Can Refurbished iPhone 6s be fixed from Water Damage?

Accidents happen all the time, and the water damage accident is the second most common, after the accidental damage to an iPhone when the screen gets cracked. There are many cases of water damage like iPhones dropped in the toilet, washed in the washing machine together with clothes, forgot in the garden on a rainy day or as simple as water damaged. If you have the misfortune to get your phone drenched, the first thing you need to do is to turn it off and let the phone dry for a while, this can be up to 2 days or even more as you need to make sure that there is no trace of moisture left. After that, you can take it to the Apple store or take it to the specialists to be looked at if it is not damaged a lot. 

What to do to after your iPhone water damaged

As I said earlier, the iPhone needs to get dry first. Ideally would be if you can at least remove the back case of the iPhone and also the SIM card tray (in order to save your contacts). It is easier for a disassembled phone to get dried, but if you are not sure how to disassemble it, it is better not to take the risk! If you have managed to open the device, remove any surface moisture with an anti-static cloth (which will not leave any residue and will not do any damage to the phone). Do not attempt to power it on by connecting it to a power source, after removing your phone from water, under any circumstances. Do not do that ever, because the logic board can get short circuited. Also, if the phone is charging at the moment of the accident, remove the charger straight away and even remove the battery if possible. There are many suggested ways of drying the phone but ideally would be to get it dried as natural as possible.

We do not recommend using a hair dryer (as this can damage and melt areas of the frame, or rubber seals), placing it in the microwave or putting it in the refrigerator or freezer. The best thing to do is to place your disassembled phone in a bowl with rice and leave it overnight, in a warm place. The rice has the purpose to soak all the moisture out. You can try to power it on after you are sure that the phone is completely dry. You may be lucky, and the phone might work just fine after that for a long time, but with water damaged phones you never know what will be next. Sometimes the corrosion may affect other parts of the phone in time. There can be parts that have worked perfectly after the incident, so do not be surprised if this happens. It is a consequence of water damage. That is why we advise you to get a replacement phone to the Apple Store.

Swap your phone with a refurbished one at the Apple Store

One thing should be clear to you from the beginning: even if your iPhone is still under warranty, do not expect to have it replaced by Apple free of charge. They will not do that as their warranty does not cover water damage, and it will not be covered by the paid Apple Care plan either. They will replace your phone with a refurbished iPhone (it looks like a new phone, but the logic board was on another phone before). The price varies from £100 to £200, which depends on what model of iPhone you have and they offer a 90 days warranty for the replacement phone. Not too bad if you consider that the price for a new iPhone varies between £300 and £700.

Take your water damaged phone to the specialists

It is worth paying a visit to the specialist before you go to the Apple store. Sometimes the damage is not that bad, and a simple battery, screen or a dock replacement might solve the problem. Also, when opening the phone, the specialist can figure out how bad the damage of the phone is, and advise you about what is best to be done. When in contact with water, heavy humidity or moisture, some sensors can turn red so we can figure out that we are dealing with a water damaged phone. There are four moisture sensors: two inside the phone and two outside (one in the headphone Jack and the other one in the dock connector). You can check these sensors yourself using a torch and the specialists can check the other ones when they open the phone.

There is online cellphone market offering iPhone repair service, where you can have your iPhone 6s fixed under strict process. If unfortunately you don't manage to save your phone, check out our refurbished phone collection with long time guarantee. Cellphone Age is an online market offering refurbished iPhone 6s unlocked on retail with guarantee. You may also find iPhone models of your favorite here in competitive price. 

What is the real performance of refurbished iPhone?

Certified Refurbished product is tested and certified by the manufacturer or by a third-party refurbisher to look and work like new, with limited to no signs of wear. A Certified Refurbished iPhone has been tested and certified to work and look like new, with minimal to no signs of wear, by a manufacturer and specialized third-party seller approved by Apple. The refurbishing process includes functionality testing, inspection, reconditioning and repackaging. Only select sellers who maintain a high performance bar may offer Certified Refurbished products on official Renewed. But what is the real quality of refurbished phones. Next look at comments from these phone’s buyers.

