I'm clumsy, I know it. But I'm not that bad at things, I check things out before I buy, and try not to damage the battery. But... is it just me or do I really have bad luck with electronics?
Are your history on electronic is also this bad?

My gadget history;
-Laptop, had to be formatted because of some error 2 months after I got it. Got malwares even anti-malwares or virus can't detect.
-Phone, Had to trade it for a new one just the day after I bought it because it just wont turn on for some reason. Then had to change the battery 2 times cos it goes up and down --''. Currently in service cos the front glass is damaged.
-Graphic Tablet, the day I bought it, when I tried it at home, the pen wont stop unclicking. Trying out all things, nothing worked. Since the service center is quite far, I left it alone for 2 years until now.
-Ipod, turn off by itself frequently, wont update no matter what, been like that for a long time.
-earphone/headphone/earpods, worst had to change a thousand time, from original famous ones, apple ones, to the uber cheap one. it wont last for 2 weeks. Just broke the latest apple earpod my sis gave me 2 days ago...
-Mouse, currently got 3: first one, wireless, left click wont work. second one, mini, cable is loose, now cant be used at all. third one, the battery wont fit, too spacy, the product seems misshapen.
-PC, had to change the keyboard, speaker, takes 7 mins to boot, and 20 mins to shut down, which is why I rarely use it.
-Modem, lost words about this one, really...
etc. This is so long already, and i got more, gotta stop. Sorry for the long post, it's just depressing.

Haha, you're awesome...
And kinda unlucky, maybe, or just really is very clumsy...
I'm with the very clumsy option.. ^^

I think that, if something breaks down after just a week of buying it,
They would replace the electronic,
but after a week, maybe about 3 months, the repair is still free...

Just Lazying now, aren't we??...

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1.Mobile - rooted it and installed custom rom. Was never the same again. Lost video and speaker facilities + didn't recognise headphones anymore + couldn't switch it on or off.
2.laptop - the monitor and keyboard came apart after an episode of shutting it down too hard. It literally became two different pieces.
3. used to have 3 apple ipods. 2 of them were stolen
4. external speakers - won't work at all! they were expensive too..

I believe that's all. But, I find it to be more than enough.

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Wow! That's a loooooong list.
Sorry I'm terrible but I couldn't help but laugh.
I don't know anyone with such an impressive history with electronics, though we all have such accidents.
I'm pretty clumsy too. I've dropped my phone in water multiple times and my poor laptop has been subjected to such atrocities that it has a shaky hinge, cracked corners and more scratches than I care to count.
But I suppose I'm lucky as they are still in working condition and I've already had my laptop for a few years.

Anyway I wish you better luck with electronics in the future!

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*Sigh* My entire family (except for maybe my dad) is cursed with bad luck.

-Computers: In the near 10 years we've lived in this house, we've gone through 3 computers (on our 4th one heh), 2 laptops (have the 4th and 5th still working). The computers are gone just because virus' have taken them over (everybodies scared shitless now to download anything) The laptops just broke. The motherboard (was that the word? haha) just compeltely broke, and the other one fell down the stairs (oops.) Right now our laptop is close to being in the list Dx. The battery is dead, and our charger doesn't work anymore (3 weeks and still no charger)
-Phones: This is mostly my mom, but in 10 years she's had 6 phones, she's just really clumsy, but she's doing better. Her past 2 phones broke for no reason, so even if she takes superb care of it, it somehow always breaks. My sister's only had 3 phones, but her last phone she had to keep switching batteries all the time.
-Headphones: I can't even count how many headphones we've gone through. This is mostly just my sister and I. Me personally, in one year I've gone through near 10 pairs of headphones. I don't even know how much my sister has gone through, but she's always having to buy new ones. Headphones don't like us.
-Chargers: Mostly my mom and sister (me too I guess) have terrible luck with chargers.. mostly with our apple products. My moms ipod charger kept getting lost. My older sister somehow always ripped hers. In two months after getting my ipod touch, it broke (not my fault lightning chargers are so tiny and rippable!) Im in my third charger, and it's been exactly 15months since I got my ipod.

