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is this the damage you get from dropping an iphone ?

liquorice said:
She will not be getting this iphone back when it is repaired, or any decent phone, hopefully as others have said if she buys her own she will look after it, but am not sure if she will.

I feel that she did it on purpose or got someone else to do it in the hopes of getting it done on insurance, and I too believe no insurance company would pay out on it !

Thanks for all your views.

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She's 17 and of course it is never her fault :rolleyes:
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Glad that you decided she won't be getting that phone back. That couldn't have been done from a simple drop. It looks like someone ran that phone right over. As others have said, make her purchase the phone with her hard earned money. She'll appreciate it much more then.
 
An iPhone has been dropped out of a plane, and survived with less damage than those pictures posted. (In fact, the iPhone landed fully intact with no broken glass)

The damage done to that iPhone was definitely intentional. Good on you for not buying her another one. Once she pays for one with her own money, she'll respect the value of it.
 
CallOfDuty said:
Since you said your daughter has already shattered the back, it is most likely she got sick of the shattered glass on the back that she decides that she demand a full new iPhone for herself. She might have faked an accident.
You can't blame kids - its their mentality. This applies to teenagers also well.
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This. But only if she knew she could go online and buy a replacement for less than $20 shipped.
 
Hmmm.....

Here's an example of my wife's old iPhone4 which fell from bathroom counter height onto a tile floor:

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It looks more like that sustained a more damaging drop - such as falling out of a purse down a marble staircase or something or maybe it was left on the roof of a vehicle before getting into the vehicle and then being forgotten about and it fell on the driveway and got ran over perhaps?
 
aliensporebomb said:
Here's an example of my wife's old iPhone4 which fell from bathroom counter height onto a tile floor:

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It looks more like that sustained a more damaging drop - such as falling out of a purse down a marble staircase or something.
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Yours has a clearly defined point of impact, where the OPs doesnt lol.
 
Mine was run over by several cars / trucks on an interstate and it looks almost identical to your daughter's phone...
 
bully?

That doesn't look accidental to me either. The 2 thoughts that come to mind are 1) temper tantrum, or 2) someone else threw it against the ground/wall and she's covering for that person. Could be a bully and she's too afraid or embarrassed to say so.
 
Everyone here is so terribly quick to judge...

My fiance dropped her phone onto the tile when she was swapping her case (yes, she is a case whore lol). The back spider-webbed into a million and a half cracks just like we see here. And yes, I watched her drop it, this wasn't some story she told me after the fact.

The thing that is most suspect to me is the amount of glass that is missing. But I supposed it's possible it was dropped, thrown into a purse/pocket where it was bouncing around and pressure popped pieces of glass out of it.

I am not saying she DIDN'T throw it at a wall, but there sure seem to be a lot of closet physics PhD's in this thread. I certainly can;t say definitively that it wasn't accidental damage.
 
The iphone shatters pretty easily if dropped at the right angle and height. If its dropped several times, then you might get exactly what you see there. Looks like at least 3 drops to the front side, and at least 1 drop to the back side. Its might be clumsy fingers or just carelessness. But that sure is a lot of drops from just clumsiness or carelessness.:eek:
 
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Depends on what it was dropped on. I have a friend that had similar damage after a drop because it landed on a small rock in a parking lot completely flat face down.

I dont really see why she would be lying either. If she has some sort of insurance the covers accident damage then unless she did that on purpose it was an accident. What exactly do you think shes trying to cover up? "Sorry Dad a microwave fell on it as the SWAT team raided my secret meth lab.". In any case she'll/you'll have to buy a new one, just goto the apple store and pay the 99-149 dollar replacement cost.
 
Looks like average drops maybe even some hard ones, but it looks as though after the drop her (or maybe friends) decided to peel away some of the glass for the heck of it?

I've seen a group of friends here at my college (after one of them shattered their iphone) just laughing about it and pulling on the glass to see whats underneath etc. and also another where the drop was severe and totaled the phone (I'm not sure if it was an iphone or not) so they decided to play catch with it, see its insides and stuff, and if they have cars run it over for fun.

Just a thought. Teens.
 
If she treats her iPhone like this then she doesn't deserve one in my opinion. Make her save up the money to buy an out of warranty new iPhone at $199. Hopefully if she has to use her own money she will apreciate it more. This is all just my opinion though.
 
liquorice said:
She is a bit lacking in information on how it happened, considering she had already done the back a while ago, I think she may be hoping on an insurance claim.
But as only house insurance cover that ain't happing !

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I work at the Geeksquad, I see a dozen of these daily.

Glass is a funny thing, it will either be one clean crack on the device, or it will look like it was run over by a car.

Either way, I'd say theres nothing there that would make me doubt the story.
 
Coming from a guy my age, sounds like your daughter did that on purpose. I've seen people drop their iPhones, I've heard stories, and even dropped my recently on concrete to have a little crack :)(). Never have I seen damage this bad.

Do what my parents did to me, pay for your own phone and plan. She'll learn

Or
localboy28 said:
Buy her a blackberry
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This is why I would never buy my young teenage kid an iPhone. I didn't have my first iPhone til I was 22 (I'm 23 now). Get her a basic LG flip phone. It'll teach her to take care of things, especially if she isn't the one paying for it.
 
Looks to me like a temper tantrum was involved. Dumb phone for you girl.
 
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