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Always On - Torture testing the Galaxy Note 2

2012-10-22
all right into the freezer with the galaxy note to go little buddy to ours see you soon I hope it makes it let's see how our note 2 is doing in here okay ready admire our crystal formation swipe to unlock oh yeah tiny bit sluggish launches apps just fine touchscreens still pretty responsive despite the cold I think we can call this a pretty easy pass looks like our note 2 is baked time are off let's get it out see how it's doing we're not getting such the bet oh no there's some bad chemical smell yeah there it probably isn't that safe to be off gassing these kind of fumes into my house so maybe next time we'll do this but the windows open okay let's unwrap it see how we're doing well good you know I'm just an open window now just gonna come to think of it it's probably not such a bad idea okay let's see if it's too hot to touch of course it is the hotness hotness it was the hotness it still is alright let's see if we can get it to come on the metal parts are particularly hot of course anything it smells like burning plastic alright nothing so far definitely does not want to come on after it's a little stint in the oven we will let it cool and check on it in a little while our no.2 is all cooled off only slightly warm to the touch now let's see if it turns back on what come on you got to come back on everything come back on don't die on me I want to do like Snoopy arts come on come on okay I guess we're gonna plug it in and then see we're gonna plug it in maybe the battery died should be right back okay I'm gonna plug it in I just can't believe this is possible that the heat alone could have done it it look at that it drained the battery this thing went in on a full charge now apparently the full charge is back okay let's see if we can get to come on okay so it's pretty gory okay then of course the big test will be will it stay on after we unplug it which I'm sure it's going to sure it's fine all right let's back on those charging okay let's unplug it now we're back to full charge we're back on the Wi-Fi the screen is working connected to the Wi-Fi network okay all right well I feel like we basically gave it the emergency paddles and now we have tone the phone is okay all right bud you like that phone it's pretty nice to be careful with it okay all right here we go give it a kick which make sure it gets all the way down there you're being careful you can pick it up and throw it toss it maybe try bowling there now we're talking good job kind of broke all right let's put some stuff down and then check it out you're not supposed to tell them that I told you to do that okay that was realistic but like most of these phones as long as it can come open it can protect itself it looks like there may be there's definitely a little scuffing on the screen I can't tell if those are actual scratches or disgust here hold on through the pants test oh yeah we've actually got some legit scuff marks on the screen there which is kind of surprising maybe not that surprising okay let's put our cover back on yeah well dirt to major though a little scuffing on the side here okay back is back on let's try to turn it on right yeah no problem didn't even restart okay so it's all right with a pretty easy drop maybe we'll take it up a notch keep on going now here's something a lot of you suggested the phone falling out of the car when you get out and since I said that cell so our camera guy does this all the time we're using his car it's like a real-life reenactment alright so say I have it in my lap here because I was using it for directions getting all my things getting out like oh no like how it tried to slide under the car to very dramatic oh oh we broke it okay that's pathetic I mean I know it just went down the stairs but dang between this and the scratches it seems clear that this is not made of the same stuff as the Samsung Galaxy s3 what came in the pen wants to come out I guess our drop test is a failure I'm still working through my shock and disappointment at this screen completely cracking on what seemed like such a small innocent drop but that said it's not dead yet so I think we're going to have to keep trying to kill it now I know the water test is unfair at this point but you never know so let's give it a go marinate a look at a bubbling just bubbling away witch's cauldron broken phone just trying to shut itself down and that seems like a good moment to rescue it don't worry it's almost over it's still on so what I'm gonna do is go ahead and choose power off as so many of you have urged me to do turn the phone off all right I'm going to dry it out have to be kind of careful drying it because I don't want to get cut poor little thing gosh okay so because it is not a unibody design I'll take it all the way apart dry off the pieces get as much water out of here as I can all right and now today we have kind of an interesting little dry bag proposition this company beastie sent us their pre-made beast eternal premade dry bag removes water from personal electronics so since we've gone through quite a lot of rice and silica gel packs figured why not oh wait hold on I'm assuming that I'm supposed to do not remove beads from clear pouch hole Ella's course interesting okay I guess if I used it wrong they were entangled what's their phone in here it barely fits your have to take the beads up and then not meant for phablets maybe they'll come out with a new tablet sized version get our battery in here shove our bees down fill it up nice and tight we'll see if we still have a functioning although fragmented phone in a couple more days well we know how the screen is doing let's see how the guts are doing we did find out by the way that beastie makes bigger size dry bags for iPads and other devices so you don't always have to have such a tight squeeze okay gotta be careful we'll look the battery starting to go back in here we go god that damage is so upsetting get back on ow I'm okay let's see if it comes on after submergent oh it does I will be afraid to manipulate the screen in any way lest I be injured but at least it is functional because screens can be replaced that's actually not that big a deal as long as it's still working let's try to unlock it carefully all right pretty impressive it comes back on seems responsive it looks like actually it's even managed to get back on our studio Wi-Fi not bad I will say that at least in terms of the water test this is a pass
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