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Mine did, my very first smartphone that I got in August of 2016 was acting all glitchy, I couldn't touch the touchscreen at all. My mother thought it'd be a good idea to factory reset my phone, but the problem was still there, which made me lose everything I had. (Especially my old Pocket Camp data )
In the end, the very evening on the same day my mother bought me a new phone. I thought I could backup my Pocket Camp data, but since my old phone got factory resetted, I couldn't get it back, forcing me to start over. Thankfully I knew everything on what to do to reach back to where I left off on my level and such.
i had two different LG G3 phones back in 2016 and both of them died within months of having them, some sort of weird boot loop issue that was apparently common with that phone
my last phone did, but that's only because i had it from 2016-2022 or so. it had a shattered glass back and a crack on a front corner, but the battery eventually started playing up, and ultimately it wouldn't turn on anymore. i could've upgraded it a lot sooner but i was attached to having a physical home button lol, so i held onto it for as long as i could. (and wish it still worked since my new phone isn't compatible with pocket camp, rip </3) i only had two (three?) phones before that, but they were all still working by the time i upgraded them as far as i recall. i've managed to never break a phone.
They can't stop working if you never had one in the first place.
I've had very little use for a smartphone up to now, so I've only ever bothered with inexpensive flip phones when necessary. The incentive to finally get on board the smart phone train increases by the year though, so I might end up with one eventually.
I had one with a battery fault ~12 years ago. It was right before my first solo trip abroad so it wasn't ideal. Luckily I got a replacement sorted very quickly.
Other than that they've deteriorated very gradually. My current phone I've had since March 2020 - it's the only Samsung smart phone I've used (I've previously had several iPhones and two Google phones) and it is still going strong! Battery is still fantastic.
None of my cell phones. I currently own my third one and the previous two have been given to family members, and are still in use (albeit terribly outdated). My tablet, however, broke down last November when I booted it up to play Pocket Camp again, I think the system update I let it perform (before I did anything else with it, which was stupid) broke Android; I can't even get into recovery mode or do a reset.
I haven't. My first phone was given to me by my dad's sister and she ended up buying it on Wish. My dad paid for the phone, and she bought the knockoff on Wish and pocketed the rest of the money from what should've been used to purchase the real deal. That particular phone didn't work at all. I didn't count this instance because it never worked in the first place to stop working, if that makes sense. I've been purchasing my own phones ever since. I currently have an iPhone 12. It still works perfectly fine aside from the charging port. That stopped working completely and it probably just needs cleaned, but I've been using MagSafe chargers. They serve the same purpose, so I don't see a reason to get the port cleaned when I'll likely have to get a new phone sometime next year anyhow. My iPhone 12 is almost three years old.
I kept an iPhone X for a few years and one time I was browsing a website and it just bricked. Took it to the Apple Store the next day and they said I had to get a new one.
I smashed my phone not realizing it was stuck in between the car door. I shut the door and it shattered into a hundred pieces. Then I got out of the car and dropped it again on concrete. As if it wasn't already destroyed enough.
silly me.
otherwise i'm pretty good at taking care of my stuff.
Only one— my first phone, an iPhone 5S. I was at school and playing a game on it to pass the time until class started, and I noticed things were slower and more laggy than usual. I figured restarting my phone would help, so that’s what I did, and it just… never turned back on. It was stuck on the Apple logo screen. I took it to Apple and they told me my phone had water damage, which made no sense to me since I never had my phone near water, but I ended up paying to fix it until I could get a new phone. The screen started coming off only a few weeks later even though I never dropped it, so I kind of regret paying to fix it and should’ve just gotten a new phone from the start.
I’ve had 2 phones since, and they both still work (reasonably) and are in decent condition. My second phone, an iPhone 6, is pretty much unusable since Apple no longer supports it, and most apps don’t work on it since they require an iOS update that the phone doesn’t get. The battery is also really bad on it, going from 100% to 50% in less than an hour even if I don’t use it or do anything on it. My third and current phone, an iPhone 8, works just fine. I’ve only had it for 5 months, and the battery life is good, it still receives updates, and things load on it just fine! I’m hoping I won’t have to worry about needing a new phone again for at least a few years.
I've had 4 smartphones in my life, only one time did I replace my phone without it being broken. I have an iPhone 4 that I used for 6 years before I finally replaced it (2011-2017 couldn't download any new apps due to iOS things and I wanted a better camera because those had improved A LOT during the time) but otherwise it still completely works. The other 2 times I used those phones until they stopped working.
After my iPhone I got a Sony phone which broke when I dropped it and the digitizer stopped working. When this happened I actually went back to using the iPhone for a short while while I waited for my new phone to arrive. Then I got a second Sony phone which I eventually got rid of due to battery issues (the battery was expanding and broke off the back cover of the phone). Now I have a Samsung phone which I've had for about 3 years and I'm going to keep using it until it breaks.
not completely shutdown but i've had a few where the battery would suddenly drain super quickly and would constantly need to be charged throughout the day
my very first phone, the blackberry curve, would be 100% after leaving the house but by the time i got to school i'd need to charge it Q-Q
then my iphone 7 would have a similar fate where it would heat up or the battery would just up and drop suddenly so i always had a charger and portable charging bank on me but eventually i saved up enough to replace it
the charging port stopped working on my last phone so i had to get a new one, you can still charge it but you have to have it in a very specific position and i know it wasn't the chargers because the chargers worked fine on other phones. it was coming super lose too
then i remember having an iphone 6 years ago that just froze and stopped working
my very first phone stopped working. i just woke up one day and all my data was gone, despite the fact i didn't do any factory resets or anything like that. it also went off after like 4 minutes after being on for some reason.
i couldn't even take it to the repair shop to attempt to get the data back because the battery pack became bloated on that very same night (or at least became visibly noticeable to me). this was around the time that the newest samsung note 7s were exploding and causing fires all over the nation so i just decided to buy a new phone lol
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