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Yes I have, it was the first thing I did. Helped a little but not significantly and the lag worsens after 2 or 3 days but reduces if I take the battery out. Merely switching off/on never worked.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
Considered installing a cyanogenmod OS but my model of sensation isn't unlocked so couldn't. Grrr
EU laws say handsets shall be unlocked after as little as 6 months into your contract.
Not sure EU laws apply in the UK though! :p
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Originally Posted by ioan
Sorry I didn't mean network unlock, I meant a bootloader unlock.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
Well, wife's colleague's son dropped my S3 from shoulder height, like a toy, onto hard concrete (why that wretched little %@#&! :mad: ). Anywhoo, it landed face first, and since I am such a daredevil, I didn't have a protective cover on it. :)
Now I have a cracked screen at the top left side, and two hairline cracks across the screen from top to bottom. The below pic is not of my phone, but it gives an idea of the crack on my screen:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TVrJs30PHc...ken+galaxy.JPG
The phone still works fine, and so I asked the Samsung guys if I could only get the front glass screen changed. They said no. Cost estimate for changing the screen + digitizer is around $210.
Since the phone was bought in Romania, and I have to live here for the time being, I wrote to their Samsung rep about warranty. They said because of physical damage, the warranty is now void, even if I pay for it and get it repaired at the authorized repair center. :confused:
I also wrote to the UK rep, who said that the physical damage won't void warranty as long as I get it repaired by them. I am inclined to believe this second guy as this is how things work in India as well. If you have physical damage and you get the gadget repaired at the authorized repair center, the warranty still remains.
Well, moral of the story. No matter how much they beg, don't give your smartphones to those little......precious bundles of joy.
Henners , I'm a little late expressing my condolences , but I thought I'd do so anyway .
My wife and I went through three miscarriages , and they suck .
The good news is , though , that my son has just come home from college for thanksgiving .
He's a gift , and worth what we went through .
On the phone front , to keep this on topic , I have a short story .
Being a firmly entrenched Luddite , up until just a short time ago , I had an old Samsung flip phone , worthy of Captain Kirk .
When my lad went off to school , it came time to be connected to him , electronically .
It was a huge hassle , which I won't bother going into , but we got two Blackberry Curves for nothing on a two-year plan .
Apart from playing Tetris a few times , and Wordmole very occasionally , I use it as a phone , to call him , or the wife .
Two or three weeks ago , it went missing .
We looked everywhere , about six times , as the replacement was set to cost us $350.00 .
I figured it had slipped out of the pocket , as it's slim and slippery , and since Bell told me it hadn't been used , I figured It was in some ditch somewhere .
Within the time period , it rained , and hard , several times . It even hailed heavily during one downpour .
It was over , I thought . Time to go back to the Samsung , as a new Berry was not in the budget .
It was as I was about to type in "Bell telephone" into Google , when the land line beside me rang .
It was my wife , asking me if I could guess what had just walked into my coffee house .
It was my Blackberry . A neighbour had found it in the grass whilst dog-walking .
Two or three weeks of sitting in the tall grass , getting rained on , and it fired right up . It had a whisp of a little moisture inside the screen for a few hours , until it was fully charged , and is now working like a trooper .
Tough might not have been how I would have described my Berry before , but it is now .
Bad luck CR...Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden
Moral of the story though is to have a proper cover for your phone. Mine has an imitation leather cover front and back and is tough enough to double up as a teething toy for my son (actually its a lot better at that job than it is being a phone) bought for a princely £3-50 on ebay. Explains why you don't have a problem with the size of modern phones though, a similar cover attached to an S3 would make it pretty unusable IMO.
Hope it all gets sorted.
Thanks Malbec. I was looking into buying a cover, even tried some of them, but I guess I bought into Samsung's gorilla glass crap. I dropped my S2 many times and it never cracked, maybe that's why. I even dropped the S3 a couple of times, but mostly in the house on the wooden floor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Malbec
As for the phone being too big with the covers on, after trying both flip covers and silicone protective ones, the phone still didn't seem too big and fit fine in the front right pocket of my jeans.
I felt exactly like that, especially after hearing the cost of repairing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
Well, I'll be buying a cover now FOR SURE. I'm looking at either one of these:
http://static.pcgarage.ro/products/1...b11e2bcaab.jpg
http://static.pcgarage.ro/products/1...fbaaf4adca.jpg
I don't like the look of either one of those. I'm guessing the second one is better for the screen, but it won't protect the sides that well.
The phone is still working fine with two gigantic cracks across the screen, and the spiderweb crack on the top left corner, held together for now with a piece of sellotape.
Am I risking damaging anything inside the phone further, does anybody know? Or is it fine working this way for a while? The screen and digitizer are gonna be changed anyway. I've got to wait until I sort the warranty fiasco out.
As long as you keep it dry it should be ok to use.