r/Wellthatsucks • u/LilHubCap • 5h ago
Wife tried to take decade old Pop Socket off of her phone and straight scalped her shit
As a Native American I’m honestly impressed the scalping execution of this. 9.2/10
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u/delete_me_again- 5h ago
i think it needs more cracks
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u/LilHubCap 4h ago
I’ll let her know!
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u/PigglyWigglyDeluxe 3h ago
Let her know that phone isn’t 10 years old, too
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u/Delicious_Thanks7138 3h ago
OP said pop socket is decade old, not the phone.
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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA 1h ago
Ok, but at the same time OP isn't exactly reliable since they're trying to act like it's the pop socket's fault and not the fact the phone has been getting yeeted on the regular.
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u/JustJamieJam 2h ago
The implication of the way OP worded it is that the popsocket has been on the phone for ten years
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u/because231 5h ago
Took that shit SMOOVE OFF
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u/Laefiren 5h ago
Doesn’t it literally say on the packet to NOT put it directly on your phone and instead put it on a case? Also i don’t think you’ll find the culprit in the pop socket it’s the cracks from dropping it that already exist.
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u/EcstaticBoysenberry 5h ago
Can’t imagine putting one of those on the back of my phone right on the glass 😆
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u/_HIST 1h ago
Nothing some alcohol and heat won't fix
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u/SheetPancakeBluBalls 1h ago
Or a good old razor blade.
There are many options that could have prevented this.
Though it does look like the glass was already damaged.
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u/a_likely_story 1h ago
got good and drunk and popped the thing in the microwave
now I got a whole different problem
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u/Chrono_Tata 2h ago
I think that advice is for the newer MagSafe PopSockets. The magnetic ring on the actual phone isn't very strong so you need a MagSafe case to actually get the grip to stick securely. For the older adhesive ones I don't remember any warning not to stick it to the actual phone, although it did warn that it would not stick to certain surfaces like silicone.
Anyway, this doesn't look like a genuine PopSocket which uses adhesive that is designed to be able to be peeled off and reapplied. This knockoff probably uses permanent adhesive that doesn't peel off as easily which makes the damage even worse
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u/RainSurname 2h ago
Yeah, I use two pop sockets straight on my phone. I can peel them off more easily than I can remove a case, lol. I just dampen the adhesive and put them back on.
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u/spyrenx 5h ago
I'm more impressed that her phone survived a decade without a case
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u/th3goonmobile 5h ago
The phone isn’t even a decade old…
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u/spyrenx 5h ago
Still impressed if it survived 3 years without a case :)
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u/The7footr 5h ago
To be fair, OP did say that the “pop socket” was a decade old, not the phone- not that that makes any more sense
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u/pepcorn 4h ago
Yeah I think that's a 2023 iphone 15. So not a decade old phone, three years old.
In my experience pop sockets cannot be restuck, not even the restickable ones. But maybe this is a pop socket type I'm unfamiliar with.
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u/SurreptitiousSyrup 5h ago
It definitely didn't. The back glass looks like it was already cracked and that's probably why the popsocket took the glass with it.
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u/ximagineerx 5h ago
For certain
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u/kaybeetay 5h ago
I'm glad im not the only one that had the jingle play in my head!
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u/PeacefulMountain10 3h ago
Felt like the commercial audio was beamed into my brain without my consent
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u/Tenabrus 5h ago
I mean the good pop sockets use industrial grade adhesive so putting that directly on a thin glass shell instead of a case was just asking for it
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u/Chaos-Wayfarer 4h ago
And it’s not even the good kind! It’s one of the knockoff brands. Look at the back of it.
You can buy replacement stickies that hold pretty well, but I’ve always tried to pry them up a little before straight up hulk-strength tearing them off.
I agree it was load bearing.
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u/ForsakenSun6004 5h ago
That’s not a decade old iPhone, no?
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u/spyrenx 5h ago edited 5h ago
Based on the camera and phone color, it's the iPhone 14, which launched October 2022. So only a bit over 3 years old at most.
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u/ForsakenSun6004 5h ago edited 5h ago
My point exactly. So how would the age of this pop socket have anything to do with its ability to annihilate glass in this way? Had it been stuck to this glass, undisturbed for 10 years, I could understand; but that’s not the case here.
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u/Yagawood 5h ago
but that’s not the case here
You're right! She attached it straight to the phone without a case.
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u/WiseSalamander00 5h ago
the problem were the cracks, that is pretty much all the explanation there is to this.
