i recently bought an iphone 3gs from a guy that says he dropped his phone at work (construction guy) and when he went back for it, it wouldnt power on. he believes it was ran over by a truck. Thing is, the phone is mint. No cracks on Back housing or Digitizer or LCD. I brought it home and just as the guy says, it wont power on. Any idea what could be the problem?
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Iphone 3GS got ran over by truck
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Your guess is as good as ours.
You can always bring it to Apple and have them take a look at it.
If its out of warranty you can pay $200 to have it replaced.
You can always bring it to Apple and have them take a look at it.
If its out of warranty you can pay $200 to have it replaced.
well i have another 3gs back housing with good battery and i decided to put the one that got ran over and it won't do anything...inside of phone looks real good and motherboard does not look bent at all.
Water damage or a cable is loose? It could be anything really. You could get it a genius to look at it, worst case scenario, you can purchase a replacement.
i put the motherboard into another back housing. does not want to power on at all...i guess it flexed if it indeed got ran over which may have caused internal damage.
I bought a 3Gs from someone once that was run over by a car and it was literally perfect cosmetically minus that the LCD was all mucked up from being pushed too hard (obviously) but strangely enough the digitizer was intact.
When I opened up the phone, everything inside of it looked perfect too, although when I exchanged some parts in and out of other phones, I determined that both the battery and logic board were toast.