June 29, 2018 at 7:22 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Friday, June 29, 2018 7:10 AMjasona.work - Friday, June 29, 2018 6:50 AMWhat is it with me and my recent phones? So maybe a year ago, I dropped my phone on the floor at home (tile) and the screen cracked and failed. I got it replaced and all was good. Then yesterday I plug the phone in to charge, unplug it to go run some errands, the phone felt almost hot. So, I powered it off, planning to power it on again when I got to the store.Except, it wouldn't power on. Got it home, tried a few steps from the manufacturers troubleshooting, with no joy. Now, the phone, like so many now, doesn't have a user-replaceable battery (at least not without potentially trashing the phone,) so that's not an option to try. Contacted the manufacturer (again,) they're looking into what warranty options (if any) I may have.
And I go on a one-week mandatory work "training" course in two weeks...
Which means I may have to pick up a pay-as-you-go phone so I can stay in touch with the wife while I'm gone...
I've never had a need for the "phone protection plans" that get pushed...
Until now...Watch out, might be coming in 3s. I think I broke 3 phones in a year one time, 2 in a few weeks. Knock on wood, I've had pretty good luck for the last decade, though I did drop a phone last year and crack the screen.
Great, now you've jinxed me...
😉
June 29, 2018 at 8:17 am
jasona.work - Friday, June 29, 2018 6:50 AMWhat is it with me and my recent phones? So maybe a year ago, I dropped my phone on the floor at home (tile) and the screen cracked and failed. I got it replaced and all was good. Then yesterday I plug the phone in to charge, unplug it to go run some errands, the phone felt almost hot. So, I powered it off, planning to power it on again when I got to the store.Except, it wouldn't power on. Got it home, tried a few steps from the manufacturers troubleshooting, with no joy. Now, the phone, like so many now, doesn't have a user-replaceable battery (at least not without potentially trashing the phone,) so that's not an option to try. Contacted the manufacturer (again,) they're looking into what warranty options (if any) I may have.
And I go on a one-week mandatory work "training" course in two weeks...
Which means I may have to pick up a pay-as-you-go phone so I can stay in touch with the wife while I'm gone...
I've never had a need for the "phone protection plans" that get pushed...
Until now...
I have found the warranty worth the money.
June 29, 2018 at 8:29 am
jasona.work - Friday, June 29, 2018 6:50 AMWhat is it with me and my recent phones? So maybe a year ago, I dropped my phone on the floor at home (tile) and the screen cracked and failed. I got it replaced and all was good. Then yesterday I plug the phone in to charge, unplug it to go run some errands, the phone felt almost hot. So, I powered it off, planning to power it on again when I got to the store.Except, it wouldn't power on. Got it home, tried a few steps from the manufacturers troubleshooting, with no joy. Now, the phone, like so many now, doesn't have a user-replaceable battery (at least not without potentially trashing the phone,) so that's not an option to try. Contacted the manufacturer (again,) they're looking into what warranty options (if any) I may have.
And I go on a one-week mandatory work "training" course in two weeks...
Which means I may have to pick up a pay-as-you-go phone so I can stay in touch with the wife while I'm gone...
I've never had a need for the "phone protection plans" that get pushed...
Until now...
What is the make and model of the phone?
😎
June 29, 2018 at 8:48 am
Eirikur Eiriksson - Friday, June 29, 2018 8:29 AMjasona.work - Friday, June 29, 2018 6:50 AMWhat is it with me and my recent phones? So maybe a year ago, I dropped my phone on the floor at home (tile) and the screen cracked and failed. I got it replaced and all was good. Then yesterday I plug the phone in to charge, unplug it to go run some errands, the phone felt almost hot. So, I powered it off, planning to power it on again when I got to the store.Except, it wouldn't power on. Got it home, tried a few steps from the manufacturers troubleshooting, with no joy. Now, the phone, like so many now, doesn't have a user-replaceable battery (at least not without potentially trashing the phone,) so that's not an option to try. Contacted the manufacturer (again,) they're looking into what warranty options (if any) I may have.
And I go on a one-week mandatory work "training" course in two weeks...
Which means I may have to pick up a pay-as-you-go phone so I can stay in touch with the wife while I'm gone...
I've never had a need for the "phone protection plans" that get pushed...
Until now...What is the make and model of the phone?