It's not as long as yours, but *sigh* I think it's genetic, my family's bad luck with these things.

if it's not 12+ years old, and has a proper system installed this shouldn't happen. Usually re-installing the system should speed it up a fair bit. If it's still bad, and you are using windows give linux a try.


Well.. didn't try formatting the discs a couple of times? Or replacing them? Would cost a lot less than the whole thing, and it's something you can do at home.

My history is quite the contrary.
I've had the same laptop for 7 years - even though it had a 100gb hard disk with a total of 10GB of bad sectors (not in one place), dead battery (it resisted having been plugged into a charger which was.. 10 times too strong for it), smashed CDdrive ... it worked well. Like a 3 y old laptop would. I still use it sometimes.

I have a Creative Zen mp3 from 2003, had to repair the mini jack slot about 20 times, but it's still alive. Resisted about a dozen falls while being on (it has a delicate hard drive, not a flash).

Maybe it's my luck, or maybe the old stuff was lass prone to damage. At uni some of the simpler measuring systems are plugged into 20 year-old computers, working on DOS and the data output is a 5.25'' diskette (whole 360kb), and they are still working.

The biggest disaster I've came across was.. oh well.. not really an electronic device.. I just happened to put a cord from the toaster INTO the toaster. There was a loud bang, a green flash (copper) and a lot of smoke. Do not try this at home.
I also lost the toast there.

Also just after I've bought a new laptop, I've put it down on some picture in a lab, some dolphins or something. It happened to be a whole square meter of...neodymium magnets. I didn't think that a SSD (flash) hard disc would come in handy that soon (you can't erase data from a SSD with a magnet that easily).

Yeah I often find myself thinking electronic items hate me. Or that I'm not supposed to have nice things in general, and electronics usually falls into the category of "nice things" lol.

Lets see, some examples...

Well, my Macbook I got years ago happened to be a batch that were faulty. So a year or so later, the screen would just freeze, or it would randomly turn off. Luckily I was under warrenty for 3 years, so I got the logic board replaced.
Then the screen started being shit after that, dimming down so I couldn't see a thing. Took it back, had the logic board replaced again and got a brand new screen.
I've had the logic board replaced a total of 4 times.
Nobody else I know who own a Mac has had problems like this. Just me.

I got a 3DS XL back in November, and I was so excited cos I got it with pokemon and was super stoked to play, but of course the one I got just had to have the inner camera busted and not work at all. My flatmate got his at the same time, and I had to endure a week of him playing pokemon in my room, blissfully unaware that he was rubbing it in my face that he could play and his 3DS has no problems whatsoever, and that I just had to get the one that was faulty.
Still with the 3DS, there I am, cleaning my screen of a few thumb prints, but no. No it didn't like that and now I have dirt of some sort stuck underneath the screen and it's gonna stay there forever. The irony ヽ(´▽｀)ノ

I have an awful track record with earphones. Usually one of the earphones blows, or the skip system sucks like hell and hardly ever works.

My 1TB EHD got corrupted. Twice. I lost everything. Still a bitter taste when I think about that.

I was at work a couple of years ago, and I managed to crash the computer I was using. It's never happened before in their workplace, but nope. I had to go ahead and wreck it somehow. I didn't even do anything bad. I must have overworked it or something I dunno, but it always happens to me ヽ（´ー｀）┌

Electronic related in a sense, I recently pre-ordered a game and it was supposed to come with a free poster, but of course, when I went to pick it up they didn't have them in yet. Then when I went in again to see if they had them, they couldn't find it. I had to keep hassling them for a week and they eventually found it.

