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dead pixels on First gen iphone

vivithemage

vivithemage

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I got my iphone on here I think, it was 10/10 at the time and now it's 90 days or so out of factory warranty and it has over 5 dead/stuck pixels 🙁🙁.

can I do anything about it, that is free? Or do I just live with it?
 
Like I said 99 days out of warranty...It's jailbroken but I can un jailbrake it.
I don't have a contract with aT&T either...I am on TMobile
 
For what it's worth, I had a piece of dust under my display on my 3G, and Apple swapped it for a refurb under warranty. The refurb had a dead pixel in the middle of the screen that I noticed during the first week of use, and they swapped that one out as well. I'm happy so far with my third 3G.
 
I do not care if it's a refurb...just want the dead pixels gone!

Anyone have any luck swapping phones without being on AT&T contract and 90 days out of warranty?
 
You have to be on AT&T. Otherwise its unlocked, so your warranty's out.

And also, you have a 1year warranty, not 90 days.
 
Apple will swap out the phone no matter how old believe me.

They won't if it's some unlocked phone on another network though since they'll be swapping the sims etc.

BUT! Why not try this.

Restore the iPhone to the latest firmware so it's not jailbroke. Find a friend who has an at&t phone and swap out the sim so it's active on at&t. Not sure it will be active though, so maybe try hooking it up to iTunes and see, if not you might need to jailbreak it but don't install any install.app or anything so it looks legit.

Then bring it in. Make sure you know your friends number because they will need it once they rehook up the new iPhone to iTunes to force activation at the store.

Worth a shot I guess to get a swap.
 
That might work, but they've been running "behavior" scans on mine when I brought mine in. Tells them how many crashes/dropped calls/etc by day. No telling what it will show in that scenario described above.
 
dissdnt said:
Apple will swap out the phone no matter how old believe me.

They won't if it's some unlocked phone on another network though since they'll be swapping the sims etc.

BUT! Why not try this.

Restore the iPhone to the latest firmware so it's not jailbroke. Find a friend who has an at&t phone and swap out the sim so it's active on at&t. Not sure it will be active though, so maybe try hooking it up to iTunes and see, if not you might need to jailbreak it but don't install any install.app or anything so it looks legit.

Then bring it in. Make sure you know your friends number because they will need it once they rehook up the new iPhone to iTunes to force activation at the store.

Worth a shot I guess to get a swap.
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Any chances of that actually working? I have a lot of stuff on the phone at the moment 🙂

Has anyone done that and succeeded?
 
striatedglutes said:
That might work, but they've been running "behavior" scans on mine when I brought mine in. Tells them how many crashes/dropped calls/etc by day. No telling what it will show in that scenario described above.
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True, they do have the ability to check logs. After a restore the logs are wiped, but if you jailbreak im sure it will show up somewhere.
 
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