😎
I suspect an iPhone or Samsung. I don't think I know anyone who has either of those phones and it doesn't have a crack or smash glass screen or back. Pretty sure they are intentionally made from brittle glass.
Thom~
Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
Larnu.uk
June 29, 2018 at 8:50 am
Lynn Pettis - Friday, June 29, 2018 8:17 AMjasona.work - Friday, June 29, 2018 6:50 AMWhat is it with me and my recent phones? So maybe a year ago, I dropped my phone on the floor at home (tile) and the screen cracked and failed. I got it replaced and all was good. Then yesterday I plug the phone in to charge, unplug it to go run some errands, the phone felt almost hot. So, I powered it off, planning to power it on again when I got to the store.Except, it wouldn't power on. Got it home, tried a few steps from the manufacturers troubleshooting, with no joy. Now, the phone, like so many now, doesn't have a user-replaceable battery (at least not without potentially trashing the phone,) so that's not an option to try. Contacted the manufacturer (again,) they're looking into what warranty options (if any) I may have.
And I go on a one-week mandatory work "training" course in two weeks...
Which means I may have to pick up a pay-as-you-go phone so I can stay in touch with the wife while I'm gone...
I've never had a need for the "phone protection plans" that get pushed...
Until now...I have found the warranty worth the money.
I tend to go for phablets so a few dollars extra per month is easily worth it in the odd event it breaks.
June 29, 2018 at 8:57 am
Thom A - Friday, June 29, 2018 8:48 AMEirikur Eiriksson - Friday, June 29, 2018 8:29 AMjasona.work - Friday, June 29, 2018 6:50 AMWhat is it with me and my recent phones? So maybe a year ago, I dropped my phone on the floor at home (tile) and the screen cracked and failed. I got it replaced and all was good. Then yesterday I plug the phone in to charge, unplug it to go run some errands, the phone felt almost hot. So, I powered it off, planning to power it on again when I got to the store.Except, it wouldn't power on. Got it home, tried a few steps from the manufacturers troubleshooting, with no joy. Now, the phone, like so many now, doesn't have a user-replaceable battery (at least not without potentially trashing the phone,) so that's not an option to try. Contacted the manufacturer (again,) they're looking into what warranty options (if any) I may have.
And I go on a one-week mandatory work "training" course in two weeks...
Which means I may have to pick up a pay-as-you-go phone so I can stay in touch with the wife while I'm gone...
I've never had a need for the "phone protection plans" that get pushed...
Until now...What is the make and model of the phone?
😎I suspect an iPhone or Samsung. I don't think I know anyone who has either of those phones and it doesn't have a crack or smash glass screen or back. Pretty sure they are intentionally made from brittle glass.
Well, your acquaintances must mistreat them, because I've had a Samsung for years and never had a crack or smash.
Drew
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June 29, 2018 at 9:20 am
Thom A - Friday, June 29, 2018 8:48 AMEirikur Eiriksson - Friday, June 29, 2018 8:29 AMjasona.work - Friday, June 29, 2018 6:50 AMWhat is it with me and my recent phones? So maybe a year ago, I dropped my phone on the floor at home (tile) and the screen cracked and failed. I got it replaced and all was good. Then yesterday I plug the phone in to charge, unplug it to go run some errands, the phone felt almost hot. So, I powered it off, planning to power it on again when I got to the store.Except, it wouldn't power on. Got it home, tried a few steps from the manufacturers troubleshooting, with no joy. Now, the phone, like so many now, doesn't have a user-replaceable battery (at least not without potentially trashing the phone,) so that's not an option to try. Contacted the manufacturer (again,) they're looking into what warranty options (if any) I may have.
And I go on a one-week mandatory work "training" course in two weeks...
Which means I may have to pick up a pay-as-you-go phone so I can stay in touch with the wife while I'm gone...
I've never had a need for the "phone protection plans" that get pushed...
Until now...What is the make and model of the phone?
😎I suspect an iPhone or Samsung. I don't think I know anyone who has either of those phones and it doesn't have a crack or smash glass screen or back. Pretty sure they are intentionally made from brittle glass.
