I Dropped my iPhone 3GS into water. It will power up, but shuts down after a short time. Can anyone help me back up my contacts, pics, calendar?
I need help backing up info from my water damaged iPhone. It works on and off so I need to get my calendar, etc while it still works!
If it will not stay powered on long enough to complete a sync or backup, there's really nothing you can do. It sounds like it suffered physical damage (the water likely caused shorts which have damaged circuitry). If it has not fully dried out and you keep trying to power it on, you risk merely doing even further damage.
There's no magiacal fix for this, sorry. Unless you can get it to power on long enough to run a sync/backup session, you are just out of luck.
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I dropped my iphone 3gs in water and grabbed it immediately out. It gave me a charger not supported sign every minute or two. I decided to turn it off for the night and the next morning it worked fine and only the bottom sensor was triggered. Why does it still work and how long will it last?
Water in itself will not kill electronic components if you let it dry out. Your first reaction to turn it off was a good one but you could have waited even longer.
It also depends what's on your water that will stay after the water itself had dried; like salt. Anything that iseither acid or conductor left on the circuit board will reduce the life of the board. Given said this, no one could state how long your iPhone will work since no one will know for sure where the water had time to infiltrate before you removed your device and no one what's may left there.
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________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Also all my wifi apps dont connect to the internet except for safari and maybe appstore HELP??!!!!!
Both these problems are happening at the same time so i dont know if they are linked or something but please someone helpHello shahnaztech
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iOS: Troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks and connections
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1398
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2109
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