TSXy Luster

You should probably put at least some effort into it lol.
Damn that sucks dude. No protection?
On the bright side, now you can patiently wait for the S4 or whatever new phones that come out this year :/

...or order replacement parts and fix it DIY style.

speedemon90

i never liked cases, i thought i was always careful enough

but now i'm getting cases from now on

fml

yea i'm gonna see how much it costs to fix DIY style and possibly just do that

TSXy Luster

LOL sounds exactly like my friend who shattered his DNA last month. Always made fun of me for cases and screen protectors.... until he had to humbly ask me what case to get for his replacement phone

Here's a good vid about replacing the screen:

swoosh

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300 bucks for a screen? might as well get the Nexus 4

TSXy Luster

So...... The Xperia Z takes just 68 seconds to take 999 pictures with Burst Mode...

Even more reason that it sucks USA won't be getting it.


Also, Taiwanese are crazy:

speedemon90

if its $300 i'm not gonna even bother changing it. I was thinking more along the line of like $50 haha

I may just let it be and use it till summer where hopefully i land an internship and just use that money to buy a new phone.

civicdrivr

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2700? Do you mean 3700? A 2700mah isnt a big jump at all.

If the touch screen still works, thats great news. The digitizer and screen itself are expensive as fuck. But you can get replacement glass on ebay for less than $30.

swoosh

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didnt see any 3700mah....i know the note 2 and sg3 have a 3100mah (stock)...lemme look again....

but yes I meant 2700mah....10% more seems ok to me for now...

civicdrivr

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Going from 2500mah to 2700mah isnt going to make much of a difference. Maybe an extra hour. Is that worth the expense?

swoosh

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5.99 amazon prime....

decent enough reviews....atleast i will be home by then LOL

speedemon90

civic the touch response works perfectly. Even over the heavily cracked areas.
In that case if its that cheap i can just replace it myself... i think. I'll look into it a ltl later after some studying


swoosh, sg3 comes with 1800mah stock i believe.

speedemon90

ok so i didnt study and did a quick research. It seems that Samsung GS3 has the screen glued to the LCD or digitizer or whatever and most people say unless you are very very good, getting it to work properly by just replacing the screen is really hard. The touch responses may be a ltl off. And i think its a hard DIY as it requires heat gun to pull it apart and i'm guessing gluing it back together. Looking on ebay I should be able to get at least $150 on this phone...

So I think I'm just keeping it till i get some job at some point in my life. Buy the next nexus phone thats out and just use that.

TSXy Luster

Check out the vid I posted, there is sort of an "easier" way to get the screen off... which I think you can modify that method to use since your digitizer is still working. But if you can live with the cracks, then might as well save money for the future. Any pics of the damage?

speedemon90

yea in the video she says you can buy it with the digitizer and all or just the glass. But she says for her its not worth it just replacing the glass because its hard to do, and she'd rather fork up the money.

TSXy Luster

True, but it was probably easier for her to say that since she broke her digitizer too.


Ya know... that damage you posted isn't that bad. Sure, the cracks are far reaching, but the concentrated area is so small that you could just slap on a super cheap screen protector to stop the glass from shattering more and unto your hand, and still be able to use it decently until you have saved up money for a new one/upgrade.

Does suck that it looks like your phone just hit one small point on your leg frame thing and rippled across.

speedemon90

hey you know you make a good point about putting a screen protector on so i dont feel it.
Yea I mean i can live with this for some time, but no way am i living with this for 2 years... its more annoying than anything. So which company has the best screen protector haha. I never know since i've never bought one.


heres a better pic

civicdrivr

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OR.....sell it now and pick up the N4 on Tmo for $50....

speedemon90

thats on new contract though... and apparently our family plan doesnt allow us to get subsidized phones....

when i went to tmobile back before i had this phone they were telling me cause we're in a plan thats cheaper and we cant get subsidized phones.... So i can get it for $200 and pay monthly installments to cover the next 2 or 300 dollars.

soo yea.... I'm waiting till i hopefully land an internship in the summer.

civicdrivr

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This is what I was told:

Tmobile is no longer "subsidizing" the phone. You pay a down payment, then pay it off at $20 for the next 20 months. Basically, they're not hiding the cost of the phone in the service contract.