You mean the Gorilla glass that does not scratch but cracks like a suspect in a police interrogation if you look at it too hard 😀
😎
Think they should call it Godzilla glass
June 29, 2018 at 10:09 am
Eirikur Eiriksson - Friday, June 29, 2018 9:20 AMYou mean the Gorilla glass that does not scratch but cracks like a suspect in a police interrogation if you look at it too hard 😀
😎Think they should call it Godzilla glass
The Gorilla glass on my Pixel has been fine. I've dropped it a few times and not a scratch or crack. It does make me want to get a pixel 2/3 when my contract is up near the end of the year, however, I absolutely hate the idea of having to use USB-C for my headphones. I should not have to carry an adapter around with me to be able to listen to my music...Who's stupid idea was it to try and make the headphone jack obsolete...?
Thom~
Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
Larnu.uk
June 29, 2018 at 10:36 am
Thom A - Friday, June 29, 2018 10:09 AMEirikur Eiriksson - Friday, June 29, 2018 9:20 AMYou mean the Gorilla glass that does not scratch but cracks like a suspect in a police interrogation if you look at it too hard 😀
😎Think they should call it Godzilla glass
The Gorilla glass on my Pixel has been fine. I've dropped it a few times and not a scratch or crack. It does make me want to get a pixel 2/3 when my contract is up near the end of the year, however, I absolutely hate the idea of having to use USB-C for my headphones. I should not have to carry an adapter around with me to be able to listen to my music...Who's stupid idea was it to try and make the headphone jack obsolete...?
The same idiot who thought that using the lightning port for headphones would be a good idea on the iphone 8? I still like my phone but that is the more irritating thing.
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June 29, 2018 at 12:47 pm
drew.allen - Friday, June 29, 2018 8:57 AMThom A - Friday, June 29, 2018 8:48 AMEirikur Eiriksson - Friday, June 29, 2018 8:29 AMjasona.work - Friday, June 29, 2018 6:50 AMWhat is it with me and my recent phones? So maybe a year ago, I dropped my phone on the floor at home (tile) and the screen cracked and failed. I got it replaced and all was good. Then yesterday I plug the phone in to charge, unplug it to go run some errands, the phone felt almost hot. So, I powered it off, planning to power it on again when I got to the store.Except, it wouldn't power on. Got it home, tried a few steps from the manufacturers troubleshooting, with no joy. Now, the phone, like so many now, doesn't have a user-replaceable battery (at least not without potentially trashing the phone,) so that's not an option to try. Contacted the manufacturer (again,) they're looking into what warranty options (if any) I may have.
And I go on a one-week mandatory work "training" course in two weeks...
Which means I may have to pick up a pay-as-you-go phone so I can stay in touch with the wife while I'm gone...
I've never had a need for the "phone protection plans" that get pushed...
Until now...What is the make and model of the phone?
😎I suspect an iPhone or Samsung. I don't think I know anyone who has either of those phones and it doesn't have a crack or smash glass screen or back. Pretty sure they are intentionally made from brittle glass.
Well, your acquaintances must mistreat them, because I've had a Samsung for years and never had a crack or smash.
Drew
Same here. My Samsung has lasted for years and still performs pretty well. Granted, I don't store 25K texts on my phone, but I do have a lots of pictures.
On buying a phone, I'd never want to buy a phone that didn't have a removable (replaceable) battery and a Micro SD slot. From there, we can look the other hardware features.
They can say that batteries will last forever, but that doesn't mean they will. And I don't care how much space they put on phones...we'll find a way to use it.
June 29, 2018 at 1:11 pm
Sometimes it really feels good to know when you're right even without seeing for yourself.
June 29, 2018 at 1:29 pm
Thom A - Friday, June 29, 2018 8:48 AMEirikur Eiriksson - Friday, June 29, 2018 8:29 AMjasona.work - Friday, June 29, 2018 6:50 AMWhat is it with me and my recent phones? So maybe a year ago, I dropped my phone on the floor at home (tile) and the screen cracked and failed. I got it replaced and all was good. Then yesterday I plug the phone in to charge, unplug it to go run some errands, the phone felt almost hot. So, I powered it off, planning to power it on again when I got to the store.Except, it wouldn't power on. Got it home, tried a few steps from the manufacturers troubleshooting, with no joy. Now, the phone, like so many now, doesn't have a user-replaceable battery (at least not without potentially trashing the phone,) so that's not an option to try. Contacted the manufacturer (again,) they're looking into what warranty options (if any) I may have.
