It sounds like your phones are trying to commit suicide. I don't
blame them, being full of shame.
blame them, being full of shame.
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Woke up to my iPhone 4 on the ground
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I left mine on the arm of the sofa (where I always left my 3GS). Anyway i go and make a coffee, come back and its gone!
At first I was like WTF? wheres my phone? Then I think "oh no its slipped off onto my wood floor!" - Luckily it had slid the other way and down onto the sofa behind the cusion.
After that I noticed how it would almost hover over some surfaces no matter how gentle the slope. Undocumented feature?
At first I was like WTF? wheres my phone? Then I think "oh no its slipped off onto my wood floor!" - Luckily it had slid the other way and down onto the sofa behind the cusion.
After that I noticed how it would almost hover over some surfaces no matter how gentle the slope. Undocumented feature?
As Aviddk has rightly observed, I and many others had been treating the iPhone 4 the same as prior iPhone iterations. I almost without fail would set my phone atop my wallet upon arriving home. Neither the plastic back nor the (apparently less-slippery) glass face of my 3G would ever slide off the top of my wallet. But the iPhone 4 is a whole other matter.
Less than 24 hours after activating my iPhone 4, it had slid off my wallet onto the floor from my dining room table, then off the sofa arm rest to the floor later on that night - both times absent any call activity. I finally observed it happening a third time and deliberately let it slide to just before it would fall and caught it. It took a few minutes to slide far enough to fall - kind of a slow, almost-imperceptible motion. It's actually kinda freaky the first time or two it happens, because it's such a slow slide.
Now I know I have to set it by itself on a flat surface or in a dock - not atop my wallet, and resting it on the sofa arm is right out. Not a big deal, just unexpected.
Less than 24 hours after activating my iPhone 4, it had slid off my wallet onto the floor from my dining room table, then off the sofa arm rest to the floor later on that night - both times absent any call activity. I finally observed it happening a third time and deliberately let it slide to just before it would fall and caught it. It took a few minutes to slide far enough to fall - kind of a slow, almost-imperceptible motion. It's actually kinda freaky the first time or two it happens, because it's such a slow slide.
Now I know I have to set it by itself on a flat surface or in a dock - not atop my wallet, and resting it on the sofa arm is right out. Not a big deal, just unexpected.
I feel like a GIANT a$$ for making fun of this guy...
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/952404/
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https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/952404/
That crow tastes great
I'll have to compare tonight. A couple forum members have said the new one is weaker.
The glass back is just as grippy as plastic back in the hand, but it'll slide easier on fabric.
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Iphone jumps off of things
At first I thought I was crazy, but it's happened 4 times now in one week. My iphone4 somehow throws itself off of flat surfaces. Although it's held up to the impact, it's creepy that it seems to have a life of it's own.
Someone on this thread mentioned a gyroscope. What's that?
At first I thought I was crazy, but it's happened 4 times now in one week. My iphone4 somehow throws itself off of flat surfaces. Although it's held up to the impact, it's creepy that it seems to have a life of it's own.
Someone on this thread mentioned a gyroscope. What's that?
Have you read the thread? Gravity would hold the iPhone 4 in place if it's sitting on a flat non slippery surface. The video a few posts above show just that.
This just means the surface isn't as flat as they thought. The iphone is slippery enough on its own that it can be pulled slowly in the direction of a slope that you didn't know was there.
At a guess it could also be pushed along by very minor tremors through the ground, propagated onto whatever piece of furniture the phone happens to be on.
Really?? Don't you think that's kind of a new thing for cell phone owners to worry about?
Honestly, what if a TV slid off the shelf because the shelf was off by one degree. Would you think people were idiots because they didn't understand that their shelves were sloped and "of course" their TV would slide off a "slope?" Who knows, it might even come up in a TV forum as an issue to be aware of...
A TV weighs more so the friction holds it down if there is a slight slope. The iphone weighs so little and the glass back is slick enough that there just isn't enough friction and it moves. Don't hate me i didn't create gravity.
Really?? Don't you THINK that's kind of a NEW thing for cell phone owners to worry about?
edit for others:
I had my iPhone 4 slide off of an unpolished wooden ledge that I've always placed TV remotes, cameras, soda cans, wine glasses, and even golf balls and the phone is the only thing that's ever slid off! Lesson learned, but really, a wooden shelf? Damn!
Can't believe I wasted my time reading this thread. So basically, your phone fell off something. Wow!! That's deep. It reminds me of this time I was walking on some ice and slipped. Here all along I thought it was cause the ice was slippery, come to find out it was the gyroscope in my iPhone. Maybe I should freak out at my local Apple store and make damn sure they send me some free rubber boots. They better have white ones, or else.
Same thing happened to me. I was in the shower and an alarm was going off and it fell screen first onto tile (about a 4 foot drop). It was fine, but definitely scared me.
Of course ice is slippery. However if you just poured a new driveway with a new type of concrete and it became unusually slippery when it got wet, you would like to at least know about it ahead of time, preferably before it rains,
There is really a simple message on this forum that many have apparently missed.
The iPhone 4 is new.
The iPhone 4 is sleek.
The iPhone 4 slides off of stuff that no other phone has ever slid off of.
Places you may have previously placed a phone may not be secure for your iPhone 4.
Act accordingly...
Nobody is attacking your iPhone 4, it is still awesome and you still are incredible and awesome for owning such a fantastic device.