Only took a week....

[jesse_h]

My S5 took a hard and awkward fall yesterday, the LED (AMOLED screen under the glass) is destroyed, but the glass is completely fine.

I have the device protection plan with Rogers, so i'm working on getting a replacement, i'm actually on hold with them right now.

 

[Golfdriver97]

That's a bummer. Did you have a case on it?

 

[brothamoveson]

That's horrible I need to use my case more often, but I take it off when I get home.

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[tippmann15]

Sorry for your loss!

Note 3 ~ 5s

 

[bogdaryl]

Sorry to hear that. I wouldn't even leave the AT&T store without a case. Of course I went next day and picked up an Otterbox Defender. I'm hoping it will be more durable in the Defender.

 

[tomothy94]

My Old HTC One X was tough as anything, i dropped it all the time and quite literally threw it around and it never had a problem. I haven't yet dropped this one but I am worrying that If I do it will break, I've ordered a meta bumper case but will this actually help If I drop it? I feel like it will transfer the shock rather than absorb it? also installing a tempered glass screen protector. Order all of these things on tuesday but bloody bank holiday weekend means I won't get them til the day after tomorrow

I have however got a fake s-view case from ebay which looks good but I don't like it as it doesn't have the rubber seal around the battery which is obviously what makes the phone waterproof. It doesn't work with the phone like a proper one would but they cost ?45 which is ridiculous.

I also have a leather pouch style case with a pully thing so you can get the phone out, that was from Poundland but I really like it

 

[here4kids]

since the glass is intact, I wonder if this could be replaced under the one year warranty?

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[jesse_h]

I had it in an otterbox defender, I thought for sure it would have been fine.

There's no external damage at all, obviously because of the otterbox, I'm not sure if the warranty angle will work.

 

[anon(52425)]

My S5 took a hard and awkward fall yesterday, the LED is destroyed, but the glass is completely fine.

I have the device protection plan with Rogers, so i'm working on getting a replacement, i'm actually on hold with them right now.

So the drop caused internal damage to destroy the LED? But looking on it from the outside it looks completely normal?

 

[xmostwanted559x]

That sucks...starting to not like the things happening

 

[jesse_h]

So the drop caused internal damage to destroy the LED? But looking on it from the outside it looks completely normal?

Basically yes, you can see the damage under the glass.

 

[anon(52425)]

That sucks...starting to not like the things happening

What "things" are that? Phone was dropped. Things break when they are dropped. Just like the S4 Active, people were not properly checking the seal and were water damaging their phones and complaining about how it's Samsungs fault and not their own. Which in turn caused many to think the Active was not a good phone. Unfortunately things happen...

 

[jesse_h]

imgur: the simple image sharer

Pic! Sorry about the quality. It's hard to get a good pic of it.

 

[anon(52425)]

Basically yes, you can see the damage under the glass.

Ahh, sorry to hear that!

 

[jesse_h]

That sucks...starting to not like the things happening

There's really nothing anyone can do. Today's cell phones are so fragile because of what we except from manufacturers. We want thinner lighter phones. It doesn't matter if you have a case or not, **** happens. Oh well.

 

[ab304945]

So the drop caused internal damage to destroy the LED? But looking on it from the outside it looks completely normal?

Its actually LCD. Led is the notification light

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[anon(52425)]

Its actually LCD. Led is the notification light

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Ok, that makes more sense. That's what I thought. Thanks!

 

[jesse_h]

Its actually LCD. Led is the notification light

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I thought because it has a AMOLED screen, that it's not LCD?

 

[Greg C]

I thought for sure Gorilla Glass would be a lot better.... a lot tougher.

 

[ab304945]

I thought for sure Gorilla Glass would be a lot better.... a lot tougher.

The glass didn't break. The lcd panel under the glass broke.

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