And I go on a one-week mandatory work "training" course in two weeks...
Which means I may have to pick up a pay-as-you-go phone so I can stay in touch with the wife while I'm gone...
I've never had a need for the "phone protection plans" that get pushed...
Until now...What is the make and model of the phone?
😎I suspect an iPhone or Samsung. I don't think I know anyone who has either of those phones and it doesn't have a crack or smash glass screen or back. Pretty sure they are intentionally made from brittle glass.
No, it's a Pixel XL. The broken screen happened when I dropped it on a tile floor, and didn't have any sort of case on the phone. I think it even dropped flat on the face...
I've got an iPhone through work, and I'm not a fan of some of the design decisions and the way iOS handles things, but TBH that's more likely because I've never had an iPhone before (heh, I actually kind of preferred the BlackBerry phone I had through work before.)
June 29, 2018 at 2:21 pm
Sean Lange - Friday, June 29, 2018 10:36 AMThe same idiot who thought that using the lightning port for headphones would be a good idea on the iphone 8? I still like my phone but that is the more irritating thing.
Why I moved to a Pixel. Wanted a headphone jack and no dongle.
June 29, 2018 at 2:24 pm
jonathan.crawford - Friday, June 29, 2018 6:32 AMTomThomson - Thursday, June 28, 2018 5:19 PMActually politics was irrelevant to the deterioration in the imigration system I was referring to., It was a decision by bureaucrats to "simplify" the checks at the borders (actually mostly at airports) so as to reduce costs (sold to the politicians by bureaucrats as money-saving and reducing queues at borders. As usual (in every country I'm aware of) "simplify" used by bureaucrats meant "make all checks as difficult and tedious as the worst current cases are, and make everyone go though them frequently instead of rarely", abolishing the numerous types of visas (like my "in perpetuity" buisness visa as well as other much less long-lasting visas) in the so-called "visa-waiver" program and requiring everyone to go through what as effectively an on-the-spot visa application on arrival at the border. At first that didn't do a lot of harm, as existing visas continued to be recognised and accepted, so the majority of people arriving at an airport could be let in very rapidly. But after some years the imigration service decided that existing visas would be cancelled at the frontier when used (but allow the holders in when they used a not yet cancelled visa, because they were at the border before it was cancelled), apparently without regard for the Secretary of State's direction that visas would be valid for whatever period was defined in the visas, and that resulted quite soonat the imigration queue from hell everytime anyone like me landed in the USA.
And this was decades between Trump and decades before Obama, so no blaming either of them for it please.Thanks Carter! (was I close?)
No, the Visa waiver Programme was passed by Congress in 1986 so during Reagn's presidency, and it was first implemented in 1988 (still within Reagan's presidency). At first it had no effect on people like me, because our Visas remained valid (although Visas with an end date ceased to be valid at that end date). Some time in Clinton's second term as president the immigration people decided that it would terminate all visas whose holders were eligible for teh Visa Waiver Programme when next they entered the USA, and in 1998 (I think) as I went through immigration at LA an officer accepted my visa for that visit but stamped a cancellation on it. Until then it had taken me tyically less than a minute to show an imigration officer my visa and be allowed to go on (although queuing times for imigration had been increasing as short term visas ran out and were not renewed), After that last time with a visa I ended up spending 5 minutes getting past an immigration officer, and as just about everyone was now taking at least that long the queueing time increased quite a lot more.
Given that the reaon Congress pased the bill back in 1986 was to decrease the time spent on deciding whether to grant visas so as reduce costs, it seems somewhat crazy that the immigration people were allowed to terminate all multiple-entry visas regardless of the period they originally covered, this ensuring more time spent of checking people's eligibility to enter the USA without a VISA and hence increasing the size of the immigration empire instead of reducing it as intended.
Anyway, 1988 was 21 years before Obama and 29 years before Trump. Decades, but not as many decades as if it had happened in Carter's time.
Tom
June 29, 2018 at 3:48 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Friday, June 29, 2018 2:21 PMSean Lange - Friday, June 29, 2018 10:36 AMThe same idiot who thought that using the lightning port for headphones would be a good idea on the iphone 8? I still like my phone but that is the more irritating thing.
Why I moved to a Pixel. Wanted a headphone jack and no dongle.
And yet, they followed suit 🙁
Thom~
Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
Larnu.uk
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