Anyone else ever had their iPhone 4/4S power button get stuck?

[beenz]

well this happened to me today. I was outside running and all of a sudden, I can't turn my phone back off mid-run to lock it.

so I figure Imma take it to apple and they'll swap it out . even tho I dont have apple care, I haven't had this phone but for about 10 months, since I already had to swap out my last iphone 4s for a new one cuz the home button stopped working.

so I get in there, and they hit me with the this phone is out of warranty, so all we can do is sell u a new one for $200 to replace it. and I tell dude why would I replace a 4s for $200 when I can cop a 5 for $200. I then leave, cuz I"m not buying an iphone 5 and getting in contract when sprint don't even have LTE service here anyways. fukk that shyt.

a quick youtube search once I get home reveals that this problem is rampant, and I can probably fix this easily myself if I get the tools. so after hitting up amazon, I order a set of iphone tools for like $3 and I should be able to fix it.

in the meanwhile, there's also a feature on the phone called assistive touch. it basically allows me to lock and unlock my phone by touching this little white dot that appears when the feature is on. so I'll roll with that for about 4 days til my tools get here and I can fix this phone for real.

 

[aXiom]

Just make sure you don't lose any of those tiny ass screws...

 

[MikelArteta]

It's easy to pull the iPhone apart, my battery was dying and apple wanted like 100 bucks to replace it, craiglist found a china man that sells batteries and screwdrivers
Did it myself

Should have hot up craiglist a chinaman would have fixed it for you easily

 

[Kartel13]

just throw that shiit in the bushes. Iphone is Motorola Razr status now.

 

[beenz]

It's easy to pull the iPhone apart, my battery was dying and apple wanted like 100 bucks to replace it, craiglist found a china man that sells batteries and screwdrivers
Did it myself

Should have hot up craiglist a chinaman would have fixed it for you easily

I ordered the tools off amazon. Imma fix it and maybe buy an iPhone 5 for like $400 on Craig's. then I'll sell this 4s for like $250 which will put me having an iPhone 5 for only $150 without a contract.

 

[MikelArteta]

I ordered the tools off amazon. Imma fix it and maybe buy an iPhone 5 for like $400 on Craig's. then I'll sell this 4s for like $250 which will put me having an iPhone 5 for only $150 without a contract.

:Obama: pop a new battery in as well


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk breh!

 

[duncanthetall]

My 4 started getting stuck after about 2 yrs of owning it.

 

[beenz]

:Obama: pop a new battery in as well


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk breh!

I'm not putting a new battery in unless I keep this one.

My 4 started getting stuck after about 2 yrs of owning it.

That ain't bad. I have only had this phone since like feb, cuz it replaced the other one where the home button broke.

 

[beenz]

Found a cat on Craig's not too far from my house to sell me a 32GB for $225. I might be able to flip my existing 4s for at least $200

Plus who knows when LTE is gonna really hit the area here for sprint. By that time iPhone. 6 will be out

 

[beenz]

just got the 32GB 4S for $225. just gotta activate that bytch, and wait for my tools to arrive from amazon so I can fix the 16GB and sell that bytch for $250 or so on craigs.

 

[TheGregReaper]

This shyt happened to me on my 3GS and 4

 

[illadope]

Ive never had this problem...but ive owned probably 90 iPhones to date

 

[beenz]

Ive never had this problem...but ive owned probably 90 iPhones to date

why have you had 90 iphones???????

 

[illadope]

why have you had 90 iphones???????

Cuz i be flippin em. Folks just give me old ones nowadays

I keep tellin yall, yall need to get up on the jailbreak hustle out there.

 

[beenz]

as an update, when the amazon tools came to disassemble the white iphone, I took it apart, and could not fix the power button. On top of that, when I put it back together, I had an extra screw and some other piece left over. Luckily I put it in a baggy, cuz that little piece I forgot to put back in had something to do with the antenna supposedly. I ended up having a guy on craigslist fix it for $50 yesterday.

Once it was fixed, I sold it on craigslist like 60 minutes later to an indian cat for $250 with no charger or anything. which was cool since I paid $225 last week for the black 32GB 4s. overall I took a $25 loss, but I dont mind since my current phone has double the space at least.