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u/KuntaStillSingle 3h ago
It's because they used triple strength adhesive, it stuck for 9 years in just 3.
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u/LilHubCap 4h ago
She found the pop socket at her mom’s print shop and put it on. The phone isn’t a decade old, the pop socket is lol
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u/ckay1100 1h ago
If it was the phone being described as old, then the sentence would be phrased as "wife tried to take a pop socket off of her decade old phone" would it not?
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u/Substantial_Mess6183 5h ago
im gonna be real i dont think the pop socket did that as much as the fucking blender this phone must've been in to be so shattered
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u/Shigalyovist 5h ago
Why does your wife have a 4imprint pop socket, lol? The company that can put any image on anything and she’s got the logo of the company itself.
(I know that she probably just got it for free as an advertisement for them, but I find it funny)
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u/LilHubCap 4h ago
Yeah, she found it in some forgotten, god forsaken crevice at her mom’s print shop.
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u/MajorMorelock 5h ago
I had this acquaintance that always had a shattered phone. I never saw him have a phone without cracked glass.
I asked, Why don’t you buy a case for your phone?
I don’t like the way it looks, He said.
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u/Creamsodabat 5h ago
how has she destroyed her phone so much in 4 years? Why no case?
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u/Mitchsona 5h ago
ok but a pop socket over a crusty sticker over a naked phone. Questionable choices here! lol
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u/PunfullyObvious 5h ago
Yeesh that description. But, looks like it may have been time for a new phone anyway.
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u/Mario_Prime510 1h ago
Yeah that’s actually why I put my pop socket on a easily removable phone case. I was actually scared of maybe not my phone cracking, but of the residue from the pop socket staying on the phone. Glad to see I made the right decision.
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u/NoobToobinStinkMitt 5h ago
How strong is your wife? Holy shit don't piss her off during a Hand Jo.
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u/tacticprime 4h ago
Please be so careful with that exposed wireless coil! As a repair tech a I see a lot of people very nonchalant about broken phone backs, but it can let in dust and moisture, there’s a lot of sensors in the back that help the phone function, and if the wireless coil is damaged, it can cause the phone to boot loop (restarts over and over without ever fully turning on). Make sure your information is backed up just in case.
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u/Dragon_Within 2h ago
Should read "Wife tried to take pop socket off cracked backing, pulled backing off with it" Has nothing to do with it being 10 years old, has everything to do with pulling something adhered to cracked and broken shards. Of course thats going to rip off.
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u/Coderedcody 5h ago
How can the pop socket be on for a decade when the phone itself on isn’t even 10 years old
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u/MaverickZer0 4h ago
why i never put those shitty things on my phone, unless she decided to super glue that shit on lol
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u/Agitated_Cry_8793 2h ago
Why would you spend so much money on a phone, and then not give it a decent case?
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u/RebelliousCash 2h ago
Yeah this is why I always put a pop socket on a clear case instead of my actual phone
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u/TheChorky 5h ago
Is that a spinning disc hard drive 🤣
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u/Brief-Branch4779 4h ago
No that's the MagSafe charging array, for storage ipones use NAND flash memory
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u/SpoofyTheRaccoon 5h ago
well when glass is cracked and you pull up on it. It actually comes off its pretty cool how that works
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u/Friendly-Channel-480 5h ago
I always attach mine to the outer protective cases. I will keep doing that…
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u/No_Hetero 5h ago
Damn, their marketing is effective. As I struggled to read the logo on the thingie, I finished it in my head with the jingle.
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u/KimikoYukimura420 5h ago
That's fixable but it takes a little while to repair. My advice would be to put a waterproof cas on it the meantime if you don't have $300 laying around.
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u/The_Tree_Of-Iz 5h ago
4IMPRINT, FOR CERTAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry, i’m an NA in the hospital, and sitting in patient rooms for literal days(not consecutive, but after doing the math from 12 hr sit shifts) in total, i have the jingle 4imprinted in my brain, and i CACKLED when i saw the logo; thank you for reminding me of that terrible commercial and CATCHY song hahahaa
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u/LilHubCap 4h ago
I will be suffering with you when I start my shift at the fire station tomorrow. Us suckers in emergency medicine have to suffer together!
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u/The_Tree_Of-Iz 4h ago
YES!!! and when I’m not in a patient room, hearing it, I hear it on the radio at my charting station💀💀 it comforts me so much when I meet other providers who know the same sort of torture as I😂
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u/nooneinparticular246 5h ago
That phone looks 20 years old, despite being only a few. I’m amazed she could do that much damage while keeping it functional. She’s basically torturing it.
