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Hello, I see sites advertising the logic board moisture stickers for the 3Gs. Is the iPhone 4s the same sticker? Anyone know? If they are different, where can one buy them? Thanks AJB

Perhaps as you say Apple might overlook charges on an individual and simply return the device but I believe a website encouraging fraud against the company would find a less forgiving company. Trying to pass water damaged equipment for warranty work is what us “older” folks would call stealing–YMMV.

Just tell your lawyer that you weren’t really trying to commit fraud when you changed out the red stickers for white ones and gave it to Apple for warranty work. You just didn’t like red stickers. Maybe the judge will buy it. If not, you don’t have to worry about voting or being called up for jury duty.

The iPhone 4 uses similar water damage detection stickers. They can be easily seen by sliding off the rear panel. I am sure you should be able to find some floating around the net with a HIGH mark up for stickers. Good Luck. “Ah, beer, my one weakness. My achilles heel, if you will.” Homer Simpson.

You wouldn’t try claiming false warranty on anyone that has a repair business either, right? This is with the intent to defraud someone or some company. Just because the materials are available doesn’t mean it’s ok. Those stickers have use for other purposes that require liquid notification - not to get freebies. It’s fraud and stealing - regardless if it is ever seen or not. What you do when someone is not looking is called integrity… Use the site to fix your phone yourself, or buy one you can fix in your budget.

Do you really want to go to prison? If you do, then have fun. If you don’t, I suggest you look up the term ethics. Grow up and accept you screwed up. Pay the OOW bill or hope Apple does it as a one time favor.

I can think of at least one time in which I needed new stickers and it wasn’t to defraud Apple or anyone. I had an iPhone that had no water damage to it at all, but there was a problem with the screen in that the far right side of it had no sensitivity to touch. Amount 1 mm of screen was not touchable and this made texting and even sliding the unlock bar almost impossible. However, I was lazy in visiting an Apple store and when I finally decided to do so, I had a stroke of bad luck. I dropped the phone in the sink and it became completely submerged. It made all the stickers turn pink and I figured the phone was dead. I decided to let it dry out for over a week and to my surprise, when I plugged it back in, the phone came on and everything worked!! Except the original screen problem was still there. Now in this case, I couldn’t take it to Apple because they would blame the water for the screen problem, so instead, I bought new stickers and replaced the pink ones. Apple replaced the whole phone to fix my screen problem and everything was perfect. Now is that fraud? I don’t think so. In fact, Apple would have been the one screwing me if I hadn’t swapped the stickers and they decided not to give me a new phone or fix the original screen problem that had nothing to do with water damage.

You are either OR DEAF, the water sensors on the Phone are all WHITE WHICH MEANS NO WATER damage so no company has the right to refuse repair on those grounds, when I buy i product for the agreed price I expect them to honout there waranty, I am not saying to replace pink sensors with white ones on a water damaged phone to get a repair or replacement, ho thats wrong as it would be my own fault & I would pay for the repair. Its the second apple product I have owned & yes I will be jumping off & never going near an apple product again. especially vodafone Yes it does make a difference as to weather they made £20 or a billion, if they were not making huge profits they would have to treat customers better to build a reputation, companies who treat customers badly from the start dont retain those customers for the future which hinders the companies growth. Right I want a straight answer from the holier than thou, a iphone that is 4 months old, never been near water or rain, all water sensors are white, never been opened, wont turn on or restore get error 1611, tell me why I am not entitled to a repair under waranty? This is vodafone not apple that say water damage, but how can it be with all white sensors, I am taking it to apple store next week.

On my wife’s iPhone 4 s we have full coverage through Best Buy but this is my story. We can get new phone ftom best buy but we need data from old one some new pictures. Aplle store already replaced phone twice in less then a year. First phone on off button stoped working. Second one right out of the box worked in the store until we got home and discovered that wi-fi doesn’t work. Couple months after phone stopped charging its not charger brcause my other phone works . Its a docking connector. I tried to clean it with alcohol didbt work. We went to apple store and they reffused to work on the phone because like they said phone water sensors show signs of partial water damage. I was lmao in the store how can be partial. They opened the phone and they showed me that sticker inside on battery was slightly discolored. Bs . Because i have warranty even for water damage i was intriged by story from Apple i took phone appart put a drop of water on stupid sticker and it went from lightly pink to red i mean red red. And that is not from water that slightly discoloration was from moisture. We charge phones on marble counter that is always cold and while you charging phone gets hot . That hot cold thing created condensation on sticker and trips it. But water doesn’t make it light pink water makes it completely red. Those stickers are just excuse for Apple to void warranty . I dont even need it i just need to recover my data - that was surprise they said its against Apple policy bla bla bla like privacy . I give manager a look and ask him is he serious, im right there and i give him my consent to acces private datas… No we dont do that. I was laughing like nuts Are you kiding me… Back to sticker i was thinking about sticker on the docking connector maybe i triped it with alcohol but wait a second what made ibside sticker to discolor … Moisture like i said full submersion would make sticker red not pinkish … I pulled my other phone from my pocket and told manager to open this one because i want to see that sticker on working phone and he refused… If they can prove that i droped my phone in water that is ok… But to relay on those two cent stickers for 500 bucks phone thats ridiculous. What happend to that lawsuit over iphone 3…