Eason bought a refurbished iPhone from online, and feels very happy with purchase, but at first he was worried with all the bad reviews on refurbished products from internet, however what makes he surprised is the phone arrived in near brand new condition and everything works perfectly both hardware and software. In order to well cares about new phone, Eason matched it a charger WITH A 6FT CABLE, 2 screen protectors and 2 tempered glasses. After all, he said it is a great deal for the price.

Fiona trust Apple official 110% and that's part of the reason she decided to buy a certified refurbished iPhone, actually this is her second refurbished Apple product as first one for her daughter and she feels very happy with both purchases. So save money and buy refurbished products, don't be cynical! If you don't, the only thing you have to lose is MONEY! She recommends this product to anyone who likes saving money. Her iPhone is no different than her daughter's. Except, her bill is cheaper because she used AT&T go phone service. By now every goes will with both phones.

Jeff bought a refurbished phone as a gift for his wife’s birthday a few months ago. Even if she finally knew it was not original brand new, she likes it a lot. It arrived promptly and in excellent condition, without significant scratches or marks anywhere or quality issues. It is exactly as advertised that highly recommended. By now for this phone there is no problems report yet. It arrived clean and in good condition. With the coming of Halloween, Jeff is considering of buying another one for his son.

Stacy used to own an iPhone 6s, but unfortunately it was lost when she on bus. Then she purchased a refurbished one with the same model online. After arrived Tracy found the phone was unlocked and looked as if it was brand new. This phone works great, just as if it never be used before. It has a great camera and great features. She feels unbelievable and very satisfied with it at this moment and was glad she ordered two another phones for her parents. The phone exceeded what she was expecting. Even though it’s refurbished, you are unable to know it just by looking at it. I was up and running in no time. This will not be the only one that she purchased. So far Stacy feels like a happy customer .

Cole bought one refurbished iPhone 6s for his son Tom for his birthday. Tom is always dropping his phone and cracking the case. He also refuses to put a case on it so Cole said no more new phones. The refurbished phone was bought over a year ago and he is still using it and surprisingly has not broken, or cracked the glass yet. Great value and came to in pristine condition. He pays for the service himself and bought this iPhone unlocked so he could put his carrier’s slim card in it.

After losing her iPhone 6s again Janie needed a relatively cheap option and she didn't really care if it is used or not or how old or new it would be. She only cared if it worked and was cheap enough so that she would not regret losing it or breaking again. Firmly believe that once you go to apple you never go back, so there was no question about the brand of the phone she was going to get. Janie really likes how user-friendly iPhone is and how well acquainted she am to it, just makes things easier. Then she started looking for a cheap option on Cell Phone Age com. Another thing she really cared about was that the iPhone should have been unlocked, because she was not planning on buying a slim card of any kind, but rather using phone with Wi-Fi. Having these things in mind she knew that most probably will not find the best possible option, it is almost impossible to find completely unlocked phones.

Whatsoever, she ordered this one after having asked if it is unlocked to not and receiving a positive response. In short, the phone was not unlocked, but thankfully it only took few minutes to unlock it with her friend's slim card. There were no scratches on the phone (almost none). Works pretty well and she has been using it for over half year. So far it has no complaints.

The biggest advantage of refurbished iPhone is its price. Compare to original brand new, refurbished one is much cheaper, sometimes even lower of 50% or more than new phone. Such as for refurbished iPhone 6s in 16GB, the current retail price has surprisingly dropped to less than 400USD on Cell Phone Age com.

Apple-led brands are promoting refurbished phone sales

Each year dozens of mobile phone new models conferences are always particularly eye-catching, while all kinds of brands also always like to show off their own shipments after big sales. But there are data that the popularity of refurbished mobile phones is gradually rising, so as the market is warming up. According to the 2017 Q1 of mobile phone recycling data show that from 2016 Q1 to 2017 Q1, quarterly recovery volume showed a steady growth trend. From the data point of view, the refurbished mobile phones becoming more and more popular is a matter of course, many positive factors are contributing to the expansion of market.

