Hi,
Well, it isn't documented, but, considering it survived the snow,
which is, when melting, pure water, it leaves me wondering.
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From: Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]
Date sent: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 20:32:54 +0000
Subject: RE: The final chapter, was: The story continues... Long
lost iPhone6Shas finally resurfaced after snow melt
I wouldn't quite call the 6S or 6S Plus waterproof, but it is
apparently quite water resistant even though Apple has so far not
actually mentioned this as a selling point. When IFixIt did the
tear-down of the 6S and 6S Plus last fall they found a number of
improvements which made the phone more water resistant and I
could see how Apple may have done this to see how it stands up by
evaluating any returns they get and maybe this fall with the
iPhone 7 they improve on it further and make an actual statement
towards water proofness. I could see how having only a single
Lightning port with no 3.5mm port could make it easier to make it
more water-resistant. After all, all Garmin GPS units have an
IPX-7 rating which means they can be submersed under 1 meter
(just over 3 feet) of water for up to 30 minutes without damage.
Of course they don't need to have openings for speakers or
microphones and the battery compartment is sealed off from the
rest of the unit and is not water-proof, but I think it's
probably possible to achieve this.
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of rajmund
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2016 12:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: re: The final chapter, was: The story continues... Long
lost iPhone 6Shas finally resurfaced after snow melt
Hi,
Wow! Just, wow! Oh, my! The water proof 6s!
If my phone would have something like this, I wouldn't bother
with the screen, but, each to their own.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]
Date sent: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 17:43:26 +0000
Subject: The final chapter, was: The story continues... Long
lost iPhone 6Shas finally resurfaced after snow melt
Hi everybody,
Finally, here is the long awaited last chatper of my lost iPhone
story.
yesterday the package with my iPhone 6S packed in rice arrived.
Externally it looks brand new with not a scratch on it. When I
took out the SIM tray it seemed like there was maybe a bit of
moisture there so I left out the SIM tray and stuck the iPhone in
my toaster oven on a really low temperature for a couple of hours
just to maybe expel a bit more moisture from inside.
After that the moment came and I plugged it in. My wife was
there and we quietly watched, but the screen remained black.
After about 2 minutes there was no change and I thought that
answered the question as to whether the iPhone was still working
after having been lying on the ground outside for 115 days, first
in snow and temperatures of up to -40 Celsius/Fahrenheit and as
warm as +20 Celsius (68 Fahrenheit) and of course having gone
through the process when the snow and ice around it melted and so
on. It was also exposed to the sun, back in March there was
another 10 inches of new snow over the course of a week and in
the week or two before my brother found it on April 15 it had
rained lightly a few times.
Anyhow, I left it plugged in and when I came back to my office 2
hours later I thought I check it out. I pressed the home button
and bingo, Voiceover was there and asked me to enter my passcode.
I did so and the phone unlocked. There was of course no service
since I got a new SIM back in December when I lost it and I had
also just installed a new router at my store so I had to
reconnect to WiFi. As soon as I did so the phone started dinging
and binging away as emails came in, push notification alerts
sounded and on top of all that it started playing the lost sound
since back on December 22 we logged in to my iCloud account and
triggered the Find my iPhone sound in case I had just dropped it
somewhere in the house.
At that point it had charged up to 82% and everything seemed
totally normal.. I went to Settings > General > Software Update
and since I registered this phone on the public beta program, I
was told iOS 9.3.2 public beta 2 was available for download. I
started the download and it downloaded the 1.2 Gb file in about
14 minutes, after that the upgrade proceeded normally and the
phone was up and running again in about 12 minutes.
So, happy ending, right? Well, almost. Shortly after I finished
the update one of my employees walked in to ask me something. I
happily told her "Look, the iPhone that was lying in the snow
for 4 months is working". I held it up and swiped around and
Voiceover was chattering. Then she said "OK, but what about the
screen". I asked "Why, what about the screen" and she said
that it was totally and utterly black. At first I thought that
was no problem, maybe the screen curtain was on. I did a
3-finger triple tap, but to my dismay Voiceover said "Screen
curtain on" and not "off". I did it again and Voiceover
confirmed the screen curtain was now off. I checked the
brightness and even increased it to 100%, but she said it just
was showing a completely black screen.
So, I guess for the time it's now truly an iPhone for the blind,
it works perfectly, I made a Skype call on it to my Mom and both
speaker and microphones seem to work just fine, but the screen
seems to be not working. It will be interesting to see if in the
next few days it comes back. Anyhow, it so happens that my wife
and I have to go to Vancouver next week so I'll take it an Apple
Store and get it replaced since I have Apple Care Plus and it's
of course totally worth it to pay the $130 Canadian which is what
an accidental damage replacement costs. Let's hope the screen
doesn't start working by then *smile*
The end.
Regards,
Sieghard
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