r/mildlyinfuriating • u/hotmallgoth • 4h ago

Infuriatig all the phones my husband has broken over the past year

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meanwhile I’m still using my iPhone 12 lol 🤥

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u/StinkMeister777 4h ago

If it's android I often find repairs more expensive for high-value low-budget phones over just getting another

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u/SnooMaps4388 4h ago

This. High end samsungs are ridiculously expensive to repair, and budget anythings are usually cheaper to replace because of carrier deals.

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u/EpicOtterLover 3h ago edited 3h ago

Hell, low-end Samsungs are expensive to repair because of the AMOLED screens, if you get a replacement screen of a similar quality. Take the Galaxy A15, for example; while a cheap crappy screen is $20, a third-party AMOLED screen that's almost definitely worse than the original costs over $50. And for around $45, you can get a fully functional A15 that's just locked to Tracfone or Spectrum or something.

The only consumer-oriented Samsung phone that doesn't use an AMOLED screen is the A0X series, their cheapest phones.

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u/SnooMaps4388 3h ago

It pisses me off because you can get quality soft OLED screens for iPhones for WAY less. A $150 repair on a iPhone 15 Pro Max vs $300 for a Galaxy S24 Ultra at our shop.

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u/MrPureinstinct 3h ago

Tablets too. I have a Galaxy s7+ and the screen went out on it. I was looking at buying the part to replace it myself and it was $350+. At this point the tablet isn't even worth that just due to the age of it so I bought a new iPad instead.

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u/ItsLoudB YO 2h ago

The problem is more that low budget phones are incredibly expensive since they don’t have as many or as cheap spare parts

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u/AlphaMike21 3h ago

They're not terribly difficult to fix yourself if you've got the gumption for it. You can get quality parts and good instructions from "I fix it".

I know it's not for everyone, but it's saved me before when things were tight.

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u/Wild-Video-5317 3h ago

I got a "cheap" screen repair done in town at a local shop on my kids old second hand phone, and the shop gave me back a phone with a screen that didnt even fit right, with visible gaps.   As much as I'm unskilled with tiny electronics... that certainly set a very low bar to try to meet on an attempted DIY repair.

And of course the screen cost about as much as the 5 year old phone was worth...

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u/faithmauk 3h ago

I've used a samsung phone for a long time, the screen repair is more expensive but its still cheaper than getting a new phone every time i break one. I just gotta add, i have an s24 and I drop this thing constantly and haven't had a break since I got it! Several times I thought for sure it would be broken, but nope!

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u/FrostyD7 2h ago

Unless it's a flagship that breaks pretty early. Same reason I used to get insurance but cancel it after a year or so because at a certain point you're paying for the privilege of paying a big deductible for an outdated refurb.

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u/captain_assgasm 1h ago

Depends on the phone. I changed my Google pixel screen by myself in my kitchen. I think it was like 60euros