Why refurbished phone become popular?

First, the young people shorten the cycle of changing phone, as high cost-effective is refurbished phone tag. According to the survey on "Chinese mobile phone consumption" released in China, shows that for after 90s, the crowds who will replace phone once or even twice within one year was significantly higher than other age groups. Young people like to cool, following fashion trendy, and can’t tolerate the backwardness of electronic equipment, so that some of them will buy as long as new model released. And as the main consumer of mobile phones nowadays, their active replacement led to the new phone quickly become old, after flowing into refurbished phone market it gets more trading space.

Second, some mobile phone hedge rate is high, driving recycling and consumption. According to large data reports show that after the use of 1 year, the price of Android phone is only 51% of the original price, while Apple still maintain 65% of the brand new price. This hedge rate has been enough to attract more people to sell their own idle mobile phone on market. According to the large data report in February 2017, among TOP10 models only iPhone occupy 6 models, you can see in February the user is mainly concentrated in iPhone for replacement, high value-added mobile phone has become an explosion on refurbished mobile phone market.

Third, the concept of environmental protection is more and more popular, mobile phone recycling system gradually improved. Faster mobile phone iteration speed brings more e-waste, but with the prevalence of environmental protection concepts, more and more mobile phones are through a variety of recycling channels into the secondary market. Compared with the complex recycling channels in the past, today's mobile phone recycling platform is building stable recycling channels, in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Tianjin and other cities there are salesmen whole can face to face recycle old phones. And the recycling company has been with the 34 provinces of China and cities in 149 cities nearly 10,000 stores to establish a good relationship of cooperation, opening trade-in, there will be someone docking services and training.

Where to buy refurbished phone affordable?

On well developing refurbished phone market, there are two main modes of trading platform, one to information-led, and the other to recycling-led. Information-led mode is for two sides to build a free exchange platform for transaction. At the same time, in order to ensure transaction security, online trading platform will provide security insurance services. After buyers confirm the goods, then the third party account money will be remitted to the seller. In general, the information-led mode of refurbished phone trading platform has two major characteristics.

First, trading experience is focused. In the information model, in the process of trading it only provides the platform, do not participate in the transaction or a slight participation in the transaction, which provides users with a larger communication space, but also greatly increased the user's trading experience. Second, free bargaining space is more partial on buyer's market. As most used phones are alternative, sellers expect it to sell as soon as possible while both sides of deal are not familiar with hedge rate. So in the price, the buyer has the initiative to bargain that more dominant.

Different from the information model platform, the recovery mode of products sales is mainly from the majority of manufacturers themselves, including: customers for seven days no reason to return but the normal function of goods, due to damage to the packaging of unsold goods, the original goods due to quality problems After the manufacturers for new goods. The biggest feature of the recovery model is the importance of the supply. Such as Cell Phone Age, self-contained products are generally closer to the new machine, so the mobile phone hedge rate is generally higher. They established a number of offline recycling channels, or with Apple and other mobile phone manufacturers to cooperate, and provide on-site inspection machine, mobile phone repair and other services, and ultimately sold to consumers with quality assurance of second-hand mobile phone. So, in the recovery model under the leadership of their supply channels and quality control have more stringent standards.

At present, the refurbished phone sales channels still have to be widened. Especially in the case of mobile phone iteration is very rapid, the extension of the channel is to control the supply, stable supply to help master the market initiative. During back to school season Cell Phone Age com listed on refurbished iPhone 6s in 16GB and 64GB to meet the needs of college students.

What are the advantages of iPhone 6S compared to iPhone 6?

We bought both the iPhone 6 and 6S plus on September 25 when Apple released its new model. Then we go back to our testing laboratory, and in these days the team members are non-stop to them on a doubled study of testing the performances of both new phones. Compared to last year when I stayed up all night to give you the scene, this time it is quite different. Standing on such a neutral position, we aim to bring potential buyers a more objective truth.

