ChrisBoom
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Registered: 6th Dec 06
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To cut a long story short, got pushed into a pool in magaluf with my iPhone in my pocket. Went crazy for a few days, home button wouldnt work, speakers fucked etc, but now it seems to all be working, except for the camera LED staying on, but not at full brightness.
Is there any chance apple would give me a new one on warranty, if I lie about it being submerged  Saves me paying a fucking £100 excess 
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Daniel_Corsa
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Registered: 21st Apr 04
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There are water indicators, White spots that turn pink when wet.
Guessing they will look for these, worth a try I suppose. Could replace camera and LED for about £5 and is a 5min job.
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DanCobb
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Quite lucky yours still works tbh. Soon as I get a drop of water on mine it goes spastic 
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ChrisBoom
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Indicators are still white, very surprising! Just checked though, fucking thing is out of warranty 
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nick_sri
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put in a sealed bag of rice and leave overnight , rice soaks up all the moisture
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Russ
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Apple will give you a new one for £130.
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ljames555
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The gf put here in the washing machine (women !) so i put it in desicant which is better than rice left for a week.
Took it apart cleaned contacts with a tooth pick, could see the surface corrosion.
Fired back up with a new battey £5. It did have water still on the screen so left the back off and resealed with desicant and 3 days later gone.
Then the incall sensor played up so bleached water indicators and took it back under warrenty.
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ChrisBoom
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Getting a new one, thank-you apple
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Munchie
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wanna sell old 1?
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noshua
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What excuse/story/angle did you use?
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sc0ott
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How did you check the water damage stickers?
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Munchie
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scott- there is 1 in the headfone jack hole and also some when you open the phone up
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sc0ott
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Opening it up would void your warranty?
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ChrisBoom
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Have to send the old one back, its just out of warranty so its being done out of goodwill. Water damage stickers are located in the headphone jack and in the bottom docking bit, both seem fine.
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fazza
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they will see its got wet once they take it apart, water indicators are exactly that, an indicator
be ideal if they replace/fix it though
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ChrisBoom
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quote:
Originally posted by fazza
they will see its got wet once they take it apart, water indicators are exactly that, an indicator
be ideal if they replace/fix it though
Well the other two are ok, so hopefully the internal ones are fine too!
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sc0ott
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So they have your credit card details and if there is anything wrong which you havent told them they will take the security money out your account?
Last time i got mine replaced i had to give them bank details, but thats another fucked up story.
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ChrisBoom
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quote:
Originally posted by sc0ott
So they have your credit card details and if there is anything wrong which you havent told them they will take the security money out your account?
Last time i got mine replaced i had to give them bank details, but thats another fucked up story.
Nope, didn't take any bank details.
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sc0ott
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So really you could take the new phone and keep your old one?
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ChrisBoom
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quote:
Originally posted by sc0ott
So really you could take the new phone and keep your old one?
Nope, had to send the old one back before they sent the replacement.
[Edited on 07-10-2011 by ChrisBoom]
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sc0ott
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aah. that will explain why they didnt want your credit card details.
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John
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Have you got the new one yet? They'll see its water damaged as soon as they get it.
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ChrisBoom
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Its already been sent out, be here Monday. Water damage indicators were still white!
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ChrisBoom
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New one came today, lovely 
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Carl
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Apple are good like that, I dinted/broke my ipod and they swapped.it for a new one, I was well surprised.
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