The GS3 was $150 down, $20 for the next 20 months. The Nexus is cheaper. Once the 20 months pass, your bill basically drops $20. Im paying $67 a month until November of next year, then it drops to $47 a month.

CGFebTSX04

That doesn't look too bad. If the touch input still works fine in all of the areas I think you'll be safe to replace just the glass. The reason most people recommend replacing both the glass and digitizer these days is because a lot of manufacturers glue them together into one piece so its a lot more difficult to separate them than the two separate pieces of the past without taking some time. Check out this thread on how to replace just the glass for around $30:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1945494

Try to get a hold of a heat gun to make it easier. If not, a hairdryer can work. It'll just take some patience to evenly heat the adhesive off. As for screen protector, SGP is what I used to use but they're pretty expensive. I currently don't use one now but I did for my Galaxy S. Martin Fields I hear is another good one and they even have tempered glass protectors nowadays but that wouldn't do you any good until you replaced the screen.

TSXy Luster

You should do something like this with your phone and make it all fancy and claim hipster-hood



As for screen protectors, I love ZAGG myself. The HD variant would be great for you.....but I don't know how much you want to spend on a screen protector. You could always get super cheap ones for under $5 if you are not keeping the phone for long.
I also love Martin Fields like CGFeb mentioned, but they are expensive and ships for Japan (crazy good quality). Plus, I don't think you would want to spend that much money to protect a broken screen. IF you go the expensive screen protector route, you might as well spend money and time to replace the broken glass.

edit: wow I just checked and it looks like Martin Fields is now cheaper because they ship from Amazon within the US. No more paying and waiting for US Customs.

TSXy Luster

Does anyone know whether the "block caller" option under Google Voice works only when the person calls your Google Voice number, or does it work when the person calls your forwarded number(s) directly too?

CGFebTSX04

Only if they call your Google Voice number. You can create a contact and add numbers to it and check "Send to Voicemail" on your phone though.

TSXy Luster

Yeah, I did that, but still would be better if it got the "number don't work tone" instead. Oh well.

speedemon90

lol i'm too afraid to do it...

mainly because if i DO mess up, i ruin the phone. While right now its perfectly fine other than looking bad i can ruin it that it wont work as good and to me thats a lot worse.

speedemon90

heres a plan

come summer if i have money. Buy a N4 or if the Google X is coming out then that. Then buy glass and attempt to fix GS3. Sell for $300 or a ltl less since the S4 will be released and it will depreciate more.

F-C

Speed, same thing happened to my phone exactly a year ago. I bought a replacement screen and did some DIY. Followed the instructions every step of the way, but it didn't work. Eventually I gave up and got the GN with an Otterbox. Haven't dropped it once yet.

speedemon90

shorter version aired during the grammy's

I didnt know about the translate card, well i guess that only pops up if i go out of the country but thats probably not happening soon.

TSXy Luster

Yeah the translate card thing isn't super helpful in popping up. Even worse when you switch to the local country's sim card and your phone thinks that you are actually at home and not roaming/travelling so it doesn't pop up. There are ways around this, but to be honest, just yell into your phone what you want to translate, or just launch the translate app. The conversation mode in Google Translate is a god sent...........for the languages available.

TSXy Luster

Looks like future Samsung mobile devices will have Qi wireless charging too...

http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/11/s...i-charger-fcc/

TSXy Luster

WHAT THE POPE RESIGNING?!!! I just accidentally dropped my Nexus 4 from about 4 feet high.... stupid headphones pulling it off the counter!

Good thing nothing seems to have broken. Everything is fine, no scratches, no nicks. PHEW!!!

Somehow by some miracle, neither glass panels got hurt. Thank you LG production line.

civicdrivr

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^ Within 24hrs of owning my N4, I dropped it. In my garage. On the concrete floor.

No damage, and I bought the bumper for it

swoosh

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I guess am going bumper shopping LOL

TSXy Luster

If you don't want to spend the full price for the temporarily out of stock OEM bumper, you can get the "Shen-it" replica one. Reports say it is just about the same thing but for half the price.

swoosh

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I have the galaxy note and I drop it a lot....lucky enough havent dropped it at "that" angle that cracks the screen....but better safe than sorry

any suggestions for the galaxy note?

civicdrivr

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Messenger bag

TSXy Luster

Murse.

swoosh

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but -ed

speedemon90

bitches and your surviving phones

swoosh

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