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Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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Post by rirarobo »

jonsolo wrote: post #52
saagarjha wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're technically not supposed to submerge your iPhone; it voids their warranty. (It drives me mad that they do this in their advertisements, but I guess showing people doing things that would void their device's warranty is not false advertising…)

Lots of car commercials show them performing well in an accident, but nobody expects crash damage to be covered by warranty. Why must phones be held to a different standard?

Do you have an example of a commercial that shows the car being advertised performing unrealistically in a collision?

I'm curious because most of the commercials with car collisions I could find are actually safety PSAs, not commercials for a specific make and model.

Aside from those, I found some examples of a brand showing the aftermath of a collision (very briefly) in an ad that skirts the line between being a PSA and a testimonial. Interestingly, most of these were from Subaru.

In any case, that's still quite far from the phone commercial, where the phone is put into a situation that voids the warranty, but no physical damage or any indication thereof is shown. A comparable car commercial would need to show a car in a collision (or compromising condition) that performs unrealistically and ultimately gets away completely unscathed.

My intuition would be that most car advertisers wouldn't want to associate their vehicle with such a scenario, nor set unrealistic expectations around safety critical product features, outside of maybe product placement in a James Bond film.

So, I'm very curious, do you have any examples of comparable car commercials that you could share?

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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Post by markdown »

throwanem wrote: post #60
markdown wrote: post #50

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iPhones are all locked up, so ifixit's advice is worse than useless... it just serves to frustrate. What use is telling people to open up an iPhone when regular people don't have the tools to do so?

iFixit sells the tools to do so and provides detailed guides on how to use them. It might sound like a racket to you, but at this point they've saved me something like half a grand net, minimum, on phone repair and replacement, by making it possible for me to do that work myself and thus not have to replace phones nearly so often. Most recently, this came in useful when I actually did drop a phone in water, just like…

But surely it'll almost always be too late? Say I drop my phone in water and google how to fix it. I find this article and buy their tools. By the time I get them, my phone has been corroding for two days.

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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Post by mandelbrotwurst »

markdown wrote: post #73
throwanem wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iFixit sells the tools to do so and provides detailed guides on how to use them. It might sound like a racket to you, but at this point they've saved me something like half a grand net, minimum, on phone repair and replacement, by making it possible for me to do that work myself and thus not have to replace phones nearly so often. Most recently, this came in useful when I actually did drop a phone in water, just like…

But surely it'll almost always be too late? Say I drop my phone in water and google how to fix it. I find this article and buy their tools. By the time I get them, my phone has been corroding for two days.

It is possible to obtain the tools and skills prior to the accident.

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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Post by throwanem »

markdown wrote: post #73
throwanem wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iFixit sells the tools to do so and provides detailed guides on how to use them. It might sound like a racket to you, but at this point they've saved me something like half a grand net, minimum, on phone repair and replacement, by making it possible for me to do that work myself and thus not have to replace phones nearly so often. Most recently, this came in useful when I actually did drop a phone in water, just like…

But surely it'll almost always be too late? Say I drop my phone in water and google how to fix it. I find this article and buy their tools. By the time I get them, my phone has been corroding for two days.

Corrosion is a relatively slow process. As long as the display seal is intact and the phone isn't immersed for too long, it should prevent the kind of water ingress that's immediately fatal, and you very likely can get the tools and arrest the process before it damages any functionality.

The phone I dropped in the sink had a compromised seal due to a prior drop that bent in a corner of the case - something I did actually have the tool to fix, but hadn't got to actually fixing before the drop, thinking I had time. Of course, I thought I didn't need screen protectors either, until I dropped a phone and broke a screen for the lack of one - so, while I'm apparently pretty good at learning to fix phones, my ability to learn from experience may need improvement. It was the damaged seal that let in enough water to compromise the battery, but even so it stayed working long enough for me to pull a backup before I shut it down and took it apart. They're tougher than their size and cost make them seem, and these are just 1st-gen iPhone SEs - I expect the newer ones with glued-in displays are better still at preventing moisture ingress.

(Glued-in screens are harder to work on, but not impossible; I've fixed a phone with one, for a friend. You just need a heat gun and a lot of patience, is all. Regluing a new display seems like it'd be the hardest part; my friend just needed it working enough for data recovery, but maybe next time I'll get to find out.)

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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Post by codetrotter »

throwanem wrote: post #75
markdown wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But surely it'll almost always be too late? Say I drop my phone in water and google how to fix it. I find this article and buy their tools. By the time I get them, my phone has been corroding for two days.

Corrosion is a relatively slow process. As long as the display seal is intact and the phone isn't immersed for too long, it should prevent the kind of water ingress that's immediately fatal, and you very likely can get the tools and arrest the process before it damages any functionality. The phone I dropped in the sink had a compromised seal due to a prior drop that bent in a corner of the case - something I did actu…

> Regluing a new display seems like it'd be the hardest part; my friend just needed it working enough for data recovery, but maybe next time I'll get to find out.

If he has the phone laying around still, you could practice putting the screen back. This way when you need to do so on another phone in the future then you already know how to do it :D

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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Post by throwanem »

codetrotter wrote: post #76
throwanem wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Corrosion is a relatively slow process. As long as the display seal is intact and the phone isn't immersed for too long, it should prevent the kind of water ingress that's immediately fatal, and you very likely can get the tools and arrest the process before it damages any functionality. The phone I dropped in the sink had a compromised seal due to a prior drop that bent in a corner of the case - something I did actu…

> Regluing a new display seems like it'd be the hardest part; my friend just needed it working enough for data recovery, but maybe next time I'll get to find out. If he has the phone laying around still, you could practice putting the screen back. This way when you need to do so on another phone in the future then you already know how to do it :D

It's a good idea! Unfortunately, this particular phone had one side so badly bashed in that there'd be no fitting the display properly back into it, in any case. I'm sure I'll get my chance sooner or later, though!
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