PereDroid
Diamond Member
- Joined
- Jan 25, 2010
- Messages
- 5,908
- Reaction score
- 3,681
- Location
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Current Phone Model
- Moto Turbo 2
Yep. I done did it.
Told a friend of mine, "Here, hold my beer!" j/k
I was in the pool taking pics of my kid. I've done this a million times. Not at this pool though. As I was getting out of the pool it fell from my hand. Landed in the trough that goes around the outside of the pool. Literally about an inch deep. The entire phone didn't go under...only about the bottom third of it. And for MAYBE 1 second. It was that quick.
I tried to shut it off, but couldn't. It kept restarting. This is what I blame for the damage. At first everything looked OK. Just the screen was not responsive. Everything I did to shut it down just caused it to reboot.
Had I been able to keep it powered off, it would have survived, I'm sure. Surely a case to be made here for a removable battery.
First the screen looked fine. Then it went into Moto Case mode where it thought the Moto case with the window was on it. Then it washed out white. Then green. Then lines. Then solid green....it just kept getting worse.
Pretty disappointed. It was such a short and quick partial dunk. Literally the bottom 3rd.
Is Moto ever going to go full on waterproof? Shatterproof + waterproof = gold.
Easily the best and most reliable phone I've ever had. Asurion replacement on the way...
Told a friend of mine, "Here, hold my beer!" j/k
I was in the pool taking pics of my kid. I've done this a million times. Not at this pool though. As I was getting out of the pool it fell from my hand. Landed in the trough that goes around the outside of the pool. Literally about an inch deep. The entire phone didn't go under...only about the bottom third of it. And for MAYBE 1 second. It was that quick.
I tried to shut it off, but couldn't. It kept restarting. This is what I blame for the damage. At first everything looked OK. Just the screen was not responsive. Everything I did to shut it down just caused it to reboot.
Had I been able to keep it powered off, it would have survived, I'm sure. Surely a case to be made here for a removable battery.
First the screen looked fine. Then it went into Moto Case mode where it thought the Moto case with the window was on it. Then it washed out white. Then green. Then lines. Then solid green....it just kept getting worse.
Pretty disappointed. It was such a short and quick partial dunk. Literally the bottom 3rd.
Is Moto ever going to go full on waterproof? Shatterproof + waterproof = gold.
Easily the best and most reliable phone I've ever had. Asurion replacement on the way...