Our friends over at iFixYouri have offered to do some repairs on 9to5mac readers’ iOS devices for free.

9to5mac and iPhone repair company iFixYouri.com are offering to get your broken iPhone, iPod, or iPad repaired for FREE! In order to enter the contest, retweet this post on Twitter with hashtag #HelpiFixYouri and a picture of your broken iDevice for a chance to win. If the story about your broken device requires more than what a tweet can share, send an email off to [email protected] or like and share it on their Facebook page.

A winning contestant will be randomly selected each week, for the next month. You are only allowed to enter once and a winner can only win one time. If it is determined that your device is irreparable (and doesn’t start in Blend-Tec condition), iFixYouri and 9to5mac will replace the device with a good working equivalent! (also no iPod shuffles or nanos are eligible)

You will also need to follow both iFixYouri and 9to5Mac on Twitter so we can DM you in case you win.

With new technology coming out every day, its tough to see an end in “what will they come out with next.” I remember the day when cell phones hit the market and people were carrying around a large briefcase that was actually their phone. They’ve evolved quite a bit over time and now they’re so small, sleek, and shiny with their fancy touch screens and features. Was their water damage back in the day? Probably if you got stuck in the rain carrying your briefcase. It’s not like today where you stick it in the pocket of your Boardshorts and forget it’s in there until you go for a swim. All the major manufactures are designing these crazy awesome devices that will do everything except print money to pay for themselves. HTC water damage repair, iPhone 5 water damage repair, samsung water damage repair, it doesn’t matter what device you drop, there will be a need for repair. Devices will evolve, and unfortunately people will be careless. On a good note, we’ll be here to help though.

iPhone water damage can be a real tragedy. At iFixYouri, we’ve repaired hundreds of thousands of water-damaged devices, and heard every kind of story imaginable. You can be enjoying a beautiful summer day when your good buddy decides to cool you off with a little surprise dip into the pool. Unfortunately, your iPhone takes a dip with you.

Now that it’s nice and hydrated, what happens to your phone?

What a lot of folks do is let it completely dry, maybe in a ventilated place or next to a heater. Once it’s dry, they turn it on and start using it again. This is probably the worst thing you can do. If you never take your phone for a proper cleaning of the motherboard and other internal parts, corrosion and mineral deposits will sit on the board and slowly eat away at it.

Think of it as rust on a car. You may start with a small pit mark, but with age and time, this pit mark will spread to something far more significant, damaging the rest of the body work. Over time, your phone’s parts will die one by one, and eventually you will have a non-working phone. With a quick cleaning performed as soon as possible, your phone can have a full, healthy life post-dunk.

So why exactly does a water-damaged iPhone stop working? What does the corrosion do?

In this image, you can see a short on one of the circuits. This is caused by either the phone being powered on during initial contact with the water, or the attempting to see if the phone still has power by trying to charge it. These are both big no-no’s. If your phone gets wet, immediately power it off and do not charge it. Place it in a bag of silica gel and get it professionally cared for.

There are 3 or 4 water damage sensors on every iPhone, depending on the version: 1 in the headphone jack, 1 in the dock charging port, and 1 (or 2) on the mother board.

Corrosion on any of the circuits, coils, or resistors needs to be removed properly. It will spread, cause shorts, and malfunctions if it is not cleaned using the correct equipment.

The combination of any of these will cause your phone to not function correctly. Contrary to what people believe, a the majority of water-damage issues can be repaired and phone can be brought back to good, working condition. If you happen to drop your phone in water, please contact us as soon as possible. We’re here to help, and by all means, reach out to us. Water damage repair is a very difficult process, but the rock-star technicians at iFixYouri have years of experience and can quickly, easily, and affordably get your phone to like-new condition and back in your hands as soon as possible.

In honor of Easter and egg hunting, we’re going to run a little iphone water damage repair special. You may ask, “your prices are already so awesome, how could they get any more awesome?” Well here’s how they can get more awesome…

Normally the iPhone 4 runs $39.99 for the ultrasonic cleaning and diagnostic, we’re chop that in half for the next week to $19.99. Yes. You read that correctly. $19.99

iPhone 4 water damge repair

Grab your wet phone, stick that sucker in a bag of rice, and send it in today!

“But I have an iPhone 3G? Isn’t that normally $29.99? Where’s my special?”

Don’t you worry, we’re dropping that to $19.99 too!

iPhone 3Gs water damage repair

iPhone 3G water damage repair

So sit back, drop your phone in water, and let us do the hard work. We are the water damage repair experts, and will be happy to bring that phone back to life for you.

Sale ends Wednesday, April 20th! Jump on it fast!

Have a question? Give us a call at one of our 3 locations:

West Palm Beach – 561-881-0095
Orlando – 407-704-5555
Boston – 617-616-5966

-Chris