Kickstarting may damage your communication
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2019 7:18 pm
It is common knowledge that the S8 and above Samsung smartphones have the most fragile screens of any model (these are the "infinity" ones with wrap around edges). For this reason they are the first Samsung phone where screen damage is not covered by warranty.
If you google "S8 screen cracking" or similar to will see many images of phones that have been dropped and have starburst cracks around the edges, similar to that caused by a stone hitting a windscreen. My S8 recently developed straight line cracks on one day (five in total) across the face, running in different directions. I have always carried my phones in my right hand jeans' pocket, have never dropped them or suffered any screen damage on any of them until now.
I am sure it was caused by the torsional stress imparted by starting my G3L. That is, three prods with the valve lifter raised, two starting kicks. A friend of my son had the same damage caused when he twisted round in his car seat to buckle up his child in the back seat. The damage is not to the screen itself, but to the very hard "gorilla glass" it is faced with.
It is rather annoying, as the cracks can be felt when swiping the screen, but does not prevent use. A repair would cost around £200 (or you could change to an I-phone!). Hope this may prevent the same happening to other users.
If you google "S8 screen cracking" or similar to will see many images of phones that have been dropped and have starburst cracks around the edges, similar to that caused by a stone hitting a windscreen. My S8 recently developed straight line cracks on one day (five in total) across the face, running in different directions. I have always carried my phones in my right hand jeans' pocket, have never dropped them or suffered any screen damage on any of them until now.
I am sure it was caused by the torsional stress imparted by starting my G3L. That is, three prods with the valve lifter raised, two starting kicks. A friend of my son had the same damage caused when he twisted round in his car seat to buckle up his child in the back seat. The damage is not to the screen itself, but to the very hard "gorilla glass" it is faced with.
It is rather annoying, as the cracks can be felt when swiping the screen, but does not prevent use. A repair would cost around £200 (or you could change to an I-phone!). Hope this may prevent the same happening to other users.
