iPhone 6 - Error 53

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satanicguardian

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Hey guys,

Going to be quite a long post, but I need some assistance with a phone I'm desperately trying to repair for a customer, I hope someone may have some inkling as to what else I can try!

So basically the customer made a big mistake by dropping their iPhone in the bath, totally soaked obviously - they did the basics, towel + bag of rice etc. to no avail, that's when they asked me to take a look.

I received the phone, disassembled it and inspected - all the water indicators were red as you'd expect and there were obvious signs of damage/corrosion on various parts of the phone. I broke it down and removed a lot of the steel component shields, carefully cleaning it all over with IPA.

I then replaced the screen (which was totally dead and showed no life) and the battery. At this point the phone booted and showed recovery mode, I plugged into into iTunes on my laptop - "iTunes has detect and iPhone in recovery mode, Update and restore?" - I clicked yes and let it do it's business.

After about 10 minutes I noticed the iTunes window flashing orange, I clicked on it only to find that it was displaying an error message - "Unable to restore iPhone: Error 53".

A quick google on Error 53 doesn't give a whole lot of definite answers, it seems to be an error apple don't recognise either! Bloody useful!

It seemed that the error could be down to the "Touch ID" feature of the phone being damaged, also it could be the ribbon for the touch ID, the screen itself, and the USB port. Overall these parts were replaced with Original Apple Parts:

LCD
Digitizer
Battery
Touch ID
Touch ID Ribbon cable
USB/Headphone assembly

As well as cleaning and checking all contacts and parts.

I'm getting really stuck now as the phone seems to just be stuck in a rebooting/DFU loop, I've tried Reiboot to force it out of recovery mode but it just instantly crashes. I've tried it on my colleagues laptop and get the same error.

Could anyone perhaps help me think of another way to get this phone working again? I'm not great with the world of flashing/jailbreaking etc. on iOS software.

Thanks in advanced!

Jamie
 
Yeah I imagine that could possibly cause some instabilitys.

Out of curiousity where about are you located? If you are local to me ish I'd be happy to come and bring my laptop running windows 8 see if that would be a solution.

It's hard to tell the causes really I would just try everything on the link I provided first.
 
Ok I tried it on my home PC (W7) got error 1671 first, no idea what that was, tried again and I get 53 once more

I've tried running pangu but it says my iTunes version is too old? (da hell?) It's most up to date, so I tried running it in Sandboxie.. same difference Not sure what to do now! :(
 
To be honest with you pal it's starting to get out of my level of understanding with Apple products however it is starting to sound more like its a bricked phone. :( I take it you have tried the safe mode trick?
 
Try booting holding the power and home button for a while together. If the phone was water damaged and the screen ect is coming on there should be no reason ( other than damaged internal storage ) That the old os isn't still there right ? Holding home and power will boot recovery mode and holding them until the screen goes black then letting go of power (still holding home) proceed to hold down volume up for safe mode.

Edit : I had to do this the other day as my phone wouldn't turn on due to a unstable jailbreak tweak
 
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