Hi there
Nearly a week ago wife's Mum brought the iPad home a bit wet.
She had had it in a bag and a bottle of water had leaked......ie nowhere near total immersion but I had to tissue it dry after water was lingering inside the cover.
The screen went crazy with the icons flying left or right at random and so on.
It would not turn off.
I said we'll just let it dry if possible and see what happens....left it with a fan in the room.
It got a bit better gradually.....much better actually.
It is now at the stage where it will turn off and all the icons are usable EXCEPT a line from left to right about in the area of the first row of icons as one looks in landscape view.
(It will flip properly between landscape and portrait).
Example it will open MAIL as that's not in the top row.
When one opens MAIL it will then open any mails except what's in that top row area which in this case is the first mail in the list.
It will open all others normally.
I don't know how these screens work but it seems something has happened to the connectors to the screen so they are dud.
It does not seem to have continued it's improvement the last couple of days which I presume was thanks to drying out.
Question is:
Anything I can do?
Information: It's getting on it's the top version of the first iPad that came out (so it won't run the latest iOS).
So basically if there's something pretty easy or cheap to do it may be worth saving it.
But what would that be?
Tech geeks please inform!
Nearly a week ago wife's Mum brought the iPad home a bit wet.
She had had it in a bag and a bottle of water had leaked......ie nowhere near total immersion but I had to tissue it dry after water was lingering inside the cover.
The screen went crazy with the icons flying left or right at random and so on.
It would not turn off.
I said we'll just let it dry if possible and see what happens....left it with a fan in the room.
It got a bit better gradually.....much better actually.
It is now at the stage where it will turn off and all the icons are usable EXCEPT a line from left to right about in the area of the first row of icons as one looks in landscape view.
(It will flip properly between landscape and portrait).
Example it will open MAIL as that's not in the top row.
When one opens MAIL it will then open any mails except what's in that top row area which in this case is the first mail in the list.
It will open all others normally.
I don't know how these screens work but it seems something has happened to the connectors to the screen so they are dud.
It does not seem to have continued it's improvement the last couple of days which I presume was thanks to drying out.
Question is:
Anything I can do?
Information: It's getting on it's the top version of the first iPad that came out (so it won't run the latest iOS).
So basically if there's something pretty easy or cheap to do it may be worth saving it.
But what would that be?
Tech geeks please inform!
