Flaming Apple-No really (-:

Serves them right for choosing style over substance.

Flame cos, well you know.

Apple doesn't seem to reply to anyone who has anything negative to say about them. They're nothing more than a self-fisting cult who have taken over the egotistical biz from Ball-more at Macro-soft. I've gone from wannabe-fanboi to "ah shit, they're no better than anyone else" since the release of their ultimate onanistic masterpiece, the iPhone, the device that gets you almost there then leaves you hanging ... onto your wallet as they attach the vacuum cleaner to it.

My g/f dropped her iPhone into a toilet last Friday. It was quite a mess: The SIM slot was full of water drops, the screen flickered, and the touch did not work. She was in tears!

But...

After getting the water out of the sim slot and microphone, using a hair dryer on it, the phone booted, and I was able to sync it. The touch screen was finicky, ignored touches or clicked where it shouldn't.

And...

After letting it dry over the weekend, the phone works flawlessly again!

It *is* a Jesus phone!

Well it is a hot product.......

Don't know about the device burning, but there is never a shortage of flames on this site whenever anyone has a good word to say about Apple. As for you first three, have you considered your replies or just joined the Apple-bashing club in the absence of original thought? It seems to me Apple have produced an as yet untouched device of unrivalled capability that makes the rest of the tech world green with envy and denial. Sure, there are a few areas some people would like to see, such as copy and paste, but I have yet to see a convincing argument that any of these features would enhance an already flawless device. Come on people, stop bleating like blind sheep and accept that Apple have not made a bad product yet.

Morons

Shut up, No it's not.

Same thing happened to a friends Nokia N95.

None of the buttons would work, charge wouldn't work and screen was waterlogged.

After as much drying as possible and leaving it alone for the night and drying with a hairdryer again it works.

Does that make the N95 a jesus phone?

No, Didn't think so.

Surely this just proves the iPhone is a piece of shit?

"Apple did not immediately respond to our requests for comment"

ho hum. do they ever ;)

A true Jesus phone would have stood on the surtface of the water in the toilet (assuming that it was water).

No seriously.

Please wait for a month before declaring the phone a survivor of the deep dive. Corrosion from water damage may take a while, so the mere fact that you had it turned on while it was still relatively moist (you mention that the touchscreen finicky) may have doomed it.

The important thing when a phone is dropped in water (or milk or ...) is:

1: Get the battery out immediately

2: Get contaminants out (if the liquid is something other than water, you may actually consider rinsing in water)

3: Dry the phone completely.

4: then you can consider turning the thing on again.

I'm glad you managed to rescue it but would you say it was more or less full of shit after being dropped in the bog?

Although I can see an up side to incendiary iPhones, less estate agents!

<rant> Moron. If you get an electronic device wet (referring to water; alcohol or fizzy drink is a different matter altogether) you should leave it as disassembled as possible for AT LEAST 24 hours, regardless of how much hair drying you do to it - because there will still be internal components that the hairdryer won't reach, which you will have to wait for the water to evaporate in its own time. No wonder it was still funny when you first switched it on, you were probably responsible for a number of minor short-circuits and voltage instabilities. The fact that you let it dry over the weekend before (presumably) using it again is most likely the only thing that saved it. </rant>

Of course, you could have just plugged it into its charger, I suppose the heat from the fire would have dried it out quickly enough.

Looks very much like a badly inserted or damaged plug shorting out. Normally you'd expect your mainboard to simply cut the power to the faulty USB plug, but if that doesn't happen (e.g. because your board or USB card is garbage) this is pretty much the result I'd expect.

I mean... this is evidently a connector problem not being any issue when properly fused and this type of charging cable has been around for years without changes.

No news here, i'll better get my coat...

Me too, Dropped it down the crapper, shook it vigourously, placed it on a raditor on some kitchen towel for a day, good as new (and clean with hint of pine freshness, thank God I had flushed or it might have had a hint of something else!)

.... a car broke down and me mum's washing machine packed up.

How many iPhones sold? How many have suffered this problem?

Good grief. Slow news day lads (and lass)?

/El Fail

In the photo of the burned-out cable, the iPhone seems odd to me. Mine doesn't have the shaping around the 'Home' button. Is this a fake or is there a different model?

Saw my first non-Apple batteries about a month after the first iBones debutted, and recently seen hordes of fake Apple charges being sold by street vendors. Did anyone check if these were genuine products in these cases?

/good excuse to use the flames icon ;)

which if it is, uses a magnetic coupler to attach to the phone.

if memory serves me correctly, there are 4 flat spring loaded pin-plates inside. if the pins are dirty or oxidised (a common problem on electrical terminals) then given sufficient ampage, it could easily generate enough heat to catch fire.

That's the principle (in laymans terms) on which welding works. The weakest part of the circuit will get the hottest. Does the magnetic coupler still work if the charger isn't plugged in? If it doesn't that means it uses an electromagnetic coil, which also could generate excessive heat if not functioning correctly

Does anyone know the V/A rating of the charger?

Ah, so just like it's namesake, it died on the friday, and came back to life on monday...

:)

Wikipaedia refuse to allow the term "Jesus Phone" to be included anywhere in the description of the iPhone. It's mentioned in the discussion page but the "cult" figures who control the main article page won't make any reference to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone

iPhone in a toilet. I guess the guys in the Vatican can use that if their phones get hot / catch fire.