{"id":615,"date":"2014-07-13T22:41:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T05:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=615"},"modified":"2014-07-15T13:43:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T20:43:36","slug":"when-a-good-nexus-4-goes-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"When a Good Nexus 4 Goes Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I accidentally dropped my Nexus 4 off a cliff, and now its touch screen does not respond. I can see that I am getting calls\/texts\/etc, but I cannot interact with the phone in any meaningful way.<\/p>\n<p>The touchscreen has also become unglued, so I started pulling it away as far as it could go. This resulted in a snap, and some pretty cool glitch patterns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/14669977183\/\" title=\"When a good Nexus 4 goes bad... by Steenaire, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3845\/14669977183_681b048b5f.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"When a good Nexus 4 goes bad...\"><\/a><br \/>\nHere you see the touchscreen being removed from the rest of the phone (while the phone is still on, of course).<\/p>\n<p>Luckily I was able to get everything off of the phone, because everything is working perfectly&#8230; except the touch screen. It figures that the first phone I have ever destroyed also happens to be my first keyboardless phone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/14649662612\/\" title=\"When a good Nexus 4 goes bad... by Steenaire, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3904\/14649662612_bbc18c7556.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"When a good Nexus 4 goes bad...\"><\/a><br \/>\nHere you see the glitch effects I caused by not caring about the phone anymore, since the touchscreen wouldn&#8217;t work anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Since the peeling off glitch screen is such a thing of beauty, Doc and I decided to photograph it and make smartphone wallpapers from it. The resulting glitch wallpaper looks absolutely beautiful on my Nexus 5.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/14477659577\" title=\"Glitch Android Desktop by Steenaire, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3926\/14477659577_a5526fb9ed.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Glitch Android Desktop\"><\/a><br \/>\nHere is the Nexus 5 with its glitchy Nexus 4 wallpaper. This is how it appears in its &#8220;locked&#8221; mode.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/14641124806\" title=\"Glitch Android Desktop by Steenaire, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5037\/14641124806_f747b4471b.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Glitch Android Desktop\"><\/a><br \/>\nHere is the Nexus 5 with its glitchy Nexus 4 wallpaper. This is how it appears in its &#8220;unlocked&#8221; mode.<\/p>\n<p>I gave some of the photos to Doc for him to touch up, and we plan on making the wallpapers available for anybody who wants to make their phones look like a Nexus 4 that got dropped off a cliff. Doc suggested taking an Android icon, and glitching it out as part of the wallpaper. I told him &#8220;That would be too confusing, unless you used an icon that I would never ever click on&#8230; like the Google+ icon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I accidentally dropped my Nexus 4 off a cliff, and now its touch screen does not respond. I can see that I am getting calls\/texts\/etc, but I cannot interact with the phone in any meaningful way. The touchscreen has also become unglued, so I started pulling it away as far as it could go. This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=615\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When a Good Nexus 4 Goes Bad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}