"mkbruin, Atlas VP" (mkbruin)
11/18/2014 at 23:44 • Filed to: None
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"mkbruin, Atlas VP" (mkbruin)
11/18/2014 at 23:44 • Filed to: None | 1
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After three months of being a brick, and four days of boot loop on a charger, my wife's old iPhone 5 decided to boot up.
The good news is I get to recover 9 months of photos and videos we thought we'd lost. But wtf apple? It should not have been this difficult to get a phone to boot, and I still have no idea what part is bad.
Background: Wife had a water bottle leak in her purse, causing water damage that stopped the front camera from working. Took it to the repair shop, they worked their magic, and we left with a 99% functional phone. The front camera never came back on, but the phone worked otherwise. Fast forward a few months, wife drops the phone and the digitizer shattered. Still functional though, she decides to stick it out until the iPhone 6 is released. Phone makes it several weeks just fine, then one day the rear camera won't turn on. Wife resets the phone and it goes into a boot loop. Trip back to the iFixit store, they put on a new lcd/digitizer, battery, camera, and prox sensor... Can't get it to boot and tell us that the main board is shot from the water damage. Tells us we're bricked, and we will never recover the data.
Odd....
WesBarton89 - The Way to Santa Fe
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
11/18/2014 at 23:48 |
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Sounds like a real bad apple.
In all seriousness, that is weird. Though I can say with 100% honesty, I have never owned an iPhone that did not have some sort of problem. The most common was either loss of sound or failure to charge. Better luck next time I hope man.
JGrabowMSt
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
11/18/2014 at 23:55 |
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Jobs like this are tricky, coming from experience. My girlfriend's laptop? I wrote that off as a loss because of the water damage it got from a college student. They opted to recycle it, and just take the hard drive.
Fast forward about a month, I had nothing to do so I picked up the laptop and tore the whole thing apart. It was full of rice, and after cleaning all that out, I decided what the hell. I had a clone of the original drive as a backup for the client, and I imaged it back out, plugged everything in, and much to my surprise, the thing worked. My girlfriend has had it for almost two years now.
Apple products are weird though. Every liquid spill on every MacBook Pro I've ever dealt with has required me to replace the keyboard and backlight. The new backlights never work. I just don't get it. The computer doesn't realize a light is there. I don't know why, but it's happened every single time. I have brought a pretty high number of computers back from the dead though. Water spills aren't really as destructive as you'd think, but it's very hard to clean, diagnose and fix correctly, even with a lot of experience.
ly2v8-Brian
> JGrabowMSt
11/19/2014 at 00:03 |
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can confirm on a semi related note. My sister dunked my game boy Pocket in a tub of water and it didn't work. So I took the batteries out and stored it and forgot it in a dry place. Years later I find it and try it. Just like new.