Scratching my head on this one, but thought maybe if we get enough complaints or pictures of it, maybe Samsung or Cornering will address it?
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I pretty much already started talking about it in a different thread but I figured I should start a new thread. The issue is a lot of the phones that I've seen are already scratched up in the back and some even on the front. Frankly I'm quite surprised that after one to two weeks these phones are not holding up. I suppose I can always get tempered glass on the front, it's some kind of clear shield on the back but wouldn't you expect with the way Gorilla Glass performed in the past that gorilla glass 5 would have been better? Scratching my head on this one, but thought maybe if we get enough complaints or pictures of it, maybe Samsung or Cornering will address it?
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All I've seen are the full-size pics of that particular phone in the crop you made. It literally looks like someone stepped on its face and dragged it along its back on a concrete or tile floor. One scratched phone does not a crisis or epidemic make. Unless Corning wants to go out of business the scratches in that pic couldn't have been from casual use.

Someone in another thread said they placed their phone in their pocket and got a scratch on the front after one day. I just didn't want to hijack someone else's thread so I started this one. Many people have seen the same thing at various locations
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And here is a different phone. I know same color but it's a different one which isn't that great of a pic but you can see it on the bottom too

Ugh, with this thread. The phone isn't even fully out yet. You have begun a conspiracy based on two pics of early releases that you didn't scratch yourself. Who are you, the DNC?
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jackdforme said:
Ugh, with this thread. The phone isn't even fully out yet. You have begun a conspiracy based on two pics of early releases that you didn't scratch yourself. Who are you, the DNC?
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Lol
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I have drove by three different stores with display units and I can confirm that all three units had more scratches already than the other prior gorilla glass phones. I really hope it's not an issue, but they looked bad enough for me to hold off on the preorder till I see some real life accounts.
Two of the phones had similar scratches as the op picture, the last had deep gashes on the screen. I snuck a pic of the last one.
Yup, those are scuffs on the middle of the screen, not smudges. Is it a coincidence all three are banged up? I sure hope so.

Until they decide to make screens out of sapphire or diamond then it'll always get scratched regardless, gorilla glass scratches just as easily as any tempered glass and things like dust or sand particles will always be able to scratch glass.
Don't expect the glass to be better just because the number went up by 1, what's actually made better is shatter resistance.

You all need to understand that Gorilla glass 4 & 5 are same "scratch" resistant. The difference between the two is the Gorilla 5 is less "breakable". Don't get scratch and breakable mixed-up.

I've been a long time samsung smart phone user and I have noticed one thing in common with the 'scratch resistance' on my phones, It seems that the oleophobic coating on the samsung devices gets scratched easily while the only 2 Huawei devices ive owned ( Nexus 6P and P9 Plus ) never had a hairline scratch until this day.

Good Lord - the phone's not even out yet. This is like the RAM thread, one YouTube video showing multitasking being funky has everyone's underwear in a bunch. If GG5 scratches easily we'll know about 30 days after the phone's in people's hands. Same thing for multitasking performance. If the potential for those being problems freaks you out wait a month before buying the phone. All this self-created hysteria and conclusion drawing based on such limited evidence isn't going to alter reality.

I don't get why they haven't included self healing properties to glass screens yet.

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I don't get why they haven't included self healing properties to glass screens yet.
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It's typically because the self healing nature of the material is plastic not glass and the substrate winds up skewing the optical clarity of the lens.
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Isnt the thing thats scratched in that photo the plastic cover over the screen and not the screen itself ?

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Isnt the thing thats scratched in that photo the plastic cover over the screen and not the screen itself ?
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Lol sure does look like it. There is varying blue colors on the first pic around the edge before the gold rim. Looks ro be the case...nice eye. Didnt notice it until just now.

Wondering if people are "testing" it intentionally on the demo models?
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Isnt the thing thats scratched in that photo the plastic cover over the screen and not the screen itself ?
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FYI the first image is my pic and not the OP. It's from a tmobile store by my work. I handled it myself and it did not have any protector on it. Here are the originals.
I pointed it out to the rep and he even tried scratching it off lol. Of course it didn't come off. He said they haven't been handing the demo well and has been tossed on the table etc.

Is it possible that Samsung sent these out with substandard glass cause they sent then as display models? Or do they not bother doing something like that? Maybe that's why they scratch easy?
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MACHEK said:
Is it possible that Samsung sent these out with substandard glass cause they sent then as display models? Or do they not bother doing something like that? Maybe that's why they scratch easy?
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I highly doubt that.
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MACHEK said:
Is it possible that Samsung sent these out with substandard glass cause they sent then as display models? Or do they not bother doing something like that? Maybe that's why they scratch easy?
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No. I think it's more that folks expect miracles. It's glass after all (and it's only a phone, not a military application)