I have to mention when I got my second monitor too. That didn't run smoothly either. The cable I had sucked and it kept crapping out and losing the connection ┐(￣ヮ￣)┌

There's more but honestly I can't be asked to rant anymore. This post is already long enough lol.
It just reminded me that the world hates it when I try and get nice things. It never happens smoothly. There always has to be a problem. Always.

Two companies have failed me consistently.

Microsoft.
I lost a job once thanks to their incompetent excuse for an operating system. Plus, it was just a pain to use for the most part. Thankfully, that was about 14 years ago - Windows 98 was the last MS operating system I ever installed on one of my own computers - and I haven't had any problems running OS X, Linux or BSD ever since. I still get calls from acquaintances to troubleshoot their Windows installs from time to time though, which is obviously a liquid pain. I do have to thank MS for providing me with a decent supply of free computers over the years though, since many people I know often get rid of systems with perfectly working hardware only because their Windows install got fucked so bad.

Samsung.
With the exception of a washing machine, every Samsung product I ever bought has died on me, usually just a couple of months (in one case, it was just a day) after the warranty period expired. Samsung PR calls it coincidence. I call them unscrupulous bastards!! I suppose you could give them some credit for having enough engineering know-how to build products to fail at specific times, but I've avoided the brand altogether for the last 3 years. In fact, I often do extra research so that I avoid products featuring Samsung capacitors, RAM, batteries, LED displays and other little bits as much as possible - easier said than done considering how many companies Samsung supplies. I also hate K-Pop, and since Samsung practically runs S.Korea, I blame them for that too!!

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I have a computer from 1998 with Win XP that I dug out of a dumpster. It runs better than when it was new.

I'm typically very good with electronics. I've only had one pair of headphones die on me, and they were Koss. They have notoriously bad build quality. Although they make up for that with a lifetime warranty. I cooked my first pc. It started smoking and my house smelled like burned plastic for a couple of hours. Which, actually is what led me to use that old computer I mentioned above.

Maybe not less prone to damage, just higher fault tolerance. Those old computers were built to last, and not be replaced every other year.

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Do they actually honour the warranties? I'm asking because I know a few people online who have been displeased with Koss with regards to warranty claims. There's also that accounting scandal from a few years ago.

Now that you mentioned headphones, I'd like to add another company that's failed me consistently - Audeze. My LCD-2's right driver failed once and just when I got it back from RMA, the left wood-cup cracked. Also had a driver die on a loaner LCD-3, but thankfully the dealer didn't charge me anything since it was supposedly a common problem. Audeze build quality makes 1970's Italian cars seem reliable in comparison. They do have excellent customer service though.


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Anyone who had a PS2 when it came out is probably familiar with the disc read error. That's something that plagued me quite often and I had to adjust the laser quite a bit during the years it was in use. PC was coughing up once. PSU fan died and I could smell burnt plastic. Switched to a new one. Other than that, nothing much. I am sawwy enough to fix anything I use and I can immediately tell if something is malfunctioning and attempt to revert whatever fucked it up.


I've gone through 3 pairs of Sennheiser CX 300-II inears. The plug is absolutely idiotic and whoever designed it needs to have it transplanted into their rectal cavity. It's bound to act as a leverage to dismantle the iron of both the phones as well as the player. They did however offer a great sound for a cheap price. If you get rid of the rubbery phimosis of it with scissors, it works fine. I am content in their speaker craft otherwise. I have HD 598 as my PC headset and it has been great and probably the most comfortable object I have ever worn on my head.

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Honestly, I've never tested it. The process of replacing $20 headphones doesn't seem worth it to me. I'm not a rich man. I won't spend more than $60 on headphones. Which sounds stupid when you consider the fact I have about five sets ranging from $15 to $40. I'll just have you know they were bought over a period of several years.

