greetings iphone users, does anyone have a good place to get an iphone fixed? Or any alternatives? I have a rather peculiar issue where the volume buttons appear to be jammed and is causing erratic behaviour. Symptoms include :-

-Unable to lower/increase volume
-Opening received smss will cause the volume icon to appear and not go away until its locked
-Phone will ring only once then become silent(still ringing)

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

have u tried to do restore of ur firmware??

Yes i have

and nothing has been changed?

yes, all my stuff's gone , otherwise nope. I think its a hardware defect though.

hmm what is ur firmware? maybe if lower than 1.1.4, u might consider to upgrade?

just suggesting..

Firmware is current version 1.1.4.

i can try to help you to tighten up the volume keys if you think thats the problem

This post has been edited by nokia2003: Jun 15 2008, 11:20 AM

I too need to know where I can repair my iPhone

.. & what is ur problem??

lol is iphone that fragile? every1 seems to be looking for places where repairs can be done for the iphone.. if we send it to the malaysian apple store i dont think they can do it right ?

hurmm i dunno la, but mine seems ok la. even been format more than 10 times already.

guess, my time not yet reach.. lol

Nothing really happened to me yet. Just wanna make sure where I can find one before my phone spoils. Really worried about the battery

I dont think the phone is that fragile, but you'll probably hear more requests on where to get it fix because it's a tough question. Things like grey import nokia/motorola/samsungs are a lot more straight forward.

hi all, i noticed that the lower part of my iphone screen seems to be a little darker/yellowish especially in white background or when keyboard is up, and i jes wonder if it is my eyesight problem or any1 come across such problem?

jes worry that my beloved iphone showing unhealthy sign.

pls help.

TQ

hmm, so anywhere around KL fix iphone? (hardware & software) i think my iphone wifi antenna need to be replaced :S ive been living without WIFI for months, its.....frustrating

erm..too sum kua..

eh..toouch wood la bro

hmm..ur nt the oni 1..sum1 else in this forum oso posted sumting like dis

wat troubleshooting hv u done?

i like my iphone, but id be more worried its my eyesight... :|

so yes, anyone with positive iphone repair experience, please post , we'd definitely like to support the dude with some business

i dunno la, now i dun see the yellowish then i see it ... i showed to my frens and they sd my eyesight got problem and may be i am over sensitive lo

is there a post on the same issue? i browsed but cant find.

i just walk to BB plaza, saw this shop saying "iphone services and repair" i told him my situation about my wifi, apparently i need to replace my wifi IC chip......the best part is, its going to cost me RM600-700...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

my godness! 700!! phew..... i better start learning how to dismantle iphone... hey, it looks pretty easy dismantling them via video instruction on youtube... been naked'ing all my windows mobile device before just for the sake of cleaning em inside out and so far, so good... im thinking of replacing the back plate to black one next month

i doubt they will replace your wifi chip as wifi chip already soldered to the main board of iphone, they cant simply solder out and put another wifi chip, if they tell u need to change the board it might be true...but if they tell you they change the wifi chip , they are lieing ...most probrably they just erase all your baseband and update the latest one.

so dont be cheated by them...i hate those shop who like to cheat people...simply do baseband erase need RM700?

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Added on June 20, 2008, 4:09 pmyou're not advised to dismantle youself because there's a lot of parts u need to take out from the original iphone and stick correctly to the black housing...it's not like take out the housing and replace another so easy....

find someone who's more professional.

This post has been edited by llllll: Jun 20 2008, 04:09 PM

the wifi receiver is located above the network receiver (enclosed by the black case)

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Added on June 20, 2008, 5:31 pmhence if you wanna replace the wifi receiver, you have to essentially replace the entire thing (wifi + network receivers)

This post has been edited by nokia2003: Jun 20 2008, 05:31 PM

it's not the receiver he mentioned...it's the wifi chip ..... ...the wifi IC chip is soldered to the mainboard already...

my apologies then. i bukannya iphone expert

@rlyp
What's wrong with your WiFi?

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Added on June 20, 2008, 6:38 pmAgree. I also hate those people who charge exorbitant rate/fees for such an easy task like unlocking and all. They got it free from the internet and dare to charge so expensive.

@JasLyn
The black housing only have the housing (obviously) without the other fittings. I forgot the site that show a guy replace the cover to the black ones and its hell of a process. There's few small parts that have to use industrial glue remover and those part are SMALL and BRITTLE. Dismantling the cover is a tough job but it can be DIY. I already replace mine (damaged while doing the failed H/W unlock) and nokia2003.

This post has been edited by frozzbyte: Jun 20 2008, 06:38 PM

How about changing the front bezel silver shine ring?is that easy?anyone doing this?

Someone in the forum already done that. The hard part would be ... like i said .. opening the back cover. There's 10 screws holding the chrome bezel.

Check this guide to know more on how to change it. Word of caution, its not as easy as it looks in the guide on how to remove the back cover. Nokia2003 can confirm that.

But is there any where to get a new front chrome bezel?Is the aluminium back cover easy to bend when open the case

between the plastic part and the alu part?

yes thats why i not recomend him to do it himself as it's not easy...silap skit i phone gone....

those small parts from original iphone is really small ...yes, they need glue remover to remove it.

this have to ask master nokia2003

Wow,Do not know that brother nokia2003(rabbit)is so good in this...lol

well, basically my iphone wifi is not working anymore, whenever i tired to turn it on, it wont detect any access point. eventually my iphone will hang, and ive gotto force reboot it.

also sometime, when my iphone could not detect my wifi mac address (grey wifi) then its getting frustrating, cos whenever i left my phone in sleep mode, incoming calls i wont get any alert.


all these problem is really killing me T___________T . tried fully restore a few times, but its not working...sigh...thts y i suspect its hardware issue

so sad to hear tht bro... mebe theres a guide frm net to solve ur problem?

This post has been edited by dirsly: Jun 21 2008, 06:53 PM

wat kind of unlocking software u 're using? some will caused grey wifi problem.

when i was in 1.1.2 i use Ziphone upgraded to 1.1.4 after a month or so, i started to have this issue, and i restore my phone with iLiberty+ ... because i hard Ziphone will corrupt iphone baseband.

the reason i have grey wifi issue is because the phone could not detect my wifi MAC address, i have restart my phone several times, in order to detect my wifi mac address.

although with or wihtout mac address, i still couldnt access into my wifi, but as long as my iphone detect the wifi mac address, i dont have the "sleep mode, no ringer/vibrate respon" issue.

@ frozzbyte

Yup2... dealing with small parts always hard... but guess what, friends got bricked iphone and yeah, i have a subject to be studied already without worries BTW, the hardest so far for me is the O2 XDA Flame... too many loose fall item and tricky short wiring... i bet this iphone also wont give up that easy for post-moterm...

@rlyp
I think you problem can be solve with the dev team swifi fix for greyed wifi. Do read more about it at iphone-dev.org before doing anything or else u'll end up with more that just a greyed wifi. Its not a hardware problem.

@JasLyn
Bricked phones? Sure can't recover? Got a working commboard to help a
fellow iphone owner?
I've already experiment with my phones. Got the back cover if u want to study the structure.

i do have the grey wifi fix payload thru iliberty, but it is not working . . .