My boss gave me his wife's iPhone 4 to fix. After he got me to take it apart, he told me what happened to it. Turns out it was dropped in a toilet (gross), and hit the seat before going in.
Well, I wasn't very optimistic, but decided to give it a try. Nothing was corroded or rusty or even wet at this point, so I decided to buy a new battery off eBay. When I put in the new battery, I got nothing on the screen, but my MBP recognized it. It went into restore mode. After waiting about an hour, I got error code 28. After research, I learned that this had to do with the connector and cleaned it out. I then re-tried the restore and got error code 1618. The iPhone itself gets to the apple screen, the wheel briefly appears, and then a bar (I assume a progress bar) appears under the apple. Then the screen goes blank. The progress bar does not fill at all before the blank.
Does anyone know what this code means? I have the most up-to-date version of iTunes.
The iPhone was not jailbroken and all of the people that have posted about this error that I can find have had unlocked or jailbroken phones. I know that usually a drop in water, or in this case, a toilet, is usually a kiss of death, but it's powering up and iTunes is seeing it, so I'm excited about the prospect of bringing it back to life.
Well, I wasn't very optimistic, but decided to give it a try. Nothing was corroded or rusty or even wet at this point, so I decided to buy a new battery off eBay. When I put in the new battery, I got nothing on the screen, but my MBP recognized it. It went into restore mode. After waiting about an hour, I got error code 28. After research, I learned that this had to do with the connector and cleaned it out. I then re-tried the restore and got error code 1618. The iPhone itself gets to the apple screen, the wheel briefly appears, and then a bar (I assume a progress bar) appears under the apple. Then the screen goes blank. The progress bar does not fill at all before the blank.
Does anyone know what this code means? I have the most up-to-date version of iTunes.
The iPhone was not jailbroken and all of the people that have posted about this error that I can find have had unlocked or jailbroken phones. I know that usually a drop in water, or in this case, a toilet, is usually a kiss of death, but it's powering up and iTunes is seeing it, so I'm excited about the prospect of bringing it back to life.