So here is my situation...
I purchased my iPhone online via craigslist and have been using it for the past 4 months and haven't really had any problems with it. Please note that my phone is jailbroken.
Within the past few days the phone has been acting a little weird. My phone would, out of nowhere, lose reception for extended periods of time (40 min+). I decided to turn the phone off and back on...
Upon doing so, the white apple appears on the screen, for a minute or so and then the "loading symbol" did its thing, and it worked. GREAT!
This happened again, about 24 hours later. I turned the phone off and back on. This time, it took a 'little' longer to load when the apple was on the screen... Maybe 30 min to an hour, though it ended up working.... for another 24 hours...
Again, 24 hours hours later, this time it took about an hour and a half to load, though still appeared fine after it had finished doing its thing and had booted.
Now... Again, as mentioned, this has been over the course of about 5 days. My iPhone lost reception last night (19 hours ago), it is still trying to boot up , and freezes when the "loading symbol" is on the screen. The phone will shut itself off and try to boot... a continuous loop...
I took the phone to the Apple store (i like to call it the iStore) and spoke to a genius who looked at my phone and concluded that it was malfunctioning due to water damage. He told me that i could have the phone replaced for $257.00. AWESOME!
He proceeded to type in the Serial number to his laptop where he concluded that my phone was from the US and therefore jailbroken. As a result, i would no longer be eligible for the $257.00 phone, and would have to take it to the US to have an apple US store MAYBE take it back... (he couldn't verify it was officially jailbroken because he could not actually look at the phone's software as the phone couldn't access the home screen). Since AT&T doesn't provide service in Canada it was pretty clear my phone was jailbroken.
Here is my question...
Do you think if I ran over my phone, causing extreme damage, the iStore would sell me a new one at $250.00?
If they say that my phone got wet, I would say that it was raining when I ran over it... Does anyone think this will work?
Does anyone know if apple stores report/record jailbroken/wet phones?
Your thoughts are welcome...
I purchased my iPhone online via craigslist and have been using it for the past 4 months and haven't really had any problems with it. Please note that my phone is jailbroken.
Within the past few days the phone has been acting a little weird. My phone would, out of nowhere, lose reception for extended periods of time (40 min+). I decided to turn the phone off and back on...
Upon doing so, the white apple appears on the screen, for a minute or so and then the "loading symbol" did its thing, and it worked. GREAT!
This happened again, about 24 hours later. I turned the phone off and back on. This time, it took a 'little' longer to load when the apple was on the screen... Maybe 30 min to an hour, though it ended up working.... for another 24 hours...
Again, 24 hours hours later, this time it took about an hour and a half to load, though still appeared fine after it had finished doing its thing and had booted.
Now... Again, as mentioned, this has been over the course of about 5 days. My iPhone lost reception last night (19 hours ago), it is still trying to boot up , and freezes when the "loading symbol" is on the screen. The phone will shut itself off and try to boot... a continuous loop...
I took the phone to the Apple store (i like to call it the iStore) and spoke to a genius who looked at my phone and concluded that it was malfunctioning due to water damage. He told me that i could have the phone replaced for $257.00. AWESOME!
He proceeded to type in the Serial number to his laptop where he concluded that my phone was from the US and therefore jailbroken. As a result, i would no longer be eligible for the $257.00 phone, and would have to take it to the US to have an apple US store MAYBE take it back... (he couldn't verify it was officially jailbroken because he could not actually look at the phone's software as the phone couldn't access the home screen). Since AT&T doesn't provide service in Canada it was pretty clear my phone was jailbroken.
Here is my question...
Do you think if I ran over my phone, causing extreme damage, the iStore would sell me a new one at $250.00?
If they say that my phone got wet, I would say that it was raining when I ran over it... Does anyone think this will work?
Does anyone know if apple stores report/record jailbroken/wet phones?
Your thoughts are welcome...
