My iPhone just took a crap. A sign from the Apple Gods?

One of the rows on my iPhone 8GB no longer responds to touch. It's a dead spot. It can be no coincidence that this happened a day before the new iPhone is (supposedly) released....

 

Only in an Apple Forum...

...would someone praise a company because their product broke and it gives them a chance to get a new model.

 

I'm not praising anyone. I'm ticked off!

 

LOL

I was thinking the same thing after reading the main post.

 

That reminds me of when I owned an Alienware. I should have praised AW for the fact that my Area 51m 5500 had such a problem with heat dissipation that the GPU idled at 120 C. Causing transistors on the motherboard to pop out of their sockets, finally melting the plastic housing frame the CPU sat in.

I should have recognized that as a sign that it was time to get their new SLi laptop right then and there instead of moving onto a Thinkpad for the next few years.

/sarcasm off

 

It doesn't respond at all, or it responds now and then? I have heard of issues like that, except on iPod Touch...

And yes, 3G iPhone tomorrow! Almost confirmed!

 

It's literally a dead spot on the screen. Sucks so much! I googled "iPhone dead spot" and found others with the same issue. Just.... gah!

 

Can't you get a free replacement from the Apple Store?

 

I hope so. I'd unlocked mine last September, though, so I'll probably need to do a restore... The dead spot is in between numbers on the number pad (the only thing accessible from an un-activated phone), so it'll be a little awkward to demonstrate it, but I'll give it a go... Just wish the nearest Apple store wasn't so far away (1 hour 20 each way... ).

Just... grrr.

 

Put it under your pillow, maybe it'll turn into an iPhone 2. Or maybe mine will die as well, not that I’d notice as I can’t hear s**t using it as a phone anyway. I can see Steve now with that smug grin on his face, head squeezing out the top of his only polo neck like he got stuck while emerging from a test tube telling the assembled crowd of partially lobotomized vegetables at WDDC that it’s not built-in obsolescence folks, 'its a feature', its the iBreak, lovingly and minimalistically designed in Suckertino California, available in Rip-off and Rip-off-Air flavours.

Rant over. And yes I will be checking out the WDDC tomorrow, like a lobotomized vegetable.

You could always run up to Jobs and repeatedily tap him on the forehead until it goes numb saying 'can ya feel that Steve, no , well neither can my damned iPhone'

 

I loled because it sounds like something Stewie from family guy would say.

 

let me have your broken one

 

just think about the process of getting any other phone replaced when there is a problem like this, which usually isn't even possible.

and happily give apple a call and head to the nearest Apple store, I can guarantee you they will be much happier to get your issue taken care of if you have a reasonable attitude.

 

Yeap. The Apple Store "Mac Geniuses" are very easy to work with when you have a reasonable attitude.

A year or so ago, my iPod died, and I took it in to see what they could do. I wasn't pushy, or rude, or any of that, and I walked out with a new-in-box (that's right, not a refurb model) iPod.

So, just be polite, and they'll usually work with you!

 

Well, all's maybe well than ends well.

I called Apple on Monday, received a box on Tuesday, sent the iPhone out Tuesday, Apple received the phone in Texas on Wednesday, and I just received the shipping confirmation of my "replacement iPhone" today (same day!) which is scheduled for delivery tomorrow, Thursday!

How's that for service. Now let's hope they didn't just send my iPhone back without fixing it.

 

Tell us how it works out Apple Customers Supprt is quite excellent

 

Will report back tomorrow when I get it!

 

Apple customer service is really cool, they replaced my faulty iPod for a new one too.

 

Just got my iPhone back! Woohoo! It looks brand new, and is definitely not the one I sent back. But it's a week 21, which means it's CRAZY old. I got my first iPhone in September of 2007 and it was a week 30, which means that this phone is waaay old. I wonder how much of it is original parts.