I have bought a 32gb iPhone 5 at launch day. I was so happy with it until I have found out some incredibly faults in it. Before I start to explain what happend with the camera, let me tell you the 'story' of this piece of metal. First it was the battery, after the first year exactly when the apple care expired, it has had a very short lifetime under iOS 6; less than my previous phone wich was a 3 years old iPhone 4 by the time. I have bought a new battery and replaced the old one. FIXED After another year, the Sleep/Wake button has stopped working, but I was lucky since Apple already knew that some models were defective and I have been replaced for free (See How). FIXED After some time I have accidentally dropped my phone on the table and I have broken the internal LCD liquid crystals, leaving the external glass untouched. Initially, it was a bunch of pixels, then it has started to make sparks like old TVs noise, so I have been replaced the entire LCD+DIGITIZER+CAMERA combo piece. FIXED
Now it's time for the ORIGINAL camera. If you look at the middle flower you can see a purple scar on it:
I have bought a new camera from a local vendor and replaced it. FIXED
The new camera lasted less than 1 year, despite the original one it has shown some black spots on its pictures:
I have tried to take off all the dust from the sapphire crystal lens but with no luck so I have bought a new one and replaced it.
Today, after less than a month I have encountered the same issue as above, so I have been working it out a little and discovered that it was a little piece of dust inside the camera component lens (not the sapphire crystal one), clearly visible at human eye, so I have air sprayed it for a while and finally moved it away from the camera sensor.
Now the camera is fine, but for how long?
The accessories are also very fragile. I have replaced both ear buds and lighting connector twice. Now I'm using different in-ear Made in Germany headphones. IDK How much money I have spent to repair this phone, but now I am more convinced that selling it and say goodbye to Apple is the right thing to do.
Now it's time for the ORIGINAL camera. If you look at the middle flower you can see a purple scar on it:
I have bought a new camera from a local vendor and replaced it. FIXED
The new camera lasted less than 1 year, despite the original one it has shown some black spots on its pictures:
I have tried to take off all the dust from the sapphire crystal lens but with no luck so I have bought a new one and replaced it.
Today, after less than a month I have encountered the same issue as above, so I have been working it out a little and discovered that it was a little piece of dust inside the camera component lens (not the sapphire crystal one), clearly visible at human eye, so I have air sprayed it for a while and finally moved it away from the camera sensor.
Now the camera is fine, but for how long?
The accessories are also very fragile. I have replaced both ear buds and lighting connector twice. Now I'm using different in-ear Made in Germany headphones. IDK How much money I have spent to repair this phone, but now I am more convinced that selling it and say goodbye to Apple is the right thing to do.
camera picture looks way more better. By the other side, I wouldn't have it repleaced in the App Store as their price is fairly high.
)? My friend's 6 plus randomly has a non-functional headphone jack. There's no debris in it at all, he's done a full set up as new... Doesn't recognize anything. He dropped his iPad once and the screen wouldn't turn on (no cracks, the backlight would turn on and you could hold down the home button and hear Siri, you could hear notifications, screen just stopped.) He also has had the home button stop working many times, needed to hold down the home button at power down screen to "recalibrate" and fix it. Also has had charging port randomly make the iPad 3 think it was docked, so no sounds would work. Broken loads of cords. Loads of EarPods. Shattered the screen on another iPad, and a Galaxy S4. Waterlogged an old iPod touch, got it working again, then damaged the pins so it won't charge. The list goes on. These devices need to be treated like babies, as well as their accessories. (Don't let the cord sharply turn a different angle right from where the reinforced rubber area is at either end of the cord, etc)