Hi, I'm glad you were able to get your iPhone replaced. Connie Sent from my iPod
> On Apr 30, 2016, at 12:14 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Travis and Listers, > > Interesting you asked about the camera. Here now is really the final part of > this unfortunate episode. > > My wife and I had to go to Vancouver on Wednesday which is where the closest > Apple Store is to where we live even though it’s an hour and 40 minutes > flight. Anyhow, I had made a genious bar appointment at 6 PM and explained to > the nice young lady who was helping me what happened. I did tell her she > might want to bring this to the attention of her manager and tell him/her > that this phone had been outside in the snow and cold and rain for 4 months > and that maybe Apple might be interested to examine it more closely. Whether > she did I have no idea and it’s out of my hands now. Since I was able to use > the phone with Voiceover she wanted to run a diagnostic on it. According to > that the camera was also damaged/not working and of course the screen. > Interestingly enough the battery test came back good even though I felt it > discharged very quickly. I asked her if she could tell whether there was > water damage and she said the diagnostic didn’t show that and she would have > to look at the SIM tray for that. Apparently the SIM tray is treated with > some sort of material which turns pink when it’s exposed to water. This of > course is an easy way for Apple to check for water damage since the SIM tray > is easily accessible and one place where water would of course enter almost > immediately. I told her not to bother because one of my employees commented > on the fact that the SIM tray was pink when I pulled it out after receiving > the phone so apparently water had definitely entered the phone. > > There was no issue getting the phone replaced on Apple Care which we did and > we now have a new iPhone 6S which my wife is going to use. This will mean > that we’ll most likely sell her iPhone 6 64 Gb Silver which I bought for her > at the end of January last year after she came to Canada from the > Philippines. I still have to get Telus to unlock it, but that shouldn’t be a > problem at this point. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Kwork > Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 10:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: The final chapter, was: The story continues... Long lost iPhone > 6S has finally resurfaced after snow melt > > I'm a few days late here, but wow! I'm quite surprised it even partially > works, enough to be used by a blind person anyway. I wonder if the camera > works? How about the microphone? Headphone jack? Very interesting anyway. > Thanks for the update. > Travis > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sieghard Weitzel > To: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2016 10:43 AM > Subject: The final chapter, was: The story continues... Long lost iPhone 6S > has finally resurfaced after snow melt > > Hi everybody, > > Finally, here is the long awaited last chatper of my lost iPhone story. > > yesterday the package with my iPhone 6S packed in rice arrived. Externally it > looks brand new with not a scratch on it. When I took out the SIM tray it > seemed like there was maybe a bit of moisture there so I left out the SIM > tray and stuck the iPhone in my toaster oven on a really low temperature for > a couple of hours just to maybe expel a bit more moisture from inside. > > After that the moment came and I plugged it in. My wife was there and we > quietly watched, but the screen remained black. After about 2 minutes there > was no change and I thought that answered the question as to whether the > iPhone was still working after having been lying on the ground outside for > 115 days, first in snow and temperatures of up to -40 Celsius/Fahrenheit and > as warm as +20 Celsius (68 Fahrenheit) and of course having gone through the > process when the snow and ice around it melted and so on. It was also exposed > to the sun, back in March there was another 10 inches of new snow over the > course of a week and in the week or two before my brother found it on April > 15 it had rained lightly a few times. > > Anyhow, I left it plugged in and when I came back to my office 2 hours later > I thought I check it out. I pressed the home button and bingo, Voiceover was > there and asked me to enter my passcode. I did so and the phone unlocked. > There was of course no service since I got a new SIM back in December when I > lost it and I had also just installed a new router at my store so I had to > reconnect to WiFi. As soon as I did so the phone started dinging and binging > away as emails came in, push notification alerts sounded and on top of all > that it started playing the lost sound since back on December 22 we logged in > to my iCloud account and triggered the Find my iPhone sound in case I had > just dropped it somewhere in the house. > > At that point it had charged up to 82% and everything seemed totally normal. > I went to Settings > General > Software Update and since I registered this > phone on the public beta program, I was told iOS 9.3.2 public beta 2 was > available for download. I started the download and it downloaded the 1.2 Gb > file in about 14 minutes, after that the upgrade proceeded normally and the > phone was up and running again in about 12 minutes. > > So, happy ending, right? Well, almost. Shortly after I finished the update > one of my employees walked in to ask me something. I happily told her “Look, > the iPhone that was lying in the snow for 4 months is working”. I held it up > and swiped around and Voiceover was chattering. Then she said “OK, but what > about the screen”. I asked “Why, what about the screen” and she said that it > was totally and utterly black. At first I thought that was no problem, maybe > the screen curtain was on. I did a 3-finger triple tap, but to my dismay > Voiceover said “Screen curtain on” and not “off”. I did it again and > Voiceover confirmed the screen curtain was now off. I checked the brightness > and even increased it to 100%, but she said it just was showing a completely > black screen. > > So, I guess for the time it’s now truly an iPhone for the blind, it works > perfectly, I made a Skype call on it to my Mom and both speaker and > microphones seem to work just fine, but the screen seems to be not working. > It will be interesting to see if in the next few days it comes back. Anyhow, > it so happens that my wife and I have to go to Vancouver next week so I’ll > take it an Apple Store and get it replaced since I have Apple Care Plus and > it’s of course totally worth it to pay the $130 Canadian which is what an > accidental damage replacement costs. Let’s hope the screen doesn’t start > working by then *smile* > > The end. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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