My tank hates my cell phone

[phillrodrigo]

Last year I bought my galaxy s4. One day I was doing maintenence on a tank and had my refractometer in my pocket. Pulled my phone out and the refractometer cracked my screen. Also in this time I have had some water go into the charger port but it would dry out and work fine. Last night I went out to dinner pulled my phone out and it was dead a black screen with a few green lines. Today I went to get it fixed. The screen cost me 185. When the guy was repairing my phone he said the mother board was rusted and showed me the parts they were shot. He originally wanted another 200 for the motherboard but got him down to 120 he knew I was screwed. So keep your phones away from the tank. Mine has never fallen into water just grabbing it with a little water on my hands or a few drops on it.

 

[PL-Reef]

Damn dude. Why not just pay the extra $10 a month and have insurance on your phone?

 

[sassAwrasse]

Even if you have insurance, most of the insurances on phones don't cover the screens. When mine cracked, they wanted $150 to fix it. Luckily I had only had the phone for 2 weeks and was able to get them to swap it out.

 

[phillrodrigo]

I thought I had insurance it was only on my brothers phone. If I didn't have the water damage I would have made out. 185 for the screen. With insurance you still pay the $10 plus a $200 copay on any of the newest phones. So I probably paid about the same. I actually saved money but it just hurt alot more since it was all at once. 18 months I had my phone X 10 is 180 in insurance plus the 200 copay is 380. I paid a tad under 320. About to have to have a will work for fish supplies sign I'm so broke now. But I had to have my phone so I can get everyone's snails tomorrow. The thought of losing every number sucks. I don't even know my mom's number.

 

[PL-Reef]

My co pay on Samsung S4 with cracked screen was $99. With $5.99 a month for the insurance.

 

[Tweaked]

Better off telling them it was stolen if you have insurance.

 

[firstlight10]

I use a Lifeproof case for my phone, yes its expensive but it has saved my phone on multiple occasions.

 

[gbru316]

So keep your phones away from the tank.

Or just be more careful :spin1:

 

[ahmed_iAM]

Sorry to hear it. I just get cheaper phones and skip the insurance. Get a one plus or a nexus 5. The nexus 5 will work on Sprint, TMobile or AT&T. They're the same quality or better IMO. Get the iPhone of you are an accessory person or just want a phone that's an actual phone.

 

[phillrodrigo]

I needed a bunch of things off my phone. Sometimes the hassle is worth the money. My phone is pretty much brand new now. It has all new screen and guts so to not lose everything is worth it.

 

[Tweaked]

Not sure what you mean by loose everything. Every new phone I get, everything is just linked up with iCloud and I go to apps and search recently purchased and bam, same phone in minutes.

 

[phillrodrigo]

Like numbers that I don't save.i never back my phone up my s4 has never even been connected to the computer. Does galaxy even do the cloud.

 

[Tweaked]

Not sure on the droids, but all my numbers are backed to the cloud including Outlook contacts, calendar, tasks (tasks are the most important for me) bookmarks and photos. Not worried about the cloud being hacked unless someone wants to steal 1000's of reef pics :uhoh3:

 

[PL-Reef]

They don't use cloud but it should be automatically backed up to a Gmail account. Who's your carrier?

 

[Rwinfrey]

Sounds like you need a go phone 80 bucks hahaha but really that sucks...

 

[WantItNow]

att took my insurance away after having two claims within a year for my note3...Was a racket anyways, had to pay a 200 deductible both times, which I guess was tons cheaper in the long run.

 

[phillrodrigo]

At the end of the day with a 200 deductible the extra 100 was worth it. I would have a refurbished phone. I have a brand new mother board and a brand new screen. No retrieving any info from the back up. Without paying insurance I pretty much paid the same. My phone is so much better. I thought our wifi had issues nope it was a issue with my phone its working perfectly now

 

[Collinrb]

At the end of the day with a 200 deductible the extra 100 was worth it. I would have a refurbished phone. I have a brand new mother board and a brand new screen. No retrieving any info from the back up. Without paying insurance I pretty much paid the same. My phone is so much better. I thought our wifi had issues nope it was a issue with my phone its working perfectly now

My cell phone insurance dropped me because I wouldn't accept their refurbs. Now I just order parts and flip em in and out myself. I hear ya on this one phil. Needing it asap doesn't leave many options even with insurance

 

[ahmed_iAM]

Not sure on the droids, but all my numbers are backed to the cloud including Outlook contacts, calendar, tasks (tasks are the most important for me) bookmarks and photos. Not worried about the cloud being hacked unless someone wants to steal 1000's of reef pics :uhoh3:

Similar process, found that android is more reliable than iOS as long as it is a vanilla version of android without a lot of manufacturer bloatware like Samsung has on there.