I just remembered I bought a pair of Sony MDR-V150 headphones at Sears. I took them home and plugged them in. I wasn't getting any sound out of them. I checked to make sure the computer wasn't muted or something, which it wasn't. So I go to check and see if it's plugged in all the way. It looks good. Next I try pulling it out to plug it into my mp3 player, when I notice the jack has stayed behind on my computer. It was pulled right out of the boot. I was wtf. I think that is the one time the extended warranty was actually useful and I didn't waste $3. Got a replacement pair the very same day. That was about ten years ago. The replacements still work, but man are they dogs.

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Sarcasm just doesn't work over the internet.

Sadly enough I can't hold my laugh either.

It's not 12+ years old, probably 6-7 years old :/. I've never used linux before, maybe I'll give it a try.

-w- and all of you guys are reminding me of my broken game consoles: DS upper screen loose, gameboy screen cracked, extremely old PS 1 (cant believe it still exist) which... only the controller left

Cables, ugh!! I'm terrible at handling them. USB cables, chargers, adapters, mouse, keyboard. Every cabled thing I use seem to break within a month or so. I once had a mouse the lasted for less than a week I'm using a 2yo laptop right now. Its charger's cable is all taped up due to my "quick fixes", which btw I had to learn due to my history with cables xc

As for your PC problem try scanning it for viruses first. If it's still slow try reinstalling the OS. If it's still slow then it's probably a hardware problem already. Goodluck! ^^

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Lol reading this thread suddenly makes me feel a little better

I've had the worse luck compared to everyone else I know for electronics
(1) first laptop was the shitty HP that went to crap for every single person who even owned a model aka wasn't my problem really but I consider it bad luck still. Subsequently, I have a removed relative who works with computers and fixes/sells them for a living. He was nice enough to eventually fix the crap HP but it still kept crapping up (constantly blue screening) However while fixing them, he was nice to bring older laptops that were quite old that he refurbished himself (he had a surplus of them) The best thing I got from the HP was a free replacement a couple years later that was quite an adequate replacement.

(2) the older laptops I got from my removed relative-a few times they went to crap. all these three laptops, I've had to reformat multiple times. I can't tell how many but it was annoying as shit. It's sad that I got so used to the process of reformatting though...
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(3) Zune--the ok but nonetheless what I call the predecessor of what has become the windows 8 OS or Windows RT thingy. The worse part is that microsoft abandoned the project of zune so without updates and all that, it's almost useless electronic device.

(4) kindle- I purchased a kindle for the sake of sating my reading away from home once I got to college but I like to read. But poor choice of timing and I happened to purchase the thing that is almost a tablet a few months before the HD came out....

(5) my brand new Dell laptop I got for college. Within a few months, it was randomly shutting down/restarting as well as beeping. I found out (thank got I had a one year premium warranty at the time) that my almost all of my hardware was crap and the beeping sound was from the motherboard failing. I was happy to know that they replaced all the parts except for the hard drive.

(6) almost one whole year later when I started school again after summer, my once and not now new dell started crapping up again. I stopped turning it off for fear that it would never turn on again because it took one too many tries to turn it back on after it shuts down (even when it was restarting). I was scared especially because I had to use it until the winter vacation which means whatever studying and paper writing I had to do, I had to do it with the laptop that was failing-again it was beeping so I knew it was the motherboard. BUT my warrantly passed so I couldn't even get any help so I had to wade through hellish weeks in fear of my laptop dying. It's fixed now but I don't have it

(7) come winter vacation and this year, a few months ago, I wanted to buy a small laptop to supplement whatever notetaking that would require more organization and speed than handwritten notes. It's above all useless except for the fact that I can use it for notetaking. Slow as shit but I'm glad I didn't spend too much on it though I suppose a few hundred isn't little......The wireless sucks. I can't get connection from my room in my apartment for that laptop. And ever since I updated to 8.1 the stupid sound craps up even for music that I've downloaded and not streaming. I probably can fix that sound issue but I don't feel like investing my time in it right now....

I don't have the best of luck with electronics it seems. My siblings seem to do great with them but I have a somewhat touch of death.....