Well if your like me something got into my headphone jack (this was before I knew a water indicator sticker was in there) I got the thing that was stuck in my headphone jack and the thing that I got out was white so when I saw that there was something white still in there I kept scratching at it then I noticed it turned red and instantly though oh !@#$ that’s a water indicator I bet! And sure enough I googled and found out tthat I had indeed just caused mine to turn red from stratching at the !@#$ white part of the sticker. I was used to having an iphone 3 and only knew of the indicator in the charging end of the phone. So I kinda !@#$%^ myself now and I doubt the people at Apple would believe me cause I’m pretty sure plenty of people come up with excuses as to why their indicator is red.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1X-NEW-OEM-ORIGI… This sticker is good, shipping is free, and from what I can tell it is an exact match of the warranty sticker inside an iphone 4. I will add that this sticker will only work for the logic board, and maybe for the headphone jack but you might have to cut it down. As for the strip on the bottom at the power input, you can use a strip of photo paper cut down to size. Put double sided tape down where the strip will go on the phone, and put the photo paper down on that. Use a dark red marker/sharpie to color it red, but make sure you don’t press down too hard. If you want to remove any residue left by water/sweat/etc just take the phone completely apart, CAREFULLY remove any warranty stickers still intact, and put all the parts minus the battery in an alcohol bath. When you take them out, lightly tap them to make sure any solids shake off. Clean up anything still visible with an alcohol pad, and make sure that everything is completely dry before you reassemble. I recommend leaving the digitizer out overnight with a fan blowing on it. DON’T use a hair dryer, sensitive electronics do not like heat. Don’t freak out if you reassemble, turn it on, and still see some fluid in the screen; it should evaporate out within a day or so of normal use, your body heat alone should get most of it. CAREFULLY put the warranty stickers back on, and you should be good to go. Now for the “experts”- Marcus, you mean to tell me that you’ve never had someone plug in a phone that they dropped in the water? I’ve seen this case more than a few times and I do this for fun. Luckily, most of the time it was a battery short/burst and the damage was minimal. I’ll confirm that you would have to be really really electrically ignorant not to know that water+electronics= bad; but on the other hand, someone who takes their phone to work out might not realize a little sweat has creeped in the phone. When they find their phone has turned off they might just think the battery is dead and plug it in to let it charge, causing further damage to the phone. Not really sure how you equated that with throwing a a hair drier into a bath tub. Regardless, the previous example really happened and I really fixed it, so unless you want to tell me that there is a glitch in the matrix and I’m living a lie, mind your own business because I’ve got this covered. As for the stickers, once the phone is fixed, yeah, I replace them. Why shouldn’t I? The phone works, Apple doesn’t need to know it ever happened. All other arguments are invalid to me. If you’re naive enough to believe that the world is fair and that people get what they deserve and no company would ever dream of ripping off one of their customers, then we just aren’t going to see eye to eye on this. Apple rips people off, even small businesses and repair shops try to pull one over on people who aren’t tech-savvy enough to know they are being grossly overcharged. They ripped me off once, and before they did it again I got wise and started doing my own repairs. I’m not sure what they’ve done to earn your fierce loyalty, but they don’t have mine. If you call me a cheat and try to make this a moral issue, I’ll just tell you that “morals are a luxury of the rich,” that are used to manipulate you into staying in line. Nothing is ever black and white, wrong or right. Its all a matter of perspective. If getting taken advantage of makes you feel good then keep on truckin. I however, don’t have a submission fetish, so I’ll do as I please. P.S. please quit saying someone will go to jail if they use these. That’s just a straight up lie, and not even a feasible one.