J
10th September 2012, 09:57 AM
Good morning all.
Got a hand-me-down non-jailbroken iPhone 3GS from my wife about a year ago.
[Look, I am a uber noob, and I know Android is better, but I prefer to spend money on her and the car, than on a phone that I only use to make calls, send texts and brief emails and browse the web quickly and smoothly...]
Now, perhaps because there was a time when I did press on the Home button with wet fingers, the phone has now gotten to a stage where not only the Home button is dead (circumvented by the AssistiveTouch feature), but the Home button will effectively press itself whenever it wants, sometimes in quick succession. It used to be not so annoying (just click on the app icon to get back into whatever I was doing, and click "Cancel" whenever it goes into Voice Control, and disable Voice Dialling), and sometimes rubbing a drop of alcohol around the Home button, and burying the whole phone in a bag of rice overnight will fix the problem temporarily...
[I did watch videos of people replacing the Home buttons, but after taking the two screws out at the bottom, I don't know how to open the casing, and I am concerned that I might crack the screen or something...]
But these days, it will activate Voice Control and play and pause random songs, and prank call people, all without my intervention. And it will keep taking me out of whatever app I am using (and do it again as soon as I click back into the app), that a short text will take like 5 minutes or more to type. In fact, it is so annoying that I had to keep my phone off whenever I am not using it, and so frustrating that I would've smashed it against something hard a LONG time ago, if it isn't still worth some money!
So, to summarise: I need your recommendation for a good iPhone repairer in Sydney that can clean/replace the Home button and repair possible water damage at a fair price (i.e. open up, inspect, then close the phone and provide a free quote), provide some warranty on his/her parts and/or labour, and is honest enough not to overcharge me (e.g. just claim "water damage" anyway, and then replace more parts than needed and charge me heaps more $$$$ than needed).
Any recommendations please?
Got a hand-me-down non-jailbroken iPhone 3GS from my wife about a year ago.
[Look, I am a uber noob, and I know Android is better, but I prefer to spend money on her and the car, than on a phone that I only use to make calls, send texts and brief emails and browse the web quickly and smoothly...]
Now, perhaps because there was a time when I did press on the Home button with wet fingers, the phone has now gotten to a stage where not only the Home button is dead (circumvented by the AssistiveTouch feature), but the Home button will effectively press itself whenever it wants, sometimes in quick succession. It used to be not so annoying (just click on the app icon to get back into whatever I was doing, and click "Cancel" whenever it goes into Voice Control, and disable Voice Dialling), and sometimes rubbing a drop of alcohol around the Home button, and burying the whole phone in a bag of rice overnight will fix the problem temporarily...
[I did watch videos of people replacing the Home buttons, but after taking the two screws out at the bottom, I don't know how to open the casing, and I am concerned that I might crack the screen or something...]
But these days, it will activate Voice Control and play and pause random songs, and prank call people, all without my intervention. And it will keep taking me out of whatever app I am using (and do it again as soon as I click back into the app), that a short text will take like 5 minutes or more to type. In fact, it is so annoying that I had to keep my phone off whenever I am not using it, and so frustrating that I would've smashed it against something hard a LONG time ago, if it isn't still worth some money!
So, to summarise: I need your recommendation for a good iPhone repairer in Sydney that can clean/replace the Home button and repair possible water damage at a fair price (i.e. open up, inspect, then close the phone and provide a free quote), provide some warranty on his/her parts and/or labour, and is honest enough not to overcharge me (e.g. just claim "water damage" anyway, and then replace more parts than needed and charge me heaps more $$$$ than needed).
Any recommendations please?