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Aye so you can suffer through shitty half arsed third party repairers who either write your phone off as water damaged even though it wasn’t (thanks Motorola) o
by m0xte 6y ago
Aye so you can suffer through shitty half arsed third party repairers who either write your phone off as water damaged even though it wasn’t (thanks Motorola) or glue it back together because they broke all the clips opening it (thanks dude down the local repair shop).
- jansan 6y agoMy son broke the screen of his Android phone twice. Each time I ordered a replacement screen on ebay for 35€ and repaired it myself. The second time I had become quite good at it and it only took me about half an hour. Now good luck trying this with an iPhone.
- m0xte 6y agoNone of us (2 adults, 3 kids) have managed to break an iPhone in the last decade.
- jansan 6y agoYou are such great people, I knew it.
- m0xte 6y agoNot really. Dropped my XR about 20 times this year so far.
- stormdennis 6y agoThought you had a Motorola Android?
- m0xte 6y agoAt the time I had three phones on the go for testing. My main handset at the time was an iPhone. I’ve explained this in more detail in another post.
- stormdennis 6y agoRats! Thought I had you then.
- m0xte 6y agoMaybe next time :)
- stormdennis 6y agoWell I suppose I was thinking more of the fact that my phone cost me about a third the price of an iphone. A year ago I cracked the screen, I'd driven several miles when I realised I'd forgotten it, it was when I swung the car round to go back that I heard it come off the roof. Works fine still. (Little adhesive card wallet had kept it on the roof) To paraphrase Apple I typed this message on my Moto g6
- jansan 6y agoI you have some time, try replacing the screen yourself. There are tons of instruction videos (probably also for your model) and a new screen is surprisingly cheap (for an Android phone).
- stormdennis 6y agoI might do, I'm a bit of a bodger though. :) I wrecked our kid's iPhone 5 trying to fix it.
- m0xte 6y agoIt was a Moto G (3 I think) I sent in for repair under warranty after it kept overheating. They triggered the water label, refused to fix it and held it until I’d paid a £30 ransom charge. It wasn’t economical for them to fix it so they broke it. And it took them two weeks of pissing around to get that far. How do I know it wasn’t water damaged? Bought new from amazon, only used for testing android apps. As for repairs you can do all that with Apple handsets. However with all third party parts you really never know what the bell you’re going to get. A friend of mine has a Sony handset which they took to a high street repairer who did a bodge with a 3rd party screen. Literally the touch point calibration is completely off, the thing isn’t gorilla glass as the corner cracked trim finger pressure and the thing doesn’t fit properly. YMMV but my phone pays the bills so it’s mid range iPhone with AppleCare thanks. I’m perfectly capable of doing repairs myself but I’d rather someone else did it where if they screw it up or encounter an issue I’ve got an exit plan. Apple when they screwed up my 6s repair on warranty just gave me a whole new handset. This was while I was having a coffee up the road. <2h.
- jojobas 6y agoYou can also enjoy reasonable third-party repairers and official repairers at reasonable prices. Car industry has few problems with third party spare parts and it's definitely not up to the manufacturer to police that.
- m0xte 6y agoActually that’s wrong. There are plenty of poor quality third party spares out there for vehicles. Lucas here made a whole business out of it.
- jojobas 6y agoThere are poor quality parts, but few problems around them. The good mechanics know to avoid said parts and people know to avoid bad mechanics, all without Ford taking them to Supreme Court.