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A new video from Android Police has been getting publicity after showing how easy it is to break your Samsung Galaxy Note 5 by putting the stylus in backwards. Before we go any further on this issue, we have to emphasize that you should not try this because your phone will (sort of) break.

The Note 5 incorporates an S pen detection feature that launches a display when the pen is removed from it’s slot. But when the pen is put in backwards it hooks on to an internal mechanism that breaks when it is pulled on, thus breaking the detection feature. It’s important to note that the stylus is shaped in a way that the wrong end can fit into the slot without any force. This means that even gravity can jam your stylus, because you don’t even have to put the pen in all the way. Even by putting the pen less than halfway in, the internal mechanism could snag and break… as we unfortunately found out ourselves. To be clear, “break” isn’t exactly the right word: The phone and the stylus still work, it’s the detection mechanism that no longer functions.

What might actually break it is pushing the phone all the way in the wrong way. We found that out too—because our own David Pierce did not heed these warnings. Now, the stylus is stuck inside the phone.

This is definitely a design flaw. That being said, Samsung does mention not to do this in the manual. (Why make it that way then? We’ll likely never know.)

Concern has been raised that a small child could easily start playing with the device and break it this way, which is valid—but maybe just don’t give your kid your fancy phone. And again, don’t stick the stylus in the wrong way.

You have been duly warned.

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