Q: I drop my iphone in a cup of tea and now wont turn on, how do i fix this

ikr. This is crazy. We need to be informing people about the devices they are using and not hiding so much information!

zenmanic wrote:

 

Oh the inane, silly, foolish, stupid, fatuous, idiotic, ridiculous, ludicrous, absurd, senseless, asinine, frivolous, vapid, childish, puerile comments i this thread. Oh the humanity of it all .

Well, it would end if you and your friends would leave.

What, huh, hey?

Nobody said anything about forcing anyone to do anything.  It is the opposite.  Choice.  Free market. 
If you'd like to pay to have your phone swapped at Apple when it is broken, have at it.   If you'd like to take it apart yourself, go ahead.   If you'd like to take it to the trusted neighborhood repair shop, you may.     These options were all hard-fought and now well-established in the auto industry.     The mobile device industry would like the same rights---the right to access original parts, and the same information that Apple provides to their in channel repair network.  

I never mentioned schematics and I resent your attempt to put words in my mouth.

Apple do not and should not have to give their property away to support an industry that should be able to support itself. An industry that can not support itself with a new law is not something I'd want a warranty for.

I have to say that I noticed that about you, and I was very impressed Philly.   I may have said a lot of trash talk about this group this week that hopefully you'll never see elsewhere online---but you stood out as someone who was open-minded and I appreciated that.  It is an unfortunately rare feature on either side of the debate.

Actually that is exactly what xcesv4c said earlier in the thread, and it was him my reply was addressed to.

xcesv4c wrote:

 

ikr. This is crazy. We need to be informing people about the devices they are using and not hiding so much information!

I was going to avoid posting here as it's a futile effort not worth the time invested, but since this is a support group and I see some horribly bad advice being dolled out, I'm back (briefly). If my comments are going to be removed with the reason, "bad" or "questionable" advice, then frolic_about's comment needs to be removed as well. Putting a wet phone in rice is the silliest thing someone who actually wants the phone to work again, or have any chance of data recovery can do.

1) Apple will do nothing for a wet device aside from offering the sale of a replacement, so

2) Putting it in rice is a pointless waste of good rice if you plan on taking it to Apple for "service", and

3) Rice has NO power to "make" water inside a phone come out and "be absorbed" by the rice. This is one of the worst myths rooted in "correlation = causation" being perpetuated on the internet today.

Anyone who claims "rice saved their phone" got lucky, nothing more. You'd get the exact same effect by leaving a wet phone on the counter and letting it air dry as you would by leaving it in rice. Some phones will work either way and some won't, but there's nothing magical about rice. Rice is a food, not a tool! The real reason wet phones stop working is due to galvanic corrosion left behind long after the water is gone. Rice does nothing to remove the corrosion and allowing a phone to remain wet, while attempting to "suck" the water out with rice does nothing but waste valuable time and allows a colorful corrosion garden to grow.

frolic_about wrote:

 

Wow, this post has a lot of activity.

 

I haven't read all the replies yet, but I thought I would through this out there because I didn't see it.

 

Dump a bag of white rice in an airtight container, bury your water damaged phone in the rice and wait until you can-

 

A. Take it to an Apple store for service, or

B. Wait one week and see if there appears to be any water anywhere inside or outside the phone. Do Not Open the iPhone up. If there appears to be ANY moisture at all put it back in rice for another week. The phone should be completely dry by this time and often will work fine.

 

Do not ever plug in a phone that you have ANY doubt might not be completely dry. I personally would wait two weeks just for good measure.

 

I would never tell anyone who's iPhone is under any kind of warranty to open their phone. If your phone has absolutely no warranty, though, then hey it's your phone and you can't break a warranty that doesn't exist.

 

Whether it comes from me or someone else, I hope you find some useful information and your iPhone comes back to you safe and sound. Be glad it was only tea! Once when I was at the Genius Bar the tech told me that the number one damage that he saw to iPhones was from someone dropping their phone into the toilet. Personally, I think I would leave that one for a plumber .

 

Good Luck.

LOL i was joking but thats kinda of mean. I have been very helpful to the OP

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love repair wrote:

 

I have to say that I noticed that about you, and I was very impressed Philly.   I may have said a lot of trash talk about this group this week that hopefully you'll never see elsewhere online---but you stood out as someone who was open-minded and I appreciated that.  It is an unfortunately rare feature on either side of the debate.

Thanks.

love repair wrote:

 

The independent repair community members that have come here recently did so because the recent error 53 coverage gave the thing they put their heart and soul into a bad rap. 

They came here, to Apple's turf, to further a political and economic agenda. While both may have some merit, this is not the place to make that stand.

Ahhh. Apple Turf. I try to help people, provide good information, and give them multiple options. That's my grandiose political agenda. This is the perfect place to further my dastardly plans of helping people.

zenmanic wrote:

 

Ahhh. Apple Turf. I try to help people, provide good information, and give them multiple options. That's my grandiose political agenda. This is the perfect place to further my dastardly plans of helping people.

"We do have an advocacy group---(Google Right to Repair Act).   And we do need your help." Sounds like a political agenda to me. (I know I'm not quoting you but, as you all seem to be part of the same group, I think it applies.)

And, clean your own house. Since you folks showed up, I've come across some of the most egregiously awful repair advice I've ever seen coming from people who are supposed to be "professionals". You might want to stop those folks from making the rest of you look bad.

I've failed to jump down not many peoples throats. But i am definitely not biased. I will call those out that need to be called out when the time is right. Both sides of the convo could use some polishing on delivering their message. Stay on topic people. BACK UP YOUR INFORMATION. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Your post is off-topic.