Absolutely ANNOYED by Stupid Water Sensor

[beezee29]

More on condensation and corrosion

Great thread here with some great responses. My situation should be a familiar one. My phone will not charge bc of corrosion on the charging part...it is slightly browned. No sensors have been triggered, and like most, this phone has not even come close to water. Of course, neither apple nor the service provider will honor the warranty on my phone, and so I ask you, what do I do?

How much does it cost to get this thing fixed via a third party?

Does the vinegar and q-tip trick to the, ugh, trick?

What are my options?

Thank you so much for your answers and help.

Beezee29

 

[Hutch1]

Great thread here with some great responses. My situation should be a familiar one. My phone will not charge bc of corrosion on the charging part...it is slightly browned. No sensors have been triggered, and like most, this phone has not even come close to water. Of course, neither apple nor the service provider will honor the warranty on my phone, and so I ask you, what do I do?

How much does it cost to get this thing fixed via a third party?

Does the vinegar and q-tip trick to the, ugh, trick?

What are my options?

Thank you so much for your answers and help.

Beezee29

If the sensors are good enough to deny warranty coverage they should be good enough to ensure that they honour it too. Did out the fact the sensors have not been tripped. They can't have it both ways.

Just go to an electronics shop (place that sells electrical components and such) buy some contact cleaner and swabs, it should easily clean them up.

 

[pkoch1]

Enough liquid exposure to trip the sensors is enough liquid exposure to harm the iPhone...

 

[Rodimus Prime]

Enough liquid exposure to trip the sensors is enough liquid exposure to harm the iPhone...

Not always. I was reading threw this thread and realized something. The Genuis are blowing compressed air into the phone. Blasting compress air one something causes it to cool off very rapidly and if it is humid out side will cause water to condense on the phone and that will trip the sensor.
If I saw an apple genius do that I would demand they check the other sensors because there own negigences could of tripped the sensor (and making it their fault)

 

[matttye]

Apple should be forced to revise their stance on this and honour warranty for all phones that have tripped sensors, if the internal one isn't tripped.

Putting a sensor in the headphone jack means a couple of raindrops could set it off. Putting one in the dock connector could cause people who spit when they talk (disgusting, but some people do!) to set it off.

As has been suggested before, those two sensors, when tripped, should be reason for the genius to open up the phone and check the internal sensor. If the phone was subjected to enough water to damage it, I'm sure the buried sensors would be tripped too... the ones that are practically on the outside of the phone are not a good enough indication of water damage.

 

[fn6019]

The headphone jack sensor on my iPhone 4 is mostly white with what appears to be a bit of silver at the edge. I was curious and asked an Apple Genius to look into the socket with the otoscope tool they use and she said it was normal as long as it was not red or pink.

Anyone else notice this on their iPhone 4 headphone sensor?
Thanks

 

[fn6019]

The headphone jack sensor on my iPhone 4 is mostly white with what appears to be a bit of silver at the edge. I was curious and asked an Apple Genius to look into the socket with the otoscope tool they use and she said it was normal as long as it was not red or pink.

Anyone else notice this on their iPhone 4 headphone sensor?
Thanks

Here is a photo of my headphone sensor, with the silver discoloration at the botton left hand side of the sensor. Anyone else have this?

 

[PNutts]

Where can I get those? Link?

Search for "iphone port cover" in your favorite search engine. I bought mine from eBay.

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&...1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=567204dc07534ddc

http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_tr...w=iphone+port+cover&_sacat=See-All-Categories

 

[AndrewR23]

Here is a photo of my headphone sensor, with the silver discoloration at the botton left hand side of the sensor. Anyone else have this?

thats exactly how mine looks


half silver

half white??

 

[Krandor]

I will just give my 2 cents on the water sensors.

I am sure they are not perfect and sometimes can probably be tripped by things other then straight water damage. However, all you have to do is read threads on this board to see WHY Apple had to do this. I am sure they had lots of people who dropped it in a lake or the toilet and then came in swearing up and down that they had no idea what happened to their phone and it just stopped working. With no way to prove anything (even if they thought there was an issue) they would have had to replace it.

So if you are upset about the water sensor being there, your blame shouldn't be on Apple but on the people who tried to scam Apple that forced them to put it on. As usual, it is a few people who ruin it for everybody.

I do agree though with the person who said that if the outside ones are tripped they should open it up and check the internal ones.