The appearances of two models are almost the same, but there are only several differences in details. First, the biggest change is certainly iPhone 6s added a rose gold, it was said that this is in fact pink, why call it gold? "Rose gold" originally refers to the gold-copper alloy which is common in jewelry industry, is composed of yellow gold and brown copper synthesis that is very similar to the rose metal. Gold price is raised up by Chinese aunt who again and again bargain-hunting, they can’t wait for each finger to wear a gold ring. Rose gold seems introverted luxury, elegant chic. May the similar plot will immediately stage in the field of mobile phones.

Another change is behind the words of the “iPhone 6”, added a big letter "S", is this not normal? Not normal, on the back of neither iPhone 4S nor 5S there is no “S”, it seems Apple is more and more understanding on consumer psychology of Chinese people who like to show off and love the face. This letter lets everyone lost into the problem of whether wearing a case for phone or not. It is imagined that transparent shell may be on hot sale. Compared to the previous generation, their front size has not changed, but the thickness increased by 0.2 mm that insignificant two A4 paper thickness. And the iPhone 6S weight increased more 14 grams, an increase of 11 percent, which in hand feeling can be suddenly reflected, grabbed up feeling heavy. The main reason for this is the increase in 3D Touch that requires pressure sensors, chips and motors and other components.

The metal body of iPhone 6S adopts 7000 series of aluminum alloy. The shell is mixed of different metal elements, from 1000 to 9000 nine series, iPhone from 5 to 6, has been used with 6000 series of magnesium, aluminum, silicon alloy, relatively soft, relatively easy to cut on the machine , easy to processing, but the strength is not enough, easy to bend. 7000 series is aluminum, zinc, manganese alloy, is the highest in all series of a class, can be very effective to improve the iPhone "soft bone" disease. But the first problem is the 7000 alloy is difficult to deal with, this point does not matter with our consumers. With good cutting head or more than a few burns a few knives it will be solved. The second difficulty iPhone 6s is not easy to color when anodized. Apple thickened the metal surface of the antioxidant layer of iPhone 6s. Just be careful, try to avoid the keys and other sharp items to together with your phone.

The A9 CPU equipped in iPhone 6s is Apple's third-generation 64-bit processor. Samsung and Apple have been bite very tight for position of the strongest mobile phone CPU. The performance of Exynos 7420 has beaten Apple A8, and this time A9 ushered in a substantial upgrade, we simply use Geekbench run to do An intuitive comparison, A8 single-core performance is 1627, A9 single-core performance reached 2500 +. IPhone 6s is able to have more than 50% performance improvement, we should cherish it. The reason is that the highest operating frequency from 1.4G straight up to 1.83G, the other Secondary cache increased from 1M to 3M, especially the later gets a huge impact on the CPU.

IPhone 6s is installed with 2G processing memory. Apple IOS system has always been very good for hardware optimization. Even small cache also has a very good experience. But the reason behind it is: only in the absence of considering of different hardware compatibility you can do a good job, iOS memory management precision to every 1Kb. So in every time of Apple's important system upgrade, you have to give up the old model since cache can’t support fast processing of new version. If you buy an iPhone 6S, may be when iOS12 or 13 release, your phone can’t be upgraded, all you can do is buying another new one. At this stage of the iOS system and the software on the platform are not for 2G memory to do optimization, a variety of application experience are the same, only in some extreme use, such as when at the same time open dozens of large pages, or at the same time open more than 30 applications, you will see the difference. The advantage of 2G memory will be reflected only in the future.

If use one word to describe the advantage of iPhone 6S compared to iPhone 6, that is "fast". Fast hardware performance, fast fingerprint recognition, Siri fast response, and 3D Touch brought the efficiency of the acceleration, especially the big move 3D Touch again opened with the advantage to Android phones. If you buy a refurbished iPhone 6s, at least you won’t suffer. After all iPhone 6S is still one of the most brilliant smartphones from the point of comprehensive capability.