The only time my phone has ever gotten scratched was one time on Madison Avenue when a guy jumped out of his car and started throwing punches at me because I'd yelled at him for almost hitting someone. Rather than reciprocate the fisticuffs I thought I'd call the cops. He grabbed my phone out of my hand and threw it halfway across the avenue. It was a BlackBerry Bold and I thought it would be smashed for sure. Went to retrieve it and to my surprise it only had a little scratch on the case. After the guy drove away a woman came up to me and said "excuse me, is this phone yours as well?" It was a Samsung and the screen was smashed. Turns out when the guy leaped out of his car, he had his phone in his hand and when he grabbed mine with that same hand, in his anger he threw them BOTH into the road! I laughed so hard at the thought of him realizing what he'd done. That Samsung went straight in the trash. 
 
Some people seem to smash their phone screens on a regular basis. I have an employee whose screen is perpetually smashed. He gets a new one and then that one is smashed a couple of weeks later. I have no idea how these people are breaking their screens. 

Hopefully the battery dies before water gets into it.
If you're that lucky, 24 hours in a bowl of rice should sort it right out.

Battery appears to be dead as Android Device Manager is no longer able to locate it. It remains in a 15 x 100 ft hilly area filled with brush and trees and a street gutter. It's black with a dark earthy colored case so after the snow melts it will be even harder to find visually but easier with an MD. The phone is water resistant but moisture could enter thru the headphone jack and speaker holes.

Top Tip:
 
Everything that is lost and then found again is always in the last place that you look, so consider where that is likely to be, look there first and you'll save a lot of time.
 
HTH.

paulo
Top Tip:
 
Everything that is lost and then found again is always in the last place that you look, so consider where that is likely to be, look there first and you'll save a lot of time.
 
HTH.

I always look someplace else AFTER I find stuff

Hmm...  Ok, not in the microwave or the freezer...  I wonder if it's in one of the rain gutters?

Sharke - you should have take the SIM out of the Samsung....you could have had some real fun.
Nice NYC story !
 
JR

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Sharke - you should have take the SIM out of the Samsung....you could have had some real fun.
Nice NYC story !
 
JR

Believe me I really wanted to, but the thing was locked with one of those swipe passwords where you have to draw a shape on the screen. 

Snow melted enough last week to reveal it laying just feet from where I dropped it.
 
And it works!