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gravity it's all around us and it exerts a certain influence over everything in our lives including our smartphones I'm Joe Levi for pocket now and this is what you should do when gravity kills your smartphone so first up I had an entirely different video plan for today it had to do with my Nexus 4 and a custom kernel but last night gravity exerted its will on my smartphone this is a nexus 4 for all those who are wondering right there the back came out pretty much unscathed a little bit of a chip down here in the corner but the front is dead not only is it broken all over the place but it's also dead it doesn't recognize finger inputs nothing at all and well let's just say it's painful because Nexus fours aren't easy to come by as many of you know so in this video we're gonna talk about what you can do to protect yourself against an unfortunate fall caused by our enemy gravity and what you can do to recover from it first and foremost if your phone lands flat there's not a lot you can do unless you have a really big bulky case I had a bumper that was conveniently at home I had taken it off that morning I was planning on putting it back on that night this would have given just a little bit of a ridge when my phone hit the ground flat that might have given some level of protection believe it or not screen protectors can also help in such a fall yes they're not going to protect it from breaking from cracking from all that 100% what they are going to do is they're going to add an extra layer of very very durable protection now that protection is going to keep small cracks and and imperfections defects and whatnot on the screen from exploding into these kinds of really really big cracks that just take over your whole screen so keeping your screen that much better will help prevent a catastrophic break in the future when you're actually dropping it it's also going to absorb some of that impact some of those forces and may just keep that screen all in one piece even if it doesn't I don't know if you can see but they're shards I mean they're there's literally pieces of glass coming out of that screen it's going to add an extra layer of protection to keep you away from those sharp pieces that leads us to our next thing by the way yeah I've gotten that like two days before I drop that just hadn't gotten around to installing it yet Wow keep a hand on your device that should go without saying I prefer not to rely on my hands ironically enough that's what failed me this time I like to keep my device in a shirt pocket like that or in a holster or in a pocket without anything else in that pocket what can you do or what should you do immediately after you have dropped your device you might be surprised immediately after you've dropped your device don't touch it you're going to be tempted to reach down grab it look at it and you'll be panicked the adrenaline will probably be flowing don't touch it wait for just a second gather yourself together and then pick it up very very carefully preferably by its sides do not reach underneath and grab on to it now the reason for that this is glass it is sharp it is broken glass will cut you and when it does you're not gonna like it I've seen lots of friends who have done just that they've picked up their device and they've immediately sliced open sometimes fillet to open a thumb or an index finger it's not good once you've dropped your phone it's probably already broken take a second relax don't worry it's just a thing pick it up carefully and survey the damage if there is none congratulations be more careful next time if it is damaged like mine at least you didn't run your finger down over the top of it and slice your finger open as well that's going to last a lot longer than we'll take you to get a new phone unless you're trying to get a new Nexus 4 I need a new phone before I did that though I went and I wiped my phone just in case because my data is still on there until I was able to boot up into recovery mode that's the volume down and power button and I went through and just did a factory reset that cleans everything off that device now doesn't have my personal information on it so at least I'm protecting myself that way in my case the very next thing that I did was I went on to the Google Play Store and I ordered up a new Nexus 4 it's the 16 gig version it's gonna cost me about 390 bucks after shipping in taxes and it's gonna be here in three to five weeks I guess I'm gonna have to be patient some of you might be able to go back to your carrier and say hey I broke my phone what can you do for me they might be able to get you into a new phone if you extend your contract with them I'm off contract I don't have that luxury but I do that for other reasons that we've talked about in the past after that you're gonna need a phone so what I did is luckily this is a GSM device and I have a GSM carrier I was able to just pop out my sim little push pin was able to pop that out and at that point I needed to find a device that I had laying around that I could use while I'm waiting for my new Nexus 4 to arrive that lucky device it just happened to be yeah my t-mobile g2 that's seen a lot of miles if you liked what you saw please give the video a thumbs up if you've got some other tips for us head over to pocketnow.com leave us some comments in the articles so we can all learn from each other's mistakes and gravitational experience if you've got a story I want to hear it for PocketNow trying to keep you from dropping your device breaking your phone and how to recover quickly just in case you do I'm Joe Levi thanks for watching if anyone at Google is watching this and you want to know my order number so you can expedite that process hey that'd be great