Although a lot of you are right saying that liquid damage can take it's toll anytime corroding connectors or the circuit board, the assumption of failure due to liquid damage can't really be finalized until we know how bad the liquid damage was. Was the phone in water so long it turned itself off, or was it in there for a split second? What kind of water/liquid was it?
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Screen Repair Shop killed my 5s
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Although a lot of you are right saying that liquid damage can take it's toll anytime corroding connectors or the circuit board, the assumption of failure due to liquid damage can't really be finalized until we know how bad the liquid damage was. Was the phone in water so long it turned itself off, or was it in there for a split second? What kind of water/liquid was it?
The phone was also dropped hard enough to physically break the screen. Depending on the right angle and force it might not have fallen far but it could also have fallen from 5' or higher. That could have easily cause a fracture in one of the connections or circuits that was agitated during the removal of the screen and would not have been prevented even if it was sent to Apple for a screen replacement. Although phones are often fine after dropping them and will work for the rest of their life without issue the fact remains that phones and the electronics in them are not designed to be dropped. This could be one of those those cases. I just don't think at this point with the information we know that we can say that the repair shop is the one at fault.
I agree, crazy things do happen (omg #bendgate), and dropping the phone in such a way to fracture the PCB, well, OP should be playing the lottery lol.
Seriously though, unless the phone was impaled or thrown onto the ground with a loooot of force, I don't think the PCB would cracke. PCB's have a lot of flex to them, and if you look inside an iphone 5, the board is well secured and protected.
The repair store could have easily slipped with a small screwdriver and cut a circuit on the PCB causing the phone to fail..............but alas, it's just another theory.
We need to get Scooby Doo and the gang to solve this one I think haha.
I am not saying that the actual PCB was fractured but that a trace on the PCB could have fractured or one of the SMCs soldered connectors broken but still been touching the PCB.
I can not disagree with you as that could be very possible. Even more so with the shoddy repair shops I have seen these days.
That actually made me laugh.
It is very hard to tell and I am just trying not to jump to conclusions. I am willing to bet that the OP learned something from this experience about the value in a quality repair.
I would also be willing to bet that the parts that the repair shop was using were not genuine OEM and instead were Chinese knockoffs or eBay specials. The quality of the replacement parts should also be included in the value of a quality repair.
The dropping of the phone that resulted in the screen crack happened back in February 2014 after reaching down to pick up my suitcase and the phone fell out of my pocket all of about 1ft to the ground. Not a dramatic fall at all, I was actually surprised to turn it over and find a crack. Nonetheless the phone worked perfectly and the crack wasn't big enough to disrupt my use of the phone so I never bothered to get it fixed.
The water damage occurred about 3 months ago after accidentally bumping into a table and water splashed out of the glass and on to the phone. I cleaned it up with a paper towel almost immediately and then removed it from the case and cleaned up the water that seeped through. The phone never faltered in functionality not once which is why I said I never really gave it a second thought after that.
And as for the the repair shop, I just so happened to be passing by and stopped in to look at some decorative phone cases they had. One of the employees saw the crack in my phone and mentioned that they did screen repairs and after hearing the price was pretty reasonable I decided to let them go ahead and do it.
I'm not here trying to find blame on someone else just for the hell of it. My issue was that once they tried to put the phone back together and saw that it was no longer working, they tried to put the blame solely on me for not disclosing to them unprompted that I had gotten water in the phone once upon a time. I don't know, maybe it's just me but I feel that it's much more logical that perhaps that's a question they should be asking customers before choosing to work on their phones.
If I'm not familiar with the process of repairing a phone screen, how could I possibly know that that information was relevant? Should I also have offered up "By the way, one day during the summer I left my phone in the car and it was pretty hot that day...fyi"?
The water damage occurred about 3 months ago after accidentally bumping into a table and water splashed out of the glass and on to the phone. I cleaned it up with a paper towel almost immediately and then removed it from the case and cleaned up the water that seeped through. The phone never faltered in functionality not once which is why I said I never really gave it a second thought after that.
And as for the the repair shop, I just so happened to be passing by and stopped in to look at some decorative phone cases they had. One of the employees saw the crack in my phone and mentioned that they did screen repairs and after hearing the price was pretty reasonable I decided to let them go ahead and do it.
I'm not here trying to find blame on someone else just for the hell of it. My issue was that once they tried to put the phone back together and saw that it was no longer working, they tried to put the blame solely on me for not disclosing to them unprompted that I had gotten water in the phone once upon a time. I don't know, maybe it's just me but I feel that it's much more logical that perhaps that's a question they should be asking customers before choosing to work on their phones.
If I'm not familiar with the process of repairing a phone screen, how could I possibly know that that information was relevant? Should I also have offered up "By the way, one day during the summer I left my phone in the car and it was pretty hot that day...fyi"?
Unfortunately, everyone who brings up the possibility of a bad repair at the shop is doing just that. The only actual KNOWN factor in this is the OP's admission that the phone was both DROPPED and WET.
To draw any conclusion that the failed operation of the phone has anything to do with any circumstance other than that is simply an attempt to remove the responsibility from where we know it DOES exist, and shift at least potential blame to another party.
For all we know that little repair shop is run by some technology prodigy who is working to make a few bucks for college.