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I've had my iPhone 4S for 1.5 years (got it in Feb 2012) and it's showing its age. Battery doesn't last as long, etc. It also got a little wet a few weeks ago - not fully submerged but I was drunk and used it with wet hands, it has a few small water marks in the screen and it started randomly dialing my phone book and taking screenshots of itself. A hard reset fixed that problem.

 

Over the weekend I was out in the sticks and the battery ran completely dead (so dead that it didn't even show the "charge me now" screen with the empty red battery icon). I plugged it into my truck on the way home and eventually it did come back to life, but after I stopped it promptly died again. Now it will not turn on at all even when plugged into the wall. I tried the hard reset (holding Home+Power button) multiple times and it's been on the wall charger for over 8 hours. It has randomly turned on a few times and shown the charging screen, but turns back off almost immediately after.

 

Is my phone fucked? How much do you think it will cost to fix? 

 

On a side note, fuck Verizon and their new early upgrade plan, now I can't upgrade at 18mo like I used to... I was supposed to get a new phone next month!

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I've had my iPhone 4S for 1.5 years (got it in Feb 2012) and it's showing its age. Battery doesn't last as long, etc. It also got a little wet a few weeks ago - not fully submerged but I was drunk and used it with wet hands, it has a few small water marks in the screen and it started randomly dialing my phone book and taking screenshots of itself. A hard reset fixed that problem.

 

Over the weekend I was out in the sticks and the battery ran completely dead (so dead that it didn't even show the "charge me now" screen with the empty red battery icon). I plugged it into my truck on the way home and eventually it did come back to life, but after I stopped it promptly died again. Now it will not turn on at all even when plugged into the wall. I tried the hard reset (holding Home+Power button) multiple times and it's been on the wall charger for over 8 hours. It has randomly turned on a few times and shown the charging screen, but turns back off almost immediately after.

 

Is my phone fucked? How much do you think it will cost to fix? 

 

On a side note, fuck Verizon and their new early upgrade plan, now I can't upgrade at 18mo like I used to... I was supposed to get a new phone next month!

 

phone is fucked, might just be the battery, but youll spend $100 getting that replaced.. if you have apple care you can get it replaced for $49. if not its $199 to get it replaced..

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