iPhone 4 Death Grip Fix
 

Alright, for those of you who have the new phone and are loosing signal when holding your phone, I'm pretty sure I've figured out a fix for this. This contacts on the sim card were previously bridging with the frame. I've added some roll on white out to insulate where it was making contact. Perhaps some very thin tape would work as well?


Locate sim
https://gfy.com/photos/dglocatesim.jpg

Pull out sim with paper clip
https://gfy.com/photos/dgpulloutsim.jpg

This shows the sim out and you can already see where I have added whiteout. Only add it where the gold contacts are touching the sim tray
https://gfy.com/photos/dgsimout.jpg

Closeup of whiteout applied
https://gfy.com/photos/dgwhiteout.jpg


Now put it in the tray and install it back in the phone. Seems to get rid of the issue completely. :thumbsup :thumbsup


Ohh and spare this thread of all the anti iphone comments.... haters :winkwink:

You're opening yourself up for what's about to come

ehhh who cares. If it helps some people out than it really doesn't matter.

Was these even confirmed as a possible cause?

these looks a little...risk

s.jobs can link my balls 4 times :)

Cool if it works but I think I would go for the tape route cause I wonder if putting white out on your sim card would void your waranty

Link them to what exactly?

I thought about that and its easily wiped off, tape would probably be better. I just happened to have white out next to me :)

or they can actually test their products before releasing them like every other cell phone manufacturer

nice pictures!

Well said man
ds

i smoked a giant iphone earlier

Spend a fortune on a phone
Fit it with tape
Good to go

LOL

how much did that defective phone cost?

dam, people still use whiteout? :helpme

Iphone 4 Will it Blend?

you could remove the sim if it stopped working and say it got lost when you opened it up, then you could get a replacement.

lol i hear ya, but I actually think the manufacturing tolerance of location of electrical contacts is too large. I think this is again, AT&T's mistake. The sim cards are cheaply created hence that some cards this effects and some it doesn't.

I thought the exact same thing when I grabbed it from the accountants desk.

Barry lets facechat .... I am naked now

His monitor is probably covered in it :1orglaugh


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