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I'm sure everyone here has experienced their phone breaking in some way before being it just dropping out of your hand/pocket, wherever you carry it, or other small cosmetic damage like scratches to the phone screen.
Anyway, if anyone has any interesting phone breaking stories, go ahead.
But if not:
how many phones have you broken?
How do you try to protect your phone so you don't crack the screen?
You can talk about handheld game systems, or broken televisions in your lifetime too, if you'd like, if you have no phone stories to tell, go wild. Doesn't have to be about just screen cracks either, water damage, whatever, really.
I've managed to only break one phone, to be honest. But it wasn't a smart phone, it was one of those older track phones that can't connect to the internet, but had a few features here and there. It fell out of my coat pocket and landed in the busy street near the library. I was stupid to go run back and get it, and the screen was obviously damaged since a car kinda I guess ran over it, so the screen wasn't even visible at that point anymore. Tracfone sent a replacement, though.
Other than that, for the most part, I'm very careful with my phones. Most of my other phones are that feature one were smartphones with I guess sturdy screens, so I haven't cracked a phone screen since. Did get a lot of scratches on it though, since my house keys sit in my bag where my phone usually is.
Although, my first smart phone's touch screen degraded to a point where it would ghost constantly and would I guess overtouch when I tapped things, so using it became nearly impossible over time. But, my next phone after that was worse and had a less responsive touch screen, lmfao. Only dropped that phone a few times. While the screen never got scratched, or anything, it degraded I guess? Over time because there's this rainbow spot on it that's not a scratch that expands when you touch it or touch the touch screen, I have since replaced that phone with a Motorola G7 play that has no problems with anything apart from occasional out of nowhere draining while the screen if off.
Non phone damage stories... when I was a kid, I accidentally put a cup of chocolate milk on top of the box tv while doing something else. The cup spilled onto the tv, damaging the picture forever. Over the years, that tv starting losing more and more of the screen with deeper black bars. No it wasn't because the resolution of tv shows changed by the way the screen literally had increasingly been getting blacker because of the chocolate milk that got inside the tv. I remember I was watching Lazytown or something when this happened, and the tv turned itself off when the chocolate milk spilled inside the tv. Surprised the tv even still worked after that, even if the picture of it was lost on the top of the screen and worsening as time went on.
I have no other big damage stories, apart from my nintendo ds eventually breaking to the point the entire top screen was rainbowed away making it impossible to play mainline Pokemon games on it, and my second ds having a big black line on the screen that pretty much extends to most of the bottom now. Probably dead pixels, or something, I wouldn't know. I believe my first ds got that way because a few droplets of grape juice was spilled on it, but it could have been any reason, really, Nintendo Dses (lites) aren't very sturdy.
That's it, though, from me anyway.
Anyway, if anyone has any interesting phone breaking stories, go ahead.
But if not:
how many phones have you broken?
How do you try to protect your phone so you don't crack the screen?
You can talk about handheld game systems, or broken televisions in your lifetime too, if you'd like, if you have no phone stories to tell, go wild. Doesn't have to be about just screen cracks either, water damage, whatever, really.
I've managed to only break one phone, to be honest. But it wasn't a smart phone, it was one of those older track phones that can't connect to the internet, but had a few features here and there. It fell out of my coat pocket and landed in the busy street near the library. I was stupid to go run back and get it, and the screen was obviously damaged since a car kinda I guess ran over it, so the screen wasn't even visible at that point anymore. Tracfone sent a replacement, though.
Other than that, for the most part, I'm very careful with my phones. Most of my other phones are that feature one were smartphones with I guess sturdy screens, so I haven't cracked a phone screen since. Did get a lot of scratches on it though, since my house keys sit in my bag where my phone usually is.
Although, my first smart phone's touch screen degraded to a point where it would ghost constantly and would I guess overtouch when I tapped things, so using it became nearly impossible over time. But, my next phone after that was worse and had a less responsive touch screen, lmfao. Only dropped that phone a few times. While the screen never got scratched, or anything, it degraded I guess? Over time because there's this rainbow spot on it that's not a scratch that expands when you touch it or touch the touch screen, I have since replaced that phone with a Motorola G7 play that has no problems with anything apart from occasional out of nowhere draining while the screen if off.
Non phone damage stories... when I was a kid, I accidentally put a cup of chocolate milk on top of the box tv while doing something else. The cup spilled onto the tv, damaging the picture forever. Over the years, that tv starting losing more and more of the screen with deeper black bars. No it wasn't because the resolution of tv shows changed by the way the screen literally had increasingly been getting blacker because of the chocolate milk that got inside the tv. I remember I was watching Lazytown or something when this happened, and the tv turned itself off when the chocolate milk spilled inside the tv. Surprised the tv even still worked after that, even if the picture of it was lost on the top of the screen and worsening as time went on.
I have no other big damage stories, apart from my nintendo ds eventually breaking to the point the entire top screen was rainbowed away making it impossible to play mainline Pokemon games on it, and my second ds having a big black line on the screen that pretty much extends to most of the bottom now. Probably dead pixels, or something, I wouldn't know. I believe my first ds got that way because a few droplets of grape juice was spilled on it, but it could have been any reason, really, Nintendo Dses (lites) aren't very sturdy.
That's it, though, from me anyway.
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