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> I would hope dropping a phone is also a rare occurrence for typical phone users. I drop my phone all the time and I don't have a case. It's fine.
by iopq 10y ago
> I would hope dropping a phone is also a rare occurrence for typical phone users.
I drop my phone all the time and I don't have a case. It's fine.
- awjr 10y agoI dropped my phone at the weekend without a case. I now have a shattered screen. :/ It's about the 5th time I've dropped my phone and this is the first time something like this has happened.
- josephg 10y agoApparently the glass in phone screens develops micro fractures from being dropped. (Well, from hitting the ground). You can't see them with the naked eye, but they weaken the glass and they grow with each successive drop. It's probably not just bad luck that the glass happened to break after the Nth time you dropped it. It was bound to happen if you kept dropping the device.
- marvy 10y agoMe too, though the screen did get a small crack once. If there was a 1% chance of file system corruption each time I dropped my phone, it would have happened to me by now, I think. And usually when I drop my phone, the battery comes out. It used to happen only half the time, but I think the cover got loosened as a result of all the times I dropped it, so now the battery falls out pretty much every time.
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- nabanicu 10y agoIt's 2016, if you abruptly shut down a computer in the middle of a filesystem write the chances of ending up with a corrupted filesystem are of around a 0 %, so those are the chances of getting a brick when you drop your mobile.
- jbg_ 10y agoIf you mount with nobarrier I'd say that the chances are somewhat higher than 0%
- dilap 10y agoyou could have corruption and not know. i'm pretty sure on the mac hfs+ corrupts files all the time (why? i've run into it multiple times). but it's not necessarily something you'll immediately notice.
- marvy 10y agoThat's upsetting. I'll try not to drop my phone while an update is in progress in that case.
- skeptic2718 10y agoCarpet or hard floor (ceramic, etc) ?
- iopq 10y agoWood floor and sometimes concrete. I don't drop it from my hand, usually from a pocket or lap, though.
- cuu508 10y agoWhat phone do you have?