I dropped my iphone 6 off the coffee table and the screen smashed - despite having a light weight bumper cover. This is the second breakage in 3 months!
It is insured but last time setting the new phone up was a ball ache so considering my options. has anyone anything to say on;
1. replace iphone with robust smartphone - do they exist?
2. replace iphone screen at apple shop - more expensive than insurance excess but don't have the ball ache setting up.
3. replace iphone screen at back street shop - iphone 4 was never the same again
4. replace iphone with insurance, suffer ball ache and buy a robust cover - any recommendations?
Thanks in advance.
Anyone hazard to guess how many iphones around the world are operating with broken screens ?
Wonder how much apple make out of replacement screens?
It's a clever way of building in obsolescence as at some point the repair will be uneconomical and you'll need to spend £700 on a new iphone..
Cant help with any of those questions but mine has been broken for a year.
Doesn't bother me, sort of gives it character and of course all the new ones are missing headphone jacks so useless.
Can't really comment on Apple as I have never had one, but I have never cracked a screen yet on my various Samsung's that have all been in otter box cases.
Get a glass screen cover and it may hold it together indefinitely. Rescued a iPod touch that way. Better to put the cover on first though!
I don't want to jinx my iPhone 6 but I e dropped it a lot and touch wood it's still in one piece. Just over a year though a 2 year contract so it need to last until November 18.
I've got a fairly lightweight rubber cover on it that sits just proud of the front of the screen, plus I've got one of those glass screen protectors on the front of it.
The screen protector looks in a bad way with chips out of it on all 4 corners and a couple halfway down the edges. It also has a couple of cracks across the front that are beginning to annoy me but it's doing its job ok.
Are other phones better in terms of screen resilience though - or are they much the same? I had a Samsung A3 and one day (without dropping it) the screen just went mad and bled green liquid underneath the front of it so you couldn't seem anything on it. Replaced under warranty, but I found that phone looked nice, but didn't perform very well. That was when I thought I'd try an iPhone and it's been pretty good so far.
Put it in a survivor case. Very shock resistant. Mines survived countless drops and dings.
5. Take more care of my expensive possessions?
how so? Do you not have everything backed up to iCloud? Surely it’s just get new phone, restore from last online backup, login to iCloud, done?! Phone should then be identicalIt is insured but last time setting the new phone up was a ball ache
Tough case is a good idea if you are going to keep dropping it though! Also replacing the screen yourself is not difficult as long as you are confident with that sort of thing.
1. How is restoring a new one such a ball ache.
2. But a glass screen protector
I’ve had an iPhone since the 3 (had a 4,5,6 now a 7) and I’ve never even cracked a screen never mind smashed it. All I do is put a screen protector on it and a mid range Otter box case (not the mega tough ones). I’ve thrown (by accident) my phone on tiled floors, dropped it loads of times, it gets attached to my bike when riding on road and always comes out with me on the MTB.
I’m careful with it but I don’t treat it like I’m Frodo with the One Ring.
How do people manage to break phones so often?
If you have your iPhone set up to back up regularity to iTunes setting up a new one takes minutes and you’ll see no difference whatsoever. Must be the easiest phone to replace!
Again not iPhone but we must have owned in excess of 10 Samsung devices, phones and tablet, never once had a screen smash and have been dropped. Bit paranoid though with the S8, putting it in a case seems to defeated part of the point of the aesthetics but I think the back is glass as well as the front combined with the rounded edges makes it ultra sloppy and prone to falling out of pockets.
It's a clever way of building in obsolescence as at some point the repair will be uneconomical and you'll need to spend £700 on a new iphone..
Rubbish, the phone only becomes obsolete when there are no more OS updates and something stops working and can’t be fixed. I’ve got an iP4 that still works, although it’s got the shonky home button, my P6+ has been dropped a bunch of times, a couple of days ago it dropped out of my hi-viz pocket onto a tarmac car park without harm.
It’s got a gel-type case that cost me £7 and a glass screen protector that’s got several chips out of the side, previously it was in an Otterbox which was bulky and got in the way.
I’ve seen so many broken screens on phones other than iPhones it’s clear that clumsyness is the real culprit, but taking precautions like a quality screen protector and a case that can absorb impacts goes a long way to protecting a phone, regardless of who makes the bloody thing!
If you have an iTunes backup restoring a new phone to an identical setup is trivial. Even without one if you have your Apple / iCloud ID it’s straightforward. Assuming phone is usable get it backed up to iTunes on your computer now
Personally I would get it fixed at Apple
You must have been unlucky, particularly a fall from a coffe table that’s about 30cm !! I have had iPhones since 3G and never broken one. None have had screen covers just normal phone covers
Miss J goes through iPhone screens.
Timpsons (yes the shoe repair and key folk) do a toughened replacement and warranty it against breaking again for a year. £89 for an iPhone 6.
Whatever you do next put it in an Otterbox Defender. Totally bulletproof.
OP BTW a good friend dropped her new Samsung last year. New screen was £350 and they didn’t even have any spare parts for a few months ! Fortunately she had her old phone and could keep using it.
Cracked my iPhone 7 screen, landed Face down on a stone. First time ever crashed a screen and I have a dropped phones countless times. Mostly coming out of the van with keys and water bottle in hands.
Had the otter box as mentioned it was ace and now have a quad lock.
£33 on Amazon for the complete screen (glass and LCD) on Amazon. Bit fiddly but not hard following a video on YouTube. Although the screws are like grains is sand.
I used iMend the other day - they were brilliant.
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/iphone-repairs-imend
Timpsons +1.
Did a good job on my eldest daughters 6. That said, she was going out with one of Mr Timpsons sons at the time!
Thanks all for the helpful comments. I don’t fully understand the ball ache but I think it was because the replacement phone supplied by insurance company was loaded with older version of IOS so had to set up as a new phone then load the updated software only then would it recognise my account.
I feel I was unlucky I have dropped from higher and got away with it before
The more expensive 'smartphones' get - the more breakable they became - I'm on my 3rd S7 which is cracked on the glass back - I've been watching YouTube videos on how to DIY replace - Apparently all this abundance of glass is great for wireless charging - Do people care about that? The HTC M8 was all metal body and i dropped it loads and it lasted the duration of the contract - hopefully tbe next gen of phones will address durability issues - Cracked glass is too common now .
If you use any of the phone repairers mentioned no software will have to be reloaded. They just pop the damanged screen off and pop a new one on.
Last time one of my kids broke their iPhone ( it’s a regular thing) it too 15 mins in the repair shop to replace
£39 returned 24hr turnaround.