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My hacking iPhone fell into the toilet!
From: john.skinner at gmail.com (John Skinner)
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:46:05 -0500
Sorry, this got long. I just wanted to share. A friend and me are giving a talk this Friday at Phreaknic 12 about hacking on/with the iPhone. (jailbreak, backup and restore cydia apps and settings, metasploit nmap, and remote audio bugging!) In the mists of preparing for my talk my iPhone, I killed my iPhone! Below is my experience repairing my iPhone. I dropped my iPhone in the toilet on Thursday night :( (I was showing my 4 yr old daughter a pumpkin game on it that you shake to make sounds. I know,... I know..) The screen went psychedelic, so I powered it off. It kept coming back on a couple times, then shut off for good. The battery was almost dead anyway, so I hoped it would stay off and just try to dry out on the heater vent. So I waited a day or so. On Saturday night I plugged it in and turned it on but the screen image was shot but the phone rang! I realized that everything was working, just couldn't see what was happening. If I guessed positioning just right, I could unlock, go to the home screen, go to the phone, go to the favorites and call my wife a friends. So I decided to take it apart. Found a guide here.. http://www.rapidrepair.com/guides/iphone3g/iphone3grepairguide.html But when I tried to take the LCD apart from the front glass... CRACK!!!!!!! I cracked the LCD making it even worse. Now I knew I needed to get it fixed. On Sunday I went tot he Apple store, and they asked if I had dropped it in water. I confessed and said yes. They told me my only option was to buy a new one. I had discussed with my wife and was ready to pay $399 + tax again for a new one. Only I was informed by the Apple store employee that the $399 price was subsidized. I would have to pay the full price for a new iPhone without a contract, $599!!!!! So I went back home and ordered a LCD replacement screen from http://wwww.rapidrepair.com $107 with opener tool, coupon code 10repair and overnight shipping! Can't wait to finish my slides for my talk on Friday!
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