IPhone broken, what to do?

Hi, my iPhone 3gs stopped working and got stuck in a loop requesting me to restore my OS. I have tried many ways to perform this restore but the restoration kept bombing out at about 75% witn error code 1 unknown error.
I took the phone to the iStore and they could not fix it a well. They advised me to take the phone to iFix, a dedicated place that fixes iPhones. After 2days I have not heard from them so I phoned them and the tehnician informed me that there is a hardware fault on the board (IMEI chip or somehing) that causes my phone to looses it's identity preventing it to join networks etc. bottom line is that they can do nothing for me. The man told me (unofficially) that he suspects that Apple builds a 'lifetime' into the chips so that the iPhone 'commits suicide' after a few years forcing me to buy a new one!
What to do? The phone is 2 years old, handledvery carefully, no drops or water on it an no I must throw away the very expensive phone!! I'm VERY dissapointed at Apple. How is it that a piece of hardware can not be fixed? I tellyou that I will go nuts if the same will happen to my iPad. I will HATE Apple forever and will discourage EVERYONE I meet to buy Apple stuff.

Hi HansNel,
I hope you mean by iStore the Apple store...they should be able to fix your phone no matter what. And if not, offer you a replacement.
Error Code 1 (or -1) means you most likely have an unofficially unlocked iPhone because that's a baseband error and/or you are trying to downgrade your iOS version, which is not possible without third party tools. If your iPhone has not been jailbroken, Apple should offer you a replacement for $199 USD.
If you aren't in the US, check with your carrier to see if you can upgrade. 2 years is a long lifespan for a smartphone. What you are thinking of "iPhone committing suicide" is called planned obsolescence. With the exception of the iPhone 3GS, Apple usually gives their iProducts life for two years (iPhone 1, iPhone 3G, iPod touch 1 and 2G are the examples), and then end official updates.

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for

  • Dbms_crypto in 10g Express missing

    I have installed the Oracle Database 10g Express Edition, it works fine. When I tried to use the dbms_crypto-Package with e.g. SELECT utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2(dbms_crypto.Hash(utl_raw.cast_to_raw('My Test'),2)) FROM dual; I got an ORA-00904 Error. Ha

  • Want to do pencil line drawing based on photograph

    PS Elements has a really neat quick line drawing effect.  I'd like to do something similar in PS CS3.  Does anyone know how?  I've been trying the sketch filter, but it doesn't seem quite as nicely done.  Can I use that action out of my elements fold

  • "The Product ID entered is invalid. Please choose a different Product ID."

    I have a folio that I am trying to update in Folio Producer and I am getting this error message: "The Product ID entered is invalid. Please choose a different Product ID." I have tried changing the name, but I keep on getting the same error. Has anyb

  • Administration Console

    Hi there, I have one problem with the administration console,When i get up the gui from my browser and try to see from the folder Machines ----> nodoGA/mxppga ---> Clients ( nodoGA /mxppga : Master machine / Domain ) My gui hang up and tell me that w

  • Perfomance of Development system

    Hi BPC Experts, We recently set up a standalone Dev system and the Dev system is very slow compare to the Prod system. Our Prod system is BPC 7.5M SP5 on SQL 2008. The Dev system is BPC 7.5M SP11 on SQL 2008. We are planning to upgrade the Prod to SP