How many Manufacturing Defective phones have you had?

If you go over 9.09 phones every 365 days over the last decade, I think you pacing the average...

bembol wrote: ↑ ... I lost count but since 2009 counting only Smart Phones, I've purchased over 100 and went through defective phones.

A few days ago, my Samsung Galaxy A71 after Googling it. I got the Green Display of Death. Basically defective display.

This is my second defective phone, the other was just a Dead Pixel on my Galaxy S7 edge.

My A71 will be ready by 3PM today by Service Centre in Sauga.

Only phone I can think of off the top of my head was my Nexus 6P which had the widely reported "random shutdown on low battery" issues - but that was after 2 years of owning it, and wasn't covered under warranty. Any other phone that's broken, has either physically broken due to mishandling (drop/sit on/etc) or I've gotten rid of it before it died.

Only phone I've had a major defect was the LG G4 boot loop. (Will NEVER forget that horrible experience.) Because I had the international variant I wasn't able to get it replaced. I've pretty much stayed away from international variants since. (Also LG for that matter. Though, the LG threads in Hot Deals have some saying it's fine now...)

Other than that, I haven't had any defects with my other previous smartphones: HTC One X, Samsung S4, S7 Edge, S8.

I was late to the smartphone world - so none.
That includes 6 or 7 phones total.
Of those, 3 had problems that were fixed with software updates, rather than returned under warranty.

Edit: I was one of those guys that thought I wouldn't use the 'smart' features very much, including browsing, email or navigation.
Now I feel bad for my Garmin (with lifetime map updates) because I use Google Maps 100% of the time.

Only phone was the nexus 6p, got it covered under warranty and sold it sealed in the box.

I've had two bad iPhone 4s. After that I had Galaxy S3, S5, S7, and S9 without any issues.

Another Nexus 6P victim here. Mine had a bent volume rocker. The battery issue didn't start until a few months ago. I handed it down to my younger brother who still used it until then.

I used to buy all the flagship phones but have slowed down a lot, never had a real defective phone except once. It was replaced under warranty (I didn't have receipt, it was from Sony), this was many yrs ago (like maybe 5 yrs ago?)

I've had 6 phones over the last decade and each one of them had 1 or 2 little things wrong with it, but none were truly defective. I did have a LG G3 that developed constant wifi issues but that was a couple of years after I had moved on to a different phone.

Outside of assisting Koodo & LG to work out a bug with saving WiFi settings on the G3 at launch, I’d say 1.5.

1. Galaxy S7. A week after I got it, I had a weird bug where it wouldn’t power up off the charger. Plugging it in would show full power, but it would shut off upon removing the cord. Eventually I got it working for a bit but it happened again and I exchanged it.

0.5. I’m putting the (infamous) Note7 as half a point. While mine “technically” didn’t seem to have a fault, I wasn’t about to take any chances when the device was recalled. I actually fought with Rogers to let me switch to a different phone entirely as I wasn’t convinced the replacement units were fine (as it turned out, I made a good decision).

Oh! I forgot another issue - I had an iPhone 5 for work, and it developed a bulging battery about 1.5 years into ownership. That was fun/scary.

3 within my family - started buying iphone 3GS and Blackberry 8800 series....all purchased brand new....

1. Blackberry Q10 - one died when I was GPSing...that was fun. It just died, thinking due to overheating. I was stuck on the road, lost! Sent in for a replacement under warranty. My wife's Q10 would reboot when placed on a desk with a little bump. Sent that in for replacement under warranty and the replacement was fine.

2. Iphone 5s - also developed the battery bulge but this was years after the warranty expired. I think the phone was dropped, hence the bulge? I opened the phone and replaced the battery myself.

3. Iphone XS Max 256gb - issues with the display which would freeze when talking on the phone (unable to awake the screen). Replaced by Apple with a new replacement. No issues since.

So far I had the following smartphones : iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, Galaxy S3, S6 and S8.

Only replaced the iPhone 4 before the end of the warranty as it was sometimes dropping calls if my memory is good.

No issues so far. Long Term Use Phones:

Old HTC Android 2.3.1
Galaxy Note LTE
LG G4
Google Pixel 3 XL

Other phones used for shorter durations:
Galaxy Note 3
iPhone 4S
LG V20

Can't say that I've ever experienced a phone hardware fault, other than the old HTC lost its signal when I dropped it at the dentist... I finally chucked it across the floor in frustration, and when I checked it later it had its signal back.

My old LG G4 took about 5 trips across a road and went swimming in two puddles, and never broke or fried. It still works today. It has taken more severe hits than any that I have seen.

I got fed up with Apple after my 4S died on iOS upgrades twice and had to be restored from a computer with iTunes. That plus the later battery-shutdown and throttling issues (and the lack of useful features for a heavy email user) finally convinced me that they were the Microsoft of phones, and I bailed to where the grass is greener. (Google/Android.)