Samsung Galaxy tab 3 screen cracked for no reason.

[SilverCrusader]

Okay, so my brothers Samsung Galaxy tab 3 was just sitting there on my kitchen table l, when it cracked right down the middle. No one touched it. I looked at it and looked back and it was cracked.. Is it detective? Whats going on?

 

[Rukbat]

Unless it was subject to some kind of stress (being in a car all night, with the temperature way below zero, then being brought immediately into a 75 degree house, or having been sat on a little while ago) it's probably either defective or it got scratched exactly on a fracture plane by a tiny carbide particle (they float in the air, which is why you never wipe a screen with a dry tissue unless it's got a screen protector on it).

The problem is that it's not a common Tab 3 failure (it's so rare that this is the first one I've heard of), so you might have a problem convincing the store or Samsung that it wasn't something your brother did that broke it.

 

[Carry Thom]

Hello,

Well it's happened again. My 8 year old son was watching MineFlix and suddenlt the screen has cracked in the bottom right corner and cracked up right across the screen. He suddenley started crying like mad. I thought he'd hurt himself but he was just shocked and upset that his screen had just randomly cracked for no apparent reason. I'm really gutted about this, he got is for a christmas present. No good this at all.

I'll be contacting Samsung about this anyway. Screens shouldn't just crack without reasonable impact or pressure.

Regards,

Caroline T

 

[Rukbat]

Screens shouldn't just crack without reasonable impact or pressure.

No, they shouldn't, and they usually don't. But remember, we want screens that are more scratch-resistant, and that means harder. Harder means more brittle. (Try cracking a blob of Jello - but you can "scratch" it with a feather.) Just tapping the corner of the tablet on a table from an inch above the table can cause a stress facture in the screen if the tap is right at a fracture plane of the glass. (Diamonds are "cut" with soft iron blades, but you can't scratch one with carbide, it takes a laser.)

It's a balancing act - too break-resistant and the screen scratches too easily, too scratch-resistant and the screen breaks too easily. Annealed glass would be better, but it can still spider if hit at the right angle. (If even a diamond can't resist being struck at the right spot, how can any glass?)

Mr. Scott, where's that transparent scratch-proof aluminum?