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These are a few my recent iPod repair experiences.
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My friend Kortney Herbert has a younger brother, Jon. He has a thing for putting his iPhones through the wash.
It happened 8 months earlier with his iPhone 4S and the other day he stopped by very sheepishly to show me that he put his new iPhone 5 through the wash just 2 days after he got it.
They live here in Santa Rosa (95403). I had him bring me the phone and it's charger and $60 (my fee for this type of work)
I opened it and started going throug doing my magic.
Notice there is still water pooled in the camera lens. And all over the inside of the phone still.
People get used to me making these type of saves.... I had to keep his phone overnight because he arrived late, late in the afternoon and I already had a dropped in the toilet iPhone 5 here to bring back to life. He stopped by mid-morning the next day and i still wasn't finished but I got it all working perfectly by 1pm.
I've mentioned one of the constraints Apple had in sales of the iPhone 5 was the justified legal battle with Samsung and Apple's wanting to get out from Samsung as a supplier. That lead to shortages of the displays for the i5's and I didn't have a replacement LCD for Jon's which still had water trapped in the layers once I had all the other aspects working again. When an LCD has fresh water trapped in its layers, over the course of time the moisture will slowly evpaorate and provided it was clear fresh water, will leave no evidence it was there. I told Jon everything works perfectly and it will look new again in a few days.
It did!
Total cost for him to get 2 day old iPhone 5 back to perfect health after 60 minutes in water through the wash cycle? $60
Tracy Everest lives here in Santa Rosa (95409)> She called to discuss the replacement of the docking port on her Nano 4th Gen iPod.
Except..... you can't replace the docking port on an iPod. The 30 tiny connections are to small to rework in the field. You can only replace the iPod itself so the mission had to turn to data recovery and file parking since tyhe only place she had the 1400 songs was the iPod itself.
Like many early iPod users, she figured out that if you set the iPod prefs to "Mange Music Manually" you can go to a friends house and add copies of their songs to it, but they can't be added to you iTunes Library itself afterward. That's now where I come in. I pull a copy of the files off the iPod and present them back to her with instructions on how to add them to her own iTunes Library again.
The detail photo shows what happened to her docking port. Notice theat half of the pin bed has been chipped and broken off. The lucky aspect was getting the pin straightened out enough to make good contact for the data connection.
Total cost for the data extraction and file parking was $50
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I'm in Sonoma County... Northern California wine country.
If you live nearby, are traveling through or live in the San Francisco Bay Area bring your iPod to me and I can do the work while you wait or go wine tasting for a while. Send me an
email just to make sure I have on hand whatever parts your repair will require.
Call or email me
with questions or to set up a repair. You can also call, I am here most days from 8am to 8pm
Toll Free 1-877-IPOD-PRO (1 - 877 - 476-3776)
Send the device to:
Frank Walburg
2145 Service Court
Santa Rosa, Ca 95403-3139
Methods of payment
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