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Photos of my wet iPhone working again after dismantling it

February 20th, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments

I attended my daughter’s friend’s birthday party last weekend and guess what? I fell in the pool, all dressed up, with (among others) an iPhone in my pocket. Needless to say that the pretty Apple device turned into a wet brick which would not even switch on.

I initially decided that rather than throwing it away, I would at least dismantle it (for the geeky joy procured by looking into its guts) and share that joy by uploading a few pictures on this blog.

Dismantled iPhone 3GS

To my biggest surprise, the iPhone started working again after reassembling it !! Read more for more pictures !!

iPhone working after reassembling

Check out the entire photo gallery below (8 pictures)

(update) By the way, this is the red contact indicator that would tell Apple customer service that my phone fell in the water !!

Dismantled iPhone showing the red water contact indicator

Dismantled iPhone showing the red water contact indicator

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  1. February 20th, 2010 at 22:05 | #1

    And how red did your liquid contact indicator (LCI) turn?

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3302

  2. February 20th, 2010 at 23:18 | #2

    It is definitely red. I am re-uploading one of the pix on which I circled the red indicator !!

  3. February 21st, 2010 at 09:01 | #3

    Well, in my case the red thing really shows that it was in contact with water and should not be replaced by Apple.

  4. Nicolas BUI
    February 21st, 2010 at 16:59 | #4

    You can’t kill the damn iphone that easily :) Check that vids : http://www.iphon.fr/post/2009/06/25/L-iPhone-3GS-resiste-dans-l-eau-video

    The red water is use as an excuse to not refund the iphone, right ?

    I’ve droped my Blackberry Bold in the toilet few months ago, after few hours it worked again :)

  5. Yann
    February 22nd, 2010 at 06:30 | #5

    Erwan, if you’re Iphone die you can have paid swap for 380 S$ in Singtel (somerset) i did it 3 week ago for the 3G of my wife as he fall down from the level 3 after few day’s he decide to turn off the screen time time but keep continue to even with is black screen

  6. February 22nd, 2010 at 08:52 | #6

    Thx for the info. As I said, it works again but it’s good to know for next time ;-)

  7. Yann
    February 22nd, 2010 at 09:03 | #7

    Hope for you no more next time :)

  1. February 25th, 2010 at 03:57 | #1