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bev
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Water Damage; Home button not working?
Hi All,
I dropped my iPhone in the toilet(like many have LOL) Did everything i see on the net ie, placed it in rice,placed in airing cuboard after a week the only things that wasnt working was the home button and speakers. Opened it up then cleaned it with electrical cleaner, back in rice&airing cuboard for another 3 days. Every thing is working apart from home button. Sent it off explaining what had happened, they replaced the home button which didnt resolve the issue, they have said it has extensive water damage to the circuit board!!
My question is if this is true how is everything else working just fine?? could it be something else??
I have read on here it could be the docking part.
It just seems such a shame that my phone works perfect apart from the above & im being told it is beyond repair
Many thanks for any advice/help
Bev
Just a quick update.........
Iv read about this and i know i did not up grade to 3.13. The only thing i did before sending it off was back up all my data on itunes.
I cant help thinking that they are using the water damage as an excuse because they have caused it to go in this loop.......i really dont know what to do or where i stand in this matter.
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markus weiher
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the power button is most likely shorted - it can be replaced or cleaned (i prefer cleaning, 6$ are 6$ ;-))
most problems after fluid damages are shorted parts - putting a device in a bowl of rice won't help. cleaning the parts with isopropyl alcohol or electronic cleaners is way more effective.
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Daniel Gray
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cody
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I have this problem too. To get out of the recovery loop just charge it for about 20 minutes and unplug it. You'll still get the display telling you to plug it in, but all you have to do is hold the power button to turn it off and then turn it back on. This should start your phone again like normal, but every time it dies you'll have to let it charge for a while turn it off and on again and it should be fine. It's a pain but it works for me. As for the home button, there only 6$ on ebay so I'm going to order one and replace it myself. It's worth a try and It's a ^@@% of a lot better than paying the greedy bastards at apple 200$ for a cheap fix. Hope this helps. Good luck
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Zoeee
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ive got the same problem.... i put mine in a puddle and my home button wont work yet voice control comes up when i start. my water indicator things are still white so its showing no sign of contact. im taking it back to telstra to get fixed.. would they fix it seeing the stickers are saying its not water damaged and there still white..
I got exactly the same problem as Zoeeee. Its pretty annoying. Also, my light does not work. So if it's dark i have to put my iphone near some light to see something. This happend after I felt asleep with my iphone next to me , think i just rolled over it a couple of times. BUMMER.
max,
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Washing up dishes and listening to a pod cast, whoops, there it went - splash. Got it out before it hot the bottom of the bowl, but it was completely underwater. Read everything here, all seemed to work okay just minutes later - that's when I noticed the home button was not working. Not having a #00 phillips I tried hitting the circumference of the home button pretty hard with compressed air - function was restored and worked for a few hours.
Heading to Lowes to get the screwdriver to take it apart and hot the inside, but for those with similar issues give compressed air a try.
Compressed air will blow wet into where it's dry... not a good idea. Follow some of these suggestions for drying electronic devices..
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jazk313
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just put a virtual home button, that works as good as regular home button.
Go to: Setting>General
thanks jazk313 - i used to use the home button to close out of all my apps by double clicking it. any other way to do this without the home button now that it's shot?
sao,
== It's working fine now == but Apple repair saw the liquid damage indicators and that voids the warranty. Yes it could be the docking port - or something else. What's curious is that they sent it back "repaired" but not working? N.
machead3,