Help here would deffo be appreciated iphone4

ChrisLandin · 9 Feb 2016 at 19:03

Hi guys.

My wife's iPhone 4 has taken a swim courtesy of our one year old darling daughter. We have done the old rice bath trick but to no avail.

So I'm wondering if there is anyway we can retrieve the pics and videos that are on it or have we lucked out?

As always any help is greatly recieved

Myshra · 10 Feb 2016 at 08:55

if you're not synced with iCloud or Dropbox(or equivalent) then this is the end of the line without spending a very large amount of cash sorry.

Minstadave · 10 Feb 2016 at 09:05

As said, if you're logged into iCloud it'll all end backed up automatically.

Ryan-3 · 10 Feb 2016 at 12:36

As long as it was set to do that. Otherwise, the last time it was synced with iTunes is the last stuff you backed up.

ChrisLandin · 10 Feb 2016 at 12:57

Yea no I cloud or I tunes back up. Shes not tech savvy.

Gutted as it's got hundreds of pics on of the kids from being babies.

Is there any other way? What if I were to take it to Apple themselves? You reckon they could maybe do something?

Captain · 10 Feb 2016 at 12:59

Use a hairdryer and dry it out, it may work, it may not, but it's worth trying.

Don't try and turn it on though for a good day or so, give it time to dry.

bloodiedathame · 10 Feb 2016 at 13:38

ChrisLandin said:
Yea no I cloud or I tunes back up. Shes not tech savvy.

This is why I set up my wife's phone. Sorry mate, I think you'll struggle to get the pics back. Log onto her icloud via a web browser and cross your fingers that her photos are backed up.

koooowweeee · 10 Feb 2016 at 13:44

You could get another phone the same and swap the motherboards. Not to sure how iphones are build but samsund and other phones are pretty easy to fix.

Just have to hope it not the motherboard that's broken with the memory chip attached

thep02 · 10 Feb 2016 at 16:47

Nightmare

If it was placed on a rack in a freezer would it freeze dry all of the moisture out? If it's not too late for that.

The backup might have been the default and not have needed her to set it up consciously so could be worth checking anyway.

bloodiedathame · 10 Feb 2016 at 18:59

thep02 said:
Nightmare

If it was placed on a rack in a freezer would it freeze dry all of the moisture out? If it's not too late for that.

I'm pretty sure that it would just freeze any moisture, which would then melt again once the phone was booted. I don't imagine any evaporation would take place.

smilertoo · 11 Feb 2016 at 01:28

find someone who has a dehumidifier and blow the air over the phone for a few hours, better than a hair drier as its actually dry air...not hot.

Trig · 17 Feb 2016 at 14:46

Anyone local to you that does repairs on these?

If you are lucky it could just be the battery thats dead, swapping that out might pring it back to life, if someone close has spare iPhone4 parts then its possible that by swapping them out bit by bit they could at least get the phone to the point where it sparks up and plugged into a PC so you can get the data off of it even if the phone itself is US..