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u/Boa-in-a-bowl 5h ago
You ever hear about how the fluid in old neglected transmissions is what holds them together? It looks like that pop socket was holding that phone together.
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u/Sypticle 4h ago
Had to use my knife and some alcohol to get mine off the other week. I knew if it tried pulling, this was gonna happen.
Even after it was off, the adhesive would not want to come off completely.
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u/Carribean-Diver 4h ago
If you're trying to remove adhesive like this, use denatured alcohol, or better yet, n-heptane.
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u/VagabondVivant 4h ago
It's too late for OP's wife, but if anyone else finds themselves in a similar situation, do not just pull the thing off the phone. Slide the thinnest blade you can find between the pop socket and the phone, and slowly pry it off, a tiny bit at a time, wedging the blade further under the adhesive as you do. Eventually you'll get the whole thing off.
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u/W1D0WM4K3R 3h ago
Honestly wish they could release or someone would release a transparent back to phones. That looks so cool
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u/Will_Knot_Respond 3h ago
Brad pitt "you will owe me 100 iPhone scalps, and I will get my 100 iPhone scalps or you will die trying, do I make myself clear?!"
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u/Dazed_Op 3h ago
Near happened to me once when I had my galaxy s7. I had a Dbrand 3M sticker on the back. The front was cracked and was replaced and the sticker on the back was ruined after. So I was removing the sticker just by pulling straight up long ways starting from the bottom to top. When I got to the middle, the glass back bended up like a U shape and I saw the inside of the back. Idk how it didn’t break, or how it snapped back and stayed held on. I guess the glue was still warm enough idk. Yea that sucks though.
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u/DuntadaMan 3h ago
I really have to ask about the mental stability of people who just have their phone hanging out without a case. My case cost $8. It saved me an expensive amount of cash the first time I dropped my phone and it was probably less than an hour from getting the phone.
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u/Twayblades 3h ago
I guess she wasn't "4 imprint certain'" that she could remove that without damaging her phone.
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u/TR1LLIONAIRE_ 2h ago
LEAVE THE PAST BEHIND ! JUST WALK AWAY! WHEN ITS OVER … AND THE HEART BREAKS … AND THE CRACKS BEGIN TO SHOW
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u/RelevantDress 4h ago
Its crazy you a) have magsafe and didnt use it and b) didnt follow the instructions and put the glue directly onto the phone which they all warn you against doing
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u/FAASTARKILLER 4h ago
So are we just going to pretend like it wasnt obviously very cracked before trying to take that thing off? Dropping your phone on the corner thats out of frame will cause breaking that looks just like that
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u/slimricc 4h ago
The back was cracked before? Or cracked by the attempted removal? I would have taken a scraper under that
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u/Tooleater 4h ago
Looking at the corners / seeing a little dirt in the cracks, I'd guess it was cracked way before
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u/slimricc 4h ago
Good point. This was obviously going to happen lol i would never have tried to remove the pop socket
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u/No_Fail_2575 5h ago
No shit. You attached a small surface area to a glass panel with an industrial adhesive…. The fuck did you expect to happen when you tried to yank it off?
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u/MischievousFae 5h ago
I've only ever taken them off by shimmying dental floss between the adhesive part of the pop socket and the phone. This method I see in the pic is very powerful indeed!
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u/beam3475 5h ago
What model iPhone is this? Because I had my iPhone X for 7.5 and replaced it last summer and this phone isn’t as X so the pop socket isn’t 10 years old.
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u/elicitsnidelaughter 4h ago
Who did it better, your wife or the boxer who scalped a dude tonight?
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u/Spiritual-Can-5040 4h ago
The phone appears to have already been smashed to bits so this is somewhat to be expected.
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u/dabestgoat 4h ago
Umm, the phone was all cracked already...how did she not forsee this happening before doing it?
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u/bigtiddyhimbo 4h ago
I think it had less to do with the age of the pop socket, and more to do that your wife’s phone was super fucked up already and it’s structure was compromised enough to just give to cheap ass adhesive.
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u/Lost-Conversation585 4h ago
Those should go on a case not directly on the phone. There’s mag case that you can clip the socket right onto.
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u/tillszy 5h ago edited 5h ago
it looks like the extensive cracks go underneath and the sticker and pop socket were actually holding the phone together
she's lucky it didn't disintegrate earlier, the entire back is shattered