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Most of us have a tale of breaking or losing a phone<\/a> that brings us pangs of regret. For example, when I was a teen, I walked into the sea with a phone in my pocket. That was the end of that device, but at least I had the naivety of youth to blame. However, I destroyed my phone in my sleep recently, and the only way I\u2019m going to feel less of an idiot is by hearing your embarrassing tech fails.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t my finest hour, but if it will encourage you to fess up, I\u2019ll share my cringe-worthy episode.<\/p>\n What\u2019s the worst fate a phone has met on your watch?<\/p>\n 66 votes<\/p>\n Broken in an accident<\/p>\n 24%<\/p>\n Lost and never recovered<\/p>\n 3%<\/p>\n Stolen<\/p>\n 12%<\/p>\n Water damage<\/p>\n 11%<\/p>\n Touch wood, I’ve never had any phone drama<\/p>\n 50%<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t even know where my phone was when I woke up, much less that I destroyed it. I\u2019d had it when I went to sleep, but it wasn\u2019t on the bedside table in the morning. I checked the usual places, then the places I knew it couldn\u2019t possibly be, just in case. No sign of it.<\/p>\n I was stumped. Find Hub<\/a> showed it last pinged in the vicinity of my department, which was both reassuring and deeply unhelpful. I wasn\u2019t drunk the night before, and there was no one else in the apartment. There was one other possibility so stupid that I initially rejected it on principle, but I had to face it.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority?<\/p>\n Set us as a favorite source in Google Discover to never miss our latest exclusive reports, expert analysis, and much more. I can be quite an active sleeper, and picking up my phone in a near-unconscious state isn\u2019t unheard of. I had also decided to combat the heat the night before by sleeping on the opposite side of my bed to usual, which is next to the open window. I realized I must have picked up my phone in my sleep and put it back down into thin air, blissfully unaware of the phone-icide I just committed.<\/p>\n Matt Horne \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n The window in question.<\/p>\n The window faces into a communal area of the building complex, so if I had defenestrated my device, I wasn\u2019t immediately concerned that a passerby would have stolen it. I was much more preoccupied with the fact that I live on the 11th floor. This felt more relevant, as the communal area is ten floors below and has a paved surface.<\/p>\n I went to the lobby and asked security if anyone had handed in a phone. They had, and I got my Galaxy S24 Plus back, but it wasn\u2019t in good shape. Despite having a pretty tough case<\/a> and a screen protector on it \u2014 both of which survived the fall intact \u2014 the phone looked like it had been volunteered for the JerryRigEverything<\/a> bend test. It was cracked down the middle and visibly bent. Pressing the power button triggered a flicker of light, as if it were briefly considering whether life was worth continuing before deciding it absolutely was not.<\/p>\n Now it\u2019s your turn. I really want to hear your moments of madness with your devices, so I can feel better about how I destroyed my phone. Let me know in the comments below, and vote in the poll above to see the results. Maybe you\u2019ll just tell me how stupid I was, but let he without sin cast the first stone. Or, in my case, throw the first phone.<\/p>\n Some related questions you might prefer to answer:<\/p>\n What\u2019s the most expensive piece of tech you\u2019ve accidentally lost or destroyed?
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\nHave you ever broken something and only realized later how it happened?
\nHave you ever destroyed a device through sheer bad luck rather than carelessness?
\nDo you have to buy a cheap new phone fairly regularly due to your mishaps?<\/p>\n