Went out, forgot something, went in, my phone fell out my pocket, got in my car, drove off.
When I found my phone, it was driven over.. by me.
luckily It looks like I only drove over the long side of it and not over the entire phone, it was face down.
Here's the damage.
I had a glass screen protector, it took all the damage. On the back side of the phone, rubber on rubber apparently is a good mix, not a scratch except a little dirt.
There's a pun here, I know it...
Always wear protection...
"When they said Android Auto, this isn't what they meant."
I'm sorry I had to
LG - Lessening (the effect of) Gravity
I'm ashamed I couldn't think of anything better.
no kidding those glass screen protectors really work
Do you encrypt? If so any noticeable performance dips?
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Encrypted, always. Performance is consistent.
Benchmarks on Vellamo Metal (if that helps at all): 2017; Multicore: 2095
It reports this:
rand_read_iops: 4087
rand_write_iops: 953
seq_read_mbps: 173.77
seq_write_mbps: 47.73
Apparently the LG G4 and 5X use the same storage chip. FDE does take a hit apparently, but ive not tested it myself. Id rather have encryption with an unnoticeable slightly slower r/w.
Yup.
I'm starting to see the "propaganda" on encryption in all forms. Obviously the dump follow, but I had never encrypted my phone, considering I did'nt feel the need to at the time nor did I store sensitive docs on it like I do now.
Thanks
On a dumb phone I never had any sensitive info, but these days my email is on my phone. My email accesses everything.
Theres no reason not to encrypt your phone, its a portable device, my laptop is encrypted as well.
If I lose it, i lost the phone, but i dont need to worry about the data or access it had to other things as no one can get on it.
What id love to see in Android is for it to have a panic mode that would activate a fake profile/partition and/or wipe the real one, it would be useful for a lot of people.
I lost my phone about 6 months ago and that was a hard issue for me. I did manage to go to Google an looked up my devices, under security I chose to set the phone in a mode where it would ring and flash a message until it was turned off, only to loop back again when On. I the proceeded to do a Factory reset on the phone remotely...
lol.
nice job... glad it's ok.
I've got that exact phone coming in the mail right now. (google.fi)
I'll try not to drive over it...
I think if you use Google's "Find my Android" thing, you can do a remote wipe. That's providing you trust Google with your data...lol
I really want to know what you were thinking about that could distract you so much that you one, don't notice your phone falling out of your pocket, and two, drive over the damn phone without realizing.
A few weeks ago on Security Now, Steve Gibson hypothesized a new fingerprint scanner feature whereby you could designate a finger as a "nuclear" finger that would initiate an auto-wipe. That would be great, and wouldn't seem to be too difficult to implement. Perhaps you could designate a "Defcon 3" finger that would initiate the decoy profile, and a "Defcon 1" finger that would wipe everything. Perhaps Google would be skittish about enabling such a function at the OS level, but if they buried the setting behind enough warnings, it could work. Or, if somebody like Cyanogen could include it, it would be a nice feature.
I'd be down for that.... does android currently support multiple user login? You could just do it that way.
Those glass screen protectors does take up the whole damage, despite its fragility. Funny that I just noticed this thread now since this morning I dropped my iPhone screen-first onto a tiled floor. Thought I was dun goof'd, I then noticed no damage was done to both the phone and the glass screen protector. It might have been that it actually landed on a rug and shoe, so the test wasn't fair I admit.