Ok, this is a question I've been thriving on also. Nobody is sure yet if Apple will bring this plan back, I would think they would, It'll just bring them more money, but they will most likely announce if they let current iPhone customers upgrade to the new iPhone with the subsidized price and extend their AT&T contract. I doubt they'll make you trade it in, that'd be a complete rip off IMO.. but I wouldn't be surprised if they made you actually show your old one because of the controversy that happened last year with the iPhone 3G. People used friend and family member's iPhone's to get the subsidized price for the iPhone.. Apple started to recognize it and quickly put an end to it.. well they ended it after a month.
I'm having a problem with my 3g iPhone. The person on the other line can hear me but I can't hear them unless I put them on speaker. I tried resetting but that didn't work. Anyone know what's up?
LOL...not at you, but the washer/dryer situation. I was putting my favorite box of neopolitan ice cream sandwiches in the freezer with arms loaded with other stuff, and my iPhone. I set the iphone down on a big hunk of frozen meat, tapped it to make sure it would slip down and reajusted everything so the ice cream fit perfectly on end for easy access. Then I closed the door. Six hours later I thought, "Why hasn't he called me?" Uh? Where the hell is my phone. Maddness ensued. Recklessly searching every corner of the house. You see, I had just bought the dang thing and it would piss me off to have to buy another. Again, maddness ensued. Retracing my steps for the last six hours brought me in front of the freezer. Oh crap, not in there. Sure enough. I left it out and didn't turn it on until the next morning. BINGO!!!!!! (insert a huge "whew" here). Moral of the story: buy shelf stable ice cream!
Yeah... there really isn't a way to fix it. It looks like a hardware failure... possibly caused by a fall or drop or hit... I don't know. But yeah technokid is right, you can exchange yours... or they may try to fix it on site at the Apple store.
cool, I think I'm going to do this. But I got my phone from a AT&T store, they're not going to tell me to go back where I got it from are they?
Well it looks like her phone lived. After it's trip though the washer and dryer (on accident) we put it in a bag of rice for the past 2 days. Today after a slight charge we powered it on and it works fine. Smells like bounce but works like nothing ever happened.
Great to hear, and learn. Really, rice? Now I've used a kernal of cooked rice as an adhesive for a stamp, but never as...hmmmm, what were you using it for? Suck the moisture out of the phone I presume?
My girlfriend puchased a 16gb the other day. The people she would talk to couldn't hear her. The phone was also dropping a lot of calls. She took it to the AT&T store where she purchased it and they told her to take it to an Apple store. Apple store replaced phone and now this newer phone is doing the same thing. It seems both AT&T and Apple are pointing the finger at each other.
Well... AT&T really can't do anything. The Apple Store is where you have to take it, tell them they replaced the mic, but there's something else wrong with the phone that's causing it to not work. They SHOULD give you another phone, the reason why they are replacing hardware now these past two months is because they have discontinued to make the iPhone 3G because of the new arrival of the new iPhone, that may cause shortages and therefore cannot give you a brand new one. They should be able to help you out though, tell them to THROUGHLY make sure all the phone's features work before you get it back. With Apple, you just gotta push their lazy asses a little bit.
Basically. The rice absorbs the residual moisture leaving the phone 'dry'. It is a last chance thing to save a phone that has been submerged. I think because the water has a certain salt content, it shorts the device. Without water, the salt will just become a solid, and the device may come back to life.
Well I went to the apple store yesterday and got my phone fixed! The guy said that my TTY settings had been tampered with but that's weird cause I've never messed with those settings and no one uses my phone but me. I had to wait about an hour from when I got there, I didn't know you need to set up an appointment. Sounds like they gotta deal with busted iPhones all the time. The lady in front of me her screen was all shattered I was like WTF no wonder AT&T excludes the iPhone from their insurance plan.
I disagree with Donny.. I've been to downtown plenty of times with my iPhone... haven't had any problems with signal or dropped calls whatsoever... at least not in Houston.
